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Obama shows former fire and fighting spirit at college rally

by smkovalinsky | September 17, 2009 at 09:08 am

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President Obama: Health Care Reform "the defining issue of this generation". . .

(*my preference of video footage was the Associated Press video, but as it will not upload, these shall have to suffice in the interim. smk)

Speaking before a crowd of thousands of cheering university students at the Comcast Center in University of Maryland, College Park, MD, today President Obama showed the fire and charisma of his old self in the campaign trail days. During a healthcare rally, the President was adamant that he would not allow the conflicts and falsehoods which have marred the debate on healthcare reform to drag down his platform of change. When one student called out, "I love you", the President responded swiftly and in a paternal tone of quiet patience, "I love you back". Of course the naysayers will view this as simply more of the empty rhetoric that they have charged Obama with all along, but psychologically, it carries a charge, and gives Obama a power beyond the merely political:

Calling health insurance reform a "defining struggle of this generation," President Barack Obama told thousands of college students Thursday that Congress must resist scare tactics and false accusations to do a makeover.
The fight will be difficult, Obama said, but an "unprecedented coalition" of hospitals, doctors, nurses and drug makers support the effort. Some of the most enthusiastic backers, he told loudly cheering students at the University of Maryland, "are the very medical professionals who have firsthand knowledge" of how badly the current system operates.

"When I sign this bill, it will be against the law for insurance companies to drop your coverage when you get sick," the president said.

Obama again called for a public insurance option, which most congressional Republicans, and some Democrats, oppose. It would not amount to "a government takeover of health care," he said. Obama stopped short of insisting on such a plan.

Eliminating "waste and abuse" in the Medicare and Medicaid programs will help the government find money to cover most of the Americans now without insurance, he said.

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a211423

at 11:02 on September 17th, 2009

smk: You are welcome : )

Public Option, Public Option, Public Option....clicks heels together with eyes closed.

Hearing it is still on the table, gives me hope.

Roy C

at 13:12 on September 17th, 2009

He has no "Inner Bill Clinton Policy Wonk" and doesn't know diddly-squat about the health care delivery system.

As a man dominated by Eros, his arguments derive entirely from morality, the problem being that without real strategy and a good set of tactics, the new plan will not live up to its intentions.

Beyond that, the blank sheet of a not-yet-developed plan reveals intentions that are unconscious, revealing character, in this case, narcissism and exaltation, a lack of sense of limits, already seen in his other bills, so that, once again, his plan doesn't look good.

He didn't even know that there was no formal method for keeping illegals out of the system. Yes, we do all accept emergency care, but I don't want emergency care to turn into a quarter of a million dollars of medical care as it does regularly, with no reimbursement from the government of Mexico, too broke because the money has been siphoned off to fill the coffers of the various families that "own" Mexico and parasitize it.

So, after getting called "liar" by Wilson, Obama turns around and throws in language that will insure the use of E-verify or another system to make sure that you can't just fly in from around the world and jump into our system.

Emotional appeals appeal to the emotional. Where is the reasoning on this plan?

QueensHart

at 14:37 on September 17th, 2009

Actually it would be quite terrifying if people could really see what he does not know. They won't just like there are some who still actually give credence to the hillbilly J. Carter

He certainly never learned to balance a checkbook with money he actually earned from working. Politicians and preachers are allergic to work but boy can they "talk" and tell everyone else what to do. Two of the laziest professions around...

Statistically it would be interesting to know how many of the college graduates will be able to get a real job.