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Those White Coats In The Rose Garden
IBD Editorials ^ | October 6, 2009 | INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY Staff

Posted on 10/06/2009 5:08:05 PM PDT by Kaslin

Politics: The administration stages a photo-op with handpicked doctors who support its health care reform. Fortunately, most doctors still believe that the first rule of medicine is to do no harm.

It would seem some doctors still make house calls. Some 150 of them made one at the White House Monday in an attempt to give a booster shot to the administration's chaotic and stalled health care reform drive.

Rather than a grass-roots uprising of physicians, this was a classic case of AstroTurfing.

Attendance was by invitation only, and 40 of the 150 were said to be members of Doctors for America, a reincarnation of the Doctors for Obama arm of the Obama campaign that boasts of having more than 15,000 members.

The physicians were told to bring their white lab coats with them to make sure the TV cameras to capture the proper image. Those who just showed up wearing suits or dresses were provided with lab coats hastily rustled up.

White House spokesman Reid Cherlin insisted that the doctors "were not invited based on their support for a public option." We'd like a second opinion on that. Doctors for America as an organization embraces a government-run insurance option.

"It just appears that the president of the United States, at this point, is choosing to meet only those who support his agenda," said Dr. Margaret Flowers, a Maryland pediatrician and congressional fellow for Physicians for a National Health Program, a group not invited.

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To: ROCKLOBSTER; devolve

[Maybe since they’re homeless, they’re trying to become their own homes...like turtles.]

LOL! Dumpster diving must pay off and the fat will keep them warm. If they could just retract their heads so they can’t lie about being ‘homeless’!


61 posted on 10/07/2009 7:08:34 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: potlatch

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Yup

Huge jet cargo planes

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I saw the grifters lined up for blocks for free money


62 posted on 10/07/2009 7:19:31 PM PDT by devolve ( . . . . . . . . . . Barack Hussein Obama mmm mmm mmm . . . . . . . . . . .)
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To: devolve

But NOT the planes that were wanted...

[I saw the grifters lined up for blocks for free money]
Yes, I saw the thread with them early today. Taken from the rear and they were all huge! I couldn’t believe it.


63 posted on 10/07/2009 7:23:11 PM PDT by potlatch
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