I just had a very healthy and spirited debate about one of the most controversial topics of the day: HR3200, which is most commonly referred to as America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009.
For weeks I, like many of you, have seen ad after ad, lie after lie regarding this very controversial and polarizing piece of legislation. So much has been said, one might actually be inclined to believe some of the "Death Panel" nonsense that has been fed to anyone willing to eat it.
Well, last night President Obama decided, once and for all, to set the record straight so that all Americans could see this bill for what it truly is. While I have my own criticisms of the bill I still wanted to give the President an opportunity help me understand exactly what the bill entailed. You can image my surprise when I scanned the audience and saw so many House & Senate Republicans acting like toddlers being to forced to eat baby food. I honestly couldn't believe my eyes. Members of the GOP, sulked, bitched & moaned throughout the entire speech & one jackass even had the nerve to interupt the President by yelling at him.
Needless to say this pissed me off. So much so, that I went to bed pissed. Woke up pissed & went to work pissed. Naturally, me being the facebook addict that I have become, I updated my status to convey my frustration to the world : "Emeka thinks republicans are fuckin ridiculous".....
I expected to get some comments, but nothing quite like this:
Emeka thinks republicans are fuckin ridiculous....
Eric
me too!!!!
Raji
me too!!!!
Raji
I don't know many people who can argue with common sense or the act of being humane and loving your neighbors. But that was before I met the RNC.
Chris
Emeka
Chris
Why?
Emeka
@ Chris: Its one thing to disagree with the President, but it’s another to blatantly sulk and disrespect the President during a speech. I wasn't sure if he was addressing a room full of Senators or a detention hall full of flunkies from Jackson Middle School. Based on the immature actions of the republicans last night, it was hard to tell the difference.......which is fuckin ridiculous
Valentine
Valentine
yep, first they spew propaganda telling parents to keep their kids at home during Obama's speech to kids. Then this Joe Wilson guy yells out during Obama's speech as if he is at a bar. The truth is that republicans still cannot get over the fact they lost the last election and they will do everything in their power to make it difficult Obama.
Eric
Eric
its crazy how the republicans are trying EVERYTHING in their power to scare america into thinking we have ZERO chance to succeed with Obama as president. Its people coming into my job and coming to class really believing in 5 years we ALL will be standing in food lines like they did back during the great deppression. People REALLY believe that will happen because of our president. Fuckin rediculous!!!!!!!
Chinedu
Chinedu
Did anybody see the Republican response after the speech? Now that mess was ridiculous! It was like dude didn't even watch the address....
Chris
I think that anyone is entitled to react and respond to a statement from the President. While the timing and delivery was definitely inappropriate, the President has not considered the millions of American's who are pleading with him to make a compromise rather than shove some last-minute bill through Congress. They literally gave Congress less ... Read Morethan 12 hours to review a bill over 1000 pages before they were scheduled to vote. That is simply impossible. There are too many loopholes, gray areas, and financial discrepancies that Obama has yet to explain. I have yet to hear any concrete, factual backing to his promises. While the majority of Americans would say that yes, something needs to change with healthcare, it is scary to think that Obama is going to pass this without thorough (or any!) research and experimentation. His mysterious motives are the cause of irate and emotional outburst. America is desperate for factual information from him and he has yet to provide it...
Chris
Chris
...Any state that has had a public option has miserably failed. Healthcare in foreign countries is nothing less than morbid. THAT is why people are becoming overly emotional. The past and current state of other puplic health plans are the only examples we have and they arent positive. What's scarier is HR3200 is not something that you can just take... Read More away and reverse if it doesnt work. And if it does NOT work, America is going to be in a huge amount of trouble. None of this means that ANYONE is ridiculous, it means that people feel helpless, hopeless, and out of control. Yes, Obama is the President of this country, but this is also MY country and he is not listening to me and my concerns with healthcare. He REFUSES to listen. THAT is the root of the problem.
Dominique
@chris....your statesments sounds like what democrats have been saying about previous republican presidents for years....hmmm
Dominique
@chris....your statesments sounds like what democrats have been saying about previous republican presidents for years....hmmm
Valentine
"Healthcare in other countries .... morbid" . I have lived in UK and i can tell you that for the regular joe who is not rolling in cash the healthcare system is effective. Republicans are puppets of insurance company lobbyists, at a detriment to the progress of the country and its ppl they would rather be bull headed at the idea of change. I see ... Read Moreall these ppl at the town hall meetings half of them dont even know what they are suppose to be mad about, which gets you thinking " are they really arguing the healthcare bill or are they mad at something else. I say fuck the republicans and move right ahead with or without them.
Emeka
@ Chris: I understand you argument. I hear what you are saying. Trust me, I know as well as anyone that this process has been very disjointed. But what continues to baffle me is this justification of actions. Just because you don... Read More’t agree with something, even something as polarizing as this, doesn’t give anyone the right to be disrespectful to anyone. Especially The God Damn President of the United States. I haven’t seen this much outward distain for any US President ever in my life & it makes me sick. Hell for all Bush put this country through; he didn’t get HALF of the nonsense that OBAMA has been getting. IT’S FUCING RIDICULOUS. This fact and this fact alone is what my status was referring to..........
Emeka
@ Chris: I understand you argument. I hear what you are saying. Trust me, I know as well as anyone that this process has been very disjointed. But what continues to baffle me is this justification of actions. Just because you don... Read More’t agree with something, even something as polarizing as this, doesn’t give anyone the right to be disrespectful to anyone. Especially The God Damn President of the United States. I haven’t seen this much outward distain for any US President ever in my life & it makes me sick. Hell for all Bush put this country through; he didn’t get HALF of the nonsense that OBAMA has been getting. IT’S FUCING RIDICULOUS. This fact and this fact alone is what my status was referring to..........
Emeka
......As far as HR3200 is concerned, I too have my concerns about passing a bill of such magnitude in such haste. But if you... Read More’re looking for a scape goat, you don’t have to look any further than the GOP. There might be time for proper review had the GOP actually tried to help shape a bill that served the greater good instead of self interests. What kills me is that they really aren’t needed for this thing to pass, but in light of that fact Obama still wanted to work with the GOP to make sure their voices (YOUR VOICE) where heard. Simply put, they didn’t want to hear it. Instead you got your Glen Becks, Rush Limbaughs and Joe Wilsons of the world fighting any hint of change to the established order of things. The GOP killed any chance of bipartisan progress being made on this bill. THAT’S a FACT......
Emeka
......And now that Obama has slowly swayed a majority of reluctant Democrats to support this, NOW the GOP wants to heckle “What about us... Read More”, NOW they want to run defamatory TV adds “We are killing our seniors”, NOW they want to claim the most outrageous propaganda you’ve ever heard to anyone that will listen to stop something that they could have been influential in shaping. I am sorry that you feel that your voice is not being heard, but I guarantee you wouldn’t feel that way if you had better conservative leadership. I voted for Obama. I trust that everything being done in regards to HR3200 is for the genuine betterment of this country. Will there be problems? Probably. How we confront these problems will define this country going forward and at the moment I have every reason to feel optimistic that we will figure it out. It would be nice if the Republicans took a break from their childlike antics long enough to help….
Chinedu
Took the words right out of my mouth. The President said in his speech that his door is ALWAYS open for ppl to come and express their ideas, yet Republicans want to spread ridiculous nonsense about "killing seniors" and "DEATH PANELS".....seriously...DEATH PANELS? Absolute NONSENSE!!!
Alisha
Meka...I think you said enough! LOL!! I will say this: SOME republicans are absolute sore losers and are demonstrating so in their ridiculous behaviors, i.e. spreading foolish lies, creating panic over a harmless speech, disrespecting the president during a national address, etc. The election of our first black president has rubbed the very worst ... Read Moreout of the dormant, silent bigots of this country and its very sad to say the least. I am disappointed in the Republican party and the way in which they have chosen to play "politics." Its dirty, disrespectful, and shameful....F'n ridiculous as you called it!
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Rebekah
GREAT comments...I too saw the republicans acting like a bunch of adolescent school girls...pouting, slouching in their chairs, whispering to one another and playing on cell phones...seriously, it was a hot mess!!! And I personally feel that they are more concerned with putting $ in their pockets than HELPING the middle and lower class. They are ... Read Moreso blinded by their HATE and MISTRUST of President Obama, they don't even realize that they are blocking PROGRESS! I say pass that bill and let them SULK!
If people stop listening to IDIOTS like Rush, Glen, Hannity & Palin, maybe they will learn the TRUTH about the proposed bill and stop making up lies! ANd to be honest, I feel some RACIAL tension that is in effect with this as well. I have NEVER seen a US PRESIDENT be so DISRESPECTED by a representative like I saw last night! That was soooo disapointing... The GOP needs to get over it!
There is nothing like nice healthy friendly debate. Now that you've read this, whats your take?
If you don't have one, you should.....
Till next time...........
If people stop listening to IDIOTS like Rush, Glen, Hannity & Palin, maybe they will learn the TRUTH about the proposed bill and stop making up lies! ANd to be honest, I feel some RACIAL tension that is in effect with this as well. I have NEVER seen a US PRESIDENT be so DISRESPECTED by a representative like I saw last night! That was soooo disapointing... The GOP needs to get over it!
Jackie
Republicans are idiots and all of a sudden have amnesia of the last 8 years. They want facts now but we still haven't found those WMDs and don't let me start with Dick.
I wish these republicans could replay the radio interview with Ronald Reagan (republican) saying that this new social order called Social Security was something that would leave the US open to invasion by the Nazi Germans. And now republicans are fighting so hard to keep it just bc the opposite would mean agreeing with Obama..
Who came up with the idea of Medicare..democrat, who is actually making change to help the American people and not just throw bombs back and forth overseas..democrat..the list goes on... Read More
This is nothing but covert racism and political postering..republicans say it has nothing to race but why else would u keep ur kid home just bc the president is speaking?!?!
I wish these republicans could replay the radio interview with Ronald Reagan (republican) saying that this new social order called Social Security was something that would leave the US open to invasion by the Nazi Germans. And now republicans are fighting so hard to keep it just bc the opposite would mean agreeing with Obama..
Who came up with the idea of Medicare..democrat, who is actually making change to help the American people and not just throw bombs back and forth overseas..democrat..the list goes on... Read More
This is nothing but covert racism and political postering..republicans say it has nothing to race but why else would u keep ur kid home just bc the president is speaking?!?!
There is nothing like nice healthy friendly debate. Now that you've read this, whats your take?
If you don't have one, you should.....
Till next time...........
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