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Thread #122558 Message #2707859
Posted By: Joe Offer
25-Aug-09 - 01:37 AM
Thread Name: BS: Glenn Beck - Obama's a racist
Subject: RE: BS: Glenn Beck - Obama's a racist
Ebbie's right, Donuel. It's best to get your facts straight. The Congressman was Wally Herger, from my neck of the woods in California. He was speaking in Redding, California - the article from one of the local newspapers is here (click). Redding is pronounced the same as the city in Pennsylvania which has a different spelling (Reading), but I think our Northern California Congressmen are far more conservative than those in Pennsylvania. We've got the wackiest of the wackos out here.
Here's an excerpt from the story:Herger said the federal government does have a limited role to play in health care noting, "We do lots of things that are not in the Constitution."
"There are things we can do with health care, as long as the government is not running it," Herger said.
One speaker said he could trace his ancestors back to the Mayflower and said "they did not arrive holding their hands out for help."
"I am a proud right wing terrorist," he declared to cheers.
Herger praised the man's attitude.
"Amen, God bless you," Herger said with a broad smile. "There is a great American."
The majority of citizens came to the microphone to denounce the health care plan as "socialist" and "a government takeover," but a few, including several from Siskiyou County, spoke in favor of Obama's plan.
Mount Shastan Craig Vivas asked Herger if "health care is a right?" and if not, "Who should be denied?"
"Forty seven million people are without health care insurance in America," Vivas said.
Herger responded by saying "everyone should have access to health care" without declaring it a "right."
"You call it a right. I call it something else," Herger said.
Vivas said in an interview that Herger "believes in the unfettered free market as the solution to all social problems. That is a fallacy he shares with many other Americans."
By Paul Boerger
Mount Shasta Area Newspapers
Fri Aug 21, 2009, 08:38 AM PDT
Herger is in the Congressional district that adjoins mine. Both Districts run from just north of Sacramento to the Oregon border. Our Congressman, Tom McClintock, is even wackier. McClintock replaced John Doolittle, who was certifiably corrupt.