Pulitzer Prize-winner Dorothy Rabinowitz blisters Obama in the Wall Street Journal yesterday:
"The election over, the warming glow of those armies of supporters gone, his capacity to tolerate criticism and dissent from his policies grows thinner apace. His lectures, explaining his health-care proposals, and why they'll be good for everybody, are clearly not going down well with his national audience.
This would have to do with the fact that the real Barack Obama—product of the academic left, social reformer with a program, is now before that audience, and what they hear in this lecture about one of the central concerns in their lives—his message freighted with generalities—they are not prepared to buy. They are not prepared to believe that our first most important concern now is health-care reform or all will go under.
The president has a problem. For, despite a great election victory, Mr. Obama, it becomes ever clearer, knows little about Americans. He knows the crowds—he is at home with those. He is a stranger to the country's heart and character.He seems unable to grasp what runs counter to its nature. That Americans don't take well, for instance, to bullying, especially of the moralizing kind, implicit in those speeches on health care for everybody. Neither do they wish to be taken where they don't know they want to go and being told it's good for them...." column
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Appears that he knows very little about the surgical charges allowable by Medicare also.
Yesterday during a town hall meeting, President Obama got his facts completely wrong. He stated that a surgeon gets paid $50,000 for a leg amputation when, in fact, Medicare pays a surgeon between $740 and $1,140 for a leg amputation. This payment also includes the evaluation of the patient on the day of the operation plus patient follow-up care that is provided for 90 days after the operation.
Let's just tell it like it is. Obama doesn't know a lot about healthcare. He's a young man and has always had good insurance for his family, and they all are young and obviously healthly. You just don't know really what's going on unless you have no health insurance or no way to pay for care when you are sick. Obama doesn't know about Medicare either, and what it pays and doesn't pay. He's in his forties not his sixties like me. He really doesn't understand or get it, and he's not fooling many either.
Nobody is talking about reducing Medicare benefits.
Nancy can't seem to keep her stories aligned.
Nancy is a dodo bird.
That Americans don't take well, for instance, to bullying, ???? riiiiight.... we were just bullied for 8 years.. find something else to complain about plz
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