Asked about plans for his family's health in an interview that airs Sunday on CNN's State of the Union, the president said he intends to consult with his Health and Human Services Secretary and the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"And whatever they tell me to do, I will do," Obama told CNN Chief National Correspondent John King.
"[H]ere's what I guarantee you," Obama also told King, "We want to get vaccinated. We think it's the right thing to do. We will stand in line like everybody else. And when folks say it's our turn, that's when we'll get it."
The president said high-risk populations for the H1N1 virus - like health care workers, pregnant women - and children will be first in line for vaccinations against the disease, also known as the "swine flu." So he speculated that his two daughters, who are both under the age of 12, would likely get vaccinated before him.
"I suspect that I may come fairly far down the line," Obama said.
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I can't wait to see what the lunatic fringe will make out of this common sense comment. Should be memorable like all the crap they post.
So I don't hear so much from all of you who said last that the H1N1 virus was nothing, the government was behaving stupidly as usual, and that H1N1 was no threat to public health. Apparently it is turning out to be more of a threat than you thought.
It is alarming how many of our citizens think that their completely uneducated opinion on global warming, children's vaccines, public health policy, etc. outweighs the opinions of a few thousand scientists who have been researching the area for decades. I am particularly discouraged by those parents who don't allow their children to be vaccinated, keeping alive the childhood diseases which should now be a thing of the past.
I feel the same way about parents who think that their opinion of the earth's ancient history outweighs the opinions of thousands of scientists when it comes to the school curriculum, like whether to teach evolution.
vaccine, smaccine
Frankly, as with most things he says, I'll believe it when I see it
No way arer we going to get vaccinated! I think the dangers of the Swine Flu are being way over-hyped by the media and drug company and do not believe it is more dangerous then any other strain of flu out there.
A HUGE concern is that the Swin Flu vaccine maker supposedly CANNOT BE SUED if there are any deaths or severe reactions to its vaccine. What does that tell you?
From what I've been reading a person has over a 99% chance of being TOTALLY FINE if they catch the swine flu.
As with the Cervical cancer 'vaccine' this Swine Flu vaccine is being pushed by drug companies for their own personal profit. Many more people die every year from prescription medicines than from FLU AND CERVICAL cancer combined! Consumer beware!
Yeah right.
truth be told, they already have their shots......YOU will wait in line.
No special treatment coward?
Just like when Shelly ran out of some spices the other day and for a photo-op (they have ben hiding her) and went out shopping, not a big deal with the exception being they had to cordone off streets, pay extra police details, stop traffic, pretty much shut down an area at the cost of THOUSANDS of dollars, so Shelly could get some spices.
So save the "no special treatment" BS, maybe the sheep buy that garbage, but the rest that didn't guzzle the orange kool-aid "aint".
Get the shots, good thing FOR ALL of US, but save the latest lie about "no special treatment".
Maybe I will just add it to the ever growing list of lies and "misspeaks".
Obama says he'll "stand in line" for the vaccination. Does anyone actually believe that statement? First of all, if there were any possible serious risk related to this phony swine flu scare , he would be first in line, and rightly so. Something smells fishy in Denmark.
Either: 1. the swine flu scare is phony or 2. Obama is totally naive or 3. he is lying... take your pick.
Obama ar you kidding me?????? You know full well that as POTUS you are always first in line. And that is as it should be. You and your family are more at risk of contracting the disease. Quit with the disingenious remarks.
Terry: Even scientists cannot agree on global warming and it's causes just like they could not agree on global cooling when Carter was president. I am always amazed that Darwin's THEORY of evolution has never been conclusively proven but is indoctrinated in schoold as FACT. Science is a good thing but until the Theory has enough imperical evidence, then we are not dealing with FACT.
Every elected republican who denounces health reform should give up their own cushy plan, that we, the tax payers pay for. When that happens, then they have the right to say there should be no public plan.
I remember a few years ago, when the vaccine became available, and children were to be the first to be vaccinated, and Dick Cheney made sure he was the first to get it. If he was on the Titanic, he would have put himself in the lifeboats before any child.
Remember the outrage over the budget, with John Boehner OMGing all over the airwaves? The allocation for swine research provoked the mirth of the mindless more than any other line item. Any questions now?
Obama is right we should all get vaccinated. H1N1 is a killer.
Hey, this guy's time is more valuable and useful for everyone if he is not standing in a long line for hours for a flu shot. How about we all vote to give his Dr. (who follows him around all day) the go-ahead and take the vaccine into the oval office. His family can show the good example of standing in a long line as everyone else will.
To Debra R....
REAL scientists DO AGREE on global warming. It's just the hacks that work for industry that cast doubt. They are PAID to cast doubt.
Next time, do some research outside talk radio before posting and save us all from having to deal with your stupidity!
Actually, Debra R, evolution is considered a fact among mast all scientists now. The only holdouts in the world are the religious cons here!
What I'd like to know is when the regular flu vaccine will be available! I got my shot at Walgreen's, but they won't vaccinate children there. I called my local hospital, town health dept, walk-in, clinic, area pharmacies, and of course, my own doctor and kids' pediatrician. NO ONE seems to have it, no one seems to know when they'll get it, and no one can direct me to anyplace that can give it to my kids. I live in the CT suburbs, not some remote place in the middle of nowhere. My daughter suffers from severe asthma and each passing day that she does not have the immunization is making me worry. Why the delay in this one? Is it going to be just as difficult, or more so, once the H1N1 vaccine or mist is ready?
Obama is going to stand in a line all right. It will be a line consisting of the Obama family only. Welcome to Obamacare.
Another CNN lovefest with the current POTUS. When will the mainstream media ask him any intelligent thoughtful questions? Or are they only for FOX to ask...oh yeah, he won't speak to them for precisely that reason.
Wonderful. Outrage because Obama is doing the right thing. This is different than everyday because?
The entire GOP needs to be the first in line to be vaccinated against stupidity.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!! AS POTUS and "First" family, your line will be a whole lot shorter than the general public, and your healthcare provider will most likely deliver any medical treatment to you and your family.
As far as the"swine" flu is concerned, wasn't it just a few years ago when there was a vaccine shortage for the seasonal flu and the big "public service" campaign was to wash your hands often, cover your face when coughing\sneezing, and stay home if you were sick. If at that time the vaccine producers were unable to meet demend, how is it now government funded vaccine producers can make a d rush to market a vaccine in such a short period of time.
Hmmmm...
Could it be that there is no real concern of a flu "epidemic" and just a way to suck more of our hard earned wages away from us in unrepresented taxes and fees?
Could it be a way of creating a false illness with an untested vaccine in order to scare people into supporting an inferior government controlled health plan.
Sounds like what we have here is a real case of "wag the dog"
I did not think wingnuts believed in science.
LIES! where's the birth certificate?
I believe Obama, not so much Bush and Cheney.
No matter Obama says, the racist, like lame duck, who used the word, aint, will tear him down. And I quote lame duck, "So save the "no special treatment" BS, maybe the sheep buy that garbage, but the rest that didn't guzzle the orange kool-aid "aint". I think he's the one who guzzled too much of the kool-aid. He must not realize aint isn't a word yet. The grammar is as simple as his or her vocabulary. This is a great example of the blind leading the blind. Everyone reading this should pay attention to stupidity and bigotry. He assumes he knows what Obama would do? I don't think so. They are obviously working on two different levels. I bet they approved of Joe Wilson's outburst. There is never a reason to act out and disrespect our president in front of the entire world. Talk about a national security problem.
To all you see a story like this and shout "YOU LIE" before you think:
You show yourselves to be people who think the President lies no matter what. The majority of the country either ignores you or mocks you at parties.
To Debra R: "Scientists cannot agree on global warming," you say? No, scientists agree on global warming. You must watch a lot of Fixed "News," where extremists, manipulators, and other lunatics try to confuse the debate about what to do about it, shifting the focus and claiming that "scientists cannot agree on what is CAUSING global warming." There's a huge difference. The manipulators try to make it sound as if there's still debate among scientists to fool people like you.
Common sense comment??? Obama is lying about this the same way he has almost everything else he has done or said since being in office. All you global warming freaks; there are a lot of scientists who disagree with your so called global warming. Obama must not agree with it either since he is leaving a huge; huge carbon footprint flying on AF1 almost everyday.
Back to Debra R.–all science is considered theory, it's just that some theories, such as those concerning gravity, are so widely accepted that they are often referred to as fact by most people.
And the word is "EMPIRICAL."
God help us.
It is a short line at the White House to their personal family physicians. They won't be standing in line in Harlem, south Chicago or south L.A.
Good for him.
So many people think vaccines are dangerous.
Both Obama and his wife are well educated and caring parents. They are listening and then choosing the course of action>
The President is simply saying he and his family will be vaccinated like everyone else. Why the hate and anger? For those posting ugly statements, look inside yourself and answer that question.
Nothing 'Stand Up' about Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) @ 10:19 am "To all you see a story like this and shout "YOU LIE" before you think:
You show yourselves to be people who think the President lies no matter what."
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Do you really, honestly believe that Pres Obama and his family is going to stand in line with the rest of us for flu shots?
Come on. He seems to be getting to the point where he thinks he can say anything and a good portion of people will push the "I believe" button on their forehead. They're becoming a laughing stock.
Frankly, I don't think he or his family should or will have to stand in line, and if he'll lie about the small stuff (flu shots) and the big stuff (what his stimulus package would do), what WON'T he lie about?
Yet one more reason I love our new President. President Obama is doing everything he can to fix the mess left by Republicans/Conservatives and, in my opinion, is doing a great job. As for those out there that do not take H1N1 seriously, I can only hope you do not learn the hard way as you may not get the chance to change your mind...if you get my meaning.
After eight years of defending lies I can understand the republicans being tired and worn out.
Too bad they weren't even half as critical back when it would have mattered. Now, the most gullible of the gang follow their pied piper into DC (70K, not 1000k+) and whine about all the lies they imagine they are hearing.
These people are simply being manipulated by racists or are racist themselves.
Obama could grant Bush/Cheney immunity and the Reich Wing would still complain.
I see no reason to doubt him on this statement. Although he didn't say where they would stand in line to get the shots. I suspect since some are so sensitive to the cost of security for the first family that the Obama's will lineup in the private quarters of the White House.
There really aren't that many crazies on the right. They're just the ones making all the noise. How long you have to wait in line has a lot to do with how big your trailer park is.
I think the President should be the first one to get the vaccine – he's the President and cannot afford to risk getting sick. He's way too busy and he's the leader of this country. Stop already with the criticism of everything he does and says. Thank you.
"Family 'will stand in line like everybody else' for vaccine"
Does anyone believe this for a second? I'm tired of the campaign speech and this is nothing but a bold face lie.
Sounds like some of you could use a rabies vaccination, I can just see the flecks of foam on you faces as you type "you lie" in all caps with tons of exclamtion points. Are some of you so blinded by hatred that you have to turn eveything the President says into a negative thing? My god, don't you ever get tired of all that hate in your heart?
I believe this vaccine to be very important, . . but, . . lets get real. It feels like our own government is making money off of us, not just to take over health care, but, . . they even have CNN backing the democratic party now. They constantly ignore the corruption going on. Charlie Rangel has been caught stealing from our government, and they wont even talk about him. Does this mean we can all not pay our taxes ? Lets waste some more air time talking about how bad FOX is and ignore what is going on in our government. Cover up after cover up. Where is the truth and honesty in our media ?
I can no longer watch CNN. You have become a tool for the democratic party. If you were honest, you would have a debate with Bill O Reilly or Glenn Beck. You have become a puppet. Prove me wrong, John. Get on your high horse and get involved with what is wrong, . . not just sit there and be a media puppet. Venezela could use your kind on their government owned network. Shame on you.
Yeah right Barry! Next you'll tell us that you're going to put yourself, Mickey and the girls on your proposed Healthcare plan! You continue to prove that you speak with a forked tongue!
The challenge with the "Global Warming" debate is that the science is currently only at the theory and modeling stage. BTW, that is also true of a lot of our fundamental knowledge on physics, chemistry, and biology. We are not yet scientifically advanced to conduct the right kind of experiments to prove most of these well accepted models.
The fact is that most eminent scientists of the age agree with the predictions of these models. Another fact is that you cannot be famous if you are just another person who agrees with the prevailing thought system. You cannot sell your TV show if there is no "sensationalism". The wingnuts, the halfwits, the birthers, the demented and the like are also consumers. They need their own TV channel (only one) otherwise they will become smart and then who will Hannity sell to.
Shame on you REICH WINGERS republiKLANS, spreading hate and lies on the Sunday,.. when in fact you should be at church, repenting for your sins and hateful nature.
I think there is a vast majority of people who believe the swint flu is no more dangerous than any other flu and it is over-hyped for the profit of the drug companies. That cynical view, although healthy, doesn't take into account that the reason there is such concern about the swine flu is that it spreads more rapidly than other strains of flu. That is the real danger, the infectiousness of this particular strain is much higher and can affect more of the population and when that occurs, there is a greater chance of death due to the sheer numbers seeking medical care and the high possibility of vaccine shortages due to a large outbreak. That is why washing your hands, covering your mouth and using anti-bacterial hand gels are very important for the prevention of this flu. Also, the masks do nothing to protect you against the fu (in fact they are more apt to trap bacteria and assist in their growth due to the increased moisture and temperature from breathing in and out), but they are effective to protect others if you are infected.
The POA should be protected and get his shots personally at the WH. He is exposing himself to imminent danger. Sorry President, stay inside and get your Fshot.
To all you who see a story like this and shout "YOU LIE" before you think:
You show yourselves to be people who think the President lies no matter what he says.
The vast majority of the country either ignores you or, more likely, mocks you at parties.
Get a grip people.... The President did not mean that HE WOULD STAND IN AN ACTUAL LINE.... what he meant was that he would receive his shots, according to the priority given by the Secretary of health... i.e., first children with unjderlying conditions.... children, pregnant women, etc.... You're using any far fetched reason to disrespect him, and you're not fooling anyone.
Retards I don't think he was saying stand in a real line it was meant to say stand line like we'll wait for our turn! Can some Right winger Republican respond to a question I have please?
Who in the Republican leadership would Jesus be proud of?
Why does the white house have a doctor,on 24 hr call,if you have to stand in line for a flu shot? Come on at least be honest about getting on hands treatment. It is not like you are sending Michelle and your kids to the Harlem health clinic,to wait in line behind the junkies and dopers to get a free shot.
He's not saying anything unreasonable. He will get the shot when the people in his cabinet say he should. I hope he's first in line. His other remarks simple seem to point to two issues: 1) his family will get vaccinated – thereby showing he feels the vaccine is safe and important; and 2) he will not insist on his family getting special treatment, but that they will be vaccinated when their 'risk' group is vaccinated.
As for the level of nastiness in some of these posts, that is a lot of energy wasted that could otherwise turn into something positive, no matter what your life view or political affiliations.
You can stand in line if you want to. As for me, I will get the flu from all of you that get the shot, so I won't have to pay for it.
C Diamante:
Your argument that a lot of our fundamental knowledge on physics, chemistry, and biology is in the theory and modeling stage is a bit meaningless.
That scientific thought has been driven by theories and models has been true since before the natural philosopher Heraclitus' theory of Logos underlying all change in the universe and will be true forever, so long as we continue to make efforts to investigate and understand the universe.
According to the best scientific models, the most current paradigms and theories developed by some of the smartest people on the planet, GLOBAL WARMINIG IS REAL AND MUST BE DEALT WITH NOW.
I, for one, commend the President for saying that his family will stand in line like everybody else for vaccination.
I understand that Obama has to try endlessly and fruitlessly to appease the extremists (i.e. hardcore right-wingers) in our country, but come on. He's the President! As our leader and our face to the world, he needs to be protected and deserves a vaccination just as much as all of our elderly, children, pregnant women, and health care workers.
It is irresponsible reporting to continue to call the H1N1 virus "swine flu" as the CDC has said it has nothing to do with pigs. When news is corrected it is up to newspeople to adjust accordingly. People are still avoiding pork because of this misunderstanding. News people are to spread information, not mis-information.
HEY Note to ib:
How come you don't offer any proof for your ideas? Are they facts or opinions? Hmmmmmm
New Age Democrat: "Family 'will stand in line like everybody else' for vaccine
Does anyone believe this for a second? I'm tired of the campaign speech and this is nothing but a bold face lie."
I actually do believe it. You on the other hand wouldn't believe him if he told you water is wet. You have your mind made up about him long before facts to the contrary arise, if they ever do. You're showing your true colors, and they are red.
New Age Democrat, my foot...
I think that Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, all of the employees of Fox Noise and all those lovely Tea Baggers and gun toters should absolutely be last AFTER the president. After all, if you are this tough why do you need to be vaccinated before the Commander in Chief? Having said that, out of annoyance at these nuts, God Bless President Obama and his family. Stay strong; not all of us are nuts. We love you no matter what.
Jackson,
Now that you're committed to not watching CNN, and that you're committed to proving that Rangel stole your prom date, do you think you could find a different message board to spread your fictional tales?
Thanks...
Most Americans would like to move FORWARD into the 21st Century, not BACKWARD to the era of McCarthyism and right-wing hysteria.
But, if those on the right continue to obstruct, spread fear and lies, and are hell-bent on destroying the President of the United States, then perhaps they should leave the Union and form their own country, just as their predecessors did in 1861.
Only this time, Americans should just let them go in peace.
What he doesn't say is which exact vaccine they will get. I'm just wondering if they will subject their daughters to the adjuvant MF59 (not FDA approved as a preservative for use in children or any vaccine in the USA) in the H1N1 vaccine producted by Novartis or if they will insist on another formulation by the other 4 swine flu vaccine manufacturers. Check out Sanofi Pasteur, Medimmune (Flu Mist), Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline, and CSL
I absolutely despise Obama and almost everything he has done since January. However, I think he should have an H1N1 flu shot as soon as possible. Though there is a ton of hype over the virus, we don't need him getting sick.
That being said, GET OFF THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL and get back to the WH to do some work. Stop trying to pitch your ideas. If you constantly have to defend your ideas, you plainly are not convincing a good segment of people.
Who Cares....
To Victom of Republican Greed: You are almost commical in your hate toward anyone oppossed to Socialism. Did you forget to swallow your Medicaid- provided Prozac pill today or miss your daily afternoon nap? You are so pathetic. Why not try getting a job and pay some taxes? Your opinions will suddenly change
Yes, I think it wonderful that the first family receive their H1N1 vaccinations. A very easy, simple way to be done with them...
And before I'm attacked by the lunatic left/center conglomeration that I am some sort of racist, let it be known that I voted for the one true "black" person in the presidential race last November: Cynthia McKinney. I certainly didn't vote for OREO cookie NOBAMA!
As long as NOBAMA allows the BCCI part II led by Timothy Geithner to get away with the rape and pillage of the American people and the
American dream, I will have nothing to do with him. He is as bad as BUSH! They both belong in a gulag in Siberia; shall they be cell mates, too! That'll be a victory over tyranny that all America will enjoy!
To all the right wingers:
I don't think you should get the swine flu vaccine. It's all a big government plot to rob you of $20, which clearly none of you can afford. (Why is that?)
In fact, I'm pretty sure that the feds will soon be turning the entire medical industry into a giant scheme to create a vast socialist One World Nation under Grand Lord Obama. (I don't exactly know how, but I'm sure Glenn Beck will soon have a special co-hosted by Orly Taitz to tell you all about it.) So don't get any more treatment for anything at all. Don't trust doctors or scientists, with their so-called "facts." It's all a bunch of elitist hooey designed to tax you into poverty to support the 66 million Americans who voted for the "black Messiah" and refuse to work. (Don't be fooled by government reports saying only 14.9 million Americans are unemployed, it's another government lie. Plus, ACORN and Obama's crooked Chicago political machine must have stuffed the ballot boxes with at least 50 million fraudulent votes.)
So, keep smoking–it doesn't cause cancer, that's all a liberal Democratic government ploy to rob you of your God-given freedoms! Antibiotics? Shmantibiotics! Global warming, unsafe water, pollution-tainted air–lies, lies, lies, all lies created by a secret Muslim cabal that's taken our country away from us under the guise of a democratic election! Everyone knows the only way to fix things is tax cuts (but only for the wealthy, since they create all those jobs). And guns! More guns, please!
Big business is your friend. Corporate America lives only to serve your interests. It's not about money for the insurance companies, it's about people. Fox News is fair and balanced. Any "proof" or "videotaped footage" or "documented emails and memos" that seem to say otherwise are just–you guessed it– more lies by the evil libs who want to turn America into a Communist Nazi state, like France or Sweden.
Please, I implore you, ignore every bit of evidence, reason, and rationality that crosses your path. Then maybe once your own stupidity has thinned your ranks, the rest of us can actually go about making positive changes for real people.
Do you really think the American people believe this BS? His family will be waiting in line – they'll just be the first ones in that line.
Well, President Bush spent the first several months of his presidency in Crawford chopping wood rather than doing ANYTHING so I cannot say that I have not liked anything that President Obama has done! That said, he should go ahead and get the shot as a symbol to all of us to take H1N1 seriously.
As with everything else, the rightwingnuts have attacked as predicted.
Were it not for lies and myths, conservatives would have nothing to say. Truth is a foreign language to them.
Realistically, the Obama family should not "stand in line." The moron behind them could be exercising his "right" to carry a weapon and given the emotional instability they show, it really wouldn't be safe for anyone.
The President's conventional common sensical approach to protect his family from H1N1 is a flashpoint for his political opposition?
Grow up! Get a life. Study some real issues.
Note to Keith in Austin:
Just so you know, my brother-in-law and his wife are both physicians, and I dare say they pay a hell of a lot more in taxes than you do. I'm also pretty sure thay have jobs and advanced educations. You know, because they're DOCTORS. They, like the vast majority of doctors in the U.S. are all for some kind of public option.
So why don't you try listening to someone besides Glenn Beck, and look up the meaning of socialism, and check the dictionary on how to spell "opposed" and oh, I don't know, maybe get a clue.
White presidents have always had prefrential treatment; but a black president will work twice as hard just to prove himself because of his skin color...he is the president, but the treatment is different; while GW Bush and Dick Cheney were hidden in bunkers on 9/11, I am it had been this black president, he would have been left alone in the oval office to sweat it out just because of his skin color....you may not agree with me, but racism is real; even against a sitting United States president!!!!
alot of you people are idiots. I seriously doubt the President meant he would literally go to a Wal-Greens and physically "stand in line" to get a flu shot from the local pharmacist. He means he will get his flu shot after more at risk members of our society. Meaning after health care workers, pregnant women, the elderly, children, etc. People that take that statment literally are the same people that think Noah actually loaded 2 of every animal on an ark to save them from the great flood. Grow up America.
I feel the president should be first.. they are not called the First Family for nothing...
So exactly how long is the line in the Oval Office?
It really would have been better if he has not spoken this comment. For anyone to believe he will wait his turn when holding the office of the Presidency and being followed in every step he takes by his own personal doctor.....................sorry, but it does sound as if he is talking down to the general population. But I am sure it will make a good photo op as we see the first family all line up to get their shots.
cynthia in FL September 20th, 2009 12:05 pm ET
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Most brilliant post ever. Thank you.
Barack Obama is a clown. CNN did not ask him tough questions. He is a liar. Accorn case was not discussed because Barack Obama was ex-employee of Accorn. He has his hands in gloves with Accorn. Imagine millions of dollars of tax-payers money continue to go to Accorn even now and Barack Obama is not saying anything because it is not his money going to Accorn. He has blinded the liberals and the media. Nobody is talking about ACCORN there. What a disgrace.
To Keith in Austin...
Throw away your 'Sara Palin' keyboard. It is making you look stupid....Maybe it is not the keyboard???
Let's get real, and why should this president be treated different than any other first family. Now we want them to stand in line for shots? Get over it Republicans you lost and still act like losers. The white house has and always had a doctor in house. Republicans and their racist friends have been trying to put this Black President in his place every since he took office. Republicans = Racism.
I am so tired of seeing Obama every week on T.V., these are the efforts of a losing team.
How come Obama and family going to do what we do, and we can't do what they do?. If we ever had a national emergency, I hope we all hide in the same bunker, were we all going to be nice, safe and secure.
cynthia in Florida, super post. You should cut and paste it into the right wing loonie boards, too. Hope to see it there to gage the fringe responses you'd get...
And Matthew, if you didn't see the president every week, you would say we are dealing with the biggest challenges of our time and the president is in hiding. Your argument has no value because we know the president loses either way. Now let me move on to see if I can find an objective comment to comment on.
I love Obama, but c'mon. Let's not try to squeeze the grease out of the flea. Of course you won't wait in line with the rest of the people. But your gesture is well taken, at least by me.
@cynthia in FL Wow , I am sure glad I don't wake up in the morning with all the hate you have. Get a life! I am not an Obama supporter, but I think ANY president of the US should get the shot first. Sorry to disappoint you cynthia!!
All you Republicans posting here are insane. You people make America look bad, and you are a disgrace to REAL Republicans that stand for principles and not just partisan attacks.
I mean, really, why would you folks here want to get a vaccine? Don't you see that is just another works of the government death panel???
(NOT!!)
Stand in line like everyone else? I hope not. The Commander and Chief and his family and all others strategically important to keeping our government working need to be first in line for vacination as a matter of national security. And I'm not even an Obama fan.
The definition of the word LIE: an intentionally false statement or impression. In other words, when you knowingly say something that is not true. That said what has the President lied about? He truly believes in what he says.
Dan, WA: "Barack Obama is a clown. CNN did not ask him tough questions. He is a liar. Accorn case was not discussed because Barack Obama was ex-employee of Accorn. He has his hands in gloves with Accorn. Imagine millions of dollars of tax-payers money continue to go to Accorn even now and Barack Obama is not saying anything because it is not his money going to Accorn. He has blinded the liberals and the media. Nobody is talking about ACCORN there. What a disgrace."
1. He used to work for ACORN? Prove it. And if you can't, then try to be a grown up and stop saying it.
2. Is ACORN providing vaccines? No? Then what do they have to do with this article?
3. Are you that dumb that you think that ACORN has two C's? Yes. And since righties have been throwing that word around for weeks, doesn't that make YOU the DISGRACE??? Yes...
Raise your hand if you are stupid enough to think a President should stand in line for a flu shot rather than attend to the nation's business!!!
Heh sensible cape coral – you took the words outta my mouth. Let's see what the lunatic fringe makes of this. To those sick and tired of seeing Obama – well tough. We sure got awful sick and tired of Bush so deal with it.
Hey CNN,
Please stop using the words "swine flu" when talking about the H1N1 Virus!! You had an article about why it's hurting the US pork industry...and the USDA has asked the media to refer to it as H1N1.
Set an example for the media please...
He doesn't mean literally wait in line, dingbats. He means that he will wait his proverbial place in line. Specifically, there are usually guidelines as to those who get it first, i.e. sick and elderly. Then down the line of pregnant women, children, etc. - whatever hierarchy the CDC and/or Dept of Health has established.
There has been sufficient publicity by the world media to let everyone know that there is significant risk when a person contracts H1N1. It is a valiant thing for world leaders to volunteer to try the vaccine for H1N1, but there needs to be caution here, because there are legitimate concerns about the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine for H1N1. The flu has been mild in the USA, so there should not be a rush to vaccinate people. Let's give this time and make sure that the vaccine is safe.
Yeah, like he sat in Rev. Wright's church for 20yrs and did not know he was racist! Everything coming out of this man's mouth is a lie!!!
I bet the rest of those smug politicians won't wait nor will their families.
Is there anything Obama won't lie about.
Come on already CNN. Can you stop calling this swine flu and call it by it requested name, H1N1?
I love that Republicans are so tuned in now to every word, every nuance and utterance that comes from the mouth of the President. Oh, if only you had been so forthright and had such attention to detail from 2000-2008. Where was that sense of seeking out the truth then? You're FRAUDS! You all created this mess and now, just now, are you critical of what the president says and does. Know what, I don't care about being politically correct anymore. I'm sick of it. Republicans need to sit their collectives butts down and either 1)Think of something to say or do other than "no"; or 2)shut up, because thus far your "help" has been useless!
Rightwingers: Beck, Hannity, O'Reilly. Coulter, Limbaugh, Birthers, Deathers, Tenthers, Tea-baggers, Loaded gun-toters, Holier-than-thou Fundamentalists:
PLEASE MOVE TO TEXAS and form your own hateful, fear-mongering, lying, obstructionist, self-righteous, bigoted, homophobic, polluted republic.
Then the rest of us can get on with the business of moving this country forward.
all of you are the Clowns who make stupid comments about the president.... get a life you guys have nothing to do in your own private life but to make stupid,negative,ignorant comments that shows who you are as a person.
OK, we just got through with a round of H1N1 in our family. It is just the regular run-of-the-mill flu like every other year. I don't know that I would run out and vaccinate every single member of my family just because the president is getting vaccinated.
My dream is that the school would allow the kids a little leniency in completing their homework since I kept them home a full week to keep them from infecting other people. Our state has a strict ten day absence policy – we're down five days already and it's not even October.
I just love our President. The thoughtfulness, insightfulness, and downright common sense approach he has to everything makes him a winner. I thoroughly enjoyed John King's interview with him, and I look forward to many more. I thank God for President Obama, and I wish he and his family many blessings.
From the perspective of the cost to the taxpayers, it would have been a lot less expensive for President Obama and his family to receive their injections privately, inside the White House. Take a picture as proof if needed. These staged photo-ops, while no doubt comforting to some, require a lot of security, advance and contingency planning, on-site prep and screening, etc. It doesn't come free.
Please, Mr. Obama, Michelle and kids, stop spending the taxpayers' money on endless public appearances and publicity stunts that are nothing more than photo-ops.
Every move , every sentence, and every breath that the President and his family make is under immense and senseless scrutiny. We have a president finally who is the epitome of the american story. Who conducts himself with thoughtful integrity and tries his best, who admits to errors, who is human and tries to take into consideration the needs of an entire country. According to the Repubs and basically a whole bunch of lifeless geeks that are profiting from a very broken system. the only thing wrong with this country is the black guy in the white house. Get over your lame selves. Give him a break and the courtesy due a sitting president. I am an american who is proud of his country and his president. Don't like it-Move
Just to say....no one should begrudge POTUS getting his shot first, just as they should not have begrudged Cheny his vacationation. we need them at the job and healthy. it was just a silly remark he made. he's from Chicago and an attorney. He can't be that naive.
I was just responding to Terry's assertions on the theories of global warming and evolution. sorry if i sidetracked us all there for a minute.
I do not watch Fox news BTW I watch the history and discovery channels when i watch TV at all. I prefer reading....
The key words here is "like everyone else". If there's anything about this Presiident, that's when he feels most comfortable.
If you don't get that by now, your obviously from planet Fox.
Some of these comments would be great lines for standup comics if they were not be written by wanna be intelligent people. To state that President Obama, and his family will literally stand in a line for the H1N1 shot is not the way intelligent people understand his very simple reply to a simple question.
Hey CNN,
If you want to get one up on Fox News Ch.
Why don't you ask or better yet find out how President Obama
paid for his education ? A fair question wouldn't you say?
A lot of Americans believe that he put that he was a foreign student
because he had to be a citizen of Indonesia to attend school in Indonesia.
Thus he had to give up his American citizenship in order to do that. I believe that would be something he would want to cover up.
If not why did and still does keep all his records sealed?
Good luck.
Dj
Read History......failure to heed the wisdom of God brought wrath....
AS in the days of old.....again ...children , young woman, are targets of a disease that could wipe them out without caution....fortunately God allowed persons to be born that can develope a healing method (aka the shot) .....think of the amazing part of this...in a very short time it's claimed they have a drug to stop this in it's tracts (or at least lesson it's deadly effects). What concerns me is the additives to the drug.
WEll maybe CNN can do the coverage when Obama and the family stand in that line.
It seems to me that people are ready to pounce on any thing the president says.Both from the left and the right. This isn't worth wasting a thought on. I don't agree with a lot of Obama's policies and NOT because he is black but to find fault with every thing he says is utterly ridiculous. I don't know how as a nation we can survive with such hate and disrespect. Not only for our leaders but for each other. I am not a right wing nut nor do I listen to Beck, Limbaugh,Hannity, or other right wingers nor do I listen to the left wingers either. I research and think for myself. Sometimes I think CNN treats us like we are a bunch of dummies.
A Republican won't wait...........me, me, me......me first.
From the front...
Supporters of the Right – or is it now the Fourth Reich?
Please leave the phrase: "You lie" alone......There are too many that still linger from your guy's (FPB) administration.....
Anarchistic attitudes cause rabble rousers to disrupt townhall meetings, continue to label our president as a non-citizen, spew lies out like bullets from an ak47m, confusing the elderly and those unlearned...Such unflattering qualities are what you, and others in your party, seem to enjoy embracing......It will be interesting to see the level of voters who support such evil and divisive views in the coming elections.....The saying of old is still true: "A man (woman) is known by the company he keeps." Word from the Father, come out from among them and be you separate.....Choose good over evil.....Find your souls, you (Republicans) in the valley of dry bones.....
Is this guy for real? What, he's trying to make himself and his family like the Waltons? Give me a break. When the rest of us stand in line there won't be secret service agents all over the place. This just gives this display more time to get their pictures taken. Well, what do you expect when the head of the family is a camerafly?
If he really wants to impress me, he should limit his family to just one vacation per year.........just like everybody else.
This debate may prove or disprove Darwin's "survival of the fittest" theory. We'll see how many of the conservative doubters survive flu season this year! This could make 2010 an even better year for the Libs!
About 10 % of the students in College Station have had or currently have H1N1. No more testing is being done, we have it. Right now my 12 year-old daughter has, it. 103 degree fever on day 1 when the nurse called from school to have her come home. She was not sick that morning when she went to school, but had the 103 fever by 1 pm.
Tamiflu and alternating ibuprofen and tylenol. Vaccine for me scheduled for Sept. 23.
I'm one "of the folks" and I say you shouldn't get it...
The only reason he would stand in line would be to get more face time with the press who got him elected in the first place.
I look forward to 2012 so I can cast my vote for change the same way in 2010 for our great Congress Ha Ha.
liar liar pants on fire!
Of course the president and his family will get special access to all vaccinations including this one and that is the way it should be!!! Just like they get special security attention, as that should be!!!! Just don't lie about it please.
ib: President Obama doesn't fly on Air Force One everyday! Get real!
We finally have a president that is well educated and is calm, caring, thoughtful, smart and is trying his best to be kind of president we dream about and here we have a bunch of lunatics trying to tear him down on decision he makes or anything he does.
If he walked across the Potomac, the republicans and those who do not like him critiicize him for not being able to swim.
I cannot belive we have become so unhuman in the way we act toward other people or their possessions. We must have come from apes for we certainly going back to their way of doing things.
Give me a break, stand in line like everyone else, get real!? Just like he and Congress would be subject to the public Option the Democrats propose.... One program for the elitists and one for us poor unable to think for ourselves minions that pay their salaries!
How can an article about a vaccine draw so much hatred? We have lame duck calling the President a coward, Linda thinks he's a liar, Dan thinks he's a clown and Matt despises him. All the man said to warrant this vitriol is that he and his family would wait their turn for a vaccine like everyone else (duh, "stand in line" was obviously not to be taken literally). I live in a conservative area and try my best to understand my neighbor's opposition to the policies of Barack Obama – but when all I hear is fanaticism, I stop listening. If you can't you state your case intelligently, then your case has no merit.
I think victim of Republican Greed is paid by Barack Obama or Moveon.org. We have first amendment right to comment on radical Barack Obama. You do not have to criticize others who comment here. You need a change. Perhaps Barack Obama will give you a Government Job in his big Government. Get a life.
Why do some of STILL think it is ONLY the republicans against health care reform. I guess you don't count the Blue dogs as being good democrats or is it just because they are not apart of the far left fringe? BIG TENT and TOLERANT, anyone? Oh by the way, there are fringes on the far left and right, lest we forget! When I got the shot a while ago it was called SWINE FLU. A name change really changes nothing!
Breit Bart says that he has another big story coming out this week. One that is as big as the acorn story.