A guide to surviving Obamacare debates at Thanksgiving

[Votto]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...-surviving-obamacare-debates-at-thanksgiving/

I do this as a public service to all my dead headed liberal friends. Here is a survival guide to Thanksgiving meal as you all gather round to converse. Hopefully, when the conversation turns political you can abscond or change the topic, but if not, here are a few helpful talking points to try and memorize.

With any hope, you will avoid humiliation, mocking, ridicule, or physical violence.......or worse.

Happy Thanksgiving all!!

 

[Mr. H.]

...watch the mashed potatoes fly!

 

[Big Black Dog]

I can assure you that Owe Bama Care won't be discussed at our Thanksgiving table. There will be plenty of other bad jokes told...

 

[jon_berzerk]

A guide to surviving Obamacare debates at Thanksgiving

I do this as a public service to all my dead headed liberal friends. Here is a survival guide to Thanksgiving meal as you all gather round to converse. Hopefully, when the conversation turns political you can abscond or change the topic, but if not, here are a few helpful talking points to try and memorize.

With any hope, you will avoid humiliation, mocking, ridicule, or physical violence.......or worse.

Happy Thanksgiving all!!

it is not a problem here anymore

over the course of the past couple of years

you dont hear a peep out of the once obama fans

--LOL

 

[Katzndogz]

obama is giving out suggestions on how to badger friends and relatives who don't want to waste their money on his program. One of the suggestion is to be insistent.

I am going to dinner with a group of business associates. Since they are all from Iran, it won't be obamacare as the topic of discussion.

 

[JoeB131]

Most of the people I'll be spending Thanksgiving with are either in unions or have good paying jobs that have real insurance. I doubt ObamaCare will come up once.

 

[blackhawk]

Anyone who brings up politics at our table is barred from eating.

 

[boedicca]

Anyone who brings up politics at our table is barred from eating.

Indeed.

And it's disgusting for Obama to think that we are going to make our family gatherings About Him.

 

[Ernie S.]

There will be no arguments about obamacare at our table. There are no Democrats allowed in Alabama.

 

[Ernie S.]

White House urging allies not to drive traffic to HealthCare.gov | Fox News

White House officials are urging their own allies to avoid the ObamaCare website they've spent the last two months trying to repair.

 

[WillowTree]

Anyone who brings up politics at our table is barred from eating.

Indeed.

And it's disgusting for Obama to think that we are going to make our family gatherings About Him.

He is just so full of himself isn't he? And just think half of America was stupid enough to vote him in twice. Those are the people I pray get hurt the hardest. if they cry to me I'll just pull out my little and say

 

[The Rabbi]

The Washington Post is such a shit filled liberal piece of crap.

 

[JoeB131]

Anyone who brings up politics at our table is barred from eating.

Indeed.

And it's disgusting for Obama to think that we are going to make our family gatherings About Him.

He is just so full of himself isn't he? And just think half of America was stupid enough to vote him in twice. Those are the people I pray get hurt the hardest. if they cry to me I'll just pull out my little and say

What does it say about you that you want people to get hurt because you disagree with them politically?

 

[blackhawk]

We discuss food and football on Thanksgiving.

 

[RKMBrown]

We discuss food and football on Thanksgiving.

We discuss how fantastic everyone is doing at our table

 

[williepete]

Obama's Orwellian Thanksgiving

President Barack Obama and outgoing New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg have both tried to nudge their way into America’s Thanksgiving (or Thanksgivukkah) dinners, with talking points about Obamacare and gun control, respectively. Not only is introducing contentious political issues into a family holiday a recipe for unhappiness, but it also reflects the disturbing Orwellian ambitions of Obama’s big-government liberalism.

The idea that politics must be brought into every family discussion and every personal relationship has been a hallmark of Obama’s style since the 2008 campaign, when he told his supporters to confront their neighbors, to get “in their face.” During the debate over Obamacare in 2009-10, the White House did the same--and provided an email address, [email protected], to which people could report “lies” among their friends.

One of those “lies” was that people could lose their insurance coverage due to the new law--a “lie” that has since proven true for millions of Americans. Clearly, Obama’s talking points have a short shelf life. Yet he remains undeterred, as are many of his followers, in imposing politics on intimacy. In 2009, supporters of Obamacare even encouraged each other to withhold sex from partners who did not support passage of the troubled law.

The great insight of George Orwell’s novel of totalitarianism, Nineteen Eighty-Four, was not that it exposed the brainwashing necessary for that system to function. That had been done already in Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon, a chilling insight into the way that communism convinced its victims to confess to crimes they had not committed, to embrace and even look forward to their deaths as a form of love for the party’s ideals.

Orwell extended Koestler’s theme in Nineteen Eighty-Four with the invention of the propaganda language “Newspeak,” and the torture scenes in Room 101. Yet his unique contribution was to show that totalitarianism was not just focused on repressing the individual, but on interfering with the most intimate relationships between people. It is necessary, Orwell explained, to destroy such intimacy in order for Big Brother to rule.

That is the Orwellian world of nanny-state liberals like Obama and Bloomberg--the latter even using children’s placemats to sell his anti-gun ideology. It is worth remembering that Thanksgiving was founded as a celebration of freedom by those who had escaped government repression. They recognized that the bounty of the New World went hand-in-hand with faith and liberty--something our present would-be masters have forgotten.

Obama's Orwellian Thanksgiving

 

[SuMar]

I can assure you that Owe Bama Care won't be discussed at our Thanksgiving table. There will be plenty of other bad jokes told...

Politics or Obamacare won't be discussed in my household because of different views.

 

[Rozman]

I wonder just how many Obama/Democrat robots will try to corner their "Uncle Leo and Aunt Julia"
or their cousins while no one is looking to follow Obama's orders and get in their face about the
joys of Liberalism and Obama Care.

 

[Rozman]

I'm sure there is a website where these little shits will go to to report in.

 

[Borillar]

I'm sure there is a website where these little shits will go to to report in.

Sure Beavis. If we get a dozen wingnuts to sign up, we get a free toaster oven.

Hope everyone has a happy Thanksgiving!