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"Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others."

Ayn Rand

Nobody's listening.

BACK TO THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL

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Neal Boortz
@ June 23, 2009 8:21 AM Permalink | Comments (25) | TrackBacks (0)

If there is one thing that Barack Obama can do really well it is campaign. I really hoped that this guy would make just as good a president as he was a candidate, but sadly that doesn't seem to be the case. But that's another story. Now that he is in the White House, he is going to use his excellent campaign techniques to get legislation passed. In this case, it would be government-run healthcare. Yep. He is going to use his campaign slogan of "yes we can" to con the government-educated Americans into believing that government healthcare is exactly what they need in their lives.

He said that those "here in Washington who've grown accustomed to sky-is-falling prognoses and the certainties that we cannot get this done, I have to repeat and revive an old saying we had from the campaign: 'Yes, we can.'"

  • "Yes we can" make the dumb masses react positively to another focus-group based sloganeering campaign.
  • "Yes we can" take control of another 20% of the American economy.
  • "Yes we can" gain even more control over you by controlling your access to health care.
  • "Yes we can" ration health care.
  • "Yes we can" make the necessary excuses when this whole thing turns into dog squeeze. We'll blame what's left of the private sector.
  • "Yes we can" stifle innovation in health care for the rest of time.
  • "Yes we can" create long waiting lines for seeing a specialist.
  • "Yes we can" make it seem as if there are only two MRI units in the entire nation
  • "Yes we can" make the Canadians feel better knowing that misery loves company
  • "Yes we can" successfully ignore the private sector's role in health care.
  • "Yes we can" help to bury the people the people who die because their access to health care was limited due to their age.
  • "Yes we can" run your health care like we've run Social Security and Medicaid.
  • "Yes we can" fool most of the people in this country ... most of the time.

Gag me. The only thing that is missing is the "change we can believe in" banner underneath. I'm sure that one is coming. After all, "change" is such a hot buzz word with voters.

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What others are saying

  • slogans
    How about "No change left behind" ?
    By Steve Hess @ 06/24/09 07:13:41 AMreport abuse
  • President, King, Whatever
    More than that, he keeps repeating that he is president - like he was some sort of monarch. I guess in his own mind he is, though, or at least he acts it more often than not.
    By Elle @ 06/23/09 08:01:42 PMreport abuse
  • To Efrem - put on your thinking cap.
    Sa are you saying that everyone should get a degree and a high salary in order to afford quality health care. Unfortunately, the country couldn't survive if everyone had degrees. We need our teachers, bus drivers, stock room clerks, waiters, hotel managers, retail workers, repair people, etc. These people need affordable health care too, even if their salaries aren't sky high. Efrem, think before you write.
    By Jack Smythe @ 06/23/09 07:48:45 PMreport abuse
  • Canada healthcare mediocre at best
    Neal,

    I used to listen to your show all the time when I was in Atlanta. I've recently moved to Canada (don't ask me why but I had no choice) and I want your audience to think of govt run healthcare as a visit to the DMV. It would be a great GOP strategy to adopt. Just ask Americans if they want their healthcare services to be as efficient as a visit to the DMV. I say this because that's exactly how it feels in Canada and Canadians grimly bear this crap, content with the idea that their system is superior and "all inclusive". We just had a huge scandal in Onatrio when the bureaucrat in charge of medical records resigned amidst a scandal and was give thousands of tax-payer $$$ as severance (175K or something like that). We had another case in Quebec in which cancer treatment of hundreds of women patients went awry because either the dosages were wrong or the wrong medicines were given (I forget). Just to give you an example of how crazy things are in Toronto -- a guy distributing tokens in our local subway gets paid $45 per hour or approx $70K per year. We're having a garbage collector's strike in Toronto although they got everything they want including cashing out on 18 days sick leave per year, if they don't take that leave. We have the Liquor Board employees of Ontario wanting to go on a strike tonight because they want full time "benefits". I just wish the GOP had the gonads to step upto the plate and ask Americans if this is what they want to subject themselves to, Neal -- overpaid employees with no accountability and an overwhelming sense of entitlement?!!!
    By Noweaint @ 06/23/09 04:31:15 PMreport abuse
  • Brainwashing indeed
    Or else it's something called "ethics," which is apparently an elective course for libertardians.

    Seems to me that the practicing nurses know something you have yet to figure out. Keep listening to them, and maybe you'll get it.
    By Copyleft @ 06/23/09 03:56:10 PMreport abuse
  • Nurses and the "Reform"
    Doctors and health insurance companies have been noted to speak out against this reform... But because I am a nursing student getting a BS in Nursing in the next 2 yrs, I feel EXTREMELY outnumbered by nurses on this situation.

    Nurses seem to unequivocally support this damned reform, maybe because a lot of nurses are too damned dumb to form their own thoughts and just feed from the union's hands. (http://www.uannurse.org/)

    I'd like to see more people targeting the nurses, because they're such an integral part of health care.

    And I'm sorry if I offended anyone by calling a lot of nurses dumb, but if you could only see how dumb a lot of these new nurses being produced by our wonderful secondary education system...

    Especially when you read a textbook for nursing students, and it speaks how your job requires you to give EVERYONE service regardless if they have money to pay for your services because, "It's the right thing to do as a nurse."

    Brainwashing at its best.
    By Amoureux @ 06/23/09 02:05:28 PMreport abuse
  • This sham of a prezident is a complete joke
    "Yes we can?" What? RU freakin' kidding me? This guy's nothing more than a ghetto pimp.

    Somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing an idiot.
    By $mooth Operator @ 06/23/09 02:05:21 PMreport abuse
  • To Jack Smythe
    I tell you that make only $40,000/year and I provide my family with group health insurance. Let me tell what to do. First, go to school and get a degree and find a decent paying job before you get married. Second, you better forego those luxuries like cell phones, trips to Disneyland and premium cable channels. Churches are there to help their members who are struggling to make ends meet financially, but I guess your church is the state. And for you, you have a commandment, thou shalt no steal...except by majority vote.
    By Efrem @ 06/23/09 02:01:52 PMreport abuse
  • A couple of Points
    (1) >>>>P.S. Is anyone carrying the Overload Hour instead of PresBo's press conference? Or did Neal take off early for the day?<<<<<

    Neal has now actually gone a full 9 days in a row without taking a vacation day, believe it or not. My guess is that he will leave early today to get prepared for most likely a 4th of July weekend he is planned. Remember, this is the man who says 40 hr work weeks are for losers!

    (2) I.Moyer - I agree with you on the whole "respect" for the presidency nonsense. I will never call this Kenyan POS ba$tard president, EVER. And what is with this nonsense of "respect for the office". Give me a break. The holder of that office is not King, he is not some holy person. What makes him better than any of us other than that he was elected by a bunch of morons who would be hard pressed to tell you what they ate for breakfast on any given day. Other than that, what has he done in his life? What has he done that commands anyone's respect? Sit in a church for 20 years that spews anti-American venom everyday? Apologize for America at every speech? Associate himself and fawn over leftist radicals bent on destroying the USA his entire life? That office deserves my respect??

    I bet the Founders would not appreciate this "King-like" treatment of the office/throne. If, for sake of argument, Hitler was an American Prez and lived in the WH, would I have been disrespectful to the office for criticizing him?
    By Club-a-Liberal @ 06/23/09 01:45:15 PMreport abuse
  • Does Obama listen to Boortz?
    I'm listening to his (President Obama's) speech now, he seems to have gotten a little flustered at a certain question and said "People say the government can't do anything right, how is the government going to run private health care out of business?"

    He conveniently forgot which entity can (and does!) legally use force to achieve its goals.


    P.S. Is anyone carrying the Overload Hour instead of PresBo's press conference? Or did Neal take off early for the day?
    By Ben from Norcross @ 06/23/09 01:06:18 PMreport abuse
  • can you say no.....................................
    I believe that nancy reagan said just say no.......people laffed at her but she was right.

    to osamabama.............no we can't! we can't afford NOT to say no we can't...

    DRIP
    ARM
    PROTECT
    By butt neckid @ 06/23/09 01:03:40 PMreport abuse
  • 2012 yet?
    *sigh* I really loathe and despise this guy. Actually, I'd be happy if it was at least 2010...we could at least get enough conservatives into Congress to at least slow this f**ker down. Of course, Obamalama will just end up doing everything by executive order.

    Yes, yes, I'm being disrespectful of the office of the President of the United States. *shrug* I don't really care...he isn't MY president, and I didn't vote for him. MY president wouldn't be running slipshod all over the Constitution.

    LOL...the Canadians are going to be really upset when they find out that they won't be able to just run down here for emergency surgery anymore.

    And, what good is this health care program going to be, anyway? It's only going to cover, what, about a third of the currently uninsured? Then what's the point...besides more government power, of course.
    By I. Moyer @ 06/23/09 12:38:01 PMreport abuse
  • Permanent campaign mode was pioneered by wild bill...
    ...and this is a clintonista studded administration. It has worked for the dp so far, so at the least, they'll run it until it doesn't.

    "These numbers don't add up, hussein."

    "yes we can!"

    "They still don't add up, hussein."

    "Yes we can!"

    "That doesn't change the math, hussein."

    "Change you can believe in!"

    That's what they mean by,"Elevating the political debate."

    If the dp's health care plan works out like their stimulus plan, only instead of companies, a lot of people are going to die needlessly while a lot of taxpayer money is being wasted.
    By CowboyUp @ 06/23/09 12:15:46 PMreport abuse
  • Neal's right again!
    No president has EVER campaigned and made speeches to promote his personal legislative agenda before.

    We all remember how Bush stayed silent in the White House during the campaign to privatize Social Security, don't we? Yep, this stuff Obama's doing is totally without precedent....
    By Copyleft @ 06/23/09 11:45:16 AMreport abuse
  • Health Care as a Right
    This debate needs to attack the root of the issue - health care as a right. If not we're going to continue to see the issue over and over again.

    This issue is a direct correlation of liberals not understanding what is most important to them human, natural, and civic rights; and conservatives not understanding the old and true definition of a right. Logically liberals should not want health care as a right because it corrupts rights and historically conservatives should not want to see the traditional definition of rights corrupted. Why do politicians on both sides ignore this...

    http://thefreedomthinker.com/2009/06/23/health-care-as-a-right/
    By The Freedom Thinker @ 06/23/09 11:33:27 AMreport abuse
  • The current health care system.
    For once I'd like to hear you, Hannity or any conservative talk show host explain how a person earning, say, $30000 can actually afford quality health care for their family while still providing a roof over their heads and food on the table. Can you also explain why anyone should be denied coverage for a pre-existing condition. No one choose to have their pre-existing condition. It's like telling a large family that they have too many kids to educate. It's like telling someone that they can't get fire-services anymore because they once had a kitchen fire. You should actually go to Canada and ask real Canadians what they think about their health care system. I don't think you'll find too many who'd trade their system for the American system.

    But I do understand that the rich don't want to pay more taxes.
    By Jack Smythe @ 06/23/09 11:33:19 AMreport abuse
  • Pathetic slogan
    I cannot believe that people who voted for this guy would be fooled by a slogan taken from some kids show featuring a construction man and his talking machines. Change we can believe in? Maybe we can get those glasses from "They Live" and see the word "socialism" under every "Change" bumper sticker.
    By Efrem @ 06/23/09 11:20:38 AMreport abuse
  • The plan to save Social Security... Nationalized Healthcare
    When you think about the democrats health care plan it's brilliant. If they nationalize health care and impose rationing they won't have to fix Social Security. It will be like the early years of Social Security all over again. You'll be lucky if you live long enough to collect it. If you happen beat the odds and live long enough to start collecting you won't be around much longer to become much of a drain on the system.

    Nationalized health care replaces Social Security as the greatest tool to extort votes out of people every election cycle.

    Is someone up on capital hill really this smart or is this pure dumm luck?
    By Dave @ 06/23/09 11:16:15 AMreport abuse
  • Club-a-Liberal
    Thanks Man,

    You saved me a lot of key strokes.
    By J Cooper @ 06/23/09 11:01:50 AMreport abuse
  • Yes We Can?
    Neal mentioned Social Security and Medicaid failures. Was including all the other boondoggles too wordy?

    Schools, Colleges
    Housing
    Welfare
    Lotto (taxes still go up)
    Arts
    Planned Parenthood (Public Funding for Aboritons)
    US Mail
    Amtrak
    Courts/Prisons
    Public Lands (used to stifle resource exploitation)
    FDA (Overregulation driving prices up)
    PBS

    The only things Government does with few enough mistakes to be considered a good job are: Military, Border Security, Eisenhower Highway System.
    NASA is debatable.
    By sammy4231 @ 06/23/09 10:30:59 AMreport abuse
  • CAMPAIGN TRAIL
    This constant campaigning was started by bush and Obama seems determined to one up him. I get tired of hearing about the President in some corner of the country everyday. You did not see that with Reagan, Bush 1, or Clinton. Those 3 may have been the last Presidents we had who actually did more work than campaigning year round. OK, maybe Clinton wasn't really working but at least he wasn't campaigning EVERYDAY like Bush 2, and Bozo...er...I mean Obama did and do.
    By Jason @ 06/23/09 10:17:06 AMreport abuse
  • Club
    I think he meant "campaigner" not "candidate". I hope.

    NCchik, that would be awesome! I heard the Iranian protesters outside the White House getting mentioned on the MSM last night, wonder if they'll notice us July 4th. Gonna try and be there.
    By Joyce M/Blythe @ 06/23/09 10:11:24 AMreport abuse
  • Miss Congeniality Award
    This can be defeated if enough Americans speak out. The tea parties, made an impression DESPITE MSM doing their best to ignore them. Write and call your congressmen/women. Remind them that they work for you, the American taxpayer. It may be that we need to give up our vacations (if we haven't already) and sacrifice time and $$$ to march on the White House July 4th. Wouldn't the sight of several hundred thousand fed up voters put a dent in President Popular's image? Act now people!
    By NCchik @ 06/23/09 09:40:43 AMreport abuse
  • Good Candidate??
    >>>>>I really hoped that this guy would make just as good a president as he was a candidate, but sadly that doesn't seem to be the case.<<<<<

    He was a good candidate????? What and whose criteria? For whom was he a good candidate? Surely not for me or anyone else on this board sans CopyLeft moron and Stan Gaybull.

    He was able to read multiple mindless, empty platitudes and cliches off his teleprompter, with an absolutely criminal media in tow, and that made him a good candidate to you, Neal? From that, you expected him to be a good President? He is exactly as we all expected - i.e. an inexperienced, incompetent, indecisive, "i vote present", naive, socialist baffooon coward with no leadership capabilities.

    What on earth did you see from his candidacy to make you think, even for a second, that he would be anything but an absolute embarrassment and disaster??
    By Club-a-Liberal @ 06/23/09 09:35:27 AMreport abuse
  • Yes we Can
    I have been saying to people since January that Obama has not made the move from campaigning to governing. He just does not know how. His health care is being written by Congress, not him, nor does he want to. That would mean taking responsibility.
    By Cattail @ 06/23/09 08:34:42 AMreport abuse
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