Obama Says We’ve Been Waiting Since Teddy Roosevelt
Economics, Humor, Liberals — By Harrison on September 30, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Teddy left the White House way back in 1909 and this is what Obama says about it:
“We have been waiting for health reform since the days of Teddy Roosevelt. We’ve been waiting since the days of Harry Truman,” he said in remarks at the caucus foundation’s annual dinner. “We’ve been waiting since Johnson and Nixon and Clinton.”
“We cannot wait any longer,” Obama said.
So that makes it, what, 100 years?
If it was so great why have we “been waiting” a century?
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What a joke. Notice he uses a Republican to make it seem like everyone should care, not realizing that Teddy was a good ‘ol liberal. Obama says the darnest things…we should start a list.
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I wish he would start following Teddy’s famous saying, “Walk softly and carry a big stick”. Obama walks proudly and carries nothing but an “open hand” in a world full of danger and homicidal dictators.
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In 1965, it could have been said that black people had waited 250 years to gain their freedom, and another 100 years to gain their civil rights. Since they had been waiting so long, I guess you would have said freedom and civil rights were not so great either.
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I knew this point would be made. If you believe that the words “All men are created equal” is just as important as “All men deserve Obamakare” then your logic is flawless. I, however, disagree.
I believe that Jefferson wanted to add “All men deserve Obamacare” in the Declaration of Independence, but he took it out of one of the drafts because John Adams said we weren’t ready for that yet. But check out Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We are almost to the point of recognizing that everyone is entitled to decent medical care.
Joe Markowitz´s last blog ..Senate Finance Committee members tell the truth.
Joe, if the Universal Declaration of Human Rights said to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge would this make it a good idea? I go by what’s in our Constitution.
Joe, what kind of nonsense is this? How can you compare an inalienable right to medical care? Can you please think more carefully about what you are saying. Foundation recognizes a right to achieve anything without being hindered by race, religion, belief. Fine.
How can you possibly mandate medical care, since medical care has to be provided. That means you are forcing someone to provide a skill/perform work to someone who cannot obtain it. You are robbing one group of people to provide rights to another? This is profoundly incorrect in both logic and practice. I urge you to reconsider your dangerous and fascist ideal.
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If our civilization were to evolve to the point where we recognized a right to medical care, which is the direction that I am saying we are heading, how would that force anybody to do anything? It is no different from saying that everyone has the right to an education, which is a right that we have recognized for a hundred years. But no one forces anyone to provide that education to people. Similarly, no one forces anyone to provide medical care under Medicare, or under Medicaid, or under the VA medical system. But anyone who is eligible under those programs, which is close to half the population, has the right to receive medical care. The only “forcing” that goes on is that we are all “forced” to pay for those programs, but that is no different from being forced to pay for fire protection, or police, or roads, or the military, or schools or garbage collection, or any other service, whether or not an individual wants government to provide that service, and whether or not we might have need for that service.
Arkady, I think it is interesting that you are celebrating the recognition of a right to own firearms, but you think it would be fascistic to recognize a right to medical care. If you have a right to own a gun, I ought to at least have a right to be treated for the gunshot wounds that you might cause me. Seems only fair.
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Covering illegal aliens… no. If you have a job you can usually get healthcare. I have had a job for many years and have always had healthcare. And if my neighbor’s house catches fire that could result in my house catching on fire and then the entire neighborhood then the entire city. That is different than healthcare. Healthcare “reform” is fine, forced single payer healthcare is not okay… that is what Obama has been pushing. That is why he failed.
Upwards of 80% of Americans like their healthcare. Even under Obamakare you would not have 100% coverage. And the people who do have healthcare, which are the vast majority of Americans, would see their care degrade. No thanks.
And if you are shot you may go to the emergency room and get treated… whether you have healthcare or not.
bear with me: obama is right to a point: we do need healthcare reform. we have for some time now.
but the proposal that is being kicked around is not health care reform. it is government sponsored health care control. reform is supposed to be improvement. i’m not sure the english language has an uncensored adjective to properly describe it.
The WSJ had a good article saying Obama failed because he was only seeking a way to make single payer the law of the land and Americans saw through it.