Daily Mail:
U.S. President Barack Obama refused to answer questions about the beleaguered Obamacare website as he walked to church with this family this morning.
The Obamas attended the 11am service at St. John’s Church Lafayette Square, an Episcopal congregation, about a block from the White House, The Hill reported.
When a reporter asked if the troubled Healthcare.gov website will be fixed by November 30, Obama responded: ‘C’mon guys, I’m going to church’.
Obama is not an overtly religious man. He and his family rarely attend church, and he almost never elaborates in public about his own relationship to his Christian faith.
But far away from the public eye, his longtime advisers say, the president has carefully nurtured a sense of spirituality that has served as a grounding mechanism during turbulent times, when the obstacles to governing a deeply divided nation seem nearly insurmountable.
What a load of crap.
First of all, Obama is not Episcopalian (aka the Anglican Church or Church of England). If you want to get (back) in touch with God you don’t show up at a strange church on Sunday morning with an entourage of aides and Secret Service agents along with a gaggle of reporters and photographers trailing behind as well.
THIS WAS A PHOTO-OP. Whenever Obama is getting bad press he and his spin doctors try crap like this to boost his image.
This shit pisses me off even though I’m not particularly religious these days. (I only pray about football games and lottery tickets.) But I was raised in a church that taught that a relationship with God is a deeply personal thing, not a fashion show or PR event.
I really don’t care what religious beliefs and practices the Obama family has. It wouldn’t make a difference to me if he was Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu or Atheist. Honestly, I don’t think he is religious at all – he is his own god. But that’s okay too.
What I find offensive is that he pretends to be religious when it suits him.
“And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.” – Matthew 6:5-6
did mooch want to try to upstage the Royal Christening?
She will never win any beauty contests against Kate.
Or Prince William. He is prettier than she is. So is Prince Charles.
So is Camilla.
Okay, maybe not Camilla.
MOTUS had some good snark too….
http://www.michellesmirror.com/2013/10/60-minutes-of-sabotage-puts-butts-in-pew.html
Why is the Smartestest POTUS Evah! always so unaware of what is happening in his own administration?
someone needs to make a list of all the times now that he’s pled ignorance. it’s worn so threadbare at this point.
Actually saw one of those within past week. Two pages worth. Goes back to pre-2008. Unbelievable!
Btw, there are actually types of geniuses that have this trait. None of them are capable of lying.
The only thing he’s claimed responsibility for is taking out OBL and I’m sure if that failed it would have been someone else’s fault 😦
He’s got those NCAA brackets down… and that’s it.
obamacare? how about obamadon’tcare? hillary would’ve gotten something good passed. instead we got someone whose entire governing philosophy is that of some deadbeat who charges up all his credit cards until he winds up bankrupt. in that sense, he is the perfect representative of this society. thanks, college kids! thanks delusional ideological purists! you elected someone who has done nothing as president but play kick the can down the road. you just wonder when the bottom is going to drop out. it’s similar to how bush governed.
Obama forced through something the majority of Americans have never wanted because he had a numerical advantage until a week before the House passed the Senate version of the bill.
Jay Carney-Barker kinda sorta admits his boss lied:
Well, yeah.
It’ll happen to the employer plans too, given that the Obama administration has set minimum standards for what policies now HAVE to include—-that’ll happen next year, after the 1 year delay is over.
For example , every policy has to include maternity care, even if it’s a single man or senior citizens.
It’s the middle class paying those higher premiums and getting less through higher copays and deductibles that will basically pay for the expanded Medicaid and low incomes that get subsidies.
It won’t be the President or Congress—they still get GOLD plans and subsidies at the cost of the taxpayers.
Heard Ezekial Emmanuel interviewed by Megyn Kelly try to claim that those new higher insurance fees are not cuz of Obamacare—it’s just insurance companies arbitrarily raising prices themselves.
Another lies, from Obamabots. The insurance companies are simply complying with what Obama’s HHS wrote into the new Obamacare regulations.
My insurance company explicitly stated that the rates have gone up due to the increased costs of compliance with Obamacare. Not that I necessarily think they are reluctantly raising prices while kicking and screaming, but at a minimum the insurance companies now have cover to rip us off even more than they have in the past.
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/legal-procedure-critics-cry-foul-nfl-defends-nonprofit-status-8C11412804
NFL is a non-profit, who knew
Does the IRS know they’re going to be hawking Obamacare? That’s sort of political, poor Patriots 😉
http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/10/alleged-hacker-charged-over-infiltration-of-us-govt-computer-systems/
alleged hacker charged over infiltration of US govt computer systems
http://weaselzippers.us/2013/10/28/d-c-black-pastors-use-pulpits-to-preach-against-the-r-word/
it used to be ” when the life gets tough, the tough get going”
now it is when life gets tough, the tough change the subject
we have obamacare fail
Benghazi dead
too many scandals to count and these people are upset at the name of a football team, that has had that name for years?????
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/28/obama-nsa-dossier-classified-surveillance
backtrack to receive NSA dossier classified survellance.
not sure if it will be given to him on a golf course or not.
better get pictures of him receiving it, or he will say he knew nothing about it
that he may be seen as the godlike Dr Obama…this is very funny…
stole it
LOL …. “surprised everybody hasn’t fallen down” in response to Obama saying this happens when I talk too long 😀
Obama be bamboozlin’, again.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/27/drones-attack-pakistan-family-rehman-congress
family of drone attack victim to testify to congress
But everything is theater and PR to Obama and Co.
This really belongs on the last thread:
Oops!
NEXT TIME THINK BEFORE YOU VOTE!!!!
Two predictions:
Cards win the World Series.
Obamacare is completely FUBAR by design to tee the ACA up for single payor via HRC. (it will be the only way to fix it by then)
Two years of stumbling around the “fix” will screw so many people they will be screaming for an out.
ANY out.
And this carnival game was upheld by the Supreme Court ? Gah.
About those Cards, hey, I gotta live with a wicked Bosox freak 😉
I was on a cruise that left out of Boston last week. I don’t think I have ever heard “Sweet Caroline” sung that often. And they did it to coincide with the 7th inning every game. No matter what else was going on. It was OK to be a Cardinals fan, but heaven help you if you had a Yankees shirt or cap.
Did you take the New England cruise ? I’ve always wanted to do that in the fall.
No, we went to Bermuda. My mom’s family is from Nova Scotia so I’ve been there a lot, and my husband’s parents retired to Bar Harbor. I’m sure the cruise is lovely, but for me, it would be like your vacationing in DC.
They’re even color matched. It was an obvious photo op.
Haha, that was my first thought too!
Drudge headline: Obama admin. knew millions could not keep their health insurance. http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/28/21213547-obama-admin-knew-millions-could-not-keep-their-health-insurance?lite
“Four sources deeply involved in the Affordable Care Act tell NBC NEWS that 50 to 75 percent of the 14 million consumers who buy their insurance individually can expect to receive a “cancellation” letter or the equivalent over the next year because their existing policies don’t meet the standards mandated by the new health care law. One expert predicts that number could reach as high as 80 percent. And all say that many of those forced to buy pricier new policies will experience “sticker shock.”
The religion of an American doesn’t matter as long as they are willing to defend each person’s rights to life, liberty, and property.
One who advocates harm against the person, liberty, or property of another (absent a criminal conviction) should be stripped of American citizenship and exiled, if not shot for being a traitor to America.
This is why I love Seinfeld:
I don’t even know what that means but I lol’ed.
Just a reminder when the food stamps are cut on Nov 1, most of that was to finance Ms. Michelle’s anti-obesity “programs” ….. that is, when the msm blames the evil racist poor people hating GOP 😉
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/114271-dems-consider-more-food-stamp-cuts-to-fund-child-nutrition-bill
I suppose starving kids is one way to make them lose weight.
Maybe the new nutrition program will involve eating the poor starving children. Tastes like chicken.
http://weaselzippers.us/2013/10/28/pro-obama-group-using-churches-to-enroll-people-in-obamacare/
wonder if this had anything to do with the church visit?
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/white-house-grants-extension-health-law-sign
extension until March 31, 2013
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/10/28/hacking-group-compromises-obamas-twitter-account-says-they-have-broken-into-his-campaign-email-accounts/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=story&utm_campaign=ShareButtons
interesting payback. hacking group hacks backtrack’s twitter account and campaign e-mail accounts
Come on, please…we already know that if zero actually attends a real church, he would begin to sizzle alongside Moo.
Total photo op.
That’s just a big fat lie.
ValJar’s comment, that is. Mary Katharine’s is Right On!
Uh, Valerie—-your administration FORCED them to change existing plans by writing new HHS regulations with higher standards for those policies.
The insurance companies didn’t have a choice, dumbass.
They aren’t really “higher” standards. They are different standards.
She believes this?
Wait, did she really wear thigh-high boots. To church? FFS. #StripperCity
Oh, btw, I found out today I got that job. 🙂
Woohoo!!! Congrats!
HIGH FIVE !!!!! and Congrats!
*blushes* Thanks!
You got a job at Stripper City?
😯
WOOT!!!!
Way to go, Lola!!!
Congrats, Lola! Woot!
On Megan Kelly show now
backtrack bunch knew from 2010 that people WOULD NOT be able to keep their insurance
http://in.news.yahoo.com/obama-administration-knew-millions-wouldn-t-be-able-to-keep-insurance–report-222249311.html
backtrack bunch knew
And they did it on purpose. It was not some unintended consequence but conscious intent and malice.
Yup. That’s exactly how they intended to pay for the subsidies for the poor.
So the keywords, in ValJar’s tweet above, “…..unless insurance companies change their existing plans. ” ? Weren’t they required to change their plans ?
What a crock of doo-doo ? We were notified by our insurance company shortly after Ocare passed, same coverage only a little more expensive premiums/co-pay/deductible. We had no problem with that and kept it.
Plans that existed before 2010 could be grandfathered according to Obamacare act but regulations were written so stringently that no plans could be grandfathered. ValJar knows this that big liar. It’s payback time she said. Well what goes around come around.
Megan Kelly has information on this and is interviewing people about it.
when the video becomes available it is a must see
please restrain from throwing things at tv when obots make excuses for this abortion
http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/28/michelle-obama-and-cgi-federal-executive-belonged-to-student-group-at-princeton-that-hosted-pro-terrorist-speaker/
you really think the Press MIGHT start to get interested in The Obama’s….
I usually think of this scene for the best description of Obamacare.
Josh pulled the Toaster talking point out of the hat. Short straw.
I think that the “toaster” medical alert in the UK was in the back of his mind.
You mean Obama wasn’t praying some miracle would save ObamaCatastrophe ??? I am just shocked .
Love the matching outfits , and Moochelle’s cleavage and boots ,but where is the penitent demeanor ?? Oh well, you can’t have everything.
Some of my sense of humor is returning , and for that I am grateful. 😉
Earlier today (I think on the last thread) people were discussing the fact that Michelle’s friend from Princeton was hired by CGI (the firm that got the $600 million in our tax dollars to build the POS Obamacare website) and someone mentioned there was a Valerie Jarret connection to that firm too but couldn’t remember what it was.
Well, people on Twitter are saying that her daughter is marrying the son of CGI’s owner.
Fucking figures.
Here’s more from Canada, it’s a f**king soap opera with Jarrett’s fingerprints all over that country too…..
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/58854
Laura Jarrett’s father-in-law is a politician, not the PM as earlier rumored. Sleasy cheesy stuff though.
Well, some good news today …. today was the day ….
http://www.suntimes.com/23406817-761/jesse-jackson-jr-goes-to-prison.html
Wild guess: Obama will pardon him before he leaves office.
And Blagho too 🙂
Depends if they have the goods on him or donors with money. No one rides for free.
http://foxnewsinsider.com/2013/10/28/megyn-kelly-takes-dem-over-broken-obamacare-promise
here is the Megan Kelly video
Money understatement of the day from the Democrat spokesdude, referring to knowing in 2010 so many people would be losing their policies, “Maybe it was under-reported…”. Do you think?
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/10/dept-of-homeland-security-prepare-for-food-stamp-riots-after-november-cuts-video/
homeland security prepares for food stamp riots after Nov 1st. $80million being spent
http://www.jammiewf.com/2013/finally-something-obama-knew-millions-could-not-keep-their-health-insurance/
finally something backtrack knew
“Internal Revenue Bulletin: 2010-29
July 19, 2010”
II F 5 f. Impacts on the Individual Market:
(snip)
“Using these turnover estimates, a reasonable range for the percentage of individual policies that would terminate, and therefore relinquish their grandfather status, is 40 percent to 67 percent. These estimates assume that the policies that terminate are replaced by new individual policies, and that these new policies are not, by definition, grandfathered. In addition, the coverage that some individuals maintain for long periods might lose its grandfather status because the cost-sharing parameters in policies change by more than the limits specified in these interim final regulations. The frequency of this outcome cannot be gauged due to lack of data, but as a result of it, the Departments estimate that the percentage of individual market policies losing grandfather status in a given year exceeds the 40 percent to 67 percent range that is estimated based on the fraction of individual policies that turn over from one year to the next.”
So, according to the IRS, 40-67% of individual policies loose status each year since 2010, essentially all individual policies will be void by 2014. IIRC, that will be about 14-16 million people getting termination/roll over notices.
I really like this “Government is Magic” post by Sultan Knish:
https://twitter.com/TheAngieNC2/status/395018784139784192
A snippet to whet your appetite:
Black magic maybe,
Oh wait- is that rayyyyycccciiiisssst?
NBC pulled the “WhiteHouse knew about people losing plans” story from the website. Obama’s bitches got a phone call.
Yes, apparently Obama’s goons went after them. Yahoo News still has it: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-administration-knew-millions-wouldn-t-be-able-to-keep-insurance–report-222249311.html
And they do credit NBC News. Too late, NBC. You can’t go back on your story now.
http://72.30.186.176/search/srpcache?ei=UTF-8&p=Obama+Admin.+Knew+Millions+Could+Not+Keep+Their+Health+Insurance&fr=yfp-t-599&u=http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=Obama+Admin.+Knew+Millions+Could+Not+Keep+Their+Health+Insurance&d=27024731630735091&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=k3sPS7-ZZ3W2X59FshMoq_GH4zT-_BFm&icp=1&.intl=us&sig=Xh5eRLIJITg7as5rvOu2eg–
here is a cached copy of the NBC report
http://weaselzippers.us/2013/10/29/developing-nbc-deletes-story-exposing-obama-administration/
now NBC story is getting very curious. It is back up but with changes
They just moved the story to a new place. Good for them. http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/29/21222195-obama-administration-knew-millions-could-not-keep-their-health-insurance?lite
http://www.ianwelsh.net/a-brief-note-on-why-the-progressive-blog-movement-failed/
ayup. Lame ass motherfuckers.