Jon Stewart hits WH

[WillieW]

http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0809/public_option_or_not_8ef3d438-b8fc-4410-a12d-8e5d5f14c64e.html


Public option or not?

Jon Stewart hits W.H.
By AMIE PARNES

Last night on The Daily Show, Stewart played a clip from Obama’s town hall in Colorado on Saturday when the president said ...... “the public option, whether we have it or we don’t have it…”

“Wait a second! What did you just say?!,” Stewart asked, feigning surprise.

“No public option?” Stewart continued. “We still get to kill old people though, right?”

Then, again, Stewart asked: “Did you just drop public option?”

“Mr. President, I can’t tell if you’re a Jedi—10 steps ahead of everything or if this whole health care thing is kickin’ your ass just a little bit,” the Daily Show host ranted. “Why is this so hard? Why can’t you guys just stay on message? Remember the Bush team? Little bit of discipline, little bit of repetition. They sold us a WAR nobody wanted and nobody needed.”

Stewart then played a series of clips featuring former President George W. Bush, Colin Powell, Condi Rice, Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney speaking about weapons of mass destruction in the lead-up to the Iraq war.

“Salesmanship!,” Stewart said, after the clip. “Those guys could sell ice cubes to Eskimos. The Democrats, I don’t even think could sell Eskimos BEEP they need -- insulation, heating apparatus.

“Yes, we can! …Unless you don’t think we should!” the host concluded before going to commercial

[Cant trust em]

1. I thought this was an interesting article

Pretty much sums up the health care debate.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/08/18/machiavelli/

[joeybee12]

2. Yes we can...unless you don't think we should!

Great line.

[originalpckelly]

4. Ditto!

That says it so incredibly well.

[joeybee12]

8. I know, and you know others are going to start using it..n/t

[GreenPartyVoter]

10. Yep. LOL

[Echo In Light]

3. Rec

[aquart]

5. Mr. Stewart, they sold us TWO wars nobody wanted or needed.

[Echo In Light]

7. Minus the PNAC, of course

[booley]

6. can we have stewart as our next President?

Seriously even I could answer a lot of these' hard" questions.

[timeforpeace]

11. Assuming just anyone can be president has gotten us into this mess.

[Fearless]

9. It's just amazing how people can be led to believe things so ardently...

That are not in their best interest. :banghead: