How is the Sotomayor hearing going?
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See my recom’ed diary – CSPAN Sotomayor SC Hearings Live!
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence.".
The President announced his nominee for the U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Regina Benjamin, today at the White House. Dr. Benjamin has an extensive and distinguished career in medicine. She is the Founder and CEO of the Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic in Alabama, which aims to provide primary care to people of any age regardless of their financial situation.
She was chosen as President of the Medical Association of Alabama in 2002, becoming the first African-American woman to be president of a state medical society. She was also the first African-American woman and physician under 40 to be elected to the American Medical Association Board of Trustees. She received the Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights in 1998 and Pope Benedict XVI awarded her the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice medal for her distinguished service. Dr. Benjamin also serves on the Board of Physicians for Human Rights.
The President emphasized this experience in his remarks, chronicling her dedication to providing health care for her rural community in the face of adversity:
“And that’s why, even though she could have left the state to make more money as a specialist or as a doctor in a wealthier community, Regina Benjamin returned to Alabama and opened a small clinic in Bayou La Batre.
When people couldn’t pay, she didn’t charge them. When the clinic wasn’t making money, she didn’t take a salary for herself. When Hurricane George destroyed the clinic in 1998, she made house calls to all her patients while it was rebuilt. When Hurricane Katrina destroyed it again and left most of her town homeless, she mortgaged her house and maxed out her credit cards to rebuild that clinic for a second time. She tended to those who had been wounded in the storm, and when folks needed medicine, she asked the pharmacist to send the bill her way.”
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."“And that’s why, even though she could have left the state to make more money as a specialist or as a doctor in a wealthier community, Regina Benjamin returned to Alabama and opened a small clinic in Bayou La Batre.
When people couldn’t pay, she didn’t charge them. When the clinic wasn’t making money, she didn’t take a salary for herself. When Hurricane George destroyed the clinic in 1998, she made house calls to all her patients while it was rebuilt. When Hurricane Katrina destroyed it again and left most of her town homeless, she mortgaged her house and maxed out her credit cards to rebuild that clinic for a second time. She tended to those who had been wounded in the storm, and when folks needed medicine, she asked the pharmacist to send the bill her way.”
No, No, No!!!! Not another Obama nominee dripping with that most cardinal of sins………….EMPATHY!!!
OMG…..OMG…..OMG…..Rush, pleeeeeeze save us from the EMPATHIZERS. We just can’t have any more of those damn empathizers.
Queue the Mighty Right Wing Wurlitzer, load the torpedoes, full speed ahead!! It’s time for war on the empathizers!!
Obama certainly is making a lot of good appointments lower down when he isn’t trying to be bipartisan. In fact other than a few headline “bipartisan” appointments, most of his appointments seem to have been very good.
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ACCRA, Ghana (BBC News) – Barack Obama told CNN he had told officials to “collect the facts for me” and could order a full inquiry.
The allegations concern the deaths of hundreds or even thousands of Taliban fighters who had surrendered to the US-backed Northern Alliance in late 2001. They were in the custody of a US-backed warlord, Gen Abdul Rashid Dostum.
On the question of whether he could order a full investigation, he replied: “I think that there are responsibilities that all nations have, even in war. And if it appears that our conduct in some way supported violations of laws of war, then I think that we have to know about that.”
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."for iPod touch and iPhone users that like publlic radio here’s a great app: public radio tuner…and it’s free.
highly recommended.
Listening to Franken…loved how he told Beauregard that he plans to be like Sen. Wellstone…heh.
The Southern-fried Senators are saying what I thought they’d say. Lindsey was more classless than I expect…and that bar was only a cm off the floor.
It’s painful to listen to her defending herself from all the idiot memes the GOPs and their allies have been planting. She has to have a formidable intellect that it would do us all good to witness, but she has to keep it mostly hidden in order to mouth meaningless cliches. It’s funny — now that he Dems are in control I feel even less hopeful about the country’s future than I did before. Rationality and intelligence still seem to have no place in government or the media.
Btw – someone I know had a disturbing legal experience with Sotomayor. I haven’t had the time to dig into the details of his case so I can’t personally pass judgment on her. But he’s very disappointed she’s the nominee, due to his own experience. I just can’t tell how much he’s inferring of what she knew and how much she actually knew before ruling on his case, etc.