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In its first big splash since becoming an arm of the Democratic National Committee, Barack Obama's activist army surfaced this week with TV ads targeting fellow Democrats it considers wobbly on health reform. It's also asking hundreds of thousands of small business owners to go to bat for health reform and sponsoring thousands of activities in all 50 states to build support for it.
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It would be an understatement to say expectations were high when the Obama high command announced it was turning Obama For America into Organizing For America and moving it from Chicago to DNC headquarters in Washington. Yet for a while, the fabled grassroots troops that powered Obama to the White House appeared to be AWOL. It seemed that the "movement" and its massive 13 million name e-mail list had been lost in transition.
Well, they're back, and the next three crucial weeks should give us some indication of whether Team Obama has successfully transformed an election campaign operation into an issue advocacy shop.
The energy level is surging now that Obama has challenged the House and Senate to pass health care bills before their summer recess -- July 31 for the House, Aug. 7 for the Senate. While 13 million names won't ever net you anywhere close to 13 million activists, the list's potential becomes clear when you see OFA mining it for hundreds of thousands of small business owners, or raising enough money to run a TV ad for two weeks on national cable and locally in eight states.
And yet there's no way the intensity or sheer numbers of last year can be matched. The Web site TechPresident.com offers a few dramatic statistics from MyBarackObama.com, the campaign's social networking site: 2 million profiles were created, 200,000 offline events were planned, about 400,000 blog posts were written and more than 35,000 volunteer groups were created. And 70,000 people created their own fundraising pages on the site, raising $30 million from people they knew.
Fueling the activity, and feeding off it, was the urgency millions of people felt about the direction of the country, and the excitement generated by a historic, charismatic candidate. On top of that, add in the fact that this was a simple choice between two men.
Cut to 2009. Obama is pushing hard for sweeping policy shifts on health care and climate change – two areas that are complex, controversial and nowhere near as urgent in the public view as jobs and the economy. They are not "man-the-barricade issues," Frank Newport, editor of the Gallup Poll, says of health and climate change. "They do not directly affect most Americans most days."
And if health care is not a barricades issue, consider the federal budget. That's one of the first tasks OFA took on. "I can't remember an organization that's gone out and organized around a budget," OFA executive director Mitch Stewart said in an interview. He said thousands of people knocked on doors in thousands of neighborhoods to promote Obama's budget, which passed in April. Earlier, in February, OFA organized some 3,500 house parties in support of Obama's economic stimulus package. That also passed. The group doesn't take "100 percent credit" for either victory, Stewart says, but is proud of its role.
Still, the efforts were minuscule compared to what had come before, and drew little attention. Some observers say bad planning cost the Obama team time and momentum. "All of that grassroots energy that the Obama campaign really stoked and channeled was allowed to go back into the woodwork," says Micah Sifry, editor of TechPresident.com. "For a period the Obama organization wasn't moving. It was in a waiting mode."
Turning OFA into an issue advocacy group required moving, budgeting, hiring and lots of training. Eighty percent of the staff worked on the campaign and were familiar with tactics. This year they've had to learn issues and what to say about them – the economy, the budget, now health care, and later energy and education. The plan has always been a two-year rollout, Stewart said.
It's an enormous task that leads to the question of what will happen when Obama leaves the White House in 2013 or 2017. Will he bequeath his 13 million e-mail addresses and his organization to the DNC, or take it all with him and force the party to start over? One hint that he will take it with him: Organizing For America doesn't have its own Web site. It's found online at www.BarackObama.com.
"We're not having long-term conversations," Stewart said. "I imagine it will continue in some shape or form. Right now we're only focused on getting health care passed."
Stewart calls health care "certainly the biggest motivating activity that we've done up to this point." The media agree and are starting to pay attention. "Obama's Sleeping Beast Starts to Awaken," Sifry wrote this week on his blog.
Some of the activity is traditional grassroots mobilization. On Saturday and continuing to next weekend, OFA events across the country will include door-to-door canvasses, phone banks, roundtable discussions, community gatherings and visits by people with health insurance issues to the state and district offices of their senators and House members.
What has really grabbed attention, however, is OFA's TV campaign. Its 30-second ad features five people "affected by America's broken health system" who say "it's time" for reform. Conventional enough. The eye-popper is where it's running. Arkansas, Indiana, Florida, Louisiana, Maine, North Dakota, Nebraska and Ohio. Conservative Democratic senators from at least five of those states have expressed doubts about key elements of health reform. The Ohio, Maine and Florida buys appear to be aimed at moderate Republicans.
I guess you could argue that it's the job of the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee to protect Democratic senators, but the DNC usually is on their side as well. "We want all 100 senators" to support health reform, DNC spokesman Hari Sevugan said of where the ad is running.
Stewart was only slightly more responsive when asked why a DNC subsidiary is putting pressure on Democrats. "Our mission is to support the president's agenda," he said of OFA. That wasn't much of an answer to me, but it's a clear message to Democrats in Congress.
Sunday morning update: Even more Democrats are now being targeted. The DNC said this weekend it has expanded the ad buy to 15 more cities -- Savannah, Palm Springs, Calif., Seattle, Nashville, Bloomington, Ind., Sacramento, Salt Lake City, New Orleans, Pittsburgh, Charlotte, Little Rock, Columbus, Marquette and Grand Rapids, Mich., and Medford, Ore. Politico notes that all are in districts of House members on the key Energy and Commerce Committee, and 12 of the 15 are Democrats.
Sunday morning update: Even more Democrats are now being targeted. The DNC said this weekend it has expanded the ad buy to 15 more cities -- Savannah, Palm Springs, Calif., Seattle, Nashville, Bloomington, Ind., Sacramento, Salt Lake City, New Orleans, Pittsburgh, Charlotte, Little Rock, Columbus, Marquette and Grand Rapids, Mich., and Medford, Ore. Politico notes that all are in districts of House members on the key Energy and Commerce Committee, and 12 of the 15 are Democrats.
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mgc947
6:36AM Jul 17th 2009
We truly are in the battle of our lives! Here are the facts on the new 1,018 page bill just released this afternoon. Unfortunately, it has all the bad ideas from previous versions, and more! For instance, there are new federal regulations on the rental of power-driven wheelchairs; new government rules on how providers are supposed to treat patients with dementia; and new regulations on smoking cessation, and everything in between.
In addition to the 1,000 pages of new federal regulations on health care, there are multiple taxes including in the bill because the government will need to raise more than $1 trillion to pay for these new regulations.
The bill creates a new government-run health plan that will undercut the private market pushing as many as 119 million people out of their private health insurance and be forced into a Medicaid-like plan. Employers will be pressed to drop their insurance benefits and send their employees over to the new government plan. This provision doesn’t apply to Members of Congress, who will be able to keep their health plan.
The bill will also create a new federal health board, a group of government bureaucrats that will decide whether your health care is effective or not, which could endanger your ability to receive the health care you need.
To pay for the new federal health board, there will be a new “fair share” tax imposed on everyone’s health insurance to raise $375 million needed for the new bureaucracy. The government has not yet decided what your portion will be.
As I previously wrote to you, there will be a new “tax on individuals without acceptable health care coverage.” In other words, if your health insurance isn’t government-approved you will be taxed.
This is truly a partnership, we need to educate the public! Join our Facebook Cause at http://apps.facebook.com/causes/306019. Let's move those numbers, send to friends who haven’t signed www.freeourhealthcarenow.com
And, keep track of our progress on our website www.ncpa.org - just click on the ticker link under the Eagle. Use our Action Pack to learn about Learning/Teaching Tools about health care http://actionpack.ncpa.org so you can be a part of educating the public.
In addition to the 1,000 pages of new federal regulations on health care, there are multiple taxes including in the bill because the government will need to raise more than $1 trillion to pay for these new regulations.
The bill creates a new government-run health plan that will undercut the private market pushing as many as 119 million people out of their private health insurance and be forced into a Medicaid-like plan. Employers will be pressed to drop their insurance benefits and send their employees over to the new government plan. This provision doesn’t apply to Members of Congress, who will be able to keep their health plan.
The bill will also create a new federal health board, a group of government bureaucrats that will decide whether your health care is effective or not, which could endanger your ability to receive the health care you need.
To pay for the new federal health board, there will be a new “fair share” tax imposed on everyone’s health insurance to raise $375 million needed for the new bureaucracy. The government has not yet decided what your portion will be.
As I previously wrote to you, there will be a new “tax on individuals without acceptable health care coverage.” In other words, if your health insurance isn’t government-approved you will be taxed.
This is truly a partnership, we need to educate the public! Join our Facebook Cause at http://apps.facebook.com/causes/306019. Let's move those numbers, send to friends who haven’t signed www.freeourhealthcarenow.com
And, keep track of our progress on our website www.ncpa.org - just click on the ticker link under the Eagle. Use our Action Pack to learn about Learning/Teaching Tools about health care http://actionpack.ncpa.org so you can be a part of educating the public.
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S321Saint
7:22AM Jul 17th 2009
Good comments. Its hard to make people (the ones who mindlessly support Obie and his policies) who appear to have cognitive problems, understand the depth and depravity of Obie and his policies. There is a good reason he is hurrying to get everything past quickly. Because when the results of his policies start filtering down, he might even get impeached. The democrat Party might just have historic losses in the next election. So Obie, who is spending more time away from the White House than George W. Bush EVER did, has to get everything in place fast. Time to push back people. Complain to your representatives...even the democrat ones. Demand that people in congress actually read and study these proposals and give us honest reasons to support them (there arent any). Tell your representative (especially the liberal ones) that all these policies they pass MUST apply to themselves also...including health care. No more special treatment for Kennedy, Pelosi, etc. Let Kennedy find a doctor for his brain problem on Medicade. Wake up people. Obie isnt the savior and his people are not there for YOUR benefit.
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(1) cjjanis001
7:57AM Jul 17th 2009
Every year a terrorist group kills at least 22,000 Americans! That's
kids, the old, the mentally ill and the healthy.
Every year even more die at the hands of these terrorist by
mistreatment, and even more are maimed and permanently damage.
And who are these terrorist killing all these Americans? Who are
these people who have the support of our government, by buying them
all for over a 10 billion a year? They are the health Insurance
industry and the drug makers.
kids, the old, the mentally ill and the healthy.
Every year even more die at the hands of these terrorist by
mistreatment, and even more are maimed and permanently damage.
And who are these terrorist killing all these Americans? Who are
these people who have the support of our government, by buying them
all for over a 10 billion a year? They are the health Insurance
industry and the drug makers.
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(1) oreillyirish50
9:29AM Jul 17th 2009
Washington has finally lost what little minds they had. DOES ANYONE REMEMBER WHAT MEDICAID WAS FOR? EVERYONE IS COVERED BY SOME SORT OF HEALTHCARE. NO ONE GOES UNTREATED FOR ANYTHING. THERE ARE FREE CLINICS IF YOU DON'T HAVE INSURANCE. NO HOSPITAL WILL TURN YOU AWAY. WHY ISN'T ANYONE TALKING ABOUT THIS. THIS IS NOTHING MORE THAN A CON TO GET PEOPLE'S MONEY JUST LIKE CAP N TRADE. WHEN DID MEN GET SO ARROGANT TO THINK THEY COULD CONTROL THE CLIMATE? WAKE UP PEOPLE.
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(3) cjjanis
9:45AM Jul 17th 2009
oreillyirish50
Sorry but it doesn't mean anything, most places won't see you with medicaid. And the high cost of that program is one of the reasons for reform. Again 22,000 Americans die because they have no insurance and are refused care medicaid or not.
But the real reason for reform is people who do pay and have insurance are getting screwed. The insurance companies are business to make money not your health care. From the minute you submit a claim they are working to refuse it. Don't believe me watch SICKO, I don't care what you may think of Moore, the people in the movie all have insurance and have been refused by all the major insurance companies.
Sorry but it doesn't mean anything, most places won't see you with medicaid. And the high cost of that program is one of the reasons for reform. Again 22,000 Americans die because they have no insurance and are refused care medicaid or not.
But the real reason for reform is people who do pay and have insurance are getting screwed. The insurance companies are business to make money not your health care. From the minute you submit a claim they are working to refuse it. Don't believe me watch SICKO, I don't care what you may think of Moore, the people in the movie all have insurance and have been refused by all the major insurance companies.
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(-3) thisbig12
10:26AM Jul 17th 2009
cjjanis
You must be an Acorn nut. Your numbers are a strait out lie, I have seen the numbers you have given out on a Acorn publication. Remember when things get tough Acorn will drop you like a hot potato. I must say mgc947 hit it right on the money 10 stars for your research. We need more Americans to open there eyes and see like you.
You must be an Acorn nut. Your numbers are a strait out lie, I have seen the numbers you have given out on a Acorn publication. Remember when things get tough Acorn will drop you like a hot potato. I must say mgc947 hit it right on the money 10 stars for your research. We need more Americans to open there eyes and see like you.
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(3) Imabeliever
11:08AM Jul 17th 2009
The rules have changed. If you're looking for a great job, with a great company, with great benefits, that you will have your entire life, until you retire, stop looking. That was then this is now. That job doesn't exist anymore for 99% of us. Unless you have unique and remarkable skills you better figure out what will work best for you and your family. I am a former executive who left the corporate world to help people adjust to the new realities. My suggestion to most is to do what millions of people are doing now, find a good home business. That won't work for everyone but if you find one that you can get into for virtually no investment and learn the right skills, you should do well.
There are two opportunities that my clients have had the most success with. One is an amazing opportunity to profit from Ebay and there are well over 720,000 people making a full time living with them. http://cli.gs/HomeBizSuccessSystem That's a huge company to work with.
The other great opportunity is working with an amazing program that teaches you how to cash in on the Twitter gold rush http://cli.gs/TwitterIncomeSystem . Twitter is the future and this is the time to make lots of money from it. The profits we are seeing have been spectacular
So many of my clients tell me that they are loving working for themselves, making more money than before, in less time, and enjoy the extra time they have to spend with their families.
There are two opportunities that my clients have had the most success with. One is an amazing opportunity to profit from Ebay and there are well over 720,000 people making a full time living with them. http://cli.gs/HomeBizSuccessSystem That's a huge company to work with.
The other great opportunity is working with an amazing program that teaches you how to cash in on the Twitter gold rush http://cli.gs/TwitterIncomeSystem . Twitter is the future and this is the time to make lots of money from it. The profits we are seeing have been spectacular
So many of my clients tell me that they are loving working for themselves, making more money than before, in less time, and enjoy the extra time they have to spend with their families.
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(-5) Tami
1:20PM Jul 17th 2009
Right On! I agree with you. I'll be laughing at the Democrats. Obama needs to be impeached!
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(5) slfstx
2:51PM Jul 17th 2009
Well mgc947!
You managed to read this health care bill...all 1,018 pages in MOCK TIME if it was just released this afternoon. I see your time stamp says 6:36am. So you read it before it was released and are competent to comment the way you did. I'm sorry...you have been given your talking points by whom? You are already against something you couldn't possibly have read.
There was a US president that would invite people for dinner before hiring them. If they salt and peppered their meal before eating he wouldn't hire them because their minds were already made up.
It appears you salted and peppered your meal without tasting.
But boy do you have an opinion.
You managed to read this health care bill...all 1,018 pages in MOCK TIME if it was just released this afternoon. I see your time stamp says 6:36am. So you read it before it was released and are competent to comment the way you did. I'm sorry...you have been given your talking points by whom? You are already against something you couldn't possibly have read.
There was a US president that would invite people for dinner before hiring them. If they salt and peppered their meal before eating he wouldn't hire them because their minds were already made up.
It appears you salted and peppered your meal without tasting.
But boy do you have an opinion.
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(2) pattycash39
7:54AM Jul 17th 2009
I happened to watch Michael Moore's "Sicko" last night. France , Britain, Canada have Universal health care that seems to work well. What is our problem? Why can't we just ask them how they do it?
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(1) mgc947
8:03AM Jul 17th 2009
The real problem here is the source MICHARL MOORE!!! His far left slanted views do not present the real facts. the reality is these systems DO NOT WORK. Do your homework, check them out on your own. If you think our system is broken we are going to have serious problems if the STATIST Omaba gets his way. The FACTS are the cost of the proposed system will destroy small business and put MORE people out of work AND TAXES WILL GO UP FOR EVERYBODY!! Obama has yet to do ANYTHING TO IMPROVE OUR ECONOMY.Infacct everything he has done has only made the situation WORSE. What makes you think his healthcare program will achieve anything but continue the destruction of the economy?
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(2) cjjanis001
8:03AM Jul 17th 2009
Money, money money and more money! Billions and billions and more billions........
They all model their systems after the VA. We have the know how, we have the money, the health insurance industry owns our politicians.
Sen D Max Bacus who ran the debate on health care would not allow single payer to even be debated, he had doctors arrested when they asked why?
Max has taken over 1.6 million dollars from these companies, that's $15,000
everyday he's been in office.
They all model their systems after the VA. We have the know how, we have the money, the health insurance industry owns our politicians.
Sen D Max Bacus who ran the debate on health care would not allow single payer to even be debated, he had doctors arrested when they asked why?
Max has taken over 1.6 million dollars from these companies, that's $15,000
everyday he's been in office.
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(0) Stella
8:47AM Jul 17th 2009
You don't REALLY Believe Michael Moore, do you? Remember, he is the guy that attacks Capitalism, yet profits from it by selling his crap movies. Get an education.
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(1) cjjanis
9:14AM Jul 17th 2009
Stella
Whan has Micheal Moore attacked capitalism? You people are so full of it!
You have never watch one of his movies and have no reason to comment till you do. I dare you to name one thing in Sicko thats not true! In fact I dare you to watch it from end to end.
Whan has Micheal Moore attacked capitalism? You people are so full of it!
You have never watch one of his movies and have no reason to comment till you do. I dare you to name one thing in Sicko thats not true! In fact I dare you to watch it from end to end.
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(-1) SRGENTERPRISES
11:25AM Jul 17th 2009
MAYBE YOU SHOULD TALK TO MORE PEAPLE THAN GETTING YOUR INFO FROM ONE POINT OF VIEW LIKE A MOVIE. I HAVE TALKED TO PEAPLE WHO HAVE COME TO THIS COUNTRY BECAUSE THEY HAD TO WAIT A YEAR FOR A HIP REPLACEMENT, COULD NOT GET THE DRUGS FOR CANCER THEY NEEDED BECAUSE THEIR LIFE WASN'T WORTH IT, OR A KIDNEY TRANSPLANT BECAUSE THE MONEY WOULDN'T BE AVAILABLE TELL THE NEW YEAR HIT. PEOPLE NEED TO LOOK AT HEALTH CARE INSURANCE FOR MAJOR MEDICAL NOT AN OFFICE VISIT FOR A COLD. YOU WOULD NOT SPEND FOR INSURANCE FOR OIL CHANGES FOR YOUR CAR. MY HEALTH INSURANCE IS AFORDABLE. I GET IT MYSELF FOR ME AND MY FAMILY AND NOT THROUGH WORK. I PAY FOR DOCTOR VISITS AND THEY DISCOUNT FOR CASH. I USE IT FOR MAJOR MEDICAL AND EMERGENCY ROOM VISITS. IF YOU LOOK AT THIS NEW BILL THAT OBAMA SAYS YOU CAN KEEP YOUR OWN HEALTH INSURANCE YOU WILL SEE ON PAGE 16 THAT IT WILL BE ILLIGAL FOR YOU TO HAVE PRIVATE HEALTHCARE. THE GOVT PLAN IS THE ONLY PLAN YOU WILL BE ABLE TO HAVE.
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(6) rage9711
2:01PM Jul 17th 2009
Despite these nations having universal health care many of the people of those nations Do Not Want It. Great Brittan is in dire straits in their economy very much because of their universal health care it is not the answer to America. Currently only around 45 million people go without health care in the united States to add to that about a third of them are young kids who feel they do not need it. Another third is parents who feel they don’t need it for their kids. now that brings our grand total to about 15 million without health care. Personally as a percentage of America that seems like a low percent. and of those people many are unemployed didn’t finish high school and don’t ever try to make anything of them selves now if they would be smart get some motivation and attempt to get a job and become and employee some where they might not be without health care. It's up to the people to fix what’s wrong with them selves not the government.
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(2) hello
2:11PM Jul 17th 2009
It is clear that the systems in France, Britain, Canada, and Sweden don't work. People from those countries come here all the time to get better care. Plus they pay higher taxes than we do for the medical services that they can't receive as easily as they do here. Based on this, I think its pretty clear that the system in the U.S. works better than any other in the world and that the government option has failed at least four times in other countries in the world.
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(2) slfstx
3:07PM Jul 17th 2009
MGC947 are you a being paid by an insurance company or lobbyist group to post here?
Michael Moore was trashed by lobbyists so ordinary folks wouldn't watch his movie. It scared the crap out of the insurance companies.
Since you are so versed in the health care of other nations maybe you can comment on...
Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, Spain, France, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Chile, Portugal, Poland, Ukraine, Italy, Cuba, Germany, The Netherlands, Ireland, Romania, Sri Lanka, Iraq, Afghanistan, Cyprus, Israel, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, Czech Rebpulic, Greece...."
Or is every country in the world using a system that is actually worse than:
* 18,000 dying every year because of lack of health care
* every 30 seconds someone filing for bankruptcy with 68% having insurance at the time.
* 45.7 million (15% of the population) not covered
* having the top health-care CEO making a 1.1 BILLION dollar bonus * Every citizen paying up to $4000 dollars more than the Eurozone.
Michael Moore was trashed by lobbyists so ordinary folks wouldn't watch his movie. It scared the crap out of the insurance companies.
Since you are so versed in the health care of other nations maybe you can comment on...
Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, Spain, France, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Chile, Portugal, Poland, Ukraine, Italy, Cuba, Germany, The Netherlands, Ireland, Romania, Sri Lanka, Iraq, Afghanistan, Cyprus, Israel, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, Czech Rebpulic, Greece...."
Or is every country in the world using a system that is actually worse than:
* 18,000 dying every year because of lack of health care
* every 30 seconds someone filing for bankruptcy with 68% having insurance at the time.
* 45.7 million (15% of the population) not covered
* having the top health-care CEO making a 1.1 BILLION dollar bonus * Every citizen paying up to $4000 dollars more than the Eurozone.
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(-3) Jordon
5:23PM Jul 17th 2009
CANADA'S HEATH CARE IS CRAP AND DOESNT WORK..MICHAEL MOORE'S FILM IS PURE LIES AND FICTION.. WHY DO CANADIAN'S COME HERE FOR CARE IF ITS SO GOOD AT HOME.. WAKE UP FOOLS. MICHAEL MOORE IS A COMPLETE IDIOT ONLY AFTER YOUR MONEY!!! JUST LIKE AL GORE ANDHIS FAKE GLOBAL WARMING.. HE HAS BECOME RICH OFF THIS LIE!! WAKE UP FOOLS..!!!
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(5) robrtl
11:10PM Jul 19th 2009
britains system is so broke that hospitals charge for parkin..outragesouly... an are contemplating charing 25 pounds for visits to general practicioners..... they are in turmoil ...rationing treatment
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