If ObamaCare isn’t good enough for Sasha, Malia, or Michelle, then it’s not good enough for Me.
I have to pull back from becoming a rabid Obama hater but he just makes it so f***ing difficult.
Here’s what the Hypocrite in Chief said on the All Barack Channel last night. (video, hattip)
(Neurologist Dr. Orrin) Devinsky asked the president pointedly if he would be willing to promise that he wouldn’t seek such extraordinary help for his wife or daughters if they became sick and the public plan he’s proposing limited the tests or treatment they can get.The president refused to make such a pledge, though he allowed that if “it’s my family member, if it’s my wife, if it’s my children, if it’s my grandmother, I always want them to get the very best care.
This is exactly the hypocrisy that grates on me like a skipping CD. It’s also not the first time that Obama has separated the elite from the rest of us. Don’t forget killing school vouchers.
The most blatant hypocrisy involves Obama’s personal parental decisions. He chose to send his own daughters to Sidwell Friends, a private school among D.C.’s most exclusive institutions whose annual tuition runs around $30,000. If he felt so strongly that offering children an exit route would stymie the reform of public schools, then why not put his own daughters in one? Jimmy Carter did. This would not only please unions—prompting them to open up their war chest even more in the next elections—but also signal his resolve about reform. If he didn’t, that’s presumably because his daughters’ futures are too precious to be sacrificed on the altar of politics. But, evidently, the futures of other children are not.Incidentally, among the children who will have to return to public school once this program is scrapped are two of his daughter’s schoolmates, who were using their vouchers to attend Sidwell. It’s sad that Obama’s message of hope and change doesn’t include children like them.
So far the President is getting away with it. I’ve often wondered what it would be like to live under a government that controls the media and I’m starting to understand what it’s like. But I have faith that you can’t hide the truth forever.
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