Posted on 08/13/2009 10:48:22 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
The mother of a sixth-grade Malden girl, whose “mean sign” question to President Obama at his Portsmouth, N.H., health care forum was a softball that he slugged out of the park, insisted yesterday the child was not “a plant.”
“I thought it was great,” Kathleen Manning Hall said of Obama’s answer to the question posed by her daughter Julia.
The girl became a target of conservative critics such as Michelle Malkin yesterday, who alleged that the poised and eloquent 11-year-old was “a plant” after the revelation that her mother served as an organizer for Obama’s campaign.
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Too bad you didn’t screen caption that - the bots have scrubbed it!
Link: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/2009081311-year-old_lobbed_prez_a_question_at_nh_foru
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Did these people all get off a bus?
Linky no worky
US? Your mother gave $1,200 to Barack. She could've spent that on health care for her family. If you are doing without, it is because she gave a drop of blood sweat and tears into Obama's $750,000,000 war chest for the 2008 election.
Link broken again?
LOL! Jessica Van Sack
Uniblab?
The mother of a sixth-grade Malden girl, whose “mean sign” question to President Obama at his Portsmouth, N.H., health care forum was a softball that he slugged out of the park, insisted yesterday the child was not “a plant.”
“I thought it was great,” Kathleen Manning Hall said of Obama’s answer to the question posed by her daughter Julia.
The girl became a target of conservative critics such as Michelle Malkin yesterday, who alleged that the poised and eloquent 11-year-old was “a plant” after the revelation that her mother served as an organizer for Obama’s campaign.
Hall’s work took her as far as Iowa, and she even met first lady Michelle Obama and first daughters Sasha and Malia. In all, she personally donated $1,280 to Obama’s run.
But she had no idea her daughter would be called on by the president, Hall said, declining to comment further because “there’s a child involved.”
Asked the young Julia in Portsmouth on Tuesday: “As I was walking in, I saw a lot of signs outside saying mean things about reforming health care. How do kids know what is true, and why do people want a new system that can . . . help more of us?
The child’s question was the second of the afternoon, after New Hampshire state Rep. Peter Schmidt’s lob, which he began by first praising his government Medicare plan and then saying, “Is it time to just say we’re going to pass what the American people need and what they want, without the Republicans?”
Justin Higgins, 20, of Stratham, N.H., an incoming freshman at Tufts University, posed a tougher question to Obama.
A registered independent, he asked how the president could institute health care reform without raising taxes on the middle class.
But he doesn’t think he got an answer.
“He was extremely vague,” Higgins said. “I was looking for something like . . . ‘No new taxes, as President George Bush the first did.”
Added Higgins: “There were a lot of softball questions.
Asked yesterday about how questioners are picked, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said, “the president asks people to raise their hands and picks on them.”
Gibbs added that audience members were selected “randomly by computer.”
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1190680
Try post #11.
Slanting it again. The girl herself was not criticized, it was the Obama administration's use of the girl that was criticized. She's just a pawn in all this.
LOL! Yeah, from a database of DNC donors!
“I sent the ‘Pres__ent’ $1,280.00 and all I got for it was my kid to ask him a softball question at a staged event!”
Yeah, an SEIU/ACORN computer.
“her mother served as an organizer for Obama’s campaign.
Hall’s work took her as far as Iowa, “
So in other words; mom was/is an Obama staffer.
The left-wingers could do that any time. The Republicans don't have enough votes to win a bathroom break.
Did you read the comments over there? LOL People were saying that she was most certainly a plant.
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