The new conventional wisdom is that Obama is losing the independent voters that helped elect him. The polls show he’s too liberal, we are told. Well, then. Show Me The Liberal!
What’s Obama done that’s liberal? Afghanistan? A Bush-style buildup that couldn’t have sounded more Republican if Obama’d announced it with a Southern accent. Nothing liberal there. So is the President too cozy with the ACLU and civil liberty folks? Show me. Obama has kept in place almost all the Bush-era detention apparatus. He’s retained almost all the laws that Bush enacted to interrogate potential terrorists. Is his healthcare plan too liberal? Last time I checked, the private insurance companies were set to make huge profits because of Obama’s plan to require every citizen to have health insurance. And it looks like the “public option” is gone, largely because Obama didn’t push for it. For months now, Obama’s been consulting with the drug companies in private about his health care proposals.
So where’s this Obama the Populist? Show Me The Liberal! I certainly don’t see it.
Chuck Weiss
This article appears in Sep 17-23, 2009.
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Dear Chuck,
You may have been born at night, but it obviously wasn’t last night.
You wrote: “Last time I checked, the private insurance companies were set to make huge profits because of Obama's plan to require every citizen to have health insurance.”
Let’s get this straight. The English language has been abused to a terrible degree by the so-called “public relations specialists” in our country for a long time. Just watch AMC’s uber-hit “Mad Men” to see chicanery in our nation’s middle age. Today, now that we’re in our dotage, Americans seem incapable of distinguishing between “extortion” and “health care reform”. Obviously, this is a fairly major problem.
Today we are faced with a total and utter fraud in the making in Washington with Barry Hussein leading the charge to extort about another $50 Billion per annum out of frugal young Americans who have opted out of the madness of the health care extortion rackets.
What is so appalling about America today is that no one seems to be able to tell the truth about anything unless they choose to commit social seppuku. http://bit.ly/7bDdN Present company included. Let’s get on the straight talk express for minute, shall we?
The Baucus-Obama-Cigna-Blue Double Cross plan is to extort “another piece of my heart” from everyone who is currently escaping their evil corporate clutches. And I’m not talking ’63 Sting Rays with four-on-the-floor here. I’m talking literal extortion schemes being proposed on Congress to strip the cash flow of America’s youth to top up the tax sheltered egregious plunder by the CEOs of the health insurance rackets. These men are criminals. And the public doesn’t seem to get the picture, at all.
Let’s make this plain. Barack Obama is a con man. He’s going to rip you off. What are you going to do about it, pilgrim?
I don’t want to leave you in a suicidal funk so let me suggest that you too, at whatever level of present net worth you have, can join us in “Billionaires For Wealth Care” — http://www.billionairesforwealthcare.com/ — where our motto is “Thank you very much, we prefer to eat our own f***king cake!”
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Thanks Mr. Duray for your exciting introductory letter!!! I’m enthralled… I can’t wait to read your second installment in which you, like, make your point.