Obama: Dissenters Are Pieces Of Shit – With Video
Aug 15, 2009 29 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
In an attempt to deny us our right to participate in the dialogue part of the American poltitical process, first the Joker and his mercenary army tried to claim we didn’t exist when we were showing up at Town Halls, then they tried to claim we were paid agents of the insurance industry, and then they tried to claim we were thugs who gathered in mobs (while his brown shirts punched people out in the streets), and now they claim the media is distorting reality by showing the “minority” instances of angry dissent and ignoring the true story of shiny, happy, pro-Joker Care town hall attendees. And now he says that Americans who labor in the health insurance industry are villains who held their fellow citizens hostage. In other words, anyone who stands in the way of his dictates, is a second class citizen engaged in vile behavior. Another words, you, fellow American, are a piece of , to use the vernacular.
US President Barack Obama on Friday blamed headline-hungry television networks for enflaming an ugly backlash by foes of his top priority effort to offer health care to all Americans.
A combative Obama also accused health insurance firms of holding sick Americans “hostage” as he launched a weekend tour of mountain west states Montana, Colorado and Arizona where suspicion of Washington runs deep.
I know there’s been a lot of attention paid to some of the town hall meetings that are going on around the country, especially when tempers flare,” Obama said, at his own event with 1,300 people in an airport hangar.
“TV loves a ruckus,” said Obama and then joked: “you’ve got to be careful about those cable networks.”
US news channels have dared to offend the dictator by showing ferocious confrontations at town hall meetings held by lawmakers during their summer recess where voters have accused Obama of plotting a “socialized” takeover of the private health system.
Trying to recapture control of the ferocious debate, Obama turned fire on health insurance firms, who reform advocates accuse of exploiting gravely ill Americans.
“We are held hostage, at any given moment by health insurance companies that deny coverage, or drop coverage, or charge fees that people can’t afford at a time when they desperately need care,” Obama said.
“It is wrong, it is bankrupting families, bankrupting business — we are going to fix it when pass health insurances reform this year,” said Obama.
He also denied claims that he is attempting to introduce a “socialized” system like the national health services in Canada and Britain, following dire portraits painted by his rivals of medicine in those two countries.
“We can’t let them do it again,” Obama said here, recalling how former presidents Lyndon Johnson and John F. Kennedy also faced ferocious opposition to now established healthcare programs.
bama aides are confident he will still be able to drive reform through when Congress returns in September and escape damage to his political capital or sweeping “change” agenda.
But a key health care player, Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, warned the tide of anger left the legislation’s fate uncertain.
“It could have the impact of stalling it. It could have the impact of starting all over again. Or who knows. It could have the impact that nothing’s changed and you just move ahead.”
As the president steps up his counter-attack, a coalition of pro-reform groups are belatedly blitzing airwaves with a 12-million dollar spending spree of advertisements supporting the overhaul.
Criticism though does seem drawn from genuine suspicion of big government germane to American politics, particularly in the heartland.
Critics cite fears about the level of government intervention Obama has prescribed in the finance and industrial sectors to counter the deepest economic crisis since the 1930s.
Republicans argue that “Obamacare” would be too expensive, swell the ballooning deficit, worsen the quality of care and strangle the industry with government bureaucracy.
Obama is yet to reveal a detailed plan, but promises to expand coverage, control spiralling healthcare costs, rein in insurance companies and prioritize preventative care.
(AP) and Pat Dollard
