WE DON’T MAKE THIS UP
Re: Ben Stein’s We’ve
Figured Him Out:
You people are fascists. All you are concerned about is the
protection of rights for wealthy, white, male, christians.
Everyone else be damned.
Sincerely,
— Brad Fackler
Who was the complete idiotic moron who wrote this article? This
has got to be some of the worst “talking points” about why the
author thinks Obama is in some kind of rush to pass health care
reform. The truth to it is that if he does not set a deadline to
get it done, it may never get done. If he does not set goals,
more people lose their health insurance they have or get denied
because of “pre-existing” conditions. If the author thinks that
people really care about those issues over getting real health
care reform out there and structured in place, then the author is
wrong. The people of America want change, not the same crap we
have been putting up with for so many years, if not decades. I am
not going to let the petty (garbage) that the author wants to put
in his idiotic ranting he calls an article stop me from demanding
health care reform, and I don’t suspect many other Americans
would either.
— Jeff Zander
Americans better wake up. We have a man in the Oval Office that
isn’t even trying to disguise his attempt to destroy this
country. I pray that we will stop him before he has accomplished
his mission.
Our congressmen are part of the problem in that they only
represent themselves and not us.
Why aren’t they required to participate in the programs they
pass? Term limits would solve the problem. We have far too many
kingdoms in D.C. Let’s throw them all out and start over. Oh,
only if we could.
— Bill Owens
Wake Forest, North Carolina
I agree with Mr. Stein. Obama and his henchmen care nothing about
America. His only goal is complete control of every facet of
lives. A totalitarian form of government is on the horizon for us
if Obama and the Democrats have their way. With regard to racism,
Obama removed any doubt that he is a racist by his stupid
comments on the Cambridge incident. Any apology about his beliefs
would be untrue and unacceptable and nothing more than empty
words to cover his ill-made remarks.
— James Diggs
Franklin, North Carolina
This “health reform” is the onset of Euthanasia!
It’s like standing at the edge of a pool watching someone die and
not giving them any aide. It’s like saying “well, they don’t
deserve to be saved because they don’t know how to swim and
should not have gone into the pool in the 1st place.” How is that
train of thought any different from saying to someone who has
developed diabetes because of a poor diet, or someone who
developed lung cancer because of an addiction to cigarettes, that
they need to go to the end of the line for insulin or chemo as an
“economic necessity for the common good.” It’s murder!
— Colleen
Brilliant, spectacular! Ben captures this self-obsessed problem
child concisely! I wish your site allowed me to send it to
everyone I know — without repetitive night long effort!
— John B. Harris
OK. I agree with everything you said, but truly what can we do?
We have a Democratic Congressman who does not listen to his
voters (even when they overwhelmingly disagree with him). I tell
everyone I can what is going on and try to explain it. People are
so upset but don’t know what to do. We know we can make a
difference but how? Tell us and we will do it! We love the
USA and want to save it. We believe in the Republic, Democracy,
and Freedom. We believe there is right and wrong. There can’t be
any gray areas. Gray areas are where people and issues get into
trouble. God help us!
— Cathy Schmidt
Nice job. Keep up the good work.
— Sam Downing
YOUR CALL, MR. PRESIDENT
Re: Jeffrey Lord’s
Who Will Tell Michael J. Fox He Needs to Die?:
Which congressmen shall be charged with my murder? As an
82-year-old woman, fully pacemaker dependent, it’s everyone who
signs on to the outrage called the health bill. I am due for a
new pacemeker toward the end of this year (my fifth). Without it
I die.
What is my current life expectancy? My mother died at 93 — young
for her family, as many have lived (and lived productively) into
their 100s. Will the health czars use some off-the-wall
chart? Besides, what has life expectancy to do with
it? Must I be able to run a 4-minute mile, or is it enough
that I occasionally run an errand for my children or
grandchildren. In fact, is it enough if I simply enjoy being
alive because I have paid my dues: hospital volunteer, library
board, school board, Habitat volunteer, wife for nearly 50 years
of a decent nman and mother of two decent children who, in turn,
are raising decent children and young adults. Who will press
the murder charge?
— MRW
Re: “Who Will Tell Michael J. Fox He Needs to Die?” Okay, the
ONLY reason I read more about this article was to CMA before I
ripped you a new one. You really shouldn’t use that as a headline
for interest. It immediately angered me that you would even
compose such a sentence regarding Mr. Fox. I was going to
call you a dick, now I just need to ask you to re-think your
title since I do realize your point in using it, still… it is
very disrespectful and was in inciting disrespect from me.
Don’t we have enough of that already?
— Nina Soli Texas
Jeffrey Lord replies:
Reader Nina Soli says of the title of this piece, “it is very
disrespectful and was in inciting disrespect from me.”
To which I can only respond, the people who are writing this
philosophy into law intend much more for Ms. Soli than disrespect
if or when she is old, disabled or just a little bit more
medically needy than the numbers say is acceptable. It is hoped
she — and for that matter Michael J. Fox — will speak up now
before they both are told their QALY just doesn’t suit.
DOING HIS JOB
Re: William Tucker’s
There Are Towns a Lot Tougher Than Cambridge:
You are partly on track here. There is no racism here whatsoever.
You just have a cop, and by the way a good one, doing his job.
Put yourself in his position; you get a call that TWO men are
breaking into a house; when you get there you see ONE (but where
is the number TWO): you ask number ONE to step outside, you
surely don’t want to go inside not knowing where number two is.
Number one gets an attitude and now it reinforces the fact that
he wants number one to step outside so that he can sort out the
situation. The cop wants to get home at night to his family and
not shot by number two but number one has this attitude. The cop
did the right thing. He did his job but number one wants to bring
a racial thing and “who do you think I am” into the picture.
There is nothing racial here — it is only a good cop doing his
job.
— Gordon Nilsen
East Northport, New York
THE PUNAHOU POLICE
Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.’s More
Media Follies:
When Obama applied to various schools, the application probably
asked if he was a citizen of the U.S. How did Obama answer that
question? What say Punahou? What say Columbia? What say Harvard?
I will accept Obama’s answers to those questions!
— Jack Hughes
Chicago, Illinois
POST-NEWTONIAN
Re: G. Tracy Mehan, III’s Will
Obama Continue to Defy Gravity?:
Even with the state-controlled “news” media’s slant, the majority
of the country begins to see that a coup has occurred.
They also see that what candidate Obama said or promised before
election is not what President Obama intended or intends to do.
By the way, Sir Isaac Newton’s Law of Gravity doesn’t apply to
the president. Didn’t you get to the memo?
— C. Kenna Amos Jr.
Princeton, West Virginia
