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Obama Spins Another Tall Tale

To paraphrase, Ronald Reagan, “There you go again.”

President Barack Obama has made a career out of spinning tall tales when it comes to his early years. His book, Dreams from my Father, has a number of inaccuracies. Today he continued in that great tradition of obfuscation, that he has mastered so well.

Near the beginning of his speech to the schoolchildren of America he says, “When I was young, my family lived in Indonesia for a few years, and my mother didn’t have the money to send me where all the American kids went to school. So she decided to teach me extra lessons herself, Monday through Friday – at 4:30 in the morning.”

As the parent of two successful home-schooled daughters, I like the sound of his mother teaching him at home. The reality of his situation was different however. It looks like the President took another opportunity to cloud the issue of his early years, rather than clarify.

To read his words, it sounds like it were he and his mother against the world, when in reality, he was living a comfortable middle class existence with his mother, and his step-father, Lolo Soetoro, who was a government employee and served as a government relations consultant with, Mobil Oil.

Barry Soetoro, (as the future President was known at that time) attended the Roman Catholic school, Fransiskus Assisis, where he was listed as a Muslim and as an Indonesian citizen. I wonder why he didn't mention that in his speech to the schoolchildren?

Ironically, a few years later, when he moved back to Hawaii, he was immediately enrolled in Punahou School, a private school that is one of the most prestigious and expensive in the United States. His half sister, Maya Kassandra Soetoro, also attended Punahou. So, it looks like the Soetoros were too poor to go to school in Indonesia, but not in the US.

What we have here, is an obvious attempt in this speech to spin a, “poor me” yarn about his early years. But who can blame him, so far it has worked wonderfully for him.

White House wants 'fishy' emails

The White House has been under fire since posting a blog on Tuesday that asks supporters to e-mail any "fishy" information seen on the Web or received electronically, regarding health care legislation.

If you ask me, it's the bloated 1000 page health care bill itself that is, "fishy."

If you agree, email this to the White House: flag@whitehouse.gov

Ten Reasons Why American Health Care Is Better Than You've Been Told

From Hoover's Scott Atlas (who's also the head of neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical School):

1. Americans have better survival rates than Europeans for common cancers. Breast cancer mortality is 52 percent higher in Germany than in the United States and 88 percent higher in the United Kingdom. Prostate cancer mortality is 604 percent higher in the United Kingdom and 457 percent higher in Norway. The mortality rate for colorectal cancer among British men and women is about 40 percent higher.

2. Americans have lower cancer mortality rates than Canadians. Breast cancer mortality in Canada is 9 percent higher than in the United States, prostate cancer is 184 percent higher, and colon cancer among men is about 10 percent higher.

3. Americans have better access to treatment for chronic diseases than patients in other developed countries. Some 56 percent of Americans who could benefit from statin drugs, which reduce cholesterol and protect against heart disease, are taking them. By comparison, of those patients who could benefit from these drugs, only 36 percent of the Dutch, 29 percent of the Swiss, 26 percent of Germans, 23 percent of Britons, and 17 percent of Italians receive them.

4. Americans have better access to preventive cancer screening than Canadians. Take the proportion of the appropriate-age population groups who have received recommended tests for breast, cervical, prostate, and colon cancer:

Nine out of ten middle-aged American women (89 percent) have had a mammogram, compared to fewer than three-fourths of Canadians (72 percent).

Nearly all American women (96 percent) have had a Pap smear, compared to fewer than 90 percent of Canadians.

More than half of American men (54 percent) have had a prostatespecific antigen (PSA) test, compared to fewer than one in six Canadians (16 percent).

Nearly one-third of Americans (30 percent) have had a colonoscopy, compared with fewer than one in twenty Canadians (5 percent).


5. Lower-income Americans are in better health than comparable Canadians. Twice as many American seniors with below-median incomes self-report “excellent” health (11.7 percent) compared to Canadian seniors (5.8 percent). Conversely, white, young Canadian adults with below-median incomes are 20 percent more likely than lower-income Americans to describe their health as “fair or poor.”

You can find the rest of them by following this link.

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RHETORIC V. REALITY: HEALTH CARE BY ORWELL

By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
Published in the New York Post on July 23, 2009

President Obama's rhetoric last night summoned the memory of "1984," George Orwell's novel of a nightmarish future -- where the slogan of the rulers is "War is peace; freedom is slavery; ignorance is strength."

The president assures us that he will cut health-care spending. . .by adding $1 trillion to health-care spending.

He says that "health-care decisions will not be made by government". . .while he sets up a new Federal Health Board to tell doctors what treatments they can offer and to whom and under what circumstances.

Obama told the media, "I will free doctors to make good health-care decisions". . .by telling the physicians what to do.

When the president says he guarantees the "same coverage" to people who like their current health-insurance policies, he means that their current HMOs, insurers and doctors will be the ones to implement the protocols and instructions the government hands down to them -- not that we'll have our current freedom of decision-making.

When he blandly assures us that we will "stop paying for things that don't make us healthier," he really means that his Federal Health Board will overrule your doctor and stop him from using his own best judgment in your treatment.

The president will "get the politics out of health care" by putting it under government control.

Read the rest of the story here.

So Much for Freedom of Speech

Democrats Block GOP Health Care Mailing

July 23, 2009
By Jackie Kucinich
Roll Call Staff

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Democrats are preventing Republican House Members from sending their constituents a mailing that is critical of the majority’s health care reform plan, blocking the mailing by alleging that it is inaccurate.

House Republicans are crying foul and claiming that the Democrats are using their majority to prevent GOP Members from communicating with their constituents.

The dispute centers on a chart (view PDF) created by Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas) and Republican staff of the Joint Economic Committee to illustrate the organization of the Democratic health care plan. Read the rest of the story here.

Take the Red Pill, Mr. President

By: David Freddoso
Commentary Staff Writer
07/23/09 6:56 AM EDT

"If there's a blue pill and a red pill, and the blue pill is half the price of the red pill and works just as well, why not pay half price for the thing that's going to make you well?" -- President Obama

In last night's press conference, President Obama seemed to be reliving that famous scene from The Matrix. The main character is offered a choice between a red pill that makes him see reality for what it is, and a blue pill that allows him to continue living in a pleasant world of illusions.

Last night, President Obama appeared to have taken the blue pill before his press conference.

Read the entire commentary here.