TAVIS SMILEY Calls Obama’s Health Care Victory “SMALL CHANGE”

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On NBC’s, Meet The Press, Tavis Smiley continued his ongoing criticism of President Obama. He reffered to Obama’s upcoming victory on health care refom as small change. Here’s what he had to say.



“Throughout the campaign, the president promised change, We have change on the horizon here but, unfortunately, it’s small change. I find myself kind of like John McCain agreeing with Howard Dean, here I am agreeing with my friend Joe Scarborough.”


“I think the real winners here are the insurance industry. They’re, they’re the–yeah, they’re the ones who win here. I mean, you, you, you walk through that list, David, of those points you put up earlier. The president wanted the public option, the industry said no. The president wanted to tax their windfall profits, the industry said no. The president wanted to do a variety of things, the industry pushed back. And here’s the problem for me. It’s not just, David, that we’re not getting the kind of health care that we were promised we were going to get, it’s that in the president’s first big fight with a powerful lobby in Washington, the White House lost and they lost big. And that, I think, portends something very dangerous down the road for all the other issues we have to deal with where lobbies are going to be pushing back on the White House.”



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[Pirate Smile]

1. Tavis Smiley hates Obama so that's no surprise.

[goclark]

5. He has always hated Obama

[FrenchieCat]

15. Yep. Loyal to the Clintons till the bitter end, and then some....

[defendandprotect]

10. Yes . . .anyone who criticizes this HC deform "hates Obama" . . .!!!

:eyes:

[Pirate Smile]

16. Oh, no, this is from waaaayyyy back. Nothing new and certainly not about HCR.

[defendandprotect]

18. But it precludes, evidently, his being right about this health care deform???

Puerile reasoning?

[jus_the_facts]

12. Apparently he never chose to put on rose colored glasses like so many have. n/t

[jonnyblitz]

17. Tavis Smiley is a smart man! nt

[FrenchieCat]

2. Yep....Mr. Tavis Corporate Sponsors up the yang-yang and peddling another Book Smiley

is talking again.

He's a distant relative (my 1st cousin is married to his cousin),
and I can't stand him.

His original Claim to fame came during the OJ trial....
like Greta and others.

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[Jamastiene]

9. Do what?

That was waaaaay uncalled for.

[MessiahRp]

14. I have a very strong feeling that this poster is a pizza lover...

and their order is coming up shortly.

Rp

[cornermouse]

22. I like Mr. Smiley's show a lot.

He has common sense. Something that is getting harder and harder to find.

[fascisthunter]

3. "small change"... it's worse than that... it's mandated private insurance that rips people off

by rejecting their services. It's the worst possible change their could be.

[defendandprotect]

11. "Small Change" is cute . . . kinda catchy . . .. but it's ohhh so sad in reality !!!

[MadBadger]

4. delete

apparently you oddly choose to capitalize names

[EFerrari]

6. When I get interviews with well known people, I cap their names.

:shrug:

[FLAprogressive]

8. Tavis Smiley....meet the underside of the DLC Bus

[FrenchieCat]

13. He's been there for some time now.

his annual symposium is sponsored by so many Chevrons, etc...
till they force to have their signage behind him during the entire program...
every year.

If anyone is bought and paid for, its Tavis Smiley.

[goclark]

19. You got that right Frenchie

And when Obama did not come to his FORUM,Tavis was beyond MAD!

[Mithreal]

20. Loads of ad hominem here. Touching nerves.

[earth mom]

21. The health care mandate is Enron on steroids.

And DUers: Don't let people start trying to convince you otherwise. :grr: