President Obama says Health Care Overhaul Isn't About Him

by j. wright - 11/09/2009
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In August of this year, according to Senator Charles Grassley, (R-IA), “A Democrat congressman last week told (him) after a conversation with the president that the president had trouble in the House of Representatives, and it wasn’t going to pass if there weren’t some changes made and the president says, ‘You’re going to destroy my presidency.‘ “
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That president is none other than Barack H. Obama. The very same who stood in front of his vaunted teleprompter and asserted at various times that, “…this (health care reform) isn’t about me.”
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The same “ruin my presidency” line was reportedly used as leverage on some of the reluctant Democrat Representatives in the House last week when President Obama caucused with them pushing for passage of Speaker Pelosi’s 2,000+ page bill.
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If it isn’t about Obama, who is it about? It isn’t about the majority of the taxpayers who will have to eventually pay for this boondoggle called reform. Since when does the legacy of one president take precedence over the welfare of the 307 million Americans to whom he swore an oath?
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Poll after poll taken in recent weeks have shown a majority of Americans are not in favor of a government takeover of our current health provider system. Yes, changes must be implemented but not at the expense of destroying what is good about we have now.
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Speaker Pelosi stood on the steps of the nation’s capitol and pronounced, “…we have listened to the people.” The same ordinary people she insulted and derided following the Tea Party protests and Town Hall meetings last summer?
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In my opinion, we have a self-serving, arrogant, out-of-control administration and legislative branch where elected officials totally ignore the wishes of their employers, the taxpayers. This is not the America where I grew up.
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