How Obama Will Win the Healthcare Battle

What is his method? What is the sound of one hand clapping?

Footage from "Miyamoto Musashi: Ganryû-jima no kettô" (1965)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0198506/

Category:

Comedy

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• Barack
• Obama
• healthcare
• wingnuts
• bipartisanship
• yt:quality=high

[waltherchemnitz]

I think Your time, Bob, is unfortunate. Yesterday I believe, Jimmy Carter came out saying that so many people oppose Barack Obama on this Health Care issue is due to racism... I don't understand this "this is white man's land" comment or why I'm a racist because I want the democrats to slow down and think about what they are doing.

If the reality is that Barack Obama will always win because those who fight for him fight dirty, then I suppose I have no hope here.

[MetaBob]

Sigh. Walther:

Obviously you don't have to be racist to oppose Obama's policies. At this point not only conservatives but most progressives oppose a big chunk of Obama's policies. (Though many, like me, torture themselves over the question of how much his apparent policies are actually tactical feints, which is what this video was about.)

But if you don't see that a huge segment of the "anti-Obama movement" is motivated by racism, you're being deliberately blind.

[waltherchemnitz]

Barack Obama spent most of yesterday disagreeing with you about that. He and I are the same page in believing that although I'm sure there are some people motivated by racism, most of simply are not. If it were true, how on earth did he get elected? Do we then believe that these passionate racists sat on their during the election?

And exactly where is this "anti Obama movement"? Who's running it? Show me so we can all put them in their place.

[MetaBob]

Obama is right to downplay the part that racism plays in the opposition to his presidency. He's the president of all America, including the racists, and his job is to try to heal divisions, not highlight them. [more]

[MetaBob]

You say "although I'm sure there are some people motivated by racism, most simply are not. If it were true, how on earth did he get elected?" Walther... come on, are you serious? Obama got elected by the people who voted FOR him. Nowhere did I say that "most people" are motivated by racism. But if every single person who voted against him were a racist -- which I also did NOT say -- Obama would still have gotten elected by the rest of us.

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[MetaBob]

Walther, you haven't made clear what your objections to Obama (or Democratic) policies are, but let's stipulate that they aren't motivated by racism.

But how can you ask "exactly where is this 'anti Obama movement'?" That makes it sound like you don't see it at all, which is mind-boggling. And when you ask "Who's running it?" *running* is the wrong term. It springs up naturally from, among other causes, racism. As for who's *exploiting* it: Roger Ailes, Dick Armey, lobbyists, on and on.

[italianchappy]

"real americans want to be screwed by corporations, not government. That's why we seceded from Canada!" LOL

[XlancerTHEgreat1]

How can you say that the Democrats don't get money from corporations? Democrats are just as bad as Republicans. Think of the difference between Pepsi and Coke and apply it to the Democrats and Republicans.

I challenge you to look into the Campaign for Liberty movement to find real change.

[TheDetoX]

No system of government can prevent an unvirtous and uneducated people from enslaving themselves.

[Jcolinsol]

How is it, good, nice, healthy, humane, or pragmatic to force people to buy insurance? To backup that force with a threat of violence (Obama admitted that he believes government to be a monopoly on the right to perpetrate violence)

You seem to have an unfathomable belief in Obama's goodness, when anyone not emotionally invested in him can see that all he can do is more of the same, or worse.

I wonder how a man with such insight into spirituality/atheism, can be so blind about politics.

[ozzyloki]

this video still cracks me up everytime i watch it. Thanks again for making it :)

[normalais]

@lorax2013 yeah I learned it from the republicans. they've been doing that for as long as I can remember myself.

[lorax2013]

@normalais ad hominem much?

[EveryHumanBeing]

Individual responsibility much?

Why should I subsidize another persons lack of self respect with my meager earnings?

The avg american buys a new car every five years... 400 to 600$ a month in payments and insurance...for a "Phat ride"

and they bitch at a 400$ a month health-care premium is too much?

Perhaps their priority's are twisted just a bit.

Every person makes their own bed... and they pay for it.

[TheLoadedQuestion]

LOL at the only way to fight corporate greed being cracking the reps. over the head with an oar.

You rock Metabob!

[Deadleader555]

Whahahaa! This is funny dude =P

[mahnarch]

That movie is awesome.

What is it?

[normalais]

tea baggers? birthers?

I'm willing to bet everything that I have that every member of the KKK is either a tea bagger, birther or both.

the whole birther thing was started by white supremacists who just cannot accept the fact that a black man was elected president