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"Obama health meeting draws Appalachian protesters" (Snicker)
Daily Press ^ | 07/29/09 | Duncan Mansfield, AP Writer

Posted on 07/30/2009 2:28:24 PM PDT by TennesseeGirl

Obama health meeting draws Appalachian protesters

By DUNCAN MANSFIELD Associated Press Writer

July 29, 2009

BRISTOL, Va. - More than 200 protesters from a conservative corner of Appalachia showed up Wednesday in opposition to President Barack Obama's health care reform effort.

Some held signs reading, "Obamacare is political malpractice" and "Keep your hands off my health care."...

...The protesters, who came from the tri-state area of Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee, were focused on who will get to make health care decisions.

Art teacher Angie Meade, 39, of Bristol said she worries that government control of health care will mean she can no longer pick her own doctor.

Elaine Powers, 69, also of Bristol, said she thought people over 65 would receive only what she called "end of life care."

Powers said she believed the elderly would be given only pain pills.

The audience inside the town hall meeting was to include about 100 union-represented and insured cashiers, baggers, managers and clerks at a Kroger grocery store. Cincinnati-based Kroger, the nation's largest traditional grocery chain, operates in 31 states and spends more than $1 billion a year on health care and related benefits. (Article posted is truncated)

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: North Carolina; US: Tennessee; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: appalachia; healthcare; kroger; northcarolina; obama; obamacare; tennessee; townhalls; unions; virginia
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To: Darksheare
LOL - here's a new version of the same article (also written by Duncan Mansfield, AP). Guess this one was re-titled and re-worked for the consumption of us backward (sarcasm) Appalachians. "Obama: Health plan 'not a government takeover'" Our newspaper (http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/jul/30/rough-hello-in-bristol/) editor added his own title above that (although it doesn't appear on the web version): "Rough Hello in Bristol". Couple of good photos showing protesters in article, however. Both articles continue to use the number of 200 protesters, but I heard it was more like 400. They were scattered out about a mile.
21 posted on 07/30/2009 6:27:11 PM PDT by TennesseeGirl
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

In the www.knoxnews.com version of the same event one poor woman (Kroger employee) said, “I believe him (Obama). I don’t think he would lie to us. I really don’t.” To her credit, she did add, “But you know, the proof is in the pudding”.


22 posted on 07/30/2009 6:43:24 PM PDT by TennesseeGirl
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To: TennesseeGirl

Newsies love to mis-state the number of people opposing their pet views.
While overstating their own numbers.


23 posted on 07/31/2009 6:51:04 AM PDT by Darksheare (Tar is cheap, and feathers are plentiful.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
I think you said you are in Central TN?


24 posted on 08/10/2009 8:09:22 PM PDT by campaignPete R-CT
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To: fieldmarshaldj

http://politics1.com/tn.htm

which district and are you dealing with a swing district?


25 posted on 08/10/2009 8:10:43 PM PDT by campaignPete R-CT
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To: campaignPete R-CT

Nashville. TN-5. This district last elected a GOP Congressman in EIGHTEEN Seventy-Two. We lasted voted GOP for President in 1988 and continue, sadly, to trend moonbat. All the districts in the state are Dem-gerrymandered (with them conceding the 1st, 2nd & 3rd). The 4th was drawn for Lincoln Davis, a grandstanding phony, but the district is Republican-leaning (only the 5th and 9th are solid Dem).


26 posted on 08/10/2009 8:15:28 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: campaignPete R-CT

i just notice there be nothing to deal with in TN or KY


27 posted on 08/10/2009 8:21:53 PM PDT by campaignPete R-CT
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To: fieldmarshaldj

45689 are all safe DEM per CQ
1237 are safe GOP per CQ
how sad and how dullsville


28 posted on 08/10/2009 8:25:24 PM PDT by campaignPete R-CT
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To: campaignPete R-CT

4, 6 & 8 are not “safe”, they are GOP-leaning with Democrat incumbents occupying them (6 (Bart Gordon) has had the same member since 1984, 8 (John Tanner) since 1988, when they were much different in makeup). 4 and 6 are rapidly trending GOP (hell, most of the State Senators in both are solidly Republican), and 8 slowly, but surely. When the GOP has control of redistricting, we should flip to a 7R-2D makeup. The Dems have been massively overrepresented for too long (even with a 5D-4R makeup, more vote GOP than Dem overall).


29 posted on 08/10/2009 8:32:08 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: wvguy
I read that the Appalachian area was the largest unintergrated group of White people in the world.

Anyone know for sure?

I know there are some blue people there:

THE BLUE PEOPLE OF TROUBLESOME CREEK

30 posted on 08/10/2009 8:37:55 PM PDT by blam
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To: fieldmarshaldj

no national money is going into any of those districts
everyone rates them safe for 2010. it will be tough on the GOP candidate if they cannot get on any targeted list.


31 posted on 08/10/2009 8:41:53 PM PDT by campaignPete R-CT
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To: TennesseeGirl
Appalachian protesters?

The bitter clingers have come out in force, eh?

32 posted on 08/10/2009 8:43:07 PM PDT by keepitreal (Obama brings change: an international crisis (terrorism) within 6 months)
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To: campaignPete R-CT

No, but Davis and Gordon are very defeatable if a first-tier challenger stepped forward. Davis never faced one and Gordon last had a close shave in ‘94 & ‘96 (before that, he faced a younger Marsha Blackburn, who was a promising, but unknown candidate at the time). Gordon had Williamson County excised for 2002, because that county alone had enough power to vote him out, because there are almost no Dems elected there (and that gave Blackburn her opportunity to take a run when they stuck it in the 7th).


33 posted on 08/10/2009 8:48:29 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: blam

In this county which in in Appalachian Ohio which has a small city of 30,000 the population is still 98% white.


34 posted on 08/10/2009 9:11:21 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: chris_bdba
"In this county which in in Appalachian Ohio which has a small city of 30,000 the population is still 98% white."

We have some counties in Alabama that are almost 98% Black.
In fact, one of these counties set the record for highest % of the vote ever for a presidential candidate. It was Algore when he ran for president.

Algore didn't even carry his home state of Tenneessee at that time.

35 posted on 08/10/2009 9:19:08 PM PDT by blam
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To: campaignPete R-CT

In 2012 if the GOP controls redistricting Davis, Gordon and Tanner will find their districts more Republican.


36 posted on 08/11/2009 4:00:20 AM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: OpusatFR

“Appalachian” is media code for poor and white. It’s one level below “Nascar Fans” on the racist-lib snob scale.


37 posted on 08/11/2009 7:00:06 AM PDT by TaxRelief (Walmart: Keeping my family on-budget since 1993.)
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