Backstory Of Little Girl Asking Obama Questions
We’re all little girls if we believe that anything involving Obama and the media is unscripted
A girl from Malden asked President Obama a question at Tuesday’s town hall meeting in New Hampshire about the signs outside “saying mean things” about his health care proposal.
Eleven-year-old Julia Hall asked: “How do kids know what is true, and why do people want a new system that can — that help more of us?”
The question opened the door for the president to respond to what he called an “underlying fear” among the public “that people somehow won’t get the care they need.”
The girl later told the Globe that picking the president’s brain was “incredible.”
“It was like a once in a lifetime experience,” she said.
Julia’s mother was an early Obama supporter in Massachusetts during the presidential election, so she had previously met First Lady Michelle Obama, the Obama daughters Sasha and Malia, and Vice President Joe Biden.
“This was my first time meeting Barack Obama, and he’s a very nice man,” Julia said. “I’m glad I voted for him.”
She said Obama won a mock presidential election at the Cheverus School in 2008. And on Tuesday, he approached her after the town meeting.
“He said ‘great question,’” Julia said. “I shook his hand and got his picture.”
Kathleen Manning Hall, Julia’s mother, was shocked when her daughter said she wanted to ask a question. They wrote it down beforehand, and Julia didn’t miss a beat when Obama called on her.
“It was surreal,” said Manning Hall, a coordinator of Massachusetts Women for Obama during the election.
At the link, Michelle Malkin has posted a facebook photo of the little girl’s mother and Barack Obama, taken during the campaign. Turns out the mom donated thousands of dollars to his campaign. So it was an easy way for him to say: Thanks!
More from Michelle Malkin, The Illustrated Guide To Obamacare Human Props
This is a hilarious site, highly recommended. Here you will see photos of the questioners at various town halls with their background connections to The One. There are no coinkidinks in Obamaland.
I’m glad the little girl is thrilled. I only wonder about the rest of us.
- Aggie
Disenfranchised and Angry Citizen said,
August 12, 2009 @ 12:59 pm
It also doesn’t hurt that the little girl (the “LG”) that they -used- for this scam is pretty to look at. Obama youth. Poster child for eugenics? Ok, I’m stretching that, but still. And now because of how they are using a child, she now is all over the news and associated with their dishonesty, and adults have to talk about her, which can make them look bad if they are not careful. It is like he saw a perfect chance here. Again a government that cannot be trusted. They are lying to the American people with these plants, and it deserves great anger. Now consider, if they can’t be trusted in how they are selling this plan to us, how they be trusted regarding the plan itself? So let the disenfranchisement and cynicism be fed into by Obama and the democrats, and yes that will just be great for our nation. And it will really bring us together, too. No, it is a means of turning sides against one another, and it is despicable.
Barrie Evans said,
August 12, 2009 @ 2:21 pm
I’ve become tired of the attacks on the President and on this health care plan. I don’t see any debate of the merits of a plan that could bring health care to millions of uninsured. And, yes, I’m someone without health insurance.
There is too much fear regarding this to really even hear how pertinent the objections are. The costs which no one is addressing are the costs being paid NOW by all of us. There’s a very human cost to shoving the working poor off to the side when many employers (especially in non-salaried positions) are offering health insurance.
There must also be some savings that could be realized when you read that “In 2008, health care spending in the United States reached $2.4 trillion, and was projected to reach $3.1 trillion in 2012.1 Health care spending is projected to reach $4.3 trillion by 2016.” (National Coalition on Health Care). In 2001, we were spending 13.9% of our GDP on ALL health care (Health Affairs). Now, the health care to GDP ratio is even higher: “Health spending as a share of GDP is expected to grow from its 2007 level of 16.3% to an estimated 19.5% of GDP in 2017 (about $4.3 trillion)” (Randcompare.org). A commentary at Forbes.com from 7/31/09 puts the average percent of GDP for European nations around 9% and Canada’s at about 10%.
The question is: whose pocket is roughly 7% of our GDP going into when compared to the health care European and other nations are able to achieve with less? I don’t know the answer and suspect it’s a mix of poor health practices, insurance company profit and bloat, etc.
Face it: the private insurance carriers in this country have managed to have us pay more per person while excluding 46 million people. Then there are lifetime limits to consider (don’t get REALLY sick folks) and the fine print that allows them to disallow certain people, procedures and conditions from eligibility for coverage. Rationing is here, now, and private bureaucrats are doing the rationing.
Bloodthirsty Liberal said,
August 12, 2009 @ 3:20 pm
Barrie,
The disinformation coming from the Obama White House does make it difficult to tease out the facts.
Here is my favorite, one that you reference. Some European countries and Canada claim to have higher life expectancy, but it turns out that some of that is smoke and mirrors. Life expectancy doesn’t equal successful health care and the measurement of life differs in different countries. For example, in the US, we count all live births, no matter the gestational age of the child, as a person. In other countries, they wait for the child to be 30 days old before he/she is counted. The end result is that preemies that die in the first four weeks of life drag down our numbers. Other problems have to do with the rate of illness in the first place. Some countries might have lower incidences of various diseases for lifestyle or genetic reasons. And life expectancy reports do not mention cause of death necessarily. This means that higher deaths due to accidents here would appear to reflect on our health care system. Those articles you read in the MSM never go into this material, leaving you with the impression that Canadian or EU health care is “better”.
This we do know: People suffering from cancer and most other life-threatening illnesses have a better outcome here in the US. We are willing to pay more and we get better results. A woman diagnosed with breast cancer has roughly twice the chance of surviving it as her sister in the UK.
I don’t want government health care. I want private health care. I am willing to pay for it. Furthermore, I don’t believe a word out of Obama’s mouth. He is on tape claiming that they hadn’t stacked the health care town hall yesterday and today we find out that the little girl who asked a question is the daughter of a big supporter, one that he knows. He lies constantly.
Final point: Lack of health care insurance does not equal lack of health care. They are not the same thing at all. I know lots of people who do not have health care insurance but have a regular physician and are receiving health care as needed. Canadians all have insurance, but when they get sick, they come here for health care. There’s a special phrase to describe this: Medical Tourism. People are not Medical Tourists in Britain or Germany or Canada; they are Medical Tourists here.
- Aggie
David Gerard said,
August 12, 2009 @ 4:52 pm
I think of Obama’s plan and I think of this image: http://is.gd/2dYxi
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