Posted by: ST on February 6, 2010 at 10:39 am
Our humble President strikes again:
Yes, those are the words of the president, last night at the Democratic National Committee fundraiser in Washington. After listing his administration’s accomplishments and vowing that “our most urgent task is job creation,” Obama pledged to keep fighting for a national health care system. “We knew this was hard,” Obama said. And then he described a letter he received from a campaign worker who suffered from breast cancer and has since died:
“I got a letter — I got a note today from one of my staff — they forwarded it to me — from a woman in St. Louis who had been part of our campaign, very active, who had passed away from breast cancer. She didn’t have insurance. She couldn’t afford it, so she had put off having the kind of exams that she needed. And she had fought a tough battle for four years. All through the campaign she was fighting it, but finally she succumbed to it. And she insisted she’s going to be buried in an Obama t-shirt.”
Many observers have noted that the president often seems extraordinarily self-referential. It’s all about him, they say. But even those critics might be a little taken aback by the “buried in an Obama t-shirt” remark. Is it really that much about him?
I assume that was a rhetorical question.
Beyond our celebrity President’s now-legendary penchant for casting himself in the most dazzling of lights is the disturbing trend of trying to sell his healthcare “reform” package on the backs of the deceased. First it was the story of his mother’s passing from cancer, a story he told repeatedly on the campaign trail and beyond, in an effort to stir up support for passing healthcare “reform.” Next, it was during the immediate aftermath of Ted Kennedy’s death, where left wing pundits, the MSM, and Congressional Democrats were all crying out to pass the current healthcare reform bill “for Teddy!!!” Even at Ted Kennedy’s funeral, one of his grandsons was shamelessly used by the family during the “Prayers of the Faithful” segment to call for passing healthcare “reform” in his grandfather’s name. And now we have the story of the unnamed Obama activist who died from breast cancer because she couldn’t afford healthcare insurance, and who wanted to be buried wearing an Obama T-shirt.
Can’t this President, this party, sell this monstrosity of a bill without using the dead as political props in vain attempts to persuade people on an emotional basis rather than a substantive one? Apparently not, which may explain why his – their – “signature issue” is, well, close to being dead itself. Thankfully, for the sake of the republic, not many are buying the President’s empty rhetoric on “reform” anymore. It’s not about this President’s needs; it’s about the needs of the people. Which is as it should be.
So now, for Democrats, it’s on to Plan B – which is … ?
Why shouldn’t Obama, and his Democratic Party Comrads, use the dead to sell their policies? After all, many of the dead voted for Obama in the 2008 Presidential election….with the help of ACORN of course.
Spot on, Tex. She may be dead, but thanks to ACORN she can still vote for Obama. Isn’t that wonderful??
By now no story about how self-centered the Teleprompter Reader In Chief is surprises me. I’m now convinced he is indeed an alien. But not from Kenya….from Planet Narcissus.
Take a look at the very first photo on the official White House Flickr page here: Obama sharing a tender moment with the love of his life.
Very tasteless, classless.
Narcissist in Chief, no doubt.
This is pathological-grade material. Chilling.
What a contrast to that “evil” George W. Bush who would quietly go out of his way to personally visit disaster victims and their families or the sick as he did when he and Laura visited the families of the Fort Hood massacre without telling anyone.
I’m not a fan of Bush’s policies and consider his presidency to be a failure but I would never question the decency of the man and his family. Compare that to the self-absorbed Obama who never misses an opportunity to tell us how great he is.
It is often said that virtue is “doing the right thing even when no one is looking”. For Obama, it’s drawing everyone’s attention to the possibility that he might have done something virtuous as a pretext for whining “it’s not my fault” and “no one does what I tell them”.
Bush’s virtue consisted of personal visits and calls. Obama “virtue” amounts to public self-serving shout-outs involving “stories” of people he never met or spoke with. It’s all so phony with Obama.
To himself, he is the beacon of light on a hill that Mr. Reagan referred to.
He sees his job as having to make sure his beacon shines far brighter than any other of the arrogancia.
My dear ol’ pappy once told me that if a person has to point out how good he is, he ain’t.
Pasadena Phil, I’m just curious, what presidency do you consider successful?
Personally, I guess I’m in the minority, I never have believed who the president is had much affect on me. I simply want the government/president to restrict the growth of government, keep a strong national defense and for the most part, stay out of the way of enterprise/business.
gsr: Your question is not relevant to this discussion but I am curious as to who you consider a successful president since none have succeeded in meeting your standards of shrinking government nor staying out of the way of enterprise/business (by which I suppose you mean no regulatory oversight?).
In that way, maybe you should change your last sentence to:
“Personally, I guess I’m in the minority, I never have believed who the president is
hadmade muchaffectof a differenceon me.”We didn’t get into our current mess overnight nor because of an abundance of successful presidents. Although I believe in small government, I don’t believe in NO government including properly regulating business which is one of the few powers specifically granted to the federal government by the US Constitution. How much regulation is required depends on how how honest we choose to be as free people in conducting our business.
Freedom isn’t the natural state of existence. It is earned by virtuous people who can create and sustain a virtuous society. The less virtuous we are, the bigger the government needed to maintain order at the expense of our personal freedoms.
If you haven’t already, read “Common Sense” by Thomas Paine.
Remind me again of Obama’s last accomplishment.
Imagine you are AARP or BIG PHARMA, and you were BRIBED by Obama with promised of deals, if you ran MILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLIONZ of dollars in ads supporting Obama’s plan for health care.
Btw, NO ONE has ever seen an OBAMA plan. It doesn’t exist.
So imagine Obama brought you into his office and told you to spend the money for his plan, and you did. You got NOTHING.
Who gave Obama the authority to bribe AARP and BIG PHARMA?
And does Andrew Stern really sit on Obama’s lap in the oval office?
So… one of Obama’s employees, who worked her ass off to help Obama get elected, couldn’t afford medical tests and didn’t have insurance?
Yet she wanted to put Obama in charge of providing for the country what he denied her?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Gee – for someone so active in the Obama campaign, you’d think they might have offered her, oh, gee, I don’t know … maybe some INSURANCE?????
No, of course not. 1.) It is, by its very nature, a temporary job. 2.) The Obamites consider Insuring to be the responsibility of the Federal Government, not themselves.
Oops – my bad. Let us not forget that the proof of Obama’s readiness to assume the Presidency was that he ran a campaign.
In contrast to Obama’s self-praise is this quote from the greatest president of the 20th century. It’s still relevant today, with the current mob of Alinskyites in charge:
Happy 99th birthday, Mr. President. Some of us down here still miss you.
*Wishing President Reagan was still around in this life and what he would say about the current Commander in Chief”.![:-\](http://sistertoldjah.com/smilies/yahoo_question.gif ":-\")
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Amen, brother, amen.
If it were possible and RR could run against Duh-1 tomorrow, even with his criminal alien vote, even with his felon vote, even with his overwhelming graveyard vote, and even with ACORN “community activists” signing up every Mickey Mouse and Stuart Little they could find, Duh 1 would be buried by such a landslide by Mr. Reagan that even his thug mob from Chicago wouldn’t be able to find him for a week!
As noted above, Mr. Reagan was well aware from where our rights are dispensed, and that’s why Duh-1 has so much trouble trying to shift attention away from our inalienable right to his magnificent munificence. His thug buddies believe they can change that; the Creator mentioned in the Declaration and Preamble says differently.
I just found this gem, from CNN, about Duh-1′s speech to the jackasses today:
“The president listed accomplishments during his first year, citing almost $300 billion in tax relief, tax cuts for small businesses and individuals, a credit card bill of rights and foreign policy strides.”
$300b in tax relief? With a $1t+ deficit? Thirty years ago I might’ve wanted some of whatever it is he’s smokin’! Either that, or he never quit C from his growing up years like he claims.
And what tax cuts? Fer cryin’ out loud, he’s taxing the refund he did send out!
Foreign policy strides? He’s got so many more of our “friends” p.o.’d at us than when he took office, I’ve been reading where some of the Euroweenies are wishing GWB was still in office!
Yes siree Bob, that’s a bang-up job you’re doin’ there, urban cowboy!
Since Obama inaugural, Republicans have had to face a series of “crap sandwiches” that they have been presented. HCR was just one more.
Besides if HCR had passed the afternoon of the Obama inaugural, Melanie Shouse would still have to wait 3 more years for the benefits part of the legislation to kick in, while her “friends,” the Democrats collected (and spent) taxes and said there was nothing they could do.
Here in the backwoods of Oregon, we have a “kicker” law that returns excess taxes collected to the people if the excess is greater than 2% over what was budgeted. Good law, only as it should be.
We also just passed a “tax the rich” scheme on corporations (Oregon’s first true sales tax), and people making more than $250,000/yr.
Now the legislature is trying to figure out how to bump up the budget because the additional income from the new taxes will put the kicker into place. They also want to eliminate the “kicker.”
Typical politicians (donk and elephant): plead for higher taxes because there’s a “budget shortfall and the children will go without and public safety will suffer”, then, when they get it, find new ways to waste my money.
Duh-1 couldn’t be more predictable than this.
Vipers.
If I were called in to do a medical evaluation of Obama, his self-obsession would cause me to write a referral for a full psychiatric work-up. His messianic self-delusion is on par with the worst of Woodrow Wilson’s egomania.
It IS all about him, remember? Just go to work every day to pay the enormous taxes we’re being socked with and adore the anointed one–Obama t-shirts all around!