A petulant President Obama today claimed that depriving 30 million people of health care had become the GOP’s “ideological fixation.” How many of those millions are kids? More than you’d suspect, considering that Obamacare lets children up to the age of 26 stay on their parents’ health plans. Sure, everyone is somebody’s child, but are 26-year-olds really “kids” now, as the president seems to think?
Katie Pavlich is a news editor at Townhall.com and wrote the book on the Obama administration’s Fast and Furious scandal at 23 — not bad for a kid.
<—- This "kid" strongly rejects Obama classification of people in their 20s being "kids." WTH.
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) August 9, 2013
26 year olds are young adults, not "kids" and it is patronizing, disrespectful and unproductive to classify them as such
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) August 9, 2013
When I was 26, I didn’t think of myself as a kid anymore. Neither did the rest of society.
— DjWeideman (@DjWeideman) August 9, 2013
When I was 26 I had been married (high school sweetheart), divorced, and had served 6 years in the Air Force!!! #ObamaPresser
— Nels (@debitking) August 9, 2013
When I was 26 I had 2 children and a house. #26isNotAKid
— Sally (@Sally_0508) August 9, 2013
I was on my dad's health insurance while in college. I graduated at age 22, not 26. At 26 I was already working for 4 yrs, with my own ins.
— jodster36 (@jodster36) August 9, 2013
https://twitter.com/RoyTMcdaniel/status/365940997542256640
I was married with 3 children & NOT on government entitlement programs when I was 26 #BarackObama #26notakid
— Lori J Andersen (@ljandersen) August 9, 2013
Just admit it: you’re all just “winners of life’s lottery,” right?
@KatiePavlich At 26 I had been out of my parents house for 9 years and owned my own restaurant!
— Heather M. Murphy (@HeatherMMurphy) August 9, 2013
.@BarackObama At 26 I was married and under my husband's insurance, which he gained when he was employed out of college at 24.
— Mary Chastain (@mchastain81) August 9, 2013
https://twitter.com/pixie_moore/status/365943978975182848
@KatiePavlich At 26 I had been married 5 years, had 1 kid and a job. My 26 year old sister is a police officer. Not 'kids."
— Tabitha Beaman (@tabithabeaman) August 9, 2013
At age 26, I lived thousands of miles from my parents, had my own health insurance, was married, and had a blog.
— Frank J. Fleming (@IMAO_) August 9, 2013
@tabithabeaman @KatiePavlich At 26 I'd owned my own business and paid my own bills for 7 years already.
— wbmjerky (@wbmjerky) August 9, 2013
@DinaFraioli @KatiePavlich at 26 my husband and I married for 1 year both working and owned our own home .
— Beth Reynolds (@BethReynoldsGSD) August 9, 2013
https://twitter.com/Matthops82/status/365950229809332225
https://twitter.com/bigbenw86/status/365950105171406848
@KatiePavlich At age 26, I had taught for 4yrs, gotten married, had 1 child and purchased my first home. Very #AdultLike, right?
— Hannah (@Bromom3) August 9, 2013
https://twitter.com/jthoma8318/status/365953031914790912
@KatiePavlich At 26 I'd been out on my own for 9 years, after paying my way to college, and was supporting myself, a dog and a horse!
— JJ Kingston (@JJKingston) August 9, 2013
@KatiePavlich I was in my first year of law school at 26. I paid my first semester of tuition with the money I earned working.
— Michael A Coogen Jr (@CoogenJr) August 9, 2013
@KatiePavlich At 26, I had been on my own and buying my own health insurance for seven years.
— Chris Yaudas (@ChrisYaudas) August 9, 2013
https://twitter.com/MPeper/status/365952120983261184
https://twitter.com/FreemanShadwell/status/365952270610874369
https://twitter.com/JPC_76/status/365948444558368768
@KatiePavlich at 26 my brother was killed in Iraq defending our freedom. I was married 5 yrs with 3 kids and a job!
— Jon Thompson (@JonCThompson) August 9, 2013
So if 26-year-olds are “kids,” what are we calling the 13-year-olds who can now buy Plan B over the counter?
