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CNN Medical Correspondent as Surgeon General?
Patriot Room ^ | January 6, 2009 | Clyde Middleton

Posted on 01/06/2009 2:06:42 PM PST by clyde_m

President-elect Barack Obama has approached CNN's chief medical correspondent, Sanjay Gupta, to be the country's next surgeon general, the cable news network said Tuesday. CNN said it has kept Gupta from reporting on health care policy and other matters involving the incoming Obama administration since learning he was under consideration for the post.

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: cnn; obama; surgeongeneral

1 posted on 01/06/2009 2:06:43 PM PST by clyde_m
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To: clyde_m

sorry dr. phil


2 posted on 01/06/2009 2:08:08 PM PST by JohnLongIsland
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To: clyde_m

C. Everett Gupta

BWAHAHAHAHA!!!


3 posted on 01/06/2009 2:08:31 PM PST by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: clyde_m

Interesting pick.

Gupta must have gotten the nod when Hugh Laurie explained that not only wasn’t he an American, he wasn’t even a doctor.


4 posted on 01/06/2009 2:11:56 PM PST by MediaMole
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To: clyde_m

Shoot. I was hoping for Dr. Gregory House.


5 posted on 01/06/2009 2:14:13 PM PST by Jaxter (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum.)
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To: MediaMole

Dang it. I should have read the comments first.


6 posted on 01/06/2009 2:15:17 PM PST by Jaxter (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum.)
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To: clyde_m

I was betting on Deepak Chopra.


7 posted on 01/06/2009 2:23:23 PM PST by techcor
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Hugh Laurie explained that not only wasn’t he an American, he wasn’t even a doctor.

In the 0 administration that's a plus.

8 posted on 01/06/2009 2:23:36 PM PST by COUNTrecount (http://obamaclock.org/)
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To: clyde_m

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3675687

DU says they have been had./:0


9 posted on 01/06/2009 2:36:56 PM PST by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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To: clyde_m

Joe Biden is wondering how Sanjay will get time off from the y Eleven to take the job.


10 posted on 01/06/2009 3:07:39 PM PST by TheWasteLand
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To: TheWasteLand

Sigh. That should 7 Eleven, not y Eleven. Sigh.


11 posted on 01/06/2009 3:08:26 PM PST by TheWasteLand
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To: clyde_m

A perfect pick for a worthless post.


12 posted on 01/06/2009 3:10:36 PM PST by dr_who
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To: clyde_m

Zero is way out of his league and we are screwed.


13 posted on 01/06/2009 3:19:27 PM PST by racing fan
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To: TornadoAlley3

So, this is the “crisis” Joe was talking about, where people will say it appears that Obama is making all the wrong choices. But we have to stick with him and keep his poll numbers elevated. LOL! That was a fun thread to visit.


14 posted on 01/06/2009 3:23:23 PM PST by rabidralph
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To: clyde_m

I think he should go with Joycelyn Elders. She was a hoot.


15 posted on 01/06/2009 3:25:21 PM PST by Busywhiskers ("There" Occams Razor)
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To: clyde_m

Curry.

The new aspirin.


16 posted on 01/06/2009 5:34:17 PM PST by ExpatGator (Extending logic since 1961.)
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