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Mon Dec-21-09 02:11 PM
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TAVIS SMILEY Calls Obama’s Health Care Victory “SMALL CHANGE” |
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On NBC’s, Meet The Press, Tavis Smiley continued his ongoing criticism of President Obama. He reffered to Obama’s upcoming victory on health care refom as small change. Here’s what he had to say. “Throughout the campaign, the president promised change, We have change on the horizon here but, unfortunately, it’s small change. I find myself kind of like John McCain agreeing with Howard Dean, here I am agreeing with my friend Joe Scarborough.”
“I think the real winners here are the insurance industry. They’re, they’re the–yeah, they’re the ones who win here. I mean, you, you, you walk through that list, David, of those points you put up earlier. The president wanted the public option, the industry said no. The president wanted to tax their windfall profits, the industry said no. The president wanted to do a variety of things, the industry pushed back. And here’s the problem for me. It’s not just, David, that we’re not getting the kind of health care that we were promised we were going to get, it’s that in the president’s first big fight with a powerful lobby in Washington, the White House lost and they lost big. And that, I think, portends something very dangerous down the road for all the other issues we have to deal with where lobbies are going to be pushing back on the White House.”< http://newsone.com/nation/tavis-smiley-calls-obamas-health-care-victory-small-change/>
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Mon Dec-21-09 02:12 PM
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1. Tavis Smiley hates Obama so that's no surprise. |
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Mon Dec-21-09 02:32 PM
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5. He has always hated Obama |
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Mon Dec-21-09 03:27 PM
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15. Yep. Loyal to the Clintons till the bitter end, and then some.... |
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Mon Dec-21-09 02:48 PM
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10. Yes . . .anyone who criticizes this HC deform "hates Obama" . . .!!! |
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Mon Dec-21-09 03:30 PM
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16. Oh, no, this is from waaaayyyy back. Nothing new and certainly not about HCR. |
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Mon Dec-21-09 04:02 PM
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18. But it precludes, evidently, his being right about this health care deform??? |
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Mon Dec-21-09 02:50 PM
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12. Apparently he never chose to put on rose colored glasses like so many have. n/t |
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Mon Dec-21-09 03:31 PM
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17. Tavis Smiley is a smart man! nt |
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Mon Dec-21-09 02:14 PM
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2. Yep....Mr. Tavis Corporate Sponsors up the yang-yang and peddling another Book Smiley |
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is talking again.
He's a distant relative (my 1st cousin is married to his cousin), and I can't stand him.
His original Claim to fame came during the OJ trial.... like Greta and others.
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Mon Dec-21-09 02:36 PM
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Mon Dec-21-09 02:45 PM
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That was waaaaay uncalled for.
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Mon Dec-21-09 03:04 PM
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14. I have a very strong feeling that this poster is a pizza lover... |
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and their order is coming up shortly.
Rp
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Tue Dec-22-09 08:20 AM
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22. I like Mr. Smiley's show a lot. |
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He has common sense. Something that is getting harder and harder to find.
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Mon Dec-21-09 02:15 PM
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3. "small change"... it's worse than that... it's mandated private insurance that rips people off |
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by rejecting their services. It's the worst possible change their could be.
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Mon Dec-21-09 02:49 PM
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11. "Small Change" is cute . . . kinda catchy . . .. but it's ohhh so sad in reality !!! |
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Mon Dec-21-09 02:16 PM
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Edited on Mon Dec-21-09 02:21 PM by MadBadger
apparently you oddly choose to capitalize names
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Mon Dec-21-09 02:34 PM
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6. When I get interviews with well known people, I cap their names. |
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Mon Dec-21-09 02:38 PM
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8. Tavis Smiley....meet the underside of the DLC Bus |
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Mon Dec-21-09 03:03 PM
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13. He's been there for some time now. |
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his annual symposium is sponsored by so many Chevrons, etc... till they force to have their signage behind him during the entire program... every year.
If anyone is bought and paid for, its Tavis Smiley.
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Mon Dec-21-09 07:37 PM
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19. You got that right Frenchie |
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And when Obama did not come to his FORUM,Tavis was beyond MAD!
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Tue Dec-22-09 04:39 AM
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20. Loads of ad hominem here. Touching nerves. |
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Tue Dec-22-09 07:08 AM
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21. The health care mandate is Enron on steroids. |
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And DUers: Don't let people start trying to convince you otherwise. :grr:
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