Blissfully unaware of the 15 million Americans whose insurance policies have been seized because of the new healthcare law, ignoring the laughing-stock glitches that have ruined the law’s first six weeks, a jubilant crowd of 450 persons, egged on by two hardline Congressional veterans, celebrated Obamacare yesterday afternoon at West Los Angeles College as if October happened on an unrelated planet.
Had someone mentioned President Obama’s serial lies, he might have been waterboarded and then overboarded – if not arrested.
It felt like Alfred E. Neuman Day in the virtually filled Fine Arts Theatre. Maybe none of the celebrants has access to the internet, newspapers, radio or television during the autumn season.
The severely under-informed – or massively denying – crowd cheered vociferously every time something nice was said – which was frequently – about the joys of Obamacare. It was an otherworldly, out-of-body type of existence that was difficult to take seriously while the rest of the country either is giggling or fuming over having been naively baited-and-switched-on by Mr. Obama. The President, known for his refusals to accept blame, would have been hugely comfortable in this upbeat, anti-negative setting.
One of the most humiliating ongoing episodes in Presidential history was treated as if it were an infectious disease that was a room in the elephant – rather than the reverse.
A four-hour, heavily whitewashed, bleached out, thoroughly laundered tribute to the universal Obama embarrassment was headlined by U.S. Rep. Karen Bass (D-Culver City) and pumped to a frenzy by her retired, name-calling still angry, predecessor, the former Congresslady Diane Watson. With plenty of reflection time these days, Ms. Watson, who almost always got along with some people who lockstep agreed with her, reached for her typically delicate rhetorical paddle, berating her dreaded Republican enemies for behaving “idiotically” after Obamacare stumbled like a career drunk out of the internet gate.
Although Ms. Bass hamburgered their introductions, two professional speakers lent the gathering a whiff of legitimacy, Jim Mangia, President/CEO of St. John’s Well Child & Family Center and
Jim Connolly, Associate Director, of Insure the Uninsured project, trying to sign up optimists before the apocalypse.
Brilliantly carrying out the tightly scripted theme of Everything Is Terrific, Dr. Connolly concentrated on the 100 percent undreamed of joys awaiting every anti-pessimist who gives longshot hope a chance by tying his future to the fluttering chances of Obamacare.
Possibly aiming for the hard of hearing, Mr. Mangia boasted numerous times that he has spent more than 20 years as a healthcare activist among the poor, and roared with glee – also repeatedly – that healthcare, thanks to the President, has become a human right not a privilege for the elite. This came as a surprise to the 90 percent of pre-Obama Americans who were delighted with their healthcare.
