Obama Uses His Volunteer as Plant at Healthcare Propaganda Event
It turns out that the woman at a White House-sponsored healthcare forum who pulled the heartstrings of the media by asking President Obama for help in treating her cancer — as if she were channeling the afflicted who, in the New Testament, besought Jesus of Nazareth for a healing touch – was an Obama plant.
Debby Smith is a member of Organizing for America, a network of volunteers whose mission is to rouse public support for President Obama and his political and social agendas; it is also a project of the Democratic National Committee. Smith was invited to the event not by an outside group but by the White House itself.
No wonder the president hugged her.
Nowadays all presidents host tightly choreographed public events aimed at promoting their policy preferences but this one is particularly Riefenstahl-esque in its execution.
Even veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas (see video) thought the taxpayer-funded dog-and-pony show was a bit much.Â
“I’m amazed at you people who call for openness and transparency,” said Thomas, a hardcore liberal who called George W. Bush ”the worst president in American history.”
Thomas accused the White House of “controlling the press” and said just about all Obama events are “prepackaged.”
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs was dismissive. “We’ve had this discussion before,” he said.
“Of course you would because you don’t have any answers,” Thomas shot back.
Gibbs mocked Thomas by gently laughing while she spoke. If you watch the video and observe his body language and tone of voice it’s obvious that he’s trying to make Thomas, who is 88 years old, look like a senile old kook. I may routinely disagree with her interpretation of events, but in this writer’s opinion she’s no fool.
The arrogance of Gibbs seems to be par for the course for the Obama White House which is intent on destroying the American healthcare system.
But this appalling lack of respect for old people foreshadows how Obama’s system of government-run healthcare would treat the elderly.
After all, Obama already admitted his plan for elder care amounts to launching the nation’s sick, old, expensive-to-treat people into the hereafter courtesy of government-provided ice floes.
That’s the ghoulish calculus of socialist medicine: if you’re too expensive to treat, you die.
Sorry, Helen – even though you’re comments regarding the mesiah are spot-on, it’s too late to rehabilitate your image as a left-wing hack. You are as responsible as anyone for putting this posuer into office, along with his gang of sycophants and opportunists. History will not show you much compassion for you sudden surge of conscience.
Obama is like the sham wow guy. You watch him pitch that towel on tv and you know it can’t be nearly as good as it looks but you buy it anyway. That’s Obama in a nutshell. And now some people are finding out the product (Obama) isn’t what they thought. The thing with Obama is he sneaks around behind you and stabs you in the back. At least McCain would have looked you in the eye before shoving the knife in your chest.
Now who was it that said, “you can fool some of the people for some of the time, but not all of the people for all of the time”?
Helen – you and your myrmidon Maggot Media foisted this cretin on us; hope you puke every morning and burst your Depends every night!
On February 21, 1969, Time Magazine had on its cover “What’s Wrong With U.S. Healthcare?” In 1977-1978, the debate topic for high school debating teams was “Resolved: That the federal government should establish a comprehensive program to regulate the health care in the United States?” In 1993, the Clinton Administratin came up with a health care plan to that had an enforced mandate for employers to provide health insurance coverage to all of their employees through competitive but closely-regulated health maintenance organizations. Why has it taken over 40 years to make sure all Americans get health care coverage? The U.S. is the only wealthy, industrialized nation that does not have universal health care.
I think it is wrong for the Obama Administration to put an individual in an audience to gain support for President Obama’s health care plan. However, if Obama’s health care plan did not receive enough votes to pass in Congress, would the Republican members of Congress propose any bill to cover all Americans? If Republicans cared about covering all Americans, it would not have taken this long to get legislation passed in Congress.
Why does the party of Abraham Lincoln always support the positions of the health care industry and businesses that donate to their campaigns when it comes to health care? Most Americans may be happy with their health care coverage. But not if you ask people in places like poor areas such as Detroit, Baltimore, and rural Mississippi about what they think about their health care. Many of them just hope they do not get sick because they do not have any health insurance. Who cares, right? When poor people actually do go to a hospital when they are sick, the rest of us pay much of the medical costs through higher insurance premiums.
Conservative members of Congress once opposed Social Security, the 8 hour workday, and a ban on child labor. These were considered radical ideas when they were originally proposed. Anyone who would opposed these ideas today would not be taken seriously.
Univeral health care may be seem radical to some, but doing nothing does not resolve the problems of our health care system.
I have not read about any mass demonstrations in Canada, France or the United Kingdom arguing that their governments should abandon their systems for a completely privitized health care system as the U.S. has. Remember, the people in those countries originally had a system where not everyone was covered. If their current health care systems were so terrible, European parliaments would have abandoned them and gone back to a completely privitized system that they once had.
Opposition to any proposed health care bills have always used the “dangers of socialism” to stop federal legislation. This is the same old argument. I know of a few people who personally who did get an operation because it was too expensive. And they died. Why does one of the wealthiest countries in the world make sure all of its citizens get the health care that they need? That goal is attainable, and our current system is not working adequately.
Many Europeans wonder why were are still debating the “dangers of socialism” when health care for everyone is the accepted norm in Europe. Most European countries with universal coverage have a higher standard of living than the U.S. People in Andorra, a small country in Europe, live the longest in the world. But of course, Andorra has universal health care.
I wish we would stop the ideological rhetoric and deal with the health care problem with some real solutions. I hope we are not still debating covering all Americans in another 40 years from now.
Kirk, all the countries you site for government healthcare are all socialist countries. Decades ago they got their population to except lose of personal freedoms for the nannie state, the Obamanation is still indoctrinenating this concept to the unaware half asleep masses. The Shadow party, and Shadow cabinet are still hard at work dispensing the Cloward-Pivin Stratagy and inforcing Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals. Do you really believe, Barry has come up with all these socialist programs to change this country all by his self (more likley GS and his rewrite the constitution by 2020 program
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As far as using “the dangers of Socialism” to stop federal legislation on Government controlled healthcare, this country has been governed by the Democrat majority 83% of the time the last 70 years. I guess this party is not interested in this concept either.
I think insuring the 46 million in the country with healthcare should be done. Just not at the expense of the middle class (I already contribute 6K to my empolyer’s program) and Im not interested in contributing another 6K for the uninsured. They have to give national healthcare the best thought for all americans, not just for the 10 million who make over 75k per year and refuse to get healthcare, or the 13 million who work for small businesses that can’t afford to pay for healthcare for their employees, or the 11 million who have coverage but are underinsurred, and lets not forget the 13 million who are not US citizens. The plan the congress inacts into law must care about the 220 million americans who have healthcare and not just use us for their 46 million funding plan, and when inacted they better have a plan B and C and D. After all America does have national healthcare it is called Medicare and Mediaid, it is refe with corruption and waste, both plans are bankrupting this country. Which beggs for the question “have you ever heard of a government sponsered program that worked?” just look at the current Cap and Trade legislation. Who is going to profit? Do you believe this is about saving the polar bears from drownding, this is about government control and giving congress the power to make allot of people billions, of course the right people, they will decide who. I want the obamanation to stop creating crisis situations to pass legislation that none of the members of congress read.
Healthcare great idea. I just think they can not get past their social agenda to do it fair or right for all americans. These are the people who are creating or saving 3.5 milions jobs, right. To bad there all government jobs and within ten years all the real jobs will have left the country. This will fix the problem of wealth redistrabution, the middle class will be gone and they control all the business and wealth.
These, as i see it, are the real inconvenient truths.
I can’t believe people are supporting big-BIG insurance companies who are currently spending millions on lobbyist, commercials and politicians to thwart any kind of competition. I figured, the American people are too smart to fall for that. But obviously, some opinions are influenced by big business who is acting with their own best interest at heart with some rallying behind them saying YES – they have the right to screw us over. That’s America!!
Well, maybe it’s time to re-think how we do certain things here in America. Other countries are doing this successfully and if we can put a man on the moon, I would think that we could manage to come up with an American way of providing cheap, affordable health care for ALL Americans. It’s the right thing to do and I am not going to let big business convince me otherwise, just so they can keep running to the bank while Americans citizens are dying.
” You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”
Good God People!
P.T. Barnum said that!
Why anyone with a clue, who is employed, or a family member would consider any form of Government run Health Care is beyond me. Unfortunately, how we got here is owed primarily to one group. The Wet Themselves Crowd, (WTC) They are typically: White, female or effeminately male, upper middle class, guilt guilt guilty about slavery and deathly afraid if something isn’t done, some minority group will rise up and they may lose something of value in the riots and looting that follows. These are they who bite their manicured Lee press-on nails and cower; singing the woe is me anthem. They are virulently envious and greedy that others do better than they. They hate the RICH for their success. They hate themselves too. They are a bundle of contradictions looking to profit anyway they can off the labors and purses of others. Nothing sends them scurrying faster or has them screaming louder than seeing another person (particularly people of color) in distress – Tattoo’d, Blinged, Braided, $100+ tennis shoes and so over weight they are bound for the type 2 diabetes bus wearing matching T-Shirts and parading around during normal working hours protesting for health care – with their numerous children in tow… for example. The WTC demands the government care for them by raising taxes, again, upon the 5% who actually pay the lions share of taxes. It upsets them. They care. The problem is they want the problem that offends them removed from their purview, or fixed, by someone else, using someone elses Money. They “feel” health care is a good idea and should it actually work, they can stop paying for their own health care and have that EVIL 5% pay for their care too. They see others like themselves on TV clamoring and Caw-cawing “What about ME!!!!” Like Obama’s cancer plant a few weeks ago. It’s so heart warming and flush with emotion. How can anyone NOT be persuaded? They want all that they can have given to them at no cost to themselves. They believe government handouts are FREE – and does not cost anyone anything. They claim they are post racial and have the friends to prove it. They see value in all the catch phrases the left can cobble up, living them is for others. They are too smart for any religion but find spirituality in Mother earth, or PETA, or someother pseudo-religious pursuit that is approved the Statist. They enjoy the company of like-minded souls who share in their station and hate the successful and find HOPE in the promises of those who will promise them anything… anytime.
We will continue to revisit elections and their outcomes like 2008, unless and until the RIGHT to vote is limited to those who are legally entitled to the franchise. I’d go a step further and limit it to those who actually write a tax check, serve in the military, can prove they are literate, and are free from membership in any organization who conducts business in the halls of government. All government employees, state and federal MUST be excluded from voting – it’s their duty… they are public employees and they will vote themselves job security and a pay raise everytime they can.
It was Lincoln, who That One attempts to channel. Fails at that too.
The quote is actually, ” You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln