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April 4, 2010
Droner-in-Chief
Obama started out feisty. "Well, let's talk about that, because this is an area where there's been just a whole lot of misinformation, and I'm going to have to work hard over the next several months to clean up a lot of the misapprehensions that people have," the president said. He then spent the next 17 minutes and 12 seconds lulling the crowd into a daze. His discursive answer -- more than 2,500 words long -- wandered from topic to topic, including commentary on the deficit, pay-as-you-go rules passed by Congress, Congressional Budget Office reports on Medicare waste, COBRA coverage, the Recovery Act and Federal Medical Assistance Percentages (he referred to this last item by its inside-the-Beltway name, "F-Map"). He talked about the notion of eliminating foreign aid (not worth it, he said). He invoked Warren Buffett, earmarks and the payroll tax that funds Medicare (referring to it, in fluent Washington lingo, as "FICA").Whew, even the WAPO condensed version is like having a two foot section of rebar nailed down you spine.
Posted by Vanderleun at April 4, 2010 12:38 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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17 minutes and 12 seconds of pure BO BS.
Posted by: wth at April 4, 2010 3:57 PM
That is I in the foreground of the photo above.
Posted by: Fat Man at April 5, 2010 9:05 AM