Pres.Obama is the real target of health care protesters, not policy

[Iwillnevergiveup]

New York Daily News
by Mike Lupica

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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.

Those people have been convinced by the current culture that we are dying to hear from them, and the louder the better. People who think that all they need to star in their own reality series is a couple of TV crews. But then this is Twitter America now, where no thought is supposed to go unspoken.



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[Iwillnevergiveup]

1. This is what it all boils down to

Who, in their right mind, would be FOR insurance companies?

[graywarrior]

2. Bigots and racists would rather stick pins in their eyes than accept a black man as president

[gateley]

3. Boy, that really sums it up, doesn't it? nt

[Iwillnevergiveup]

4. Honor and legacy

The Ted Kennedy Health/Well Being for All Bill. That's what I want to see.

[Walk away]

5. It's the Democrats in the Senate that are holding up reform..

The kooky wing nuts seem to be a good excuse for our president, the white house and our majority in the senate to break their promise to us.

What is the point of playing this ridiculous "town hall meeting" game? We have no good reason to pay any attention to a Republican at all.

It seems to me that what is really happening is that this reform is all about cutting medicare services and punishing people who eat too much or smoke.

If 80% of the bill has already been agreed upon by the republicans and democrats....what do you think we're going to get.

Failed co-ops like the blood sucking BC/BS? Mandatory enrollment with no public option?