Is the President’s silence fanning flames of discontent? (Update)

In my opinion, CNN is doing a yeoman’s job in efforts to educate the villagers regarding the myths and folk tales that have seized and is holding the pending Healthcare Reform Bill hostage. In the tallest tower of the castle all day and throughout the night, one can hear the weeping and wailing of the pending bill. The villagers have become nervous and upset due to lack of sleep and not knowing what is going on. Who will save the fair and balanced Healthcare Reform Bill and bring peace to their beloved kingdom? Who would dare confront and slay the bill’s captors? “Who?” they plead.

Enter the hansom Sir Obama riding on his white horse, Justice and Liberty, stopping in the middle of the square, sitting tall in full armor dress, he speaks to the enthralled and swooning villagers: “Let me be perfectly clear. I come to praise the Republicans, the Blue Dogs and the good Sen. Grassley of Iowa” he says, “not to bury them….” The End.

I have gotten down right disgusted with the President keeping so many people confused regarding the Healthcare Reform Bill. He and only he can bring a screeching halt to this madness sweeping the country. At this time, I see no political gain whatsoever him darting from one Town Hall Meeting to another. It is becoming increasingly counter productive for him at this point and things are not comin’ up rosy. I struggle to remain optimistic.

Update:  And it happens again....with video X2
by princss6
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Wed Aug 12, 2009 at 12:29:17 PM PDT
Excerpt:
So I am sure you are all aware of the townhall where an African American woman was ejected for apparently getting into a fight with another attendee.  MSNBC just showed another angle of the video.  Apparently, the AA woman was sitting in her seat and placed a sign in the chair in front of her.  A photographer took a picture of the AA woman and then walked over to her to ask her about the poster.  The AA woman unfolded the poster for the photographer.  The poster was of revered Civil Rights legend Rosa Parks.  At that point, a white woman walks over to the photographer and AA woman, grabs the poster, walks away and rips it up!  

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Update 2 - Upon receiving information, I would like to say that incident still upsets me.  However, I am relieved that the Hillsboro police acted justly and fairly by arresting the perpetrator.  It seems strange to me that none of this was reported.  The video of the AA woman has been on constant loop, so it would seem that all of the details would be revealed.  It is a relief believe me that this man was not left unmolested and will be taken to task (we hope) in the court system.

Comment:
 STOP Town Halls now, (15+ / 0-)
before someone gets hurt. Nothing is being accomplished. Bring the Dem's back and vote on this bill now!
They crazies on the right will stop screaming when they see the real benefits the  healthcare bill will bring. In two years you will not be able to take it away from them, just like Medicare.
Everyone should right their congress person and tell them to end he recess and vote the bill now.
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. Benjamin Disraeli
by pvmuse on Wed Aug 12, 2009 at 01:45:45 PM PDT

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 I am rapidly beginnning to agree with you. (5+ / 0-)
It seems that the meetings have done nothing but embolden the wingnuts and they have become the focus of the medias reporting on the meetings.  This is exactly what the wingnuts wanted.  I thought that this might backfire and some attention would be given to the actual subject being debated.  I have yet to see this happen.  What is keeping me dangling on the fence is that I don't want to see the democrats give in to this cheap shot strategy.  But they might as well throw in the towel if they cannot come up with and effective counter punch.  Not to mention increasing potential for serious violence.  I don't know?
"Bipartisan usually means that a larger-than-usual deception is being carried out." - George Carlin
by duckhunter on Wed Aug 12, 2009 at 02:26:37 PM PDT
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/8/12/765690/-Update:-And-it-happens-again....with-video-X2

Fighting for the dignity of my Ancestors,
God bless Bill Gates, WPFW, C-Span and the spirits of the unborn for the help,
BB
(Update)
How to Fight Healthcare Fearmongers and Demagogues
Excerpt:
But why are they getting away with it? Why aren't progressives -- indeed, why aren't ordinary citizens -- taking the meetings back?
Mainly because there's still no healthcare plan. All we have are some initial markups from several congressional committees, which differ from one another in significant ways. The White House's is waiting to see what emerges from the House and Senate before insisting on what it wants, maybe in conference committee.

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- Being the one public plan, it will have large economies of scale that will enable it to negotiate more favorable terms with pharmaceutical companies and other providers. (Here, he must clear up any confusion about any deal made with Big Pharma.) But this won't lead to a government takeover of health care. The whole point of cost containment is to provide the public with health care on more favorable terms. If the public plan negotiates better terms -- thereby demonstrating that drug companies and other providers can meet them -- private plans can seek similar deals.

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Etc.,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/how-to-fight-heathcare-fe_b_257825.html