Posted on 08/13/2009 10:48:22 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
The mother of a sixth-grade Malden girl, whose “mean sign” question to President Obama at his Portsmouth, N.H., health care forum was a softball that he slugged out of the park, insisted yesterday the child was not “a plant.”
“I thought it was great,” Kathleen Manning Hall said of Obama’s answer to the question posed by her daughter Julia.
The girl became a target of conservative critics such as Michelle Malkin yesterday, who alleged that the poised and eloquent 11-year-old was “a plant” after the revelation that her mother served as an organizer for Obama’s campaign.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
Too bad you didn’t screen caption that - the bots have scrubbed it!
Link: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/2009081311-year-old_lobbed_prez_a_question_at_nh_foru
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Did these people all get off a bus?
Linky no worky
US? Your mother gave $1,200 to Barack. She could've spent that on health care for her family. If you are doing without, it is because she gave a drop of blood sweat and tears into Obama's $750,000,000 war chest for the 2008 election.
Link broken again?
LOL! Jessica Van Sack
Uniblab?
The mother of a sixth-grade Malden girl, whose “mean sign” question to President Obama at his Portsmouth, N.H., health care forum was a softball that he slugged out of the park, insisted yesterday the child was not “a plant.”
“I thought it was great,” Kathleen Manning Hall said of Obama’s answer to the question posed by her daughter Julia.
The girl became a target of conservative critics such as Michelle Malkin yesterday, who alleged that the poised and eloquent 11-year-old was “a plant” after the revelation that her mother served as an organizer for Obama’s campaign.
Hall’s work took her as far as Iowa, and she even met first lady Michelle Obama and first daughters Sasha and Malia. In all, she personally donated $1,280 to Obama’s run.
But she had no idea her daughter would be called on by the president, Hall said, declining to comment further because “there’s a child involved.”
Asked the young Julia in Portsmouth on Tuesday: “As I was walking in, I saw a lot of signs outside saying mean things about reforming health care. How do kids know what is true, and why do people want a new system that can . . . help more of us?
The child’s question was the second of the afternoon, after New Hampshire state Rep. Peter Schmidt’s lob, which he began by first praising his government Medicare plan and then saying, “Is it time to just say we’re going to pass what the American people need and what they want, without the Republicans?”
Justin Higgins, 20, of Stratham, N.H., an incoming freshman at Tufts University, posed a tougher question to Obama.
A registered independent, he asked how the president could institute health care reform without raising taxes on the middle class.
But he doesn’t think he got an answer.
“He was extremely vague,” Higgins said. “I was looking for something like . . . ‘No new taxes, as President George Bush the first did.”
Added Higgins: “There were a lot of softball questions.
Asked yesterday about how questioners are picked, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said, “the president asks people to raise their hands and picks on them.”
Gibbs added that audience members were selected “randomly by computer.”
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1190680
Try post #11.
Slanting it again. The girl herself was not criticized, it was the Obama administration's use of the girl that was criticized. She's just a pawn in all this.
LOL! Yeah, from a database of DNC donors!
“I sent the ‘Pres__ent’ $1,280.00 and all I got for it was my kid to ask him a softball question at a staged event!”
Yeah, an SEIU/ACORN computer.
“her mother served as an organizer for Obama’s campaign.
Hall’s work took her as far as Iowa, “
So in other words; mom was/is an Obama staffer.
The left-wingers could do that any time. The Republicans don't have enough votes to win a bathroom break.
Did you read the comments over there? LOL People were saying that she was most certainly a plant.
She should be ashamed of using her child as a partisan pawn.
She tossed him a softball which he ignored, took another ball from the equipment bag and fouled it off. She asked a question and his answer was only peripherally related to it.
Brendan Sullivan is my favorite potted plant.
-PJ
Planting major falsehoods has been a favorite Alinsky strategy from the start. His acolyte, Barack Obama, learned his Industrial Areas Foundation lessons on deceiving for power while on a side trip during his Harvard years, then taught the Alinsky power tactics at the University of Chicago.
Hardly qualifies as ‘Constitutional Law’ if you ask me.
Covering for oneself by accusing the other fellow has been the left’s most successful deception for decades now. It took on its best traction lately, as leftists within Moveon.org and others have used this Nazi smear tactic for the past eight years against George W. Bush. They’ve seen how well it’s worked and just can’t stop themselves now.
(from the American Thinker yesterday)
The Herald and its readers generally lean to the right of center.
Here is the reply by backhoe #133
main()
{
if (rand() >= 0)
printf("Ask the planted little girl\n");
else
printf("Error!\n");
}
It’s simply evidence of the Democrats using gooey sentimentality and little kids to sell their lousy programs.
I wonder what the reaction would have been if an 11-year old had stood up and said, “Why do you wanna kill Grandma?”
The new Howie Carr T-shirt is to say: Obama lies, granny dies.
Must be. Gibby the Hamster never tells a lie.
Ouch! Why do I get the feeling that mom she has a “I’m already against the next war” bumper sticker or “A.N.S.W.E.R.” Perhaps, the one in my tagline. Definitely, “Yes, we can” or something related.
I wonder if this particular computer (assuming that Gibbs isn't lying) is the same computer that handles "flag@whitehouse.gov" email. You wouldn't think that a President that stacked the attending audience would screen questioners against the "snitch list", do you?
Did you notice her MySpace page was scrubbed shortly after the event?
“Did you notice her MySpace page was scrubbed shortly after the event?”
Eaker drew my attention to that:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2313757/posts?page=137#137
Guilty
Of course Hussein figures those stupid Americans will believe ANYTHING he tell them!! Of COURSE the little girl wasn’t a plant. She just HAPPENED to have the question all written out and he just HAPPENED to call on her.
The only thing missing, in title only, is Minister of Propaganda.
Everything baRack Obama does and says is MEANT for consumption for the purpose of some reaction. I don't think this American experiment will end well.
Right, that is why you were mouthing the words of the prepackaged, canned question you or one of Obamessiahs other mindless minions had written for your daughter as she was reading it. Sorry but your lips were moving as she was reading the question that she did not know herself! My wife caught this wonderful little tid bit as she watched the video.
"Those people holding 'mean signs'" are not as stupid as you think we are.
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