Obama on the Today Show: "This is not about me. I have healthcare"

[HopeOverFear]

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/32024741#32024252

GObama!

[defendandprotect]

1. And we should get some details on what that involves . . .

I understand there is a website where the benefits are listed in detail --

For instance, suppose a Rep. has a wife who has a pregnancy that goes bad . . .

let's say in the 6th month or so . . . what happens?

[Captain Hilts]

2. Well said. We should revoke Congress's healthcare bennies. nt

[Cha]

3. Yes, President Obama knows this

is about Americans' health care and the fascistshits wanting to stop his admin from doing it with the assistance of the corporatemediaWhores.

[Colobo]

4. Keep fighting, Prez. We got your back!

[handmade34]

5. just saw a bit of the interview

"...this is not Washington Sport..." was a good line

[Spazito]

6. I loved the way he did not let the interviewer get away with much...

I kind of wish, though, that when he said "This is not about me. I have healthcare" he would have gone on to say 'and so does everyone in the House and the Senate including the Republicans you have been quoting."

[Clio the Leo]

7. He can handle the press one on one better than anyone I've ever seen.....

.... I'll never forget how he wouldn't let O'Reilly interrupt him when he went on his show last summer.

[Spazito]

8. I noticed, at one point, when the interview was spewing what was...

obviously right-wing rhetoric, the President began shifting in his chair and he was going to interrupt her but then sat back, let her finish her rhetoric and then demolished her point BY staying on the REAL issue. His body language was fascinating to watch. I also LOVED it when he laughed after she quoted that asshole repub re "Obama's waterloo"! It was a very genuine laugh and caught the woman off-guard, not surprising, as she had her "talking points" with the assumption on how he would react.

She, the other pundits, the repubs and their ilk just do NOT get it! Every time that quote is aired, it HELPS the President and the Democrats because it shows the REAL agenda of the repubs so no wonder he laughed.

[FrenchieCat]

9. It certainly ain't about him, it's about all of us.

That should be clear.

[HopeOverFear]

10. Yep. I hope he continues to make that point tonight at the Presser.

[rvablue]

11. I wish he had followed that with "so does every member of the House and Senate."

Someone needs to say this and say it often.

Our tax dollars go to subsidize the health care costs of the bastards who would vote against this.

Just like they signed on to Newt's "Contract on America" in the 90's, they should all sign a pledge that if they vote against this bill, they are willing to leave the federal plan and go into the free market with their own coin and find insurance.

[PretzelWarrior]

12. Meredith Viera is a bitch.