Here is the interview in question.
So what did he mention as an example of failure of President Obama? The interview was about "Roger and Me" movie which was the platform that launched Michael Moore's career. That movie, for those of you who don't know, is about the decline of Detroit and Flint Michigan as GM and Ford and Chrysler were pulling out for other locations including Mexico. I've seen the movie, and it's heartbreaking the way the towns shrank after the industry that supported the middle class left.
Fast forward to this very year. We've talked about it here. Water turned off at 150,000 homes. Power turned off. Streetlights turned off. Just five days ago, a thread was posted pointing out how the Detroit Fire Department was using a soda can and a fax machine to notify the firemen that there was a fire.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025499039
So Michael Moore says that President Obama did not save Detroit as the President said he had. Again, the subject of Roger and Me was Detroit and Flint Michigan and the auto industry pulling out.
So what is Michael saying? He's saying that we could have had single payer. He's saying that we could have ended NAFTA and brought the jobs back home. We could have done a lot of things to help the unions, the middle class, and the people. Instead, we shored up the insurance industry, health insurance was getting expensive, and people were having trouble affording it, so now they have to buy it. We have
92 million people not in the workforce, a record high in both percentage and numbers since the Great Depression despite the "recovery".
So what is left for the President to be congratulated for in a hundred years? Lincoln of course, won the Civil War, and freed the slaves. Wilson won WW I after failing to keep us out of the war. FDR Saved the economy, and led the nation through nearly four years of war. LBJ will be remembered for Viet-Nam, and most importantly the Great Society. JFK, the Moon landings, Cuban Missile Crisis, and the image of Camelot for the First Family.
But when in another two decades, we finally get the Single Payer we should have now, what will President Obama be remembered for? Bombing the enemies of Assad the year after we wanted to bomb Assad for killing? A Nobel Peace Prize for getting elected? What will his accomplishment be?
That is what Michael Moore is clearly saying. President Obama can't get credit for saving Detroit, it's a shambles. Healthcare is not what it should be, and I've pointed out before. Why would corporations move to Britain which has high taxes to afford Single Payer for lower taxes that what they pay here in the US without single payer. How can out taxes be higher, and we get less for it?
I honestly wonder how many of you have watched the interview, and have seen Roger and Me, and know what any of it is about.
Michael Moore, like many here, including myself, defends the President when he's right.
And we take issue with the President when we feel he's wrong.
Racism is not the motivating force behind all criticism of the President. Watch at least the first video, and see the interview that we are busy talking about. Because you'll see that Michael Moore is focused primarily on Detroit and how it wasn't really saved at all, despite the hype and the claims to the contrary.
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