President Obama: "You Should Have Voted For Hillary"

You will remember that this blog endorsed Hillary Clinton for President. No joke, although the reason was hardly a compliment to her: I thought she would discredit leftism about as much as Barack Obama, but with less danger to the country. I still have nostalgia for the "gloden age" of Bill Clinton, and HillaryCare, when the conservatism of Ronald Reagan seemed again dominate the country through a Republican House brought into power by Bill and Hillary.


Yes, President Obama himself has now acknowledged that this blog picked the correct candidate--the more HONEST candidate.


Okay. Obama did not EXACTLY put it that way. However, he might as well have. He have one of those interviews to a friendly "news" organization. He was asked about his present opinion on a Federal Government MANDATE for every person to have health insurance--another loss of your FREEDOM.


Do you remember the main difference between Barack Obama's "health plan" in the campaign and Hillary Clinton's? Right. Hillary said that people needed to be FORCED to buy health insurance, to keep healthy young people from increasing the cost to everyone else by "opting out" of health care insurance. She might also have mentioned that wealthy people might reasonably "opt out".


Well, in this interview, President Obama acknowledged that Hillary Clinton was RIGHT. Obama has now been "convinced" by the arguments that a "comprehnesive" government plan requires a MANDATE that everyone buy health insurance. This is the same provision that Obama, with his usual "eloquence", PASSIONATELY opposed during the campaign. His positon has now "evolved", Obama said in the interview, such that he now faovrs such governnment coercion that he PASSIONATELY opposed during the campaign.


Has antything "new" happened? Nope. The "arguments" Obama is talking about are the SAME arguments Hillary was making, in the campaign, for her plan. Why did Obama not acknowledge during the campaign that Hillary had convinced him? Well, the short answer is that Obama was trying to get ELECTED, and said what he thought would help him get elected. Does this mean I think Obama was dishonest? Yep, as I have said before--quoting similar Obama inconsistencies on issue after issue. Sometimes Obama has said contradictory things on consecutive DAYS.


Should we not have elected womeone who was reasonably HONEST about her own plan, and who saw the implicatons of her own plan, even if that plan is a disaster in the making? Yes, "we" should have. Why did we elect the person who merely "sounded good", but did not understand the implications of his own health care position (or was lying about it)? Obama gives no reason we should not have elected Hillary, and there is none. Because she is a WOMAN? From a leftist point of view (admittedly the wrong ponit of view, but the same point of view to which Obama has now "evolved"), Hillary was RIGHT on health care (the "signature issue of the Democratic Party), and Obama was WRONG. In reality, has Obama not admitted you should have voted for Hillary? Of course he has.


You say that being President is more about "judgment" than policy positons? Are you really serious in saying that you trust the "JUDGMENT" of Barack Obama (with alomst no experience) ofer the JUDGMENT of Hillary Clinton (battle tested as she was)? You can't be that dumb.


Nope. I have said that Jane Auten pegged Obama 200 years ago, when she described a type of person who says one thing passionately one day, and contradicts himself just as passinately the next day. Jane Austen, of course, implied that this was a character DEFECT (in "Northange Abbey"). Obama has made it a VIRTUE. It is why he was elected. He SOUNDS GOOD, even when he contradicts himself. Have we become that shallow? I think we have.


President Obama clearly things that the substance of what he says is not important, so long as what he says sounds good to people. I am convinced that is why Democrats chose him over Hillary (along with the fact she is a WOMAN). Democrats thought Obama was the better snake oil SALESMAN. So far, they may have been more right than wrong on that. However, why were the REST of us willing to sell the country down the river that way?


Do we really need a snake oil salesman n the White House, however good he sounds while passionately contradicting himself? I don't think so. I think Obama HAS admitted that you should have voted for Hillary.


Don't foam at the mouth. I will get around--again--as to why I refused to support McCain over Obama (although not supporting Obama), even though I knew McCain would be SLIGHTLY better than Obama for the country in the short run. If you have not previoiusly read my explanation for that, and for suppporting HIllarty over McCain (tot he point of promising to vote for her), then you will have to wait for the future entry when I again explain.