Email from Witness at Obama Event – “It was Creepy as Hell”

As you know I was one of the first to point out that Barack Obama does in fact have a disorder known as megalomania. 1. Psychiatry. a symptom of mental illness marked by delusions of greatness, wealth, etc. 2. an obsession with doing extravagant or grand things.

The evidence exhibited by Obama over the last two years is overwhelming, from the infamous “Can I get back to my Pancakes?” moment all the way to this bizzare response to a woman who is tired of being taxed too much.

“CHARLOTTE – Even by President Obama’s loquacious standards, an answer he gave here on health care Friday was a doozy.

Toward the end of a question-and-answer session with workers at an advanced battery technology manufacturer, a woman named Doris stood to ask the president whether it was a “wise decision to add more taxes to us with the health care” package.

“We are over-taxed as it is,” Doris said bluntly.

Obama started out feisty. “Well, let’s talk about that, because this is an area where there’s been just a whole lot of misinformation, and I’m going to have to work hard over the next several months to clean up a lot of the misapprehensions that people have,” the president said.

He then spent the next 17 minutes and 12 seconds lulling the crowd into a daze. His discursive answer – more than 2,500 words long — wandered from topic to topic, including commentary on the deficit, pay-as-you-go rules passed by Congress, Congressional Budget Office reports on Medicare waste, COBRA coverage, the Recovery Act and Federal Medical Assistance Percentages (he referred to this last item by its inside-the-Beltway name, “F-Map”). He talked about the notion of eliminating foreign aid (not worth it, he said). He invoked Warren Buffett, earmarks and the payroll tax that funds Medicare (referring to it, in fluent Washington lingo, as “FICA”).

Always fond of lists, Obama ticked off his approach to health care — twice. “Number one is that we are the only — we have been, up until last week, the only advanced country that allows 50 million of its citizens to not have any health insurance,” he said.

A few minutes later he got to the next point, which seemed awfully similar to the first. “Number two, you don’t know who might end up being in that situation,” he said, then carried on explaining further still.

“Point number three is that the way insurance companies have been operating, even if you’ve got health insurance you don’t always know what you got, because what has been increasingly the practice is that if you’re not lucky enough to work for a big company that is a big pool, that essentially is almost a self-insurer, then what’s happening is, is you’re going out on the marketplace, you may be buying insurance, you think you’re covered, but then when you get sick they decide to drop the insurance right when you need it,” Obama continued, winding on with the answer.

Halfway through, an audience member on the riser yawned.

But Obama wasn’t finished. He had a “final point,” before starting again with another list — of three points.

“What we said is, number one, we’ll have the basic principle that everybody gets coverage,” he said, before launching into the next two points, for a grand total of seven.”

Bizzare to say the least. From an email from one of the witnesses.

“I’ll tell you Mac it was weird. His eyes didn’t connect with anyone in the room, just stared off into space. His voice rambled and the whole of what he was saying sounded like a computer that blew a chip and was just spitting out random facts and figures. People were giggling or gasping and a little in between. It was sad even if you don’t like the guy. At one point he seemed to well up a bit as if he was about to cry and his shoulders shook a bit.

Like I said, It was weird. No it was creepy as hell.”