Posted on 10/30/2009 2:14:41 PM PDT by Kartographer
A quarrel between the U.S. government and swine flu vaccine makers reached the highest level on Friday, with President Barack Obama expressing frustration at the slow pace of production.
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May I have this kabuki dance with you...
That's so racist. Obama pretends to be black, just as he pretends to be American. We can't blame problems on someone who has unlimited use of the RaceCard.
It does not amtter now anyway. The H1N1 will peak late next week or the next. It takes 3 WEEKS after receiving the shot or nose wipe to become active.
Maybe he can ask Mrs. Clinton where all the pharmaceutical companies went during her husbands administration ....
Only if you’ve had all your shots and you happen to look like Catherine Zeta Jones Or Salma Hayek. ;-)
Fede-flu Vaccine!!
But I thought you couldn’t yell at an egg.
The production delays are foiling his government made crisis and propaganda campaign!
I thought the H1N1 vaccine was already a government run operation. It certainly seems like one.
Anyone heard the MSM or Congress complaining about the flu vaccine shortage?
This is from the Bush Admin. flu shortage of 2004-2005....(from Wiki)
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Statements by Kerry
Senator Kerry said in an interview with National Public Radio:
If you can’t get flu vaccines to Americans, how are you going to protect them against bioterrorism? If you can’t get flu vaccines to Americans, what kind of health care program are you running?
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Political Reprecussions
* Charles Babington and David Brown write for the Washington Post, Wednesday, October 20, 2004; Page A01, in No Flu Vaccine Shortage At Capitol, Hill’s Doctor Urges Memebers to Get Shots:
While many Americans search in vain for flu shots, members and employees of Congress are able to obtain them quickly and at no charge from the Capitol’s attending physician, who has urged all 535 lawmakers to get the vaccines even if they are young and healthy… But people of all ages who are credentialed to work in the Capitol can get a shot by saying they meet the guidelines, with no further questions asked… The practice appears to directly contravene the instruction being given by the government’s executive branch.
* From Dan Froomkin’s White House Briefing Column 10/20/04:
Flu Headache
Yesterday, on the way from St. Petersburg to New Port Richey, the presidential entourage stopped at the Paradise Restaurant in the little town of Safety Harbor, where the president and his brother posed for pictures and were served coffee and baklava. While in the restaurant, a member of the press pool shouted out a question to the president: “Are you accountable for the flu vaccine shortage?”
Bush ignored the question. And reporters were hustled out of the restaurant.
* Richard Sisk and Helen Kennedy write in the New York Daily News:
The flu is giving President Bush a headache.
* David E. Sanger and Gardiner Harris write in the New York Times:
With polls showing that Florida is once again too close to call, President Bush on Tuesday assured the state’s flu-wary retirees that ‘we have millions of vaccines doses on hand for the most vulnerable Americans’ as his administration said that 2.6 million more doses would be available by January.
* Laura Meckler writes for the Associated Press:
For Bush, the issue is much like what a mayor faces when streets go unplowed after a snow storm just before an election, said Robert Blendon, a Harvard pollster who specializes in health issues. . . .
Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have tried to frame the issue as part of the administration’s overall health care agenda, saying it’s the threat of lawsuits that keeps manufacturers from entering and staying in the vaccine business.
But that’s only a very small part of the problem, said Anthony Fauci, the infectious disease chief at the National Institutes of Health.
* Jonathan Peterson writes in the Los Angeles Times:
One analyst said the vaccine shortage could damage Bush politically. “It doesn’t take any sophistication about politics to grasp the basic point: Not enough vaccine, and it happened on the administration’s watch,” said Lawrence Jacobs, director of the 2004 Elections Project for the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.
This issue has the potential for becoming the poster child for the Kerry campaign theme that President Bush has dropped the ball.
* Donna Leinwand writes in an FAQ for USA Today:
Scientists have been predicting such a shortage for years.
* From ABC news poll 10/20/04
Flu
It makes sense for Kerry to tie the flu vaccine shortage to health care more broadly, since health care has been his best major issue against Bush (a six-point Kerry advantage in tracking results earlier this week). And 61 percent of likely voters are concerned about the vaccine shortage, including 26 percent who are “very” concerned. Where there’s concern, blame may follow.
Concern about the shortage is itself largely partisan — it peaks among Democrats, Kerry supporters and minorities. But there’s one other important political group in which this concern peaks, and that Kerry may be targeting — senior citizens, among whom 70 percent are concerned about the shortage, and 40 percent are “very” concerned.
Blame, at the same time, is not currently in great supply. Twenty-seven percent of likely voters say the Bush administration deserves blame for the vaccine shortage, and fewer, 12 percent, assign it a “great deal” of blame. That blame, moreover, is largely partisan, peaking among Kerry voters, Democrats, liberals and other core Democratic groups. It’s not significantly higher among seniors.
Concern about the lack of vaccine is 10 points higher among women than men, but no higher among parents with children under 18 at home (parents of very young children are too small a subgroup to break out in this poll). Neither women, nor parents, are more apt to blame the Bush administration for the vaccine shortage.
Kerry, for his part, has directly blamed the administration for the shortage, including a radio ad that specifically mentioned elderly Americans, young children and pregnant women as being at risk.
Hey, Obama! Ask Hillary how her health care reforms helped fix the vaccine industry.
Let the kenyan fool attempt to produce a single vaccine dose and see it ain’t like making empty statements about hope and change. It is a complex process and doing it in mass is even more so. Imagine hussein and his trial lawyers running all of healthcare—a worst nightmare scenario for the entire country.
I guess the corporate executives will be asked to double their campaign contributions to Obama.
That article is comforting - NOT.
Anyway, Obama just lifted the travel ban to the US of people with HIV that has been in place since Reagan. He did that today. Not good timing, imho.
I’m so sorry. I guess I am just a typical white guy. I’ll have to redeem myself by giving all my worldly goods to the Democrats and removing myself from the nanny-state payroll with a post-partum abortion (I’m 52). Forgive my gross insensitivity.
All my worldly goods include my post-mortem social security and pension benefits that I would have received according to my pre-government healthcare take-over life expectancy, plus exlusive rights to vote in my stead after I am gone. /s
That is all the Democrats want from me anyway: all that I have or ever expect to get.
“I asshat going to vilify these companies now. What an asshole.”
He sure is going to. It’s amazing how a guy who has largely accomplished nothing concrete in his life disparages one group to the next. At the end of the day, the only ones he will not have vilifed will be his hard left and all the “victims” who have mentally become wards of the state and subjects.
since we don’t have enough government vaccine available...
please present your voter registration card at the front desk to determine whether or not you’ll receive a vaccine today
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