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Gupta New Surgeon General

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Anonymous

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Another funny named dark skinned appointment...Must be a radical Hindu extremist-eh :???: :wink: :lol: :p :p

TV's Gupta Chosen for Medical Post
Pick for Surgeon General Brings Communication Skill


By Ceci Connolly and Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, January 7, 2009; Page A01

America's most famous television surgeon, Sanjay Gupta, is poised to take his black bag and microphone to the White House as President-elect Barack Obama's choice for U.S. surgeon general.

A neurosurgeon who is also a correspondent for CNN and CBS, Gupta was chosen as much for his broadcasting skills as for his medical résumé, suggesting that the incoming administration values visible advisers who can drive a public message. He has also been offered a top post in the new White House Office of Health Reform, twin duties that could make him the most influential surgeon general in history.

A practicing physician and one of People magazine's "Sexiest Men Alive," Gupta met for more than two hours with Obama in Chicago on Nov. 25, according to two sources with knowledge of the talks. Gupta, 39, later spoke with several Obama advisers, including Thomas A. Daschle, who will run the new White House policy office and the Department of Health and Human Services.

The globetrotting doctor has told Obama
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/06/AR2009010603503.html?wpisrc=newsletter&wpisrc=newsletter&wpisrc=newsletter
 

Yanuck

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IMO everytime you post something like your comment...you promote racism just as much as the ones you call rightwing nut racists
 
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Yanuck said:
IMO everytime you post something like your comment...you promote racism just as much as the ones you call rightwing nut racists

It definitely wasn't meant to- it was just sarcasm to beat most those rightwingnuts to the punch.....Has to be a radical, doesn't he-- since the radical black Muslim that was born in 40 different places and is going to take his oath of office on the Koran before turning the country over to the Arabs appointed him :???: :wink: :wink: :p
 

Yanuck

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Oldtimer said:
Yanuck said:
IMO everytime you post something like your comment...you promote racism just as much as the ones you call rightwing nut racists

It definitely wasn't meant to- it was just sarcasm to beat most those rightwingnuts to the punch.....Has to be a radical, doesn't he-- since the radical black Muslim that was born in 40 different places and is going to take his oath of office on the Koran before turning the country over to the Arabs appointed him :???: :wink: :wink: :p

I stand by my first statement
 

Tam

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Why didn't you title your post "another Obama appointment connected to Clintons and has no experience for the job appointed to."

A representative of the Commissioned Corps, however, said Gupta will face a "credibility gap" because he has never served in the uniformed Public Health Service.
"I am unaware of any public health experience or qualifications he has to be the leader of the nation's public health service," said Gerard M. Farrell, executive director of the service's Commissioned Officers Association. "This would be akin to appointing the Army chief of staff from the city council of Hoboken," N.J.

The selection of Gupta represents a "return to a communicator model," said Susan Blumenthal, who retired as an assistant surgeon general two years ago after 20 years in the Public Health Service.

If he is confirmed by the Senate, Gupta would provide the administration with a skilled television personality to help market what is planned to be a massive reorganization of the U.S. health system.

The Obama team already has initiated a public relations campaign aimed at mobilizing grass-roots support for eventual health reform legislation. Last week, Daschle appeared at town-hall-style meetings in Indiana and Washington to solicit public input. The sessions, captured on video and posted on the transition Web site, were among more than 8,500 local gatherings held over the holidays.

Gupta is "a great voice to get the public engaged in the discussion over health care reform," said Kenneth Thorpe, a former Clinton administration official who has become friendly with Gupta as a colleague at Emory University in Atlanta.

Gupta, the son of Indian parents, has long been drawn to policymaking. He was a White House fellow in the late 1990s, writing speeches and crafting policy for then-first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. He is currently associate chief of neurosurgery at Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta's busy downtown hospital.
 

Mike

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Gupta has no choice but to be better than that idiot Clinton hired......

Joycelen Elders :roll: :lol: :roll: :lol:
 
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I just love it :lol: :lol: If Obama appoints someone that hasn't been part of the system for years, seeking the "CHANGE" he promised-- he's criticized for not bringing in experienced people--but when he appoints an experienced person that served in any other administration- he's criticized because he's not making "CHANGE"... :roll:

Folks like Tammy could have a feather up their rear and still wouldn't be tickled about anything... :shock: :wink: :lol: :p

Sorry- but just like I did with GW, I'm going to give the man a chance-even tho a couple of his appointments I question or don't know where they sit...Will just have to wait and see...
 
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backhoeboogie said:
Oldtimer said:
Will just have to wait and see...

Kind of like watching the fox in the henhouse aint it? Are you saying we should actually shoot until he has killed a chicken?

Bush was like a bull in an antique china shop....I stood behind him until he'd left little china yet to break--and right now Obama has a tough job just sweeping up the broken glass, let alone gluing it back together...
 

Tam

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Oldtimer said:
I just love it :lol: :lol: If Obama appoints someone that hasn't been part of the system for years, seeking the "CHANGE" he promised-- he's criticized for not bringing in experienced people--but when he appoints an experienced person that served in any other administration- he's criticized because he's not making "CHANGE"... :roll:

Folks like Tammy could have a feather up their rear and still wouldn't be tickled about anything... :shock: :wink: :lol: :p

Sorry- but just like I did with GW, I'm going to give the man a chance-even tho a couple of his appointments I question or don't know where they sit...Will just have to wait and see...

I posted the rest of the story you never bothered to post. The part that pointed out that those in the position of knowing what is needed to run that seat doesn't think this is a good pick. AND YOU JUMP ON ME. :roll:

You say he appointed an experienced person that served in any other administration. Oldtimer this guy is experienced in Speech writing but according to the article YOU LINKED TO has no experience in Public Health services
"I am unaware of any public health experience or qualifications he has to be the leader of the nation's public health service," said Gerard M. Farrell, executive director of the service's Commissioned Officers Association. "This would be akin to appointing the Army chief of staff from the city council of Hoboken," N.J.
:roll: :roll:

There is an old saying my dad used to say that goes something like
"Give a guy enough rope and he'll hang himself "

Just how much rope are we to give this guy with his appointments of people with no experience to do the jobs he is appointing them to or those appointees that are under investigation in their home state?

I think the appointment that bothered me the most is Hillary's One week you are reading headlines where she's been caught in a big lie which is nothing new for her but the next week he is appointing her to the SEC of State seat. :roll: :roll: With her record of lieing it's No wonder she isn't giving her senate seat up until her appointment clears.
 
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