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In reply to the discussion: Obama says Sanders' supporters helped undermine Obamacare [View all]orleans
(34,073 posts)29. i *don't* remember this
(there was a death in my family and i flew away from politics and as many sources of news as i could for several years)
thanks for posting this.
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We don't trivialize their experiences. We just have an inconvenient habit of looking past ....
Hekate
Jan 2017
#95
I heard Hillary was a flawed candidate, also, from the same people who now OWN
Eliot Rosewater
Jan 2017
#106
Good point, wonder how many progressive ideas will pass in the next two to four years.
Thinkingabout
Jan 2017
#279
they could've chosen to NOT raise rates, but, they get cover from RW media blaming ACA
blm
Jan 2017
#66
Rubio is responsible for much of the increase in insurance premiums by eliminating
Akamai
Jan 2017
#290
The nominal increase in premiums overall (yes, there were some that were large, but...
George II
Jan 2017
#98
Precisely. Remember when there were a couple of hundred thousand people who had to change...
George II
Jan 2017
#114
my basic obamacare plan still had a $75 a month premium. another plan was no premium costs.
Sunlei
Jan 2017
#231
Sanders' attacks on President Obama did not help his cause with some demographic groups
Gothmog
Jan 2017
#2
Like the minimum wage - they railed against Clinton because she back first an increase to $12....
George II
Jan 2017
#10
3 bills passed by Dems in the House, but killed by cloture and the Senate finance committee.
Amimnoch
Jan 2017
#123
"In other words, he's correcting the spin that a 46% unfavorable opinion doesn't mean 46%
suffragette
Jan 2017
#346
There is a measure of irony in your allegation that "some like to feel superior..."
LanternWaste
Jan 2017
#344
That person obviously had/has something against Obama, and those comments are "anecdotal"*
George II
Jan 2017
#92
I was referring to the author of the blog to which you linked, not Rahm Emanuel:
George II
Jan 2017
#177
I actually don't recall any of Clinton's surrogates even bringing up the TPP...
George II
Jan 2017
#96
Voters confusing what Obama supports for what Clinton supports is ludicrous?
OrwellwasRight
Jan 2017
#286
Jerry Seinfeld: "I wish I had the last 20 seconds of my life back". Have a great night!
George II
Jan 2017
#321
I think Hillary's reason for opposing single payer at that time -Jan, 2016 is valid-and she clearly
riversedge
Jan 2017
#143
Yes, narcissistic no shows not inspired enough to get off their butts and go to the polls.
lapucelle
Jan 2017
#312
Bernie is the best friend our party has ever seen, he is only trying to steer us in the right (left)
putitinD
Jan 2017
#86
I remember Obama supporting single-payer health system as he first ran for president.
Akamai
Jan 2017
#294
My bet is because he probably didnt see a viable way to a single payer system that those
cstanleytech
Jan 2017
#33
There are plenty of ways to make passing bills difficult either procedural or politically
cstanleytech
Jan 2017
#83
Pragmatism is a strategy that only some are allowed to embrace. Others get villified.
lapucelle
Jan 2017
#249
It's the outrageous premiums each month that undermined Obamacare. $1500/mo for two people!
Turn CO Blue
Jan 2017
#8
But I still am happy with it as a first step - especially the pre-existing condition part. n/t
Turn CO Blue
Jan 2017
#14
You are correct. Read this full quote and see if the headline of this op is not...
Hassin Bin Sober
Jan 2017
#194
But in all of the "examination" of events,some insist that no matter the issue,
guillaumeb
Jan 2017
#31
Your experience with multiple years of double digit increases doesn't seem typical.
pnwmom
Jan 2017
#200
So? Romney managed to get elected Gov. of one of the most liberal states in the country.
pnwmom
Jan 2017
#169
IKR? Wouldn't even discuss single payer, then a public option was off the table.
MindPilot
Jan 2017
#54
Thanks to those continually bashing the lack of single payer we'll be without the ACA altogether.
George II
Jan 2017
#243
That's a term that has no currency any more. Probably not for a couple of decades.
Hekate
Jan 2017
#107
He's right. We witnessed it right here. We've never been further away from single payer than we...
Tarheel_Dem
Jan 2017
#60
What's really sad is that ACA could possibly have been the best stepping stone to single payer.
Tarheel_Dem
Jan 2017
#178
The thing is, the headline doesn't even accurately describe the point Obama is making.
Hassin Bin Sober
Jan 2017
#187
You do realize that single payer and the public option are two different things, right?
OrwellwasRight
Jan 2017
#197
If he had tried pushing the corporate owned Dems we could have had the single payer
Scalded Nun
Jan 2017
#111
The problem is not that they think Obamacare is a failure."... per the rest of the quote
Talk Is Cheap
Jan 2017
#144
Obama is right that Berniue was promoting single payer, as were a lot of us from day one.
napi21
Jan 2017
#185
No surprise there. Although, his supporters were following the standard set by Sanders himself.
Lil Missy
Jan 2017
#203
I have to agree with President Obama on this one. I thought it was strange because
underthematrix
Jan 2017
#213
He's right. Calling Obama and the ACA a "POS," did not help. Hopefully, GOPers will be
Hoyt
Jan 2017
#215
This headline vs the actual context are not in agreement with one another at all.
phleshdef
Jan 2017
#220
I remember when Hillary said something like, 'Medicare for all, can not happen' it hurt her campaign
Sunlei
Jan 2017
#232
if Dems think bashing progressives is a winning strategy, they are in for another beating in 2018
yurbud
Jan 2017
#271
Keep trolling the Bernie people, how could that do anything but help the mess we are in? n/t
HopeAgain
Jan 2017
#277
We all want that, as far as I've seen. Seems like a misguided smear on his part, disappointed in him
JudyM
Jan 2017
#324
A major reason for the rate increases was Marco Rubio's passage of "a poison pill."
Akamai
Jan 2017
#287