Althouse has an excellent post this morning regarding Obama’s efforts to invoke a religious obligation to support health care reform. As she frames it: “government as religion”. Pretty scary stuff actually.
President Obama sought Wednesday to reframe the health care debate as “a core ethical and moral obligation,” imploring a coalition of religious leaders to help promote the plan to lower costs and expand insurance coverage for all Americans.
“I know there’s been a lot of misinformation in this debate, and there are some folks out there who are frankly bearing false witness,” Mr. Obama told a multidenominational group of pastors, rabbis and other religious leaders who support his goal to remake the nation’s health care system.
So, now opponents of Obamacare are not just an angry mob of un-American bigots, we have also transgressed the 9th Commandment (or 8th if your Catholic). All I can say in response is “let he who is without sin, cast the first stone”. Or maybe take the log from your own eye.
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: These are all fabrications that have been put out there in order to discourage people from meeting what I consider to be a core ethical and moral obligation. That is that we look out for one other, that I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper. And in the wealthiest nation on earth right now, we are neglecting to live up to that call.
Yikes. As Althouse notes, Obama is not his own brother’s keeper (he lives in poverty in Kenya), so this is about the government being “Big Brother”. Shades of Orwell anyone?
And perhaps scariest of all:
Ok then. I guess I choose to be a sacrafice on the alter of Obama.
Heaven help us all.
The video was great. An obvious spoof but very well done. It goes back to the debate to Obama as the joker and Bush as the joker/vampire. Political satire is fair (if crazy people recognize it for what it is). The real deal, as they say, now people are getting involved and actual thought is going into the process of Health-Care reform. I’ve said I recognize we need reform, just not this reform. Hopefully the US is in better shape than we thought. Calling the insurance companies evil villans is not correct in a lot of cases. I remember you had some malady and your Blue-Cross said no to some tests. As I pointed out then, they are only the administrators. That’s why you were able to goto your own HR and get them to approve it. Harry Reid recently stated the old adage that income tax is voluntary. BS. They will come in and take your home, garnish your wages and assess interest and fines. Voluntary? When the bills state that End-Of-Life counseling is voluntary I’m just not buying that. When they say they will offer child rearing counseling and check-up in a couple of years to ensure things are going well. Just a minute. Don’t tell me how to raise my child or tell my parents how to plan for the inevitable. Those are family decisions. Fortuneate pointed out that his/her parents had living wills and the siblings were on-board. That, to me, is the way it is supposed to work. Narcisstic has become the buzz word in describing our congress. Sen. Ensign (Republican) said today that his affair was not illegal. Not like B. Clinton’s because he did not lie. Give me a break. Throw this guy off the highest cliff we can find. Damn. Ok it’s off my chest now. I still want know how thw points plays into strategy with darts. Duke where are you?
So do you object to him calling on religious leaders or the fact that he says it is an ethical and moral obligation?
He has already called on corporate leaders and members of the health care community. Why should he be restricted from calling on any particular segment of society? Democrats have a history of calling on religious leaders to promote social programs. What incenses most people is when the religious right tries to legislate their particular brand of religion but this is not advocating a particular religious ideology or an issue based on one’s religious beliefs.
You don’t have to be religious to believe that it is unethical for an insuarance company to refuse to provide insurance to a person with a preexisting condition. A person should not have to die because they lose their job and their health insurance in the middle of an illness for which they cannot now obtain insurance coverage. The terms “moral” and “ethical” are not the sole provenace of the religious.
And why is it scarey that he quoted from a Rosh Hoshanah prayer?
Democrats, realizing the success of the President’s “Cash For Clunkers”
rebate program, have revamped a major portion of their National Health Care
Plan.
President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, and Sen. Reed are expected to make this
major announcement at a joint news conference later this week. I have
obtained an advanced copy of the proposal which is named….
“CASH FOR CODGERS” and it works like this… Couples wishing to access
health care funds in order to pay for the delivery of a child will be
required to turn in one old person. The amount the government grants them
will be fixed according to a sliding scale. Older and more prescription
dependent codgers will garner the highest amounts.
Special “Bonuses” will be paid for those submitting codgers in targeted
groups, such as smokers, alcohol drinkers, persons 10 pounds over their
government prescribed weight, and any member of the Republican Party.
Smaller bonuses will be given for codgers who consume beef, soda, fried
foods, potato chips, lattes, whole milk, dairy products, bacon, Brussel
sprouts, or Girl Scout Cookies.
All codgers will be rendered totally useless via toxic injection. This will insure that they are not secretly resold or their body parts harvested to keep other codgers in repair. You heard it hear first…
Lucky for you John, Renee has reached her limit and Kevin doesn’t seem to be in any hurry.
Fortuneate, now that is funny…
Maybe you need to worry about the daughter…Is she thinking about it?
Not a chance and I say that with dismay. Besides I am not an old codger. Entry into that grouping is dictated by more than a date on a birth certificate. And based on the above criteria I wouldn’t fetch any special bonuses. Lucky for me all of my exs would. LOL!
Here you go:
Two for the road.
1: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/24/democrats-brace-tough-congressional-races/
2: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/08/23/corporate_shills_for_hope_and_change_97976.html
Comment: I would normally want to say that it is simply incredible the double standards that exist in politics vis-Ã -vis the standards that both the American public and, especially, the American military is held to in comparison. But it would just fall on deaf ears most likely, no offense intended. Almost no one gives a damn, seems. I spent 10 years as an enlisted man, working my way from E-1 to E-7/select, going to night school for six years straight so I could get enough credits to qualify for a commissioning program, when finally I was able to finish my degree and was commissioned as a 2d Lieutenant six days before I went over ten years of active duty. I spent another 20 years as an officer retiring as a LtCol with 30 active, and the only reason I didn’t stay for full colonel was that it would have taken 7 more years to retire as an O-6 and 30 years of active duty seemed at the time to be enough. I served from the lowest of lowest posts……….to eventually serve at the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) in the Pentagon and at the State Department, the United States Information Agency (USIA) and attended many meetings held in the White House (Old Executive Office Building on the White House grounds), so I understand a little about how things work in DC. The reason I mention this is not to pat myself on the back, quite the contrary, it is because it was 30 years of knowing I had to keep my nose clean – very, very, clean, every single day along the way and that any screw up at all, indebtedness, a failure to file my IRS return, a bad relationship with my boss, a ding on an OER, an allegation of misconduct, a social actions complaint, and heaven forbid, a DUI or even a drinking problem, would have derailed my career pretty much instantly, and without any apologies from those levying the sentence. So when I now observe all the shenanigans of these elected officials and all those chosen for high positions of responsibility and authority, and the way Democrat party and this fxck-wad of a president gives allofem a pass while he apologizes to anyone everyone abroad for our behavior and conduct and sucks up to the middle east and the Russians – well it’s just damned near unbelievable…….and they make plans to close GTMO, a perfect location and perfect prison for what has to be done, and instead reinvent the wheel by opening a new prison or whatever and spend another fortune in the process, totally unnecessyy and all the while bad-mouthing the previous administration and blaming them for everything……. and even as they lay plans to chase after CIA career intelligence officers for trying to protect our nation and it’s people during a time of war, no doubt, the same Attorney General who essentially pardoned by deciding to not prosecute (I mentioned it earlier) two Black Panthers who were caught in polling place intimidation and weapons charges……. any coincidence that they were black and he and the and the Pres is too????? Give me a damned break, here. How the hell long do they think they can get away with this crap? How much do they think the silent majority and essentially, the white middle class, will take? Apparently they think we have no spine at all – I guess we’ll see won’t we.
This country is unraveling before my very eyes, seems to me. I never thought I would live to see this day but as I survey the plethora of problems besetting this nation and the crap-bag of politicians who are vested with leading us, I just don’t see any way out.
I could go on and on, and sometimes have, I know. But I’ll spare you more on this occasion. Nothing I would have to say would be news to you anyway but I have to say that I have never been so discouraged and disappointed ever before in my entire life and I, indeed, never thought I would see this come to pass. I guess in the final analysis, damned near anything is possible in this life, isn’t it? It’s almost the only lesson I can take from it all. Oh, and that virtually nothing surprises me anymore. Nothing at all.
Frank,
Points are easy in cricket…
you know you ahve the numbers 20-15 that you need to close. Close means to hit 3 darts. There is the triple zone, double zone and a single zone. If one dart hits the triple sone then that number is closed and you can move on if you want to the next number. If your adversary does not have that number closed then you can also throw for points. Example: First dart hits the triple 20 (closed now) and your next dart hits the single zone and the third dart hits the double zone – this equals a closed number and 60 points (1 sinlge 20 and one double 20). If your opponent already has the number closed then the triple 20 would be the only dart needed and then just move on to the next number. Now besides the 20-15 numbers you also have bullseyes – (single and a double zone). You can also point in this zone after you hit three and your opponent has not closed it yet. The winner is whoever has all numbers closed (20-15 and bullseyes) and the highest points total. Hope this helps a little…
Nicely done, Duke. You defined the game of cricket in one succinct paragraph. Now, the strategy of when to point and how much could have a book written about it I suppose.
You’ll see what I mean in my post about Dave New’s farewill tourney…