Community-Organizer-In-Chief B. Hussein Obama has built a successful career based on talking more and doing less.
Unfortunately for the three American citizens that want the government to spend a trillion dollars to provide government grade health care to the other five citizens that donīt currently have it, Barack has screwed the whole matter up. Heīs convinced he lost "a direct connection to the American people in his first year in office because he focused too heavily on policymaking".
Here is an accounting of Obamaīs failed attempts at direct connection in 2009.
SPEECHES, COMMENTS & REMARKS: 411
Includes 52 addresses or statements specifically on his health care proposals.
He used a TelePrompTer at least 178 times.
(CBS)
NEWS CONFERENCES: 42
Of which 5 were formal, solo White House Q&A sessions. Four were in prime time.
Nearly all of the other press availabilities were joint appearances with foreign leaders at which as few as 1 question was taken by Mr. Obama.
Predecessor George W. Bush did 21 news conferences his first year of which 4 were formal, solo White House sessions. Only 1 was in prime time.
INTERVIEWS: 158.
This is a striking number of interviews and far more than any of his recent predecessors in their first year. Ninety of the sessions were TV interviews. Eleven were radio. The rest were newspaper and magazine. The number reflects the White House media strategy that Mr. Obama can best respond to questions in an interview setting.
TOWN HALL MEETINGS: 23
Includes 1 in Strasbourg, France and another in Shanghai, China
DOMESTIC TRAVEL: 46 out-of-town trips to 58 cities and towns in 30 states
Most frequently visited state by Mr. Obama: New York* (excluding Maryland & Virginia, which border DC and to which visits are more local than out-of-town).
President George W. Bush made appearances in 39 states during his 1st year.
President Clinton visited 22 states in 1993, his first year.
The only message I hear more often than Barackīs is "Dirtbag you suck", so I donīt know how he plans to dominate more of your attention. Maybe heīd get more mentions if he changed his name to "The". At some point though, The Barack, you might consider the problem with your message isnīt the number of times you deliver it.
Jurassic-era babe Nancy Pelosi and Ba-lack Obama are at odds over the meaning of transparency. Both agree you should applaud whenever they say the word, but there may be a gap in how they measure the value of follow through. Isnīt it amazing how dirtbags think things are believable simply because they said it?
Pelosi wants to reconcile the house and senate healthcare plans behind closed doors without republican congressmen. She says that there has never been a more open process than one without witnesses or cameras this.
"C-SPAN wrote a letter to congressional leaders Tuesday asking that TV cameras be allowed to film negotiations to reconcile the House and Senate versions of healthcare reform legislation.
But Pelosi said Congress has already been transparent throughout the process.
"There has never been a more open process for any legislation," Pelosi said at a press conference." - NPV
Before she was able to explain what she meant by "open", Pelosi said the interview was over.
Obama could certainly come up with ten novel explanations for why the eight occassions he promised to "broadcast the healthcare negotiations on C-span" in the video below didnīt specifically mean "broadcast the healthcare negotiations on C-span". But the best explanation of all may be that he canīt control his own party.
A 767 page amendment was introduced to the Senate health care bill today. And some poor clerk got assigned the job of reading the whole thing on the floor. Out loud.
"Normally, senators allow their amendments to be entered into the record without actually making the clerk read them. But Republican Tom Coburn, the Oklahoma doctor who opposes Democratsī health care overhaul efforts, objected when Democrats tried to enter an amendment into the record today, saying the amendment must be offered 72 hours in advance and with a full cost assessment. He then invoked his right to require that the amendment be read out loud." -
ABC News
It takes me about 2 months to read 767 pages, and thatīs when they are meant to be somewhat interesting. I doubt any senators are going to sit and listen to the amendment being read, and I donīt blame them, itīs focus is only described as the financial fate of the entire nation.
Mormons are kind of like Superman. They wear special underpants that protect them from evil, and give them the super human strength needed to refuse a frosty glass of Coca Cola. If they save enough people, they have a chance at making it to their own private Krypton for eternity.
Harry Reidīs dedication to Mormonism is overshadowed by his loyalty to the democrat party however, as he told his church it had no business passing moral judgement on gay marriage. So he isnīt getting a private planet. That may be weighing on him, because he said something really stupid. As usual.
"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took his GOP-blasting rhetoric to a new level Monday, comparing Republicans who oppose health care reform to lawmakers who clung to the institution of slavery more than a century ago." - Fox News
Slaves had free health care provided to them in exchange for the labor they were forced to donate to the system. Kind of like socialism.
So Iīll just go ahead and say that anyone that supports people being forced to donate their work to the system for six months out of every year via taxation, in exchange for free health care, supports slavery.
