What do you think of Obama's comments regarding healthcare overhaul legislation: "Don't be against us.."?

Question

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090713/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_overhaul

A defiant President Barack Obama sought Monday to revive his faltering plan to overhaul health care, delivering a full-throated promise to get comprehensive legislation and summoning lawmakers crucial to his effort to the White House.

"Don't bet against us. We are going to make this thing happen," Obama told a news conference intended to focus on his nominee for surgeon general, Dr. Regina Benjamin.

Answer 1

Sounds like a threat.

Answer 2

U.S. President Barack Obama listens to Dr. Regina Benjamin, nominee for Surgeon General, speak in the Rose Garden of the White House July 13, 2009 in Washington, DC. Benjamin, a Physician from Alabama who served as the head of the Alabama state medical society and has received a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant. Source Link :- http://ready2beat.com/entertainment/dr-regina-benjamin-next-surgeon-general

Answer 3

I'll answer that question by asking you a question. Do you notice that politicians create problems and then campaign against them? The Heath Care system needed overhaul years ago, I don't want to beat a dead horse but the government is partly if not fully responsible for that. Now we're supposed to be supportive of a heathcare overhaul that would give us Universal Heath Care run by our government? I think that would be a bad idea, what does the government do well besides print bogus money and blow things up? I'm not saying that universal heath care is a bad idea but what I am saying is that the taxpayers should be the one's running it. Why? because we're the ones who are out there busting our butts to support our families, were the ones who are out there. What's wrong with putting a board of tax payers that are from different areas of the private sector? These people could consist of doctors and nurses who specialize in pharmaceutical and natural medicine (so that good medical decisions could be made with bias) farmers, police etc. I don't think I want the government telling me what to do with my body and what medicines to take when I get sick.

Answer 4

Choosing Dr. Regina Benjamin as his Surgeon General nominee is a mistake. This is going to be repeat of the Dr. Joycelyn Elders fiasco from a prior administration. Dr. Benjamin is a politician first and foremost, an aggressive fund-raiser (second), a professional speaker (third), a self-promoter (fourth), and she's a 5-hour-a-week part-time physician (fifth). Her patients have always been seen in her office by the overworked nurse practitioner and her 76 year old partially disabled, arthritic, obese, sickly LPN. The poor old lady is going to work doggedly until she drops dead. Dr. Benjamin runs her medical practice in the Bayou from her private residence 45 minutes away. She lives in a plush bay-view country home in lovely Spanish Fort which is far, far away from the desolate, hurricane ravaged, underpopulated, desperately poor, flood-prone area of Bayou La Batre.

Answer 5

What's he going to do? Hold a gun to our heads if we aren't lock step with him?

I'll guarantee that whatever form the health care package takes, it'll be to the detriment of the great middle class in this country. We'll pay, pay, pay.

I find it amusing, almost insulting, that the people that are drafting the program, both legislative and executive, won't be a part of the same program. Of course they've put in place for themselves a medical insurance program that is second to none. Paid fully by the American taxpayer.

What a bunch of hypocrites....................

Answer 6

Polls could nicely be tainted however the voice of the persons can't! and that's what's commencing as much as project the democrats to no longer point out some republicans that are helping 0bamacare. individuals are generally somewhat ordinary going while it is composed of political concerns, and that laid back physique of suggestions is what allowed the present administration to acquire potential. Now its as much as individuals to freshen up the mess they have allowed their government to get into over quite a few years; to no longer point out the present occupant of the white domicile!

Answer 7

Ever since the campaign started Obama has separated himself from Americans.



It has been obvious all along Obama has been representing the ideas of his Foreign Hanlders.



"Don't be against us", who is us? I thought we are we the people, not the people and us.



Empty Promises from the Empty Suit.



Never in the history of the United States has a president and his party worked so actively against the interests of his own people.



Semper Fi

Answer 8

i have no doubt he will. with all his crooks vehind him and all the senators not fighting him he has no problem . and ted kennedy what the hell doesa he care, he is going to die and knows he will not have to be under this horrible health care thing. of course he is going to push it, He;s another fat american hating a**hole.

Only another crook can stand being with acrook and barry suits his personally just fine.

He has no guilt on killing his lover why should he feel quilt in betraying america.

Answer 9

More government control is the one promise he will keep. This is his primary agenda.



When you listen to him speak...and he states smaller government plans.....he will flip flop in the end.



When you hear him say....we have to spend more money or the world will come to an end.....you can believe he will spend the money one way or another, he is just giving you notice.

Answer 10

Obama needs to step back, take a deep breath and figure out what the heck he is doing.

Answer 11

This is no different than Bush's attempt to reform social security.



Both are doomed to fail.

Answer 12

He plans to make a lot of things happen. I can't believe how many people are blind to the outright contempt he holds for this country.

Answer 13

As he throws his hand in the air and smashes his heals together.

Answer 14

Comrade Obama is a bonehead if he thinks America is going to fall for this.

Answer 15

Oh since he puts it that way I now support his destruction on our health care system

Answer 16

Good - I am glad he said that and I hope it happens . UN Like Republicans I care about poor children who DO NOT Often get medical help.

Answer 17

I think he's right. The biggest obstacle is the ignorant Right Wing of American politics who refuse to understand what's being proposed and remain mired in their hatred for any philosophy that doesn't agree with theirs.

Answer 18

he meant:

don't like stupid hogs, we'll speak real slow later so your trailer trash folksies will get it too, eventually, next year or so.