By Dan Calabrese ——Bio and Archives--September 27, 2013
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"We need you to spread the word. But you don't have to take my word for it. If you've talked to somebody who said, well, I don't know, I was watching Fox News, and they said this was horrible [the transcript records "laughter, boos"] and you can say, "you know what? Don't take my word for it. Go on the website. See for yourself what the prices are. See for yourself what the choices are. Then make up your own mind. Just make -- that's all I'm asking. Make up your own mind."
"Some of the tea party's biggest donors, some of the wealthiest men in America, are funding a cynical ad campaign trying to convince young people not to buy health care at all. I mean, think about it. These are billionaires several times over. You know they've got good health care." "But they are actually spending money, on television, trying to convince young people that if you've got the choice between getting affordable health care or going without health care, you should choose not having any health care. Now, do you think if you get sick or you get hurt and you get stuck with a massive bill, these same folks -- they're going to help you out? Are they going to pay for your health care?"Or . . .
"You had a state representative somewhere say that it's as destructive to personal and individual liberty as the Fugitive Slave Act. Think about that. Affordable health care is worse than a law that lets slave-owners get their runaway slaves back. I mean, these are quotes. I'm not making this stuff up."Or . . .
"The closer we get, the more desperate they get," Obama said. "All this would be funny if it wasn't so crazy."Shot at Fox News. Check. Shot at the Koch Brothers and basically everyone who's wealthy. Check. Insinuation about the mental health of his critics. Check. Reference to slavery. Hey, why not? There's also this, which implies that anyone demanding conditions for raising the debt ceiling is akin to a suicidal terrorist:
"What we're not for is negotiating with people with a bomb strapped to their chest."No less a liberal bastion than the Washington Post has given the lie to Obama's claim that no one ever demands concessions in exchange for raising the debt ceiling. I would excerpt a particularly good example, but there are so many that you really just need to read the piece for yourself. Obama's claim that this is some sort of beyond-the-pale, unprecedented action is about as silly as most of what he says. But then, when you can't defend your own record, you're basically left to flail away at the people who keep pointing that out, and the more petulantly you do so, the more definitively you are Barack Obama. A new edition of Dan's book "Powers and Principalities" isnow available in hard copy and e-book editions. Follow all of Dan's work, including his series of Christian spiritual warfare novels, byliking his page on Facebook.
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