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Who Do They Think We Are? The administration's Ebola evasions reveal disdain for American people
The Wall Street Journal ^ | Oct 16, 2014 | Peggy Noonan

Posted on 10/17/2014 1:07:42 PM PDT by caligatrux

The administration’s handling of the Ebola crisis continues to be marked by double talk, runaround and gobbledygook. And its logic is worse than its language. In many of its actions, especially its public pronouncements, the government is functioning not as a soother of public anxiety but the cause of it.

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It is my impression that everyone who speaks for the government on this issue has been instructed to imagine his audience as anxious children. It feels like how the pediatrician talks to the child, not the parents. It’s as if they’ve been told: “Talk, talk, talk, but don’t say anything. Clarity is the enemy.”

The language of government now is word-spew.

(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ebola; obama
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I think its more than disdain. I think its active dislike, perhaps even loathing.
1 posted on 10/17/2014 1:07:42 PM PDT by caligatrux
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“Who Do They Think We Are? The administration’s Ebola evasions reveal disdain for American people”

They think you are the stupid f%$#s who voted for him, TWICE!

And they’re right!


2 posted on 10/17/2014 1:09:32 PM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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A little slow on the uptake there, Peggy?


4 posted on 10/17/2014 1:13:26 PM PDT by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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To: caligatrux
obozo is essentially orchestrating deadly disease infection upon America. That is by all human standards, criminal. Will he be charged for all of the Americans that die as a result directly from his actions? This US government is clearly the enemy of the people.
5 posted on 10/17/2014 1:14:08 PM PDT by drypowder
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6 posted on 10/17/2014 1:15:42 PM PDT by Baynative (Did you ever notice that atheists don't dare sue Muslims?)
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To: caligatrux
"You know, charter flights don’t do the same thing commercial airliners do."

"What do you mean? They fly in and fly out."


Frieden's defense of keeping commercial flights running, instead of using charter flights, was to cite a situation where a number of aide workers couldn't get to their destination because of difficulties with commerical flights.

Which would be the reason you would use charter flights, dumbass.

Logic and reason show that Frieden's concerns about relief efforts would not be hampered by charter flights, but would instead benefit from charter flights.

So, this is just politics. Like appointing a lawyer Ebola czar for no apparent reason other than to bloat the bureacracy, shift blame and siphon off more tax-payer money to cronies.
7 posted on 10/17/2014 1:16:12 PM PDT by caligatrux (They always said that the living would envy the dead.)
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I think Obama is a terrorist.


8 posted on 10/17/2014 1:16:38 PM PDT by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: caligatrux

Please call congress and tell them that we must be deadly serious about containing Ebola by strict quarantine within the United States and from infected nations. This is our right and our duty and it is THEIR duty to protect US.

Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121 or Google your congressman or senator and get his contact information and call him / her office directly. You can also call or go to their local offices.

I believe decisive response is urgent because you can’t put this Ebola genie back in the bottle once it gets out. It is a fire, it consumes all the fuel it can get and the fuel is people. The only way to stop a fire is to block it from the fuel or cool it with water. A vaccine or medicine to treat Ebola would be the water and we don’t have reliable, enough or any.

Every possible measure must be taken to stop the spread before draconian measures are imposed. What is being done now is sloppy. We are walking a dangerous road. The threat is blossoming by the day if not hour. Almost every hour there is some new Ebola development and none of them are good. This is a serious and potentially deadly event. Unchecked it could destroy or weaken the United States and facilitate our destruction by others. It has that potential for every country and that is why so many are responding with such strict quarantines. These consequences, no matter how small the probabilities, demand a full effort and significant response.

Ebola is being spread here in the United States right now. First Texas, then Ohio then? Terror is an excellent weapon. It disrupts, confuses, paralyzes and destroys a society. Many others and we on FR have speculated that terrorists may spread Ebola. How do you that remember 9/11 feel right now compared to what you felt then? Do you want to gather your loved ones near you to protect them? I do. Even more than I did on September 11, 2001! Isn’t this passive response by this administration accomplishing the very same things a terrorist would want?
When something is being done that makes as little sense as what Obama is doing there has to be some other reason. I leave it to you dear reader to draw your own conclusions as to the reasons.
What is happening now is insane. It makes no sense at all. For example the head of CDC says: “Stopping travel from Africa won’t do any good because you have to get people into Africa to fight Ebola.” “You can’t get Ebola from an infected person on a bus but an infected person should never be on a bus because he can infect others.” “Blocking travel from infected countries would damage their fragile economies.” What about ours? What about our safety? What about resources we have paid for that should be protecting us?

Even the most despotic dictatorship in Africa has acted to protect his nation by strict quarantine and stopping travel from infected countries. Even CDC, the UN and WHO advocate and credit strict quarantine for nipping the spread of Ebola in the bud at the source in places like Senegal and Nigeria where both have had faster and more successful outbreak controls than we have had here. 35 countries have stopped travel of people from infected West African countries. It is so obvious even a child could understand it so why is it OK for people from infected countries to travel here?
I will post this message and keep posting it until someone stops me.

For further reference:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3216461/posts


9 posted on 10/17/2014 1:17:35 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (You can't get Ebola on a bus but if you are infected you can give Ebola to someone on a bus. WTH?)
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To: caligatrux

Please call congress and tell them that we must be deadly serious about containing Ebola by strict quarantine within the United States and from infected nations. This is our right and our duty and it is THEIR duty to protect US.

Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121 or Google your congressman or senator and get his contact information and call him / her office directly. You can also call or go to their local offices.

I believe decisive response is urgent because you can’t put this Ebola genie back in the bottle once it gets out. It is a fire, it consumes all the fuel it can get and the fuel is people. The only way to stop a fire is to block it from the fuel or cool it with water. A vaccine or medicine to treat Ebola would be the water and we don’t have reliable, enough or any.

Every possible measure must be taken to stop the spread before draconian measures are imposed. What is being done now is sloppy. We are walking a dangerous road. The threat is blossoming by the day if not hour. Almost every hour there is some new Ebola development and none of them are good. This is a serious and potentially deadly event. Unchecked it could destroy or weaken the United States and facilitate our destruction by others. It has that potential for every country and that is why so many are responding with such strict quarantines. These consequences, no matter how small the probabilities, demand a full effort and significant response.

Ebola is being spread here in the United States right now. First Texas, then Ohio then? Terror is an excellent weapon. It disrupts, confuses, paralyzes and destroys a society. Many others and we on FR have speculated that terrorists may spread Ebola. How do you that remember 9/11 feel right now compared to what you felt then? Do you want to gather your loved ones near you to protect them? I do. Even more than I did on September 11, 2001! Isn’t this passive response by this administration accomplishing the very same things a terrorist would want?
When something is being done that makes as little sense as what Obama is doing there has to be some other reason. I leave it to you dear reader to draw your own conclusions as to the reasons.
What is happening now is insane. It makes no sense at all. For example the head of CDC says: “Stopping travel from Africa won’t do any good because you have to get people into Africa to fight Ebola.” “You can’t get Ebola from an infected person on a bus but an infected person should never be on a bus because he can infect others.” “Blocking travel from infected countries would damage their fragile economies.” What about ours? What about our safety? What about resources we have paid for that should be protecting us?

Even the most despotic dictatorship in Africa has acted to protect his nation by strict quarantine and stopping travel from infected countries. Even CDC, the UN and WHO advocate and credit strict quarantine for nipping the spread of Ebola in the bud at the source in places like Senegal and Nigeria where both have had faster and more successful outbreak controls than we have had here. 35 countries have stopped travel of people from infected West African countries. It is so obvious even a child could understand it so why is it OK for people from infected countries to travel here?
I will post this message and keep posting it until someone stops me.

For further reference:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3216461/posts


10 posted on 10/17/2014 1:22:45 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (You can't get Ebola on a bus but if you are infected you can give Ebola to someone on a bus. WTH?)
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To: caligatrux

Another explanation: Sarkozy was right.

Obama is a friggin’ madman. If the acceleration of visas to West Africa was done at his behest several months ago as Ebola started to appear, and if the Judicial Watch rumor/heads-up that he wants to transport and treat non-America Ebola victims here are true, he has to be crazy... crazier than even Biden.


11 posted on 10/17/2014 1:24:27 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Baynative

Good job....


12 posted on 10/17/2014 1:41:15 PM PDT by Gator113 ( Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin and Mike Lee speak for me, most everyone else is just noise.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

He and his policies have been rejected by the majority of an entire nation. He is now out to get even.


13 posted on 10/17/2014 1:42:55 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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He is now out to get even.

That's psycho behavior, right there.

14 posted on 10/17/2014 1:44:02 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Roger that. I have long said I believe he is on anti-psychotics and his frequent trips away from the WH are exercises in escapism. Forget mentally. He has never been emotionally up to the job.


15 posted on 10/17/2014 1:46:20 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: caligatrux

Is Ms. Noonan talking about her choice for president?


16 posted on 10/17/2014 1:47:26 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Liberals were raised by women or wimps. And they're all stupid.)
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Dr. Frieden did not explain his or the government’s thinking on the reasons for opposition to a travel ban.

I know! I know! It's

Obama C A T A P U L T - ing More Bodies Into U.S.

Obama's Coordinated Assault Targeting American People Using Lethal Terminal foreign citizens claims increasing number of victims, creating turmoil, need to crackdown to quell violence, establish "quarantine zones" guarded by each state's National Guard . . . .

17 posted on 10/17/2014 2:04:06 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: caligatrux

During the 1300’s, the Bubonic Plague almost destroyed Europe.

The rulers of Europe at that time did not know the cause of the Plague — that it was being carried by rats traveling on ships.

But if the rulers had known, does anyone doubt that they would have quarantined ships trying to enter their countries so that their populations would not be sickened and die in vast numbers?

So here we are in the 21st century. We know that Ebola is being carried by West Africans. One West African traveler to the U.S. has already infected two nurses with the deadly disease. So how can the ruler of the U.S. not quarantine West African travelers to his country in order to prevent further sickness and most likely death to his own citizens?

The leaders of Britain and France have already quarantined Ebola carriers from their countries by banning flights from West Africa. They don’t want Black Death II to ravage their continent. But, apparently, our president, by acting opposite to the leaders of Britain and France, does in fact want to invite horror for his citizens.


18 posted on 10/17/2014 2:06:26 PM PDT by Bluestocking
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20 posted on 10/17/2014 2:43:43 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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