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Update: President Obama's Non-Apology Apology

Posted by Eric Jay on Friday, July 24, 2009 4:00:00 PM
     What the heck? Why is it so easy for President Obama to travel to Europe, Asia, Saudi Arabia and apologize for the actions of America. It is so easy for him to call the United States arrogant and morally incorrect in may of her actions in the world, especially as to how America reacted to 9/11.
     I am amazed that he can get up on the dias and get away with what he has to say. Today is an example of his utter arrogance and his total belief in that he is right, no matter what, and everyone else is wrong (unless you are a uber-liberal as he is).
     Is anyone else outraged that the president of the United States can get before the media and say the following:
"Because this has been ratcheting up and I helped contribute to ratcheting it up, I want to make clear that in my choice of words I unfortunately gave an impression that I was maligning the Cambridge Police Department or Sgt. Crowley specifically and I could have calibrated those words differently."
     What? What in the world does that mean? That is so far from an apology that it would not satisy any toddlers' parent. This is the leader of the free world? This is a Harvard educated, law professor? 'Calibrated' my 'words differently?
     If my 6 year old, oh sorry she just turned 7 yesterday (see, I apologized), used anything remotely close to that I would make sure that I washed her mouth out with soap.  This is a role model for a young African-American?
     Come on Mr. President- be a man and do the honorable thing and apologize, show some contrition for words used in a rush to judgement. then we can all move on to the really important debates that we need to have.
   
     Could this be the part of the reason his approval has fallen to new lows, below 50%- Rasmussen Presidential Daily Tracking.
 
    Gee, could this kerfuffle be another reason we continue to see the erosion in President Obama's political karma? Now 53% of voters oppose Healthcare Reform as it now stands, again Rasmussen.
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Mr. President: Man Up, Admit You Were Wrong and We'll Move On

Posted by Eric Jay on Friday, July 24, 2009 9:00:00 AM
     The uproar this week over comments made by the president regarding the arresting office, as well as the Cambridge police, in the arrest of his friend and Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Specifically, the president accused the police of acting "stupidly."
     While making the accusation of stupidity there is an element of, of course, racial. Mr. Obama has made it clear that he felt that there was racial profiling and that it is a continuation of the historical racial bias at the Cambridge police.
      This is an attack not only upon the Sgt. Crowley and the Cambridge police department but every police officer on active duty. His comments not only have caused an uproar, but now there are a myriad of problems with the president's decision to make comments. He acted out of ignorance of the facts and out of his desire to defend his friend.
     President Obama has truly gotten himself into a sticky wicket. The facts are coming out and will be judged by not only the public but by lawyers, certainly. Correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think the Sgt. and/or the Police Department will have any potential to take this to court; is not the president protected from "prosecution" while in office? Is defamation included in that protection?
     The public and electorate is tiring of the tactics that this president and his administration have taken. The honeymoon is now over. The MSM is being dragged into the fray kicking and screaming. They will reluctantly have to report this and it can't be favorable to the president.
     Now, we see that the is some sort of back tracking by the president. However, he has not gone far enough, and his administration spokespeople are making things worse.
     The president should man up, and apologize to the officer, Sgt. Crowley, and the Police Department in Cambridge and nationwide. He is saying that he regrets the furor his comments have created; not that he shouldn't have commented at all and regrets making a rash, rushed comment. That is cowardly and nowhere near honorable. It is not just that the comments were bad, but his judgement was skewed. He didn't have all the facts and should have refrained from commenting. He is not remorseful, he is dissembling, as he does. He is not forthcoming.
     I must say that this is the beginning of the end of President Obama's free ride. Finally...we can truly see the Alinsky liberal socialist community organizer.
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The Failure of Universal Healthcare: Example #18, Hawaii's Keiki Care

Posted by Eric Jay on Thursday, July 23, 2009 3:00:00 PM
     Do you think someone in Congress will take notice of the failure of another Universal Healthcare failure. This failure comes from Hawaii, and the lesson learned? Gee, when the government steps in and offers a free or low cost example it crowds out private insurance. Normal, reasonable, average Joe's figure that if the cost of insurance A is $0.00 and B is $150.00, hmmm which one do you choose? Noone ever accused Congress of being rational and/or reasonable, eh?
     The following comes from Wizbang:

By Michael Laprarie on Health Care

Tonight's "Hannity" show on Fox News features an in-depth look at "Keiki Care", the attempt by the state government of Hawaii to implement a universal health insurance program.

From Griff Jenkins' blog at Fox:

[T]here are lessons in the land of pineapples that seem lost on its favorite son, Barack Obama.

Hawaii was the first state in the country to attempt universal health care. It was called "Keiki Care" (Keiki means Child in Native Hawaiian) and it was stopped seven short months after it began due to budgetary concerns. Republican Gov. Linda Lingle had signed it into law, but they soon found a whopping majority of those who wanted free health care already had been insured!

You don't hear the President talk about "Keiki Care" in his speeches. So our mission was simple: talk everyone in Hawaii and find out what happened in the Aloha State.

Here's more on last year's cancellation of Keiki Care:

Gov. Linda Lingle's administration cited budget shortfalls and other available health care options for eliminating funding for the program. A state official said families were dropping private coverage so their children would be eligible for the subsidized plan.

"People who were already able to afford health care began to stop paying for it so they could get it for free," said Dr. Kenny Fink, the administrator for Med-QUEST at the Department of Human Services. "I don't believe that was the intent of the program."
      Rationing of healthcare, long lines for care, bureaucrats making decisions instead of the patient and their doctor. Yep, that's what I want...
 
      The rush to get this done is what will ultimately be the failure to get it passed. Slow down and do it right. Start small and build upon success. Here's a place to start: electronic medical records which are accessible by doctor, clinics, hospitals, etc. If that will lower costs as President Obama promises, do it first. Then move on...
 
      Waterloo...Mr. President.
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