Michelle Obama blames parenting on healthcare…
…or something:
Michelle Obama Says Women Are “Crushed” by Health-Care System
Michelle Obama said women are being “crushed by the current structure of our health care” because they often are responsible for taking care of family illnesses, arranging checkups and monitoring follow-up care.“Women are the ones to do it,” she said to an audience of 140 people, including representatives from groups such as the Women’s Chamber of Commerce and the National Council of Negro Women. “Mothers are the ones that do it. And many women find themselves doing the same thing for their spouses.”
Well, heck, yeah.
When you are a parent you schedule your children’s check-ups, and you get them there; you talk to the doctor during and after the check-up. When they are sick you have to take the kids to the doctor, you make sure they’re taking the medicines, you take care of them until they are well. And when your spouse is sick, you do the same thing.
It doesn’t stop when the kids are adults, either. If your adult child is ill, you better make sure to check they are taken care of; you get there and do it if necessary. When your adult children or your spouse need to go to a physician for a second opinion, you better be there and listen and ask questions. I even know former spouses of either gender who help their exes.
It has nothing at all with gender. Men take care of their sick children and their sick wives every day. It’s called commitment, Michelle. It’s done out of love.
And it is a r-e-s-p-o-n-s-i-b-i-l-i-t-y that you have taken on voluntarily.
As to her statement, “It is holding women and families back,” the answer is No. It is part of being human. It fulfills you as a human being.
What is she proposing, that the nanny state take over your duties as a responsible parent? As a spouse?
And, by the way, Gateway Pundit points out,
Michelle forgot to mention that women actually have a better survival rate under our current system.
You’d think that might be worth mentioning?The breast cancer survival rate is much greater here in the United States than in countries with socialized medicine.
In fact, women with breast cancer have a 14 percent higher survival rate in the United States than in Europe. Breast cancer mortality is 52 percent higher in Germany than in the United States, and 88 percent higher in the United Kingdom. Breast cancer mortality is also 9 percent higher in Canada than in the US. Less than 25 percent of U.S. women die from breast cancer. In Britain, it’s 46 percent; France, 35 percent; Germany, 31 percent; Canada, 28 percent; Australia, 28 percent, and New Zealand, 46 percent.
This healthcare propaganda amounts to more cowbell:
the Obama administration’s efforts to promote the Democrats’ health care plan (whatever it is). Personal appeals by the President are the “cowbell.”
That is, as opposed to the real cowbell they rang at the vegetable market.
The cowbells will be ringing louder for a long time.
(And, as Don Surber put it, “With her husband is doing 5 Sunday TV shows and Letterman, Michelle Obama prepares to campaign for Obamacare on “What Not To Wear” on TLC.” Thank you Larwyn.)
UPDATE
But healthcare is just a women’s issue, so I’ll manage.
And more,
Tale of Two Obamas: Who’s Telling the Truth About Sasha’s Meningitis?
WaPo goes snarky on the First Lady
Tags: cowbell, Fausta's blog, parenting
September 19th, 2009 at 9:51 am
I think Michelle is probably thinking of women who have several children by different fathers and no help from them. Maybe she should did a little deeper and ask why they didn’t look for better men. On the other hand, maybe she’s thinking of herself having to earn that $200,000 raise while worrying about her daughter’s appointments. I am sick of her whining. I wonder what she thinks about on Thanksgiving. Maybe Rev. Wright never talked about counting your blessings.
September 19th, 2009 at 10:59 am
And under Obamacare, we mothers just do what? Hand the kids over to the system? No scheduling , no follow up? just drop them off and pick them up in 18 years?
September 19th, 2009 at 11:11 am
MO is a very angry **. (oops, first-**) She can’t get over being black.
Wonder how she greets her daughters in the mornings. “Get yo’ black asses outah bed an’ fine some-buddy to fix yo’ sh*t”.
September 19th, 2009 at 11:20 am
Good questions, Jungle Mom.
September 19th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
Based on the content of this drivel I suspect that the Presidents greatest asset in the White House may be his dog. (tongue in cheek).
September 19th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
I was going to ask what she thought would happen when health care is taken over by the government but Junlge Mom beat me to it. Actually, having to look after you family is not a particularly onerous part of what we have to deal with; constantly arguing with the useless part of the NHS is far far worse. Parenting is what you do when you have children.
September 19th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
Tell me Mrs. Obama, if healthcare is so oppressive on women, why do you poor oppressed chicks out live us poor male oppressors by seven years?
September 19th, 2009 at 10:20 pm
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September 19th, 2009 at 10:39 pm
Now if she was going to appear with Trini and Suzanne I would definitely watch. The experssion on her face would be priceless when the two begin talking about how to hide thick legs.
September 20th, 2009 at 1:50 am
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September 20th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
Maybe it would help if all those mothers got a $200,000 raise. Then they, too, could spend their time choking back sobs as they bewailed their lots.
September 21st, 2009 at 2:25 am
I don’t guess she offered any explanation on how things would be different under Obamacare or did I miss that?
September 21st, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Some employees are simply irreplaceable. Take Michelle Obama: The University of Chicago Medical center hired her in 2002 to run “programs for community relations, neighborhood outreach, volunteer recruitment, staff diversity and minority contracting”.
In 2005, the hospital raised her salary from $120,000 to $317, 000 nearly twice what her husband made as a Senator.
Oh, did we mention that her husband had just become a U.S. Senator? He sure had. And that he immediately requested a $1 million earmark for the UC Medical Center, in fact?… You betcha by golly… He surely did. Way to network Michelle!
But now that Mrs. Obama has resigned, the hospital says her position will remain unfilled. How can that possibly be??? Especially if the work she did was vital enough to be worth $317,000?
Oh, by the way, let me add that Michelle’s position was a part time, 20 hour week job at $317,000.00 per year !!
“IN GOD WE TRUST!!”–we better because you sure can’t trust your elected officials.
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