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« Combination MNF and World Series Game 5 Thread | Main | Overnight Open Thread -- 10/28/2013 »
October 28, 2013

Former Democratic Staffer: I Was Very Wrong to Defend ObamaCare These Past Four Years

Below is Dave's combination MNF and World Series thread.

I continue seeing Red all around me. As with this Democratic congressional staffer who's now no fan of ObamaCare.

Guess why.

Well, the Democratic Congressman she served lost his job due to ObamaCare backlash. She now buys her insurance on the individual market.

Can you guess what happened to her rate?

For Klinkhamer, 60, President Obama’s oft-repeated words ring in her ears: “If you like your health plan, you will keep it.”

When Klinkhamer lost her congressional job, she had to buy an individual policy on the open market.

Three years ago, it was $225 a month with a $2,500 deductible. Each year it went up a little to, as of Sept. 1, $291 with a $3,500 deductible. Then, a few weeks ago, she got a letter.

“Blue Cross,” she said, “stated my current coverage would expire on Dec. 31, and here are my options: I can have a plan with similar benefits for $647.12 [or] I can have a plan with similar [but higher] pricing for $322.32 but with a $6,500 deductible.”

Did Obama even know? I really don't think he bothers to read.

I saw a quote by Valerie Jarrett, recently. The quote itself is old, from 2010.

“I think Barack knew that he had God-given talents that were extraordinary. He knows exactly how smart he is. . . . He knows how perceptive he is. He knows what a good reader of people he is. And he knows that he has the ability — the extraordinary, uncanny ability — to take a thousand different perspectives, digest them and make sense out of them, and I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually. . . . So what I sensed in him was not just a restless spirit but somebody with such extraordinary talents that had to be really taxed in order for him to be happy. . . . He’s been bored to death his whole life. He’s just too talented to do what ordinary people do.

Ordinary people read detailed reports and take an interest in their own jobs. Obama, at least according to Jarrett's puffery, has always felt that to be beneath him.

Why would he suddenly change simply because he's president?

Answer: He wouldn't.

I do not believe that smart people remain bored for long. They may be bored in a particular situation, but they will find things that interest them. Active minds seek stimulation.

If it's true that Obama's been "bored all his life," I'd suggest that's because he's not terribly smart or curious. And not very hard working at all. Hard work, I think it's fair to say, "bores" him, because hard work is frustrating.

We all know where Obama is at his most Alive, and it's not reading reports or writing speeches or analyzing policy. It's having a speech put in front of him on TelePrompters and reading it for deliriously cultish fans.

That seems to be the only thing capable of holding any of his interest.






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