Comments on: Obama declares health insurance a right

By: Baklava

Baklava — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 18:04:49 +0000

You are mandated to purchase insurance or pay a penalty through the IRS

For your right 🙂

People who have skated without purchasing will find out!! Lazy skaters!@

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 14:06:00 +0000

The Left will promote their knave into a tyrant. No worries on that matter. And if the knave falls and is captured or eliminated off the chess board, then they will bring in their own Caligula as a replacement.

By: JuliB

JuliB — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 13:27:20 +0000

Freedom of worship, leaving out the Creator in quotes, and now intentionally creating new rights. If he’s a fool, he’s a damn good one.

I vote for knave all the way.

By: Wry Mouth

Wry Mouth — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 03:05:55 +0000

“I’m going to keep doing everything in my power to make sure [Obamacare] works as it’s supposed to. Because in the United States of America, health insurance isn’t a privilege — it is your right. And we’re going to keep it that way.”

It is such a great law, he has to unilaterally defer another gob of it until after elections?

By: Ray

Ray — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 20:03:05 +0000

If you check in the dictionary you will find that health is a personal condition, not a commodity or service that you can buy therefore you can’t insure for it. You can buy medical insurance but not health insurance. Obama is just telling people they have a right to somebody else paying their medical bill. Lefties love to do good at somebody else’s expense and then brag about how compassionate they are.

By: rickl

rickl — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 15:21:31 +0000

I saw a haiku at Ace of Spades this morning:

If you have a right
To the service I provide,
I must be your slave.

Quite pithy.

By: Capn Rusty

Capn Rusty — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 14:12:36 +0000

Paul: Interesting post.

Not surprisingly, when I searched The Record for the October 26, 1990, letter by Jim Chen to which Obama responded, I could not find it. Did you, and if so, could you provide the link?

By: Paul in Boston

Paul in Boston — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 11:21:07 +0000

Obama on affirmative action, http://hlrecord.org/?p=11263

“I’d also like to add one personal note, in response to the letter from Mr. Jim Chen which was published in the October 26 issue of the RECORD, and which articulated broad objections to the Review’s general affirmative action policy. I respect Mr. Chen’s personal concern over the possible stigmatizing effects of affirmative action, and do not question the depth or sincerity of his feelings. I must say, however, that as someone who has undoubtedly benefited from affirmative action programs during my academic career, and as someone who may have benefited from the Law Review’s affirmative action policy when I was selected to join the Review last year, I have not personally felt stigmatized either within the broader law school community or as a staff member of the Review. Indeed, my election last year as President of the Review would seem to indicate that at least among Review staff, and hopefully for the majority of professors at Harvard, affirmative action in no way tarnishes the accomplishments of those who are members of historically underrepresented groups.”

By: KLSmith

KLSmith — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 06:19:25 +0000

Neo: thanks for the reply. I bet you’re right on the courses. And he’s plenty manipulative. But we’ll have to disagree on the smart part. I think he was affirmative action all the way. A corpse-man told me so.

By: Capn Rusty

Capn Rusty — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 05:33:44 +0000

Neo: I will grant you that in his speech, he drew a distinction between rights and privileges. However, you’re assuming that just because he went to law school, he understands those terms to have the same meaning as you and I were taught in law school. Obama’s failure to understand the Constitution, the Rule of Law and the American political system have been on display in myriad ways ever since January 23, 2009, when he said in answer to Eric Cantor’s offer to negotiate, “I won.”