White House Official Won't Retract Obama Misstatement on Senator, Euthanasia

Life News ^ | 8/13/09 | Steven Ertelt

[wagglebee]

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- President Barack Obama's top spokesman is defending his misstatement that saw him erroneously use a Republican senator to justify a provision in the house health care bill that has been criticized for giving financial incentive to doctors who could promote euthanasia or rationing.

During Obama's health care forum in New Hampshire on Tuesday, he used Georgia senator Johnny Isakson to support the House bill and its provision.

In an attempt to allay the concerns, Obama said the Republican lawmaker supports the specific provision. As LifeNews.com reported on Wednesday, it turns out that Isakson strongly opposes both the bill and its provision and condemned Obama for suggesting otherwise.

Later on Wednesday, during his daily press briefing, Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs defended Obama's comments and claimed he and Isakson are in agreement.

"I don't think that's what the President was implying," Gibbs said of Obama's attempts to say Isakson agreed with the provision, known as Section 1233 in the bill.

Gibbs attempted to defend Obama's comments by saying Obama merely meant that Isakson once served in the House, not that he supported the House health care bill.

"I think the President mentioned that Mr. Isakson had been in the House -- that may have been some of the confusion. He was a member of -- did, obviously, represent Atlanta suburbs before becoming a U.S. senator from Georgia," he said.

"I think -- whether this is uncomfortable or not, I think he and the President agree," Gibbs concluded.

Isakson spokeswoman Joan Kirchner told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper after the press conference that Obama and Gibbs still have it wrong.

“Johnny supports living wills and durable power of attorney. He supports individuals making the choice for themselves — whether to get one, what should be in it, and whom to seek advice from in drafting it," she said.

"He opposes the current House bill because it is the government deciding who has the conversation, how often they have the conversation, and what is to be discussed in that conversation," she added.

Isakson's office said initially: "Isakson vehemently opposes the House and Senate health care bills, and he played no role in drafting language added to the House bill by House Democrats calling for the government to incentivize doctors by offering them money to conduct end-of-life counseling."

Later, Isakson went further.

“This is what happens when the President and members of Congress don't read the bills. The White House and others are merely attempting to deflect attention from the intense negativity caused by their unpopular policies. I never consulted with the White House in this process and had no role whatsoever in the House Democrats’ bill,” Isakson said.

Isakson did not sponsor the controversial House language but is the bringer of an amendment in the Senate that is quite different.

His amendment would allow patients to receive the end-of-life counseling but does not provide financial motivation to physicians who participate in Medicare to urge them to do so.

“My Senate amendment simply puts health care choices back in the hands of the individual and allows them to consider if they so choose a living will or durable power of attorney," Isakson previously told the Washington Post.

"The House provision is merely another ill-advised attempt at more government mandates, more government intrusion, and more government involvement in what should be an individual choice," he says.

The House version of the government-run health care system, HR 3200, contains sections that are causing concern for pro-life advocates.

The bill would financially reward physicians who have end-of-life discussions with patients, even if they encourage patients to consider assisted suicide or to revoking life saving medical treatment or food and water.

[wagglebee]

No president in history has EVER blatantly lied to the American people the way Zero does, Nixon and Clinton were the picture of honesty compared to this guy.

[wagglebee]

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[Jeff Head]

Here is something else Obama said to the American people at a contrived "town hall" in New Hampshire on Tuesday, August 11, 2009.

"I have not said that I was a single payer supporter.” Pres. Barack Hussein Obama, Aug 11, 2009

Compare that to what he said while campaigning for the Senate to his union supporters, and was cheered while so doing:

“I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health care program. I see no reason why the United States of America, the wealthiest country in the history of the world, spending 14 percent of its gross national product on health care, cannot provide basic health insurance to everybody. And that’s what Jim is talking about when he says everybody in, nobody out. A single-payer health care plan, a universal health care plan. That’s what I’d like to see. But as all of you know, we may not get there immediately. Because first we’ve got to take back the White House, we’ve got to take back the Senate, and we’ve got to take back the House.” - Barack Hussein Obama, June 30, 2003 to AFL-CIO

I guess he thinks he can say whatever he wants at any given time and it will be truth. That is the definition of a pathological liar. He and those around him and supporting him are drunk with power and control, and this issue is rapidly sizing up to be a "Bridge too Far," for their marxist ideology and radical health care agenda.

Their pronouncements and actions are like every other repressive, tin-horn regime in history. Label the opposition with exactly what they themselves are doing and then use the government controlled and co-opted press to spread that lie, and then use their thugs to try and enforce it and stamp out dissent.

Well, not any more in this country. The health care debate has blown the lid off and it's time to carry it through on this issue and every other similiar issue (like Cap & Trade, FOCA, etc.) that these wanna-be tyrants propose.

President Barack Hussein Obama said on August 7, 2009, that he expected the people who caused the financial and health care mess to be quiet, stand out of the way, and let it be fixed. Well, Mr. President, if you do not want the people who created this mess standing in the way of fixing it, then you, Mr. Obama...and Pelosi, Reid, Dodd, Frank, et all had best step out of the way yourselves. Because you not only helped engineer the problems that ensured the fiasco...you are now intent on making it immeasurably worse in your drive towards abject marxism.

In order to hide this, and in an effort to push their monstrosity Health Care, the liberal-left and Obama seem intent on turning the frustration and angst of the American people over his policies into something more akin to Iran over this issue, with their own Basij thugs sent out to silence us, and Obama supporters called on by the Whitehouse to report any dissent.

MY LETTER TO THE WHITEHOUSE AND OBAMA ABOUT FREE SPEECH

Despite all this, the American people are downloading the Dem Health Care Plan HERE and elsewhere and educating themselves.

They are also reading the cited quotes of the main architect of the plan and Chief Advisor to Obama on Health Care HERE and elsewhere, and seeing the context of the plan from the designer of it.

So, when Sarah Palin callis it evil, they know for themselves that she speaks the truth.

So they continue to take their feelings...and their own documentation...to their reps and gett in their faces about it.

EZEKIEL EMANUEL AND THE OBAMA CARE FINAL SOLUTION
(Must Read - Shocking quotes by Emanuel)

OBAMA CARE BY THE NUMBERS

THE STORM UNLEASHED ON AMERICA

A PETITION ON FACEBOOK FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RESTORATION

A 4TH OF JULY TEA PARTY SPEECH

...and on the lighter side, take your mind off the Obamanation for a few minutes and enjoy some beautiful Western US scenery slideshows.

JEFF HEAD'S WESTERN US SCENERY SLIDE SHOWS

[Tarpon]

Wouldn’t it be easier to list the things the Joker says that is true, than keeping track of what is lies.

[Republic]

Gibbs is out there outright lying...saying he doesn’t think that is what the President meant about the senator and the provision? This is getting really scary....are chris matthews and katie colic and keith olbermann and george stephanopoulis and charley gibson and on and on and on STILL covering for uhbama? Are these press people truly willing to let such obvious lies stand because they are STILL enscounced in the oh so OLD white guilt? Are they truly going to go the Goebbels path? Are their jobs worth losing their ability to report with honor and truth?

[FromLori]

Look at this traitor in our midst.

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/gop-lawmaker-criticizes-nazi-talk-2009-08-13.html

[Diogenesis]

Obamacare to use FAKE "Doctors" to Kill the Elderly and Deny Them Access to Real Doctors.

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"Patterico Busts TX Grad Student/Obama Delegate Posing As Doctor; Chron Doesn't Credit, Still Disclosure-Challenged
Ms. Mayer, who claimed to be a doctor when she spoke at a town hall meeting held by Houston Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee.
... At first, the Houston Chronicle took Mayer's word that she is a doctor, failed to investigate her bona fides"

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"Obama camp plants fake doc, Che fan at Jackson Lee forum
One supporter, Dr. Roxana Mayer, a physician who does not live in Jackson Lee’s district, praised the reform plan for overhauling a broken system.
“I don’t know what there is in the bill that creates such panic,” she said.
In this video, Mayer claims to be a general practitioner, eliciting applause and even a hug from Queen Sheila:
.... Roxana Mayer is, like, totally not a doctor.
... her name does not appear in the database maintained by the Texas Medical Board, which licenses all doctors in Texas.
But she is an Obama campaign volunteer."

[keepitreal]

Obama said:

The irony is that actually one of the chief sponsors of this bill originally was a Republican -- then House member, now senator, named Johnny Isakson from Georgia -- who very sensibly thought this is something that would expand people's options. And somehow it's gotten spun into this idea of "death panels." I am not in favor of that. So just I want to -- (applause.) I want to clear the air here

And Gibbs said that this is what he meant:

"I think the President mentioned that Mr. Isakson had been in the House -- that may have been some of the confusion. He was a member of -- did, obviously, represent Atlanta suburbs before becoming a U.S. senator from Georgia," he said.

Are people really buying this?

[Sparko]

That’d be a mighty short book.

Remember, Obama just misspeaks once in a while, per butt-boy Robert Gibbs. The other side just flat out lies.

[tennmountainman]

Isakson of Georgia is in trouble. You could believe his denials if he had not called Palin nuts for suggesting Death panels.

[keepitreal]

Not only is that the same woman, she’s wearing the SAME SUIT for easy spotting!

[livius]

Wow. Silence from the MSM, I note.

[wagglebee]

That’s why from now on candidates will need to EARN my vote; I don’t give a damn what letter they have after their names, if they aren’t conservative I WILL NOT vote for them, if there are no conservatives in an election I’ll stay home.

[demsux]

That hag is even wearing the same jacket

[Kartographer]

"There are lies, damned lies, and White House Spokespeople"

The two Bobs, Beltway Bob and Baghdad Bob.

[taxtruth]

Thanks.

[353FMG]

“No president in history has EVER blatantly lied to the American people the way Zero does...”

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No president in history has ever had the benefit of having more stupid Americans who accept his many lies. Don’t only blame Zero, the 53% who voted for him are just as culpable.

[353FMG]

“Are these press people truly willing to let such obvious lies stand...”

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Don’t you realize by now that Chrissy and Steffie and all the others in the MSM are part of the 4th branch of government with Zero in the WH?

[Bahbah]

are chris matthews and katie colic and keith olbermann and george stephanopoulis and charley gibson and on and on and on STILL covering for uhbama? Are these press people truly willing to let such obvious lies stand

It's just amazing, isn't it. I said after the election that it was going to be very heavy lifting to keep covering for this guy (I had no idea just how heavy right off the bat) and we will see how far they are willing to go.