ABC ObamaCare Special Turns Into Presidential Filibuster

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Call this a teachable moment, but even with ABC’s best-laid plans to kickstart the debate about health care reform and not allow the “Prescription for America” special to become an “infomercial,” as many have complained – the president spent more than twice as much time as his questioners vaguely answering or not answering the questions asked of him. But the network consistently presented the event as part of the need to fix a "broken system." When asked, every one of the 164 hand-picked audience members said they felt that health care needed to be changed.

While Obama had to field some difficult questions -- from the audience and ABC -- he faced no Republican critics of his proposals. The network also allowed him to dominate the program with long-winded and vague answers. Out of the 75 minutes the network dedicated over the two programs (commercials excluded), the president managed to take 60 percent of that time: 45 minutes to give 19 vague responses – not exactly the “dialogue” advertised by ABC:

ABC ObamaCare Special Turns Into Presidential Filibuster

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Just curious, how would the "fairness doctrine" be applied in this situation?

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President Obama struggled to explain today whether his health care reform proposals would force normal Americans to make sacrifices that wealthier, more powerful people -- like the president himself -- wouldn't face.

The probing questions came from two skeptical neurologists during ABC News' special on health care reform, "Questions for the President: Prescription for America," anchored from the White House by Diane Sawyer and Charles Gibson.
Dr. Orrin Devinsky, a neurologist and researcher at the New York University Langone Medical Center, said that elites often propose health care solutions that limit options for the general public, secure in the knowledge that if they or their loves ones get sick, they will be able to afford the best care available, even if it's not provided by insurance.

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.

President Obama Questioned about Health Care in ABC News Forum with Charles Gibson and Diane Sawyer in special edition of Prime Time Prescription for America Questions for the President - ABC News


The last question by Devinsky and barrys mumbling answer, spills out the real truth behind the hypocracy of this scam. Politicians (like barry, his entire family and every overpaid underworking politico) will continue to enjoy extrordinary healthcare at taxpayers expense, that we as taxpayers will not be allowed to have...

[Orygun]

Just curious, how would the "fairness doctrine" be applied in this situation

Well, it wouldn't be fair to expect His Magnifitude to speak for ALL 75 minutes.

[Coues]

Tell each member of Congress that if this passes, they will be off their Gold Plated insurance provided by the tax payer and immediately enrolled in the new system. Then let them vote on it.

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Originally Posted by Coues

Tell each member of Congress that if this passes, they will be off their Gold Plated insurance provided by the tax payer and immediately enrolled in the new system. Then let them vote on it.

Wow...now there's a vote I'd love to see! Of course, the Devil will be ice skating before that happens...

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Tell each member of Congress that if this passes, they will be off their Gold Plated insurance provided by the tax payer and immediately enrolled in the new system. Then let them vote on it.

Ah, now there is the rub. Our elected "public servants" have assumed the position that they are above those who gave them their over paid jobs and all the lavish trappings oozing from those jobs...