Posted on 07/02/2009 2:11:56 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Debby Smith, the woman who President Obama hugged during yesterday's town hall meeting and promised to help after she described her difficulties getting treatment for a tumor, "is a volunteer for Organizing for America, Obama's political operation within the Democratic National Committee" who "obtained her ticket through the White House."
One can only imagine what the press would have to say if the Bush White House had done something as cynical.
To sum up, during the session, Obama received questions from an advocate of a socialized, or single-payer health care, a representative of the liberal activist group Health Care for Americans Now, a member of the Service Employees International Union who asked what she could do to help, and one of his own volunteers.
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It did as much for her as 0bamacare will. At least he didn't kill her.
AP is not reporting all. SHe was called the night before and TOLD she would have a chance to ask a question.
The links are on last night’s thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283432/posts
(last night’s thread—as usual FReepers were first)
These townhall meetings are a farce. Who watches them?
Actually, Urkels circus gives townhall meetings a bad name. His are more like infomercials than anything else......
Hug, Hug! I’m waiting for the freaks to start kneeling.
The necessity to stage these things says a lot. Obama knows it and his staff know it. I just wish more of the American people knew it. More fodder for Helen Thomas’ beef about bloggers and twits with scripted questions? Oh, I forgot, that only concerned inaccessibility confounding her own profession.
The man is consistently slimey. That’s the closest thing he has to a redeeming quality.
Obama is all smoke and mirrors? This was a dog and pony show?
Who could have seen that coming........................
btt, gf!
:)
A Potemkin village hall meeting.
We need to follow some of the ACORN activists home too...
Or to see which government job they are ditching to ‘protest’ on our dime
Mark Levin talked about the Town Hall meeting yesterday — four of the seven questions were staged, and Dems have been using this woman since December. Why did he so cynically hug her, promising to help her as if she walked in off the street when they’ve known about her plight for so long?
Mark Levin asks (he’s had open heart surgery) where are the questions from people who owe their lives to our first-rate American medical care, and don’t want to lose that access as has happened in other countries?
The Fuhrer actually thinks his propaganda games won’t get “found out?? Or, his arrogance is so “off the chart” that he thinks the entire country is that stupid!
The same thing we are saying, except they have bigger megaphones to scream through.
if BO is so good at running his mouth then why does he have to stage anything?
Does this guy even have an ounce of genuineness in him?
(rhetorical question, needs no answer...)
It doesn’t matter so much if the press doesn’t report it. That’s his saving grace so far, the press firmly wedged up his backside. I would be ashamed to call myself a member of the press, being owned lock, stock and barrel by a political faction when they were supposed to be sentinels and unofficial government oversight.
Happy Dependents Day. And don't forget to ask...”where be my check”!
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