POLITICAL INACTION: President Obama: "I didn't campaign on the public option"

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

President Obama: "I didn't campaign on the public option"

President Obama, defending the Senate healthcare bill, says that he is very enthusiastic about the heatlhcare bill coming out of Congress, and that the biggest misconception about the healthcare debate is the public option. He says that he didn't campaign on the public option, and that the bills coming out of Congress accomplish 95% of what he wants.

i.e.....grow up liberals.

6 Comments:

Anonymous said...: I still have to blame Obama for a lack of leadership letting Congress go off on a tangent with the public option concept. If they couldn't get single payer and took that off the table at the outset, they were never going to get something that looked like a pilot program for single payer. There was a lack of control on Obama's part that it went as far as it did and has it ever cost him.; 6:28 PM
rikyrah said...: BF,

there are far too many Youtube clips of him talking about the Public Option.

try again.

I know you wanna talk down to the liberals, but he campaigned on it. Folks wouldn't have gotten attached to it out of thin air.; 6:43 PM
rikyrah said...: From the Democratic Party Platform:

Covering All Americans and Providing Real Choices of Affordable Health Insurance Options.

Families and individuals should have the option of keeping the coverage they have or choosing from a wide array of health insurance plans, including many private health insurance options and a public plan. Coverage should be made affordable for all Americans with subsidies provided through tax credits and other means; 7:14 PM
Brian Francis said...: He said he preferred it, but he didn't draw a line in the sand. There is a major difference on that point. Numerous times, he qualified the exact comments you are talking about, saying while he prefers the public option, it isn't mandatory. He only said that the bill must promote competition and lower costs. If the bill saves $1 Trillion over 20 years, I think he's made his point.

You can call it talking down all you want, but liberals are undermining the president who's negatives have skyrocketed. The Democrats in Congress have only one hope of maintaining their majorities, and that is Obama's popularity. Remember, many people were elected in 2008 because Obama was on the ballot. In 2010, how are Democrats going to motivate all of the new Obama voters to come back out again? You and I both know they aren't. So, critical to every Democrat is the popularity of the President and his agenda. Right now, liberals are slitting the throats of the Democratic party because they can't get on board.; 7:15 PM
Brian Francis said...: Again, you posted the party platform. I'm using Obama's exact words today, and his qualifying comments from the campaign. The public option was not a deal breaker for him, and he said that every time he talked about healthcare.; 7:16 PM
Anonymous said...: someone has a growing crush on haterade; 4:13 PM