Posted on 11/07/2010 5:00:52 PM PST by truthandlife
President Barack Obama said the political cost of overhauling the health care system turned out to be higher than he had expected. And he admits that he gets discouraged at times when dealing with the economy.
In an interview airing Sunday night on CBS' 60 Minutes, Obama said the health care system itself is huge and complicated and that changing it eluded previous presidents because it was so difficult.
"I made the decision to go ahead and do it, and it proved as costly politically as we expected — probably actually a little more costly than we expected, politically," he said.
Obama said he thought that he would find common ground with Republicans by advancing health care proposals that had been introduced by Republican administrations as well as potential presidential candidate Mitt Romney when Romney was governor of Massachusetts.
"I couldn't get the kind of cooperation from Republicans that I had hoped for," he said. "And that was costly, partly because it created the kind of partisanship and bickering that really turn people off."
Obama said the danger of a second major recession is "much reduced" and a great depression is not on the horizon. Still a danger, he said, is the nation being "stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high."
"I do get discouraged. I mean, there are times where I thought the economy would had gotten better by now," he said. "One of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything. But you don't always have control of everything, especially an economy this big."
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Changing Tagline.
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He LIED to all those congressmen! he told them back then that he guaranteed them their poll numbers would go up by 10% if they actually passed healthcare, when he now admits he knew all along they would all pay a heavy price.
0bama says : But you don’t always have control of everything, especially an economy this big.
Ah, maybe 0bama does understand some stuff!
Obama said the health care system itself is huge and complicated... and guess what > full speed ahead to attempt command and control of Health Care!
Nope, 0bama remains a dummy
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He LIED to all those congressmen! he told them back then that he guaranteed them their poll numbers would go up by 10% if they actually passed healthcare, when he now admits he knew all along they would all pay a heavy price.
This is the one that should be shouted out the loudest. The Dems should be the ones that throw this guy overboard first.
He lied to his own!
What is this “60 Minutes” that you speak of?
Seriously though, after the hit pieces done on Westy re Vietnam, I have never watched this rubbish. Ditto the rest of MSM
Then what!
Is he never NOT on the tube?
This is reminiscent of some sci-fi movie or whatever I vaguely remember from many years ago. Was it 1984?
Why doesn't Obama just have a closeup shot of his eye made. Then by executive order he can mandate that The Eye staring at us be shown on a special television screen in everyone's home 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Turning it off.....punishable by death.
Instead of his rambling drivel foisted on us every two seconds on TV, I would opt for The Eye. It would be preferrable.
Seriously, Obama's continual presence and creepy face continually in our homes is the mark of a twilight-zone totalitarian regime. It's a planned strategery and reflects the psychological part of the DC marxists' takeover agenda. The controlled media is the vehicle for thrusting his face into our front rooms.....and it robotically cooperates with the agenda-makers.
Most Americans have not the foggiest idea what's going on when they see Obama's appearance virtually every day and night on the tube.
The familiar photos of Mao's portrait visible within eyeshot of every pedestrian or driver in China's streets, cities and hamlets for decades-without-end reflects an MO that is no accident.
It can't happen here?
It already is.
Leni
Geez, sorry for the double...it was scary enough the first time! :)
He truly doesn't get it. That "higher than expected price"? That was just the first installment...
the infowarrior
In any event, he certainly wasn't raised an American.
And, as such, he just doesn't realize that that's just not the way we do things around here.
Pathetic.
“Unextpected” = “We didn’t think you’d notice”
NEIL MCLAUGHLIN, Modern Healthcare "When Congress passed healthcare reform legislation, we joked that the package amounted to a Full Employment Act for health journalists. There were so many provisions and questions about implementing it that it would require weeks and months to sort through it all."
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O's healthcare nightmare.
The Chart that Will Infuriate Taxpayers: 151 additional items within Obamacare do not appear individually on this diagram. If all these units were included, the chart would be three times larger.........diligent personnel could not fit all of O'Care's new law’s boards, commissions, mandates, and other elements on this chart. So they created “bundles of bureaucracy.”
Seven collective symbols respectively represent clusters of four loan repayment and forgiveness programs, four other new regulatory programs, 17 insurance mandates, 19 special-interest provisions, 22 other new bureaucracies, 26 other new demonstration and pilot programs, and 59 other new grant programs.
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PASTE THIS ON YOUR BATHROOM MIRROR AND MEMORIZE IT Vladimir Lenin: "Medicine is the keystone of the arch of the socialist state."
Obama told jon Stewart O/Care that passed was a only a "structure" that required retooling.
O/CARE will transfer to the Obama Admin, authority in a number of ways over the lives of Americans, and their businesses. Once govt gets control of medical care, all the defining, controlling features of socialist govt can be introduced, one by one. E-v-e-r-y-thing Americans do is related to health.
O/CARE Page 58 and 59: The government will have real-time access to an individual’s bank account and will have the authority to make electronic fund transfers from those accounts.
Socialized health care is impossible without seizing private medical records----BUT the 4th Amendment prohibits seizure without warrants. The Obama govt will do it anyway.
Do you have a bigger image of the obamacare chart?
Never mind, I found post #47.
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