BLAME IT ON OBAMA
If you had told me two years ago that I would ever be interested in the health care bill I would have said you were crazy. In the past, when the mail came with a big fat envelope containing car, house, or health insurance I would throw it in some kitchen drawer, never to look at it again. Those insurance contracts were totally boring and I wouldn’t waste a minute looking at them. On the other hand, there were times, when I would spend hours a week on the phone with insurance companies fighting for “injustices” and their unfair practices. But that was the extent of my interest.
So, how did it happen that I played hooky from work on Thursday, February 25th to watch the health care summit on TV, which was being broadcast from the Blair House in Washington, D.C.? I anxiously waited for the 10 a.m. start, and except for occasionally getting up for some food, getting dinner prepared, etc., I was glued to the T.V.set until after 5 p.m. I became annoyed when a station stopped the debate to show a commercial and I found myself switching channels looking for a commercial-free cable station. I went back and forth from MSNBC to CNN to FOX
The feeling I have inside myself is that I am watching history being made. The lucky part for me is to have the time to experience it. Being present while history is being made is invigorating. The debates, and the difference of opinion going along with the process, are energizing.
The health care decisions being made in our Capital involve much more than what it looks like on the surface. The issue goes to the core of our being. Life or death, sickness or health, what do we want for ourselves and for others? On one side we see people able to understand and empathize with the dilemma who want to do whatever it takes to fix the health care system now. The other side says they understand the problem and want to reform the present system too, but they want to start the debate all over, throw out 13 months of work already done, and start from scratch with a “clean sheet of white paper”. The latter group talks about not raising taxes and letting the private sector fix the problem. It is said that the people in Congress have the best health care system in America and many of them don’t know what it’s like to have what 30,000,000 Americans don’t have. Nothing!
I am not alone participating in history being made. For over a year now I have seen people all over the Country in heated debates about health care. Like others, I have written articles about what I have seen and gone to town hall meetings on the subject. I have been asking myself, “how come the entire country has gotten involved in such a boring subject?” Hot and boring just doesn’t seem to go together.
So, who is to blame for this nation-wide involvement? How about blaming President Barack Hussein Obama? President Obama is taking the hit for everything going wrong in America anyway, so let’s just blame him. I think he can handle it. I believe he expects it. More debate, more resistance, more passion, more interest, more action, more change – exactly what he wants. How else could things possibly get done in America?
President Obama has said during his campaign for President and many times after, “I cannot do it alone!” I guess he meant it! He needs the American people to help him. Change needs emotion. Change needs energy. Change needs action. Change needs everyone interested and working. Everyone working toward a more perfect union.
Whatever finally happens to the health care bill, the President has succeeded in getting an entire country worked up over a subject that is intrinsically boring. All Presidents should have in their resumes “community organizer”. So, let’s give President Obama his due. Just blame him for it all.
I guess I will have to start reading all those boring insurance policies now. Ugh!
Tags: Barack Hussein Obama, Community Organizer, Health Care Reform
March 3rd, 2010 at 5:52 pm
Dear Margie,
I organized a lot for our President. I thought he was really going to change things for the good of the people. I thought he was going to really make the republican’s sit down and take it the same way that they made us progressive’s sit down and take it. Well that hasn’t happened. He’s taken advice from Tim Guithner, Bernake, Greenspan and worst of all Jamie Dimon. Rahm Emanual called people like me FUCKING RETARD’S!
I know what he meant by that remark and it had nothing to do with actual mentally challenged folk.
It had everything to do with people who care.
Our president is now trying to pass a bill that won’t help anyone for years, if it even does then. He’s afraid of the don’t ask don’t tell, he’s afraid to shut down Haliburton and all of their murders. Dang, they just got 2.5 billion more of our taxpayer bucks. He can’t even stop producing all of those F-20 jets to nowhere. They don’t work and cost like what, 6 million apiece?
The stimulus isn’t generating much when you consider the overall money involved.
The funds that are being applied for the most part is only for keeping a few thousand municipal jobs like teacher’s,police and firemen.
There’s been few substantial jobs created through infrastructure.
He also hasn’t forced the big banks to do anything different than what they were doing before. As a matter of fact they have layed off good people in the thousands.
He’s expanded the middle-east war to Pakistan for cryin out loud. He wants to expand our military.
Why? Why is he making it easier for a boy or a girl to get a job in the military? Why are there so many more benefits to joining the military, initially as a youngster?
Its not a good thing.
I heard today that here in Milwaukee that they are going to cut so many more teaching jobs and arts associative jobs because to pay for healthcare costs 67 million more in the last two years than in previous years. Its insane. There’s certainly no more teachers on the rolls, as a matter of fact alot fewer. So instead of hunkering down and getting dirty for the good of all, he’s still being, I hate to say this, but a wussy. I love him, but dude needs to strengthen his spine.