AMA to Obama: Stop accusing us of wanting to hack off people’s body parts, champ
posted at 9:06 pm on August 12, 2009 by Allahpundit
A follow-up to last night’s post about the looming dangers of mass amputation if ObamaCare doesn’t pass. This is now the second time in three weeks that a doctors’ association has had to correct him publicly over a bit of cheap demagoguery aimed at scaring people into swallowing his plan. Or, rather, the third time: The American College of Surgeons released a statement of its own earlier this evening hammering him on the same points as the AMA. What’s next for The One? Accusing nurses of stealing money out of patients’ wallets while they’re asleep?
We agree with President Obama on the importance of prevention. However, a recent example used to illustrate his important point was misleading. Surgeons are not paid $30,000 to $50,000 to amputate a diabetic’s foot. Medicare pays a surgeon, on average, from $541.72 to $708.71 for one of two procedures involving a foot amputation. It is possible that the total bill, hospital stay, rehabilitation, prosthesis, etc. may approach the larger amount mentioned.
In the case of tonsillectomies, a patient is referred to a surgeon after medication therapy has proven to be ineffective. Actually, the medical profession itself recognized questions about utilization and appropriateness of tonsillectomies and took action by developing clinical guidelines, which has resulted in a sharp decline in the rate of tonsillectomies.
These types of examples create the impression that physicians are motivated by payment levels rather than what is best for patients. The AMA will continue to stress to our elected leaders that physicians are dedicated to putting patients first and optimizing health care quality.
Translation: The guy who wants to run American health care was off here by a factor of 100 on cost. Although who knows? If the public’s fears about exploding health-care expenses under ObamaCare prove justified, maybe someday soon an amputation will run you $30-50K.
Oh, here’s something else I spotted on the wire today that has no implications at all for a public option or single-payer. None.
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As a gay muslim american iranian expatriot former hillary clinton supporter, i am fully prepared for them when and if the decide to break into my home to take me away for having the “wrong thoughts”
Just let them try it…they can’t use “right wing racist” to shut my a$$ up.
BillaryMcBush on August 13, 2009 at 12:26 AM
Are you able to fit that on a business card?
;-)
VibrioCocci on August 13, 2009 at 12:29 AM
I’ve been telling Jews much the same thing, that liberal Jews supporting The Precedent and his anti-American stance are going to bring hell down on all of us.
progressoverpeace on August 12, 2009 at 11:05 PM
You might as well argue with a possum.
TexasJew on August 13, 2009 at 12:30 AM
Nancy
Michelle
Barry
Coming soon, Barney Joe and Harry
BillaryMcBush on August 13, 2009 at 12:31 AM
Could you elaborate?
(not about arguing directly with a possum – I tried it, but I don’t think I was unsuccessful for ideological reasons.)
VibrioCocci on August 13, 2009 at 12:31 AM
Damn possums. They are very stubborn.
jana on August 13, 2009 at 12:34 AM
Notice that “american” came third?
guntotinglibertarian on August 13, 2009 at 12:42 AM
You guys have it all wrong. Obama was just telling us he was going to save money by not letting the evil doctors do all those expensive treatments anyway.
It’s Jedi Mind trick health care. “This is not the health care you seek.”
jhffmn on August 13, 2009 at 12:45 AM
VibrioCocci on August 13, 2009 at 12:31 AM
Actually, I was defaming possums, since possums (who have existed since the Cretaceous Period) have a much more highly developed survival instinct than do Jewish Liberals, who are simply dumb as crap.
Talk to Jewish conservatives – have you noticed how hard-assed they are? Atlas, Debbie Schlussel, Caroline Glick, Mark Levin – Levin, for example, has battled literal battalions of Jewish Liberal morons. He is now, as the word goes, “adamantine”.
I personally have brought some of these leftwing bastards to literal tears in debates. They can’t argue, fall back on ad hominems, and do not bring honor to our Tribe, let me tell you.. I won’t go into the whole Israel thing – it’s too ugly. In summary, I always tell Israelis not to trust the American liberal Jewish community.
So, I apologize to our marsupial friends for the unfair remarks.
TexasJew on August 13, 2009 at 12:46 AM
In other words….sick people are responsible for using most of the health care. Who knew?
xblade on August 13, 2009 at 12:48 AM
Well libertarian comes third in your name. Its just cadence.
If you want it in order of precedence it would have to be:
Earth-dwelling Homosapien Male which puts american 4th even if it was moved up so i didn’t type it american clinton gay expatriat hillary iranian muslim supporter…but really, even a vegameatavitamin substitute like yourself can understand that
american clinton gay expatriat hillary iranian muslim supporter
just doesn’t roll off the tongue.
BillaryMcBush on August 13, 2009 at 12:51 AM
Screw the AMA.
They care more about the $ and how to still make money when ObamaCare goes through than anything else.
Give this caring about the patient nonsense a rest. They’re a bunch of jerkoffs who got into medicine for the money and the prestige.
Dr. ZhivBlago on August 13, 2009 at 12:51 AM
He always states that diabetes or the complications of it are completely preventable. That will really bring in the donations for children with Type 1 diabetes, Barry, you assclown. Everyone needs more education on the severity of diabetes in children and with Dr. O throwing a one size fits all blanket of treatment on diseases – it does not help!
Type 1 diabetics cannot prevent this disease and it takes a constant, sometimes impossible, effort to stay healthy. Blood glucose control is very complicated for both Type 2 and, especially, Type 1 diabetics. Every diabetic deserves individualized treatment.
HellCat on August 13, 2009 at 1:07 AM
My little theory:
It all comes down to the use of guilt as the main control mechanism by the culture. Western civilization, Judeo-Christian culture, all use guilt as the main mechanism, to some degree. In Judaism, it is strongest, but it exists throught the West. It is the control mechanism of an individualistic culture, since guilt is a totally individual mechanism. No one needs to know something I’ve done or thought for me to feel guilty about it and in need of atoning for it. The rest of the cultures are collectivist in nature and use shame as their main control mechanism. But shame is a purely public notion, as I cannot be shamed unless someone else knows something that I did, or, even worse, something someone did to me! People in shame cultures are not even in control of shame, whereas guilt is totally within my control. I am only guilty for my own thoughts and actions.
Anyway, guilt is a very effective mechanism, as individualistic cultures are the highest growth and most dynamic, just as capitalism is, in its realms. But, as some kids are so sensitive and have such runaway imaginatons that they cannot see a ghost movie without having terrible nightmares for weeks and being scared of the dark, many Westerners cannot handle guilt, as a mechanism. Their imagination goes out of control and they have a constant, heavy feeling of guilt pervading their lives. Their natural reaction is to feel the strong need to atone. This makes them sad people. But, they also don’t know where the guilt comes from (since it is illusory in nature, for the most part) so they blame their parents. As it is based in their religious training, they blame their church. And then they blame everyone who reminds them of themselves. Real self-haters and people yearning for national suicide.
These people appear in the West in decent numbers, but they appear most among Jews, since Jewish culture uses guilt more intensely than the others. It’s an unavoidable risk of using the most powerful control mechanism, but well worth it, so long as we can make it through the times when the guilt-ridden loons take over.
That’s how I see it.
progressoverpeace on August 13, 2009 at 1:22 AM
Not according to the rationers! This apparatus they wanna set up is disgusting.
Holger on August 13, 2009 at 1:22 AM
Fact is we don’t give a crap what you are.
Take your identity politics and stuff it.
guntotinglibertarian on August 13, 2009 at 1:27 AM
We? what are you schizophrenic?
You may not care but then i didn’t write the original post for you, or for your sister who you call your girlfriend.
BillaryMcBush on August 13, 2009 at 1:31 AM
guntotinglibertarian on August 13, 2009 at 1:33 AM
BillaryMcBush on August 13, 2009 at 1:31 AM
guntotinglibertarian on August 13, 2009 at 1:38 AM
allow me to step back a moment and get some information. Which part of my supposed identity politics that you clearly missed as sarcasm is it that you are bothered by?
The Muslim? Gay? Clinton Supporter? or Iranian expatriot part?
I would just like to know what kind of backwoods bigot i am dealing with so that i can respond appropriately.
BTW, i am still trying to figure out what the heck a libertarian is. Is it the illicit love child of a Liberal Red meat Eater and a Conservative Vegatarian?
Seriously, i get that you don’t like muslims or middle eastern people, but really try to keep your bigotry in check. Its not pretty…btw, Ron Paul Looked GREAT in the Bruno movie…was it just me or did Ron Paul sneak a peak at Brunos package before he ran out of the hotel room when Bruno dropped his pants?
BillaryMcBush on August 13, 2009 at 1:45 AM
Oh so its the Jews fault too??
Boy you hate everybody. Noone will ever accuse you of being a racist.
BillaryMcBush on August 13, 2009 at 1:47 AM
progressoverpeace on August 13, 2009 at 1:22 AM
Thanks for the excellent post on guilt.
I’ll certainly think about that. I also think that there is a luxury in the act of feeling guilty, and the associated striving for expiation of imagined sins. It allows one to ignore reality and real responsibility, while having a pleasurable cathartic experience that has very little connection with real concerns.
The jabbering about the “poor Palestinians” and the chimera of a non-existant “Peace Process” are two cases in point. Before the Wall was built, Tel Aviv buses were being blown up every week, with dozens of dead and hundreds of serious injuries. Yet the liberal Jews still condemn the “mean-spirited” Wall, which has easily saved well over 1000 Jewish lives so far, not to mention an additional thousands of casualties.
G’night.
TexasJew on August 13, 2009 at 1:48 AM
Gosh, it’s so hard to choose.
Let me sleep on it.
By the way, doesn’t your religion require you to topple a wall on yourself?
guntotinglibertarian on August 13, 2009 at 1:52 AM
The funny thing is that while you can hide behind the computer screen with your bigotry, in person you are just another panty waste who will slink off and mutter under your breath about them damn furners.
Meanwhile your semi-literate children will end up working for a guy named Samir from india.
Must really burn your a$$ knowing that this country is a melting pot.
BillaryMcBush on August 13, 2009 at 1:56 AM
Good points. There are the true believers, whose motivation I ascribe to abuse of the Golden Rule, empathy run amok. I agree with your post, with the one exception that the US was always so much friendlier than Europe to Jews (there’s really not a comparison) that I don’t like to call it “discrimination”, but just “social rejection”, which I think contributed greatly to Jewish development in the US. Jews never lacked for anything, since if they weren’t allowed to have it (like live on 5th avenue) then they just built their own (Central Park West), but many of those with weak emotions were affected by the idea that they were still “outsiders” to those circles they really wanted to be in.
Yeah. I came after the really bad times, but I was in Tel Aviv from 2002-2005. I left when Sharon made it clear that he was itching to puke up Gaza for nothing.
Nite, Tex.
progressoverpeace on August 13, 2009 at 1:58 AM
Have a bad Gay Pride Day in Teheran, did you?
guntotinglibertarian on August 13, 2009 at 1:59 AM
eyeroll!
Actually Marx was Jewish. As was Trotsky. As were a lot of the key members of the Bolsheviks.
Of the 21 members of the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party in April of 1917, three were Ethnic Jews.
Of the 13 members present for the October 10, 1917 meeting that started the October Revolution, six were Jewish: Zinoviev, Kamenev, Leon Trotsky!, Moisei Uritsky, Sverdlov, and Grigory Sokolnikov.
Something about Atheist Jews and Marxism, the dialecticism found in Judaism transitioning easily to Marxism.
Alinsky, Soros, Chomsky et al are the modern day Marxists.
Holger on August 13, 2009 at 2:12 AM
I just think that Marxism appealed to Jews as the antagonistic ideology to Imperialism, under which European Jews suffered.
They packed it in their suitcases when they immigrated to the US and clung to it when they found themselves unwelcome here.
guntotinglibertarian on August 13, 2009 at 2:17 AM
No actually it was quite festive.
RIght after uncle Ahkmeni hung 10 of us from the streetlights for being gay until we shat our pants and stopped kicking, he sent another 5 million over to hezbollah to fund the next Bagel-splosion. He promised us all that this time they would have a live cam of the walk into as well as the explosion…as soon as he was able to find three cerebral palsy women to strp some bombs to that is…most of them don’t survive to be old enough to walk in the market alone though in the middle east…
Everyone had a grand old time…we even played where’s Nedah…one person puts on a burqa and runs around while the rest of os shoot while blindfolded in her general direction…so much fun.
Any other bigotry you want to spew guntotinlibertardian??
BillaryMcBush on August 13, 2009 at 2:19 AM
Well, they didn’t cling to God, that is for sure.
I’ve argued with a Marxist before, fairly smart one as well. From the debate it does not appear to be anything they have reasoned themselves into. It felt more like I was debating with Christians at Campus Crusade for Christ.
Holger on August 13, 2009 at 2:23 AM
Despised by your family. Sentenced to death by your Mullahs. Shunned by most of the people you come into daily contact with.
And still clinging to a 7th-Century cult.
Sucks to be you, baby.
guntotinglibertarian on August 13, 2009 at 2:32 AM
Wow Mehgan McCain was right. There are bigoted racist a$$holes in the republican party.
Thankfully, the ones like you are in the ever decreasing minority.
I am not surprised that an airhead bimbo like that gets serious airtime when ignorant morons like you exist.
And you guys think you will take back the white house? hehe.
BillaryMcBush on August 13, 2009 at 3:05 AM
dude, i was bustin’ out laughing at this. Thanks for the link! HILARIOUS
ted c on August 13, 2009 at 6:31 AM
Has anyone else yet figured out that these evil doctors that Obama says will do anything to people just to make money are the same people that Obama, in his money-saving Obamacare, suddenly expects us to trust with out most vital end of life decisions.
It’s like telling a Roman era Christian that the hungry lions are just there to help them figure out what’s for lunch!
Don L on August 13, 2009 at 6:44 AM
DSW and Famous Footwear just called O’Barry. Something about a bailout…
Grace_is_sufficient on August 13, 2009 at 6:56 AM
Notice in the video above how the Democrats stacked the crowd to mimic the demographics of those attending the Congressional Town Halls?….
albill on August 13, 2009 at 7:29 AM
Huh?
unclesmrgol on August 13, 2009 at 8:39 AM
This guy has no credibility left. He’ll say anything, he’s too lazy to get the facts and anyway, the facts don’t support his case.
This health care plan is DOA. Put a toe tag on it.
NoDonkey on August 13, 2009 at 8:41 AM
You can take that comparison and stuff it<
Dark-Star on August 13, 2009 at 8:57 AM
No no, you don’t want to kill the patient. You want them to live so you can keep unnecessarily amputating other parts of their body. Get with the program dude.
eyedoc on August 13, 2009 at 9:06 AM
I am sick and tired of this lying moron demonizing the medical profession. His lack of veracity concretes our belief that is he a charlatan.
drjohn on August 13, 2009 at 9:07 AM
Obama is like that kid who refuses to stop dancing in the dance competition even though it’s already over.
Someone tell him he’s lost the debate on health care. He only makes it worse every time he opens his pie hole.
Thunderstorm129 on August 13, 2009 at 9:08 AM
AP, you need to screen a little better.
drjohn on August 13, 2009 at 9:09 AM
It is unfortunate but a large part of the population with the help of the msm takes every word out of his mouth as gospel.
LennyV on August 13, 2009 at 9:10 AM
Isn’t this the same AMA that requires doctors opposing abortion to refer abortion seekers, and which opposed Bush’s freedom of conscience directives?
Isn’t this the same AMA which recently endorsed Obama’s health initiatives?
I’m having a little problem with my sympathy circuits here.
unclesmrgol on August 13, 2009 at 9:12 AM
So, what Obama Scare will legislate against is sick people; He wants to eliminate sick people!
If this passes, there goes Congress! The largest group of sickos in the history of the United States.
Cybergeezer on August 13, 2009 at 9:13 AM
Either you or the AMA misspelled “chump.”
Daggett on August 13, 2009 at 9:27 AM
Next up for Dr. Obama: spleens.
Obama: “You…uh.. go to the doctor for…uh….you know…..a headache…….and uh……next thing ya know…..uh…..your spleen has been ripped out.”
If he was capable of stopping himself, he would have stopped at tonsils.
David2.0 on August 13, 2009 at 9:28 AM
Obamacare: A shovel ready project if there ever was one.
ted c on August 13, 2009 at 9:38 AM
Is it my imagination or is Obama accusing doctors of doing what was performed on Jews and others during the Hitler regime? I believe the pot is calling the kettle black, considering his “science czar” beleives in eugenics and euthanasia. I’m beginning to lose my sense of humor.
Nalea on August 13, 2009 at 9:44 AM
Don’t be so sure.
Daggett on August 13, 2009 at 9:49 AM
Huh?
It used to be a melting pot.
Thanks to uncle Teddy K, we moved away from European immigration and towards 3rd world immigration somewhere in the 60′s, I believe. It’s been all down hill from there.
Tell me, how are the hispanics, arabs, indians, asians, and the Somali “lost boys” assimilating these days?
America has become a cauldron………..not a melting pot. Do NOT claim for yourself the experience of Europeans who came here, worked hard, and embraced the values and greatness of this nation, and then added to it.
Those Europeans created the term “melting pot” through their example. YOU seem to think you can come here, get a gov’t subsidized apt. in NYC, and then claim the term “melting pot”.
It sickens me.
David2.0 on August 13, 2009 at 9:53 AM
My wooden leg is hurting… Maybe it’s going to rain.
ted c on August 13, 2009 at 9:55 AM
We’re not just shootin’ for the White House champ. It’s the whole country that needs to be taken back.
Feel free to stand in the way.
darwin on August 13, 2009 at 10:00 AM
i agree. For this to be a melting pot, there first has to be a willingness on the part of the immigrant to somewhat reduce their allegiance to the motherland and pledge allegiance here. Second, there needs to be some heat applied in order to make them melt. Well, we’ve lost both the willingness and the damn heat for the sake of “multiculturalism” and “diversity.” What’d that net us? Barack Throckmorton Obama.
ted c on August 13, 2009 at 10:02 AM
Everyone needs to check their city, county, and state for indigent health care programs that already cover the uninsured.
In Hillsborough County, Florida we have this: The Hillsborough County Health Care Plan.
The average monthly cost per enrollee served plummeted from about $600 to $250 over a period when most health care costs were rising.
visit their site: http://www.cjaonline.net/Communities/FL_Hillsborough.htm
mydogwonthunt on August 13, 2009 at 10:02 AM
sounds like it’s time for a whole lotta natural selection to be takin’ place…
who’s drivin’ the survival o’ da fittest bus? I gots me a ticket
ted c on August 13, 2009 at 10:03 AM
I saw CNN go absolutely bonkers this morning when Chuck Grassley at a town hall in Iowa said the government should not be involved in end of life decisions. The reporter mentioned about 17,000 times that there are no death panels in Obama’s plan, and how could Grassley who is one of the more reasoned Republicans say such a lie…
Kaus quoting Obama on
deathend of life planning panels.Given Obama’s pattern of throwing friends and family under the bus politically, is it really such a stretch he might support pulling or reducing care for
non-Obama contributorsstrangers who are consuming too many resources?Mr. Joe on August 13, 2009 at 10:05 AM
Are you telling me that the benificent hand that is Obama, the one who when his voice speaks a country is lifted, that when he waxes oratorically the styrofoam shakes–and Weezie’s knees tremble—and kitchens are gifted—and hope is revealed and change is brought down from high… are you telling me that this wonderful being would ever consider smiting a humble peasant boy like myself….?
*cough cough* koolaid goes spattering….
ted c on August 13, 2009 at 10:11 AM
Excuse me you ignorant hack? You don’t know anything about my “government subsidized apartement” or my ability to claim melting pot status for this country basd on my situational awareness.
My father came to the united states in the 1960s. He had a medical degree and a thriving practice overseas before coming here. He went through the process of recertifying his medical credentials aka repeating med school for a us degree and then set up a practice here. None of it was government subsidized at any point.
In addition to earning gobs of cash as a result of his exceptional proficiency in his field, he also donated 2 days of every week doing pro bono work in the inner cities
at the health clinic, helping americans who could not afford medical treatment recieve it.
When the time came for me to go to college, none of it was governement subsidized, and eventually after college when i moved to new york city, by manhattan apartment in the financial district was not governement subsidized either…it was subsidized by my work for the wall street companies.
Now i know that just like in the left0sphere where the hate runs rampant with the freaks and extremists, the rightosphere suffers from the same condition…but just because your racist mindset says that melting pot requires having a great grand something or other who was on the mayflower, you are mistaken.
by the way my dad was one of three borthers all with medical degrees and private practices who came to the states at the same time in the 1960s. They all did the same thing my dad did.
I am willing to bet money that my family has contributed far more to the tax base, and given far more to help fellow americans in terms of time and services than your family has in the past 2 generations.
But you feel free to run your mouth again without knowing crap about anyone, just don’t get pissed when you get characterized by the MSM as the party of racist ignorant bigots and back woods hicks and klan members…you feed them.
BillaryMcBush on August 13, 2009 at 10:19 AM
Wait until they have “affirmative action” via numerical quotas for transplant recipients.
TexasJew on August 13, 2009 at 10:20 AM
Oh and by the way, you actually are one of those bigotted racists they talk about. Get over your ethnic superiority.
BillaryMcBush on August 13, 2009 at 10:23 AM
That’s what happens when you have a community organizer in the White House, he doesn’t know anything except agitation to get his way. The press and congress have let him get away with it 3 times already, I guess the 4th time wasn’t a charm. Now, perhaps, he’ll learn a little about politics.
bflat879 on August 13, 2009 at 10:24 AM
You apparently agree with those characterizations so I’m bewildered how you think you have some moral superiority to judge anyone else.
Projection is an insidious little beast … learn to control yours.
darwin on August 13, 2009 at 10:24 AM
Get over yours chump.
darwin on August 13, 2009 at 10:24 AM
He’s just jealous that he was too dumb and verbally incoherent to become a wealthy ambulance chaser like smooth ol’ John Edwards, so he’s trying to make up for it..
TexasJew on August 13, 2009 at 10:25 AM
Boy, the president is beginning to sound like someone without much experience.
shar61 on August 13, 2009 at 10:27 AM
STOP
FEEDING
THE
TROLL
jeez…
ChristianRock on August 13, 2009 at 10:35 AM
Our Dear Leader does not know what is in any of these bills, nor does he care. All he has to do is get one passed and then the “regulators” can do anything they want.
It is amazing to me that a substantial minority of those polled are still in favor of his “plan” – the man doesn’t understand that neither endocrinologists nor pediatricians do surgery. How ignorant is that?
Carol in MD on August 13, 2009 at 10:42 AM
Obama is a liar that will say and do anything to advance his agenda of as close to complete government control as he can get.
He know nothing about economics or medicine. He is an uneducated liar. A good liar would at least educate himself on the subject so he would not get caught every stinking time he opens his mouth but his narcissism gets in the way.
We have a sick sick man in the WH and with all the socialists propping him up and protecting him, all we can do is keep up the protests, work for 2010 and then 2012.
Forget the troll. This is serious shit.
ORconservative on August 13, 2009 at 10:47 AM
Slightly O/T: Just listened to Ingraham demagoguing some insurance lobby spokesman. Rather than letting this guy explain himself, she basically insulted his integrity because he wasn’t totally opposed to ObamaCare en toto. Accused him of carrying Duh Won’s water because he wanted to differentiate between the four House bills.
Yesterday, I commented on a thread that she was past her pull date and that’s why she wasn’t on the top conservatives list. Today, she confirmed my view that she’s not much different than the thugs at SEIU – you will blindly adopt the party line or you’re the enemy.
When the true core conservatives coalesce into a viable force, people may be surprised at who gets left at the curb.
platypus on August 13, 2009 at 11:02 AM
There is an argument that one problem with rising healthcare costs is that fee for service payment encourages waste and duplication. Unfortunately, there is little competition with other payment schemes because the govt. via medicare reimburses via fee for service.
Nothing in the current plans addresses this at all.
aikidoka on August 13, 2009 at 11:09 AM
White House’s next pivot: It’s not the EVIL DOCTORS that are evil, it’s the EVIL HOSPITALS that force them to chop off people’s limbs. They’re greedily thirsting for more revenue from hospital stays and $50 aspirin.
Never mind that hospitals are typically crowded, and have tons of policies in place to shoo people out of beds as quick as they can.
After that: it’s the EVIL ANESTHESIOLOGISTS! Or maybe the Big Prosthetics lobby.
hawksruleva on August 13, 2009 at 11:21 AM
http://www.politico.com/politicopulse/
reshas1 on August 13, 2009 at 11:23 AM
Darwin, precious little Billary here is still sulking because yesterday, when he came on and introduced himself as a “gay, muslim, american, iranian expatriot, former Hillary supporter” I pointed out that he put “american” third and that sort of set the poor little guy off.
He doesn’t seem to understand that real americans aren’t into the identity politics thing.
If we’re not willing to leap to our feet and celebrate his various proud identities, we’re bigots.
Apparently, they’re really celebrating the heck out of gays back in his ol’ Iranian digs.
Religion of peace and tolerance, ya know.
guntotinglibertarian on August 13, 2009 at 11:59 AM
Does this very sanctimonious man realize that the biggest users of health care later in life are–wait for it—smokers!
MADgirl91 on August 13, 2009 at 12:37 PM
SOMEONE in the Bootlick media should ask Obama……
First the person sets up the question by using Barrys’ own words about “80% of costs” that he used in May…
…then they ask him….
“Do you think the elderly that are contributing to those high costs have a DUTY TO DIE?”
Catch him off guard without the prompter and let’s see what he says.
NOTE TO JAKE TAPPER………FEEL FREE TO USE THIS Bootboy.
PappyD61 on August 13, 2009 at 12:59 PM
What’s next, circumcisions? I can hear Obama now:
Obama, what a schmuck!
(FWIW – I posted this comment twice on other posts before getting it on this, the intended post – too many windows open at once!)
pain train on August 13, 2009 at 1:11 PM
His lips were moving so I’m sure he was lying!
TrickyDick on August 13, 2009 at 1:39 PM
What an ass – demonizing the insurance companies is one thing – I mean, we generally regard them as a necessary evil, but we don’t really like them. Most people do like or respect their doctor, and other doctors they know.
holdfast on August 13, 2009 at 1:46 PM
I’ve never had a problem with insurance companies.
guntotinglibertarian on August 13, 2009 at 2:08 PM
I sent the AMA a email asking them why they continue to support a president who has ruined their reputation by implying they are only in it for money and are will to remove organs and cut off your limbs for profit.
milwife88 on August 13, 2009 at 2:17 PM
Racist. Private Lim Shee Ng, AEF, who lies at Forest Lawn in Buffalo, New York, and who died of injuries sustained after being gassed by the Huns in the trenches, has just as much a right to claim a place in the melting pot as your vaunted Europeans. As does Harry Sumida, Spanish American War Navy veteran, whom Michelle thinks deserved to be taken from his home and placed in Manzanar.
The so-called “third world” was part and parcel of the founding and continued existence of the United States — especially if you count Black contributions.
unclesmrgol on August 13, 2009 at 2:27 PM
WTF are you talking about? You jumped the gun.
darwin on August 13, 2009 at 2:35 PM
+1
Al in St. Lou on August 13, 2009 at 3:16 PM
Yet another entity thrown under the bus. WOW! Getting to the point where steep gears will be required to get up and over the mountain of logs.
larvcom on August 13, 2009 at 3:26 PM
Yup…racist bigots are ripe and ready for the picking in the redneck party. Don’t forget to mention you blamed the jews for marxism.
BillaryMcBush on August 13, 2009 at 3:37 PM
You just described statist’s in general.
chemman on August 13, 2009 at 4:54 PM
Ahhh, so glad you’re still here, precious.
So who got up first this morning?
The Muslim?
The gay?
The Iranian?
The Hillary supporter?
I bet that sleepy-head American is still snoozing hmmm?
By the way, since you’re incapable of processing much more than porn, let’s clear up your adobable little head about Marxism, shall we?
I said, and it is historical fact, that European and Russian Jews were attracted to Marxism because they saw it as a way out of the oppression of Imperialism.
Of course, I understand your concern. We all know what champions Muslims are of the Jewish people, right?
Why, it’s right there in your Holy Koran…
Isn’t it?
guntotinglibertarian on August 13, 2009 at 5:17 PM
Run through the BillaryMcBush translation unit … what this is really saying is “I have nothing else to whine about so I’m going to lie and call people “racist” in an attempt to prove something, but I really don’t know what I can prove except that I’m a stupid a$$hole.”.
darwin on August 13, 2009 at 7:00 PM
ROTFLMAO
darwin on August 13, 2009 at 7:01 PM
I’ve had neurosurgery, twice, for a head injury. The brain surgeon got $5000, not $30-40,000. It amazes me how in the age of Google demagogues like Obama continue to think they can just make stuff up and get away it.
kd6rxl on August 13, 2009 at 7:17 PM
I’m talking about this:
Ya folla’?
unclesmrgol on August 13, 2009 at 8:15 PM
You must see racism in everything. There is nothing “racist” in what he said. Read it again and stop looking for it.
darwin on August 13, 2009 at 10:20 PM
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