Posted on 08/13/2009 5:20:56 AM PDT by Zakeet
Nancy Snyder says she kept quiet when abortion was legalized and prayer in schools was eliminated. Not this time.
“They did it for prayer, they did it for abortion, and they're not going to do it for our health care,” the 70-year-old nurse from Philipsburg, Pa., said Wednesday as she and her husband Robert, 74, a retired coal miner, waited in a long, snaking line for Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter's town hall meeting.
“We're not standing back this time,” Snyder said.
Instead, the Snyders and many Americans like them are adding their voices to a populist backlash evident in the taunts, jeers and rants at lawmakers' health care forums around the country in the past week and a half. The contentious sessions highlight the difficulty for President Barack Obama and the Democrats as they push for a comprehensive remaking of the nation's health care system.
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The emerging protest movement is almost the mirror image of the grass-roots campaign that helped sweep Obama into office by pulling in people who'd never been politically active. This time Obama is seeing the other side of what can happen when people are motivated, connect over the Internet and seemingly reach a tipping point that turns them from onlookers into activists.
“You have awakened a sleeping giant,” one woman told Specter at a town hall meeting he held Tuesday in Lebanon, Pa.
Protesters interviewed at Specter's town hall events in central Pennsylvania this week were almost exclusively white, conservative and working class. But they ranged in age and their concerns went beyond health care to deficit spending, taxes, government growth and other issues. Many contradicted claims from Democratic leaders that their protest was manufactured by lobbyists or that they represented an orchestrated opposition led by Republicans or national conservative groups.
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Is it true that when the doors opened for The One’s townhall, over half of the seats were already filled with union thugs who had been sneaked in the back door?
I though I heard that in passing on the radio, but don’t remember the source.
A NOTE FOR BLACK PEOPLE READING FREE REPUBLIC.
In 1975 I was one of those ELATED Evangelicals who got in line to back Jimmy Carter. We had Pat Robertson, James Dobson getting people registered. We were so certain that a Southern Baptist from Plains, Ga, and his tongues speaking sister, Ruth Carter Stapleton the healer, would bring in NEW hope. (The black people really knew the stakes were high to vote for Barak Obama, and many obviously have had their fingers crossed.)
Now we realize after Obama has taken office, that it is much like it was with Jimmy Carter, whose focus was on changes in Nicaragua, dumping Somoza, giving up the Canal in Panama, and his wife out shoving Equal Rights Amendment, that if we didn’t vote it through RIGHT THEN, America would cease to exist. Inflation became intolerable and interests unimaginable. Most of the evangelical people I know eventually regretted we voted for the guy, who pushed for the homosexual agenda, and encouraged abortions. Not much benefit came of Jimmy Carter for the Evangelical community.
I imagine a lot of sane black citizens, feel like myself an Evangelical who supported Jimmy Carter. Mr. Obama the black President, is really taking us all on a road to lead America into indebtedness, and taking more and more civil liberties away from it’s citizens, causing higher taxes to cause the entire country to have a lower living standard. Lessons are always learned in history. This is one of them.
Considering that both of them are on Medicare - a government-run single provider healtcare system - or on a Union funded retirement program that is specifically protected by the healthcare proposals to the extent that the government will step in and fund them if the company goes broke, I'm not sure what they have to complain about. Except that maybe the government will get out of their healthcare system.
The spokespeople against Obama's Hellthcare reform should be those who are hurt by implementing it. Not those who are already protected by existing government systems.
That “Republican resurgence” better be CLASSICAL LIBERAL CONSERVATIVES, and not more of these elitist RINOs.
If you want elitists, you put in democRats.
Elitist Republicans should be treated exactly the same as ‘rats.
“Another racist Nazi astroturfing birther.
Did I miss any pejoratives?”
Yep — dont’ forget “Political Terrorist”
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Nick Sidorick, 38, who said he owns a sports bar in Clearfield, Pa., drove an hour to attend his first town hall Wednesday after staying up until 2 a.m. the night before making signs to protest government intrusion. “I work 14 hours a day and I can’t get ahead because of what the government takes from me.”
I hear you, Nick. I really do.
I’ll bet Hillary is sitting back and saying to herself, “I’m glad I didn’t get elected and tried this health care boondoggle.”
I doubt that the image of The Most Glorious Obama will be added to Mt. Rushmore. But that’s only because I don’t think Obama would tolerate the competition. He would order the other Presidents blasted off the face of the mountain, and order it remade from scratch with himself as the centerpiece.
Like all socialist policies, they know they won’t work, and the only way to implement them is through coercion on the entire populace.
You wrote:
“Not exactly sure how “the giant” managed to sleep through last fall.”
The mainstream media was smothering him with a pillow through last fall.
Agreed
And “Un-American” quoted by Nazi Pelosi.
The whole point behind calling us racists & terrorists is to criminalize dissent in order to justify the use of state power to quash that dissent in whatever manner they want.
You really should say racist more than once:
“Another racist Nazi astroturfing racist birther.”
Oh, and don’t forget: “shill for insurance companies”.
The American people are experiencing voter remorse. They now regret their mindless rush to the polls in November to obtain forgiveness for their White Guilt.
You’re exactly right, Mr. B. Demonizing the opposition means they can discount us. And they can take away our right to speak out.
But they already are making efforts to crush our dissent.
Winston Churchill
“Protesters interviewed at Specter’s town hall events in central Pennsylvania this week were almost exclusively white, conservative and working class”
Gee, do you think that *might* be because the vast majority of the “population” of central PA *is* white, conservative, and working class? ;)
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