Obama Plays Race Card, Links Health Care To Civil Rights
Yes, yes, I know, we are supposed to be boycotting The Politico for their idiotic lawsuit threat against The College Politico, but, they are the only one with the complete story and the information to match it up (others have some, but, not enough), so, I hope you’ll excuse this one lapse: Obama links civil rights and health care
President Barack Obama used a dinner-time address to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation to make an impassioned plea for health care reform, placing it in the tradition of the civil rights struggle.
Obama said that the large contingent of black community leaders and elected officials was a fulfillment of a promise and generations of struggle in a country where it took nearly 100 years before the first black members of Congress were elected, and where just a century ago lynchings were part of the American experience. He mentioned “strange fruit growing on the poplar trees,” a reference to the song about lynching written by a Jewish high-school teacher from the Bronx and most famously performed by Billie Holiday.
Perhaps it is time to move on and take responsibility for ones’ life, instead of being a racial grievance monger?
Obama segued from civil rights into health care, ticking off what his plan calls for and borrowing a line from Martin Luther King, saying that the push called for “the fierce urgency of now.”
“We have been waiting for health reform since the days of Teddy Roosevelt, we’ve been waiting since the days of Harry Truman. We’ve been waiting since Johnson and Nixon and Clinton. We cannot wait any longer,” he said as the crowd stood and clapped. “Now is the time to enact health care reform in the United States of America.” (I’ve combined the full quote from CNN with Politico’s)
Teddy Roosevelt? If the Internet serves, back then, people straight up paid for their health care, sometimes with chickens and trade work, rather than depending upon some sort of health insurance. While there were forms of “accident insurance” available, to cover again, you guessed it, bad accidents in the workplace, the first actual “sickness insurance” wasn’t offered till 1911.
Anyhow, apparently, it will soon be raaaaacist if you oppose health care reform.
Turning to the economy, Obama said that his policies had brought the economy back from the brink of disaster and those that forget how bad it was had a case of “selective memory.”
Whoa! Massive delusions of grandeur! Looking around at the other stories I ran across, he did his typical Blame Bush schtick.
Yet, he said, disparities still exist and the “economic crisis has made conditions in communities of color even worse.”
“For the majority of some Americans… upward mobility, for others stagnation,” he said. “That kind of inequality is unacceptable in the United States of America.”
In other words, we must implement Socialism, redistribution of wealth, and all the other things that go with the far left Progressive movement. Perhaps if people of all colors studied hard, got an education, didn’t have multiple children before they could afford them, worked hard, then they would be upwardly mobile. Or, they could get someone to ghost write a book for them that makes a ton of money.
He said that eliminating inequality “will take focus and sustained effort,” including making sure civil rights laws are enforced.
Obama does realize that most of the biggest names in the anti-civil rights movement were Democrats, right?
He also talked about the need for personal responsibility and for focusing on education, echoing his “no excuses” speech at the NAACP convention.
“Government alone cannot get our children to the promised land. Government can’t attend those parent-teacher conferences, those are things a parent can do,” he said. “We need to accept our responsibility as parents and community leaders. We’ve got to push our kids to aim higher…no excuses for mediocrity.”
OK, I do have to give Obama kudos for that, which is not exactly anything new. Obama has spoken to that many times, even during the campaign, often to scowling faces and crickets.
I’m still waiting for those on the Left, including Obama, to [tell] us exactly how these health system reform plans will lower costs without reducing services. You know, details, rather than 10 second sound bites.
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Posted by William Teach on September 27, 2009 9:58 am
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Our president is a fool. When his healthcare reform guts Medicare Advantage, millions of seniors who are disproportionately poor and minority may lose their doctors and health services they value.
It’s endless, like the race card.
“Free ice cream is a civil right.”
“Public masturbation is a civil right.”
“Free sex changes are a civil right.”
Well, you know what, Obimbo? They’re not.
Not that we need more examples,it is as plain as day now that Obama does not remotely resemble the person that his campaign led people to believe he was.
This new statement that health care is a civil right is just more proof that in his mind, the constitution doesn’t even exist.
Health care is not nor has ever been a civil right, legal right or moral right.Everybody has the opportunity to purchase health care or not, those who can’t afford it still get the care they need due to the fact that we are a generous people, to try and equate that to giving these politicians unlimited power if they pass this unconstitutional bill is just pathetic.
And for the record, 7 months ago, I didn’t hate Obama and I am not one to hate someone easily, at this moment, after all he has and is trying to do, with him knocking America and Americans on a weekly basis, I DO hate the man and I hate him for his color, which is undeniably RED.
When the “rights” of a minority are placed above the “rights” of the majority, we have a problem. When “rights” are not balanced with an equal amount of “responsibility”, we have a problem. Of course there are exceptions and people who legitimately cannot pay for their own health care, but not the 30 or 50 million claimed. When a majority of responsible adult Americans recognize these facts, and the adolescent President of the United States cannot, we have a problem.
We’re all racists now. Ever since the Oba-Mao gig and the beer summit it’s been clear who is racists. Never knew a doctor to check race first, did you?
So why does HR3200 have race review boards in the system, if it’s not for reparations. Yeah, I do belive that would be racist.
Sure, Obama wants us to go to the PTA as good parents should, but then he doesn’t want us to have any real input into the NEA’s plans to “educate” our children in the ways of global warming, Obama politics, and other PC agendas.
He’s smoke and no substance.
we americans have the best,and the most beautiful homes in the world, we have great schools that teach trash, our kids have the most advanced toys to play with,” BUT “we have lost the ability to love them like the holy bible,the koran or any life expanding teachings have directed thruout time. where are the we going? cant we see past our noses.the world leaders are afrade to put forward senceable plans because of greed,hate or just plain fear of having to make themselfs real leaders.:wakeup-wakeup: start doing the nessary and stop the stupidity
Preacher Links Evil to the Devil!
Good Lord, you take a comment in front of the black caucus where linking health care to civil rights and make it sound like… well, it makes you sound irrational.
It’s called hyperbole, and speakers use it often while connecting with an audience.
What should it be linked to? Here, let’s try a few:
Health is like life, and life is a basic right in the Constitution.
How about, “I am not a profit center for the health industry!”
How about 50% of all drug R&D costs are provided by the public, but corporations get to privately own any profits from a disease, and can legally prevent anyone else from making the same medicine.
Why do people work against their own interests? This is why we need strong education.
Oboma & co. has changed the definition of the word racist. He is saying things that are not in the Constitution. All with the help of the NY Times and other fringe media. He is a desperate man and we had better watch out for where he gets his help. We can’t let the country commit suicide just because the Democrats want us too. Some leader has got to stand up and tell it like it is.
Why does reverse discrimination and the fact that there is a black caucaus in our government meeting with the president not bother a lot of people?If there waqs a group that called themselves the White caucaus,there would be outrage and news coverage.the fact that the democrats control the house and senate and can vote for any bill to passs without one republican vote and still can not get a health care bill passed says ;means that when this thing goes bad the democrats do not wanna be left with all the blame!!!!!!
Hmm
Obama plays the race card to the Black Caucus.
Is he that contemptuous of their intelligence?