First Reid asked why the questions for Wednesday’s town hall on healthcare were being preselected. After Gibbs tried to dodge that question a few times, Thomas became involved, saying, “We have never had that in the White House. I’m amazed that you people … call for openness and transparency."Gibbs' nervous laughter is almost as embarrassing as the spectacle at President Obama's town hall meeting when he hugged Debby Smith, an audience member with cancer, who said she couldn't afford treatment. Not only is it shameless (jeez, couldn't he find a baby to kiss?) and borderline inappropriate (I don't know where you work, but hugging strangers is frowned upon where I work), it turns out that Ms. Smith, rather than being a random audience member, actually "volunteer[s] for the political arm of the President's Democratic National Committee Organizing for America," and was there at the invitation of the White House. So, if the audience is hand-selected, and the questions are pre-approved, where's the debate?
I certainly don't want to downplay Ms. Smith's situation. It's a terrible illness. But let's be frank. The White House used her. She became a prop in one more dog and pony show by this administration. Another attempt at emotional manipulation because they know that the facts and logic just don't support their position. My god, Obama even referred to her as "exhibit A" for what's wrong with the current health care system...because that's what she is to a practiced lawyer like Obama--an exhibit. Thanks to Michelle Malkin, I can guess who won't be appearing as "exhibit B."
In February 2009, outrage in the Obamas’ community exploded after a young boy covered by Medicaid was turned away from the University of Chicago Medical Center. Dontae Adams’ mother, Angela, had sought emergency treatment for him after a pit bull tore off his upper lip. Mrs. Obama’s hospital gave the boy a tetanus shot, antibiotics, and Tylenol and shoved him out the door. The mother and son took an hour-long bus ride to another hospital for surgery.
I’ll guarantee you this: You’ll never see the Adams family featured at an Obama policy summit or seated next to the First Lady at a joint session of Congress to illustrate the failures of the health care system.
If that's how Obamas handle health care, I think many people are going to be in for a rude awakening...
One thing that's being overlooked here is the fact that, as anyone who's ever worked the campaign trail (and all this assclown does is campaign, not govern) damn well knows, all of these town hall things are rigged. Every politician stacks them with his or her people and knows exactly what questions are coming. If it's a town hall debate, it's a little bit different: Both candidates stack the thing with their people and thus have a 50-50 shot of getting a question that's a softball, or one that's hostile. Thing here is that, since they usually know their opponents' talking points as well as their own as the campaign goes on, they typically have a good idea of what the other guy's supporters are going to try to throw at them.
ReplyDeleteAgain, every politician has been doing the dog-and-pony-show town hall thing for years. This moron is just the first one to be so incompetent that he blatantly exposed a decades old political game that all the insiders knew about and mutually agreed, along with the media, to never to openly discuss. Moron.
- The Insurrectionist
It's like pigs flying, Helen Thomas giving a constructive criticism.
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