It is painfully obvious that President Obama or his staff does not read my blog, as I have mentioned several times my distaste for mixing politics and religion. Maybe his RSS feeder is messed up or something?
On a conference call today with thousands of people from various faith communities, President Obama adopted the rhetoric and the spirit of the religious community to forcefully dispel myths about health care reform and to argue for its passage.
“I know there’s been a lot of misinformation” about health care reform, Mr. Obama said. “There are some folks that are, frankly, bearing false witness.”
The president told listeners on the call, organized by religious groups as part of a 40-day initiative to promote health care reform, that his reform plan would give the uninsured affordable, quality options, while those who already have insurance would benefit from “common sense” consumer protections.
The president directly addressed a number of pervasive rumors about his proposals.
The allegation that health care legislation would set up “death panels,” Mr. Obama said, is “just an extraordinary lie.” He also rebutted false claims that health coverage would be provided for undocumented immigrants, that there would be government funding for abortions and that there would be a “government takeover” of health care.
These fabrications, Mr. Obama said, are distracting the country from its “core ethical and moral obligation… that we look out for one another.”
“In the wealthiest nation on earth, we are neglecting to live up to that call,” he said.
After kicking off the conference call with a prayer led by Dr. Cynthia Hale, senior pastor of 6,000-member Ray of Hope Christian Church in Decatur, Georgia, religious leaders echoed the president’s message that there is a moral imperative for health care reform.
Obama Addresses Health Reform Myths with Religious Leaders – Political Hotsheet – CBS News.
August 20th, 2009 5:26 pm
One time on my blog, I called for President Bush to lift the ban on offshore drilling. Not long thereafter, he did so. He must have been reading my blog!
August 20th, 2009 6:47 pm
Well, it’s possible that he’s just slow on the uptake. I have been. More and more, I think I’m going to walk away from politics on mine. I don’t like the way it’s headed, and I don’t think I can slow it down. That leaves me the choice of getting dragged along or washing my hands of it.
Hmmm … bad image. The whole “washing my hands” thing hearkens to the wrong guy. Maybe I’ll go with the shaking the dust off my sandals image, instead.
August 20th, 2009 7:34 pm
Ha! Maybe he was James, maybe he was.
August 20th, 2009 7:37 pm
Go with the sandals, Wickle.
I try to keep politics out of it – I bring to attention different stories, but I don’t want to divide other temporal issues. Do I support Health Care Reform? Do I vote Democrat? Am I pink along the edges? Am I trade unionist? Am I a Capitalist?
As long as the soul is saved, that’s all that matters………on this blog.