Supreme Court upholds Obamacare! Victory!

Another victory for President Obama and the Democrats! Woo hoo!

"In a victory for President Obama, the Supreme Court decided to uphold his signature health care law's individual mandate in a split decision, upending speculation after hostile-seeming oral arguments in March that the justices would overturn the law. The mandate has been upheld as a tax, according to SCOTUSblog, with Chief Justice John Roberts joining the liberal wing of the court. Tom Goldstein of SCOTUSblog says Roberts' vote "saved' the Affordable Care Act.

Twenty six states sued over the law, arguing that the individual mandate, which requires people to buy health insurance or face a fine starting in 2014, was unconstitutional. Opponents cast the individual mandate as the government forcing Americans to enter a market and buy a product against their will, while the government countered that the law was actually only regulating a market that everyone is already in, since almost everyone will seek health care at some point in his or her life.

Before oral arguments in March, polls of Supreme Court experts and scholars showed that most believed the mandate would be upheld as an exercise of Congress' power to regulate interstate commerce. But after justices seemed deeply skeptical of the mandate in oral arguments in March, the consensus flipped, with most experts guessing the court would strike down the law.

House Republicans have vowed to repeal the entire law, though it's unlikely the Democratic-controlled Senate would let that happen.

Though the sweeping, 1,000-page plus law passed more than two years ago, much of it will not go into effect until 2014. That's when states will have to set up their own health insurance exchanges, Medicaid will be expanded by 16 million low-income people, and Americans will have to buy health insurance (for many, with a government subsidy) or pay a penalty of 1 percent of their income to the IRS. Employers who have more than 50 employees and don't offer insurance will also begin to face a penalty. Insurers will no longer be able to turn away people with preexisting conditions, or charge people higher premiums based on their gender or health.

Only about 6 percent of the population will actually be required to buy health insurance or face a tax under the mandate, since most people already have coverage or will get it through Medicare, according to the Urban Institute.

Many of the more popular provisions of the law have already gone into effect, including a regulation saying insurers have to let children stay on their parents' plans until they are 26 years old, which 2.5 million Americans have already taken advantage of. Insurers can also no longer turn away children with preexisting conditions, and sick uninsured people can buy coverage in high-risk pools set up by the government."

Via yahoo news "Supreme Court upholds Obamacare individual mandate as a tax"

General Dwight D. Eisenhower Speech - June 6th, 1944 - D Day

“Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon a great crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers in arms on other fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world.

Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle hardened, he will fight savagely.

But this is the year 1944! Much has happened since the Nazi triumphs of 1940-41. The United Nations have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats, in open battle, man to man. Our air offensive has seriously reduced their strength in the air and their capacity to wage war on the ground. Our home fronts have given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions of war, and placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting men. The tide has turned! The free men of the world are marching together to victory!

I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full victory!

Good Luck! And let us all beseech the blessings of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.”
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General Dwight D. Eisenhower - June 6th, 1944

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My message to all the Anti-Obama haters out there...

An honest conservative whom I've known for years on youtube admitted to me that the right wingers (including him) whom often accuse President Obama of many things (without proof of any of their outrageous claims about him or evidence just circular reasoning, lies, misinformation, fiction, conspiracy theories, logical fallacy's, no logic, hateful, evil thoughts about Obama with no basis in logic or reality, etc.) such as "being Anti-American, Muslim, Kenyan, hate filled, unpatriotic, not Christian, not American,, a Communist a Socialist, a Fascist, like Hitler, etc." and other such vitriolic filth, garbage and hate have, the ones he knows of which are dozens, never read any of Obama's books and have never done any research (or little if any) on him or his life nor any research or little on Kenyan culture, Muslim theology, customs or culture, American History and politics, The Constitution and the Bill of Rights, Liberal Ideology and History, Christian theology and History, The Civil Rights Movement, Communism, Socialism, Fascism, etc.

They are racist in thinking that every black or bi-racial person looks angry all the time. They often repeat the same hateful (and sometimes) racist, bigoted, and ignorant filth without knowing why and can not answer why. Example: I've asked anti-Obama conservatives why they call him such names as the ones I've just posted above. None of them have ever really told me why (e.g. Why is President Obama Anti-American? Why is he Angry? Why... You get it) My conservative right wing friend finally broke down and told me that he's called President Obama all those names. Apart from some issues he disagrees on Obama with, he has no idea why him and others call Obama such hateful names and are so often mean spirited towards him for no reason or trivial reasons besides political ones. President Obama is just like any other Democrat and liberal ever elected President of the U.S.A. except for his skin color, being born into a newly incorporated state off the mainland USA and living in Indonesia as a child as well as family background (Americans often have complex family backgrounds with different nationalities marrying each other as well as interracial marriages and interfaith ones, sometimes a combination of the two taking place)

I would guess that racism comes into play and change i.e. progress in society as well as dealing with people who strongly are traditionalists, have never had any non-white friends, are uneducated on many issues in many areas of life and ignorant of reality as well  Not to mention, again, racist, bigoted and hateful views of those different from them and the propaganda and rhetoric they read from extreme right wing websites, books and personality's on TV, the internet, print and radio which mainly runs and is fueled by fear and conspiracy theories and mainly lies and fiction about liberals and Democrats and those different from them.

Something to think about.

More Proof That President Obama is an American

Such as this, which applies to Obama I would think:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1401
 
The following shall be nationals and citizens of the United States at birth:

(a) a person born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof;

(b) a person born in the United States to a member of an Indian, Eskimo, Aleutian, or other aboriginal tribe: Provided, That the granting of citizenship under this subsection shall not in any manner impair or otherwise affect the right of such person to tribal or other property;

(c) a person born outside of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents both of whom are citizens of the United States and one of whom has had a residence in the United States or one of its outlying possessions, prior to the birth of such person;

(d) a person born outside of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents one of whom is a citizen of the United States who has been physically present in the United States or one of its outlying possessions for a continuous period of one year prior to the birth of such person, and the other of whom is a national, but not a citizen of the United States;

(e) a person born in an outlying possession of the United States of parents one of whom is a citizen of the United States who has been physically present in the United States or one of its outlying possessions for a continuous period of one year at any time prior to the birth of such person;

(f) a person of unknown parentage found in the United States while under the age of five years, until shown, prior to his attaining the age of twenty-one years, not to have been born in the United States;

(g) a person born outside the geographical limits of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents one of whom is an alien, and the other a citizen of the United States who, prior to the birth of such person, was physically present in the United States or its outlying possessions for a period or periods totaling not less than five years, at least two of which were after attaining the age of fourteen years: Provided, That any periods of honorable service in the Armed Forces of the United States, or periods of employment with the United States Government or with an international organization as that term is defined in section 288 of title 22 by such citizen parent, or any periods during which such citizen parent is physically present abroad as the dependent unmarried son or daughter and a member of the household of a person

(A) honorably serving with the Armed Forces of the United States, or

(B) employed by the United States Government or an international organization as defined in section 288 of title 22, may be included in order to satisfy the physical-presence requirement of this paragraph. This proviso shall be applicable to persons born on or after December 24, 1952, to the same extent as if it had become effective in its present form on that date; and

(h) a person born before noon (Eastern Standard Time) May 24, 1934, outside the limits and jurisdiction of the United States of an alien father and a mother who is a citizen of the United States who, prior to the birth of such person, had resided in the United States.