Apr

Krauthammer: Obama’s 17 Minute Response 9 Times Longer Than Gettysburg Address

The other day a woman asked the president a simple question and it took him seventeen minutes to reply. In twenty seconds Charles Krauthammer summed up what Obama should have said.

I don’t know why your surprised. It’s only nine times longer than the Gettysburg Address. And, after all Lincoln was answering an easier question on the higher purpose of the union and soldiers that fall in battle. Look the president had an easy answer. He could have said, “Hey I wanted to make history with health care and to do it and to make the CBO numbers look OK I had to raise your taxes. Sure it’s not a good time economically in the middle of a recession but politically I had to because I have a window a majority in Congress and I’m going to lose in November.” End of answer.

Transcript via Gateway Pundit

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