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Obama's Un-Healthy Hypocrisy                                 click here to subscribe to the eddobloggo RSS feed Subscribe via RSS


Where's PETA?  Where are those cow methane global warming tree huggers, organic foodies and radical vegans when you really need them?  For that matter, where are the Cancer Society and Heart Association? 

Obama eating un-healthy pork rinds, at once alienating Muslims, Jews, vegans and cardiologists.

All manner of nutritional lifestyle police have given the man with the plan for the future of American health care a get-out-of-jail-free card, enabling him -- and his cheeseburger-chasing veep -- to folksily promote the kind of unhealthy eating choices that socialized medicine czars and their "universal health care" bureaucrats will soon be enforcing by hook, crook,

edict and/or fat tax.

Obama eating un-healthy pork rinds, at once alienating Muslims, Jews, vegans and cardiologists.

 

In effect, we already have universal health care but what is so desperately needed in this era of out-of-control spending is better fiscal control over the way that the system is administered -- especially as it relates to those without formal coverage.

 

A true community organizer would go easy on the rhetoric, except perhaps to exhort people to take better care of themselves and their families so as not to cause an overload of the system.  He would go heavy on enhancing low-cost and volunteer preventative medicine programs that would offer education and limited care designed to reduce expensive emergency room visits.

 

Part of the big lie that will lead to even bigger government, mega-deficits and the advancement of socialism is that the poorest Americans are the biggest losers in our current health care system.  In reality, the working poor, the undocumented and those who receive any number of forms of government assistance have always been cared for; their expenses paid, in essence, by the increased cost of health insurance for those who subscribe.

 

It is true that catastrophic illnesses have bankrupted many middle class families and have forced them to lose their homes, property and good credit.  But the poor have little to lose from non-payment and have, in essence, had a free ride all along under the so-called "tyranny" of un-socialized medicine.

 

“There are some folks who say ‘socialized medicine.’ You hear that all the time: ‘socialized medicine,’” President Obama has said. “Well, socialized medicine would mean that the government would basically run all of health care and nobody's talking about doing that, all right?  So, when you hear people saying ‘socialized medicine,’ understand: I don't know anybody in Washington who is proposing that -- certainly not me."

 

So is there truth in the president's protestation or is it just another instance of the rhetorical hypocrisy inherent in his "do as I say, not as I do" style of governance?

"Hello, Doc.  I've been on the Obama Diet for a few months now and I'm not feeling too well.  Is there something low-cost that I can do?"

"Take an Alka-Seltzer and two Lipitor and call me in the morning."

"Mmmm, this is a healthy pizza... it's got pepperoni and vegetables."

"Mmmm, this is a healthy pizza... it's got pepperoni and vegetables on it."

 

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This one is priceless. Good job.

 

Grandpa2743

Lansing, MI State Journal


Barack the Clown said that the stimulus package would keep unemployment below 9% if we passed it. It passed without most of the yes voters even reading it. Now unemployment is at 9.4%. Yet the liberal press doesn't even report that. But at least last night CBS called Barack the Clown's jobs number completely bogus. The guy just made those numbers up. And reported them as fact. Barack the Clown is a bald faced liar.

 

eyetolduso

St. Cloud, MN Times


Wow!! You swayed my opinion with that masterful dissertation.

 

TheCoolPolarBear

Green Bay, WI PressGazette


You are one 'healthy' contributor to blogging; and I have said before, and say again how vital comments like yours satisfy the 'palate' of good nourishment. Now...He's instilled his demagoguery upon the cigarette crowd; yeah nothing about the liquor crowd. Wonder how the statistics compare with cigarette smoking and liquor 'killers'. Umm...it doesn't take a scientific study to know the harm being done by those consumed with too much liquor. Now, THAT'S a health problem!

 

proudmary4

Tallahassee, FL Democrat


What is the cheeseburger recommended by Vice Presidents today? Maybe he can do for them what Clinton did for McDonald's?

 

deminn

St. Cloud, MN Times

[No fries...cheeps. -ED]


A "fat tax" here in the south would quickly get the country back in the black!

 

UknowiknowU

Montgomery, AL Advertiser


Who da man? Nice one, 9.0.

 

LennyTang

Lansing, MI State Journal

[Thanks Ducksauce.  Sure you're not just taken with my new cartoon mugshot? -ED]


Somebody get President Obama a pretzel and a can of near beer.

 

billhickspinning

Lansing, MI State Journal

[Isn't that the go-fer's job?  Yo Joe Biden, look alive! -ED]


oh stop parroting the ends of slippery slope arguments as if anyone in the administration had ever even proposed or mentioned in humor anything like that.  right wing dishonesty at it's finest is what we're seeing here.

 

Kazan

Des Moines, IA Register

[Before you call me a liar based on absolutely no reference, fact or coherency why don't you put down the Kool-Aid and put some weight on that knee that keeps jerking up whenever somebody questions your Dear Leader. -ED]


I'm sorry - just a slow fly over country guy here - but I don't get your point.  Obama is a hypocrite 'cause he likes burgers? You gotta be kidding me....

 

Craig51

Des Moines, IA Register

[Obama's a hypocrite because he has said one thing and done another on numerous occasions. IF I were a lefty, for instance, I'd be pretty bent out of shape that the anti-war candidate I voted for has not only failed to end our involvement in Iraq as promised but has actually surged the operation in Afghanistan. Not to mention that Gitmo is still up and running for lack of a plan...despite many months of saying it would be done both before and after the election.  The burgers/pizza/pork rinds thing is another example of a guy who lectures on how we should think and behave (no, he never said anything about food per se -- that's just my comic, over-the-top example) and lives a rather different lifestyle. In other words...a hypocrite. He's spending YOUR money too, Craig. -ED]


my "top ten" list of obama's favorite foods, and while my list doesn't contain suggestive descriptions of ballpark sex with minors, it does have folksy old time fun preconceived notions. 1 thru ten, all chicken.........

 

IMwithSTUPID

St. Cloud, MN Times

[Chicken Kiev is at the top of Obama's list and General Tso will eventually replace Col. Sanders. -ED]


Great Blog, Ed. It seems to me that if you eat too many pork rinds or listen too much to BHO's BS, you might just...oh,vomit...
 

Anonymous


eddo, your warning came just in time. I had no idea that supporting national health care and eating hamburgers had become the new litmus test for hypocrisy. But if we wait until Republican leaders/models of physical fitness (like Rush Limbaugh)get back in office, we'll all be dead...

Plus, I missed the Obama lecture that we shouldn't EAT pork rinds...I thought Obama's comment about Limbaugh a few months ago meant that we shouldn't LISTEN to pork rinds...

 

KRidge

Des Moines, IA Register

[As opposed to the entire progressive culture, I've got a sense of humor. You, therefore, are the winner of my semi-annual Left-handed Compliment Humor Award! Send me an e-mail with your home address and I'll send the cash prize right out to you.- ED]


Socialism?

 

Anonymous

[Government-owned industry/financial institutions and unaccountable (except to the head man) czars.  I know it sounds more like fascism but we'll give him the benefit of the doubt because he's a newbie. -ED]


No, this is actually wrong. I know plenty of people who don't have any kind of health care.  And those people have very little money. Not everyone is currently being served.
 

Anonymous

[How far from a hospital emergency room do these folks live? My guess is that we're talking rural America? -ED]


I think Obama has an agenda, and it is decidedly NOT that which most Americans want.  He is systematically destroying our economic infrastructure and taking control of private enterprise.  I do believe he is a left wing radical nut, just like the Rev. Wright, and believe he also hates America in her present form.


abbeylou 

Burlington, VT


Even Obama has to admit he doesn't know where the monies coming from for these programs. Doesn't want to call it socialized medicine however, the last time I looked that's exactly what state sponsored health care is. I've worked health care for over 25 years and the last thing I want him to do is get his fingers in the pie. Eddo you said it best when you said we have good health care. Someone is going to have to pay for this. My name isn't someone but I think, if this passes I'm not only going to be stuck with my three hundred dollar health insurance bill of my own each month and the medicare tax that comes out of my check, plus I'll be paying another "health care tax" Where is it going to end?

 

jamminjim02

Wausau, WI Daily Herald


I think I have enough money socked away to buy a 'Czar' position and I want it to be called 'The Eating Police' so I can make a difference in doodley-squat. An incredible 'rant' about a dubious fellow and the second in command that will not let us forget it...

 

boned

Great Falls, MT Tribune


Great rant, Mr. Ed! ... but the Obama worshippers will not let the "Young Elvis" ever turn into the "Old Elvis" because smoke gets in their eyes and mirrors are those carnival ones that tend to distort reality. If you don't like the messenger, such as Mr. Walpin the IG who presented a laundry list of fraud, waste, and abuse by organizations from NBA Superstar Kevin Johnson, Sacramento's Mayor and St Hopes receiving gobs of federal dough from AmeriCorps you just fire him and blame him for daring to tug on Superman's smoky catsup and mustard stained cape.

 

OreMtn

Great Falls, MT Tribune

[Have another peanutbutter'nana sandwich and a sip of Kool-Aid, lefty! Thanks OreMtn. -ED]


Where is the hypocrisy?  There is nothing wrong with a wide assortment of food choices, as long as all food groups are balanced according to the current "food pyramid".  An occasional hamburger, pork rind or other "fast food" choice is not a sin, nor does it cause the health care system to collapse.  Obama exercises regularly (and apparently vigorously), and it is very likely that Michelle Obama & the White House chef make certain her family's regular meals meet the nutritional standards set by the USDA.  What nonsense to raise such issues when there are some really profound and serious issues being addressed by the Obama administration, which have long been "starved" for attention!


Kobe

Vermont

[The Obamas have and will continue to have far better insurance coverage than any of us will ever enjoy under his socialized health care plan; the kind of program that falls short of the promise everywhere it is tried.  You can't see the gallows humor of his "do as I say, not as I do hypocrisy" at this point in time so I'll stop right there and thank you for reading and commenting. Perhaps as time goes by you'll begin to realize what is going on in the name of people who are so "starved for attention" that they will embrace a Big Brother -ED]


I am sorry but I guess you're from a different planet. The "working poor" now includes a  lot of middleclass folks whose employers don't offer healthcare. And as I just had to pay $7,000 up front to get a minor but needed operation, I don't know what "free ride" you are talking about. I had insurance which is lousy, and they wanted a hefty down-payment before they'd even look at me. Get your facts straight. Insurance companies are dropping people as they age and leaving them high and dry. There are many nursing professionals struggling to get cancer care. Shameful.

 

Anonymous

[So you trust that the government -- bigger and more powerful and far-reaching government than ever before -- will be able to reform the current, "shameful" system? -ED]


 

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