Well, President Obama was at it again last night with another prime time news conference, this time promoting his health scare scheme. This is his fifth news conference already, and the fourth in prime time. The monologue and follow-up question and answer session was just more of the same rhetoric, nothing of substance or specifics.
Honestly, this just reinforced by belief that the President doesn’t really understand the problem nor cares about the solution. He and the Democrat majority Congress haven’t even considered the viable market-based proposals being put forth by Conservatives that would empower personal responsibility by Americans and maintain healthcare insurance and service in the private sector. In my mind, this tells me he’s just taking advantage of a troubled economy and his current popularity to push through the largest expansion of government ever and the most significant since FDR’s New Deal in an effort to secure power indefinitely for himself and his liberal cronies by pandering to America’s non-productive entitlement sector.
Here’s the full transcript provided courtesy of the NY Times…
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/22/us/politics/22obama.transcript.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1
I find it most telling that which this President does, since, unfortunately, as a professional politician, he rarely does what he says. I, also, believe it is telling of one’s true beliefs that to which one is willing to subscribe in one’s own life and their family’s lives. With that thought, in these transcript excerpts, I believe it’s self-evident that the healthcare policy the President is proposing for “all other” Americans is not good enough for him and his family…
Opening Monologue, page 2 of transcript…
So let me be clear. This isn’t about me.
I have great health insurance, and so does every member of Congress. This debate is about the letters I read when I sit in the Oval Office every day, and the stories I hear at town hall meetings.
Question and Answer Session, page 12 of the transcript…
Q: And what about yourself and Congress? Would you abide by the same benefit package?
PRESIDENT OBAMA: You know, I would be happy to abide by the same benefit package. I will just be honest with you. I’m the president of the United States, so I’ve got a doctor following me every minute — (laughter) — which is why I say, this is not about me.
I’ve got the best health care in the world. I’m trying to make sure that everybody has good health care, and they don’t right now.
