Another Round of Obamacare Obamaganda

· Tuesday, June 8, 2010

So much for these bizarre theories that President Barack Obama is toying with a grand triangulation strategy, whereby he abandons his Democratic congressional allies in the 2010 elections and allows Republicans to win and save his fiscal fat from the fire. The New York Times is reporting that Obama is unleashing yet another public relations blitz to sell his already passed but woefully unpopular health care bill, at least in part to help Democrats who supported the boondoggle.

As soon as Obama can spare the time to take a break from entertaining himself with publicly funded rock 'n' roll parties, he'll begin an Obamaganda campaign to convince the stubbornly unsophisticated majority that Obamacare is the panacea for not only their health needs but also the nation's financial difficulties. I wish I were being facetious.

The first stop on his tour will be Wheaton, Md., where he'll conduct a nationally televised stunt with senior citizens timed to coordinate with the mailing of the first batch of his magnanimous $250 rebate checks to Medicare beneficiaries to help pay for their medicines.

Why not? This president and his team of fellow Alinskyites are not particularly into governance. They can only dawdle, hyperventilate and scapegoat over the Gulf oil spill. They can only form fiscal commissions and make speeches about our accelerating fiscal crisis. They have no problem reverting to "community organizing," and that's what they plan to do in perpetuity -- at least on Obamacare.

The Times says the Wheaton event will be just the first in a series of "milestone moments" -- we'll call Wheaton a "senior moment" -- in which Obama "will weigh in" as various "consumer-friendly provisions" of Obamacare "take effect."

I'm just wildly speculating here, but I'm guessing Obama won't be holding similar town hall meetings to celebrate the more painful provisions of Obamacare or to answer questions about the many frauds he committed in the process of forcing passage of this bill.

For instance, I'm taking a stab that Obama won't be doing the Sunday talk show circuit to field questions about recent reports that Obamacare doesn't allocate nearly enough money to cover the estimated 5.6 million to 7 million Americans with pre-existing medical conditions who will qualify for temporary high-risk insurance pools. I'm betting he won't respond substantively to the study by the Center for Studying Health System Change that Obamacare "could leave hundreds of thousands of potential participants with serious medical problems unable to obtain coverage" and that the $5 billion earmarked for the pools might cover as few as 200,000 people a year.

I'm also stepping out in conjecturing that Obama won't be going on his beloved Fox News to rebut claims by The Washington Examiner's fine editorial page editors that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius "has resorted to sending millions of senior Americans a sales brochure that is packed with blatantly false claims about Obamacare."

But we are probably safe in assuming that Obama's targeting of seniors with the brochure and television blitzes is no accident. Indeed, The Hill reports that the administration and Democrats "have especially focused on seniors, who make up a crucial voting bloc in November and who traditionally show up at the polls in higher numbers than younger citizens."

But in fairness, I must confess that I've hedged my bets on the Fox News prediction, because the Times reports that former White House communications director Anita Dunn will have a major role in orchestrating the "milestone moments" campaign to deceive, er, inform the administration's subjects, er, public about the vast wonders of Obamacare. Dunn, you may recall, was the principal general in the administration's war against Fox News.

The Times assures us, though, that Dunn won't be alone. "A veritable army of outside groups" will be "orchestrating campaigns to echo the White House message." This "advocacy campaign ... will last until after the law is fully put into place in 2014." Heading up the effort will be none other than President Obama himself, who "intends to stand by his pledge" not to abandon Democrats who supported Obamacare. His senior adviser David Axelrod said Obama is eager to "campaign for folks who showed the courage to stand up. ... I think he'll do it with a special relish."

Here's hoping he does it with extra-special relish and mustard. He has helped ensure defeat for almost every candidate he's campaigned for to date. If this streak continues, his stamp of approval will be the figurative kiss of death for all candidates who would thwart the indispensable conservative effort to repeal and replace Obamacare.

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Comments

Brian

Let's all pray that comrade Obama's batting record does not change!

Posted June 8, 2010 at 7:06:32 AM


Kathy

It's just more propaganda and staging. He thought he was really clever by having those 'doctors' and 'nurses' on the podium with him, but America saw right through that. If he thinks that he can stage enough crap to fool the seniors, then he's got another think coming. He might fool some younger voters, but seniors know better. We also know that we're likely to get the worst end of things with his free, oh-so-helpful health care plan. Maybe Hollywood should trade him an Oscar for his Nobel prize; he's at least earned that.

Did you know that when he visited Louisiana, all those workers in white suits along the beach were staged too? People that actually live there saw them brought in in bus loads, never to be seen again after he left.

The irksome thing about all this is the tremendous waste of time and money. OUR money. Not only should he be focused on more serious issues, but he could save a boatload of money if he'd just stay home. That "veritable army of outside groups" will cost us plenty too.

All this 'campaigning' yet people, foreign and domestic, still see him as a laughing stock. Dunn must be an idiot too; all her work did was drive up the ratings for Fox News.

Posted June 8, 2010 at 10:01:26 AM


dewaltgirl

Is this just like the $250 he so magnanimously bestowed upon retired military folks, then promptly retrieved at tax time? Spare me! Of course there won't be enough $$ to go around to be used by those that paid for it... It's in reserver for the millions of illegal voters, er, immigrants.

Posted June 8, 2010 at 11:26:44 AM


dewaltgirl

Is this just like the $250 he so magnanimously bestowed upon retired military folks, then promptly retrieved at tax time? Spare me! Of course there won't be enough $$ to go around to be used by those that paid for it... It's in reserver for the millions of illegal voters, er, immigrants.

Posted June 8, 2010 at 11:27:21 AM


Ruth Ann Wilson

"As soon as Obama can spare the time to take a break from entertaining himself with publicly funded rock 'n' roll parties, he'll begin an Obamaganda campaign to convince the stubbornly unsophisticated majority that Obamacare is the panacea for not only their health needs but also the nation's financial difficulties. I wish I were being facetious."

I wish you were being facetious, too.

How do we make sure this man doesn't get a "pension" for the rest of his life after his term is over? Everyday, destruction and incompetence, full of hate for our Beloved Country and the American citizens.

What a travesty.

God Save US

For God & Country

The American

Posted June 8, 2010 at 12:45:05 PM


Jack

Typical Liberal thinking. [It it aint broke, fix it till it is.] Government healthcare, ha! Let me tell you something about government health care from someone who's experienced military hospitals, and VA healthcare. Mostly you just wait in line to die.

"I'm [sick] of waiting in line." what a great slogan for the healthcare plan called "Obamacare." What do we get? New doctors fresh out of medical school, and incompetents who'd never make it in a real practice.

I'll just say one more thing, and think hard: do you really want a bureaucrat making the decision that could either save--or end--your life?

Posted June 8, 2010 at 10:10:19 PM


HawkWatcher

Karl is part of a shrinking, ignorant minority that soon will be neutered. I wonder if Karl knows that the polls report 58% of Americans now want Obamacare repealed. Conservatives and Republicans have offered many ideas to lower the costs of health care, ideas that will not bankrupt the nation and don't include the federal government taking control of every aspect of the health care system.

I'm doing everything I can to educate all the seniors I know about the fiasco that Obamacare really is. All the Democrat propaganda and lies cannot stop the truth of the fail of Obamacare.

I can't find one single unjust statement in Limbaugh's article, Karl. Perhaps you could elaborate...enlighten us if you will...I'd be happy to completely and factually shred anything you say to defend Obama.

Posted June 10, 2010 at 1:11:09 AM


terry goodwin

Not enough words can say what the gov't has destroyed under this administration.

One only needs to go to an Indian Reservation and see what gov't control can do. If they had not started their own casinos they would be less than a third world nation. Through the years they suffered at the hands of gov't who knew what was best for them. Took their lands-as late as the 1970's-and gave it to the good of humanity. When they found out how to play the game and control their own lives they bacame self sufficient, and then the gov't wanted to take control of that to. Now they have their own medical, school and tribal gov't and run their own lives. My grandmother was sent to a re-education school as a child, they cut her hair and taught her the ways of the white people in order to control them. Their is corruption in the Indian Gov't as well, but they don't last long as the members vote them out, basically they control their gov't. They now have a voice in their lives and the money to back it up.

I remember in the early 50's going to town from the reservation and the people looked down on us, then we got money and they wanted our business, before they didn't want us in their stores. We started buying back some of the land that was taken from us and they were more than happy to sell, because we had the money. They were mad at us because we could afford attorneys to enforce our Treaties. Now they complain because we have to much money. Their money they spent trying to get rich at the casino or the buffet. Any parallel here?

To blame the prince of fools is foolish but to blame the vast majority of fools who elected him.

Posted June 10, 2010 at 11:08:36 AM


Robert A. Rodgers

I think that someone of national standing and with available means to spread the word should encourage all seniors, including myself, to spend the cost of a postage stamp and send the lying mail to their representative or back to the White House with a note about not believing the lie and proposing that they all be voted out of office.

I'm not sure that Obama would recognize such a response as a rejection of his policies, but several million letters of this type would keep them busy for several months and that would be a good thing wouldn't it?

Robert "Buck" Rodgers

Posted June 10, 2010 at 7:04:33 PM


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