Bus Loads of Obamacare Supporters


This is must see video from New Hampshire worth sharing.

Here’s the gist — in New Hampshire, where Barack Obama showed up, local residents stood in the rain to protest Obamacare.

Barack Obama’s team bussed in the people to attend the rally and also bussed in the counter protestors.

All on tape.

Consider this an open thread.

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Astroturf? What astroturf?

George Claghorn Wednesday, August 12th at 12:07PM EDT (link)

No astroturfing here!

“Victory comes, though we know not when. We must be happy warriors until the end.

For those of you who struggle with what goes on, who see retreat and capitulation, and who feel like not just your political opponents, but those who hold dear all those things you hold as blasphemous — be cheerful. Be happy. Victory is already yours.

You must just have the courage to not get discouraged and have the will to fight on.” – Erick Erickson at RightOnline

 

Step right up, folks, and get a good look

blooch Wednesday, August 12th at 12:12PM EDT (link)

at the interior of these buses. We’ll show you the undercarriage later.

“I have to admit that Karl Marx (1818-1883) was a smart man. He was, in many ways, a psychologist.”–drealoth

What does it say about the intelligence of these Obama supporters

6eorge Jetson Wednesday, August 12th at 9:07PM EDT (link)

that they would go near a bus chartered by Zero™ and his cronies.

 
 

More video of bussed in supporters

sacody Wednesday, August 12th at 12:16PM EDT (link)

If this isn’t astroturf, I don’t know what is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB9KWq10VbY

Let me put in the embed, there.

Moe Lane Wednesday, August 12th at 12:25PM EDT (link)
 

I'm simply amazed (ok...upon further reflection I'm really not)

eburke Wednesday, August 12th at 12:17PM EDT (link)

that the reporterette tossed out that little tidbit of information in the most mundane of fashion, never bothering, based on all the charges of ‘astroturfing’ from the Dems, to dwell on the incongruity of ‘busloads of supporters’ arriving at the event.

Somewhere in journalism school, I do believe they remove the ‘reasoning’ and ‘critical thinking’ genes from these people.

“All that need be done for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”

“Dead fish go with the flow” ~ izoneguy

“We have a Statue of Liberty not a Statue of Necessity” ~ ColdWarrior

Yes, and they replace those important bits of gray matter

janis Wednesday, August 12th at 12:24PM EDT (link)

with little “brain links” that connect the “journalist” directly to DNC talking points whenever they are confronted with conflicting information situations.

Plus it’s a little known fact that the more products you use on your hair, the more these little “brain links” mulitiply. So if you’ll make note of it, the older a reporter gets and the more his/her hair stays put in hurricane-force winds, the less sense they make.

Yeah, well, for some of these guys, making less

eburke Wednesday, August 12th at 12:28PM EDT (link)

sense as they get older is not going to be easy.

“All that need be done for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”

“Dead fish go with the flow” ~ izoneguy

“We have a Statue of Liberty not a Statue of Necessity” ~ ColdWarrior

See "Rather, Dan."

janis Wednesday, August 12th at 12:32PM EDT (link)

Others may have their own personal favorite deranged reporter, but Dan pretty much holds the record in my book.

Well, Dan was/is a rather (pun not intended till after penning)

eburke Wednesday, August 12th at 1:55PM EDT (link)

special and unique case.

For the rest of these bimbos and AlGore plastic look alikes, making less sense 25 years from now than they do presently ain’t gonna be easy.

“All that need be done for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”

“Dead fish go with the flow” ~ izoneguy

“We have a Statue of Liberty not a Statue of Necessity” ~ ColdWarrior

 
 
 
 
 

Answer to the gotcha question to seniors

jackhammer Wednesday, August 12th at 12:25PM EDT (link)

I keep seeing a bunch of people on the left posting and asking questions of seniors at the rally along the lines of “do you participate in Medicare?”

I am sad to see that so many seem to be flummoxed by this question.

It is a simple 2 part answer.

1) You paid for it through exorbinant taxes all of your working life, and since you have paid for it, you would be an idiot not to accept it when you qualify.

If you were to not accept it, that would be a foolhardy purely ideological move, akin to someone on the left voluntarily overpaying on their taxes because they think the government should have a larger share of their wages.

2) Medicare can only exist piggy-backing on private health insurance. It could not offer nearly the level of service it does, were it not for the significnatly higher fees the doctors and hospitals receive form people who pay anything closer ot the list price.

If the government were to strong arm doctors for an even larger share of their patients the way they do for medicaid, doctors woudl dry up…no one would get into that game.

I live in a country with a public and private system (Germany) and this dearth of doctors is exactly what has happened here over the past 20 years. Wage arbitrage with eastern european doctors moving in to fill some voids has made the situation bearable,a dn the private patients keep some talent in the country, but otherwise they would be doomed.

It might also make sense to bring up any supplemental insurance you might have on top of Medicare, as most seniors of any means do - to bring the substandard care up to the level you are looking for.

So, if one of those left wing loons comes at you with, “you are on government health care!”

Then just ask them if they currently overpay their taxes voluntarily?

Not to mention

K James Wednesday, August 12th at 12:35PM EDT (link)

You HAVE TO apply to Medicare in order to get the social security you paid into you whole life.

Lefty bloggers conveniently leave that little bit of information out, of course.

 

Let's see, because seniors like Medicare, then it follows

6eorge Jetson Wednesday, August 12th at 9:00PM EDT (link)

that the seniors should favor transferring a good deal of that care to younger folks that haven’t finshed paying their dues in their working years…

Can you say non-sequitor

 
 

Maybe he sees this as an offset for all the people he's thrown under buses

bk Wednesday, August 12th at 12:33PM EDT (link)

Obama lives in a parallel universe

izoneguy Wednesday, August 12th at 12:38PM EDT (link)

http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=82521

“When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”
Thomas Jefferson

 

Salon throwing Obama under the bus (possibly the same one headed to the rallies)

Return to Revolution Wednesday, August 12th at 12:38PM EDT (link)

I read Camille Paglia’s piece in Salon today if only b/c I was intrigued by the title “Obama’s Healthcare Horror” So even Salon (or at least some there) are beginning to jump ship. But I did get a kick out of this quote:

“As a libertarian and refugee from the authoritarian Roman Catholic church of my youth, I simply do not understand the drift of my party toward a soulless collectivism”

Wow. And wow.

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

i read the same piece...

GCBWI Wednesday, August 12th at 1:29PM EDT (link)

It’s at http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2009/08/12/town_halls/

If she’s not careful, someone might report her to flag@whitehouse.gov…which she also denounces.

 

Why Is That Shocking?

Swamp_Yankee Wednesday, August 12th at 1:36PM EDT (link)

That is par for course for Paglia. She’s always hated collectivism, but she’s always been a militant lesbian pro-choice feminist. Of course, she hates the Catholic Church.

Andrew Sullivan’s soul sister, … I mean soulmate.

Wasn't familiar with her

Return to Revolution Wednesday, August 12th at 3:14PM EDT (link)

I suppose I should get to know those sites better. I always find it interesting when I see libertarians who are firmly with the liberals. With the typical definition of libertarianism - that all relationships should be voluntary so that no one may initiate force for any reason (other than self defense) - what in the world do you think liberals actually stand for if not collectivism first and foremost?

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

 
 
 

It was funny to watch her tell her "news" story and not....

JadedByPolitics Wednesday, August 12th at 2:55PM EDT (link)

get that 2000K people for Obama were bussed in…..it never occurred to her stupid little head that they were being bussed in and was the real news of hypocrisy to what The One had been saying.

Whoever has his enemy at his mercy &
does not destroy him is his own enemy

 

our money

whitelight32812 Wednesday, August 12th at 3:10PM EDT (link)

This is our tax money hard at work for Thugs, ACORN and ALL of Obama’s corruption!! This needs to be stopped! Obama needs to be impeached and the rest need to be recalled!

Michele

 

our money

whitelight32812 Wednesday, August 12th at 3:10PM EDT (link)

This is our tax money hard at work for Thugs, ACORN and ALL of Obama’s corruption!! This needs to be stopped! Obama needs to be impeached and the rest need to be recalled!

Michele

NO!!!

redtillimdead Wednesday, August 12th at 4:03PM EDT (link)

I’ll take Obama over Biden!
On second thought, Biden would be pretty easy to beat in 2012, but Obama is already making that task easier anyway. The campaign commercials have already written themselves. Our candidate will have lots of material

Nancy Pelosi can kiss my asstroturf.

 

Oh God.

George Claghorn Wednesday, August 12th at 4:12PM EDT (link)

Please, please tell me you’re not serious.

“Victory comes, though we know not when. We must be happy warriors until the end.

For those of you who struggle with what goes on, who see retreat and capitulation, and who feel like not just your political opponents, but those who hold dear all those things you hold as blasphemous — be cheerful. Be happy. Victory is already yours.

You must just have the courage to not get discouraged and have the will to fight on.” – Erick Erickson at RightOnline

 
 

Nothing Surprises

misterh Wednesday, August 12th at 3:13PM EDT (link)

Nothing surprises me anymore.

How bot a town hall of random citizens chosen by lottery? That is what I would like to see.

Mr. H
http://www.allhands-ondeck.blogspot.com/

 

Were these short buses?

Socrates Wednesday, August 12th at 3:14PM EDT (link)

Just wondering why they needed 8 of them.


Gone 2500 years, still not PC.

 

In all fairness to Obama

jeffreywturner Wednesday, August 12th at 4:17PM EDT (link)

If I were him, I would probably bring in ringers too.

After all, we are well aware of how he performs when his questions aren’t scripted (ie: “spread the wealth”) and even sometimes when they are (ie: “police acted stupidly”).

Let’s face it, this guy needs all the help he can get. He probably had training wheels on his bicycle until about age 15.

Oh well, maybe one day the media will fall in love with me and convince the sheeple to make me President too.

“Life is too short, can’t we all just eat pork and kill some terrorists?”

 

Astroturf versus grassroots

paint_it_red Wednesday, August 12th at 6:20PM EDT (link)

Obama’s people have tried everything to marginalize those who oppose him on health care. We have been called “astroturfers” even though they bus in supporters to drown out (along with the drums) the real grassroots - the opposition to ObamaCare. Besides being called Nazis, unAmerican, rude, etc., they have now sunk into hypocrisy.

“It is not good to cultivate a respect so much for the law as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think is right.” Henry David Thoreau

“The means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.” Martin Luther King Jr.

“If you want peace, work for Justice.” Pope John Paul II

 

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