Word from Chicago: Privately, Barack Obama strongly backs public option

Chicago Tribune ^ | October 4, 2009 | Noam N. Levey and Janet Hook

[underthestreetlite]

White House discreetly labors to weave coalition on health care

WASHINGTON - Despite months of seeming ambivalence about creating a government health insurance plan, the Obama White House has launched an intensifying behind-the-scenes campaign to get divided Senate Democrats to take up some version of the idea in the weeks just ahead.

President Barack Obama has long advocated a so-called public option, while at the same time repeatedly expressing openness to other ways to offer consumers a potentially more affordable alternative to health plans sold by private insurers.

But now, senior administration officials are holding private meetings almost daily at the Capitol with senior Democratic staff to discuss ways to include a version of the public plan in the health care bill that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., plans to bring to the Senate floor later this month, according to senior Democratic congressional aides.

Among those regularly in the meetings are Obama's top health care adviser, Nancy-Ann DeParle, aides to Reid, and Senate finance and health committee staff, both of which developed health care bills.

At the same time, Obama has been reaching out personally to rank-and-file Senate Democrats, telephoning more than a dozen lawmakers in the last week to press the case for action.

[pallis]

Privately, publicly, sleeping, awake or under the spell of his teleprompter, Obama can be summed up as a commie ignoramus, an intellectual dupe, a full of Marxist poop stooge, a lying scumbag, a corrupt buffoon, possessing only slightly better character than those who voted for him. He is a radically left idiot, an oaf suffering from liberal illness, a blabbering, blundering boob.

[SumProVita]

Actually, as an educator, I never considered Obama as having other than slightly above-average skills in his public speech performances. (He consistently misuses indefinite articles, is far too vague when he should not be, and includes astounding historical inaccuracies. I think his adoring press often refers to some of this as *nuance.*)

[GnuHere]

He’s series.

[mtrott]

The obfuscater in chief. Liberals always have to camouflage their real intentions, as the country does not want their leftist, collectivist policies.

He thinks he is so smart that he can sprinkle in seeming conservative concepts into his speeches and convince the masses that he is only talking about reasonable, conservative policies that everyone should be able to agree on.

[underthestreetlite]

You wrote: Where is the Master of the Obvious picture?

Ask and ye shall receive!

[LostInBayport]

Privately, publicly, sleeping, awake or under the spell of his teleprompter, Obama can be summed up as a commie ignoramus, an intellectual dupe, a full of Marxist poop stooge, a lying scumbag, a corrupt buffoon, possessing only slightly better character than those who voted for him. He is a radically left idiot, an oaf suffering from liberal illness, a blabbering, blundering boob.

That is a brilliant summary. I was going to ask if I could use it as my new tag line, but it won't fit.

[Vaquero]

[airborne]

Trust is something earned, and once it's lost, almost impossible to regain.

[pallis]

“That is a brilliant summary. I was going to ask if I could use it as my new tag line, but it won’t fit.”

I’m still honored that you would have considered it.

[reefdiver]

They meet almost daily to take over private enterprise, but will not meet to run the war

[txgirl4Bush]

Have any of you here at FR read any of this forum? Its an Obama forum-grassroots in action. Its says “no whites allow” You would be shocked to read what is written here.

http://theobamaforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=28&order=desc

[babyfreep]

“Privately??”
hmpf - They act like this is news. (We’ve known this for some time haven’t we?)

[babyfreep]

Actually, what this is saying is...Obama says one thing and means another. Obama talks out of both sides of his mouth. Obama is trying to fool the people like the Soviets did in the USSR.

Obama is a sorry freaking commie.

[jmaroneps37]

Wow! really? no foolin’? Does anyone else know about this?

[mojitojoe]

He has ALWAYS backed the single-payer system.
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FUBO, he can back and want whatever the hell he pleases, he isn’t getting single payer and he is history in 3 years. GONE! 2010 and 2012 can’t come fast enough.

[BlueDragon]

Here's what is in play, as far as I can surmise.

Of course Obama is for the government getting deeper into the healthcare biz,

BUT

after some form of bill passes (if it does) that attempts to force RomneyCare like provisions that require all to buy private health insurance policies, under pain of IRS fines --- they can blame THAT portion on all those evil Republicans on the one hand, while pocketing future campaign donations received from insurance companies on the other.

They, the Democrats have been getting away with this sort of thing for years (with the help of the dominant, left-leaning media, of course>

Nation-wide RomneyCare. Where's mah bucket, I gotta puke...

[SumProVita]

“2010 and 2012 can’t come fast enough.”

AMEN to that !!!

[ExiledChicagoan]

No sh*t?

[cc2k]

No Truce With Kings wrote:

Well, duh. Where is the Master of the Obvious picture?

OK, underthestreetlite. I'll see your Master of the Obvious, and raise you by a superhero:

Captain obvious says: “Obama supports a public option, but he really strongly prefers a single payer system. It’s just that the transition will take a while, and the public option is the next step.”

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