GATES CLOSED
It wasn’t out of a need for racial healing that President
Barack Obama reached out to his old friend,
Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and
Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crowley.
“We were looking at House hearings on the matter moving fairly
quickly, and that wasn’t going to be good for us or for Gates,”
says a White House source. “We needed this thing to go away and
go away fast.”
Early Friday, the White House got wind of Rep.
Edolphus Towns’ interest in
holding hearings into the matter of Gates’ arrest, and more
broadly looking into the issue of racial profiling by law
enforcement. Towns is chairman of the House Oversight and
Government Reform Committee, as well as the senior House
Democratic Member of the Congressional Black Caucus.
Adding to the desire to get the story buried was the media’s
seeming refusal to let the story drop. By noon Friday, House
press secretary Robert Gibbs, along with other
senior White House officials, recommended that Obama either walk
back his statement further than he did on Thursday, or take
proactive action.
“The President chose action, in part because we saw this story
eclipsing other issues and narratives that we needed front and
center for August,” says the White House source. “We didn’t need
House hearings keeping the story alive into August and then into
the fall, when the hearings most likely would have been held. We
have more important issues to deal with than this.”
MICHELLE’S DUMPING DESIGNS
Republicans on Capitol Hill are taking a fresh look at one of the
seedier Chicago stories from Barack and Michelle Obama’s past in
ratcheting up the debate on Obamacare: the University of Chicago
Hospital’s “Urban Health Initiative,” which Michelle
Obama ran prior to her taking a leave of absence to
campaign with her husband in 2007.
Because of the medical center’s location on the South Side of
Chicago, a large number of indigent patients, without health
insurance, were using the hospital’s emergency room for care. The
nonprofit hospital, which in 2007 made more than $100 million in
profits, largely because its beds and facilities were used by
paying patients and those fully insured, paid Mrs. Obama to
oversee the Urban Health Initiative program that identified
indigent patients and then steered them to other area medical
facilities. In fact, some of those profits came from Canadian
citizens who traveled to the U.S. for medical procedures they
could not get due to Canada’s restrictive national health care
programs.
It wasn’t just Obama’s wife who was involved in creating the
program. Senior White House adviser and political
strategist, David Axelrod, and his PR firm in
Chicago were retained to develop a media campaign to encourage
area residents not to use University of Chicago as a medical
facility. Senior White House official, and Obama friend,
Valerie Jarrett served on the board of directors
of the hospital and approved the plan for the Urban Health
Initiative, and the hiring of Axelrod. And on the recommendation
of then Senator Obama, Dr. Eric Whitaker, was
named director of the Initiative in late 2007, after serving as
the director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, a job
he got after Obama recommended him to then Gov. Rod
Blagojevich via another Obama crony, Tony
Rezko, a fund-raiser for Obama and now a convicted felon
on federal corruption charges.
Candidate Obama thought enough of the program to tout it as an
example of how health care reform should be done. When asked
about the program during the 2008 presidential campaign,
Ben LaBolt, a campaign spokesman, said, “Senator
Obama sees community health centers as a vital part of efforts to
invest in prevention and reduce costs.”
But as more reporters focused on Mrs. Obama’s health care
initiative, the campaign started to backtrack, particularly when
local Chicago ward bosses started making claims that Mrs. Obama’s
program was nothing more than “patient dumping.”
In February 2009, the program took another hit, when the
president of the American College of Emergency Physicians, Dr.
Nick Jouriles, said, “The medical center is
reducing emergency care access to its local community, while at
the same time, opening a ‘side door’ to a ‘specialty intake area’
to provide emergency care to medical center private patients.
This is a dangerous precedent that could have catastrophic
effects in poor neighborhoods across the country.”
That statement came after local news reports highlighted the
story of Dontae Adams, young Medicaid patient
who was rushed to University of Chicago Hospital after a pit bull
attack, was treated with painkillers and a tetanus shot, but then
was refused admission for surgery. Adams’ mother was forced to
take him on an hour-long bus ride to another hospital for the
facial surgery.
Then-Senator Obama took some flack back in 2007 for attempting to
get a $1 million earmark cleared through the Senate for his
wife’s hospital. Ultimately, that earmark was not approved.
YES WE CANNES
While the U.S. State Department has not asked for the assistance,
some global public relations and advertising firms are doing
their part to help the Obama Administration succeed overseas.
According to sources inside DDB Worldwide, one
of the world’s most prestigious advertising and PR firms, some
executives have prepared recommended talking points and a
suggested image campaign for incoming Obama Administration U.S
ambassadors and counsel generals, particularly in Europe and
Asia.
One of the recommendations, according to sources: American
officials shouldn’t identify themselves as representatives
of the United States. Rather, to build on his personal popularity
abroad, they should identify themselves as a “representative of
President Barack Obama.”
DDB, according to the source, was not solicited by the government
to undertake the PR effort. Rather, it was done by a few
employees supportive of the Obama Administration. Senior DDB
executives, however, have made fairly public efforts to
tout the Obama Administration overseas. In May, DDB CEO
Chuck Brymer and DDB CCO Bob
Scarpelli invited senior Obama political adviser
David Plouffe to speak at the firm’s conference
during the Cannes film festival.
Drudge Ette Obama| 7.27.09 @ 6:38AM
Edolphus Towns joins the long list of race baiters. Like DeKalb County, Georgia's HANK JOHNSON, whose first comment on the health insurance destruction process is that the Blue Dog Democrats are all white men.
But consider this. Hank Johnson took the same seat once held by wacko Cynthia McKinney: you know, the woman who always pushed her way up front at State of the Union addresses so she could kiss Bush on the cheek, punches Capitol police, gets arrested by Israeli military for being on boats, and a candidate-in-waiting for the Green Party when her own Democrat party finally had enough of her. Hank Johnson is of the same cloth as Cynthia McKinney. He sees race first because it is all he has to offer.
These Blue Dogs are worthless except for the short diversion they offer. Jim Marshall of Macon GA is another example. He sign TARP without reading it. That's all anyone needs to know. Jim Marshall was a plant by the Democrats to win that district's congressional race: he is ex military and pro 2nd Amendment. But it ends there, people.
Wait and see, these Blue Dogs will turn tail and vote along party line once you feed themsome cheap meatless bones.
Michigan and Me| 7.27.09 @ 6:39AM
Obama's healthcare system will be run the same way he wants to run the public school system. He spends almost sixty grand a year educating his two young daughters at private schools, and eliminates vouchers for D.C. schoolchildren. Hell, the guy is bothered more by American kids with vouchers than the mullahs with the nuclear bomb. This is the future of Obamacare.
Rocco| 7.27.09 @ 6:45AM
Drudge Ette, I think you are right on the money with your last sentence. They'll put up enough fight to make themselves look good, then Pelucifer and her minions will make deals with them, promising enough money et al. to make them fold.
On the Gates matter, if Obama would have kept his mouth shut, it would have died. But then again, in view of Gates' supposed crock-umentary on race and police, all of this may have well been staged to create a market for it....
jack| 7.27.09 @ 6:59AM
finally we see the real obama, the guy who spent years at the knee of Rev Wright,the hate mongering anti american racist. Too bad McCain did not have the courage to use Obamas past and his assoiations against him, he might have saved the country,but that would have put his standing with the media at risk.
Obama appears to be no more than a race pimp in the mold of Jackson,Jackson Jr. and Sharpton with his attack on police and white people. You know what the difference between white and blacks are Mr. Obama? A white guy who acted your lowlife buddy would still be in jail,and thats the truth.
For months I could not figure out if Obama was an imbecile(proper tire inflation) or a lunatic socialist. Now I am convince he is both.
Robert Rosencrans| 7.27.09 @ 8:09AM
Here's a good article called "Timeline to A Payoff." It shows the history of Michelle Obama's salary around the time of the $1,000,000 dollar earmark request by Barack Obama. Pure schmaltz!
#54 should have read "after he requested a $1,000,000 grant for the hospital where his wife worked." In fact, if you check her salary, it went up 160% that year.
http://friendsofatr.blogspot.com/2008/04/timeline-of-payoff-michelle-obama-and-u.html
Michelle Obama worked for the University of Chicago for years--even before her husband Barack decided to run for the United States Senate. Apparently, she did a really good job (source on these wages is Obama tax returns):
2002: $98,826
2003: $64,287
2004: $121,910 (89.6% raise)
2005: $316,962 (159.9% raise)
2006: $273,618
2007: $103,663
In 2006, Senator Barack Obama requested a $1 million earmark for the University of Chicago Hospital System. Click here to read details about it.
When was the last time you got a 160% raise (or a 90% raise, for that matter)? I guess it helps if your senator-husband gets your boss a $1 million earmark.
Tim| 7.27.09 @ 8:28AM
Only Nixon could go to China and only Obama can kick the Congressional Black Caucus to the curb.
bluecollarbytes| 7.27.09 @ 8:53AM
quote: -->"One of the recommendations, according to sources: American officials shouldn't identify themselves as representatives of the United States. Rather, to build on his personal popularity abroad, they should identify themselves as a "representative of President Barack Obama."
HSR0601| 7.27.09 @ 8:55AM
Let's put aside some distractions caused by the health industry-sponsored Democrats, and the controversial analysis of CBO on the economic effect of the proposed independent advisory council and how to empower it substantively, get back to focus on how to meet the goal of deficit-neutral.
The House leaders reached a deal on Medicare payments: A "Pay for Value" reimbursement system that rewards doctors and hospitals that achieve the best outcomes at the lowest cost.
As a result, The House gained a lot of votes, a lot of people who were withholding support.
The federal Medicare program insures some 44 million elderly and disabled Americans at an annual cost of $450 billion, almost one-fifth of total U.S. health care spending.
Supporters of the agreement say it could save the Medicare System more than $100 billion a year and improve care, that means $1trillian over a decade. (Please visit http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=820455&catid=391 for detailed infos)
The Times in a July 7 editorial argued “As much as 30 percent of all health-care spending in the U.S. -some $700 billion a year- may be wasted on tests and treatments that do not improve the health of the recipients,” Thus the remaining $239 billions over a decade do not matter.
No one can disagree with this best outcome / evidence-based system, and private insurance, too, will be greatly influenced by this change with the focus on value over volume. !
Dr. Armadio at Mayo clinic says, "If we got rid of that stuff, we save a third of all that we spend and that is 2.5 trillion dollars on health care. A third of that and that is 700 billion dollars a year. That covers a lot of uninsured people."
THANK YOU !
Lreonard Giaccone| 7.27.09 @ 9:31AM
Is it OK to practice occupational profiling? When one is confronted by persons in dark blue uniforms, no matter how civil their behavior, is it reasonable to automatically react as if they were "jack booted thugs"
Oldefarte| 7.27.09 @ 10:22AM
It's a shame that more of this type information [ie Obama's Chicago Way] was not forthcoming BEFORE the November 2008 election by the MSM------possibly if so, we'd have a different President!!!!!!!!!!!
Jim Workman| 7.27.09 @ 10:27AM
Chris Rock's advice for Skippy Gates:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj0mtxXEGE8&feature=PlayList&p=43CCC6FA37E83BF2&index=0
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Michelle Obama's Patient Dumping Scheme | Stuck On Stupid links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
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Michelle Malkin » “Michelle vs. Michelle” links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Stan REdmond| 7.27.09 @ 1:29PM
"This Isn't about me." -Barak Obama
Really?
"Rather, to build on his personal popularity abroad, they should identify themselves as a "representative of President Barack Obama." "
shaggydave| 7.27.09 @ 1:36PM
I remember hearing about U of C's ER program when it came out. There are plenty of hospitals and urgent care clinics on the south side of Chicago who can tend to a medicaid patient's throbbing toe. An indigent person with a genuine emergency will not be turned away. Is there any reason why bed space (and emergency room space) in one of our nations premiere hospitals should be used to treat mundane and picayune ailments when there are other options suitable for those health needs? U of C hospital is in the same class as Mayo and Cleveland clinics, when a patient is airlifted from where I work in Lake County, IN it will be a genuine emergency and that patient shouldn't have to wait behind someone on medicaid using the ER like a doctor's office.
Sigmund| 7.27.09 @ 1:38PM
As with their cousin maniac, the garden variety fire pyromaniac, the raceomaniac has an exact pathology that is hard to determine. Most such maniacs lack conscious motivation although they are fully aware of the acts they are encouraging or that they themselves are committing. Typically they will feel intense pleasure, gratification, or relief when causing destruction or when witnessing or participating in the aftermath. Some research suggests that feeling such joy at such situations is pathological. However other research suggests that some motivation for this comes from rational thought. Taking joy in destructive acts for envisioned gains in political power and/or the concealment of the imposition of devious plans are examples of presumed rational decision making. For Professor Gates a reasonable working hypothesis would be 50% pathological and 50% rational. For President Obama a reasonable working hypothesis would be 25% pathological and 75% rational. Further study is needed but in the mean time I would strongly recommend that both Professor Gates and especially President Obama be kept under strict psychiatric supervision preferably in a well staffed and secure facility.
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Michelle Obama’s Shady Involvement in Chicago Hospital’s “Patient Dumping” of the Po links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
DORIS| 7.27.09 @ 2:12PM
Let us examine this scenario. Lady calls 911 to report breaking and entry in progress. Police arrive, guy in the house says, "This is my house." Officer says OK and leaves. Serveral hours later the actual owner of the house returns home to find that it has been broken into and his valuables are missing. He calls the police to report this and finds that the police were already sent to that address. Then the owner finds that the officer took the word of the burgler that he was the owner. What is the first question you would ask the officer?
Appleby| 7.27.09 @ 3:46PM
The very first question I would ask the officer would be "Did you take his word for the fact that he was the owner? And if so, why?"
And if the officer was White and the burglar (and the homeowner) were Black, the only possible honest answer would be, "Because if I had asked for ID, he would have started screaming YOUARACIST! and I would have been crucified."
If the homeowner had an ounce of smarts, he would understand that explanation. If, alas, he was equally afraid of being accused of "acting White", he would in turn start screaming YOUARACIST!
If both burglar and homeowner are Black, the police officer cannot win.
God| 7.27.09 @ 4:24PM
You're ugly.
jack| 7.27.09 @ 5:26PM
i am starting to think all these people buying weapons and ammo might be right. This Obama is a complete lunatic. He may be further out there than nancy pelosi or barney. But they just push socialism and corruption,you get that with Obama and racial division because he is a racist and radical as we found out last week.
sandy| 7.27.09 @ 5:47PM
Folks I just got here but want to add some prime info for you to read if you want scary details on Obama & Czars plans to save money by "deathcare" instead of health care for the Boomers, while covering the younger illegal worker bees.. There are 3 articles I read in respectable publications that EVERYONE should read before making up your mind.
1) Find article "Deadly Doctors" in NY Post on 7/24, and read every word so the deathcare is clear: no need for Boomers rights. Goodbye if you aren't "useful"; Rahm Emanuel's DR brother on the so-called Health Board. Terrible news. This article has quotes about how spoiled we Americans are according to Dr Emanuel. These are Jews who should know better (from Israel)
2) Go to Hudson Institute and read Dr Betsy McCaughey's articles; she is listed under "scholars" section at the top of page. She has details & page numbers with many undesirable features of the Kennedy bill that Dodd introduced. Also read her other articles, one titled "Obama's Voodoo Health Care Economics" is great. How's that budget busting "stimulus" working for YOU? I got nothing.
3) Huffington Post (honestly I hardly believed it) had a great set of both questions and better suggestions for Obama's "ruling class" on the features of the House's bill. This appeared on 7/22, by Henryk Kowalcsyk. There are much better targeted fixes than this total replacement system that Obama Gang wants to install, but they'll all be exempt from, while creating another massive federal bureaucracy, also exempt from the kind of decisions they'll be making for us!
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Let’s remember that Democrats are very much into birth certificate trutherism « Jim B links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
CatotheElder| 7.27.09 @ 6:29PM
AmSpec, who's minding the (handbag) store?
Alice Aumiller| 7.27.09 @ 7:00PM
Re: Obama nation
Nothing is going to change until the love affair/marriage/honeymoon with the American
media and the Democrats in Congress ends, you
can expect more of the same.
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MONSTERMASHABLE: OBAMA HEALTH CARE BACKSTORY – suzyrice.com/BIRD links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Carl LaFong| 7.27.09 @ 9:09PM
Sergeant Crowley forgot that Cambridge was the setting for Erich Segal’s “Love Story” and that " ‘Harvard’ means never having to say you’re sorry.”
God| 7.28.09 @ 1:25AM
I bless you, brave Conservatives--go smite the godless enemy who has denied Me. Go forth and fight the good fight, for I will be the mighty wind at your back. Do what is right and always do it in My Name. Good will triumph over the evil Marxist democrats.
PK| 7.28.09 @ 1:45AM
...Actually probably the Blue Dogs are looking at this too - for ideas for their healthcare plans...for everyone else. They would get to go in the 'side specialty' door, while everyone else would be shuttled somewhere else...where....?
george| 7.28.09 @ 2:40AM
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/07/27/profiling-obama
Sassy Lady| 7.28.09 @ 2:36PM
The only racial parties to the "Gates Gate" is Gate's himself and Obama.
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Malkin on Beck: Barack O’s Culture of Corruption & Michelle O’s ‘Patient Dumping’ of links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
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Michelle Malkin: Going After Obama’s Organized Crime Culture Of Corruption–Videos « P links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Yellowstone | 7.28.09 @ 11:33PM
Death to spammers! Death Death Death!
DORIS| 7.29.09 @ 12:21AM
A Peek Inside the ObamaCare Bill.All current government treatment programs including retired military
and civil service will be enrolled w/o delay...
Except for members of CONGRESS. As the President said, "This is not about me, I have health care."
This is only about the masses.
Chairman Obama wants to ram his gargantuan healthcare bill down our throats before anyone realizes what's in it. What doesn't he want us to see? Some examples, from a quick inventory by Family Security Matters:
Pg 22 of the HC Bill mandates the Government will audit books of all employers that self insure.
Pg 30 Sec 123 of HC bill — a Government committee (good luck with that!) will decide what treatments/benefits a person may receive.
Pg 29 lines 4-16 in the HC bill — YOUR HEALTHCARE WILL BE RATIONED!
Pg 42 of HC Bill — The Health Choices Commissioner will choose your HC Benefits for you.
PG 50 Section 152 in HC bill — HC will be provided to ALL non US citizens, illegal or otherwise.
Pg 58 HC Bill — Government will have real-time access to individual's finances and a National ID Healthcard will be issued!
Pg 59 HC Bill lines 21-24 Government will have direct access to your bank accts for election funds transfer.
PG 65 Sec 164 is a payoff subsidized plan for retirees and their families in Unions & community organizations (read: ACORN).
Pg 72 Lines 8-14 Government will create an HC Exchange to bring private HC plans under Government control.
PG 91 Lines 4-7 HC Bill — Government mandates linguistic appropriate services. Example — Translation for illegal aliens.
Pg 95 HC Bill Lines 8-18 The Government will use groups, i.e. ACORN & Americorps, to sign up individuals for Government HC plan.
PG 85 Line 7 HC Bill — Specifics of Benefit Levels for Plans. AARP members — your Health care WILL be rationed.
PG 102 Lines 12-18 HC Bill — Medicaid Eligible Individuals will be automatically enrolled in Medicaid. No choice.
pg 124 lines 24-25 HC No company can sue Government on price fixing. No "judicial review" against Government Monopoly.
pg 127 Lines 1-16 HC Bill — Doctors/ AMA — The Government will tell YOU what you can earn.
Pg 145 Line 15-17 An Employer MUST auto enroll employees into public option plan. NO CHOICE.
Pg 126 Lines 22-25 Employers MUST pay for HC for part time employees AND their families.
Pg 170 Lines 1-3 HC Bill Any NONRESIDENT Alien is exempt from individual taxes. (Americans will pay.)
Pg 195 HC Bill -officers & employees of HC Admin (the GOVERNMENT) will have access to ALL Americans' finances and personal records.
PG 203 Line 14-15 HC — "The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax" Yes, it says that.
Pg 239 Line 14-24 HC Bill Government will reduce physician services for Medicaid. Seniors, low income, poor affected.
Pg 241 Line 6-8 HC Bill — Doctors — doesn't matter what specialty — will all be paid the same.
PG 253 Line 10-18 Government sets value of Doctor's time, professional judgment, etc. Literally, value of humans.
PG 265 Sec 1131 Government mandates & controls productivity for private HC industries.
Pg 317 L 13-20 OMG!! PROHIBITION on ownership/investment. Government tells Doctors what/how much they can own.
Pg 317-318 lines 21-25,1-3 PROHIBITION on expansion — Government will mandate hospitals cannot expand.
Pg 354 Sec 1177 — Government will RESTRICT enrollment of Special needs people!
PG 425 Lines 4-12 Government mandates Advance Care Planning Consultations. Think Senior Citizens end of life prodding.
PG 425 Lines 22-25, 426 Lines 1-3 Government provides approved list of end of life resources, guiding you in how to die.
PG 427 Lines 15-24 Government mandates program for orders for end of life. The Government has a say in how your life ends.
PG 429 Lines 10-12 "advanced care consultation" may include an ORDER for end of life plans. AN ORDER from the Government to end a life!
Page 472 Lines 14-17 PAYMENT TO COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATION. 1 monthly payment to a community-based organization. (Like ACORN?)
There is plenty more. See for yourself: http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:h3200ih.pdf
This bill would drive unemployment, taxes, and the deficit through the stratosphere. It would turn hospitals into the paper mills, dramatically reduce your access to healthcare, let bureaucratic creeps decide when it's time to die, and guarantee that no one in his right mind goes to medical school. As for the damage this would do to individual liberty — let's just say that any doubts about the Moonbat Messiah being a socialist have been put to rest.
If this nightmare bill isn't Obama's Waterloo, then it's America's. Pass this on to everyone you know!
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