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OBAMA NAMING PHYSICIAN MURTHY AS SURGEON GENERAL
AP ^ | Nov 14, 2013

Posted on 11/14/2013 4:04:43 PM PST by Jet Jaguar

President Barack Obama is nominating a Harvard Medical School physician as the nation's next surgeon general.

Dr. Vivek Hallegere Murthy is co-founder and president of Doctors for America, an organization that says its mission is to ensure that everyone has access to affordable, high quality health care. He also started a nonprofit that focused on HIV/AIDS education in India and the United States.

The surgeon general serves for a four-year term

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1 posted on 11/14/2013 4:04:43 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: Jet Jaguar

Must be another ultra left wing nutcase.


2 posted on 11/14/2013 4:06:36 PM PST by alice_in_bubbaland (When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes mandatory ... Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Doctors for America, an organization that says its mission is to ensure that everyone has access to affordable, high quality health care.

Organizing for America.
Lawyers for America.
Insurance for America.
Dog Catchers for America.
Duct Cleaners for America.
Septic Tank Suckers for America.
Well, you get the idea.

Amazing how all these liberal jokers have the same
organization!
You don’t suppose there is some connection?


3 posted on 11/14/2013 4:09:48 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: alice_in_bubbaland

Sure sounds like

Merit, be damned Mainstream, be damned

Let’s keep on playing politics with the Nation’s health and medical care

Sheer genius, I tell ya


4 posted on 11/14/2013 4:10:04 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat ("I was all for Obamacare until I found out I was paying for it,")
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To: Jet Jaguar

The kenyan cs’er is the first president in 100 years to have the nerve to nominate a non black (sorry, I mean non african American) to this post. Who’d have thunk it.


5 posted on 11/14/2013 4:13:21 PM PST by Doctor 2Brains
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To: A_Former_Democrat

is michelle getting rid of the fat one we have now?


6 posted on 11/14/2013 4:13:34 PM PST by JoanneSD
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To: Jet Jaguar

WHAT kind of name is VIVEK?????


7 posted on 11/14/2013 4:15:32 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: JoanneSD
Yeah but replacing her with Jocelyn Elders . . not Remember that bag of human excrement with ?
8 posted on 11/14/2013 4:21:33 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat ("I was all for Obamacare until I found out I was paying for it,")
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To: Jet Jaguar
 
 
Aw - I'm utterly disappointed. I was certain this guy had the nomination totally in the bag.
 
 
 

9 posted on 11/14/2013 4:23:12 PM PST by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: Jet Jaguar

We still have a Surgeon General?


10 posted on 11/14/2013 4:27:21 PM PST by Never on my watch (Jeesh!)
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To: Jet Jaguar

What ? No Sanjay Gupta ?


11 posted on 11/14/2013 4:29:11 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

LOL


12 posted on 11/14/2013 4:37:16 PM PST by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: lapsus calami

LOL too!


13 posted on 11/14/2013 4:37:50 PM PST by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: Ann Archy
WHAT kind of name is VIVEK?????

Vivek Hallegere Murthy appears to be Indian (the subcontinent not Native American). Sounds like quite the leftist too (of course).

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/regina-benjamin-obama-surgeon-general-nominee-99896.html?hp=bn

14 posted on 11/14/2013 4:42:54 PM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Menehune56

“quite the leftist too”

Anyone obama appoints to anything is a leftist.


15 posted on 11/14/2013 6:33:18 PM PST by duffee (NO poll tax, NO tax on firearms, ammunition or gun safes. NO gun free zones.)
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