Now at first blush this is gonna sound grossly unfair to President Obama, you can just picture Bill Moyers using it to illustrate classic right-wing hate in the blogosphere on his Friday night journalfest. Well let me first link up Malcontent's excellent commentary today on the matter:
http://malcontentralphie.blogspot.com/2010/02/this-is-not-joke.html
Glenn Beck talked about it this morning on his radio program and I'm gonna predict this is gonna be a HOT TOPIC in the conservative blogosphere and why shouldn't it be? There was a DNC fundraiser last night in where else? Washington DC and Obama made the point that a national health-care system is still dear to his heart worth fighting for and then he talked about a letter he received concerning a young woman, 41 years old, who worked for his campaign while fighting breast cancer for four years and finally succumbed as he put it. You see she had no health insurance, couldn't afford the tests that could have saved her life but here's the kicker and I'm quoting Obama here: "and she insisted she's going to be buried in an Obama t-shirt."
Malcontent's point, she worked for his campaign so as a campaign worker why didn't they pay for her health insurance thus saving this poor woman's life? Now here's my dark thought and I'm not afraid to express it though I usually don't go down this road: they wanted this young woman to die, hell they could've gotten one of their Hollywood buddies like George Clooney to pick up the tab. It's a kind of variation of Rahm Emanuel's let no crisis go to waste, let no death be in vain when it can be used for political purposes. Does this seem harsh to you my judgement here?? not when you consider that some people deliberately use a moral calculus of let someone or a few people die for the Greater Good, think of all the future lives that could be saved. It's utilitarianism with a Machiavellian spin. It's only one life and think of the tremendous political gain to be reaped!
It's creepy, it's perverted, it's evil but it doesn't surprise in the least. Imagine if Ronald Reagan had said "she's going to be buried in a Ronald Reagan t-shirt", it would have diminished the man and it goes without saying that the liberals would have had a field day. Obama has corrupted rational political discourse in this country which in itself is a feat, the whole thing is shocking in its banality and predictability. It's far worse than anything Bill Clinton ever did while in office imo and that's saying something so shame on the Obama Administration!!!
the malcontent said...
ReplyDeleteAlthough she is not my first choice, not by a long shot I also support Sarah Palin and what she stands for.
Just to compare Sarah and Barack, one would find that Sarah comes out ahead. More experience in government; able to speak without being fully scripted; she believes in life for all; she doesn't want the government to take over our lives; she can speak to and understand real people; she can listen to the American public; and she is NOT a narcissist. The Republicans had the wrong person run against Obama.
By the way, thanks for the plug.
ReplyDeleteYeah I don't hate her and would be more than comfortable with her than some of the other choices out there right now. That Obama quote is truly shocking and it's something you'd think you'd see in a satire or parody like SNL or Jon Stewart. In fact Beck played the audiotape this morning and the audience laughed when Obama said it although he was being dead serious. Now the question is should we just chalk it up to a brain fart which we all have from time to time? As I've said I think they're far too calculating for that. Funny but they'll jump all over a conservative for saying stupid things but just you watch they'll ignore this quote like it never even happened.
ReplyDeleteWell my thought is that there really was no campaign worker, she is an imaginary person used to illustrate the health care thing. Also, many workers are volunteers and thus there would be no health insurance available for her (if she were real). Not that I want to give Obama a pass, making up stories means desperation, in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteOur church secretary, a young mother of two, has been battling breast cancer. Her health insurance company dropped her when re-enrollment time came. Letter stated she had a 'pre-existing condition'. She is 'real', and desperate and depressed. Happens frequently these days....
ReplyDeleteThe 10 Americans detained in Port-au-Prince on child trafficking charges are pleading for the United States government to do more on their behalf and for the news media to focus on them less.
ReplyDelete“Help us,” one of the detainees, Carla Thompson, said Monday as she lay on a bed in a scorching jail cell about 8 feet by 5 feet, her ankles bandaged from infected mosquito bites. “That’s the message I would give to Mr. Obama and the State Department. Start helping us.”
Sitting on a dirty concrete floor in the cell, another detainee, Corinna Lankford, nodded in agreement, a frustrated look on her face.
“I have faith in God,” Ms. Lankford said. “But maybe the U.S. government could help a little more, too.”
“No one is giving us any kind of information about what is going on,” she added.
Perhaps if they were Muslim Obama would be sending in the Marines in no time..
BB, there can be real reform with health care or insurance without the government taking it over.
ReplyDeletehttp://gopleader.gov/UploadedFiles/Summary_of_Republican_Alternative_Health_Care_plan_Updated_11-04-09.pdf
ReplyDeleteSorry, I don't know how to do the hyperlinks...
Beth, for a computer illiterate like me, keeping a hyperlinks generator in my
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Beth said: "Well my thought is that there really was no campaign worker..."
ReplyDeleteEven so Obama treated her as such and couldn't some concerned party pay for her insurance?
"...she is an imaginary person used to illustrate the health care thing."
You mean a little too scripted, I agree. Time was I used to think Terri Schiavo's slow death over 14 days by starvation and dehydration was an imaginary melodrama used to illustrate the euthanasia thing. You have a good point, maybe she's a composite, some Betty Crocker deal who ain't quite real but as I just said Team Obama treated her and her condition as very real so if he cared that much I really think he could've arranged for a health insurance policy for her volunteer or not instead of letting her die but that just goes to illustrate my point. She had more value in death than she did in life so me and Mal are not giving Obama a free pass over this at all.