Nice One, Mr. President!

[kpete]

President Obama: While affordable health care might still be a threat to freedom on Fox News, it’s working pretty well in the real world.
— @BarackObama

https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/517752762461736960

[tazkcmo]

1. Uh Oh

Faux Snooze Update: President finds time to Twitter while ebola and IS ravage Christianity.

[kelliekat44]

2. True, but "Obamacare" may be a saving grace against possible ebola epidemic. Poor people who

might come into contact with an infected person will have access to medical care that otherwise they would not have had. And just think how many other treatable, communicable diseases may be prevented as more people have access to health care prevention and treatment.

[tazkcmo]

12. I'm with ya!

And who gives a flip what Faux does? I don't.

[DFW]

17. DU update

President finds 30 seconds to tweet, spends the rest of the time doing his job, House of Representatives finds months to do nothing but vote to repeal the ACA and prosecute Benghazi (again), and then go home for 2 months.

[calimary]

22. GREAT ONE!!!!! Utterly steal-worthy, DFW!

"President finds 30 seconds to tweet, spends the rest of the time doing his job, House of Representatives finds months to do nothing but vote to repeal the ACA and prosecute Benghazi (again), and then go home for 2 months."

[Cha]

26. Actually, President Obama didn't "tweet it".. his staff at OFA did. Obama said it in a speech to

students at Northwestern University..

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/barack-obama-swipes-fox-news

[Major Hogwash]

42. Oh. That's good to know.

Those students at Northwestern University are great at that sort of thing.

[Peacetrain]

3. Loving this

[Iliyah]

4. Hehehehehehehe

fight back, and yes fake news and their followers do live in fantasyland.

[whathehell]

5. Go get 'em, Mr. Prez

You've had SO much more patience with these fuckers than I could

ever have managed.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

7. !!!

You're not kidding!

[whathehell]

13. For real..

I only saw part of his interview with Steve Croft on 60 minutes

last Sunday, but when Croft asked him why America had to bear

the major cost of this new action against ISIS, his look was so deadpan,

so tired, so "Do I have to deal with this shit again"? that I had to laugh

and actually DVRed it for my husband to see.

To be honest, I wasn't totally pleased with his answer, as I think the US

should stop, as Barney Frank suggested, BEING the "indispensable

nation", but his face was so deadpan, his response so resolute, and hard to challenge

that it was irresistible. I have some real problems with some of his

stances (the TPP being one of them) but I just can NOT help but

like the guy.

[Jack Rabbit]

6. Nothing but net

Good shot!

[Pisces]

8. I love it!

[Dont call me Shirley]

9. LOL Mr President

[xocet]

10. Nice tweet. It is too bad that it is not signed -bo.

@BarackObama
This account is run by Organizing for Action staff. Tweets from the President are signed -bo.

https://twitter.com/BarackObama

[Cha]

25. Yeah, the President is busy so his OFA staff Tweeted what the President said in a speech to students

at Northwestern University.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/barack-obama-swipes-fox-news

[xocet]

40. Thanks for the link. I did not know that he actually said that in a speech. His speech is even...

better than the tweet (no -bo needed):

"There's a reason fewer Republicans are preaching doom on deficits — because the deficits have come down at almost a record pace, and they’re now manageable. There's a reason fewer Republicans are running against Obamacare – because while good, affordable health care might seem like a fanged threat to the freedom of the American people on Fox News, it’s working pretty well in the real world," Obama told students at Northwestern University, to applause.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/barack-obama-swipes-fox-news

May President Obama continue to speak the truth at that volume.

[Cha]

58. You're most Welcome, xocet!

[madokie]

11. Spot on

[baldguy]

14. Of course, there are some on DU who think affordable heathcare is a threat, too.

They're dumbasses, but they're still here.

[Doctor_J]

21. Some of us would prefer health care to health insurance

and don't like have to make mandatory donations to billionaire CEO's for the privilege of getting the worst care in the world.

So if that makes me a dumbass, so be it. That's still better than being a Republican, which is what lovers of Heritage/Gingrinch/Romney/Obamacare are.

[SammyWinstonJack]

38. Dumbass here too.

[Enthusiast]

41. I believe in a not-for-profit health care system.

We must work toward that as an ideal. That is why we must gain a majority.

[FlatStanley]

34. And so many here on DU think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread

It's a wonder it didn't pass in the nineties when Republicans offered it up as an alternative to HillaryCare.

But that's ancient history, and America will wait another generation for a crack at single payer.

[SammyWinstonJack]

39. hehehe.

[baldguy]

43. Again, it's better than nothing.

Which is you seem to be striving to settle for.

[LanternWaste]

49. I imagine many people allow "better than nothing" to be their standard.

"Again, it's better than nothing. Which is you seem to be striving to settle for."

I imagine many people allow "better than nothing" to be their standard (six of one, half a dozen of the other-- and each as irrelevant and meaningless as the other).

[FlatStanley]

53. I think it debatable that it is better than nothing.

You could argue that because healthcare is more accessible now that things are better. But you can also argue that the healthcare discussion is closed for another generation. During this generation the ACA will be under constant attack and possibly weakened in the same way that Medicare and SS have been. And when it becomes acceptable to discuss reform, the privatizers will be back, and the single payers will be asked to compromise again.

And I'm not looking for "better than nothing". I'm looking for actual quality solutions.

[baldguy]

57. You're putting your narrow view of political purity over real people's lives.

How Teabaggerish is that?

[FlatStanley]

63. Thank you for calling me a teabagger.

The MO here at DU is to rapidly degenerate discussions to ad hominem attacks.

No need for you to reply to my posts. You don't wish to add to the discussion, just to end it.

So it is ended.

[1StrongBlackMan]

44. No ...

The ACA set the stage for states to develop a workable single-payer model (just as Romney did in Mass). That's how it works in these United States.

[FlatStanley]

46. Right. Massachusetts as single payer? No.

And in these United States I presume you mean this in a temperal context. Because in another United States we produced a National Social Security and a National Medicare and a National Civil Rights.

But, yeah, in THESE United States, as in contemporary United States, temerity is rebranded as not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good when what is really meant is let the mediocre prevail over the good.

[1StrongBlackMan]

47. I didn't say that Massachusetts had/has single-payer ...

I meant Massachusetts changed the model for expanding healthcare financing and that model showed it could be expanded nationally. The ACA has established an avenue for states to develop a workable model for single-payer.

Yes, that "other United States" did produce a National Social Security and a National Medicare and a National Civil Rights ... it only took 150+ years and a global depression to do it.

[FlatStanley]

50. Massachusetts didn't provide a model.

It was a Republican instituted in one state. I suspect there were other state models that could have been chosen to hoist upon the Nation.

And while it took one hundred and fifty years and a depression for SS and then another 30 years for Medicare, all it really to was a leader with courage and majorities in both houses. Too bad we only had two out of three in 2009.

And the rest of the world made it to single payer shortly after the depression.

[1StrongBlackMan]

51. Okay ...

now we're denying history? Massachusetts was absolutely the model used to expand health insurance coverage nationally.

And while it took one hundred and fifty years and a depression for SS and then another 30 years for Medicare, all it really to was a leader with courage and majorities in both houses. Too bad we only had two out of three in 2009.

Okay, more history denial. http://cjonline.com/blog-post/lucinda/2012-06-01/no-obama-did-not-control-congress-his-first-two-years

And the rest of the world made it to single payer shortly after the depression.

Maybe, but we don't live in the rest of the world. We live in these United States ... with all of its strictures and political limitations to rapid change.

[FlatStanley]

55. I know that Massachusetts was the model for the country.

Bu it was the Republican alternative to HillaryCare. So when Romney was elected Governor it was the Republican's intent to hoist it upon Massachusetts with an eye on Romney offering it to the nation when he was President. And if a Romney or any other Republican had presented it as a solution to healthcare nationally, the entirety of DU would have opposed it, and those supporting it would have been flagged as RW Tools and trolls.

But this is all ancient history. And the ACA will remain the law of the land for another thirty years or so.

[uponit7771]

48. Nah, just greatest thing that we can start right now... ..... start

[FlatStanley]

54. Multigenerational solutions are not acheivable with the Democratic Party.

Besides, Medicare was the start. Medicare for all should have been the goal, with the public option being the final position.

And Medicare for all was entirely within grasp.

[baldguy]

59. You say multigenerational solutions are not acheivable, then point to Medicare.

Medicare was a multigenerational solution, as was Social Security. You don't even understand what you're saying, other than "OBAMA BAD!"

[FlatStanley]

61. Oh, the bald guy is back.

See ya

[samsingh]

15. excellent

[marble falls]

16. Nothing satisfies more than being so right the other side just STFU about it. Just a few whimpers.

[iemitsu]

18. It sure hasn't improved the health care coverage I pay for.

We need to recognize that even this half way measure is not enough. We need single payer, universal coverage that provides equal access to health care for every American.
The for profit model will never be able to provide that.

[Doctor_J]

20. It's not a half-way measure. It's a lousy republican plan that wouldn't have had a prayer

if Bush had proposed it. It's a giant step away from actual healthcare. It's a disgrace that the Dem party thinks for-profit health insurance (not care) is wonderful just because our black president proposed it.

[baldguy]

27. Half measures are often better than none. This is one instance.

There were upwards of 50 million people in America with no health insurance at all, subject to massive debt, physical hardship & even death - and the numbers were doing nothing but increasing every year. Would you allow people to die simply to maintain your political purity? Seems so.

Now, there's only about 13 million people without health insurance - most of whom live in the few states that haven't accepted the ACA because of their short-sighted GOP-controlled statehouses.

[groundloop]

28. It's an improvement over where we were, I'll accept that (for now)

Granted, I want to see single payer as badly as I think you do. However, I'm well aware of how politics works and that unfortunately we often have to settle for a small slice of the pie instead of the entire pie. I was (and still am) furious with Joe Lieberman and a few others who blocked medicare for all, but at least SOME progress was made. For instance, I just had a yearly checkup which cost me nothing and I'm taking my kids to get flu shots this weekend which will again cost nothing. There's actually a lot of good that came with the affordable care act.

[FlatStanley]

35. Thank you!

[iemitsu]

37. Well stated. Your description is better than mine.

[1StrongBlackMan]

45. Wow ...

Michael Moore? Is that you?

[whereisjustice]

36. my coverage went up, but if I say so, people call me a liar so I'm wondering why I pay $800 a year

more than last year and next year maybe another $600 more plus more penalties if i don't pass weight, blood pressure, blood tests and promise to exercise with people calling to check up on me.

But I'm in lower middle class and that means I am exploited by both political parties for paying for shit and receiving fewer benefits and less pay every year as every good job is now getting sent to Asia. Unless you work for military.

[FlatStanley]

19. I love it when he uses his wit and sarcasm!

I want more of it!

[whathehell]

33. Me too!

He definitely rocks.

[hue]

23. :-) n/t!

[Cha]

24. Well done, President Obama! mahalo kpete~

[Donald Ian Rankin]

29. Shame it hasn't been tried in America.

Obamacare is undeniably a step in the right direction, but still massively worse than what most of the rest of the first world has.

[Phlem]

30. This ^^^^^

He should be throwing one liners like that every 20 minutes, get them recorded and played back on a continuous loop. Start kicking some ass Obama, I know you have your comfortable shoes on.

Fuck them up!

[CaptainTruth]

31. Give 'em hell! Which means ... tell the truth!

I'm tired of timid Democrats. Don't sit by silently (or politely) while conservatives take this country on a handbasket ride to hell.

Go Mr. O!

[Phlem]

32. +1

you know it!

[Orsino]

52. Now he's done it.

No more Mr. Nice Ailes.

[yuiyoshida]

56. Retweeted..

and "oh, snap!" K&R

[zappaman]

60. Kick!

[Corey_Baker08]

62. YES IT IS!!!