PERSPECTIVE. Obama: Healthcare Debate is "not a game" :: McConnell rolls out "Straw Man Bingo"

[jefferson_dem]

Obama on health revamp: Debate is `not a game'
Obama urges faster action on health care overhaul, says debate is `not a game'

By Ben Feller, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama sought Wednesday to cast the intensifying health care debate in terms that matter to ordinary people, promising to offer more savings, security and treatment to millions. Assailing his critics, he declared, "This debate is not a game."

In remarks prepared for the start of his prime-time news conference, Obama said he was determined to help the people who write him letters or speak to him at town halls expressing frustration about paying their health care bills or hanging onto their coverage.

"This debate is not a game for these Americans, and they cannot afford to wait for reform any longer," Obama said. "They are looking to us for leadership. And we must not let them down."

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Obama-on-health-revamp-Debate-apf-3567559248.html?x=0

Mitch McConnell's office has made "Straw Man Bingo" for Obama's prime time event: http://tinyurl.com/ku8c9a (can you have drinking Bingo?)

http://twitter.com/AmandaCarpenter/status/2787036761

[wryter2000]

1. We used to do Bingo for Bush's speeches

We all drank. That was the only way to get through his speeches. I think we drank whenever he said something that was one of our squares.

Accusing us of using strawmen is pretty ironic, I'd say.

[wryter2000]

2. Oh, Lordy

Please spare us from Republican "humor." Did you look at that thing? There are about five phrases repeated in different variations.