Obama Snaps at McCain: "The Election's Over" (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, February 25, 2010, 11:59 AM
“The election’s over.”Cheap Shot Obama snapped at Senator John McCain at the Blair House Project–
Via Breitbart TV
This was after Senator McCain embarrassed the democrats about all of their corrupt backroom deals.
McCain’s response to Obama’s jab: “I’m reminded of that every day.”
We all are.
A video of all of Obama’s snippy comments from today is going to be a guaranteed YouTube classic.
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Kitty commented:
More like the Blair Bitch (session) Project, when The Won got bitchy.
David commented:
Arrogant P.O.S.
Just wait until November…………
veryconcerned commented:
Ahahahaha.
Obama is the one that just started campaigning again, and it’s 3 years away!
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/02/25/cafferty-rips-obamas-reelection-plans-if-jobs-market-doesnt-improve-h
ar05075 commented:
Translation: Shut up and pass my bill, I don’t care what the American people want. I WON.!
olm commented:
Obama looks like the spoiled rotten child he is.
Finncrisp commented:
Barry is so classy. Got to be the smartest guy in the room, demean all dissent. You’d thik he believes America is a darn mean country.
sue commented:
Arrogance. Now, if Bush had said that (and of course Bush is not an arrogant man so would not have said that), then the media would have had a field day. We will not hear anything from the media. Obama’s arrogance and out of line comments will be ignored. He could not think of anything else to say to McCain except something about the election that made no sense at all. What a jerk.
wow commented:
McCain is still fast —
to Obama’s “The election’s over,” he quipped.: “I’m reminded of that every day.”
Now, he comes out with the zingers… where was that during the election?
bill-tb commented:
Welcome to the Tea Party Obama
Blue Collar Todd commented:
Not only is the election over but President Obama has moved so far beyond it that he has started his campaign for 2012. Maybe he realizes he needs as much time as possible in order to have a chance. If the GOP does not get back Congress in 2010 I do not think we will recognize this country by 2012.
arlorant commented:
I don’t think that was a cheap shot, or a comment about McCain specifically … it’s consistent with what Obama said in his State of the Union address, about Congress needing to stop worrying about campaign slogans and get some work done.
salvage commented:
It’s weird when it’s a GOP guy that wins the election he’s the President and can launch wars and make a law that says he doesn’t have to obey laws and when it’s not a GOP guy he’s isn’t allowed to do anything that people who didn’t vote for him don’t like.
I think you guys maybe have one set of rules for people you like and one set for people you don’t.
Cynic commented:
He WON we LOST.
Yiddish Steel commented:
That is the reaction of a desperate man. Come November, your arrogant ass will be taken down another notch, Barry.
Auntie Em commented:
Obama is a pile of dookie. He is constantly in campaign mode, as he projects this onto his perceived rivals.
What.a.joke!!!
DMartyr commented:
Hussein’s snippy remark doesn’t even have any context with what McCain was talking about.
McCain’s talking about listening to the American people and doing what’s best for all of them, while Obama seems to think he only has to satisfy them very slight majority who elected him (which I’m sure in Obama’s daydreams is a massive landslide).
Obama is an arrogant prat.
Moe commented:
Reid count yourself gone! O-Bozo count yourself gone! The American people have had it up to their eyeballs with your elitist smarter than thou crap. This is the first lame duck President that has had a majority in both houses and can’t get anything done.
disgusted commented:
Our president is an ass.
sue commented:
Arlorant: McCain was trying to talk about the major issues with the bill that need to be changed. Why was Obama’s jerky remark necessary? Obama could not respond in a way that would move forward or answer the concerns, he just made a cheap shot. Therein lies one of the many problems with his “leadership”.
Patman77 commented:
Arrogant a$$hole Obama. The people of our nation are making it very clear that we do NOT want this bill.
One term of hell is what got elected. Complete hell!
Where are the shoe throwers?
alaskan commented:
HAHAHA….that comment coming from the ‘lperpetual campaigner’! And the Uniter??!
Obama went to the U.S. Senate and started campaigning 14 months into his job, he was absent from his job for the next 26 months while still drawing a salary (and people complain about Palin quiting).
He is now President and he still has not stopped campaigning, and as mentioned above he is already starting his 2012 Campaign three years out.
He can get the job, he just can’t get the job done.
What arrogance to invite a bi-partisian meeting, and feel threatened by bi-partisian attendence, and then throw out a comment like this. If McCain would have been wearing a burka or a towel on his head Obama would have been much nicer and would have bowed to him.
brooklyn commented:
Well said Kitty.
Why didn’t McCain say, “why don’t you act like the election is over?”
Why not ask, “why are you not governing, and just vapidly campaigning?”
It looks again, just like when the Clinton Narcissism – the Carter Ego was wreaking havoc on the USA, the Obama Democrat folly is sinking us all.
It is embarrassing and disastrous.
This comment, “I am the President”, should remind everyone ugly hubris is running this swindle, and sadly, there is no substance behind it.
DMartyr commented:
You just know Obama thought of that remark before this morning and couldn’t wait for an opportunity to throw it in.
Bob commented:
ACORN people never questioned Obama like this!!
pm commented:
BO tries to intimidate anyone who reveals the truth about him.
Keep it up, McCain, and all Republicans — let America see the ugly side of BO. Ignore his “orders.”
Keep at him. He’ll expose that side he’s worked so hard to hide. And we’ll both see it and hear it.
Make this little get-together come back to bite him, big time.
LytnUp commented:
John, you get an F for the day, you need to sit in the back of the class, and you must go see Principal Biden at the end of the session.
pamlinson commented:
ARROGANT LITTLE JACKASS
Living in The Twilight Zone commented:
A comment like that from someone who is in non-stop campaign-mode.
Joanne commented:
Obama is an arrogant POS. Notice how McCain was saying they should be doing waht is best for all Americans, and then at the end of the video Obama makes it about him wanting to debate about how they are actually going to help the American people…..like McCain wasn’t saying that in the first place. Cheap shot.
jjjjj commented:
Poor Obama is a little bitch, Wahhhh!!! WAhhh!!!!
sue commented:
If Obama worked like the rest of us Americans do, he would be without a job — fired — thrown out on his ass. His attitude and his performance are unacceptable for the average workplace. POTUS? What an arrogant prick– absolutely the least liked guy in the office and the first to go.
Bill Mitchell commented:
THE COMEBACK MCCAIN SHOULD HAVE USED:
“No, Mr President, the election is in November, and that’s why the far left wing of your party can’t ram through this legislation that America doesn’t want.”
Living in The Twilight Zone commented:
If Obama worked like the rest of us Americans do
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Now, THAT is laugh out loud funny!
Bill Mitchell commented:
IMHO, to anyone watching this today, Obama looked liked a petulant, partisan a$$hole. Just as Democratic Districts got twice as much stimulus money as republican Districts, so Democrats got twice the talking time as the Republicans.
I hope like hell they try to ram this POS through. They will lose 75 seats in November and 15 in the Senate.
Moright commented:
Where are the jobs?
bg commented:
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beat me to it GP..
just commented on that in a previous post..
i knew they’d say something like that when
they introduced him as “candidate McCain”..
Dhypocrites!!
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jcf commented:
“salvage
February 25th, 2010 | 12:17 pm | #12
It’s weird when it’s a GOP guy that wins the election he’s the President and can ….”
Haven’t you folks already worn out the B-B-B-But Bush plaint?
Living in The Twilight Zone commented:
Haven’t you folks already worn out the B-B-B-But Bush plaint?
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The spent eight years counting the seconds until he was out of office and now that he is they cannot shut up about him.
Greg commented:
No Barry, the American people are telling you that the PROCESS with it’s back room deals and Republican approved amendments thrown out by the TRAITOR to our troops, Dirty Harry, behind closed doors resulted in a BAD bill. The fact that you DON’T get that shows that despite the fawning press you just are NOT very bright. Time to resign, you are incompetent.
Sincerely,
A Scoop Jackson Democrat
sue commented:
Yes, most of us Americans are still “working”, just not getting paid much for it. Obama wants to take what’s left of our money to create wasteful healthcare jobs that give us less healthcare and more bulls**t to make us think we have more healthcare. I think he and Michelle should have to stand in line with the rest of “his people” when that happens.
jenny commented:
Snotty SOB isn’t he?
bg commented:
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whaaaaaat$$
&ockefella’s son doesn’t have health insurance$$
translation:
we don’t need no (fitb) health insurance..
we’re so rich we can buy all the health care
as needed directly.. hmmm hmmm hmmm
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Robert commented:
Obamass (President Trash Bag) forgot to say “and I won”
I heard him earlier remark “Well, I’m the president, and I didn’t count my time” when they were talking about the time differential used between the two parties. As if he was exempt from any consideration for disparity.
Suffocating arrogance!
Peggy commented:
Another childish “I won” moment from the O.
jjjjjjjj commented:
People that voted for “The One Termer” are ashamed..
Peggy commented:
Should The One be permitted to call every one else by first name, while he is to be addressed “Mr. President”? I think in this public forum, he should address each member by his/her title and last name. Mr. or Ms./Mrs. ___ would be okay. We’re not trying to be Babs Boxer here. Just a little respect and recognition of them all as duly elected representatives of the people. Members of Congress–and the Veep–are not his subjects.
In private, I know that all members would appropriately use “Mr. President” to any president. That’s fine. The president can call them “Joe” or “Paul” in that setting.
Major Kong commented:
Ya know it’s gotta be really, really bad when you start missing Jimmah Carter. Can we all agree to never electing another “community organizer” to any office?!
Melvin Winter commented:
Scientists Abandon Effort to Find a Grand Unified Theory of Health Care Bill Backroom Deals http://optoons.blogspot.com/2010/02/scientists-abandon-effort-to-find-grand.html
Lily Ledbetter commented:
“salvage
February 25th, 2010 | 12:17 pm | #12 ”
Salvage, how exactly did your day to day life change while a war in Iraq or Afghanistan was fought?
Do you think your day to day life may change after this healthcare bill passes. I urge you to visit a Canadian emergency room before you reply.
wanumba commented:
MAYBE the GOP will start to get a clue that “One Party Rule” is not rhetoric, it’s the GOAL – and that they have nothing to lose by fighting everything the Administration wants tooth and nail and everything to gain.
Pelosi said she wants one party, Maxine Waters two years ago, long before GM was bought up, TARP put handcuffs on banks, was saying “It’s about nationalization” Obama projects total annoyance if he has to even give the time of day to anyone outside his clique.
They aren’t kidding, it’s not “business as usual,” it’s take over.
CommieBlaster commented:
OBAMACARE YEAR IN REVIEW
This Brand New, 5-Star Hilarious and Shocking Video provides a Fast-Paced Look at the No-Lie-Too-Big, Socialist Ideologues Who Now Run Our Country.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Rv7aW3NF7w
MUST WATCH!
down with dems commented:
Obama: The election is over. I won. I’m the president. Bite my ass.
That’s about all that was accomplished today.
He’s an arrogant, snide, cocky tool, and with every second he’s on TV, with every additional word that comes out of his mouth, America hates him that much more.
jim commented:
Yeah, the campaign’s over, blowhard. When do you start acting like a real president?
Jive Act: Year Two.
bg commented:
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Obama Single Payer Strategy State Power
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calvetgirl commented:
I never want to meet that slimy terrorist who lives in the WH but I think I might want to play poker with him! The most transparent thing about him is his blatant childish faces he makes while others are talking. The self righteous, “I am King” nose in the air with the smirk when one of his equally delusional cronies is spewing lies and spin, and then the grrrrrr look and eyes darting and disinterested, bored manner when someone else who does not agree with him is speaking. He is such a huge baby….those tantrum moments get more frequent with each passing day! Praying for our nation!! PFON all day and night.
Jeff commented:
McCain should have said, “Oh, I thought you are still in campaign mode and that this bogus summit is part of it. Sorry…my mistake.”
Or better yet, “Now, look who’s talking.”
SteveCan commented:
David is right …
“Arrogant P.O.S.
Just wait until November…………”
averagemelon commented:
Pretty ugly, our president is. You can tell alot about a person when he is under duress.
salvage commented:
>how exactly did your day to day life change while a war in Iraq or Afghanistan was fought?
Ohhh so you should only care about stuff that affects you directly?
I did not know that but that really wasn’t what I was talking about, you should learn to understand words better.
>Do you think your day to day life may change after this healthcare bill passes. I urge you to visit a Canadian emergency room before you reply.
I have. many times, guess what? They work!
What!?! No! Buh Glen Beck said they didn’t!!!
They do! See Canada actually has a pretty good health care system and the cool thing is Canadians pay for it with taxes so when they get sick they don’t lose their life savings!
Buh! TAXES! AHHHHHH TAXES!!!
Yes, they do pay more in taxes but they pay nothing for health care so they come out ahead in the deal.
Buh buh that Premier from Newfoundland he came to America to get health care!
That’s true, that’s because he’s rich and rich people can afford to pay for better stuff, that’s one of the nice things about being rich. Rich people don’t worry about health care so that’s not what HCR is about, it’s about getting the most care to the most people.
That’s a good thing and the only ones who are against it are the insurance companies who will lose a fortune and the stupid people they’ve suckered into thinking otherwise.
King Bee commented:
“We can have a debate about process or we can have a debate about how we are going to help the American people”
Did he just say the end justifies the means?
JollyR commented:
Hi Salvage,
I see you found another blog to run your mouth on! You must be off your med’s again. Please proof read what you post before posting. Your ranting makes zero sence..
Roger commented:
This president doesn’t have any class. He called the senators by their first names but they had the respect of the office to call him “Mr. President”. Too bad the title does not fit with this guy.
Jeff commented:
Salvage,
Emergency? Maybe, because if you are already bleeding on the floor, they would have to attend to you because they do not want the floor dirt…but comparatively…no…it does not work as it should be. Well let me rephrase that. It works as a socialize medicine should work. Low in quality and care. Not the same as the quality care we get here in the United States of America. Not even in the same league. Or even in the same State! Canadian healthcare is nothing compared to what we get, here. Ask even the Canadians! I have a friend who needed a heart surgery. Guess what? He could not tell the doctor when he wanted his own surgery. Because he is powerless to do so! Even if he asked to do it as soon as possible, what soon as possible means is very different from what we mean here. He had to wait a year and a half to be on the table. Yeah it worked, it worked for those who wished he had already died while waiting just like others so they did not have to spend public money on him.
More power to the Oligarchs!!!!!
Jo commented:
Crack-Head President, thug monkey, must go — he is a disgrace! How did the USA get to this point, I do not know. I think it is over now.
salvage commented:
>It works as a socialize medicine should work. Low in quality and care.
Nope, in fact Canada’s health care system is just fine, the most people get the most care without going bankrupt or having an insurance company cancel the policy for “preexisting condition”.
The difference between the two systems is not the amount of money spent but WHERE the money comes from. In America people pay for it when they need it for a very high price, in Canada people pay for it when they pay their taxes, even when they don’t need it but for a very low price.
If you like we can swap stories, I had a friend who had a very bad headache, he went to the doctor after three days of pain, the doctor sent him to the hospital, three days later he was recovering from brain surgery.
Guess how much it cost him?
Nothing, he already paid for it with his taxes.
If he were American without insurance or even with? Thousands and thousands.
That’s the real difference between the two systems.
Oh and it’s not just Canada, it’s EVERY OTHER Western nation on the planet that has it.
Weird, a system that doesn’t work is being used by every nation that seems to think it works, gosh, wonder what you know that they don’t?
Rhinestone Suderman commented:
Salvage, 60 billion horseflies love manure. mere numbers doesn’t make something good. Nor does it sound like socialized medicine really delivers good care. The Canadian Premier came here recently for medical treatment.
And you’re doing your usual Alinsky thing of ranting, and trying to scream those who disagree with you into submission. Not gonna work.
Rhinestone Suderman commented:
Wanumba, I don’t know if the GOP is ever going to get a clue, but, yes, this does look like a complete take over, doesn’t it?
I’m hoping there’ll actually be a presidential election in 2012.
Solaratov commented:
salvage
February 25th, 2010 | 4:01 pm | #61
You’re an idiot and a liar.
Just another snot-nosed punk who wants something for nothing – and believes that the eeeevilll rich should be made to pay for it all.
How much did you pay in taxes to support that “free” health care system?
Jamie commented:
How dare he disrespect a veteran that way, let alone a United States Senator. I live in Arizona and will not vote for John McCain this year. That being said, Senator McCain deserves much more respect then What Mr. Obama gave him. What an arrogant A Hole Mr. Obama is. I can’t wait until November.
Solaratov commented:
Here, salvage. Try this and tell us how good socialized medicine is:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1253438/Mid-Staffordshire-NHS-hospital-routinely-neglected-patients.html
or this:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23809559-cost-cutting-led-to-1200-needless-deaths-at-hospital.do
Somehow, I believe that there are a few folks who’d say you’re full of crap.
And, you should know by now that it’s the law – and has been since the 50s – that anyone who goes to an emergency room must be treated and cared for, regardless of insurance coverage, lack of same, or ability/inability to pay for it. And that would even include brain surgery like your “friend” had.
Sure, they’ll present a bill – but they’ll write it off if the person can’t pay it.
You’re just blowin’ smoke, kid.
Had It In Ohio commented:
Think about it. Would an Auto insurance company write you a policy on a totaled vehicle?
Why isn’t health insurance like it used to be, when it was called Major Medical? Back then we paid for regular services out of pocket and the insurance only covered MAJOR MEDICAL events like hospitalization.
Greta commented:
Barry is the one that every month runs out to hold campaign rallies. I think that is the only place he is comfortable for they stack the room with adoring fans. He does not have a clue how to do the job as president. He never has had to run anything and now he is stuck in the damn job with no answers and the people are all starting to see he is an empty suit except for those adoring idiots
bg commented:
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salvage @ 6:39 pm #67
ahem, Claude Castonguay disagrees with you..
["We thought we could resolve the system's problems by rationing services or injecting massive amounts of new money into it," says Castonguay. But now he prescribes a radical overhaul: "We are proposing to give a greater role to the private sector so that people
can exercise freedom of choice." ]
not to mention this guy..
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bg commented:
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God knows how much i miss the days of the “Family
Doctor”, they used to make “house calls” too.. *sigh*
(not to mention stores being closed on Sunday’s, great “family/friends gathering for a meal and conversation aka: getting to know you day”..)
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c m romeo commented:
oblama, the arrogant community agitator, talking down to an American hero…..makes me want to vomit. Thanks MTV cretins for giving America this pompous ass with your uninformed vote.
Chris Vehr commented:
McCain must accept a major portion of the blame for Obama being elected. It was John McCain who stepped aside and allowed Obama to have his way with the media. McCain did the smart thing by selecting Sarah Palin as his attack dog running mate, but then he put a muzzle on her and told her to be respectful.
McCain shoots blanks. Too little. Too late.
ogee commented:
Ofreakinbama barry soetoro picks his nose on live TV today at the healthscare summit.
Classy ghetto guy in a tailored suit. They used to call them pimps.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oQmLzdTl_U
AuntieMadder commented:
The video’s not showing up on my machine; just a blank, white space where it should be. So, glad the transcript is shared here.
Excellent response from McCain.
John commented:
Honestly, I think if he’d called me ‘John’, I’d have fired back with, ‘well, Barry…’
I mean, honestly. He pulled the same crap w/Alexander. ‘Mr. President’ responds with ‘well, Lamar.’ I mean, that’s BS. This is not a tea party, it’s a serious meeting (or it’s supposed to be). If I’m there, I’ll call you Mr. President, but by Heaven, you’d better call me Mr. (or Doctor, or Senator, or whatever). Because I am NOT your friend, nor your pal, nor your underling.
salvage commented:
So, the whole free world, like most of Europe, Japan, Australia and Canada are all using a system that doesn’t work? Weird that they don’t seem to notice.
What’s also funny is how you howl “America doesn’t want this!” yet this is what Obama campaigned on and strange he won. Are you sure you know what America wants?
And yes, you can cherry pick horror stories all you like, there are hospitals in America that have equal examples of incompetence but again the point you miss, on purpose or because you’re just not very bright is that the issue is how it’s paid for. Either through for profit insurance companies that will screw you over any chance they get (shall I link those horror stories?) or out of taxes that has no motivation to screw you over. Furthermore everyone pays what they can afford so everyone can afford it.
That’s not getting something for nothing, it’s getting what you need and paying what you can.
COMMUNISM! I hear you shriek. Yes, it is a form of communism, that’s true but believe it or not this is one area where the commie way actually works and doesn’t mean that you suddenly go communism is every other aspect of society.
Oh and Canadians can pick and chose their doctors all they like.
oldguy commented:
Don’t take the fake people, Obama is just trying to help McCain get reelected.
Scott commented:
Like I said on my site after this happened, why couldn’t McCain have then commented on the fact that Obama just basically said “what I said when campaigning has no impact on what I do now that I am President?”
It was a perfect chance for McCain to bust Obama in that admission but instead he sheepishly made a joke about his comment.
Rhinestone Suderman commented:
yes, Salvage, because Communism worked so well in Cuba, Russia and Cambodia, and, because really, those millions who died in the Gulag, the Ukrainian famine and the killing fields weren’t enough; we need more dead bodies piled up, to create the perfect society.
You’re nuts, you know that?
salvage commented:
Rhinestone Suderman you are not very good at reading and understanding words are you?
See what I said was:
this is one area where the commie way actually works and doesn’t mean that you suddenly go communism is every other aspect of society.
“ONE AREA” do you know what those words mean?
Stuff like police, firemen, dog catchers and other services vital to the COMMunitinty (see I made the COMM letters big, that’s a clue for you!) are run in a COMMUNISTIC way, that is that all citizens pay for them through their taxes. Health care is done the same way in every other developed nation on planet Earth.
You may not be familiar with that world, at least that’s the impression you give.
So no, having socialized medicine does not mean the abandonment of capitalism, wealth or anything else we enjoy. It means that everyone gets health care and pay what they can for it.
Just like they do with fireman, police, roads, health inspections, code maintenance, schools and a zillion other things you seem to be completely ignorant of.
just bob commented:
Salvage any one who thinks like you is unsalvagable.
bg commented:
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salvage @ 10:33 am #86
why are we labeling anything “civilized” as being communism, etc..
of course there are “similar grains
of salt” to be found in every ism..
that doesn’t make them something they are not in it’s entirety..
[But communists could not be wrong. After all, their knowledge was scientific, based on historical materialism, an understanding of the dialectical process in nature and human society, and a materialist (and thus realistic) view of nature. Marx has shown empirically where society has been and why, and he and his interpreters proved that it was destined for a communist end. No one could prevent this, but only stand in the way and delay it at the cost of more human misery. Those who disagreed with this world view and even with some of the proper interpretations of Marx and Lenin were, without a scintilla of doubt, wrong. After all, did not Marx or Lenin or Stalin or Mao say that. . . . In other words, communism was like a fanatical religion. It had its revealed text and chief interpreters. It had its priests and their ritualistic prose with all the answers. It had a heaven, and the proper behavior to reach it. It had its appeal to faith. And it had its crusade against nonbelievers.
What made this secular religion so utterly lethal was its seizure of all the state's instrument of force and coercion and their immediate use to destroy or control all independent sources of power, such as the church, the professions, private businesses, schools, and, of course, the family.]
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salvage commented:
So… that would be no one can come up with any sort of reasonable rebuttal?
Once again, many aspects of American society have been socialized and administered by the government to great effect.
Or haven’t you noticed the quality of life you enjoy?
These things like fire, police and standards maintenance are paid for out of the communal funds that is taxation.
It’s weird that you don’t scream “Commies!” every time a fire truck rushes by or you don’t call a private investigator to inspect your local restaurant.
bg commented:
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salvage @ 10:33 am #86
communism = no freedom of choice whatsoever..
capitalism = freedom to choose..
Obamaism = Gods partner in our “collective salvation”..
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bg commented:
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salvage @ 12:49 pm #89
comparing Fire/Police/etc.. to “communism” is like
comparing Obama to Jesus aka: apples to oranges..
people are free to “choose” to be a Fireman/ Policeman/etc..
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salvage commented:
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Um… in socialized medicine people aren’t forced to be doctors… is there’s someone who looks after you who can explain what words mean so you can understand stuff better?
Dale commented:
he’s absolutely horrible! He’s gotta go! If they ram this through, I’m on board for the 2nd American revolution, I’m so frustrated with his dictatorship, banana republic style of leadership