Obama's Dog-and-Pony Health Care Show

by Keli Thu Jul 02, 2009 3:38 pm

President Barack Obama hugs Debby Smith, 53, from Appalachia, Va., after
she asks him about her health care during a town hall meeting at the Northern
Virginia Community College in Annandale, Va., Wednesday, July 1, 2009.

She is a DNC hack. He is a huckster.

by Keli Thu Jul 02, 2009 5:18 pm

Debby Smith, the woman who President Obama hugged during yesterday's town hall meeting and promised to help after she described her difficulties getting treatment for a tumor, "is a volunteer for Organizing for America, Obama's political operation within the Democratic National Committee" who "obtained her ticket through the White House."

One can only imagine what the press would have to say if the Bush White House had done something as cynical.

by Aaron Thu Jul 02, 2009 10:04 pm

Is there anything in the Obama White House that isn't choreographed and rehearsed?

by ziggy Fri Jul 03, 2009 12:18 am

It kind of makes one think there must be a Democratic Karl Rove back there somewhere directing all the drama.

by Aaron Fri Jul 03, 2009 12:29 am

The media never deferred to Bush or Rove, did they thus they didn’t get by with half the crap in 8 years Obama has in 6 months.

by SamCogar Fri Jul 03, 2009 7:01 am

Aaron wrote:Is there anything in the Obama White House that isn't choreographed and rehearsed?

Helen Hits Out

Veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas has lashed out at what she sees as an unprecedented effort by the Obama administration to control the media.

Thomas tells Cybercast News: "Nixon didn't try to do that... What the hell do they think we are, puppets?" Thomas points to the arrangement between the White House and The Huffington Post's Nico Pitney, who was allegedly invited to last week's presidential news conference with the understanding he would ask a question from an Iranian blogger.

And Wednesday, Thomas vented during the White House press briefing after the president conducted a town hall meeting that featured pre-screened participants asking pre-screened questions: "It's really shocking... It's a pattern of controlling the press. Your formal engagements are pre-packaged." http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529893,00.html

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