President Obama, man of the people
August 4, 2009 at 8:09 pm | In ObamaCare | Leave a CommentOne thing you might not have heard about or seen regarding the recent White House beer summit was President Obama’s complete disregard for the black college professor, you know, the victim of racism with whom Obama sided from the outset. First, the photograph:
Note that it was the “stupid” white police officer that ended up helping the poor victim of racism down the steps while Obama walked ahead, completely oblivious.
Thomas Lifson at American Thinker wrote a piece on The One’s gesture. (Perhaps if the Obamessiah had stayed close to Professor Gates, he could have touched the hem of his garment and been healed.)
Here’s Lifson:
As some AT commentators point out, this picture becomes a metaphor for ObamaCare. The elderly are left in the back, with only the kindness of the Crowleys of the world, the stand up guys, to depend on. The government has other priorities.
One of the major subtexts of the health care debate involves the public’s fear of indifferent, powerful bureaucrats ruling their lives. It is one thing to wait in line at the DMV to find out which other line you should wait in, in order to begin the process of waiting for multiple bureaucrats to go through the motions of processing your request. I have spent entire afternoons going through this process.
But when we get to health care, waiting often means enduring pain and dysfunction longer than necessary, sometimes a worsening of the condition, and sometimes death.
That’s why I think this image will have genuine resonance. It captures something that older Americans in particular can relate to. The President presses ahead with a program that will tell them to take painkillers instead of getting that artificial hip.
By the way, if the above photograph had features George W. Bush in place of Obama, can you imagine the field day the mainstream press would have had? But since it’s Obama, the state-run media have pretty much ignored the president’s blatant lack of compassion.
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