Posted on 08/18/2012 6:08:23 AM PDT by Kaslin
The reason that President Obama uses teleprompters, even when addressing elementary school children, is because he cannot help but reveal who he is and what he believes during moments that involve real spontaneity. He no doubt wishes that he had gotten a “mulligan” for that line that he inadvertently delivered: “you did not build that business”, but it says so much about the man, his agenda, and why he feels the moral superiority to enact it.
Some dismissed the comment, while others called it a Freudian slip. But devotees of Freud maintain that a “slip” is actually caused by an unconscious or repressed wish, feeling or train of thought.
Poker players I know call it a “tell”. I believe it was simply Obama telling America, in a brief moment of honesty, what he really believed about the individual, and their relationship to the state.
“You did not build that business” revealed the antipathy that the president harbors for the individual, especially successful ones. No one is bigger than the state, and hence all that an individual achieves, the government has some claim to- whether it is your wealth, your intellectual property, or you.
Why would President Obama tell the American people lies about doctors, such as “...doctors would rather take out tonsils than treat a sore throat because it pays better” or “… doctors would rather cut off legs for $50,000 than take care of a diabetic before it got to this point”?
It is because he believes that doctors owe fealty to the government for what they have accomplished. Everyone has claim to their success. People need to see them for what they really are- rich, money driven mercenaries. He also needs to denigrate them in order for his agenda to succeed.
“Listen up”, he was saying to doctors. You did not achieve straight A’s in college, working into the late night and on weekends, while your roommates were out partying. Those grades could not have happened without the schools, paid for in part with Federal aid.
You did not graduate from medical school, putting in thousands more hours of studying and hard work. The government subsidized part of the school; your degree belongs to us all.
You did not complete your surgical residency, devoting tens of thousands of hours over 6-9 years, learning your craft and honing your skills, sacrificing your personal life in doing so. No, the government was right there, sending money to the hospitals where you learned how to become a surgeon. You could not have done this without Uncle Sam.
You did not succeed in your medical practice, working on average 60-80 hours every week, missing children’s birthday parties, anniversaries, soccer games and school plays. You did not pay exorbitant malpractice insurance rates to protect yourself from those who wish to prey on your ill-gotten gains.
You did not perform that life-saving cancer operation. The government was there every step of the way and made it possible for that to have happened. Why, the very road that you traveled to get to the hospital that day was built by all of the taxpayers.
And that gang banger that you treated in the emergency room for free in the middle of the night, which the government forced you to see, thanks to the EMTALA law, was something that they felt entitled to take from you- your time and skill- because they own a piece of you.
Herein is the essence of President Obama’s ideology. It is one that not only diminishes personal achievement, but goes on to claim that the fruits that are borne out of the toil leading to that achievement are to be shared with the state and hence everyone.
Obamacare is rooted in this philosophy. The doctors who are being counted upon to care for patients are merely footnotes in this massive new bureaucracy. The healthcare system is being turned upside down with the federal government in charge of deciding who gets what kind of care, by whom, where and how much they will pay for it. Those who engineered Obamacare believe that they can do this because they feel that they own a piece of every doctor in America and that the government has a right to this work.
It becomes easier to do this by convincing Americans that healthcare is an entitlement, and consequently, someone has to provide that care for them. It becomes easier for people to feel that sense of entitlement, if they believe that their doctors are not the compassionate individuals that they thought they were, but rather, greedy opportunists like the President has depicted them.
On the current path, the worst is yet to come. Doctors are quitting in anticipation of government controlling their practices. Doctor shortages are here, but will soon reach epic proportions. Covert rationing of care is coming because there will not be enough doctors to see patients.
There is still time to change course, but the window of opportunity is quickly closing. November 6 will be a referendum on what kind of America we want to have- one where personal achievement is valued, or one where everyone lays claim to those achievements.
This doc will retire before Obamacare is fully implemented. Even if I have to work at walmart to put the kids through school. I’m no stranger to hard work...I will find some way to finish outriding my kids through college. It’s my daughter in pre med I worry about. I’m trying hard to get her to make another choice
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It wasn’t a random slip up....Obambi used the same phrase at a second fund raiser later in the day....Rush/Levin were all over this....must be in their transcripts.
The author is right: these aren’t “slips” except in the sense that the truth is breaking through the carefully staged recitation of lies. When Obama says what he really thinks - when he describes how he eagerly anticipates the abortions his daughters will have, for instance - he’s revealed as an evil, ugly person whom most of the American people would reject.
The more overconfident he gets ... the more he “slips his leash” ... the better it will be for our chance of getting rid of him once and for all.
“It’s my daughter in pre-med I worry about. I’m trying hard to get her to make another choice.”
What a shame that someone should be discouraged from entering a noble profession because of the manipulations of psychotic, revolutionary, Progressive bureaucrats.
IMHO
As Freud would say “What we have here is a case of projection.” Obama who’s own academic records and accomplishments have been challenged as fraudulent or worse never really happened, is projecting his own vapidity on people of real merit. Obama is a vapid fraud and failure.
“doctors would rather take out tonsils than treat a sore throat because it pays better”-—
Nah, this was just mind-numbing, jaw-dropping stupidity, from a guy who has two kids yet. If he knows what any field of medicine does, it ought to be pediatrics. Actually, the pediatrician, who is treating sore throats chronically, has a financial incentive to keep the tonsils in, since it’s ENT that removes them and gets the fee for the surgery, thus supposely removing the nidus for the infections. I suspect he has a particular animus to the medical profession because buried deep in his medical record he has a diagnosis like “drug-induced psychosis” from an ER visit or hospital stay during his days at Columbia that he frets about. But really, he doesn’t know much about anything in particular, so it’s best to attribute it all to stupidity.
I’m not a dr, but I do work in healthcare. I think before Obamacare is fully rolled out, I need an escape plan. Just not sure what it is yet.
My daughter -- who's a pretty smart cookie -- she graduated Phi Beta Kappa -- was pre med, but decided to go to grad school for medical illustration. Her program required her to take gross anatomy with the medical students, and she casually dropped (she's very low key) that she ranked 3rd or so in a class of a couple hundred. I tried to encourage her to become an MD, and not practice, but she had her "dream" job before she even received her degree. So that idea fell on deaf ears.
Our loss. She's having a lot of fun with her job, though!
The AMA supported Obama and his plan
But Obama is merely the most current and powerful of a long list of leftist politicians that have been demeaning and insulting the medical profession publicly ever since the idea of socialized medicine became a cause celebre for them, starting way back in the early twentieth century in the US and even earlier in Europe.
The reasons for this lie primarily in the left's realization that you can't bring about socialized medicine without government propaganda and policy calculated to produce a feeling of unease among the masses with regards to the competence of the medical care that the "private" sector provides. Plus, moving the medical care system toward ever increasing government control is aided and abetted by belittling the physicians' status in society, lowering the medical profession's image of itself, and thereby reducing resistance within the profession to ever more statist hegemony over their professional and personal lives.
This essence of Obama’s ideology is reflected in one of the major differences between Republicans and Democrats with the question, “To whom do the fruits of labor belong?” To a Republican, the fruits of ones labor belongs to the individual, with a small portion of the fruit of their labor going to provide for the legitimate functions of government. To a Democrat, the fruits of ones labor belongs to the government, which “graciously” allows the worker to keep a portion for himself.
Even the MSM drones admit his every quote is deliberate, focus-grouped, and carefully scripted, war-gamed, and staffed out. When Obama made one of his "race" remarks last week, a "throwaway line", one reporter told Gwen Ifill's Washington Week in Review last night that Obama didn't make the remark just once, but at least three different times at three different political events the same day, with only slight variations. The remark was not off-the-cuff, spontaneous, or candid. And he is like that all the time.
Obama doesn't have a "slip of the tongue". Never does. It's always deliberate. Even MSM Obamabots agree.
Tell her to be a PA or a pharmacist or an NP—they’re the only ones who get any respect.
For-possible-interest ping.
I don’t think you are alone in those thoughts.
Well, without his records and transcripts, do we really know if Hussein graduated from anywhere, or did he just use Soros' money to buy diplomas?
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