Comments on: Obama at Portsmouth: ‘Civil Rights’ for the Sick http://pjmedia.com/blog/obama-at-portsmouth-civil-rights-for-the-sick/ Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:21:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: vivo http://pjmedia.com/blog/obama-at-portsmouth-civil-rights-for-the-sick/#comment-375002 vivo Sun, 16 Aug 2009 05:51:11 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=64017#comment-375002 185. Vacant Home Insurance: u hd ur chnce 4 8 yrs. 185. Vacant Home Insurance:

u hd ur chnce 4 8 yrs.

]]> By: Vacant Home Insurance http://pjmedia.com/blog/obama-at-portsmouth-civil-rights-for-the-sick/#comment-374994 Vacant Home Insurance Sun, 16 Aug 2009 04:54:06 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=64017#comment-374994 We are in a democratic country. Luckily, one voice does not make change, it takes loud rally cry for any changes to be made. The only fallacy to this argument is what happens with one person has a democratic house & senate behind him -- they get more passed then they should. We are in a democratic country. Luckily, one voice does not make change, it takes loud rally cry for any changes to be made. The only fallacy to this argument is what happens with one person has a democratic house & senate behind him — they get more passed then they should.

]]> By: rachel peepers http://pjmedia.com/blog/obama-at-portsmouth-civil-rights-for-the-sick/#comment-374721 rachel peepers Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:50:15 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=64017#comment-374721 Pretend that on the coffee table, the greatest country on earth is a jigsaw puzzle with almost all the pieces fitting nicely together. This imbecile who hates many of the things about the country comes along and intentionally knocks the table over dislodging many of the painstakingly configured, handcrafted pieces that have taken over 200 years to assemble. This is in metaphorical terms what Barack has done since he took office. Now it's time to politically take Barack apart, piece by piece. Pretend that on the coffee table, the greatest country on earth is a jigsaw puzzle with almost all the pieces fitting nicely together. This imbecile who hates many of the things about the country comes along and intentionally knocks the table over dislodging many of the painstakingly configured, handcrafted pieces that have taken over 200 years to assemble.

This is in metaphorical terms what Barack has done since he took office.

Now it’s time to politically take Barack apart, piece by piece.

]]> By: vivo http://pjmedia.com/blog/obama-at-portsmouth-civil-rights-for-the-sick/#comment-374643 vivo Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:35:46 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=64017#comment-374643 147. Jeff Weimer: "144. vivo: 129. Jeff Weimer: Health insurance . . . It’s almost like a Ponzi scheme. Except that it’s legal. Again, it’s our legislators fault. “And you want our legislators to fix it?” Who else can do it? Themselves? YOU said it’s the legislators who caused the problem. Why would you want them to fix it? Who is “themselves”, exactly?" The only people who can create and change laws are legislators. They mess up, but they can fix too. It's their chance now. By 'themselves' I meant the insurance companies. They can create their own rules, but they are obviously mostly in their own favor, not the consumer. 152. Anonymous: Didn't you see my posting on this guy's article elsewhere? Obviously you don't know how these Russians play with YOUR mind. And I think this guy deleted my last comment on his article. Heard the term 'masters of disinformation'? 147. Jeff Weimer:

“144. vivo: 129. Jeff Weimer:

Health insurance . . . It’s almost like a Ponzi scheme. Except that it’s legal. Again, it’s our legislators fault.

“And you want our legislators to fix it?”

Who else can do it? Themselves?

YOU said it’s the legislators who caused the problem. Why would you want them to fix it?

Who is “themselves”, exactly?”

The only people who can create and change laws are legislators. They mess up, but they can fix too. It’s their chance now.

By ‘themselves’ I meant the insurance companies. They can create their own rules, but they are obviously mostly in their own favor, not the consumer.

152. Anonymous:

Didn’t you see my posting on this guy’s article elsewhere? Obviously you don’t know how these Russians play with YOUR mind. And I think this guy deleted my last comment on his article. Heard the term ‘masters of disinformation’?

]]> By: Richard http://pjmedia.com/blog/obama-at-portsmouth-civil-rights-for-the-sick/#comment-374425 Richard Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:43:01 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=64017#comment-374425 Why stop at Health care? Food and housing are certainly more fundamental to existence than mere health care. Maybe the government should just issue those for us as well. And since Equality is paramount, we will have all have to live in concrete boxes, each the same as the one next to it, and make the same wages, with the doctors making as much as the cleaning ladies. Oh, wait, I already visited Moscow in 1981. Never mind. Why stop at Health care? Food and housing are certainly more fundamental to existence than mere health care. Maybe the government should just issue those for us as well. And since Equality is paramount, we will have all have to live in concrete boxes, each the same as the one next to it, and make the same wages, with the doctors making as much as the cleaning ladies.

Oh, wait, I already visited Moscow in 1981. Never mind.

]]> By: Richard http://pjmedia.com/blog/obama-at-portsmouth-civil-rights-for-the-sick/#comment-374419 Richard Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:35:28 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=64017#comment-374419 Wow, for a minute I thought #4 was sarcasm. Apparently not. We have a "ruler" now, do we? Well sic semper tyrannus. Wow, for a minute I thought #4 was sarcasm. Apparently not. We have a “ruler” now, do we? Well sic semper tyrannus.

]]> By: Moho http://pjmedia.com/blog/obama-at-portsmouth-civil-rights-for-the-sick/#comment-374360 Moho Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:39:21 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=64017#comment-374360 Rosenberg you have no understanding of the civil rights movement, nor what predicated it. Unconstitutional laws in the South created a scheme where employers and the state literally stole from African Americans for a hundred years. To simply end these practices without addressing this reality is the biggest failure, not of the civil rights movement, but of American democracy and constitutional law. Southern states had deliberately impoverished black constituencies, had indeed taken Federal dollars for state services based on the total number of the population, but had only given those services to whites. Whites had enjoyed an artificial economy based on apartheid for a hundred years. This is the injustice that Obama was referencing, and its an inference that anyone even remotely knowledgeable about American history would make when noting the phrase "I’d be okay, but the Supreme Court never entered into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society." If you think that's just, if you don't think it was a failure in not addressing that issue, then the constant stream of bigotry that passes for the comments section at Pajamas Media seems completely at home with the writing. Rosenberg you have no understanding of the civil rights movement, nor what predicated it. Unconstitutional laws in the South created a scheme where employers and the state literally stole from African Americans for a hundred years. To simply end these practices without addressing this reality is the biggest failure, not of the civil rights movement, but of American democracy and constitutional law. Southern states had deliberately impoverished black constituencies, had indeed taken Federal dollars for state services based on the total number of the population, but had only given those services to whites. Whites had enjoyed an artificial economy based on apartheid for a hundred years. This is the injustice that Obama was referencing, and its an inference that anyone even remotely knowledgeable about American history would make when noting the phrase “I’d be okay, but the Supreme Court never entered into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society.”

If you think that’s just, if you don’t think it was a failure in not addressing that issue, then the constant stream of bigotry that passes for the comments section at Pajamas Media seems completely at home with the writing.

]]> By: Cristina http://pjmedia.com/blog/obama-at-portsmouth-civil-rights-for-the-sick/#comment-374316 Cristina Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:31:32 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=64017#comment-374316 # 175 Shef Rogers: I don't know if working in the private sector makes the difference between a good political leader and a bad one. What is clear is that Obama was handed everything on the plate of affirmative action and never had to struggle for a livelihood. Community organizer?? Professor of constitutional law?? He can't articulate anything meaningful and intelligent without the script and the phony oratorial incantations. He's no different from the "privileged, capitalist whites" like the Kennedy and Rockefeller clans. On the contrary, he emmulates them in everything he does. There's no real distinction between Obama and that poor, pathetic soul, the super-rich Caroline Kennedy, who thought she was entitled to represent the "disadvantaged" and the "disposessed" by birth right, but couldn't articulate a single coherent thought despite all her degrees. Obama, by virtue of his "race" --a privileged group, safely ensconced in the Ivy League schools, like "Skip" Gates--thinks he's entitled to lord over the rest of us. # 175 Shef Rogers:
I don’t know if working in the private sector makes the difference between a good political leader and a bad one.
What is clear is that Obama was handed everything on the plate of affirmative action and never had to struggle for a livelihood. Community organizer?? Professor of constitutional law?? He can’t articulate anything meaningful and intelligent without the script and the phony oratorial incantations.
He’s no different from the “privileged, capitalist whites” like the Kennedy and Rockefeller clans. On the contrary, he emmulates them in everything he does. There’s no real distinction between Obama and that poor, pathetic soul, the super-rich Caroline Kennedy, who thought she was entitled to represent the “disadvantaged” and the “disposessed” by birth right, but couldn’t articulate a single coherent thought despite all her degrees. Obama, by virtue of his “race” –a privileged group, safely ensconced in the Ivy League schools, like “Skip” Gates–thinks he’s entitled to lord over the rest of us.

]]> By: Cybergeezer http://pjmedia.com/blog/obama-at-portsmouth-civil-rights-for-the-sick/#comment-374301 Cybergeezer Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:54 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=64017#comment-374301 Obama's having trouble remembering all his lies. Any time he speaks about details, he trips himself up with more lies. Obama’s having trouble remembering all his lies. Any time he speaks about details, he trips himself up with more lies.

]]> By: Peter the Bubblehead http://pjmedia.com/blog/obama-at-portsmouth-civil-rights-for-the-sick/#comment-374237 Peter the Bubblehead Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:47:12 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=64017#comment-374237 175. Shef Rogers wrote: Ah, then, you’ll want all those loudmouth retired NCOs and Chief Petty Officers who clog the comments here and at FR to shut up too. They have never worked for the private sector, and love to spend their cushy retirements drinking beer on the taxpayer’s dime Peter writes: A comment from someone who OBVIOUSLY has never actually met someone who served in the military. Because those of us who have and have actually served know that the average military retiree goes on to a second career, 90% of the time in the private sector, sometimes even going on to create their own businesses. 3/4 or more of the people I work with (for a privately owned, publicly traded company based in Plano, TX) are retired military, mainly Navy. Most will work in this job or ones similar for an additional 10 to 20 years beyond the 20 to 30 they spent serving their country. Of the few military retirees who actually retired when they got out of the service I have heard of, most either returned to work because simply "drinking beer on the taxpayer’s dime" as you put it is too boring or wind up dying unexpectedly early because something in them could not successfully make the transition from military to civilian life. And one last comment about your "on the taxpayer's dime" comment. Military retirees in no way live off the taxpayer's dime. They earned ever cent they receive for the exceptional service they performed protecting this country and the people like you who refuse to do so. Until you have spent 20 years serving in the military (and I have doubts you would last 6 months), you can't make comments about what they have or have not earned. 175. Shef Rogers wrote:
Ah, then, you’ll want all those loudmouth retired NCOs and Chief Petty Officers who clog the comments here and at FR to shut up too. They have never worked for the private sector, and love to spend their cushy retirements drinking beer on the taxpayer’s dime

Peter writes: A comment from someone who OBVIOUSLY has never actually met someone who served in the military.

Because those of us who have and have actually served know that the average military retiree goes on to a second career, 90% of the time in the private sector, sometimes even going on to create their own businesses.

3/4 or more of the people I work with (for a privately owned, publicly traded company based in Plano, TX) are retired military, mainly Navy. Most will work in this job or ones similar for an additional 10 to 20 years beyond the 20 to 30 they spent serving their country.

Of the few military retirees who actually retired when they got out of the service I have heard of, most either returned to work because simply “drinking beer on the taxpayer’s dime” as you put it is too boring or wind up dying unexpectedly early because something in them could not successfully make the transition from military to civilian life.

And one last comment about your “on the taxpayer’s dime” comment. Military retirees in no way live off the taxpayer’s dime. They earned ever cent they receive for the exceptional service they performed protecting this country and the people like you who refuse to do so. Until you have spent 20 years serving in the military (and I have doubts you would last 6 months), you can’t make comments about what they have or have not earned.

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