No "Manufactured Dissent": A First Hand View of a Raucous Town Hall Meeting on Health Care

by Benjamin Domenech on 10:21 am August 6, 2009

On the ground, the viewpoint is different: “There were no lobbyist-funded buses in the parking lot of Mardela Middle and High School on Tuesday evening, and the hundreds of Eastern Maryland residents who packed the school’s auditorium loudly refuted the notion that their anger over the Democrats’ health care reform plans is ‘manufactured.’”

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donschott August 8, 2009 at 11:15 am

The danger to the country is the facists in Washington are following their Chicago gameplan that worked so well for them– a 49 to 1 majority of the Daley Party. No blue dog Democrats there. Friends are rewarded and enemies are excoriated and punished. Forget the fact that Blago or the front page corruption of the University of Illinois and Chicago Charter schools pay for play schemes prosecuted over last month, or the eight racial attacks on white pedestrians in the Chicago/ Obama Lincoln Park neighborhood over the past week, we are in the midsit of the world's most historic combine of politics and mainstream press to brainwash its citizens. Any dissent at a “town hall” is labeled throughout the country as organized violence. Even Paul Krugman, the unofficial cheerleader of the Obama pay for play corruption act of 2009, rales against any dissent from the One's vacuous, undefined “reforms.” Hitler and Stalin must be looking down (or up) from their graves in sheer ecstacy and envy especially smiling at Paul Krugman's jumpy cheerleading.
There has been no remedy to the wall street “meltdown” that steered trillions to ultra-rich banking owners and executives while laying off millions of financial service emplloyees. There has been no remedy to the auto industry except for billions of salaries, bonuses and lifetime annuities to auto execs and union leaders while the rank and file and middle managers lose their jobs, savings, pensions and insurance. The Obama world of health care offers the cosmetic medicine, kidneys and heart transplants to the pay for play folks and early death to everyone else.
The Obama troops are mindless zealots who follow orders from Goldman Sachs and the One from his billion dollar hideaway on Martha's Vineyard this week. Hopefully, He will be thwarted before we have riots in the streets (not just the racial hatred fueled by Obama and his zealots to get elected), but unemployed, educated formerly successful people who remember, give me liberty or give me death.” All of the One's and his billionaire pay for play handlers and supplicants will have little persuasion for that scenario.

donschott August 8, 2009 at 3:15 pm

The danger to the country is the facists in Washington are following their Chicago gameplan that worked so well for them– a 49 to 1 majority of the Daley Party. No blue dog Democrats there. Friends are rewarded and enemies are excoriated and punished. Forget the fact that Blago or the front page corruption of the University of Illinois and Chicago Charter schools pay for play schemes prosecuted over last month, or the eight racial attacks on white pedestrians in the Chicago/ Obama Lincoln Park neighborhood over the past week, we are in the midsit of the world's most historic combine of politics and mainstream press to brainwash its citizens. Any dissent at a “town hall” is labeled throughout the country as organized violence. Even Paul Krugman, the unofficial cheerleader of the Obama pay for play corruption act of 2009, rales against any dissent from the One's vacuous, undefined “reforms.” Hitler and Stalin must be looking down (or up) from their graves in sheer ecstacy and envy especially smiling at Paul Krugman's jumpy cheerleading.
There has been no remedy to the wall street “meltdown” that steered trillions to ultra-rich banking owners and executives while laying off millions of financial service emplloyees. There has been no remedy to the auto industry except for billions of salaries, bonuses and lifetime annuities to auto execs and union leaders while the rank and file and middle managers lose their jobs, savings, pensions and insurance. The Obama world of health care offers the cosmetic medicine, kidneys and heart transplants to the pay for play folks and early death to everyone else.
The Obama troops are mindless zealots who follow orders from Goldman Sachs and the One from his billion dollar hideaway on Martha's Vineyard this week. Hopefully, He will be thwarted before we have riots in the streets (not just the racial hatred fueled by Obama and his zealots to get elected), but unemployed, educated formerly successful people who remember, give me liberty or give me death.” All of the One's and his billionaire pay for play handlers and supplicants will have little persuasion for that scenario.

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