en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/499774 Comments by phflipper http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9GH5EQ00&show_article=1#IDComment81991726 Fixated on Obama...nope. Actually I cannot stand to listen to him myself as he is over-exposed and pointless most of the time - however, you appear to be a loyal apologist for Obama and the liberal agenda. That's fine with me...just be honest about it. Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:43:30 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9GH5EQ00&show_article=1#IDComment81991726 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9GH46DG1&show_article=1#IDComment81785524 "If your statement is true, please explain why John McCain, Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham agreed with the President's course of action." Which statement are you referring too? In reference to McCain, Lieberman and Graham agreeing with the President...I can't explain their thinking, wish I could. McCain has served in the military, the other two I have no idea...McCain is probably coming from military experience, plus knowledge of chain of command understanding, in his response. Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:58:59 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9GH46DG1&show_article=1#IDComment81785524 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9GH5EQ00&show_article=1#IDComment81784554 "Comments made re Obama are really inane when you consider how many people in history have had to make so many earth moving decisions. To you posters - what is the most important decision you have ever made - who to marry?" While choosing who too marry is weighty in itself, I've literally made a life or death decision for another...earth moving for that individual. History isn't going to be very kind to Obama. Of this I'm certain. I submit Obama makes decisions calculated on how he benefits in the outcome, political or otherwise. So please, save your sactimony for another day...i'm not impressed. "let's ask Ms Palin what she thinks or maybe you would like Rush to lead you into WWIII? " I know where I stand with these two individuals. Being thrown under the bus isn't going to happen...Obama, like I said, his decisions are calculated serving himself first. "You name callers are a piece of **** yourselves!" Sticks and Stones... Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:51:52 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9GH5EQ00&show_article=1#IDComment81784554 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9GH5EQ00&show_article=1#IDComment81772863 "Taking into account the series of events that led to this catastrophe, the malaise and manifest incompetence shown in its aftermath..." ...contrast BO's fast acting decision to oust General McChrystal one gets the impression one best not impune BO's character. Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:29:05 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9GH5EQ00&show_article=1#IDComment81772863 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9GH5EQ00&show_article=1#IDComment81771531 "moron-torium." ... Perfect! Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:24:39 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9GH5EQ00&show_article=1#IDComment81771531 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9GH5EQ00&show_article=1#IDComment81765557 There should be a 6 month moratorium on every decision Obama makes, after all, we want to make sure it's safe to enact his plans... Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:04:48 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9GH5EQ00&show_article=1#IDComment81765557 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9GH46DG1&show_article=1#IDComment81748106 "Obama is just entirely a dishonorable, bad guy. Just utterly lacking in ethics. Utterly void of character. A very, very bad guy. " Your statement should be etched into history. But for the fact that it is people just like Obama with their 'relativism' which make it nigh impossible to discern right from wrong, good from evil and, for that mater, up from down. It starts with someone yelling in your face. "who are you to make such judgments?" Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:09:04 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9GH46DG1&show_article=1#IDComment81748106 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9GH46DG1&show_article=1#IDComment81743006 "We live in a Democracy. " Actually, we live in what's left of a Republic. Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:52:12 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9GH46DG1&show_article=1#IDComment81743006 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9GH46DG1&show_article=1#IDComment81740652 >>>Newsflash! >>>Newsflash >>>Newsflash Gen. David Petraeus having only just been informed of being named to "succeed Gen. Stanley McChrystal as top war commander in Afghanistan" was heard to say..."WHY ME?" In other news...the President immediately went golfing after today's meeting with McChrystal. Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:44:19 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9GH46DG1&show_article=1#IDComment81740652 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=TX-PAR-EEX47&show_article=1#IDComment81722764 LOL -- too funny...I love it! Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:32:08 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=TX-PAR-EEX47&show_article=1#IDComment81722764 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9ELQE6O2&show_article=1#IDComment64256572 No I wasn't making the argument AIDS in Africa hasn't been cured because of progressive tax system. I was pointing out clearly that wealth redistribution does not solve any "worthy cause" as you call 'em. There answered a question. Your other questions only attempt to muddy the water in our conversation...I ask questions you don't answer, have been all along, it's you who dodges. As to pesky details during Bush's tenure, didn't the Dems hold a majority in both houses of Congress during his latter years? Are you arguing that the left(Dems) seriously thought Medicare D was a bad idea? I'm not an overtly Bush fan, you brought him into the conversation I didn't. Then you stepped it up by throwing more talking points out. From my perspective, there isn't one program the Left in this country hates. They will pretend to do so but that is for political purposes only. In private the Dems love medicare D too - A lot - I imagine. Enjoy your weekend! Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:00:21 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9ELQE6O2&show_article=1#IDComment64256572 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9ELQE6O2&show_article=1#IDComment64240064 I see, it's Bush's fault...got it. Spend more while taxing more. That's just stupid. Why not just quite spending? After all, eventually there will be no one left "who can afford it more" to keep playing that game. What then? But you don't care, you like wealth (re)distribution. The problem with your thinking however is right in front of you...history shows it does not work. With weath redistribution public school students should already score the highest in the world, but they don't. AIDS in Africa should have been wiped out by now, it isn't. With welfare poverty should have ended long ago, it hasn't...and on and on. Crayons is your attempt to insult me, childish. Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:45:50 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9ELQE6O2&show_article=1#IDComment64240064 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9ELQE6O2&show_article=1#IDComment64231947 That's funny modelcitizen taking the part out of the CBO report where we are told $143B will be reduced from the deficit over a decade. Did you forget the part where according to the same report we also spend $940B over that same decade? How on Earth can you claim to reduce the deficit while simultaneously spending more than the savings claimed? Let's pretend for a moment...I own a store. Every year you spend $94 in my store. Every year I send you back $14.30. At the end of 10 years, which one of us is in better shape? Doing all the math means I still have $797 of yours. Now let's put all the 0's back on that figure..$797,000,000,000 Billion gone while we all dance around congratulating ourselves because we saved $143,000,000,000 Billion. That's silly. If we really had $940B available why not just use that to pay down the debt? After all, the whole reason for Obama and the Dems getting us this far down the health care path was to save money for the Federal government. Reality is...there is no money now, period. Health care is just the issue citizens can be fooled with while the Feds pretend they can fix things. Accept it because it's reality. Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:42:13 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9ELQE6O2&show_article=1#IDComment64231947 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9ELQE6O2&show_article=1#IDComment64229920 It's "buy" not "by" but anyway... I'm not misinformed by any stretch, I'm merely speaking of what will occur down the road as a result of this bill(now law). modelcitizen, you write, "The bill makes people by coverage from private companies. The more people who have access, the more money will be saved by ER, and in turn the less in premiums all of us will be charged." -- If purchasing coverage were all this bill(again, now law) did, we would not have 2900 pages of legalese to get there. Good grief, you are the one misinformed, possibly by your 'hope' this all comes because Obama and the Dems truly care about all of us out here. Every U.S. citizen has access to health care. Many choose not to purchase coverage for a plethora of reasons and because I do buy my own coverage I pay quite high premiums to offset the care of others. Do I like it? NO. Look, we already have plenty of options available for those who truly cannot come up with the money to purchase coverage. Bankruptcy used to be the stop gap for those who ended up in high debt for medical purposes. Now bankruptcy is used to just get out of poor decisions. All kind of financial aid is available from both the private and public sectors. Private aid is going to hold people accountable so most don't go there for help. While public aid has built in accountability it's a farce and people will go there. See a problem yet? Bottom line is this, health care is a private matter to each individual. We each make the choices we do hoping nothing changes in a negative manner. Some of us live life with a philosophy which goes something like "hope for the best but expect the worst" and prepare accordingly. Others live life expecting others to come to their aid all of the time as things go bad in their life. There is no accountability on that persons part to change... I for one have had enough, as have many others. If you want to pretend this bill is a wonderful thing, fine. I have no use for you any more than I have use for this law we now live under. Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:23:58 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9ELQE6O2&show_article=1#IDComment64229920 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9ELQE6O2&show_article=1#IDComment64111606 Exactly Matman...this Eric character needs to be ignored. Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:10:45 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9ELQE6O2&show_article=1#IDComment64111606 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9ELQE6O2&show_article=1#IDComment64085698 The thing is Eric health care costs real money. The Federal government will soon enough come to the point where, just as insurance companies, they must deny coverage too. Just sooner with the Feds because the money isn't there to cover people...tax us, fine us or even just take it...the money isn't there. The Feds will eventually become the grand-poohbah of providers, they will be broke and WILL deny coverage. Plain and Simple. Take some one like you Eric, given the opportunity and where in charge of the Federal health care programs...what decisions would you make about coverage. Because that is what it will come to, one single person, making the decisions for all of us over our health care. It won't be the individual, or their families, and all because of the mighty dollar. Funny how the Federal government decides health care costs too much, what will be the next issue costing too much? And what will the Federal government do about it? See the problem yet Eric? Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:53:12 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9ELQE6O2&show_article=1#IDComment64085698 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9E3BU0G0&show_article=1#IDComment58815133 Yep, I understand the government is not to establish any 'church' or sanction one either. People wrongly believe this to mean the opposite, that is, the church has no place influencing policy. And that is where the trouble begins... Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:56:31 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9E3BU0G0&show_article=1#IDComment58815133 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9E3BU0G0&show_article=1#IDComment58686979 No where in the Bible does it talk about the Federal Government as the answer to anything. Now, listening to the Federal government, we are told there is a separation of 'church and state' as if one can truly separate any belief from them self, whether as a federal employee or mechanic down at the local garage. Health care costs do need to be brought down. The federal government does not need to get involved beyond oversight. But mere oversight is not the Feds agenda, not enough power involved. To your friends and their situation...be the first yourself to help them out. lead by example before jumping down our throats trying to make others 'feel' bad. i do not read others saying 'tough luck' in here, I do read people fed up with the outright phony leadership this president and congress provide. Passing bills into law, what ever the bill, what ever the problem, is not the "end all" to anything. The sooner you, and America, wake up to this fact, the sooner people will go back to following the Bible. The Federal government can provide nothing itself to anyone lest it first confiscate. You need to wake up! I read the Bible. To the best of my ability I live by what God commands. And to the best of that which He provides, I help others. Alot! Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:23:28 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9E3BU0G0&show_article=1#IDComment58686979 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.92add9d8b299aef692d2ebae569be1ca.7b1&show_article=1#IDComment41021581 and I will add...Obama, while trying to appear 'above the fray' hopes something changes in the meantime in the U.S.'s favor whereby he can take credit, thus looking like a genius. I agree he knows he can no longer blame Bush. What he doesn't seem to understand is that he is the president, he wanted the job, and the intrinsic blame which comes with the job was his on January 20th at Noon Eastern. Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:01:19 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.92add9d8b299aef692d2ebae569be1ca.7b1&show_article=1#IDComment41021581 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9BDLVC82#IDComment39247759 The only thing Obama has ever been able to do well, is talk. And by this I mean give speeches. It is the sole reason why just a short time ago Obama had given some 120 plus speeches in his first 9 months in office compared to his immediate two predecessors. Both Bush and Clinton had given around the mid 40's in their first 9 months. When all you can do well is give speeches, then that is all you do. Governing would require actual decisions be made. Decisions which would pin accountability to Obama...accountability he isn't man enough to accept. I read in the last couple of weeks where, I believe, David Axelrod had met with Rupert Murdoch in a private meeting...judging by the Obama Administration's most recent attack on Fox News they did not come away from that meeting with what they wanted. I'd sure love to read one day how Murdoch told Axelrod to take a flyin' leap. The bottom line is Obama is a B league wannabe. All he knows, and understanfds, are thug tactics of intimidation. It is on display again as he tries to 'scare off' any real, and serious, critcism. He is so far in over his head that even his ability to give great speeches adds to his own downfall. I actually enjoy watching him speak as it gives everyone opportunity to see right through him, if only they choose to keep their eyes open. So he sends out his communications director to blame Fox news for his woes, what an idiot. Shouldn't the press secretary, Robert Gibbs, have been the one to blame the Fox News for the administrations woes? After all, Fox news is the press too. Make a decision Mr. President...any decision. Please. Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:48:32 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9BDLVC82#IDComment39247759