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Conservative pundit Coulter denounces Obama, Democrats in Henderson speech
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ANN COULTER
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LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
Updated: Sep. 11, 2010 | 3:29 p.m.
Writer and political pundit Ann Coulter dazzled a cheering crowd Saturday in Henderson as part of a day of Tea Party speeches and demonstrations, ripping President Barack Obama and other prominent Democrats on health care and racial hypocrisy.
Roughly 2,000 people gathered in the Henderson Pavilion to cheer Coulter -- indeed, sometimes she only had to say Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's name to get the crowd booing him and cheering her.
In a 25-minute performance, she touched on subjects close to the conservative movement's heart, from Obama's birth certificate and claims that Tea Party members are racist to the recently passed health care reform legislation.
"The American people are in a boiling rage," Coulter said. "They want to go to Washington, pull the power to the Capitol, see who they can deport.
"Whereas, my position is we only deport anyone who cannot produce an authentic birth certificate."
While the line got applause from the crowd, Coulter went on to dismiss claims that Obama was not born in Hawaii.
"Obama is a terrible president, but he was born in the country," she said.
She next set her sights on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Reid, who represents Nevada, and said Democrats need look no further than their own party for hatemongering and racism.
"Nancy Pelosi called the opponents of national health care un-American," Coulter said. "So I think it's official -- the Botox is seeping into her brain."
Coulter said Reid should have been in hot water for his comments, documented in a recent book, that Obama is electable because he's a "light-skinned" African-American "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one."
"He denied reports," Coulter continued, "that he told Obama in 2007, 'You should run. You people are good at that.'
"Reid called and apologized to Obama, and Obama accepted the apology. And we know he (Obama) meant it because he used his white voice."
Coulter was recently in Canada, where her speech was canceled because of unruly crowds and protests. She referenced that trip to set up a riff on health care reform.
Canada is "the country where liberals all claim they have a much better health care system than we have in this country," she said. "And you know what? After last Sunday's vote, they're right."
Audience members were told not to record or videotape Coulter's speech. People also were banned from bringing in signs, although one person smuggled one in that said, "Elect. Impeach. Repeal," a reference to undoing health care reforms.
Contact Review-Journal writer Alan Choate at achoate@reviewjournal.com or 702-229-6435.
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I call myself conservative, but I am NOT a fan of Coulter, she thinks she's cute and smart, I think she's annoying and makes true conservatives look bad. I'd rather have lunch with Harry Reid than Ann Coulter!
Why is health care the right of every American citizen? The only "rights" you should have are the right to breath and the rights you PAY FOR YOURSELF.
Do I have the "right" to NOT support you in any way I don't want to support you in? That should be a "right"!
EDITORIAL March 29, 2010
The representatives we elect to office are supposed to be involved with making sure they know who their constituents are and what they want. This should come from first hand, one-on-one contact and surveys performed directly by their own staff on various issues. This information should not come through special interest groups or paid solicitors, who are in turn giving payment or gifts to the representatives to sway their votes.
This idea has lost all its meaning in the last at least 50 years.
The Story
A story is begun by a group that stands to lose out on millions of dollars profit if a certain law is either actively used or seeks to be passed. The “story” tells of the horrors that would happen if we actually put certain provisions into effect. There is no basis for the
“story” in fact. Manufactured facts and figures are attached to “the story” to make it seem credible. Whispering in ears that “your voters don’t want that to happen!” or “vote that way and you will surely lose in the next election” or “see what nice toys I give you to vote against that horrid bill”. Of course, you tell your constituents that you are saving them from a fate worse than death in all your wisdom.
This is exactly what has happened with the national health plan. How many Congressmen or Congresswomen actually READ the bill? Sure it was long, but that is what you are elected for.
There probably are amendments that will have to be made to iron out the kinks of a whole new health care system. Let us hope