LOL POLITICO: "Barack Obama's health-care speech: What he said, what he meant"

[NYC_SKP]

:rofl:

***Because I Couldn't Possibly Understand it Without the Politico Explaining to Me...

Barack Obama's health-care speech: What he said, what he meant.

President Barack Obama on Wednesday night tried to portray health care reform – potentially the most sweeping overhaul to American society in some 40 years – as something as nonthreatening as buying auto insurance.

Obama laid out his requirement that all Americans own health insurance, covering their doctor bills the way they would pay for a car accident. A government-run health insurance option would be akin to the way private colleges battle with state universities for students.

And a government takeover of health care? Hardly, said Obama. Only 5 percent of Americans would use the public option even if it existed.

But behind that rhetoric, Obama was laying out massive changes to the health insurance system that have raised concerns that one high-stakes speech to Congress seem unlikely to quiet – and highlighting divisions in his own party that seem certain to continue.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/26969.html

Ooh, Ooh, If you click on "Auto Insurance" in the piece, you can save a lot of money!!!

:rofl:

[Meshuga]

1. This article is meant to persuade the minds of those who didn't watch the speech

This is meant to make the minds up of those who did not watch the speech. This article was featured on the front page of Yahoo! so it has a purpose. And that purpose is not to inform but to persuade.

[NYC_SKP]

6. That's right. Ironcially, anyone who can read the article could watch or read the address...

Politico's on the Internet, the video is on the Internet, the text is on the Internet.

:eyes:

[Engineer4Obama]

2. God I hate Politico

It reeks of fox news, wealthy start up money instant credibility with the MSM. And a slant so obvious you can't hold your footing on it.

[Jennicut]

3. Are we surprised when the CEO of the website is a former Reagan assistant?

[Sparkly]

4. And when he said it's not a total government take-over of healthcare, he meant

it is a complete, expensive radical government take-over of healthcare.

Not to mention his confirmation that there will be death panels. :eyes:

[asdjrocky]

5. Get ready.

Someone will post this soon as gospel.