Obama Gaffe: Health Care Reforms Will Bring About Greater ‘Inefficiencies’

"The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system."

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July 20, 2009 at 5:53 pm - Politico
Dateline: Washington DC
CommonSense   July 20th, 2009 - 6:19 pm

The Messiah!!!!! LMAO! What an idiot! And Sarah palin wasn’t qualified??!?!?!?! LLLMMMAAAOOOO!!!!
Hope and Change (verp)

DontTaseMeBro   July 20th, 2009 - 6:22 pm

Hey we all knew what he was really trying to say, don’t we?

But if this was Bush, it would be front page news for three weeks … and the same for the many gaffes this bozo has made … and YES, Obama’s policies are marxist.

CommonSense   July 20th, 2009 - 6:25 pm

You KNOW you’re a MORON when you make Biden look level headed and thought out – LOL!
TOTUS STRIKES AGAIN!!!!

Dave, Tn   July 20th, 2009 - 6:32 pm

Thanks for the heads up LMAO

Lady liberty   July 20th, 2009 - 6:45 pm

that was NO gaffe…he knows it’s true but he wants to get it through quick before anyone finds out.

Media Wh0res The Cult of pResident Obummer   July 20th, 2009 - 6:46 pm

What a fuggin Moron, this bonehead makes Bush look smarter every day. This is what affirmative action leads to.

Far Right Wing Wacko   July 20th, 2009 - 7:04 pm

Nothing more than a slip of words and everyone knows it. Nice try Breifart. Better bring more ammo than this pathetic story. With all on this man’s plate, it’s completely understandable. Sad for you right wing crazy lunatics on this sight how quickly you underestimate this guys political and charismatic power. He came out of nowhere and handed all you loonies and the mighty GOP a good azz whooping.

And as far as making Bush look smarter every day? If that were the case, the GOP would be in power of some sort, now wouldn’t they. Fact is, NO ONE can make the Shrub look smarter. NO ONE!

And the Far Right Rethuglican’t Hypocrisy Comedy Parade Continues……

Libertyman   July 20th, 2009 - 7:05 pm

comrade obama sux, and so does all the morons who voted for him..jerks

FREUDIAN SLIP   July 20th, 2009 - 7:22 pm

THE TRUTH WILL OUT.

dd   July 20th, 2009 - 7:23 pm

Two days before the election, now-President Obama promised: “When it comes to health care, we don’t have to choose between a government-run health care system and the unaffordable one we have now. If you already have health insurance, the only thing that will change under my plan is that we will lower premiums. If you don’t have health insurance you’ll be able to get the same kind of health insurance that Members of Congress get for themselves. And as someone who watched his own mother spend the final months of her life arguing with insurance companies because they claimed her cancer was a pre-existing condition and didn’t want to pay for treatment, I will stop insurance companies from discriminating against those who are sick and need care most. That’s the change we need. That’s why I’m running for President of the United States.”

So, America, just what sort of health care plan has Barack Obama promised us?

Lee   July 20th, 2009 - 7:29 pm

It’s called a Freudian slip. Down with the Marxist, Kenyan impostor!

Joe   July 20th, 2009 - 7:30 pm

How did we win the cold war? BK’d the USSR via arms race…spending. How does Obama plan on taking down the USA…. BK via spending. Lets pass a bunch of spending bills w/o reading them…. yippie

TED KENNEDY   July 20th, 2009 - 7:32 pm

You all will be able to get the same democRAT health care, that I made sure Mary Jo got.

Chappaquiddick Diver interview here – http://www.fatboy.cc/live_from_chappaquiddick.htm

LIAR!!

Jamesb   July 20th, 2009 - 7:57 pm

Obama needs a GAFFE CZAR! “Duh, der Harvard…affirmative action…er duh, ya know”

Eileen for Freedom/Liberty   July 20th, 2009 - 8:19 pm

America…as I have repeatedly said…”a double-minded and a double-tongued man/women can never, ever be trusted”!

He was trying to convince America one thing while all the while knowing he was really truly making it inefficient to destroy our economy from within!

Remember…he was schooled that there are 57 Islamic states…but he didn’t want us to know he was really a Muslim…so when asked about something about our American states he said we had 57 states instead of 50…double-minded and double-tongued…NOT TO BE TRUSTED IN ANYTHING HE SAYS AMERICA…NOTHING…ZERO…ZILCH!

CONTINUE TO CALL YOUR SENATORS/HOUSE REPS DAILY…DON’T GIVE UP…WE WILL BE VICTORIOUS…THE WALLS OF DECEPTION ARE BEGINNING TO CRUMBLE RIGHT BEFORE OUR EYES!

Eileen for Freedom/Liberty   July 20th, 2009 - 8:26 pm

One additional note to black America…

If you continue to support this inexperienced and inept man just because he is half black…you are doing a disservice to any truly qualified and gifted black man that will arise within America who can do the job but will not be elected because of what this man is doing today.

It will be decades before all of America ever trusts again a black man for the highest position in our land!

Wendell   July 20th, 2009 - 8:39 pm

Eileen, you are correct. I am a black man and I am ashamed of the blind loyalty that my people have for our president. He had no experience and a short list of accomplishments. Tough questions were not asked and the teleprompter was always within reach.

Many Obamaniacs are jumping ship for they realize that he is in above his head. It has nothing to do with race…he just is not capable.

Do not fret. Carter yielded Reagan and a few Bushes. That darn Perot….Clinton.

Many were hustled and are now waking up. Black America will remain in a drunken stupor. I hear it at the barber shop and at work. If things go as expected in 2010 they will cry foul. Acorn is mobilizing right now.

Lady liberty   July 20th, 2009 - 8:47 pm

Eileen for Freedom/Liberty July 20th, 2009 – 8:26 pm

I disagree with you Eileen.. a True American no matter the color will be easy to spot.. unlike the fool we have now who did not deceive 47 % of Americans.

johnnydrama   July 20th, 2009 - 8:50 pm

why do all the libs who post have so much hate? “the Far Right Rethuglican’t Hypocrisy Comedy Parade Continues…” Really? Obama won. Everyone gets it. Now if he would just stop screwing up our country…

Freedom Isn't Free   July 20th, 2009 - 9:00 pm

What a freudian slip!!! Waht an administration we have, Obama and Biden.

TruthTeller   July 20th, 2009 - 10:02 pm

OOPS! He didn’t mean to tell the truth. It was an accident….

Eileen for Freedom/Liberty   July 20th, 2009 - 10:25 pm

Dear Wendell…thank you for your comments.

I hope that you will join with the rest of America and speak up and speak out about the injustices we all see!

We need to be united as Americans…not groups of Americans!

I know there are hundreds of thousands of black Americans, like yourself, and I challenge you to continue to speak up and speak out to all Americans you come in contact with!

Friends, family, the guy at the gas station…everywhere you can!

I, myself, had a great discussion in a car dealership while waiting for my car to be serviced. A truly difference of opinion with another, but we shared our thoughts and ideas and know that I came from that small talk with more of his understanding and I feel he did the same for mine!

It doesn’t have to be a riotous confrontation of ideas…but just a simple exchange of thoughts and opinions respectfully.

Thank you, again, Wendell!

Joe Biden   July 20th, 2009 - 10:35 pm

Hey Barack,

Just chug that ‘forty’ of Drano…

I’m next in line…

H2K   July 20th, 2009 - 10:53 pm

Gaffe? I think not.

Steve   July 20th, 2009 - 11:03 pm

This is the one time that I think that he was being truthful. Take a good look at his face. He is totally pissed off and frustrated. People are not taking his orders and genuflecting as they should be.

Steve   July 20th, 2009 - 11:05 pm

Lady liberty:

I am one of the proud 47% that did not toke heavily from the Hope and Change bong. A lot of people, however, are still high. The buzz is starting to wear off others, though.

DJ   July 20th, 2009 - 11:47 pm

And yet, “Bush was the dummy?!”

Riiiigggghhhhhhttttt.

When will the State Run Press play this? Katie? Boobermann? CNN/ABC/CBS/PBS/NBC? If it was Bush or Palin who said this, they would preempt their highest run shows and play it on a loop for 30 minutes.

DJ   July 21st, 2009 - 12:09 am

dd ..

I’m not sure what you were getting at, but the quote you shared is NOT what is being proposed. First, Congress’ healthcare is NOT what “we will be getting!” That is why a lot of people are calling their Congress persons and telling that if they pass this monstrosity that they had BETTER put themselves on THIS plan too (they have already stated in no uncertain terms that they will NOT give up THEIR cushy plan. One gold-plated plan for them, and a lousy one for the rest of us).

Also, you don’t have to get far into this 1,300 page (and growing) piece ‘o carp .. 16 pages to be exact .. to find that it DISALLOWS insurance companies from writing ANY new policies! Therefore, the “if you like your current plan .. you keep it” is an outright lie. Let’s say that you change jobs. You will NOT be allowed to get a new private insurance policy at your new job. You will be FORCED into a “public” (government) plan. If you retire, you will get to keep your current plan until COBRA runs out (60 days). Then you will be FORCED into a “public” plan. If you decide that your current plan is too expensive and you would like to switch to another less-expensive private plan; you CAN’T! The ultimate goal by 0bummer and Stretch Pelousy is to FORCE EVERYONE at some point in the near future into a government plan! 0bama, Pelosi, and all of these Congress people are VERMIN, and they are LIARS!

And today, a man on the gubmint program in the U.K. (which is one of the models this piece ‘o carp is modeled upon) died because the “health” program denied him a liver transplant! These stories happen every day in the U.K. and Canada, and yet IDIOTS in this Country want to march lockstep with their IDIOT messiah to a program that will RATION healthcare and KILL the elderly! WAKE UP!

The answer to the “healtcare problem” is simple, and twofold: (1) Get the scumbag ambulance chasing lawyers OUT of healthcare! (2) allow insurance companies to compete across state lines (this is what “that dummy” McCain proposed) and thus reduce costs of health insurance through competition.

“Government does NOT SOLVE PROBLEMS! It SUBSIDIZES THEM!” — Ronald Reagan

DJ   July 21st, 2009 - 12:19 am

So .. let me get this straight: all he has to do is come out, read the words that George Soros has typed onto his teleprompter screens, and say thank you and “goodnight, Mrs Calabash” and exit, and he STILL couldn’t get it right?!! And THIS is HOPE?! And CHANGE?! And he’s been hailed as the “smartest dood to ever walk the planet and serve as President” of these United States? And it would be ONE THING if this was an isolated incident, but the doofus does this often, and WITH a teleprompter each time? And “Bush was the dummy?”

Oh boy! It’s going to be a LOOOOOOONNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGG 3.5 years! LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!

Could somebody come up QUICKLY with his verifiable Kenyan birth certificate?! PLEASE??!!!

Kent   July 21st, 2009 - 12:41 am

Damn! The old teleprompter would never have made that mistake! Chinese piece of crap…..

BJC   July 21st, 2009 - 2:49 am

Yes Acorn is mobilizing as we type. We as Americans have to take back our country. Obama has called on his AOCRNITES to get on the blogs and push Healthcare. Look, we know how to blog to. I hate to listen to liberal lies but I am going to force myself to go on websites that are liberal and see what’s up. Check this one out folks, http://www.dailykos.com I suggest all conservatives check out this site, have an input. I have joined and will be visiting often. We can’t keep our heads in the sand we need to fight fire with fire. Visit and see. It’s not against the law to blog and believe me you will be enlightened. It will show you just how much you have to fight for. More important who you are fighting against. We have no time to sit back and think someone else will fight our fight…It’s up to YOU! Put your face out there like ACORN has, we were taught last year how they do it. It’s not hard, just show up for the fight.

This quote is like the one where he admitted his Muslim Faith, before Georgie corrected him with “you mean your Christian Faith”. Out of the mouth does the abundance of the heart speaks.

BJC   July 21st, 2009 - 2:50 am

President Obama and the Congress are pushing for reforms that will move the US health care system closer to a nationalized system like that of Canada or Great Britain. If this is successful, you will have fewer health care choices and your access to care will be more limited. The government, not you and your doctor, will be responsible for determining whether you receive care. You will be “wait listed” for critical diagnostic tests. You may wait two or three years for surgery. You may not have access to life-saving cancer and other drugs. Yet, you will pay higher taxes.
You can help stop this government takeover of health care.
Send a message by signing the petition at http://www.freeourhealthcarenow.com.

Marrypoppins   July 21st, 2009 - 2:54 am

Ok we know he can speak, but can he think? I don’t even think he knows what he is reading. It is going to be a long 3.5 years. Hopefully all that voted for him will die in line waiting for healthcare. Hope has turned to dope. There is no birth certificate since he was hatched. I blame Ophra and all the dumbass women who watch her show and voted for this loser.
one more thing we should not be in a war with Afganistan since there is no oil, hoever we may need the herion to swallow what is come these next 3.5 years. Just a spoon full of opium helps the medicine go down.

Barry Bonds   July 21st, 2009 - 4:34 am

I love the: “IF IT WAS BUSH” argument. Republicans love reminding us of how poorly Bush was treated by coming up with the most insane scenarios. Well, no one cares about how Bush was treated. We care about how poorly he left his country because he was the worst President of all time. No amount of white washing is going to change that. Haha!

All the people who hate Obama which are alot if you count all the idiots on Breitbart, Politico, Hotair and any redneck bar can blame themselves for supporting Bush for 2 terms and thinking Sarah Palin was qualified to be the VPOTUS. Fail.

CommonSense   July 21st, 2009 - 9:44 am

Me thinks either Barry Bonds is just Larse or Mary Pat or cut from the same Hemp Liberal Insane cloth……stupid Troll – thoughts are for adults.

Aldebaran   July 21st, 2009 - 9:53 am

The truth will not be obfuscated forever. The wheels are coming off the universal health care scam.

Timothy   July 21st, 2009 - 10:23 am

That is what the teleprompter told him to say…blame it on TOTUS.

BigD   July 21st, 2009 - 10:55 am

That’s nothing, check this out… Obama Snubbed by leaders http://bit.ly/38GL1L

CommonSense   July 21st, 2009 - 11:49 am

And regardless of Larse, Mary Pat and the other Liberal Trolls…..Obama tracking lower than Carter. Hang on folks it’s just starting to get worse!
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/presidential-approval-tracker.htm

ChrisWI   July 21st, 2009 - 11:59 am

That was not a gaffe

Patrick J Feyerisen   July 21st, 2009 - 4:31 pm

This gaffe is the first time that Obama was telling the truth, It may be the last

Dear Senators, Reps...   July 22nd, 2009 - 1:51 am

PLEASE COPY & PASTE THE FOLLOWING TEXT (between dotted lines), OR SIMILAR TEXT, AND SEND VIA EMAIL OR FAX TO YOUR SENATORS & REPS, TO PROTEST THE UNREALISTIC HEALTH & ENERGY BILLS. YOU CAN ALSO PRINT IT OUT AND SNAIL-MAIL IT. DO THIS ASAP!, IF YOU WANT TO PRESERVE OUR BELOVED COUNTRY!

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Dear Legislator,

I am completely against the current ram-rodding through Congress of two very significant pieces of legislation: healthcare reform and energy/carbon reduction. I urge you to VOTE NO on both Bills. These issues are too important to be rushed through without a thorough discussion in the public realm. We need to get it RIGHT, not just get it done! Additionally, both of these bills appear to be way too complex and expensive (and with too much pork, especially the energy/carbon bill).

1. On healthcare: It’s one thing for the government to regulate private enterprise, another for the government to get into the healthcare business. We don’t need everybody in the country on Medicare! We must preserve private enterprise and try to reduce taxes, not increase them. And please: no illegal aliens on my tax nickel! Finally, any provision that would take benefits away from our SENIOR CITIZENS in order to try to finance this Health Bill must be removed, and any “END OF LIFE” COUNSELING that would try to pressure SENIORS into foregoing health treatment must be not only removed but strongly CONDEMNED. This Bill is a legislative nightmare that must not pass.

2. On energy/carbon: Where are the nuclear power plants, the obvious low-hanging fruit? Nuclear is not the dangerous proposition it perhaps once was (look at France, et al.). For starters, there are numerous approved sites that could be expanded or up-graded (or where this is no current plant at all). And I am highly dubious of carbon trading: From what I can see, it is not working in Europe (Scientific American). Also, the major emerging markets (China, India, etc.) are not going to participate anytime soon. Further, WHY PENALIZE HOMEOWNERS, many of whom are under-water with diminishing home values, with a scheme to force them to upgrade their houses before they can put them on the market for sale? This Bill is ill-conceived.

Please take seriously my concerns, as your response to the above will determine whether you will be removed or voted back into office next time around.

Thank you for your time in reading my concerns,

Sincerely,

An Irate American-Voter-Taxpayer

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Brad   July 31st, 2009 - 10:54 pm

Yes EileenforJustice is right, Obama shouldn’t be the black man for president, perhaps we should hire that highly intelligent black man that teaches over at Harvard for breaking into his own house. I mean we shouldn’t be leaving him to teach our youth should we?

Ha ha ha ha ha
I would vote for Alan Keyes in a heart beat. I would even vote for Al Sharpton before I ever voted for Obama, at least Sharpton isn’t a card carrying member of the Illinois Communist Committee like Obama.

Obama is in the Whitehouse simply because he is a puppet of the US Socialist convention and their power brokers knew that it was time for a strong, young, black man with Charisma to be voted into the Whitehouse

Change? yeah we got change, we’re changing from a country that was founded on Christian principles by Christians to a nation who hates God and is full of ignorant sots that can’t tell you who the president was 8 years ago, and go into college with a 3rd grade reading level. You have American’s rights now going away with the Senate and House’s vote for the Hate Crimes bill – they wouldn’t even remove the citation for “sexual choice” which included over 2000 listings of sexual deviancies from having sex with a corpse, animal, child, child pornography etc. You can now go to jail for saying a child molestor is sick and wrong. God bless America… Change? We now have a socialist in control trying to take our right to chose our own health care, we also have a socialist who said, ahh well killing the lame and elderly might just have to be an option to make our money stretch farther, (I bet we won’t be hearing the ol’ saying “Break a leg” any more). Change? yeah we’re getting change but I can stand by while it happens and say – I didn’t vote for him, don’t kivetch to me. Good luck suckers.

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