On Obama's Speech
Sep. 10th, 2009 07:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hkellickI've voiced my displeasure with both parties, especially the Republican Party, in this journal. I stand by my feelings. The Republican Party, as a party, is increasingly finding itself beholden to a group of way out there far right nutsos who are so unhappy with the state of affairs that instead of asking what they can do to make things better go off on tirades about how Obama is not an American Citizen and apparently asking kids what they can do to make their country a better place is a socialist agenda. These are the same far right wackos who are against any real Health Care Reform.
And while I'm on Far Right Wackos... and I'm not looking JUST at Congressman Joe Wilson of South Carolina.. since when is it OK to heckle a president during a speech, to boo and hiss? Very uncool.
But I digress...
Often on CC, I see someone trying to argue with a virtual wall. People arguing with people who have already made up their mind. And to some extent, I saw the same in Obama's speech.
But I don't think Obama's speech was to congress, though I'm glad he looked a certain side RIGHT in the virtual eye and said "Those things you're saying about us funding abortions and death panels: They are a Lie." I think Obama's speech was to the part of the country that was trying to make sense of it all through the lies and misinformation and find out specifically how it would affect them and why they should back it.
All summer, we've heard stories of the GARBAGE the other side has spewed out: the Birthist movement, the Death Panel lies, the Funded Abortion lies. There is no way to defend this garbage. It's total far right wacko garbage and the people who spread this garbage should be ignored and shunned (if not taken back and beaten until we get the stupid out of them.)
There are some legitimate concerns about the Health Care Reform bill. Death Panels is not among them. If the conservatives would be serious and offer some serious discussion about the legitimate concerns to this bill, I think the country would be alot better for it. We might even be able to pass a bill that America, as a whole, could live with.
But I don't see that as likely. It's far easier and far less scary to stand up to your diminishing base and say "I hear you. Screw the Socialist Terrorist President of ours. We won't pass anything he wants." It's also a whole lot of a better plan to get you reelected because clearly, for some, being reelected is far more important than doing something good and right in this country.
And finally, I'm with those Americans that believe that our nation should be judged not based on the quality of life of our average citizen, but our lowest citizen. Good, moral nations do not let millions of citizens rot in bankruptcy, unable to afford taking themselves or their loved ones to get real health care in the case of a sickness or accident. Universal Healthcare *IS*, for me, a moral prerogative.
And while I'm on Far Right Wackos... and I'm not looking JUST at Congressman Joe Wilson of South Carolina.. since when is it OK to heckle a president during a speech, to boo and hiss? Very uncool.
But I digress...
Often on CC, I see someone trying to argue with a virtual wall. People arguing with people who have already made up their mind. And to some extent, I saw the same in Obama's speech.
But I don't think Obama's speech was to congress, though I'm glad he looked a certain side RIGHT in the virtual eye and said "Those things you're saying about us funding abortions and death panels: They are a Lie." I think Obama's speech was to the part of the country that was trying to make sense of it all through the lies and misinformation and find out specifically how it would affect them and why they should back it.
All summer, we've heard stories of the GARBAGE the other side has spewed out: the Birthist movement, the Death Panel lies, the Funded Abortion lies. There is no way to defend this garbage. It's total far right wacko garbage and the people who spread this garbage should be ignored and shunned (if not taken back and beaten until we get the stupid out of them.)
There are some legitimate concerns about the Health Care Reform bill. Death Panels is not among them. If the conservatives would be serious and offer some serious discussion about the legitimate concerns to this bill, I think the country would be alot better for it. We might even be able to pass a bill that America, as a whole, could live with.
But I don't see that as likely. It's far easier and far less scary to stand up to your diminishing base and say "I hear you. Screw the Socialist Terrorist President of ours. We won't pass anything he wants." It's also a whole lot of a better plan to get you reelected because clearly, for some, being reelected is far more important than doing something good and right in this country.
And finally, I'm with those Americans that believe that our nation should be judged not based on the quality of life of our average citizen, but our lowest citizen. Good, moral nations do not let millions of citizens rot in bankruptcy, unable to afford taking themselves or their loved ones to get real health care in the case of a sickness or accident. Universal Healthcare *IS*, for me, a moral prerogative.
