If I could ask questions on U-Tube tonight, it would be, “To all the canidates already in public office, how many letters did you receive from vets, stating the kind of treatment met out by the VA?”

There is NO way that they could not have known. Already, we have a cover up.

Noticed how lately, we have the medical profession admitting to “problems” in the healthcare industry? Notice that they admit only to the errors that are obvious? Such as wrong side surgeries? Can’t overlook
the wrong limb missing, no matter how hard you try. Might as well admit it.

The third contributing group, in this menige tois of “evil doers”, are the Insurance Companies and their DRGS, refusal to pay, lies and the list goes on.

You can “come on ta my house, ta my house come on.” Cause “the people” have the candy. All they have to do is the research. There will be other moral high roaders to follow me.

I am new at this, but I do have something to offer. I was a brat, was a nurse, have been a patient, have dealt with insurance, and gov. insurance. Huge circle of coverups and they go on.
Instead of “the good ole boys” club It’s the “cover your ass and while you’re at it, cover mine” club.
Now I have hyperthyroid. It has the same symptoms as some psych diagnosis.
Around here they sense that I’m up to something. They think I’m going to sue. No one will touch me. It’s a red flag if I show up with no records. and it’s a tip off all through my records, before I caught on and was telling why I was changing Dr.s
It’s really rough to give your life, to stand up for what you believe in and not be able to get your story told.
I will die by refusing to take meds and let nature take its course {refusing insulin) before I die in excruiating pain, because Some one just said say “Just say No to drugs” and the Dr’s are afraid of losing their licenses.
I sure doubt I’m brave enough to die with the word,” FREEDOM on my lips

If you live in a country where the endorsement of some lucky pop cult icon can sway the election, you’re already in trouble.  If any one of them is so effing powerful, why doesn’t she/he run for office and exercise that considerable influence to make things better for those fine people who weren’t as lucky in their lives. What BS!

#116499 by Hammo

Hammo,

I remember reading earlier posts from you on this issue with Oprah removing this book from her list. Admittedly, I didn’t follow-up on the link at the time, because (if nothing else), Oprah’s book list or club or whatever she calls it, has never been of any relevance to me. So, while I certainly read tons of books, it would only be a ‘coincidence’ if any one of them happened to be on her list.

Having said that, I did read your link this time around, (if only because I’ve been studying the histories of Indigenous Peoples from many locations, and specifically Native Americans.

So, the question I guess, is this: Did Oprah give a reason for pulling the book? Did she say at any point that it was because of the fact that this Asa guy was a racist? I ask because I don’t know that she would have been able to figure that out, (at least not on her own) and I also wonder about the timing.

You’re probably aware of the fact that the Cherokee have recently disenrolled most of the black Cherokee from their roles. Now, I doubt that Oprah would have discovered that on her own either, but no doubt someone may have brought it to her attention. (The Black Caucas is really pissed, though they have little influence any more). Still, I’m just wondering if that had anything to do with it as well.

There’s one section in the article that I would argue:

•  Sometimes, here in America, we may notice a distain or disrespect on the part of full-blood Indians, those raised on reservations and associated with formal tribal community, in their views of people who do not have 100 percent Indian blood (DNA) within them.”...

On this..it has been my own experience, (in researching case studies, and doing a few of my own) that this distain or disrespect is NOT so much on the part of full-blood Indians, but rather on the part of the NON-Indian dominant culture, that has decided (for the Indians) that if they break out of the reservation, and away from the stereotypes (poor, uneducated, allegedly savage and stupid) that they are then not ‘authentic’ Indians.
This is a common complaint that has risen to the top, over the issue of Indian gaming on sovereign territory. The white folks are in a HUGE uproar on the West Coast at least, in claiming that the Indians aren’t capable of conducting such an enterprise, (or engaging in any sort of capitalist ventures) and then they proceed to throw around the whole issue that it somehow diminishes the ‘authenticity’ of the Indian.

So, with that said, I’m really just not sure that this part of your suggestion, (or the author’s) really holds up. Rather, I think the contentious nature of the discussion has far more to do with the Indians maintaining a stereotype and a mode of behavior that the dominant NON-Indian society wishes to preserve. In short, rich Indians are simply unacceptable, even though we know perfectly well that if ANY of them are ‘rich’, it’s less than a handful.

So, I would beg to differ with the observation that there are Indians that are disdainful of others who are not 100% Indian, (though there may indeed be some, seeing as how the Cherokee have disenrolled so many black members) if only because we see all too often, that this demand for perceived ‘authenticity’ is equally practiced by the white population.

Meantime, I’m still curious to know if Oprah gave any reasons for this. Not THAT curious, (like I said, I don’t happen to find Oprah a particularly informed reference for ANY books) but since you’ve mentioned it before, I’m wondering what YOU think her reasons were.

Oprah has been in the news quite a bit lately regarding:

1) the scandal at her school for girls in Africa,

2) her implied endorsement of the plastic surgeon who was on her show and was involved in the case of the death Kanye West’s mother and

3) her decision to pull a well-known book from her book list.

Will her endorsement of Obama help him or hurt him? It does not seem entirely clear.

The news involving her decision to remove the book THE EDUCATION OF LITTLE TREE from her book list seems to require further exploration by thoughtful people. For more information, see the article ...

“Oprah bumps book ‘Education of Little Tree’ from list; readers can explore many factors involved”

AmericanChronicle.com
November 9, 2007

http://americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=42576

Ah Geeze,

I’d put off reading this, for the very reasons that I put off reading it… I was afraid of something like this. I’d be one of the ones who might have at some point responded to this poll by saying that Oprah’s endorsement would PREVENT me from voting for him.

Fortunately, I’m beyond that, and perfectly capable of making up my own mind. Still, I can’t help but wonder if Oprah’s endorsement can’t hurt more than help. BUT, based on Oprah’s audience, I suspect that at the end of the day, it will probably help him more than hinder him, and I also suspect that he’s figured that out too. Then again, I’m not sure how easy it would have been to dissuade her from joining him on the trail. And, she did put together that fund raiser for him. No small thing.

So, this is the kind of thing that one puts up with in the environment of political campaigning. Nobody said it was easy, so better him than me. I just don’t think I could have made that kind of sacrifice, (having Oprah as an endorsement) but maybe that’s the selfishness of pride.

Meantime…yep, she’s a fraud, especially with all of the spiritual stuff. I don’t like her, and she’s responsible for a huge dumbing down of the population. BUT, Obama speaks for himself, and so we can hope that whomever was going to support him ANYWAY, will not be disenchanted by the affiliation with Oprah.

Tolstoy, though, is perhaps the greatest novelist of all time.

And remember:  Anna commits suicide by jumping in front of a train, at the end.

Hey, let’s see what Oprah can do with War and Peace.

Billis is exactly right. The ones who bought Anna will also buy Obama, but they don’t vote in the first place, and none of them read more than three or four pages of Anna.

If Winfrey could get them to the polls, I wouldn’t care if she was promoting another idiot worse than the one we now have in office, but Americans would rather talk to pollsters on the phone than go to the polls and actually vote, so even if the mullets all follow along with Oprah’s choice, we still will never get an honest person into the white house.

I wonder if Oprah has read Madame Bovary? Or Lady Chatterly’s Lover? Or more recently published was The Bridges of Madison County. If children enjoyed their childhood as much as we adults do our adultery, everyone would be happy all the time and not care who was president or how stupid he was or how black he wasn’t.

23% of Democrats said they would vote for Obama based on Oprah Winfrey’s endorsement? Just goes to prove that there are as many stupid Democrats as there are stupid Republicans. Anyone that bases their vote on what some damn celebrity says is a fool. Can no one in this country think for themselves anymore?