Thursday, November 24, 2011

Giving Thanks For the Globe: The Obama Obfuscation

"Obama goes on offensive in N.H.; Challenges GOP on payroll taxes" November 23, 2011|By Donovan Slack, Globe Staff

The president's remarks [before] a packed school gym were generally well received....   

I suppose the use of the word generally means they are not lying, but....  

Occupy protests: Obama heckled and drowned out in New Hampshire

President Barack Obama was heckled today as he gave a speech in New Hampshire about the state of the U.S. economy.  As he began, activists drowned out his remarks, chanting: 'Over 4,000 peaceful protesters have been arrested while "banksters" continue to destroy the American economy.'

So what else are you not telling us, Globe?

What they are:

Republican Mitt Romney is leading Obama 50 percent to 40 percent in New Hampshire, a recent Bloomberg News poll found.... 

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"Health care? Not buying it; N.H. residents say they have more to fret about" November 21, 2011|By Sarah Schweitzer, Globe Staff

They voted for Obama in 2008. Not next year....

Tom Peters, a former Ashland selectman who installs electronics systems, favors Ron Paul, “but he never gets the exposure.’’ So he is considering Romney.

Peters has no health insurance. He could, perhaps. His business has done well, his children are grown, and he owns a home, along with several properties in town.

But like many around here, he’s a do-it-yourselfer. He built his house, and he prefers to pay his own way on health care.

“It is a gamble, but just shoot me,’’ he said. “I am not going to pay $2,000 just for health care.’’

He’d rather patch himself.

He bent at the waist and pointed to his pate. A tender scar runs down a third of its length. A few weeks earlier, he had gashed open his head reaching for a key hidden at the house where he was doing work.

“If I had insurance, I’d have run to the hospital and had 20 stitches and it would have cost $1,000. Instead, I got some tape and pulled hard and really tight and closed it up. And well, it’s healed.’’

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Also see: Ashland Assholes