Huh. Apparently calling those simply questioning ObamaCare “un-American” isn’t the best way to sell socialized health care to the American people. Go figure. Congratulations, San Fran Nan. You’ve gotten too hackish for the Obama Administration. That’s gotta be a new world record or something.
“I think there’s actually a pretty long tradition of people shouting at politicians in America,” White House deputy press secretary Bill Burton told reporters on Air Force One when asked about the comments.
“The President thinks that if people want to come and have a spirited debate about health care, a real vigorous conversation about it, that’s a part of the American tradition and he encourages that, because people do have questions and concerns …And so if people want to come and have their concerns and their questions answered, the President thinks that’s important. Now, if you just want to come to a town hall so that you can disrupt and so that you can scream over another person, he doesn’t think that that’s productive. And as a country, we’ve been able to make progress when people actually talk out what our problems are, not try to shout each other down.”
Of course, the White House doesn’t actually believe what it’s saying. Otherwise Obama himself wouldn’t have told critics to just shut up and get out of the way. But the political strategists at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue have probably recognized that coming to the defense of Botox Nancy in this situation isn’t the best road to go down. So here we are.
by Stephan Tawney on Mon, Aug 10, 2009