[BossLady]

Just when you think you’ve seen it all....

[ClearCase_guy]

Obama wants a museum director to run the Navy and a journalist to be Surgeon General. And we’re all supposed to think that this is just ducky.

[Names Ash Housewares]

I’m tellin’ you all...

Just play some circus music when you read the news, makes things easier.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

His role as journalist and physician have sometimes overlapped. During the 2003 Iraq invasion, Gupta was embedded with a Navy unit called Devil Docs and, while covering its mission, performed brain surgery five times, the first of which was on a 2-year-old Iraqi boy.

I remember this...he might make a decent Surgeon General, responsible for the U.S. Public Health Service, which is one of the oldest federal agencies in existence, originally charged with running marine hospitals, treating sick sailors, and battling disease epidemics.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

What’s next? Oprah for Secretary of Education?

[SoftwareEngineer]

Much as I dislike Bam, this guy (Sanjay Gupta) is actually a MD.

During the first Gulf War, he was covering the war for CNN and actualy stepped in to help treat wounded soldiers.

He has a fairly distinguished resume for a doctor.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Gupta seems like a stand up guy and may be the cleanest of all of Obama’s nominations. I could give a thumbs up for this one at this time.

[Lucky9teen]

Can't help but think of this Sanjaya

[umgud]

Without regard to Sajay’s qualifications, it sure seems natural for Obama to make a pick from CNN.

[GoCards]

Good Lord. This is becoming a circus

[Doctor Raoul]

Dr. Phil must be heartbroken.

[weegee]

I guess this is because Dr. Seuss is already dead.

[ScreamingFist]

A good pick, IMHO.

[SJSAMPLE]

If he’s such a great doctor, what’s he doing on TV?

He may be a good doctor, but he doesn’t appear to be that much involved in public health, outside of the TV aspect.

Aren’t there other candidates out there?
Prefereably, a “nobody” on TV who has creds among his peers.

[dead]

President-elect Barack Obama has offered the job of surgeon general to Sanjay Gupta, the neurosurgeon and correspondent for CNN and CBS

That's fine. It's the most pointless job in America.

When I'm elected, I'm giving the job to a cactus.

[JacksonCalhoun]

Remember he did take a bit of flak for daring to take on (at least in part) Lumpy Riefenstahl (Moore) when “Sicko” came out.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Any direct connection to Clinton pal InfoUSA Vin Gupta?

Considering how invasive a database Communized medicine wants to be, it’s a question worth asking now.

[Constitution Day]

I am about to smack my knuckles with the scale ruler on my desk for typing this, but I actually think this is a good choice.

OMG! Am I saying I agree with something 0bama did?

AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

[dead]

Bring back Captain Crunch!

[gusopol3]

his interview with Michael Moore about Sicko and the way he let Moore get away with praising Cuba’s health care system while focusing on some very narrow cost issue took away any credibility he had with me.