Why do people call the program 'Obamaphone' when it started under Reagan?

[Phokus]

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/09/just-how-racist-obama-phone-video/57353/

Oh right, because this is just an extension of the GOP Southern Strategy. This is dog whistle politics at it's finest

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

Bob Herbert, a New York Times columnist, reported a 1981 interview with Lee Atwater, published in Southern Politics in the 1990s by Alexander P. Lamis, in which Lee Atwater discussed politics in the South:
Questioner: But the fact is, isn't it, that Reagan does get to the Wallace voter and to the racist side of the Wallace voter by doing away with legal services, by cutting down on food stamps?

Atwater: You start out in 1954 by saying, "n*****, n*****, n*****." By 1968 you can't say "n*****" — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "n*****, n*****."[4]

Herbert wrote in the same column, "The truth is that there was very little that was subconscious about the G.O.P.'s relentless appeal to racist whites. Tired of losing elections, it saw an opportunity to renew itself by opening its arms wide to white voters who could never forgive the Democratic Party for its support of civil rights and voting rights for blacks."[1]

Edit: Since Doc Savage fan is, again, an imbecile:

http://transition.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Common_Carrier/Reports/FCC-State_Link/Monitor/mr98-2.pdf

In 1984, the FCC, in conjunction with the states and local telephone companies,
established a Lifeline program designed to promote universal service by helping low income
individuals afford the monthly cost of telephone service.
1
In 1985, the FCC adopted a broader
lifeline program, again designed to help low income individuals afford the monthly costs of
service.
2

 

[SheHateMe]

Because Obamaphone sounds better than ReaganPhone or BushPhone.


Bush gave us a cellphone....he gunna do more.

Keep Obama in President..y'know?

 

[highland145]

2010
Soon, a whole bunch of other wireless carriers got in on the program -- by 2010, Virgin Mobile, Verizon, Sprint, i-Wireless, Head Start, Consumer Cellular, Midwestern Telecom, Allied Wireless, and others had free phone plans. That's why you can find all these "free cell phone" websites that look kind of shady, like Obamaphone.net or FreeGovernmentCellPhones.net. In 2011, the FCC said that these carriers were "fiercely competing for the business of low-income consumers by marketing ‘free’ phones." TracFone spokesman Jose Fuentes told Bloomberg in February, "We’ve had a lot of fly-by-night companies come in." Fuentes estimated that more than 1,700 wireless companies were part of Lifeline. Between 2008 and 2012, the number of people with Lifeline phones grew from 7.1 million to 12.5 million. These companies may be fly-by-night at providing cell phone service, but they are pretty good at marketing, and as the rush of merchandise tied to his inauguration showed, Obama's name seems to move product. But they could have chosen another hook. Reaganfreedomphone.com is still available if you want to try to reach out to the Fox News demo.

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/10/obama-phone-roots-government-privatization/57415/

 

[Phokus]

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/10/obama-phone-roots-government-privatization/57415/

Except the program never would have existed if it weren't for Ronnie.

 

[SheHateMe]

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/10/obama-phone-roots-government-privatization/57415/

Obama should start a Phone company!

I'd get me an Galaxy S III with 4G service from ObamaPhone

 

[highland145]

Except the program never would have existed if it weren't for Ronnie.

Fine example of the credit he should receive, helping the poor.

 

[Matt1970]

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/09/just-how-racist-obama-phone-video/57353/

Oh right, because this is just an extension of the GOP Southern Strategy. This is dog whistle politics at it's finest

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

So this is related to statements made decades ago by a political consultant? Race Bait Much??? BTW, the 1980's called, they want their quotes back. Or should I mention that at the same time the Dems elected a KKK member to lead them in the Senate?

 

[Jaskalas]

Except the program never would have existed if it weren't for Ronnie.

He's the Neocon Granddaddy. Expand government, buy voters, blame you for it.

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

I believe the program significantly expanded under Obama's term. Kinda like food stamps did.

 

[charrison]

maybe this is why?

http://obamaphone.net/

it is marketed that way?

 

[Incorruptible]

I believe the program significantly expanded under Obama's term. Kinda like food stamps did.

This, obama has to payback the favors he got

 

[SheHateMe]

maybe this is why?

http://obamaphone.net/

it is marketed that way?

You know that website popped up on the day the "Obamaphone" video came out, right?

 

[dmcowen674]

Why do people call the program 'Obamaphone' when it started under Reagan?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

Because everything is Obama's fault.

Things like that happen when you are a Messiah.

 

[Matt1970]

You know that website popped up on the day the "Obamaphone" video came out, right?

No.

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, LLC (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: OBAMAPHONE.NET
Created on: 26-Aug-11
Expires on: 26-Aug-13
Last Updated on: 13-Jul-12

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14747 N Northsight Blvd Suite 111, PMB 309
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States

 

[Nemesis 1]

Fine example of the credit he should receive, helping the poor.

Are you kidding these obummmer phones are generating billions in wealth for the poor . It illegal gains but these throw away phones are anew tool in the marketing of drugs bigtime.
Its part of the war on drugs . You have to advance the enemies capabilities to loot the treasury for more funds to win the war on drugs. Our gooberment goes so far as to supply the enemey with automated weapons . Its not a war on drugs its a war against the American people sponsored by the US goobermment with its strange aid packages. I have 5 people in my neighborhood who handle over 250,000 dollars in drugs at the least on a yearly basis.. All welfare types that actually live pretty good.

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

OP...you're thread title is a lie. This program was started under Clinton...not Reagan. Extension of the Southern Strategy...wtf? You're such a fucking hack.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech...012-06-01/low-income-lifeline-plan/55315532/1
"The FCC's LifeLine Assistance program was set up in the '90s to help low-income families with monthly landline bills."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Service_Fund

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996

 

[jackstar7]

Kinda like food stamps did.

Did the food stamp program expand, or did people availing themselves of the program grow?

 

[Yreka]

I don't know, but every time I read or hear that word I get the damn banana phone song stuck in my head

 

[HomerJS]

For the same reason 241 Marines killed in Beruit makes Reagan a foriegn policy hero

 

[Phokus]

OP...you're thread title is a lie. This program was started under Clinton...not Reagan. Extension of the Southern Strategy...wtf? You're such a fucking hack.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech...012-06-01/low-income-lifeline-plan/55315532/1
"The FCC's LifeLine Assistance program was set up in the '90s to help low-income families with monthly landline bills."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Service_Fund

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996

Did you even click the link the article above, you idiot?

From the FCC's own site:

http://transition.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Common_Carrier/Reports/FCC-State_Link/Monitor/mr98-2.pdf

In 1984, the FCC, in conjunction with the states and local telephone companies,
established a Lifeline program designed to promote universal service by helping low income
individuals afford the monthly cost of telephone service.
1
In 1985, the FCC adopted a broader
lifeline program, again designed to help low income individuals afford the monthly costs of
service.
2

 

[hal2kilo]

Don't know about the Reagan part but it's sure easier to say Obamaphone than "Kenyan Muslim Marxist Communist Socialist"

 

[shortylickens]

I dont care. Eventually the whole system will collapse like Rome and cell phones will be the least of our problems.

 

[SheHateMe]

No.

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, LLC (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: OBAMAPHONE.NET
Created on: 26-Aug-11
Expires on: 26-Aug-13
Last Updated on: 13-Jul-12

Registrant:
Domains By Proxy, LLC
DomainsByProxy.com
14747 N Northsight Blvd Suite 111, PMB 309
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States

Fine. I stand corrected.

This still doesn't mean that the program was more marketable because of Obama.

For some reason, adding Cellphones to the legislation sounded like a good idea to Bush. If someone offered you a free phone with 250 minutes a month, would you take it?

 

[Matt1970]

Fine. I stand corrected.

This still doesn't mean that the program was more marketable because of Obama.

For some reason, adding Cellphones to the legislation sounded like a good idea to Bush. If someone offered you a free phone with 250 minutes a month, would you take it?

I don't mean to correct you again but:

The universal service requirement dates back at least to the Communications Act of 1934. The Lifeline program specifically was started in 1984 under President Reagan and was expanded in 1996 under President Clinton to allow qualifying households to choose to apply the benefit to either a landline or a cell phone.

 

[SheHateMe]

I don't mean to correct you again but:

During the Bush administration, there was the introduction of a project that gave subsidies to those who could not afford a phone. The basic principle of the program is that everyone should have access to emergency services like 911. There are a number of deaths that take place every year do to lack of proper communication, and access to emergency services should be a right for everyone.

Hmm, Obamaphone.net should probably change that.

This specific program, SafeLink, started under President George Bush, with grants from an independent company created under President Bill Clinton, which was a legacy of an act passed under President Franklin Roosevelt, which was influenced by an agreement reached between telecommunications companies and the administration of President Woodrow Wilson.

Factcheck.org should probably change that too.

BushPhone Co.