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Emotion, few details, in Obama's health care pitch
breitbart ^

Posted on 07/02/2009 12:22:05 AM PDT by newbie2008

President Barack Obama wanted to put a human face on his plans to overhaul health care, and a Virginia supporter did just that Wednesday. Fighting back tears, Debby Smith, 53, told Obama of her kidney cancer and her inability to obtain health insurance or hold a job. The president hugged her--she's a volunteer for his political operation--and called her "exhibit A" in an unsustainable system that is too expensive and complex for millions of Americans. ... Smith, of Appalachia, Va., is a volunteer for Organizing for America, Obama's political operation within the Democratic National Committee. She obtained her ticket through the White House.

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1 posted on 07/02/2009 12:22:06 AM PDT by newbie2008
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To: newbie2008

I was sleeping so Missed it but I can here him now, “Debby! It is Debby, right? If my health care proposals were law today, you could rest assured that a Government appoint administrator with no experience in health care would be reviewing your case right now. And once they had looked at your condition, the state of your cancer, and the cost of treatment versus success for your type of cancer, you could go home knowing that you could spend the rest of your short life happy with all the morphine you could handle at minimum cost to you,


2 posted on 07/02/2009 12:33:02 AM PDT by Wooly
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To: newbie2008

Under the Obama Health Plan this poor woman would be given pain killers and told to go home and die....


3 posted on 07/02/2009 12:41:27 AM PDT by Fred (Obama Throws the Iranian Citizens Under the Bus)
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To: Wooly

He is lying, Debby.


4 posted on 07/02/2009 1:42:29 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: Fred

Exactly. Debby, all politicians lie.


5 posted on 07/02/2009 1:43:15 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: newbie2008
BHO is looking desperate in his little circus tour. The lying has become frequent and obvious. ShamWow only works at the idiot end of the bell curve! Let's give ZERO a bif ZERO for his efforts!
6 posted on 07/02/2009 3:45:29 AM PDT by iopscusa (El Vaquero. (SC Lowcountry Cowboy))
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To: newbie2008
The president hugged her--she's a volunteer for his political operation--and called her "exhibit A"

Another pre-planned plant. Helen Thomas was right yesterday. Everything is controlled by obamma to further his agenda.

7 posted on 07/02/2009 4:24:17 AM PDT by rawhide
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