President Obama and key advisers appealed to liberal bloggers during a conference call Monday evening, urging them to support the administration's healthcare reform agenda. Obama was joined by David Axelrod, healthcare guru Nancy Ann DeParle and White House Online Programs Director Jesse Lee. The call marked Obama's first serious interaction with the progressive blogosphere since taking office, bloggers who were invited to participate said. Obama gave brief remarks about the healthcare reform debate, noting that the blogs can cut through the conventional wisdom and debunk myths about this legislative battle. He also pressed them to keep the pressure on members of Congress in the run up to August recess because the default position in DC is "inertia."
Obama took questions from John Amato from Crooks and Liars; Jonathan Singer from MyDD; David Dayen from D-Day; Cheryl Contee from Jack and Jill Politics; Gerald Weinand, formerly of Turn Maine Blue; and Joan McCarter from DailyKos, according to a post by Joe Sudbay of AmericaBlog. On the call, the president outlined his criteria for reform: (1) Does it cover all Americans; (2) Will it drive down costs over the long-term; (3) Will it improve quality; (4) Are prevention and wellness included; (5) Does it contain insurance reforms on issues like pre-existing conditions; (6) Does it provide relief to small business; and (6) Is there a serious public option? He warned that House and Senate bills may not have all of the above but the conference committee will be critical.
Listen to a recording of the entire call with liberal bloggers here.
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Isreal Josich
Friday, November 27, 2009
Ken Martin
I apparently had an error in transmission. My original comment was a request to read my pro-reform commentaries, and the parodies at the end of the text. If I may be of assistance as a blogger, please let me know.
Ken Martin, clipcloptictock@gmail.com
Friday, November 27, 2009
Ken Martin
I am a writer, I do not know if I am a blogger. Perhaps you can inform me after reading some of my material. Be sure and check out the political parodies at the end of the text. I am not a politico, yet I have a tremendous passion for healthcare reform, and a scathing contempt for corporate-controlled forces standing in the way of the people's great breakthrough.
What you will read is something like a journal on the topic of healthcare reform and all the politics swirling around it. Consider this a sample of what I can do. After an opening piece, it starts at the town halls and winds up in the current Blue Dog imbroglio in the Senate. I interspersed a more personal kind of commentary between the main slices of text.
If you are of a liberal perspective, you will likely find some cheerful support of your own convictions, spiced with moral and amoral and philosophical delicacies of feeling, packed with all the mud I can throw at Republicans. My cause is genuine. I will keep fighting even as a lone site, but my hope is to connect and get into the stream and see if I can swim. Perhaps we can swim together if we are in the same ocean of thought.
Specifically, I am eager to be of assistance to President Obama as a Southern Liberal voice in the blogosphere. I remind you again to read the parodies even if you only scan the main text. I think you will find much to enjoy and reflect on in them.
At Your Service In Any Capacity,
Ken Martin, Shreveport, LA 318-453-2303, Clipcloptictock@gmail.com
Friday, November 27, 2009
Ken Martin
I am a writer, I do not know if I am a blogger. Perhaps you can inform me after reading some of my material. Be sure and check out the political parodies at the end of the text. I am not a politico, yet I have a tremendous passion for healthcare reform, and a scathing contempt for corporate-controlled forces standing in the way of the people's great breakthrough.
What you will read is something like a journal on the topic of healthcare reform and all the politics swirling around it. Consider this a sample of what I can do. After an opening piece, it starts at the town halls and winds up in the current Blue Dog imbroglio in the Senate. I interspersed a more personal kind of commentary between the main slices of text.
If you are of a liberal perspective, you will likely find some cheerful support of your own convictions, spiced with moral and amoral and philosophical delicacies of feeling, packed with all the mud I can throw at Republicans. My cause is genuine. I will keep fighting even as a lone site, but my hope is to connect and get into the stream and see if I can swim. Perhaps we can swim together if we are in the same ocean of thought.
Specifically, I am eager to be of assistance to President Obama as a Southern Liberal voice in the blogosphere. I remind you again to read the parodies even if you only scan the main text. I think you will find much to enjoy and reflect on in them.
At Your Service In Any Capacity,
Ken Martin, Shreveport, LA 318-453-2303, Clipcloptictock@gmail.com
Monday, November 9, 2009
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Thursday, October 8, 2009
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