It's been a politically toxic term, one Republicans have flung into the public discourse as a way to describe the controversial health care law President Obama so championed. The controversy, the law, and the nickname stuck.
Following President Obama’s lead on the campaign trail, Dems now seem to embrace the name rewrite – even flaunting it at the 2012 Democratic National Convention. On the first night of the DNC, 19 speakers discussed the Affordable Care Act, some giving “Obamacare” a direct shout-out.
Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, declared "Republicans may see Romneycare as a scarlet letter, but for us Democrats, Obamacare is a badge of honor."
Lawrence O’Donnell says this rhetoric is no accident — it's a "very deliberate choice that this convention is making to embrace 'Obamacare.'"
“What is not commonly known is that every speech that is delivered at that podium goes through a process in a little office right under the podium,” Lawrence told MSNBC's Chris Jansing on Wednesday. "There are Democratic speechwriters there, a team of speechwriters that go through every speech for consistency, for clarity."
DNC organizers tried to personalize the impact of the new health care law on American families, framing it in a positive light. One moving moment of the night came from Stacey Lihn, a mom whose toddler suffers from a congenital heart disease. She took to the podium to discuss her families’ struggles to pay for health care and declared her support for "Obamacare."
"Imagine that you have a baby with congenital heart disease who needs three different open heart surgery operations over a period of years. You’re going to hit the actual lifetime limit on that child’s health insurance by the time she's six or seven-years-old." Lawrence asked, "And then what do you do? You have to sell your home, you’ll go into bankruptcy, it's an impossible situation. And this put a human face on that."
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Of course, they could have done a little work with Elizabeth Warren's effort. I've heard better from high school valdictorians, but maybe that was due to her elementary school teacher's career she was patting herslf on the back for as coming up "from the ragged edges of the middle class." And that ending "Barrack Obama is ready to rebuild the world. Joe Biden is ready to rebuild the world. AND I'm ready to rebuild THE WORLD!" Geeze Louise, how highschool was that? Sounded like a graduation speech to me.
Clinton is going to have some trouble with the fact checkers. CNN took after the Dems speakers early, with Erin Burnett, formerly with Bloomberg Business channel, and CNBC taking the claim of 4.5 million new jobs created as more like a couple hundred thousand only, which fits with the Bureau of Labor statistics info that the US had employment of 142.029 million in Jan, 2009, and has only 142.220 in Jul, 2012, 3&1/2 years later into the Obama term of office. And the number of unemployed is up 2+ million in that time frame, and the uemployment rate rising over the last several months to 8.3% again and never under 8%.
And the foolishness of Clinton and other speakers saying Romney wanted to let the auto industy fail, go bankrupt, was also addressed by CNN, including Burnett and Wolf Blitzer, who calmly addressed that as misinformation as Gov Romney had argued in an Op Ed piece in the NY Times originally titled "The auto industry, the way forward" for a managed court supervised restructuring in bankruptcy court, which GM had actually taken the step of filing for under Title 11 protection. Lets see how enthusiastic the leftist media is calling for fact checks and publicising their results.
As to Sandra Fluke, with her repititious feminist empty sloganeering, she is trying to launch a political career out of her signature issue of free for all oral contraceptives. And standing up there adorned with her linked multiple circles gaudy necklace, symbolizing the feminist vaginas locked together in unison, she really ought to open her mouth less, and close her legs more, especially in publicv
All in all, except with the energy that Clinton brought beating his chest for his own accomplishments and Hillary's service as Secretary of State, and trying to shore up Obama's poor showing, the ebening was strangely flat, I thought, and so did a sampling of cable show commentators I surveyed tonight. I suspect todays news that the US economy slipped another 2 places to 7th in the World, its fourth straight year of decline, coming hard on the heels of yesterday's news that Manufacturing activity declined to its lowest point in over three years in August had a lot to do with that flatness. And perhaps, the jobs and unemployment numbers for August due out Friday morning have been leaked too, and that is taking the wind out of this Convention's sails?
Why is it that Republicans are "Pro Life" before birth but after birth there can be a life time cap by an insurance company that amounts to a death sentence for some people? I'm purposely being polite.
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