Crikey… Obama Rambles & Drones on for 17 Minutes in North Carolina on “We Are Overtaxed As It Is” Comment… Bring Out the Vaudevillian Hook (video)
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on April 5, 2010
Remember seeing in old cartoons and vintage black-and-white films that hook that would reach out from the theatre’s wings and yank a bombing act from the vaudevillian stage?
We need to dust off that vaudevillian hook from days of yore… Pres. Barack Obama loves the sound of his voice TOO much, as was painfully evident last Friday in North Carolina. Or is in a state of deer-in-the-headlights panic, and thus, launches into verbal diarrhea without his trusty teleprompter feeding him words of contrived elegance. Maybe he should write a few notes on his hand next time to avoid being the insufferable blabbermouth he is — just a suggestion.
The average US sitcom, when TV commercials are removed, runs about 21 minutes, plus or minus. Four more minutes of disjointed, mind-numbing “Obama-speak” and POTUS could have been right up there with the truly awful sitcom “Cavemen.” Or “My Mother The Car”… take your pick, they were both hideous shows.
Shudder.
From Washington Post, The great elaborator: Obama gives 17-minute answer to health-care query in N.C.:
Toward the end of a question-and-answer session with workers at an advanced battery technology manufacturer, a woman named Doris stood to ask the president whether it was a “wise decision to add more taxes to us with the health care” package.
“We are overtaxed as it is,” Doris said bluntly.
Obama started out feisty. “Well, let’s talk about that, because this is an area where there’s been just a whole lot of misinformation, and I’m going to have to work hard over the next several months to clean up a lot of the misapprehensions that people have,” the president said.
He then spent the next 17 minutes and 12 seconds lulling the crowd into a daze. His discursive answer — more than 2,500 words long — wandered from topic to topic, including commentary on the deficit, pay-as-you-go rules passed by Congress, Congressional Budget Office reports on Medicare waste, COBRA coverage, the Recovery Act and Federal Medical Assistance Percentages (he referred to this last item by its inside-the-Beltway name, “F-Map”). He talked about the notion of eliminating foreign aid (not worth it, he said). He invoked Warren Buffett, earmarks and the payroll tax that funds Medicare (referring to it, in fluent Washington lingo, as “FICA”).
Always fond of lists, Obama ticked off his approach to health care — twice. “Number one is that we are the only — we have been, up until last week, the only advanced country that allows 50 million of its citizens to not have any health insurance,” he said.
At this point, JammieWearingFool points out that LAST week, it was only 32 million… and asks the $64,000 question: How does this guy get away with such fabrications?
Another Black Conservative noted the following:
One of Obama’s classic tactics when faced with tough questions is to ramble on and on, so that there is no time left for follow-ups or to put out so much nonsense that you forget the original question. Too bad for Doris that Bret Baier was not on hand, he knows how to stop the rope a dope.
Obama continues…
A few minutes later he got to the next point, which seemed awfully similar to the first. “Number two, you don’t know who might end up being in that situation,” he said, then carried on explaining further still.
“Point number three is that the way insurance companies have been operating, even if you’ve got health insurance, you don’t always know what you got, because what has been increasingly the practice is that if you’re not lucky enough to work for a big company that is a big pool, that essentially is almost a self-insurer, then what’s happening is, is you’re going out on the marketplace, you may be buying insurance, you think you’re covered, but then when you get sick they decide to drop the insurance right when you need it,” Obama continued, winding on with the answer.
Halfway through, an audience member on the riser yawned.
But Obama wasn’t finished. He had a “final point,” before starting again with another list — of three points.
“What we said is, number one, we’ll have the basic principle that everybody gets coverage,” he said, before launching into the next two points, for a grand total of seven.
His wandering approach might not matter if Obama weren’t being billed as the chief salesman of the health-care overhaul. Public opinion on the bill remains divided, and Democratic officials are planning to send Obama into the country to convince wary citizens that it will work for them in the long run.
It was not evident that he changed any minds at Friday’s event. The audience sat politely, but people in the back of the room began to wander off.
Seems to me any other president (especially one who is, per the left-wing media adorers, suppose to be such a whiz-kid public speaker) would have wrapped this answer up in a couple of minutes with no repetitions or “ums” and “uhs”… or would have been quartered and filleted and barbecued for taking 17 bloody minutes to tap dance all over it. Let’s see how the left-wing media chooses to cover this… or NOT cover it.
From Right Pundits: Obama’s 17 Minute Answer On Higher Taxes And Healthcare:
When President Obama says there is a lot of “misinformation” about the healthcare bill or anything else he wants implemented he never really points us in a direction that actually proves that there is “misinformation.” A Case in point is Obama’s 17 minute answer on higher taxes and healthcare at Celgard in North Carolina.
A woman named Doris stood and asked the President a fairly simple question. What she received was political speak as to why Obama thinks he’s smarter than the average manufacturer in North Carolina (or anyone else for that matter).
Doris asked the President if it was wise to add more taxes to us with the healthcare package; she added, “We’re overtaxed as it is.” Amen, Doris, amen. In Obama’s 17 minute answer that followed he started with the usual. “Well let’s talk about this, you know, because this is an area where there’s been just a whole lot of misinformation.” Red flag goes up. We’re not going to get a straight answer to Doris’ question.
Within Obama’s 17 minute answer on higher taxes and healthcare it begins like this, first point he makes is our “moral imperative.” We’re a big country and nobody should be without something others have. Point two, “But for the grace of God there go I.” What? Point three, which is a jumbled mess, the way Insurance companies operate. You think you’re covered but you didn’t read the fine print and now you’re sick and they decide to drop you, blah, blah, blah. He probably shouldn’t have used this example since there most likely isn’t anyone (including him) who knows what exactly is contained in 3,000 pages of junk legislation.
Video Encore: Terrific music video that I’ve embedded before… “You Talk Too Much” fits Obama’s North Carolina blab-fest perfectly.
You Talk Too Much: The Post-American Bandstand with Pat Boone & Zo and the Zo-Lettes
Additional:
Pirate’s Cove: When All Else Fails, Baffle Them With Obamshat
Nick Gillespie, Big Government: Reason.tv: Obama’s Doublethink Doubletalk (SOTU Remix)
The Powers That Be: Obama vs. Obama
Flopping Aces: Is Obama Trying to BORE Voters to Death? and Bret Baier’s Outstanding Interview Of The Narcissist In Chief and A Powerful Message from the RGA and Weekend healthcare vote… but on what, how and is it legal?
Mcnorman’s Weblog: The Short Version Of POTUS’s 17 Minute Answer and Schizophrenia Or Bald Faced Lying?
Politico, The Arena: Randy Barnett’s response to ‘State of the Union: How did he do?’
Gateway Pundit: Rapists & Sex Offenders to Get Viagra Under Obamacare and Krauthammer Mocks Obama’s 17 Minute Town Hall Jibber-Jabber: “It’s Only 9 Times Longer Than Gettysburg Address” (Video) and FOX News Analysts Agree: Bret Baier Crushed Barack Obama- Left Him Stammering (Video) and Hah! Pat Boone & the PJTVettes ROCK BARACK and Limbaugh: I Thank God Every Day That Obama’s Agenda Is Going Down the Tubes and Leading Democrat: “We’ve Got to Spend Our Way Out of This Recession” (Video) and McCain Seen Mouthing “Blame It On Bush” During Obama’s Hyper-Partisan Attack Speech and Sarah Palin & Sean Hannity Discuss Justice Alito’s “You Lie” Moment (Video) and Chris Matthews: “I Forgot He Was Black Tonight For an Hour” (Video)
The Anchoress: SOTU Speech Reaction
Ralph R. Reiland, American Spectator: Not a Single Dime?
Pam Meister, Big Hollywood: BARACK THE VOTE: A Who’s Who of Those Targeting Our Youth
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Bret Baier Summarizes POTUS Interview… Prez Doesn’t Care About “Process” — OK to “Deem and Pass” Health Care Bill (video) and Worst State of The Union Address Ever? Obama Attacks SCOTUS, Makes More Empty Promises… His Approval Index Is at Minus 17 and Quirky WaPo Snippets Recap Pres. Obama’s State of the Union Address… Yawning, Snoozing Caught on Camera (video) and Good Grief… More Racist Comments from the Left: Matthews “Forgot He Was Black” on Obama’s State of the Union Address (video) and State of the Union Online Poll Results from CBS News… Not Looking Good for POTUS and S.E. Cupp’s Sassy Take on the “White House’s Play-Doh Spin Factory”
Obi’s Sister: Please, Mr. President, Shut Your Piehole
VotingFemale Speaks!: SOTU Report: Harry Reid Yawns while Janet Incompitano Sleeps and SOTU report: Congratulations Obama! you were promoted to ‘white guy’ for an hour! and SOTU Report: Obama to America: No Habla Massachusetts
GayPatriot: The Contradiction at the Heart of Obama-ism
Thomas Del Beccaro, Big Government: Judging Alito — Obama’s Ultimate Arrogance
Bob McCarty Writes: Oklahoma Senator Says Obama Best Liar Ever
Publius, Big Government: Health Care Reform Meets the Chicago Way
Nice Deb: Democrats vs The Revolting, Bitter Clingers and Law Professor:“I’m willing to bet a lot of money there will be no Supreme Court justice at the next State of the Union speech.” and Krauthamer On Obama’s SOTU Speech: No Pivot, “Tone Was Strained and Unctuous”
Diary of a Mad Conservative: Steyn: In Obama’s America you’ll all work for the government
Charging Elephant: The Most Dishonest President In United States History
Michelle Malkin: White liberal TV host can’t stop talking about president’s skin color and SOTU open thread: Blame the lobbyists! Fund high-speed rail boondoggles!
Joseph C. Phillips, Big Hollywood: Mr. President You Are Blocking the Sun
Politics Daily, A Self-Reverential State of the Union Address
Black & Right: Obama’s First SOTU Address – The Way It Sounded To Me
Rep. Pete Sessions, Big Government: Text2Chat: State of the Union Edition
Washington Post: New poll finds voter anger drove results of Mass. election
Dancing Czars: What Did Obama Say in his State of the Union Address?
Rich Trzupek, Big Journalism: Top 10 Things I Learned Listening To SOTU Last Night
On My Watch – The Writings of SamHenry: High on Himself – Obama Enjoyed His SOTU Fantasy
Real Clear Politics: MSNBC’s Mitchell: People Are No Longer Willing To Blame Bush
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