Maybe the Surgeon General Could Issue a Warning for Presidential Q&As

Perhaps the next time the White House sets up a Q&A session for the President, the staff should warn the public to bring a bag lunch. That way, the audience won’t be in danger of starvation if the President decides to answer more than two questions. Last week, an audience in North Carolina nearly met that fate as President Obama decided to take a few questions at the latest stop on his “Yes I Passed Obamacare, But You Cretins Still Need It Sold To You” Tour. Everything was going well until and a woman named Doris decided to try her luck at the microphone. See, Doris did a little reading and noticed that, any promise not to raise taxes on people making less than $250,000 aside, the Obamacare bill was just packed full of new taxes and fines and mandates and all sorts of things designed to Hoover cash out of her pocket right smack in the middle of a wicked recession.

So she asked a pretty simple question. Here’s the WaPo with an excerpt of her query.

Toward the end of a question-and-answer session with workers at an advanced battery technology manufacturer, a woman named Doris stood to ask the president whether it was a “wise decision to add more taxes to us with the health care” package.

“We are over-taxed as it is,” Doris said bluntly.

She was punished for her temerity with a 17-minute, 2,500-word avalanche of Presidential blather that did everything but answer the poor lady’s question. My guess is that, once he was done, Doris has not only forgotten what she asked, but even that she had asked a question. I imagine she blinked a couple times, as if waking from a horrible dream in which her brain was being slowly and boringly eaten by a Banalsaurus, then sat down, fortunate that she had lived through the ordeal with her entire IQ intact.

Here’s how bad it was. After the President announced his “final point”, he went on for 11 paragraphs, which contained one long example about a house with a hole in the roof and three sub-points to his “final point”. Then he announced his “last point”, after which he droned on for 13 more paragraphs and tossed in two sub-sub-points for good measure.

But the most amazing thing about his one-man filibuster is that he never answered her question. He talked about why he raised the Medicare tax on some folks, but he never once addressed her legitimate concern that he had raised taxes on her. This is a standard Barack Obama trick, to avoid answering a question he can not, or will not, answer. He’ll sprint off on a tangent and drag you along with him, safe in the knowledge that you probably won’t dig in your heels and try to drag back into the vicinity of your question. It has worked thus far, with one notable exception.

If you’re interested in reading the President’s “answer”, you can get it right here. Just do a quick text search for “Doris” and you’ll land right on her question. I warn you, before you read it, you might want to hammer a nail into your computer desk and tie the end of a very large ball of yarn to it. I don’t want to read later that you turned up missing, with this blog post the only clue as to your whereabouts.

Other Posts of Interest:

• It’s A New Presidential Speech Game: Spot the Lie
• Presidential Dishonesty and Other People’s Money, Today at AIP
• Another Boring Presidential Speech Enlivened by a Shouted Truth

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Category: Health Care Craziness, President Barack Obama, The Economy and Your Money