Clinton Not Attending Health Care Event Because it’s Politicized?
Bill Clinton decided not to attend a health care event organized by MSNBC host Keith Olbermann because Olbermann had “politicized” the event.
He explained his decision to FireDogLake’s Eve Gittelso, who ran into Clinton in a gift shop of the Clinton Library in Arkansas:
“Clinton responded that Olbermann was politicizing the clinic, and that it wasn’t helpful for Olbermann to do that. He said he did not feel he could show up now, because the event had turned political….Olbermann, who has invited his viewers to contribute to the National Association of Free Clinics in advance of the event, has said on his show that ‘I want Sens. (Blanche) Lincoln and (Mark) Pryor to see what health care poverty is really like in Little Rock.’ Lincoln has met recently with Joe Biden and President Obama, but has yet to agree to vote for debate on health care to proceed in the Senate.”
I’m sorry but Keith Olberman has a right to politicize these events, they are meant to ‘tell a story‘ to those unbelievers that Americans need health care.
They were created to not only help those without health care, they were meant to tell other Americans how much health care reform is needed.
Former President Bill Clinton is WRONG not to attend and support these events.
If anybody has made it necessary to make these health care events political it’s been the Republican Party and those so-called conservative Democrats that refuse to budge because they are afraid to lose their own jobs. Their own job is more important then saving the lives of their constituents.
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