VIDEO: Obama: The Post Office Is "Always Having Problems"

Real Clear Politics ^ | August 11, 2009 | Real Clear Politics

[ianschwartz]

President Obama at his Tuesday town hall: "UPS and FedEx are doing just fine. It's the Post Office that's always having problems."

[Kartographer]

[GnL]

He said private insurers won’t be run under by gov’t healthcare as long as the government is not subsidized by taxpayers. Huh? What a moron!

[fso301]

Stammering and stuttering. It must be unpleasant not having your teleprompter and your wireless earbud isn’t working.

[mort56]

Was he not required to take at least econ 101 to get out of Harvard? How can such a bright man be so ignorant of basic economics? How could America have voted in this maroon?

[DadOfFive]

I REALLY think this guy is mentally unstable. I never thought I would say this but PLEASE GIVE HIM MORE AIRTIME!
Off the prompter, he couldn't sell a flyswatter in Cambodia for free.

[China Clipper]

President Obama at his Tuesday town hall: "UPS and FedEx are doing just fine. It's the Post Office that's always having problems."

So the UPS and FedEx are private corporations. And they are doing fine. The Post Office is run by the government, and its "always having problems...."

The goevenrment would run the health care reform project...

And your point, Barry, is WHAT????

I don't get this guy......

[blue state conservative]

Doesn’t Medicare have something like $36 trillion in unfunded liabilities? How could a private company get away with that?

If there is a public option the private insurers won’t go out of business immediately but certainly within a very few years.

[RexBeach]

President Reagan: “Put the government in charge of something, and watch it fall apart.”

Now, this is fairly simple thinking, yet exceedingly unconventional in today’s America.

Anyone want to tell me what the government does well?

[Rockitz]

Duh!

[Servant of the Cross]

Zer0 has an epiphany.

Capitalism > Socialism

Okay, apply this learning by repeating after me; “If your HMO is run like the DMV, you’re SOL.”

[China Clipper]

goevenrment=government

[rlmorel]

Wow. What a dummy. Er, ah, uh...if ah...er...well, you know...

His handlers must cringe when he steps away from the microphone.

OTOH, this apparently was a friendly crowd, hand packed for him.

[Rapscallion]

Go to your post office and just watch what goes on. They walk around oblivious to the waiting public at a pace reminiscent of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, i.e. zombies. Many (not all though) are rude, impatient and even sarcastic to the public.

[newfreep]

OBOZO is so stupid, he's attacking his own plan!

And liberals/socialists think they are so smart...

[LegendHasIt]

One would think this might give him a clue about the efficiencies of business run by the government Vs. those run by private industry and guided by market forces.

But nooo. He wants to run everything. Not because he wants them run well but because:

[Phlap]

The government enacts, enforces and interprets the rules of competition for the private sector. How could the private sector possibly compete with the government?

[PowderMonkey]

Oh, I see. It's the Post Office that's always having prob...oh, the humanity.

[Three if by government]

Tyranny is tough to understand..

[fullchroma]

Oh this is good. Trying to make a point that Obamacare is not a threat to private insurance, he makes the more important point that private business is better run than the federal government.