Great speech, but...

I don’t understand why the President had to address the nation to explain the healthcare plan floating through congress because “people are frustrated because they don’t understand what’s being proposed.” What? Anyone who has read a newspaper, blog, watched TV, or listened to NPR in the last three months knows the basics of the Democrat’s proposal. Look, here it is in a tweet. [1. Have health ins? Like it? Keep it/stop getting scrwd by ins co. 2. No ins + no $? Govt ins. 4 cheap/$0 3. No ins + $? Req. like car ins.] There you go. The problem is, the country still seems to be run by obstructionist, lying (Obama’s word) politicians (read: Republican’ts) who were voted in by this segment of the population:



Seriously, the ability to tell fact from fiction should be a prerequisite to vote. This guy’s waiting for the big, black U.N. helicopters to swoop in and take his guns and kidneys to give them to Obama’s secret Muslim brothers and sisters in Kenya.

For a split second there, I thought as a country, we had moved past this policy of fear. Death panels? Really? Obama compared to Hitler? Really? Socialism, Fascism, Communism? Really? Do you even know what these terms mean? And for Rep. Joe Wilson (R) Douchebag, you yell at the President in the middle of an televised address to Congress, “You lie!” Really? Where do you think you are, a Sarah Palin rally? (I’ll bet you wish you were). Obama said he was going to call out people who spread misinformation about his healthcare plan. He should have called out this Turrets-stricken frat boy, stopped the speech, made him stand up, and said "OK everyone, whose side are you on, his? or those who can rationally discuss one of the most important pieces of legislation in the last forty years?

Regrettably, until the Democrats grow a collective pair and shout down these false accusations, we’re stuck with the birthers, deathers, and their ilk.