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Obama's coming to my campus Thursday! If I can, what question should I ask?

Started by Quicksand, September 15, 2009, 02:01:56 PM

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Quicksand

So, President Obama is coming to speak at my college on Thursday about health care reform.  It's not clear yet whether he will be fielding questions from the attendees, but I'll be lining up the night before with some friends, so I hope to be in the front, and if students do get to ask questions, I'd love to ask something LGBT- or trans-related.  Any suggestions?  I was thinking I could just ask what services/care trans individuals will be entitled to under his health care plan, but I'm open to more suggestions!
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tekla

Ask him when he is going to grow a spine and get out and fight for what the people who elected him, elected him to do, and when in the name of god will he stop patronizing people who lost?
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tekla

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Tammy Hope

I think the obvious thing is whether or not he'll fight to include T's in the ENDA...
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tekla

Yeah, I'm sure with a financial crisis, a health care crisis, two wars, an outdated infrastructure, and record unemployment (at least in our time) he's got better things to do. I'm sure he'll sign whatever bill comes to him.

I might remind you that its the House and the Senate that write and pass legislation. You need to get on your House and Senate members and tell them - as mine are already on-board, its not Nancy Pelosi and Barbra Boxer that are the problem.
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Hannah

Quote from: Laura91 on September 15, 2009, 02:29:02 PM
You know that is never going to happen, right?

Oh, I try to give the guy credit. I'd imagine the really good stuff will get done in his second term. If he gets too forceful now he might not get a second term, which wouldn't do anyone any good and wouldn't set Hillary up for 8 more after him.

That's what I keep telling myself anyway  :eusa_eh:

Oh, ask him something about Afghanistan or withdrawl from Iraq. Healthcare is good of course but let's not forget we are still killing people out there.
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Quicksand

Thanks for the suggestions guys, I'll write them down!  Although I might have to rephrase yours just a bit, tekla  :D
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tekla

I'm with Becca on that too, but I think that's part of what I want to know.  He was elected to end the wars, provide health care, and to begin to rethink and re-engineer government as a means of cleaning up the mess of the last 30 years. 

And I think if you pay attention, he has done a lot - a whole lot.  He's not been hung up on one thing then the next thing, its been a mess of stuff.  But the health care bill now being ravaged wasn't even the one we need (or were particularly promised, Obama distinctly advertised that he supported the kind of health care that every other industrialized nation has)

But this war stuff has got to end.  It was ill advised to begin with, run by armchair amateurs, and had not clear winnable long range objective.
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gennee

I believe that many voters thought the war would end but I didn't see that happening at all. War is profitable and many corporations make money from war. Also there's the military to deal with. It is a very conservative organization to begin with so change is very difficult to achieve unless it becomes too big a problem.

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lisagurl

Ask him what he is going to do about the 20 million illegals in this country and how is he going to prevent more from coming. Not to mention the drug smuggling that our border towns have to put up with because the government is not enforcing the last laws they made.

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Mazarine_Sky

I should point out to everyone, especially considering that I am a soldier, that Obama has already begun pulling troops out of Iraq and we should be completely out by the end of next year.
Also, he is proving to be very much against the war in afghanistan, focusing instead on training the afghan army so they can protect their own people.
I think what many forget is that there is only so much he can do and not be considered a tyrant. He needs all 3 branhces to support any new legislation. Of course, he could sign an executive order and make everyone have health care, but that would no doubt make very many people mad to the point of rebellion.
Although I do agree he is giving in too much to the republicans, focusing too much on the idea of "bi partisanship" instead of his own policies. And don't think he isn't trying, he is. But he's just too worried about making his opponants happy.
With that said, I think you should ask him what, exactly, the benefits for LGBT will be under the Affordable Health Care for America Act.

Post Merge: November 02, 2009, 09:01:47 PM

I'll send you a personal message, that's kind of off topic lol.
But I do think you're right in the sense that congress is extremely lazy and the congressmen and women who are in there every day yelling at the eternal eye of CSPAN are never recognized for their actions and completely destroyed of all that they do by the media. The same goes for the Senate.
There are quite a few good senators and representatives, but they are rarely recognized by the public, mainly because they seek to dismantle the whole burgeouise class, and of course, the media would hate that.
At least it's evident that some media outlets are actually starting to have this so called "liberal bias" that republicans have been preaching about for a long time.
It seems that even the media agrees with Marx and other liberal minds.
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