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by Kevin McCullough
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So what has the White House told supporters to do when you run across those who spread "disinformation" about the new attempt by the Obama administration to install the anti-competitive practices of a "public option" into a federalized universal health care initiative?

Report them.

Whether its communicated through e-mail, websites, blogs, or even casual conversation the executive branch of the federal government is asking you to make them aware of this "disinformation" because they can't keep track of all of the dissenters themselves.

From Tuesday's White House blog entry: There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.

Pardon me for asking such an obvious question, but what concern is it to the President or his administration if private citizens have disagreements, discussions, and dissections of his proposed take over of the health care industry?

Last I checked I had the constitutional right to do so.

But now he wishes to turn one citizen against another?

At dozens of the townhall meetings taking place back in individual districts this month, numbers of reports have surfaced that ACCORN members have taken to publicly berating normal citizens who are simply there to ask the questions they have about the viability of a plan that requires the Government to spend an additional $1,000,000,000 dollars. They wonder this especially when 85% of people in America are satisfied and content with the health insurance system they've already chosen to engage.

So what's the answer to good old fashioned grass roots voters actually being engaged with their Congressional Reps and U.S. Senators while they're home during the August break?

The White House believes it's best to intimidate and silence, or at the bare minimum--report.

The mistake this White House continues to make, seemingly on a daily basis, is that they reveal very much what they truly think of freedoms of the American political process.

Being generous we can conclude--it's not a very high opinion.

When President George W. Bush was being stalked by Cindy Sheehan and Code Pink on a daily basis, over a genuine issue of national security--the war on terror--he met with Sheehan, acknowledged her pain, and wished her well, all while respectfully disagreeing with her over the policy.

President Obama, by contrast, on April 15th when more than 2800 TEA Parties occurred and an excess of 1.5 million people turned out, showed them the back of his hand and insisted on marginalizing those who sought his attention on a fundamental issue of his job performance. Continued...

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Kevin McCullough is the nationally syndicated host of "'Xtreme' Radio and columnist based in New York. He blogs at www.muscleheadrevolution.com. His second book "The Kind Of MAN Every Man SHOULD Be" is in stores now.

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To Tallil2long
The problem with this thread is people will not talk about the issue they want to say things that are not true because the issue of health care is not going the way they want it to go. Obama is not Hitler just because he wants to help people reduce their medical cost.

I am also on TRICARE and I know exactly what happened to us over the past eight years. What did Bush do to help us the Veterans other than cut the VA Budget year after year. Remember the CARES Commission they attempted to close down every facility they could and this was done by Bush. Bush did just like Hitler did because he sent his hit men out to do his dirty work.

Under the Obama plan I am not giving up my choices I am gaining an additional option. The more choices we have allows us to pick the option best for us because the options on the table right now continue to raise their profits on our backs.

Somewhere in Hell...
Adolf, Uncle Joe and Mao are all having a hearty laugh that the powers they tried to destroy have joined their perversity and as Nikita said will "bury ourselves". God Help Amerika. The general welfare clause in the Constitution provides for the welfare of the union, not its inhabitants. Todays National Socialists (from the beginning of the 20th Century through today) aka "Prograssives" (no misspelling there) have corrupted that section to create the Welfare State and its endless stream of "victims".
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