Barack Obama

In a little over 600 words, Sarah Palin has responded to the POTUS' hour-long Healthcare Speech. In her message, she argues that Democratic proposals will not lower costs or provide better healthcare. She also calls the President out on a few things,   including his failure to respond to arguments she has raised against bureaucrats making healthcare decisions. Since the media  hasn't really provided information on Sarah Palin's response, I am posting it here for Partizanes:

After all the rhetoric is put aside, one principle ran through President Obama’s speech tonight: that increased government involvement in health care can solve its problems.

Many Americans fundamentally disagree with this idea. We know from long experience that the creation of a massive new bureaucracy will not provide us with “more stability and security,” but just the opposite. It's hard to believe the President when he says that this time he and his team of bureaucrats have finally figured out how to do things right if only we’ll take them at their word.

There comes a time when a person has to do what they have to do.

My father volunteered to fight a war, because he immigrated to the United States, loved it to its core, and wanted his unborn children to breathe free. I respect and honor what he and countless others did for this country and value my freedoms exactly because they weren’t given “freely”. People worked, fought, and died for them. It is a sacrifice Americans should always remember.

When you watch the following video, you can be sucked in because of the lovely people and some of the Utopian ideas. (Whoa! Don't go there!) Watch carefully, because there is no turning back:

As I surfed the Net yesterday, I found myself reading Canadafreepress and an article by Paul Williams. Love those Canadians, they are always breaking little stories about our government and our leaders that our media ignores. (Why is that?) Anyway, I found one of those stories yesterday, which led me to finding other things....

Even if you don’t have the time, make the time to read Principles for Allocation of Scarce Medical Intervention authored by DR Ezekiel Emmanuel (the POTUS’ Special Advisor for Health Policy and Rahm’s bro) and two of his colleagues, Govind Persad, and Alan Wertheimer. It is an article that every American should read, because it presents the “ethics” behind reorganizing the delivery and reimbursement of healthcare. The authors are all associated with the Department of Bioethics at The National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. (You will find the article by following this link.)

Emmanuel et al are not satisfied with our country’s prevailing method for making healthcare decisions, which is based on saving the most life-years. Instead they promote “The Complete Lives System”. They write:

(This started out as a reply to BJ and twandx, on the "They don't fool around in Iowa" blog entry.  It got so big I figured it would be better to make a diary out of it.)

BJ and twandx, You Nailed It.

We don't have a presidential primary in Iowa.  We have caucuses.  In order to cast a vote in the presidential primary you must present your body at the caucus.  No exceptions.

If you're working, can't get a sitter or are physically unable to leave the house, that's too bad.  Your vote won't be counted.  No excuses. 

If you don't have transportation we're sorry.  Most busses don't run at night in Iowa and there are none at all in this little town, nor do we have taxis.  Find someone you can ride with or hoof it.  If you're not there, you don't count. 

Scheduled a non-refundable vacation trip without checking to see when the caucuses were?  Too bad.  Choose between the beach in January or driving to the caucus in a blizzard. 

Your daughter selected January 5 to get married in Phoenix?  Sorry.  The wedding or the caucus.  Take your pick.

You must be there in the flesh, standing on the side of the room designated as your candidate's.  If you're not, your voice will not be heard.

Ever since President Obama returned from his Middle East Apology Tour, he has pretty much publicly avoided the subject of Iran, which should give every American pause. Remember this Imperial President did say that we could not stop another country from attaining nuclear capabilities, just before all hell broke lose in Iran over a rigged presidential election.  Since then, the world has witnessed the ruthless treatment of Iranian citizens by  Khamenei and Ahmadinejad.

Iranian military police and imported Hezbollah and Hamas thugs wrecked havoc on unarmed Iranian protesters. Some were brutally beaten; some were murdered. Word has it that Iranian Green Party members were picked up after the protests were quelled, that they were imprisoned and tortured. Some Iranians died as a result; some are still imprisoned.

Many of us will never forget the murder of the young Iranian woman named Neda. Since the ruling Iranian government has no qualms about killing its young people, it is doubtful that it would restrain itself in the use of nuclear weapons. So what’s up with the POTUS and Iran?

For all those of you who doubt the title assertion, I must ask you to consider this: Where would we be without Vice President Joseph Robinette Biden? He seems to be the only politician these days who tells the truth about anything, and yet, no one appreciates him for it. Why the lack of warm fuzzies for this cuddly, bright-toothed gaffester, America? He's just being honest, and I, personally, love him for it!

The June issue of Fortune Magazine has an article about the Federal Budget and the impact of Obama’s plan for the economy on the national debt. In “We Owe What?”, Shawn Tully estimates that each of us has a $155,000 share in the projected US debt. (Yikes!) The article argues that our national debt will rise so high that the most probable way of reducing it will be a VAT (Value-Added Tax).

A VAT would tax purchases at 10-15% and generate the money needed to pay for the POTUS’ agenda and balance the budget. It would be imposed like a Federal Sales Tax and be paid along the chain of production by both wholesalers and retailers. A product gets more expensive as it goes through the production process and moves from wholesale to retail to consumer.

cross-posted at Alegre's Corner

I cannot make this stuff up, folks; today, Obama swatted a fly during a CNBC interview, and a story got written about it at AOL News, filed under "political news" and "national news," respectively.

Here's the link:

http://news.aol.com/article/ob...

A few lines from this "important" hard-hitting, news story follow:

Said Obama to the persistent fly: "Get out of here."
But it didn't.

My goodness! Something didn't obey President Obama on the first try? Sacrilege!

But we go on:

So Obama waited for the fly to settle, put his hand up and then smacked the fly dead in one try.

Whoo-hoo! Way to go, Mr. President!

And yet, we go on:

Without missing a beat, the president said to CNBC correspondent John Harwood: "Now, where were we."

Note...This post was originally written on Memorial Day, but never made it to Partizane.