Instead of trying to take our lives over why doesn’t the government start smaking the insurance companies? I don’t want the government involved in this aspect of our lives no way no how ….

NO - No Deburca …. surely the lives of our young men and woman over in Aghghanistan are a priority with Obama - I can’t beleive u are finally seeing things our way and saying he has his priorities all mixed up …. Next thing I know we will run into each other and have a lovely cup of tea together …. 

NOTHING should be more important to this administration than sorting out Afghanistan - nothing and shame on him for not dealing with it back in August …. He sends the General over there to do a job which he did and has spoken to him ONCE according to a report just out on 60 minutes …. No wonder Americans are rising up and we will keep getting louder ….

The one thing Obama and his administration has done is underestimated the American people. I post on a lot of sites and many, many supporters of that gang of thieves are not supporting them anymore ….

Liz Peek as always your view of what is going on in America is right on …. Deber and gals! KUDOS!!!

It is apparent that the star was the Prime Minister of Israel - a stellar speech that outdid the gumbo brothers and their ranting ….. insane people …. people Obama wants to TALK to …. as if that is going to make a difference ….

I gave the Prime Minister of Israel a standing ovation for shaming the world for the way those nut bars have been coddled …. it defies belief there are people in this world who would sit through speeches denying the holocaust …. all I can say is God help us all because THIS administration is not going to.

With the greatest of respect Ms Evans, perhaps if ‘The View’ would offer both sides of a story or be a true source for women to discuss issues we would not feel this way. We have been mistreated (we being those who do not agree) by MANY of our sources we used to rely on for good information / entertainment and were smacked in the head by the bias of all of them. My greatest disappointment was ‘The View’ who I was a HUGE fan of - until this last election. Instead of staying in the middle and presenting all sides they went after us like rabid dogs and continue to do so if you dare disagree ….

They are entitiled to their opinions but I have to say the last time I watched that show was when Glenn Beck was on it. It was horrible, absolutely awful the way he was treated by three women - JOY, BARBARA and worst of all my hero Whoopi. They may have had a personal beef with him but it should not have been made public on the stage of that show which is what they did. You do not invite people into your ‘home’ and then go after them the way those women did to Beck …. As well constant attacks against a woman I happen to support are unwarranted, unwelcomed and catty. That show used to be above that but not anymore.

It broke my heart, was not good television and I have never watched it since. When shows decide that the only side of a story is the one they want supported and treated with respect THAT is the end of my respect for that show. I was a HUGE fan - but if you shared my political view and watched it belittled day after day by women (with the exception of Behar) that I had grown to admire and trust (ie Walters and Whoopie) you would understand why some of us here feel as we do.

Dontae Adams and Michelle Obama

The Obamacare horror story you won’t hear
By Michelle Malkin • June 19, 2009 01:04 AM

I blogged about Michelle Obama’s role in creating a patient-dumping scheme for the University of Chicago Medical Center back in March. With her husband and the Democrats unleashing health care horror story anecdotes to gin up public fear and build support for the beleaguered Obamacare plan, my syndicated column today revisits the kind of “reform” the Obamas and their Chicago cronies champion — and who benefits.

Here’s a challenge to the ABC News Obamacare infomercial producers. I dare you to ask President Obama this question: What have you done for Dontae Adams, lately?

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The Obamacare horror story you won’t hear
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009

The White House, Democrats, and MoveOn liberals are spreading health care sob stories to sell a government takeover. But there’s one health care policy nightmare you won’t hear the Obamas hyping. It’s a tale of poor, minority patient-dumping in Chicago — with First Lady Michelle Obama’s fingerprints all over it.

Both Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa and Democrat Rep. Bobby Rush of Chicago have raised red flags about the outsourcing program, run by the University of Chicago Medical Center. The hospital has non-profit status and receives lucrative tax breaks in exchange for providing charity care. Yet, it spent a measly $10 million on charity care for the poor in fiscal 2007 when Mrs. Obama was employed there—1.3 percent of its total hospital expenses, according to an analysis performed for The Washington Post by the non-partisan Center for Tax and Budget Accountability. The figure is below the 2.1 percent average for nonprofit hospitals in surrounding Cook County.

Rep. Rush called for a House investigation last week in response to months of patient-dumping complaints, noting: “Congress has a duty to expend its power to mitigate and prevent this despicable practice from continuing in centers that receive federal funds.”

Don’t expect the president to support a probe. While a top executive at the hospital, Mrs. Obama helped engineer the plan to offload low-income patients with non-urgent health needs. Under the Orwellian banner of an “Urban Health Initiative,” Mrs. Obama sold the scheme to outsource low-income care to other facilities as a way to “dramatically improve health care for thousands of South Side residents.” The program guaranteed “free” shuttle rides to and from the outside clinics.

In truth, it was old-fashioned cost-cutting and favor-trading repackaged as minority aid. Clearing out the poor freed up room for insured (i.e., more lucrative) patients. If a Republican had proposed the very same program and recruited black civic leaders to front it, Michelle Obama and her grievance-mongering friends would be screaming “RAAAAAAAAACISM!” at the top of their lungs.

Joe Stephens of the Washington Post wrote: “To ensure community support, Michelle Obama and others in late 2006 recommended that the hospital hire the firm of David Axelrod, who a few months later became the chief strategist for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. Axelrod’s firm recommended an aggressive promotional effort modeled on a political campaign—appoint a campaign manager, conduct focus groups, target messages to specific constituencies, then recruit religious leaders and other third-party ‘validators.’ They, in turn, would write and submit opinion pieces to Chicago publications.”

Some health care experts saw through Mrs. Obama and her public relations man, David Axelrod—yes, the same David Axelrod who is now Mr. Obama’s senior adviser at the White House. The University of Chicago Medical Center hired Axelrod’s public relations firm, ASK Public Strategies, to promote Mrs. Obama’s Urban Health Initiative. Axelrod had the blessing of Chicago political guru Valerie Jarrett – now White House senior adviser.

Axelrod’s great contribution: Re-branding! His firm recommended re-naming the initiative after “[i]nternal and external respondents expressed the opinion that the word ‘urban’ is code for ‘black’ or ‘black and poor’….Based on the research, consideration should be given to re-branding the initiative.” Axelrod and the Obama campaign refused to disclose how much his firm received for its genius re-branding services.

In February 2009, outrage in the Obamas’ community exploded after a young boy covered by Medicaid was turned away from the University of Chicago Medical Center. Dontae Adams’ mother, Angela, had sought emergency treatment for him after a pit bull tore off his upper lip. Mrs. Obama’s hospital gave the boy a tetanus shot, antibiotics, and Tylenol and shoved him out the door. The mother and son took an hour-long bus ride to another hospital for surgery.

I’ll guarantee you this: You’ll never see the Adams family featured at an Obama policy summit or seated next to the First Lady at a joint session of Congress to illustrate the failures of the health care system.

Following the Adams incident, the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) blasted Mrs. Obama and Mr. Axelrod’s grand plan. The group released a statement expressing “grave concerns that the University of Chicago’s policy toward emergency patients is dangerously close to ‘patient dumping,’ a practice made illegal by the Emergency Medical Labor and Treatment Act (EMTALA)” – signed by President Reagan, by the way – “and reflected an effort to ‘cherry pick’ wealthy patients over poor.”

Rewarding political cronies at the expense of the poor while posing as guardians of the downtrodden? Welcome to Obamacare.