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Those White Coats In The Rose Garden
IBD Editorials ^ | October 6, 2009 | INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY Staff

Posted on 10/06/2009 5:08:05 PM PDT by Kaslin

Politics: The administration stages a photo-op with handpicked doctors who support its health care reform. Fortunately, most doctors still believe that the first rule of medicine is to do no harm.

It would seem some doctors still make house calls. Some 150 of them made one at the White House Monday in an attempt to give a booster shot to the administration's chaotic and stalled health care reform drive.

Rather than a grass-roots uprising of physicians, this was a classic case of AstroTurfing.

Attendance was by invitation only, and 40 of the 150 were said to be members of Doctors for America, a reincarnation of the Doctors for Obama arm of the Obama campaign that boasts of having more than 15,000 members.

The physicians were told to bring their white lab coats with them to make sure the TV cameras to capture the proper image. Those who just showed up wearing suits or dresses were provided with lab coats hastily rustled up.

White House spokesman Reid Cherlin insisted that the doctors "were not invited based on their support for a public option." We'd like a second opinion on that. Doctors for America as an organization embraces a government-run insurance option.

"It just appears that the president of the United States, at this point, is choosing to meet only those who support his agenda," said Dr. Margaret Flowers, a Maryland pediatrician and congressional fellow for Physicians for a National Health Program, a group not invited.

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To: Tamzee; Fred Nerks
Good stuff. Thanks for popsting it. The SOROS finger seems to be in every pie.
41 posted on 10/06/2009 9:45:11 PM PDT by Candor7 (The effective weapons against Fascism are ridicule, derision, and truth (Member NRA)
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To: potlatch; devolve; PhilDragoo; bitt

Docs/Soros ping

It will take more than fake lab coats to cover this up.


42 posted on 10/06/2009 10:24:53 PM PDT by ntnychik
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To: nascarnation

The medical unions (SEIU/ACORN) will eventually replace America docs and nurses with illegals and ACORN thugs who have no clue.

Keep calling and faxing.

www.faxzero.com allows you to send two free faxes per day.


43 posted on 10/06/2009 10:26:19 PM PDT by Frantzie (Do we want ACORN running America's health care?)
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To: Tamzee

Lots of Moose Limbs in those photos.


44 posted on 10/06/2009 10:56:16 PM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government)
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To: Fred Nerks

>>One day hopefully, the community-organizer-in-chief will be wearing a white coat...over the top of an orange jumpsuit.

I’d like to see the white coats hauling him off in straightjacket with a butterfly net over his head.

LQ


45 posted on 10/07/2009 5:05:02 AM PDT by LizardQueen (The world is not out to get you, except in the sense that the world is out to get everyone.)
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To: Kaslin

But of course the ABCNNBCBS mainstream media didn’t “notice” this little self-propagandizing effort by Obama.

(But had a Bush White HOuse only invited one sided “photo-op” groups ....)


46 posted on 10/07/2009 7:08:35 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: bergmeid

Brian who? The one who always looks like he just came off the slopes?


47 posted on 10/07/2009 10:19:14 AM PDT by cubreporter (.)
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To: fulltlt

Of course.


48 posted on 10/07/2009 10:19:28 AM PDT by cubreporter (.)
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To: Kaslin
Visiting nurse checked my 90 yr old mom today. As she went to put the BP cuff on, my mom said

"You're not putting that around my neck are you?"

Nurse: "No, Obama doesn't tell us what to do yet."

I was amazed. This is blue state CT. More than that though is that the nurses keep away from anything which might upset. That she felt easy enough making this joke means Obama is not liked by the other patients she sees.

49 posted on 10/07/2009 10:25:20 AM PDT by Brugmansian
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To: Brugmansian
Maybe she saw the:

One

Big

Ass

Mistake

America

bumper sticker on your car.

50 posted on 10/07/2009 10:30:56 AM PDT by stevio (Crunchy Con - God, guns, guts, and organically grown crunchy nuts.)
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To: ntnychik; potlatch; devolve; Kaslin

51 posted on 10/07/2009 1:31:38 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Kenya)
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To: ntnychik

He should have waited a few more weeks and just handed out Halloween costumes, like Frankenstein, the Mummy, Nurse Rached, etc.


52 posted on 10/07/2009 4:15:54 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: potlatch


53 posted on 10/07/2009 5:06:00 PM PDT by devolve ( . . . . . . . . . . Barack Hussein Obama mmm mmm mmm . . . . . . . . . . .)
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To: Kaslin
Doctors are, typically, successful, profitable entrepreneurs with an in-demand skill. Of course they were going to be an Obamunist target.

The only educated, currently-employed-but-soon-to-be-jettisoned subculture that is safe from O'barry's onslaught is university professors of BlaKKK Womyn's Studies.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

54 posted on 10/07/2009 5:21:33 PM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: devolve

Good post devolve


55 posted on 10/07/2009 5:26:20 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: potlatch

.

Thanks potlatch

147 short!


56 posted on 10/07/2009 5:34:04 PM PDT by devolve ( . . . . . . . . . . Barack Hussein Obama mmm mmm mmm . . . . . . . . . . .)
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To: devolve
Lol, it would fill the whole thread.
Only important news I saw today was about the 1.4 trillion dollar deficit.
57 posted on 10/07/2009 5:46:48 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: potlatch

.

A trillion here - A trillion there
Where will all the trillions go?

Congress voted for 10(?) C-17 the Pentagon said they did not need or want

Parts from all over the USA

Congress is buying votes for 2010 & 2012


58 posted on 10/07/2009 6:37:47 PM PDT by devolve ( . . . . . . . . . . Barack Hussein Obama mmm mmm mmm . . . . . . . . . . .)
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To: devolve

There were some planes that were wanted and they wouldn’t give. Are the C-17 planes? I am not familiar with all of this.

Did you see pictures of people lined up for bailout money and every one of them were hugely fat? Supposedly homeless people but they must eat good!


59 posted on 10/07/2009 6:45:57 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: potlatch
...every one of them were hugely fat? Supposedly homeless people but they must eat good!

Maybe since they're homeless, they're trying to become their own homes...like turtles.

60 posted on 10/07/2009 7:00:50 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs, nothing more than bald haired hippies.)
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