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Hillary Clinton, Obama entangled in vaccines debate as old comments resurface
The Washington Times ^ | February 3, 2015 | Valerie Richardson

Posted on 02/04/2015 6:56:31 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Democrats were gleeful when Republicans Chris Christie and Rand Paul got tangled this week in the debate over the Disneyland measles outbreak, until similar words from the pasts of President Obama and 2016 front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton came out.

Mr. Christie walked back his recent comments calling for “balance” and a role for “parental choice” on childhood vaccines, saying in a Monday statement that “with a disease like measles, there’s no question kids should be vaccinated.”

But the Democratic posturing as the party of science was short-lived. Several websites promptly dug up a comment from Mr. Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign in which he said the research on whether vaccines cause autism was “inconclusive.”

Then it was reported Tuesday that Mrs. Clinton had responded to a questionnaire during the 2008 presidential primary race from a vaccine skeptics group in which she said, “I am committed to make investments to find the causes of autism, including possible environmental causes like vaccines.”

The episode reveals that the emotionally charged vaccination issue has political pitfalls for both parties as candidates line up for the 2016 presidential contest, even though a Pew Research Center report released last week shows Democrats and Republicans alike strongly support childhood vaccinations.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: antivaxxers; autism; children; chrischristie; diseases; election2016; greens; health; hillaryclinton; illegalaliens; measles; nannystate; obama; parentalrights; randpaul; vaccines
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1 posted on 02/04/2015 6:56:31 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: SheLion; Eric Blair 2084; -YYZ-; 31R1O; 383rr; AFreeBird; AGreatPer; Alamo-Girl; Alia; altura; ...

Vaccines Nanny State PING!


2 posted on 02/04/2015 6:58:30 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Je suis Charlie, you miserable Islamist throwbacks!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

All of our leaders are IDIOTS!


3 posted on 02/04/2015 6:58:48 PM PST by DownInFlames
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The next ‘War On Women’.

EVERYTHING is a game to these Commiecrats.


4 posted on 02/04/2015 7:00:53 PM PST by CMailBag
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I remember a baby who almost died after getting an MMR shot.


5 posted on 02/04/2015 7:01:15 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The bulk of our politicians need to be vaccinated against STUPIDITY.


6 posted on 02/04/2015 7:01:59 PM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: VideoDoctor

Too late,they’re already infected.


7 posted on 02/04/2015 7:04:21 PM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Which is why the New York Times dropped the issue like a hot potahto.


8 posted on 02/04/2015 7:05:07 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the fascists.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Wasn’t Hillary! the reason we ran out of some critical flu vaccine one year? She was strong-arming one manufacturer or another for kickbacks?


9 posted on 02/04/2015 7:14:10 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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from what i can tell from popular culture, you don’t question 9/11, you don’t question the holocaust, and you don’t question vaccines.


10 posted on 02/04/2015 7:17:22 PM PST by willywill
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Negligence on imported Ebola
Negligence on imported Enterovirus D68
Negligence on importedTuberculosis
Negligence on importedMeasle



11 posted on 02/04/2015 7:21:27 PM PST by clearcarbon
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

If we controlled our borders, we probably wouldn’t have to worry about the damn measles!


12 posted on 02/04/2015 7:24:16 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Thanks for the ping!


13 posted on 02/04/2015 7:26:26 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: DownInFlames

Yes. Yes they are.


14 posted on 02/04/2015 7:29:37 PM PST by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: willywill

You don’t question evolution, global warming, or Sodomite ‘marriage’.


15 posted on 02/04/2015 7:31:27 PM PST by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Anyone remember 1994:

Hillary's Vaccine Shortage

Post #12
Hillary continued in her attempt to show us how the village can care for the health of its children. She established a huge national distribution center with a large, government run warehouse in New Jersey. Soon vaccine manufacturers were shipping vaccine to the warehouse. All seemed peachy until a representative of the vaccine manufacturer noticed the warehouse wasn’t refrigerated. Without refrigeration the vaccine stored in the warehouse would become stale and actually present a risk to the children inoculated. (snip)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/964497/posts#12

16 posted on 02/04/2015 7:36:19 PM PST by donna
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“..All of our leaders are IDIOTS!”

We don’t have any leaders....not in the important positions.


17 posted on 02/04/2015 7:38:03 PM PST by EagleUSA (Liberalism removes the significance of everything")
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To: willywill
From what i can tell from popular culture, you don’t question 9/11, you don’t question the holocaust, and you don’t question vaccines.

You forgot the coming ice age, I mean global warming, I mean climate change...the "science is settled" on all three of those too - supposedly!
18 posted on 02/04/2015 7:39:20 PM PST by ExTxMarine (Public sector unions: A & B agreeing on a contract to screw C!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Wow, the media is really reaching for straws to trip up the Republican candidates. Makes me think they’re really worried about Hillary, who’s obviously in hiding and creating another political makeover.


19 posted on 02/04/2015 7:46:29 PM PST by dowcaet
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

It would be nice if some of these pundits like the blond on Fox News would do their job right and inform the public on specifics like what’s been studied about particular vaccines and what hasn’t been studied about them. And which studies show equivocal results.

Hold people like Bill Gates accountable. Question him, publically and thoroughly about his videotaped comments which seem to indicate that he wants to “reduce the population” through the use of vaccines. How can this icon of intellect make stupid statements like this and not realize it’s only going to fuel the fires of “conspiracy theory.”

(Given the fact that vaccines are meant to preserve life, not destroy it.)


20 posted on 02/04/2015 7:55:40 PM PST by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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