During the neverending 2008 presidential campaign, Senator Barack Hussein Obama was asked to give the most important policy difference between him and Hillary Clinton. Here’s what he said:
“Uh, uh, Senator Clinton has a different approach. She believes that we have to, uh, force people who don’t have health insurance to buy it. Otherwise, there will be a lot of people who don’t get it. I don’t see those folks, and I think that it is important for us to recognize that if, in fact, you’re gonna mandate, uh, the purchase of insurance and it’s not affordable, then there’s gonna have to be some enforcement mechanism that the government uses, and they may charge people who already don’t have health care fines, or have to take it out of their paychecks. And that, I don’t think is helping those without health insurance. That is a genuine difference.”
Remember, this was the most important policy difference between him and Hillary. Out of everything they didn’t agree on, that’s the one thing he wanted you to know about.
That’s why ObamaCare will charge you fines for not having health care. The purchase of insurance will be mandated. Uh, people who don’t have health insurance will be forced to buy it.
And our leaders couldn’t be happier about it:
Past Obama and Present Obama: That is a genuine difference.
(Hat tip to Deceiver reader Jenn)
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Past Obama needs to learn to keep his mouth shut – he’s ruining everything!!
Gotta love Ms. Pelosi, she makes my life worth living. And when I say “makes my life worth living” what I mean is “makes me gag on my own vomit”
Here is a situation where I can honestly say Hillary is so much better looking the creature that is now Nancy
BTW, everyone makes such a big deal about a black man becoming president, but they fail to take into account an even greater accomplishment. That a mentally retarded lady can become speaker of the house.
I think Nancy needs to realize that when they force this on people, there is going to be a huge backlash the first time they try to arrest someone who can’t afford to buy their bloated insurance policies.
I live in KY and the moment they made auto insurance mandatory you couldn’t find an insurer who would give you a lower quote since they know you have to have it. Everyinsurance provider you call quotes you the exact same rate unless you are a bad driver and then it is higher.
@Aleric – Pelosi has no concept of cost. Remember, members of Congress – including the President – are exempt from all this wonderfulness.
What Aleric said.
This isn’t purely on-topic, but some of us will love it anyway. It’s a by-now-famous blog post by some gay Chicagoan Hillary Clinton fans. You’re so welcome.
http://hillbuzz.org/2009/11/10/thank-you-former-president-george-w-bush-and-former-first-lady-laura-bush/
Hillary Clinton’s head must be ready to explode!
I cannot believe the democrats in this country. They claim anyone (especially tea partiers) who says their rights and freedoms are in peril is a crazy extremist and next they are telling us to buy health care or go to jail.
Fascism comes with a smiling face.
Anyone else notice the irony of the Democrats, who constantly bitch and moan about prison overcrowding and the need for more support for poor people, are now advocating throwing poor people into prison for not buying their insurance?
I woke up in Bizarro World and I didn’t even get a free unicorn.
We’re doomed.
Scott F.
Those jails wont be overcrowded because there will be a general amnesty for illegal aliens and drug charges, without respect to the criminality of the first and the weight moved by the second.
Mama always said good things COULD spring from tragedy.
It is a toss up on who I would rather see implode – Obama, Clinton or Pelosi. Right now, Clinton is actually looking good in my eyes because she is overseas. Maybe I can just hope that all of that botox will explode inside Nancy’s head and we will be done with the Wicked Witch of the West. We won’t call The War on Terror that anymore, just a man made disaster, but we will throw people in jail because they don’t buy the health insurance. Ah, Freedom.
I am still trying to figure out how mandatory health insurance can withstand a constitutional test. Democrats keep comparing it to car insurance but legally driving is a privelege not a right. So in order to enjoy that privelege you need to carry car insurance but if you don’t drive or own a car you don’t need it.
Thanks for posting that article Beige! I’m not ashamed to say it made me tear up a bit. The image of Bush quietly visiting Ft. Hood (while Obama makes some smarmy, perfect-but-cold speech from afar) was quite touching. I’ll take Bush’s stumbling and stuttering over Obama’s smooth-talking lies any day of the week. Just goes to show you that genuine, bull-horn shouting, fire-fighter hugging patriotism can’t be manufactured.
Please, please let this country return to normal soon! Obama can take my money (all that’s left) if he’ll just leave the Constitution alone.
Yes Beige – thank you for posting that article. I took the time to read the whole thing and it gave me goose flesh. I am sure our military are wishing they had their old commander in chief back. I cannot imagine how abandoned they are feeling now. Makes me very sad.
Yes, good article Beige. And I saw a comment at the bottom of that article that mentioned something about Mrs. Obama’s thesis from college (and how it was a joke). I started to read it… but kind of lost interest. It’s supposed to be some sociology ’study’ but really she just went on and on about herself.
D— exactly. Not only is driving a privelege, it’s something that affects the people around you. Example: if I hit your car with my car, I’m responsible to pay for it. Hence, the need for car insurance. However, if I get cancer, that doesn’t in turn damage anyone around me, only myself.
I’d just like to add that I’m already pissed that my college forces me to pay for their ‘insurance’ each semester. They still haven’t mailed me my insurance card, so I can actually use the damned expensive thing. And I’m still waiting for the flu shots they promised they’d have…
It’s pretty bad when I am starting to wonder if having Hillary in the White House (and by extension: the First Rapist) wouldn’t be better. Half his answer doesn’t make sense. He doesn’t see WHAT people? Of course, from what I hear, Mrs. Obama’s thesis doesn’t make much sense either, so they are a match made in heaven.
Read the article Beige, and I am glad to see that people are able to see that Bush et al are not evil, even if they don’t agree with his policies. I hadn’t heard about W visiting with the Fort Hood people, but it sounds like something he would do.
Interesting that another site is expecting unicorns from Obama…maybe he really DID promise a unicorn for every household.
Two unicorns in every pot.
I have never been ashamed to admit I am and always will be a huge W fan. But after reading the article (thanks to Beige)I am happy to see people seeing what I have seen for the last 8 years. Too bad we have 3 more years of hell.
That’s just it, D—. Ask a member of Congress that, and chances are that he or she will say, “I’m not a Constitutional scholar”. Well, see, that’s sort of a problem, Sen. Skippy, because you’re supposed to know SOMETHING about the basis for our country’s laws, if you’ve actively sought out and accepted a job WRITING SOME MORE OF THEM.. As for ANY of this administration’s actions meeting a Constitutional test, I hope we’ve all packed a lunch, because we’ve got some kind of wait ahead before they start caring about that. They obviously think they don’t have to answer to us.
Great link Beige! When I skimmed through the comments on that post, I only noticed one troll still bashing Bush and praising Obama. Virtually every other comment agreed with the article, even the ones who voted for Obama. I think Obamamania is definitely waning.
Good comments everyone.
Careful wishing for Shillary over Obama, they work from the same Alinsky playbook (but she does look good from very far away, doesn’t she?). He is merely continuing on the same plan that she attempted to get started when she was pretending to be Vice President in the 1990s. The Old Left has been dreaming of this day to implement their socialist scheme for so long now, they are not going to give up easily. But hopefully many people are now realizing that President Rainbows-and-Unicorns isn’t the goods that he was advertised to be. Pray that Kruschev wasn’t right all along.
Intriguing: Per a caller to the Limbaugh show, insurance companies are setting up medical-tourism plans to allow US patients in need of procedures to travel to places like Costa Rica. And also, O wants to tax tampons and toothbrushes, as “medical equipment”. No word on whether or not douchebags are also designated as such, or if they retain Federal-employee status.
Good one, Jenn.
Most voters didn’t know Past Obama existed, or that Past Obama was not only a corporate lawyer for ACORN, he was also an ACORN trainer, and there are allegations that more than a million dollars of Obama’s 2008 campaign money went to ACORN.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/us/politics/11acorn.html
I am Swiss and we have this famous obligatory health insurance. All I can say is:
DON’T COME TO THIS SYSTEM! You absolutely must NOT accept this obligatory health insurance system! This is robbery!
Here (in Switzerland) each year, our pries rise by 10% yes, 10% per year!
Pharmaceutical and insurance companies have total control of health costs.
For 15 years, I paid the equivalent of 50 dollars a month and now I am at 268 dollars a month!
And I have never set foot in a hospital!
The middle and low class workers pays for the rich ones; this is so.
If I understand the project from Obama, the poor people who already have no money to afford health insurance will be forced to pay them?
You’re sure they will go to jail if they can not afford to pay? I begin to understand why the FEMA chad 500′000 coffins in reserve … they’ll gas the poors; is less expensive.
@Paul Vincent – I am not 100% sure that it says directly that you can go to jail for failing to get health insurance. I do know that the Internal Revenue System (our friendly federal tax collector) will be in charge of collecting penalties and they do prosecute and put people in jail for failing to pay their taxes, just ask Wesley Snipes and Joseph Francis (owner of Girls Gone Wild).
In regards to the Bushes, the entire family has always been a class act. Say what you want about their political policies but when it comes down to it they always have stepped up without fanfare and done whats right. At the heart of it they are quietly philanthropic while Obama is more of an activist.
I refuse to comply with the Present Chosen One’s policies until I get my damn space pony. And since my lawn is decidedly pony-free….oh, I am so tempted to cancel my individual insurance and go directly to jail, do not pass go, do not collect $200.
Past Obama is the source of the John Edwards’ $400 haircut leaks:
http://www.newsobserver.com/front/story/186998.html
What’s really sad/frustrating is… what can we do about all this? Stand by idly?
fallingstar:No, standing idly by is exactly what they are wanting, we must keep screaming about every bad thing Obama and his pals are trying to pull, even if they call us racists, bigots, nutjobs, liars, or any other slurs they use to avoid honest debate. They want to remake America under the cover of darkness, as fast as possible, we must expose their plans to the light of day, and demand that the proper amount of time is taken to be fully informed about the facts involved. We must make sure that we do all we can to inform everyone about this stuff so that we don’t ever repeat the same mistake we made as a nation a year ago, too many people were so desperate for change they failed to ask the simple question of what kind of change he was planning, we can all see now it wasn’t what most people were hoping for, no pun intended.
Suicide is technically illegal, isn’t it? So it’s not even like we have a lawful way to AVOID living, thus avoiding the need to purchase mandatory health insurance. Fail.
BEige, that article is exactly what makes me so proud to be an American. The Bushes were always wonderful to our military. I saw President Bush in person on July 4, 2003 when he came to Wright Patt and spoke. People may always bash him, but he did things for the best of our country, not for polls or fanfare. His tears that he shed were real and his hugs were meaningful. They went there to pay their respects to the fallen, just like they did on many other occasions.
Mandatory health care is like prohibition: It’s something that common sense tells you won’t work, but will be forced on us anyway, so we can see first-hand that it’s a bad idea. (And yes, private health practitioners will work out of speakeasies.)
Hey, at least he’s consistant about bowing to foreign royalty!
The Untouchables 2: Private Clinic Boogaloo
@Beige I wouldn’t worry about taxes on douchebags, the government would never tax itself.
And if they ever do get taxes, they just avoid paying them. God Bless the USA!
Except the Chicago Mob will be running the show this time.
….does this mean we get nurses in flapper dresses?
*runs off to enroll in nursing school*
Wait for me!
That’s exactly it, Minnow. We’ve got an Affirmative Action Chicago mobster running the WHOLE COUNTRY, and frankly, it makes me wonder how the mob itself stays in business. What they lack in business acumen, they make up for in sleaze and duplicity.
At least now I can translate my being too poor and lazy to go get health insurance into a big political protest. Protest, protest, protest.