Posted by
RME KRNL on Friday, September 11, 2009 2:54:16 PM
And one of them is David Corn, columnist and Washington bureau chief for Mother Jones magazine and previous Washington editor of The Nation magazine, who just wrote an "insightful" article, "Why the Right Hates Obama: He's a Liberal," focused on Obama's "ObamaCare" speech to Wednesday night's Joint Session of Congress and the nation -- well, to those of you in the nation who watched it, anyway. I didn't, because I didn't think I was going to hear anything new or that whatever I might hear that was new would probably also be untrue. And I just love it when I'm right!
Anyway, without taking too much of my time completely dissecting Corn's claims, here is my reply to some of them:
Hey, Corn, it's not only because he's a liberal; it's also because he's a LIAR!
You say Obama "...presented a strong case for his version of health care reform." The Heritage Foundation says he flat out lied about at least 10 things and presents his quotes and the applicable refuting facts to prove it.
You say his big finish came after presenting his health care reform plan in "pragmatic and reasonable-sounding terms." It's not "pragmatic" to claim you can spend more to save more or cover millions more people without increasing the number of doctors and nurses, and anyone who says it is a liar and anyone who believes it is an idiot. And regarding "reasonable-sounding," "sounding" is by far the operative word. But, of course, Obama has been "sounding" reasonable for a long time. In fact, he may be the most reasonable-SOUNDING liar I've ever heard.
You say he then embraced the No. 1 liberal crusader of recent decades, Ted Kennedy, and "wrapped his health care reform initiative in the Kennedy cloak." I say he shamefully wrapped his ObamaCare in Kennedy's burial shroud and tried to use the memory of one of the most liberal but at least really bipartisan Democrats in the Senate to sell his brand of ObamaCare snake oil.
I think you need to try selling your liberal Kool-Aid farther down the street and not on my corner, Corn, and you might want to consider stopping drinking so much of it, too.