{"id":3481,"date":"2009-09-11T00:31:37","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T04:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=3481"},"modified":"2009-09-11T00:59:19","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T04:59:19","slug":"getting-to-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2009\/09\/11\/getting-to-him\/","title":{"rendered":"getting to him?"},"content":{"rendered":"
I wonder what it would be like to be Barack Obama and know that no matter what you said, you’d hear this…<\/div>\n
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or this …<\/div>\n
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Graham: Obama’s Speech Was ‘A Disaster’<\/a>
TPM <\/strong>
by Ben Frumin
September 10, 2009<\/div>\n

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) had an, um, interesting take a few minutes ago on Obama’s health care speech to Congress last night. Appearing on FNC, the GOP Senator called the President’s speech "a disaster" and "combative." "If his goal was to try to unite the Democratic Party and the hard left, maybe he succeeded," Graham said. But what Obama did not do was "create consensus and bring people together."<\/p>\n

Just like Obama’s speech, the public option would be "a disaster," Graham said, and Obama’s explanation of it is "not credible."<\/p>\n

"I wanna work with Democrats," he added without any apparent sense of irony. "I want a bipartisan bill."<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
or this …<\/div>\n
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Joe Wilson YouTube: “I Will Not Be Muzzled<\/a><\/strong>“
\nTPM<\/strong>
\nby Eric Kleefeld
September 10, 2009<\/div>\n

Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) has posted this YouTube address, as part of his new fundraising appeal to help defend him from liberal attacks in the wake of his “You lie!” outburst:<\/p>\n

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“On these issues, I will not be muzzled. I will speak up, and speak loudly, against this risky plan,” Wilson proclaims. “The supporters of the government takeover of health care, and the liberals who want to give health care to illegals<\/font><\/strong>, are using my opposition as an excuse to distract from the critical questions being raised about this poorly-conceived plan. they want to silence anyone who speaks out against it. They made it clear they want to defeat me, and pass the plan.”<\/p>\n

“Health care is a matter of life and death for so many,” he later adds. “I choose life, with health-insurance reform.”<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
I think it’s called Opposition Research<\/font><\/strong>. What that seems to mean these days is to have an immediate line of thinking that devalues your opponent. Rush is working the "lies" angle – the one Joe Wilson got started with his outburst. What lies? Well, it wasn’t about illegal immigrants. Rush doesn’t mention which lies he’s talking about. Graham thought Obama was "combative." How else was he suppose to act given the last two months of "death panels" and "abortion." Some of it is just make-believe. What liberals want to give health care to illegals? The only thing they haven’t accused Obama of doing was fathering a black child [I guess they used that one up on John McCain already].<\/div>\n

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I listened to the speech again. I was curious to see if all this instant contempt was getting to him. I think the answer is "yes." I think it would be impossible for things to be otherwise. It’s getting to me. About the only thing that I know that can change this is the 2010 elections, traditionally a place where the people in power lose seats. But a further fall in the Republican Representation would go a very long way.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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