At a Q&A session at a public appearance to hype obamacare, a woman named Doris asked him if it was a "wise decision to add more taxes to us with the health care" package."We are over-taxed as it is," Doris said bluntly.
Obama started out feisty. "Well, let's talk about that, because this is an area where there's been just a whole lot of misinformation, and I'm going to have to work hard over the next several months to clean up a lot of the misapprehensions that people have," the president said.
He then spent the next 17 minutes and 12 seconds lulling the crowd into a daze. His discursive answer - more than 2,500 words long -- wandered from topic to topic, including commentary on the deficit, pay-as-you-go rules passed by Congress, Congressional Budget Office reports on Medicare waste, COBRA coverage, the Recovery Act, and Federal Medical Assistance Percentages... He talked about the notion of eliminating foreign aid (not worth it, he said). He invoked Warren Buffett, earmarks and the payroll tax that funds Medicare...
I thought my wife was incapable of giving a simple answer to a simple question, but this bozo takes the cake. And he's supposed to be so eloquent, such a great speaker. I guess the teleprompter wasn't working...
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