Obama responds to ‘Creepy Uncle Sam’ ad

[babylonsister]

http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/09/26/obama-takes-aim-at-the-koch-brothers/

WATCH: Obama responds to ‘Creepy Uncle Sam’ ad
Ned Resnikoff, @resnikoff
12:13 PM on 09/26/2013
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Conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch have been two of the biggest financial backers of efforts to impede President Obama’s agenda. During a Friday speech, the president called out the two major right-wing donors over their efforts to undermine the Affordable Care Act.

“Some of the Tea Party’s biggest donors, some of the wealthiest men in America, are funding a cynical ad campaign trying to convince young people not to buy health care at all,” he said. “I mean think about it: These are billionaires several times over—you know they’ve got good health care.”

Obama was referring to the now-famous “Creepy Uncle Sam” ads put out by Generation Opportunity, which has financial ties to the Koch Brothers. The commercials, featuring a puppet Uncle Sam about to perform intimate medical procedures on a young man and woman, urge millennials to “opt out” of Obamacare.

“They are actually spending money on television trying to convince young people that if you’ve got the choice between getting affordable health care or going without health care, you should choose not having any health care,” said Obama, likely referring to the Koch brothers. “Now do you think if you get sick or if you get hurt and you get stuck with a massive bill, these same folks are going to help you out? Are they going to pay for your healthcare?”

[Jefferson23]

1. That's it, right there: Are they going to pay for your healthcare?”

Hell, no..they won't even send flowers for your funeral.

I hope many more of these people smarten up.

[Iliyah]

7. Nope, but they will charge a family thousands of dollars

for their love one's funeral.

[CTyankee]

2. I would imagine he was as outraged with that ad as we are...he's got two teenaged daughters!

Michelle must have had a fit when she saw it!

[cui bono]

3. He seems to be getting some fight in him lately.

Let's keep it up! If he gets into the fight like he did when he got attacked during the campaign I would be pleased.

[RC]

5. Obama has his name on this. He owns it.

He has a stake in this one, so of course we are going to see some push back by Obama.

[hootinholler]

4. I wish he wouldn't say we are buying healthcare

I know it seems picayune, but we are not buying healthcare, but are buying insurance, which may or may not pay entirely for healthcare.

For the paycheck to paycheck folk, a deductible means that sickness will bring financial hardship. They will choose between that pain and using the insurance.

Don't get me wrong, it is an improvement, and I'm happy to see Obama speaking out, but this just gets a bit under my skin.

[obxhead]

6. I was just about to post the same thing.

I've recently been going through a lot of medical needs. Luckily I do have health insurance which has eased the blow, but I'm still going to have a lot of money come out of pocket.

I'm tired of the ACA being referred to as healthcare. Healthcare is what a doctor provides. The ACA is health insurance, not health care.

[Bandit]

9. It provides ACCESS to Health care

Yes is is just Insurance but without Insurance you have no ACCESS at all unless you are wealthy.

[Skittles]

10. MAYBE it does

insurance deductibles may still make that actual access cost-prohibitive for some

[obxhead]

13. It was for me.

I started having problems with my knee and leg. Without going into details, it was a full week before I finally went for care. I still have no idea how I'll pay off the bills as they hit the mailbox. I would have had the same exact access without insurance, I would just have 3 times the bills coming at me. I'm screwed financially either way.

[Skittles]

14. unfortunate

I'm going with the sentiment that Obamacare leaves much to be desired but it's a start in the sense that we really need to move health insurance away from being tied to employment

[obxhead]

15. Agreed.

Insurance needs to be completely eliminated.

There should not be any industry or corporation making a profit that does not directly provide medical aide or supplies.

It is completely insane that a middle man gets a skim without providing ANY medical care or products.

[treestar]

16. If it's that bad you'd qualify for Medicaid

The whole idea is getting it paid for.

[uppityperson]

23. Caps? Well, that is different.

[Scurrilous]

8. K & R

[hue]

11. The Koch/Re/Teapukes are sooo disgusting!! This ad is soo repugnant how can anyone vote for them

[Warren DeMontague]

12. ..And this, from the puritannical creeps who want to put a little policeman in every woman's uterus.

absurd.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

19. that's exactly what I was thinking.

I didn't quite have the imagery done as well as you, but I sure as hell thought the hypocrisy and pathological projection was astounding.

Goddammit I hate these scum with a fury beyond words!

[Warren DeMontague]

20. Were I a Millennial voter, I'd be profoundly insulted at the insinuation that I'm too dumb to

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understand the difference between an insurance plan paying my medical bills and a doctor performing an invasive procedure.

I'm with you. The good news is, I don't think too many people are falling for it.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

21. I don't know......

It's kind of hard to say....I guess I'm only seeing a pretty small sample. I *hope* not many are fooled. And that they have long enough memories to know about that lil ol' repuke sponsored probe thingy goin' on there...

[Cha]

17. "Yes, surely all you young people love KochRoaches more than

you love yourselves! ?! "

thanks babylonsitah~

[pacalo]

18. He should have used that ad against them.

"I don't know about you, but the ad looks to me like it is the perfect visual for the Republicans' vastly-unpopular forced vaginal probes on women."

[Crunchy Frog]

24. Why aren't they trying to convince the elderly to forego Medicare for the same reason?

They have to go through far more invasive and intimate procedures than young people do. They've got Uncle Sam all up in their vaginas and penises and prostates and colons. Shouldn't any self respecting older person reject that sort of government intrusion, and shouldn't the Koch brothers be helping them to understand how severely they're being violated?

Why the inconsistency?