Thursday, September 10, 2009

No Game

I'll try to get to parsing more of the President's speech at some point, but for now I'd call your attention to John Hinderaker's useful review, especially the following:

Here are some excerpts from the speech that I thought were noteworthy:

Instead of honest debate, we have seen scare tactics.

Then, a few minutes later:

Everyone in this room knows what will happen if we do nothing. Our deficit will grow. More families will go bankrupt. More businesses will close. More Americans will lose their coverage when they are sick and need it most. And more will die as a result.

By far the biggest scaremonger on this issue has been Obama himself.

Well the time for bickering is over. The time for games has passed.

I'm not sure whether Obama and his handlers understand how this sort of talk grates on those of us who are not liberal Democrats (a large majority of the country). Debating public policy issues is not "bickering." Disagreeing with a proposal to radically change one of the largest sectors of our economy is not a "game." This kind of gratuitous insult--something we never heard from President Bush, for example--is one of the reasons why many consider Obama to be mean-spirited.

Yep. And there's a lot more. Read the whole thing.

5 comments:

my name is Amanda said...

Maybe it's just me, but I find the idea of the government putting me to death or forcing me to have abortions a tad more frightening.

Grating indeed! Throwing out blatant lies *in order to scare people* is hardly "having a debate."

Can somebody get me the number for the WAHmbulance?

Mr. D said...

Maybe it's just me, but I find the idea of the government putting me to death or forcing me to have abortions a tad more frightening.

You're going to have show me a cite for that one, Amanda. Who said it? When? Where? I'm especially curious about the compulsory abortion one.

Can somebody get me the number for the WAHmbulance?

I believe it's 202-456-1414.

Brad Carlson said...

WOW!!!

Ms. Mitchell is in California for just a short while and she's already spouting lunacy.

That's what I call assimilation!

my name is Amanda said...

Har har! - on the phone number. I giggled at that quip of mine much more than it deserved at the time.

Mr. Carlson, the likelihood of myself repeating such "lunacy" while I was still a MN resident is very great.

Argh, I know the abortion comment came out of airwaves or some kind of social media, and I absorbed it. Doesn't everyone hear the same things? I didn't make it up. If I trace the source, I'll link it.

Mr. D said...

Argh, I know the abortion comment came out of airwaves or some kind of social media, and I absorbed it. Doesn't everyone hear the same things?

Here's the issue with it. The argument about abortion itself is different than the argument about funding abortions, let alone compulsory abortions. No one that I'm aware of has said that Obama Care will force people to have abortions. What many people suspect is that it will fund abortions.