Obama the Comedian in Chief: the Senate showed it could "stand up to the special interests"

[Karmadillo]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8425284.stm

"The United States Senate knocked down a filibuster aimed at blocking a final vote on healthcare reform and scored a big victory for the American people," Mr Obama said.

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He said the Senate showed it could "stand up to the special interests" and move the nation closer to a health insurance overhaul for the country as a whole.

[harun]

1. Coffee just flew out my nose... that's a good one.

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[glitch]

26. It's an inside joke-his corpse buddies know he thinks "we the people" are the special interests.

nod nod wink wink say no more.

[AndyA]

2. Meanwhile, those "special interests" are enjoying big increases in their stock.

And no, their stock isn't in line with the rest of the market. Their stocks are way above the market average.

So much for standing up to the special interests! :eyes: That'll teach 'em, screw around with us, and we'll send your stock into the stratosphere!! :eyes:

[begin_within]

3. As in, "stand up when they enter the room and offer them your seat of power?"

[derby378]

4. Didn't the special interests WRITE this bill?

At a Tea Party rally, no less?

[MichiganVote]

5. Uh..huh...thinking Nelson, Landrieu,Sanders...soon to come Stupak, Pelosi, etc. etc.

[cherokeeprogressive]

43. Let's not forget Chris Dodd... n/t

[OHdem10]

6. No disresptect, Mr. President, but that statement makes you sound

as if you are on a different planet.

Anyone with common sense knows the Senate Bill was a big
fat gift to the Insurance Industry. The last time I checked
the Insurance Industry is one of the biggest Special Interests.

[salguine]

49. Oh, I'll furnish the disrespect. Fuck him. Fuck him from here to Christmas.

[calico1]

7. Please tell me you are joking.

[EFerrari]

8. As someone pointed out yesterday, maybe he meant progressives

aka, Howard Dean's special interest. :)

[aquart]

22. Know what? I think you're right.

[EFerrari]

33. We should mark this date.

:)

[Neecy]

9. Like he stood up to Pharma?

Does he think we're really this stupid?

[begin_within]

10. He forgot to include:

:sarcasm:

[amborin]

27. +10

[debbierlus]

11. It is pathetic that he has allowed himself to be reduced to Orwellian rheotic

I can't find the humor in it.

Only the irony

[Echo In Light]

18. Just following the scripts his handlers write, like all "presidents."

[phasma ex machina]

34. +1 K&R nt

[Tailormyst]

12. Yeah- and people wonder why we think he is full of shit.

Even those who don't accept the bill, I can't believe any of them are dumb enough to think the senate and congress stood up to anyone over this. I can't even stomach listening to him anymore.

[lapfog_1]

13. with a straight face.

only the kool-aid crowd laps this up.

[Goldstein1984]

14. He also declared Copenhagen a success

with nothing but a non-binding agreement among the major polluters produced.

[AzDar]

15. Words fail.

:wow:

[Blasphemer]

16. At this point, it's straight up lying... nt

[Bonhomme Richard]

17. The senate is a special interest group. n/t

[Last Stand]

19. "I did not have sexual relations with that insurance company." nt

[rateyes]

41. LOL

:spray:

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[leeroysphitz]

23. He was refering to progressives.

[Junkdrawer]

24. DemocracyNow had that as a headline and you could hear me laugh 3 blocks away...

:rofl:

[change_notfinetuning]

25. If he simply said, "this is the best we could do. It's this or nothing. I know

it's a crap bill that gives away the store to the craporations, but in some small ways, some Americans will benefit and I feel that we owe them this."

That I could respect. But as others have said, how stupid does he think we are? It's a line like that, "stand up to the special interests", that makes me lose all respect for the guy. I still want to give him the benefit of the doubt. I'm hoping it will be revealed that this is really his evil twin, Benedict Obama, who had kidnaped the great Barack Obama when no one was looking. Russell of the last Survivor show could learn a few tricks from this guy.

[Blue_In_AK]

42. I agree 100%

Why can't politicians be honest for once?

[Vidar]

28. K&R.

[Laelth]

29. That is hilarious. Give the man an Emmy for pure comic genius. n/t

Kill the bill.

Forcing people to buy insurance is no more the answer to a failed health care system than forcing people to buy houses is the solution to homelessness.

:dem:

-Laelth

[harun]

39. Further proof he is living in a sycophantic bubble now, detached from reality

[branders seine]

30. If he said that, how can anyone still respect or trust him?

That's just ridiculous on its face. Positively bushian.

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[branders seine]

38. Usually when a comedian sucks, *they* die.

This is just gonna kill more of us.

[ThomCat]

57. I don't know. It just shows that he's full of shit.

:(

He's ineffective. He's weak. He's a coward. And he'll celebrate failure.

We certainly seem to have hit some kind of jackpot when we believed all his lies and elected this loser. :(

[change_notfinetuning]

35. Stand up that kills? ba-dum-bump! n/t

[SOCALS]

36. It would do a lot of good

for your nervous system just to stop being surprised, indignant and shocked and let Obama and his people do and say whatever they want to and wait till his term is over. I personally did just that. Let them play with their toys, Americans will be screwed anyway.

Just close your eyes and try to enjoy it if you can

[MisterP]

37. remember, his advisors dubbed real public option/universal care as "the left of the left"

a tiny, radical minority COMPRISING 60-70 PERCENT OF AMERICA; remember Schumer's sneering about lefties that need to STFU?

but what can you expect from a conservative (regardless of party) except elitism and oozing arrogance?

[rateyes]

40. OK. The man really needs to STFU and quit pretending that he is a leader.

This stuff just makes me want to puke. :puke:

[rollingrock]

44. Very Orwellian

and just plain creepy.

[omega minimo]

48. More Victory Gin?

:toast:

[bvar22]

45. WOW. That performance tops Stephen Colbert's performance...

...at the White House Correspondents' Dinner in 2006.

Did everybody laugh at the punch line?

[Juche]

46. They screwed over unions and progressives

So yeah, they did get those special interests. We/they wanted something else (preferably single payer but we'd settle for a strong public option, real competition, drug negotiations and strong regulations). And we/they put $500+ million into the 2008 election with health care being a major priority.

I still support the bill because of subsides for the poor, expansion of some public plans (medicaid, health clinics) bans on pre-existing conditions and hopefully regulations on rescissions. But all it does it descend us deeper into plutocracy by empowering these same companies.

I also find Obama's statement Orwellian. Is he oblivious, is he focusing on a different aspect of the bill, does he live in a bubble, does he not think his listeners are paying attention or what? He doesn't strike me as a moron like Bush (who probably believed his own crap). Is he being intentionally deceitful or just exaggerating/focusing on different aspects of the bill than progressives?

[omega minimo]

47. "Closer" like Moved the nation closer to seeing health insurance drowned in the bathtub?

[Political Heretic]

50. Oh wow he needs to just shut the fuck up. I can't being to describe how insulting that statement is

:puke:

:eyes: Really standing up to special interests in the senate :eyes:

:puke:

[truedelphi]

51. You don't need to tell such bald-faced lies right now, Mr President.

After all, the elections aren't for another three years.

[Jim Sagle]

52. Craig Ferguson ain't got nuthin' on him!

[Major Hogwash]

58. Hahaha!!! Hell, how can he compete with this shit?

I love me some Craig Ferguson, but not even he can come up with this shit.

[Contrary1]

53. Talking to the Republics...

and they will probably believe it. Because it will be in all and/or any of the newspapers.

"All of 'em, any of 'em that have been in front of me over all these years." Yep.

[jonnyblitz]

54. unfuckingbelievable. K & Rnt

[Raine]

55. Oh Gawd, is he lying or

is he actually that stupid and or naive ... :yoiks:

[burning rain]

56. Give Obama a break. He just used the wrong word.

You know, when he said "to" where he should have said "for."

[Wardoc]

59. LOL! Yeah, kind of like how my ass shows my proctologist's finger who is boss!

[Triana]

60. ROFL!!! I guess this is O'Bomber's X-Mess present to us - a big old truckload of...

IRONY!

:rofl:

:eyes: