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Way to go Mr Pres. You folks just have to put up with him because we put up with those clowns for years. Ha Ha Ha.............

Wow, and why is this person qualified to be surgeoun general? Of course when a community organizer becomes President of the United States, sure then he might think this individual has all the necessary qualifications to become surgeon general!!!! Someone should brief President Obama on what skills and knowledge this job requires since it is not clear why he is tapping her for the job!!!! This country is getting itself deeper and deeper into trouble and we'll wake up 3 years from now and regret ever putting this administration to work!!!

Fair is Fair, do you really expect to be taken seriously by mixing discredited Fox News talking points with some fringe stuff you picked up on freerepublic.com?

Sniffit said:

"Careful bro…these wingnuts claim that it wasn't FDR's economic and domestic policies that helped pull us out of the GD, but rather the war."
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Sniffit – for someone who always talks about revisionist history, you do it a lot.

@ John Locke -

FDR was an absolutely horribe president. His economic actions caused the great depression to last longer than it should have.

You are right – WWII got us out of the great depression. And it was FDR who turned a bind eye to the obvious which led to Pearl Harbor. FDR knew the only way out of the depression was WWII, and he allowed it to happen.

FDR also, for all intents and purposes, GAVE the a-bomb to the Russians. The amount of soviet spying during the Manhattan project was no secret – and again, he allowed it. Quoting FDR on his opinion of Stalin – "I like Joe".

Social security??? A ponzi scheme in every sense of the word. I'll believe it will be there when someone can tell me how they're going to come up with the TRILLIONS in unfunded liability. I for one am not holding my breath.

Well she will have the job for the next 3 1/2 years and than she will be out of a job along with the Obama's.

Some people see through rock, while others can only walk on them. What a Democratic team we have in Washinton in the year of our Lord.

RR is just another malcontent in the neocon party who is benefiting from having a hard-working, intelligent, articulate president–Obama. RR is sad because President Obama is not received overseas with chants to death to America and the burning effigies like his predecessor did! People actually line up to receive the leader of America with American flags, applause and cheers, unlike the past eight years when they line up to curse Bush and give him the bird while his motorcade drove by. Actually, in some countries they would close down roads to prevent people from attempting to hurt his sorry arse!

@ John Locke, who asked "You can correct me if I am wrong but wasn't it FDR who guided us out of the Great Depression."

Careful bro...these wingnuts claim that it wasn't FDR's economic and domestic policies that helped pull us out of the GD, but rather the war. They thank Hitler for ending the GD. It's precisely this mindset that has GOPer POTUSes (POTII?) relying on a war economy, even when they have to start one, every time they get into office.

Maybe she'll finally take the job. After all, rebuilding crappy clinics can't be anyone's dream job.

Has anyone noticed that Blacks are over-represented in Obama's appointments? Seems kind of racist if you ask me.

An excellent choice.

Do you people actually read the article or do you just look at the picture? Dr Benjamin has extraordinary talents and accomplishments which this blog does not do complete justice to.

All you have to do is a google search but if your primary goal is to get your idocy in print then there wouldn't be time for actually getting educated before respponding.

RR- You can correct me if I am wrong but wasn't it FDR who guided us out of the Great Depression. Was it not for his New Deal polices (and sad to say this WWII) that help us pull ourselves out of a critical time in this countries short history.It also created The Social Security Act, in which everyone will benifit from at some point in their lives. So before you start to spill about how power hungry you have to ask yourself one question, If not for our last President, who was power hungry and got whatever he wanted passed, would we be in such a bad ecomomy? Would it take such steps to fix this mess that yes it may seem terrible right now but if and when his plans succeed you will be praising President Brack Obama. Or would you just find something else to complain about? Get your facts straight before you make such allegations

Debbie July 13th, 2009 11:14 am ET
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don't waste you time on people like rr. you know they have a short attention span they elected bush to 2 terms as president. and he was the worse president ever.

I am sure its another "winner"

what is that like 5 now?

Oh goodie – another opportunity to chalk up a bunch of NOs from the Republicans.

Really RR? Have you not noticed all of the illegal activity and abuse of power evidence from the Bush administration? Cheney's illegal contamination is still spewing all over the Constitution.

Why "tapped"? Does that word make the author sound more clever than "chose" or "selected"? Does it bring any more meaning to the sentence? It's pretentious, and it implies that the person "tapped" is somehow a resource ripe for the picking... or a keg.

Let me guess – she's going to want more power for her federal office. Obama is the most power-mad president since FDR.

Since Sanjay Gupta didn't take the job, Dr. Benjamin should work out just fine. M.B.A. from Morehouse. Can't be bad.