"Health Care Activist Bites Off Finger of Health Care Reform Opponent" was something like the headline on the Los Angeles Times website earlier today. According to Marc Stein, the printed Los Angeles Times got the story completely wrong this morning (as usual for the mainstream media in general, and Los Angeles Times in particular), and said that it was the supporter of Obama who got his finger bitten off. The Drudge headline was more accurate all day, essentially saying this: "Obamacare supporter bites off finger of opponent." I heard a witness describe the attack on the radio (Marc Stein again), and here is my much more accurate headline:
Obama Health Care Supporter from Moveon.org Group Targets Elderly Person (65), and Bites Off Finger
Yes, the headline is a little long, but gets the essential facts across. My subheading/lead would be: "Are Obama Supporters Conducting War on Elderly, and Is this being Encouraged by the Attacks of the Obama Administration on Town Hall protesters"?
Let me explain the facts more fully. I heard the eyewitness description, which is also in the present Los Angeles Times story. A Moveon.org group--Moveon.org being a group that has supported Obama and leftist Democrats for years--was demonstrating on one side of the street in Thousand Oaks, California. A group opposing the Obama health care "plan" (no Obama "plan" yet exists) was demonstrating across the street. One of the Obama supporters crossed the street, and appeared to target the most elderly of the group opposing health care "reform". This Obama supporter crossed a travelled street rather erratic, and came right up into the face of the elderly person ("like a baseball coach/manager in the face of an umpire"). The elderly man tried to defend himself, and a scuffle ensued. The Moveon.org supporter bit off a substantial part of a finger of the elderly man, leaving only a "stub" gushing blood. The Obama supporter evidently returned to his group for a little while, but disappeared before the police arrived.
The above is not the only basis for my subheading. Marc Stein (sp.?) was the guest host on the Rush Limbaugh radio program today. He had that eyewitness call into the program. We know the persno was real, because the Los Angeles Times is reporting an identical eyewitness account. Well, an Obama supporter caller was put on the program immediately following tis witness. That caller was not too much interested in the elderly person who got his finger bitten off, although he did express his regret that it had happened. The caller did not understand why the elderly person (the one with his finger bitten off), and so many other elderly persons, oppose health care "overhaul", when Medicare is a government program (this particular elderly person having evidently expressed opposition to government taking over too much when first confronted by the Obama supporter, who asked belligerently why the elderly person was against Obamacare). The caller expressed the view that the elderly should appreciate, more than anyone else, the worth of government programs/control.
You can see the point here. Are the Obama Administration, and its supporters, encouraging an anti-elderly attitude that could lead to violence? Has the Obama Administration, in fact, become anti-elderly? Don't be quick to dismiss this. It has more credibility than the idea that opponents of health care reform are responsible for a lone Swastika supposedly drawn by an anonymous health care "overhaul" opponent on a wall. The caller I heard definitely was expressing angry resentment against those elderly who don't want their "benefits" extended to the rest of us. Elderly people have been attacked by union thugs at town hall meetings. Time Magazine (see entry of a day or two ago) expressed "puzzlement' (and LIED--see entry again) as to why the elderly have turned so far against health care "reform"--to the point of attacking AARP (correctly attacking AARP--see previous entry again). The elderly has reason to believe that they are being targeted here.
Nope. The elderly opposed to undermining Medicare with health care "reform" are NOT being hypocrites. the hypocrites here are the mainstream media and the left--the worst hypocrites who have ever walked the Earth--for the hypocrisy of their attitudes toward both protests and guilt by association. Health care opponents are supposed to be defined by the worst of them, while health care proponents are only supposed to be defined by the best of them. Moeveon.org can protest and confront, as can union thugs, but elderly Obama opponents are not supposed to do that. Nancy Pelosi can call anti-war protesters, as she did, the essence of "Americans" for their protests, but call anti-health care demonstrators "un-American" (as she did).
What about that charge that the elderly should support ALL government programs? Do you mean they should support EVERYONE receiving Social Security checks? Are Obama socialists really that bad, and that stupid? I think they are. You might remember how both Medicare and Social Security were SOLD. Just like with this new, proposed health care "overhaul", we were told that they were not the beginning of a Federal Government takeover of our lives--or, as to Medicare, a beginning toward socialized medicine. Instead, the elderly were told that they had EARNED a minimum dignity in their old age--that society was merely paying back a debt it owed to the elderly for their contributions to society over their lifetime. Not enough to make elderly rich, but a way to make sure that their old age was lived with some minimum of dignity, when they no longer could reasonably be expected to continue to work for themselves. Everyone could retire with some dignity, without having to worry about their elderly years being a nightmare because of no money and no medical care.
Look at how the Obama Administration, and leftist Democrats, have BETRAYED the elderly. They are faced with the financial integrity of both Medicare and Social Security being destroyed by grandiose attempts to expand the Federal Government. So much for promises. The elderly are faced with the prospect of the Obama Administration "paying for" (see yesterday's entry) health care "reform" by cutting ("savings" in) Meidcare. They are faced with the prospect that Federal bureaucrats may eventually decide that "efficiency" and "cost control" means that elderly people should not get such a big share of health care dollars. "Die already" may be the eventual message. The message has totally changed from dignity for the elderly, because they have EARNED it and can't be expected to work forever, to a message of a massive Federal Government CONTROLLING all of our lives--often at the expense of the elderly.
No wonder the elderly resent this, and no wonder the elderly are being suddenly targeted by Obama supporters--including people like thous in charge of AARP who may be elderly themselves, but who want to USE the elderly for their own selfish purposes.
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