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Breitbart found some video of Obama speaking on health care from a 2003 speech to the AFL-CIO.

Here is the money quote:

“I happen to be a proponent of a single payer universal health care program. I see no reason why the United States of America, the wealthiest country in the history of the world, spending 14 percent of its Gross National Product on health care cannot provide basic health insurance to everybody. And that’s what Jim is talking about when he says everybody in, nobody out. A single payer health care plan, a universal health care plan. And that’s what I’d like to see. But as all of you know, we may not get there immediately. Because first we have to take back the White House, we have to take back the Senate, and we have to take back the House.”

“Wow.”

The White House response to this?

A three-minute (mis)information video featuring Linda Douglass, a former ABC news correspondent and now the WH Office of Health Reform communications director, sitting in front of a computer screen showing Drudge’s front page and saying the video and site headline is “taking sentences and phrases out of context, and they’re cobbling them together to leave a very false impression.”

Why not try to explain why Obama has changed his mind, rather than denying what we just saw him say ON VIDEO in a speech just a few years ago…?

So says Charles Krauthammer today in his not-to-be-missed WaPo column. 

(I love Charles.  He has a real knack for making me laugh as he delivers scores of sad-but-truisms.)

If you missed it, here’s the transcript from Obama’s speech from last night. 

What you won’t get from reading it (that was obvious when watching) is how angry he was:  dark eyes, tense jaw, stiff neck, and a light mist of sweat ‘cross his furrowed brow.  At times he all but fumed as he turned from left teleprompter to right.

I must admit, I took some pleasure in watching Obama rail against the forces that would impede his mighty (and wrong-headed) will.

What a proud and foolish man he seems.

He always seemed so, to me – but I tried to believe it was the ecstacy of adoring crowds and the headyness of the historical import of his impending victory.  I hoped the smug and self-congratulatory air would leave him a few days, or a few weeks, into office.

Not so.

Vanity, thy name is now President.

Garden State Patriot helps us remember Reagan’s first inaugural address.

Take away quote: “In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.”

“There exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity; since we ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained.”

– George Washington, First Inaugural Address, 1789

Source:  Founder’s Quote Daily, a service of The Patriot Post.  To subscribe, link to http://patriotpost.us/subscribe.php.

I’m reading accounts that Senator Chris Dodd’s weighty remarks and swelling ego nearly crushed a few innocent bystanders this morning as he bemoaned the Wall Street greed that got us into this mess.

The Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee uttered not one peep, though, re: his acceptance of $165K in contributions from failing Fannie and Freddie (presumably as payback for his opposition to properly overseeing and regulating them).

No mention either, that he benefitted from VIP insider discounted loans from the (now defunct) Countrywide Financial.

So let me just say for the record that a thing called the 9/11 Truth Movement is the main (practical) reason why I am Not a Libertarian, why I did not and could not support Ron Paul, and why I think a large part of the Libertarian Party needs to stop drinking the Kool-Aid and come down off the roof.

Stephen Spruiell blogged today from the Ron Paul festivities in Minneapolis-St. Paul.  He reported that after eloquently defending the 2nd Amendment (well worth defending), Jesse Ventura broached a controversial topic — “something that when I discuss it, I get attacked,” he said. “Something called 9/11.”

From all accounts, at every Ron Paul event this year, there have been a lot of people from this so-called 9/11 Truth movement.  Apparently today was no different. When Ventura brought up 9/11, these folks starting cheering and clapping. “ Why is it that when you ask questions about 9/11, it’s out-of-bounds?” he asked. “Why has the U.S. Department of Justice not charged Osama Bin Laden for 9/11?”

As Ventura continued to “ask questions” about what “really” happened on 9/11, Spruiell said the crowd started chanting, “9/11 was an inside job.” At one point, Stephen said it got so loud that Ventura had to pause for a few moments before going on. Many in the crowd were applauding Ventura throughout his talk on 9/11 (and to be fair some were looking on with dismay).

9/11 was an “inside job”………..?   Does any sane, rational person really believe that?  Are they all off their meds?  Or are they so paranoid and delusional that they are simply beyond the reach of modern psychiatry?

Message to 9/11 Truthers:  Put. The. Crack. Pipes. Down.

If Ron Paul actually believes this nonsense, or even if he just allows it preached at his parties for Effect and to please the lunatic fringe, I must say I have very little use for him.  Or for Jesse Ventura, either.  There is no place in our national dialogue for such Complete and Utter Nonsense.

(What a bunch of Noodles.)

Here’s her speech.  And here’s some video from an interview with Newsweek earlier this year.  And nice, detailed piece on her from the Anchorage Daily news from 2006.

And then there’s this cute/funny tribute by my friend @ PragmaticallyPolitical:  10 Things I Love About Sarah Palin

PS  The graceless statement put out by the Obama camp re: Palin this morning was uncalled for.  McCain went out of his way to congratulate Obama on a historic nomination last night; Obama should have done the same for Palin.  But he didn’t.  And so Mr. Self-Proclaimed Non-Partisan shows us just how little class he really has.  

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In re: to the Obama speech, Jay Nordlinger has some insightful pointlets (as usual).

Jonah Goldberg, too.

Here it is in all it’s non-splendor.

Annoying how the Dems keep selectively quoting their new favorite oil man, T. Boone Pickens.  Reid quipped, ”T. Boone Pickens said it right: ‘We can’t drill our way out of this crisis.’” 

Pickens did say that:  because all our energy ills cannot be cured solely by drilling.  But Pickens doesn’t say drilling is not a big part of a comprehensive solution.  That’s why he also says we have to “drill, drill, drill.” 

Well, I’ve listened to an hour+ of commentary and been on a dozen blogs and no one is mentioning the thing that (to me) stood out most in Michelle Obama’s speech:  she started at least a dozen sentences with the word “See…” to the point that the repetition became a distraction and annoyance.

I took it this way:  ”See, it’s like this” and “See, let me tell you how” and “See, this is what you have to understand.”  As she delivered her lines, she was just shy of being vein-poppingly earnest.  Which is to say, she wasn’t quite convincing except in her obvious desire to make us See what she thinks we need to See in order to put she and her husband in the White House.

Coupled with the finger pointing and subtle head-bobbing which both increased as the moments ticked on (go back to the video and watch for it) I couldn’t help but think, “You can take the girl out of the South Side, but you can’t take the South Side out of the girl.” 

No soft dress, salon-styled hair, and suave speech writer can make Michelle Obama other than what she is:  an overtly proud and condescending woman with an attitude a mile high.

K-Lo says Obama’s speech in Germany was “a case of premature inauguration.”