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Town hall tension: Meeting turns ugly over health care
Memphis Commercial Appeal ^
| August 8, 2009
| Linda Moore
Posted on 08/09/2009 3:52:05 AM PDT by Man50D
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posted on
08/09/2009 3:52:05 AM PDT
by
Man50D
To: Man50D
“Maybe I’ve got seven or eight more years. To me all life is precious no matter what age,”
I doubt the Central Planners share this view.
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posted on
08/09/2009 4:00:32 AM PDT
by
TCats
To: Man50D
"The nearly all-white audience was not a snapshot of the mostly African-American 9th District that Cohen represents. One of those who came from outside the district was Mark Mullis, 67..."
"NIGHT RIDERS AND OUTSIDE AGITATORS!" Just can't stop playing the race card, eh? Got nothing else? I think that move has worn a bit thin.
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posted on
08/09/2009 4:03:49 AM PDT
by
PowderMonkey
(Will work for ammo. Proud member of the well dressed mob.)
To: PowderMonkey
To: Man50D
Cohen was prepared.
"This is America, this is Memphis, Tennessee. Take two aspirin and come back in the morning," he yelled over out over the room. I see he got his talking points from "just take a painkiller for your heart problems" Obama.
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posted on
08/09/2009 4:07:30 AM PDT
by
raybbr
(It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
To: Man50D
Most people in the crowd of close to 500 were in loud opposition, although Cohen supporters held their own, waving signs that read "Health Care Now." Yes, on one side of the aisle were the taxpayers of this country; on the other side were the union thugs, freeloaders, and recipients of the government largesse, who only want more and more.
Unfortunately for us all, the taxpayers are in the minority. They need to shut up and pay more taxes according to the Marxists. To each according to his needs, from each according to his ability.
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posted on
08/09/2009 4:08:05 AM PDT
by
olezip
To: Man50D
Probably the same “grassroot” signs they picked up at the Florida meeting where they decided they couldnt use them.
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posted on
08/09/2009 4:11:09 AM PDT
by
Venturer
To: Man50D
Point of fact to all so called "Journalists"
All those arrested so far for violence at town halls are Obama supporters.
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posted on
08/09/2009 4:12:55 AM PDT
by
MNJohnnie
(Obamanomics: we have to destroy the US Economy in order to save it!)
To: Man50D
Cardiologist Dr. James Klemis believes that ethically the poor must be taken care of. But this bill is being rushed and is too similar to Canada's and Britain's socialized medicine, he said. They are being taken care of under the current system. That is one of the biggest lies of the Democrat mantra on Health Care, that they would extend care to the uncared for.
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posted on
08/09/2009 4:14:31 AM PDT
by
MNJohnnie
(Obamanomics: we have to destroy the US Economy in order to save it!)
To: olezip
I could not have said it better myself. You are absolutely correct.
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posted on
08/09/2009 4:15:42 AM PDT
by
Shane
(I'll keep my guns, money and freedom, you can keep the change.)
To: Man50D
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posted on
08/09/2009 4:16:52 AM PDT
by
Mad Dawgg
(If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the next one...)
To: Man50D
Despite the boos, jeers and general disorder Saturday, Cohen said that after 33 years in public service he wasn't rattled.
Yet another reason why term limits should be the law of the land!
Oh and Stevie, you may not be rattled yet-but we're just getting started...
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posted on
08/09/2009 4:18:47 AM PDT
by
snuffy smiff
(the only good commie is a dead commie)
To: MNJohnnie
All those arrested so far for violence at town halls are Obama supporters. I wonder if they get a bonus for getting busted, in addition to their normal astroturf check?
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posted on
08/09/2009 4:20:10 AM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Man50D
FactCheck (mentioned in the article) is not non partisan. It is Leftwing, like Snopes but with, perhaps, a greater bias since it gets the monies from the same foundation that funded B. Hussein Obama and William Ayers when they worked together.
Their confirmation of O'Bolshevik's deskjet printed COLB is also fishy since the COLB as given to KOS and on their hilariously named "fight the smears" website is a horrible fogery: Obama's COLB is still a horrible fogery. Change you can believe in
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posted on
08/09/2009 4:22:33 AM PDT
by
Stepan12
(Palin & Bolton in 2012)
To: Man50D
Reading the comments section at the Comical Appeal web site, someone said there were 10 doctors there that spoke, 8 of which were strongly against Obamacare, and 2 that were only skeptical.
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posted on
08/09/2009 4:24:22 AM PDT
by
zipper
To: Man50D
Does anyone really think that any one of these Democrats is going to pay the slightest attention to any opposition to this bill? The Democrats are for big government, first, last, and always.
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posted on
08/09/2009 4:28:14 AM PDT
by
popdonnelly
(Yes, we disagree - no, we won't shut up - no, we won't quit.)
To: Man50D
This protest movement is only partly about healthcare.
IMO a lot of the energy and fear and anger are due to the idea that Obama and his supporters are simply taking control of America...whether the voters like it or not.
Healthcare is one of the first fronts, but if Obama succeeds here, the march to complete control continues with even greater force.
Once Obama controls your personal healthcare, he will dare you to protest or disagree. If he will threaten Jon Kyl as blatantly as he did (with letters to AZ Gov. Jan Brewer from Transportation Sec. Ray LaHood, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, HUD Sec. Shaun Donovan, and Interior Sec. Ken Salazar threatening the withholding of stimulus moneys), one can only imagine how he might intimidate regular citizens.
We must win on healthcare!
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posted on
08/09/2009 4:33:11 AM PDT
by
SonOfDarkSkies
(Obama is "An" AntiChrist...but is he "THE" AntiChrist? The jury is still out...for the moment!)
To: Man50D
“I expected it to be a lot worse,” Cohen said.”
Hold another one then!
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posted on
08/09/2009 4:34:48 AM PDT
by
jmaroneps37
(Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
To: Smokin' Joe
These goon beasts were arrested. Where are their names, Locals, hometowns, and pictures? Where is the info as to whether or not they were “on the clock” at the time?
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posted on
08/09/2009 4:35:04 AM PDT
by
DGHoodini
(Iran Azadi!)
To: Man50D
As the GA town hall meeting shows (where the Dem congressman accused a constituent who was also a doctor of being bused in from outside), these Dems have brainwashed themselves into thinking these aren’t their constituents, but rather people bused in from other areas.
They’ll go back to Washington and vote it in. Only Nov. 2010 will they realize they were their constituents.
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posted on
08/09/2009 4:43:49 AM PDT
by
Brookhaven
(And in their desperation, they turned to a man they fully did not understand--Rise of the Joker)
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