The Obama Argument Structure

The standard Obama argument structure for health care, the oil spill, immigration reform, deficit spending and anything else that can be considered partisan or controversial is all the same. Again it doesn't matter that he says he is for transparency and non-partisanship....Because he operates just the opposite. Here is the standard format and case examples:

1 - Establish fault and place blame with someone else - but never - ever accept any blame

• Oil Spill - Blame BP: Obama calls it "BP's oil spill". Gibbs says they are keeping their "boot on the throat of BP" and as most of Obama's Czars talk of this tragedy they blame BP. On the white house.gov they call it "Deepwater BP oil spill"


• Immigration - Obama, on Cinco de Mayo, states it isn't his fault: "Make no mistake, our immigration system is broken. And after so many years in which Washington has failed to meet its responsibilities..."


• Deficit Spending -Obama states"... that [we] will pay, by the way, for everything that we did during the Recovery Act. So everything that’s happened on my watch, we will have paid for -- we will have paid for. But I inherited a structural deficit that is going to get worse in the years to come because our population is getting older, health care costs have been going up faster than inflation, more people are on Social Security, more people are on Medicare, and we’ve had two wars that we’ve been fighting. If you combine all that plus the interest on that debt, if we don’t bring it under control we really are going to be burdening the next generation in a way that’s not acceptable."


• Health Care - In a speech to the AFL-CIO Obama laid out his argument that he is just an innocent bystander in the discussion: "we have talked this issue to death, year after year, decade after decade. That's why I said last week before a joint session of Congress, I said, the time for bickering is over. The time for games has passed. Now is the time for action. Now is the time to deliver on health insurance reform."

2 - Propose that only a Federal Government solution is the only answer to any problem or issue: Propose huge amount of spending: Tell everyone that Capitalism, Corporation or Private Industry is on the opposite side of the solution.

• Oil Spill - Create a government commission - check. Increase oversight by government on what is said it was already doing - check. Create a legislative package - check. Create a Presidential memorandum - check. Propose to grow government involvement -exponential - check. Say private enterprise needs to be reined in - check.


• Immigration - Obama establishes that only Federal government can control illegal immigration (although it doesn't do it)"...And that’s why I’ve instructed my administration to closely monitor the new law in Arizona, to examine the civil rights and other implications that it may have. That’s why we have to close the door on this kind of misconceived action by meeting our obligations here in Washington."


• Deficit Spending On January 30th, The President pledges "to rein in the deficit, citing three specific steps to this end. He praises the Senate for restoring the pay-as-you-go law, discusses his proposal for a freeze in discretionary spending, and calls for a bipartisan Fiscal Commission to hammer out further concrete deficit reduction proposals." Pay-as-you-go keeps being ignored, discretionary spending hasn't been frozen, and talk talk talk but no action on deficit spending....Over $300 billion in new spending is being proposed now!


• Health Care - The doctors and health insurance providers were made to be scape goats for run away cost and poor coverage. Medicaid and Medicare were held up as model programs....Say what????

3 - Say you need Bi-partisan support for a clearly liberal partisan solution. Thus paint the Republican or another entity as obstructionist. (Just curious - why would they support such poor decisions?)

• Oil Spill - A statement by Obama on May 18th - "I am disappointed that an effort to ensure that oil companies pay fully for disasters they cause has stalled in the United States Senate on a partisan basis. This maneuver threatens to leave taxpayers, rather than the oil companies, on the hook for future disasters like the BP oil spill. I urge the Senate Republicans to stop playing special interest politics and join in a bipartisan effort to protect taxpayers and demand accountability from the oil companies.”


• Immigration - Obama blamed the Republicans for not putting immigration up for debate in the senate. "The political challenge is, is that I have confidence that I can get the majority of Democrats, both in the House and the Senate, to support a piece of legislation of the sort that I just described. But I don’t have 60 votes in the Senate. I’ve got to have some support from Republicans."


• Deficit Spending - Blame the Republicans or Bush for anything that has to do with Government finance: It doesn't matter that Democrats have the majority and can vote and pass anything they want.


• Health care - On December 2, The White house blog discusses how the Republicans are obstructionist on Health care. It didn't matter that Democrats have the majority and can vote and pass anything they wanted

4 - Say what the people want to hear - not what is actually going to happen

On any topic from A to Z, a person can show how Obama said one thing to get his base behind his effort and then did the exact opposite. You never know where this guy is coming from... ooops not true. He is coming from the extreme left, but speaks centrist...

• Oil Spill - The people wanted to know that the President was involved in the oil spill since day 1. He said nothing the first 9 days and then after realizing that there was catastrophic problem, he released a statement telling everyone how he was involved in everything from day 1. He codified and embellished his involvement.


• Immigration - In the state of the union speech he said, "We should continue the work of fixing our broken immigration system — to secure our borders, enforce our laws and ensure that everyone who plays by the rules can contribute to our economy and enrich our nations." People want to hear this, but no action by the federal government has been done. And now, the head of ICE is saying they won't help Arizona deport illegal aliens...This is just the tip of the iceberg


• Deficit Spending - There are 588 hits on the whitehouse.gov website for the word "deficit". Nearly everyone of these hits are Obama making statements over the last 24 months on how he is working on reducing the deficit. The exact opposite has been happening...The deficit is growing at an astronomical rate.


• Health Care - Wow there are so many positions Obama took that it is easy to find contradictions. How 'bout this on September 18th 2009 - Obama firmly and emphatically stated that his "health care plan won't cover illegal immigrants!" And then compare this to the actual law that has been passed that does cover illegal and legal immigrants and the fact that Obama believes it is wrong to have people prove citizenship at anytime....

5 - Create more government oversight/administration and avoid putting any "personal accountability" requirements into laws and regulation.

Inside Obama's mind I can see the word "government" plastered on every wall. For him - no matter what the question, the answer is "government"....Take all the topics and not once has he said a smaller government is the answer. Not once has he said capitalism is the answer. He does talk as if he is a centrist, but his action is nothing but growing government. AND NEVER have I seen him put into a proposal that an individual is responsible for themselves, their family, their friends and their community. He seems to believe that only government is responsible for individuals....Disgusting...

So the framework for his arguments are simple....Place blame, shirk responsibility, grow government and tell people what they want to hear....

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