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White House's botched 'op'
New York Post ^ | October 6, 2009 | CHARLES HURT

Posted on 10/06/2009 5:23:17 AM PDT by NMEwithin

WASHINGTON -- President Obama yesterday rolled out the red carpet -- and handed out doctors' white coats as well, just so nobody missed his hard-sell health-care message.

In a heavy-handed attempt at reviving support for health-care reform, the White House orchestrated a massive photo op to buttress its claim that front-line physicians support Obama.

A sea of 150 white-coated doctors, all enthusiastically supportive of the president and representing all 50 states, looked as if they were at a costume party as they posed in the Rose Garden before hearing Obama's pitch for the Democratic overhaul bills moving through Congress.

OOPS! A crowd of 150 doctors gathers in the Rose Garden to support the health-care overhaul -- as White House staffers scramble to hand out camera-ready white coats to those who forgot their own.

The physicians, all invited guests, were told to bring their white lab coats to make sure that TV cameras captured the image.

But some docs apparently forgot, failing to meet the White House dress code by showing up in business suits or dresses.

So the White House rustled up white coats for them and handed them to the suited physicians who had taken seats in the sun-splashed lawn area...

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


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: doctors; doctorsforamerica; doctorsforobama; labcoats; photoop; wagthedoctors
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To: bray
Why are most of these doctors Black? Something is fishy.

I prefer wise Latina doctors.

21 posted on 10/06/2009 5:37:23 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: NMEwithin

"Mr. President, these people are here to help you. Please slip into the nice white coat they've brought for you, and come along quietly now."

22 posted on 10/06/2009 5:37:55 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: NMEwithin

They are so used to the UNIONS giving out the T-SHIRTS at Rallies, this is the logical next step......YUK....such children and amateurs and POSERS.


23 posted on 10/06/2009 5:39:34 AM PDT by Ann Archy
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To: devane617
An email call to action to physicians around the country by Congressman Tom Price, MD generated this response:

You Jammed Up the White House Phone Lines Monday

Also note: 1000 turned up for the "Million Med March last Thursday.

24 posted on 10/06/2009 5:39:35 AM PDT by stayathomemom (Beware of cat attacks while typing!)
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To: NMEwithin

Bet they didn’t RUSTLE up white Coats...bet they bought them ahead of time.


25 posted on 10/06/2009 5:40:10 AM PDT by Ann Archy
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To: NMEwithin
I wonder how many of these supposed 'doctors' actually have a license to practice medicine? How many are doctors of philosophy? I'm sure we can get a roster through FOIA.

I also bet that the pony tailed guy is Patch Adams. He's an avowed commie...

26 posted on 10/06/2009 5:42:25 AM PDT by skikvt (Green is the new red.)
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To: NMEwithin
Commies always put on "shows" to fool the people - they're especially fond of "show trials" and using fake victims to advance their ugly agenda...

Maybe Saturday Night Live will use their newly-found courage to mock Obama by making a parody of this white-coated-doctor sham (although it's a pretty good parody all by itself)...

27 posted on 10/06/2009 5:46:35 AM PDT by Zeppo (Save the cheerleader, save the world...)
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To: MrB

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85PcMJ9D8X0


28 posted on 10/06/2009 5:46:36 AM PDT by JRios1968 (The real first rule of Fight Club: don't invite Chuck Norris...EVER)
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To: NMEwithin
A sea of 150 white-coated doctors, all enthusiastically supportive of the president ...

Wow, I am impressed, "A sea of 150 white-coated doctors" resurrected Goebbels, who died in 1945.

29 posted on 10/06/2009 5:46:55 AM PDT by depressed in 06 (ZerOcare: Bureaucratic best practices equals death panels.)
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To: NMEwithin

Did Obama say...
“If you like your doctor, you
Can keep your Doctor?”

I’m not sure on this...
Has he addressed this before?
I can’t remember.

And Five Hundred Mill
From Medicare Fraud and Waste
Sounds pretty darn good...

You know what they say...
“Two Hudredth Time is a Charm!”...
I am now convinced!


30 posted on 10/06/2009 5:48:40 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (If You have a Right / To the Service I provide / I must be a Slave)
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To: NMEwithin
Another example of Obama being transparent.
31 posted on 10/06/2009 5:49:23 AM PDT by hflynn (The One is really the Number Two)
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To: NMEwithin

They were all doctors, huh?

PhD’s in education, PhD’s in Social Sciences, PhD’s in Political Science and PhD’s in Home Economics.

I doubt there was a bonafide practicing Medical Doctor among them.


32 posted on 10/06/2009 5:49:47 AM PDT by Hodar (Who needs laws .... when this "feels" so right?)
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To: NMEwithin

33 posted on 10/06/2009 5:49:47 AM PDT by Wyatt's Torch (I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
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To: NMEwithin

My wife is a general surgeon in private practice. She does not wear a white “lab coat” while making rounds or seeing patients in the office. It is light blue, to distinguish the family practice docs in the group who wear dark blue. This is s joke!!!! Except too many dumb, misinformed Obama supporters (are there any other types?) will not see the charade.


34 posted on 10/06/2009 5:49:50 AM PDT by astounded
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To: NMEwithin

Card carrying SEIU members, perhaps?


35 posted on 10/06/2009 5:50:18 AM PDT by ozark hilljilly (Ignore us at your peril.)
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To: NMEwithin
The Friends had a good chuckle over this one...



OOPS! A crowd of 150 doctors gathers in the Rose Garden to support the health-care overhaul -- as White House staffers scramble to hand out camera-ready white coats to those who forgot their own.
36 posted on 10/06/2009 5:52:36 AM PDT by Miss Didi ( "After all...tomorrow is another day." Scarlett O'Hara, Gone with the Wind)
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To: mware

"Uhh, Mr. President? Your photo-op with the doctors is at three o'clock. This is your two o'clock..."

37 posted on 10/06/2009 5:52:52 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: MsLady
Wonder if any of those people were really doctors. And doctors of what?

Yer right! There are doctorates in just about any subject you can think of. My Pastor has a doctorate but I wouldn't go see him about the corn on my little toe.

38 posted on 10/06/2009 5:55:42 AM PDT by Graybeard58 ( Selah.)
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To: MsLady

"So let me get this straight: you put the lime in the coconut, mix 'em both together, put the lime in the coconut, then you feel better?"

39 posted on 10/06/2009 5:56:07 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: NMEwithin

This, ladies and gentlemen, is how our president “operates”. PATHETIC!


40 posted on 10/06/2009 5:58:26 AM PDT by uncitizen
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