The standing ovation from an overflow crowd suggested that Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill was in friendly territory. The shouts and jeers made it clear that public rancor over President Barack Obama's proposed health care overhaul remains incendiary.Also, at the video above, Senator McCaskill tells CNN's Brianna Keilar that "the notion that ... our government would do anything to cut short or dismiss the quality of life for our seniors is offensive..."
The first-term senator took her message about health care reform to rural southeast Missouri on Monday, hosting town hall forums in Kennett and Poplar Bluff and meeting with county hospital workers in Hayti, one of the state's poorest communities.
The morning session at Southeast Missouri State University's Kennett campus was marked by polite dialogue and few signs of unrest. McCaskill even complimented the roughly 150 audience members for their "good Missouri manners."
The mood at Three Rivers Community College in Poplar Bluff on Monday afternoon — despite an initial warm greeting and McCaskill's leading the audience of 500 in the Pledge of Allegiance — was far different. The loudest applause came when an audience member called Obama a socialist.
Another asked loudly whether McCaskill was "going to kill our kids or not," a reference to concerns over federally funded abortions.
A third asked, "Where's the birth certificate?" alluding to claims that Obama is ineligible to be president by people who contend his birth certificate is a fake and he was actually born outside the U.S.
"You guys are so mean," a visibly frustrated McCaskill said at one point. "It's almost like I give you good news, and you're still mad at me."
Or, in other words, it's "unpatriotic" to dissent from the administration's ObamaCare line. The truth is, Americans have legitimate concerns about healthcare cost rationalizations being proposed by the administration. As Wesley Smith points out:
Some of President Obama’s most influential health-care advisers have promoted rationing and quality-of-life judgmentalism. For example, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel’s brother, has suggested that we can no longer afford Hippocratic medicine, laid the intellectual groundwork for rationing based on age, and even stated that medical services “provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed.”See also, Gateway Pundit, "Obamacare Gives Doctors Financial Incentive to Push Euthanasia."
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So, it's wrong to say that people are mean when they're shouting at you? Donald, bubby, you're the guy who thinks I'm mean for calling you a "sock puppet." I fail to see what the problem is with her calling them "mean."
As for the "offensive" line, she was referring to the idea that we'd ration care. That was quite, quite clear. She gave a complete and total rejection to the idea and said it was offensive to her. And she DEFINITELY never said anything about it being "unpatriotic." Why do you have to lie to your readers like that?
And, no there are NO legitimate concerns about the government rationing care. As much as there are concerns, they are based upon complete fantasies and therefore entirely illegitimate. There is nothing in the legislation about it whatsoever. That is a fantasy.
Finally, there are NO financial incentives for doctors to push euthanasia. That's complete fiction. If anything, doctors have financial incentives to keep people on life support indefinitely; though I doubt they're doing so for that reason.
Seriously, Donald, does it make you feel like a big man to repeat these sort of lies? I mean, these aren't even half-truths. You are out and out LYING to your own readers. How can you live with yourself?
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