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Can We Get Obama to Tell Us What He Thinks of Conservative Objections to His Health Care Proposal?

Submitted by Jonathan Rick on Sun, 06/28/2009 - 10:39
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Given his aversion to the bubble of the presidency, willingness to admit when he screws up, and experience as a professor of constitutional law, it seems fair to conclude that while Obama may disagree with you on a particular issue, he's at least conversant with the counterarguments. Indeed, it's said that a good lawyer—and Obama graduated from Harvard Law magna cum laude—can argue both sides of a case. As such, I think the President would be open to the following question, which I submitted this morning for his upcoming online town hall meeting on health care:

What do you think—without caricature—is the strongest, most serious objection to your health care proposal, and how would you reply?

YouTube says the winning questions will be among the most popular ones, so if you're interested in which conservative criticism is most cogent, why not watch and share the above 16-second video? Let's see if we can replicate what Patrick Ruffini did in 2007 with YouTube's "10 Questions" contest.

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No, let's not

Submitted by NoMoreBlatherDotCom on Sun, 06/28/2009 - 15:28.

1. Your question is incredibly weak and will only result in a stock speech. It's so weak it's almost like a setup for him.

2. One of the steps on the Road to Idiocracy is the continuing success of popular voting systems such as the current effort, past BHO efforts, past Youtube efforts, and the one that Ruffini gamed. All of those systems allow weak, setup questions to rise to the top, and anyone who promotes such systems knowing that is just trying to fool people.

I mean, seriously, aren't there people who there who know how to go from Point A to Point B? I.e., almost all bloggers and Beltway hacks seem to be missing the Engineer part of their brains.

I have to agree

Submitted by johnson springs on Sun, 06/28/2009 - 20:18.

This just hands Obama his pick of strong responses. He can choose a strawman of his liking, he can choose the weakest objection and refute it, he can choose the objection he or a poll has found to be the most damaging to his opponents.

In short, it is a complete softball question and hopefully will not be served up by credulous health care reform opponents.

Health Insurance.....

Submitted by ArmanA on Sun, 06/28/2009 - 23:59.

Everyone wants this thing called health, and yet most people have never thought about what their "target of health" actually looks like. If you and your family were healthy, what would it be like?  When coping with a death, you may go through all kinds of emotions. You may be sad, worried, or scared. You might be shocked, unprepared, or confused. You might be feeling angry, cheated, relieved, guilty, exhausted, or just plain empty. Health care is a huge national concern.  There's a lot of talk about health care reform, and the industry does need it, especially since so many people that are only after the most basic of care have to get emergency cash loans to cover something as simple as a simple antibiotics script, and a full third of the nation is without health insurance.  So why do we need payday cash advances for health care that is worse when more expensive?