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Little girl at Obama town hall has not-so-random political connections

By Michelle Malkin • August 11, 2009 10:17 PM

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As we always like to point out: There are no coincidences in Obama world.

Via the Boston Globe: Surprise!

A girl from Malden asked President Obama a question at Tuesday’s town hall meeting in New Hampshire about the signs outside “saying mean things” about his health care proposal.

Eleven-year-old Julia Hall asked: “How do kids know what is true, and why do people want a new system that can — that help more of us?”

The question opened the door for the president to respond to what he called an “underlying fear” among the public “that people somehow won’t get the care they need.”

The girl later told the Globe that picking the president’s brain was “incredible.”

“It was like a once in a lifetime experience,” she said.

Julia’s mother was an early Obama supporter in Massachusetts during the presidential election, so she had previously met First Lady Michelle Obama, the Obama daughters Sasha and Malia, and Vice President Joe Biden.

“This was my first time meeting Barack Obama, and he’s a very nice man,” Julia said. “I’m glad I voted for him.”

She said Obama won a mock presidential election at the Cheverus School in 2008. And on Tuesday, he approached her after the town meeting.

“He said ‘great question,’” Julia said. “I shook his hand and got his picture.”

Kathleen Manning Hall, Julia’s mother, was shocked when her daughter said she wanted to ask a question. They wrote it down beforehand, and Julia didn’t miss a beat when Obama called on her.

“It was surreal,” said Manning Hall, a coordinator of Massachusetts Women for Obama during the election.

Tons of readers point to this AR15.com post tracking Hall’s political footprint, including this Facebook page and photo:

Manning Hall has donated thousands of dollars to Obama, as has her law firm.

But, you know, um, like Obama said: “I don’t want people saying I just have a bunch of plants in here.”

Oh, goodness. Of course not.

KABUKI!

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Now, look for Dems to play the kiddie human shield card to the hilt. Anyone who mentions Hall’s political pedigree will be attacked as a vicious meanie stalker. Graeme Frost redux!

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#776263

On August 13th, 2009 at 10:16 am, Ragspierre said:

Reid left no doubt he intends to get a health reform bill passed in the Senate, no matter what erupts at town hall meetings and whether any Republicans support the end result. “We can’t let the insurance industry win another round. We’re going to win this round,” he said.

If the bill doesn’t have a public insurance plan to compete with private ones, do the insurance companies win? I asked. “The public option is something that the vast majority of Americans want. They know that the enemy is the insurance industry,” Reid said. But he added that the public option “is not the only thing that’s important.” It’s also important, he said, to make sure insurance companies can’t deny policies to people who have pre-existing conditions or drop people if they develop a problem.

The House, with a large Democratic majority, is expected to pass a bill with a public option in it. If the Senate version doesn’t have one, I asked, does the public option have a shot when Senate and House negotiators meet to smooth out their differences in a conference committee?

“I’m not going to — I have to get a bill off the floor,” Reid said with a low chuckle. “So I’m not going to be threatening or suggesting anything that might come in conference. Get the picture?” I did.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/08/024263.php

I get the picture, too. Reid is saying he’ll make sure a bill is passed by the Senate, even if it’s one he knows is a lie. It will go to the conference, where the “real bill” will be hammered out with the House.
#776299

On August 13th, 2009 at 10:51 am, jim m said:

Emjem, perhaps you could start by not insulting me.

Both the VA insurance system and the private insurance system have red tape and botched operations. Both systems also regulate what procedures can be done and what medicines are covered under the insurance. Both systems have foreign doctors. And there are costs to both.

What’s your point, other than being p***ed off at the government?
#776301

On August 13th, 2009 at 10:52 am, jim m said:

Stillontheroad, some of the board members clearly have healthcare as a personal agenda, but I still don’t see anything on the apollo site saying that healthcare reform is an agenda of the apollo organization.
#776362

On August 13th, 2009 at 11:39 am, Ragspierre said:

I still don’t see anything on the apollo site saying that healthcare reform is an agenda of the apollo organization.

It is all of a piece, jim.

Control of your health care = control of virtually every aspect of your life.

A totalitarian dream of every totalitarian state since the late 1800s.

Or is this news to you?
#776569

On August 13th, 2009 at 1:16 pm, jim m said:

Redpill, that happened in April of 2008, not 2009 and it related to contractors for the State Department having improperly accessed passport information for presidential candidates Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain.

So what does this have anything to do with “Obama lied”?
#776884

On August 13th, 2009 at 3:59 pm, emjem24 said:

jim m said:
Emjem, perhaps you could start by not insulting me.

Perhaps, you should follow your own advice concerning your interactions with other posters. I know your work. Especially the little tit for tat over the thuggery in St. Louis that other posters pointed out to you.

Both the VA insurance system and the private insurance system have red tape and botched operations. Both systems also regulate what procedures can be done and what medicines are covered under the insurance. Both systems have foreign doctors. And there are costs to both.

Wow, there’s a leap in logic. Both systems are similar? I didn’t know that there were MEDICINE WAITLISTS in the private system? There’s a shocker- let’s notify Wallmart or the other private pharmacies. Wow, in the private system at least you can sue the doctor who botches your gall bladder surgery and severs an artery thereby leaving you without two good legs. In the military healthcare system, not so much.

It is not the norm to be importing foreign doctors, especially incompetent ones. I had a really good Indian ear, nose, and throat specialist growing up but he’s the exception from what my husband and I have become accustomed to. I don’t know if you know this but branches of the military like the Air Force have programs like COT (Commissioned Officer Training) or OTS (Officer Training School) that attract nurses and doctors. It helps that the military pays for doctors’ med school and training expenses. There is absolutely no excuse why my military husband should be seeing a foreign doctor. The military often attracts the bottom of the med school class and whatever they don’t attract they’ll fill in with less qualified doctors from other countries.

BTW, do you not have a problem with the government’s promises of free healthcare to its military? Or the continued disengenousness by multiple administrations about whether Tricare premiums would be raised to offset growing costs (premiums have been raised).

The fact is, the military, as a whole, has a lousy healthcare system that doesn’t attract the best doctors. Not so with the private sector. Yes, there are incompetents in each system, but I’ve had to deal with less headaches, hassles, and inconvenience in the private sector than in the military one.

You should really try to thoroughly research the military healtchare system rather than overrely on simplistic, naive notions of what you think you know about it. Many Americans don’t know jack about what military families encounter with Tricare and the military healthcare system. They think that their tax dollars are hard at work when they’re being wasted through fraud, abuse, and inefficiency. This is a a government healthcare system. Not the private sector.

What’s your point, other than being p***ed off at the government?

I guess when you’ve been made promises by the federal government and they break them you’d be ticked off too. When Tricare loses your records and treats your private information shoddily and you have to get multiple credit reports and security alerts on all your accounts you’d be ticked off too. When you can’t get your medication because the system is either overloaded or not well-organized, you’d be ticked off too. When the military can’t properly prepare itself for continuting rotations of medical staff deployments and instead use foreign doctors to fill the void and still provide inadequate care, you’d be ticked off too.

You simply have no clue what the average military spouse, family, or member has had to deal with concerning the VA and Tricare. And you never will. Because you don’t deal with it and neither do most of the unknowing American public.

Why don’t you get YOUR facts straight before lecturing ME about what YOU don’t really know?
#776890

On August 13th, 2009 at 4:00 pm, emjem24 said:

Self-edit: third to last paragraph I meant to type continuing. Yikes where’s the spell check?
#776951

On August 13th, 2009 at 4:37 pm, SHoward said:

Why don’t you get YOUR facts straight before lecturing ME about what YOU don’t really know?

What? jim m get her facts straight? She’s too busy still trying to figure out her Daisy pellet rifle so she can defend herself at the next town hall.

“one more pump…..!”
#777012

On August 13th, 2009 at 5:12 pm, Major O said:

Most of the Nazi references I hear have been from the Left. So what’s the point?
Meanwhile back at the original post…
#777644

On August 14th, 2009 at 10:25 am, jim m said:

Jim M a “her”? Not a chance, SHoward.

Emjem24, what did the US Government give you or husband in writing about medical care? I remember the same issue being raised by unions and retirees about how they were “promised” free medical care. It turned out in many instances to not be a iron-clad promise, because the written documents specifically said the plans were subject to change.