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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 06:23 PM
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Crooks & Liars: NY Daily News Columnist Nails It: Obama is The Real Target, Not Health Policy
NY Daily News Columnist Nails It: Obama is The Real Target, Not Health Policy

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/ny-daily-news-columnist-nails-it-obam

By Susie Madrak Monday Aug 17, 2009 3:00pm

It's always nice to see a journalist who gets it, and Mike Lupica understands what's really going on with the anti-healthcare reform protesters:

The woman went to an airplane hangar in Belgrade, Mont., the other day, prepared to actually listen to President Obama talk about health care reform in America.

She has watched, the way the rest of us have watched, as the debate about health care has turned into a sideshow and in some cases even more of a freak show than Glenn Beck's. Now she wanted to see for herself, along with more than 1,000 others, if it would happen this way in Montana.

This is what she said about the event when it was over:

"Yes, there were a few protesters en route. But the Montanans who were excited to hear the President far outnumbered the fringe groups."

Then she said this about Obama: "He was smart, fair, funny."

So this wasn't an occasion when people with legitimate concerns and legitimate points to make were overwhelmed by the wing nuts and screamers who take their marching orders from right-wing radio and television and the Internet.

Those idiots come to these town hall meetings more to be seen than heard, and think creating chaos makes them great Americans.
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tsuki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 06:28 PM
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1. Here:
Those idiots come to these town hall meetings more to be seen than heard, and think creating chaos makes them great WHITE Americans.

FIFY
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 06:28 PM
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2. Same from the so-called "liberals"...
"I think there’s something perverse in the very strong desire I see among liberals to make problems in congress be about anything other than congress. It’s just not in the power of Barack Obama to make the senate anything other than what it is. To pass a bill, you need sixty votes. To get sixty votes you need Ben Nelson or Olympia Snowe to back your bill. Neither Nelson nor Snowe is especially liberal, and the President doesn’t have a great deal of leverage over either of them."

http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/08/the-daschle-counterfactual.php
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Tangerine LaBamba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 06:47 PM
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3. Boy!
Edited on Mon Aug-17-09 06:51 PM by Tangerine LaBamba
That is SO correct, and it's what Tweety was trying to get to when he questioned those two weasel Congressmen on his show tonight. Of course, neither would answer.

Why are they bringing guns?

Because Obama is our President, and he is black.

I wonder what they'd do if all factors were identical except Obama was a Republican. Would they be packing then?

That's all. These people are nothing but the visible signs of the cancer than is the right wing, the worst of which is below the surface, and all they want to do - who cares whether it's good for America? - is bring down Obama.

And they will. No one in the Democratic party is showing any organization, any spine, any balls, any organization that can stand up and take on these zealots. The comparison at the end of the article to Ken Starr's pursuit of Clinton is appropriate, I believe.

They are hunting Obama, and those dickless wonders just like to wag their weenies-in-a-holster to remind that big black guy who's REALLY in charge, that if he were smart, he'd be scared.

Remember when Obama was sworn in on January 20 of this year, and people were talking about how far we'd come, what a watershed even this was in the history of race in this country?

Well, weren't we all wrong about THAT?

My ugly America of today..........................................
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ejpoeta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 07:15 PM
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4. a woman on cnn today was saying, obama had thousands at his rallies
when he was running for election... where are they now in the town halls!! the town halls are filled with people who do not support what obama is doing... where are his supporters now!! i wanted to reach through the screen and throttle her. they are there, just no one is covering them. and i think the other guy said as much. the crazies with the shouting are the ones being covered. it makes me so mad. these guys are trying to make it sound like EVERYONE is against the reforms... but only the idiots with the misspelled signs and the loud mouths and the guns are the ones we see on tv.
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 08:09 PM
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5. Reverse psychology tactic: Have Obama proclaim he hates public option
and/or single payor.

Voila, instant reform.
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