Comments on: President Obama, his Grandmama and death panels

By: Jean Q

Jean Q — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:49:14 +0000

I wonder how long the Grandma was frozen before the planned thaw on Nov. 3rd 2008. Has any one ever checked? She was probably cremated so no one could check.

By: SueG52

SueG52 — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:26:38 +0000

Obama said he would have paid for his grandmama’s hip replacement. That means he did not pay for her hip replacement even though he did have the opportunity to do so.
SueG52

By: Patricia

Patricia — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 06:37:20 +0000

I always wondered why he did not go back to Hawaii to his Grandmother’s funeral. He had the time. She died on Nov.3,08. I also wondered when he went home a month before she died why he did not take his family.

By: Britt

Britt — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:11:12 +0000

Stumbled across this, and had to give you high fives. So many of our Presidents supporters forget his previous comments, leaving them quite blind. Posting his contradictory statements regarding his grandma help to open some eyes. Kudos! =-)

By: Jim Blazsik

Jim Blazsik — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 05:21:38 +0000

Hey Mark!

It’s important to get the facts straight. Sarah Palin never called end-of-life counseling a Death Panel. It makes Democrats and liberals look like a bunch of crazed screaming children that will pull a REAL tantrum if they don’t get their way. They will misconstrue the facts and demonize those who don’t agree with them.

It isn’t the responsibility of the State to come between the patient, family, doctor, clergy, etc, when it comes to end of life counseling.

Even Charles Krauthammer, who is a critic of Sarah Palin, supplies ammo for concerns about “death panels.”

We also have to tell the defenders of the notorious Section 1233 of H.R. 3200 that it is not quite as benign as they pretend. To offer government reimbursement to any doctor who gives end-of-life counseling — whether or not the patient asked for it — is to create an incentive for such a chat.

What do you think such a chat would be like? Do you think the doctor will go on and on about the fantastic new million-dollar high-tech gizmo that can prolong the patient’s otherwise hopeless condition for another six months? Or do you think he’s going to talk about — as the bill specifically spells out — hospice care and palliative care and other ways of letting go of life?

By: Mark in Boston

Mark in Boston — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:20:10 +0000

I agree that some campaign pledges from Obama seem to have vanished during his Presidency. However, calling end-of-life counseling a Death Panel cheapens the discussion, makes Palin look like an idiot, and serves no good purpose, IMO.

To cause such controversy that end-of-life counseling is removed from a Senate health reform bill is a shame, and makes Republicans look like a bunch of crazed screaming children that will pull a REAL tantrum if they don’t get their way.

End of life issues bring in religion, health, finance, and personal concerns. For an elderly parent with no DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) order, it is crazy for a family to say “save Mom at all costs”, when mom is 82, had a heart attack, stroke and no brain activity. Being a vegetable on a vent is not my idea of a quality lifestyle.

These issues are complicated, and NEED public discourse to resolve them as well as possible, not juvenile responses that things are changing and resisting that much needed change for no good reason.

“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane.” –Martin Luther King, Jr.

so – as a right winger are you for equality? or only equality for those that are “more equal”?

By: Renie

Renie — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:11:47 +0000

I wouldn’t trust obama with a Rubber Duck!!!
He’s a liar and cheater and I don’t like him!!!