Sebelius tells NAACP Obamacare Opponents Like White Racists Who Opposed Civil Rights Rick Moran
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/07/sebelius_tells_naacp_obamacare_opponents_like_white_racists_who_opposed_civil_rights.html
Plumbing the depths of racial metaphor
Well, sure. I can see the connection, can’t you? Opposing civil rights legislation was racist (it sometimes wasn’t but why stop her, she’s on a roll?). Opposing a black president’s singular achievement is…well, gotta be some explanation for opposing a law that’s ruining the economy, wreaking havoc with health care, is ruinously expensive, and could possibly blow up the insurance industry.
Gotta be racism. Gotta be.
Addressing the annual NAACP convention in Orlando, Fla., Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said that opponents of Obamacare are the same kind of people who opposed civil rights legislation in the 1960s.
Her comments on Tuesday came one day before the Republican-led House votes to delay key provisions of the law.
“The Affordable Care Act is the most powerful law for reducing health disparities since Medicare and Medicaid were created in 1965, the same year the Voting Rights Act was also enacted,” Sebelius said. “That significance hits especially close to home. My father was a congressman from Cincinnati who voted for each of those critical civil rights laws, and who represented a district near where the late Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth lived and preached.
“The same arguments against change, the same fear and misinformation that opponents used then are the same ones opponents are spreading now. ‘This won’t work,’ ‘Slow down,’ ‘Let’s wait,’ they say.
“But history shows that upholding our founding principles demands continuous work toward a more perfect union…And it requires the kind of work that the NAACP has done for more than a century to move us forward.
“You showed it in the fight against lynching and the fight for desegregation. You showed it by ensuring inalienable rights are secured in the courtroom and at the ballot box. And you showed it by supporting a health law 100 years in the making.
“With each step forward, you said to forces of the status quo, ‘This will work,’ ‘We can’t slow down’ ‘We can’t wait,’ ‘We won’t turn back.’
Sebelius then hailed the “voices of progress” that “we hear and honor this year,” as people start signing up for mandatory health insurance on Oct. 1.
Comparing Obamacare to anti-lynching laws and desegregation? C’Mon, Nancy. Even for you that’s over the top pandering.
I think the 54% of Americans who oppose Obamacare would be surprised to learn that they’re no different than Lester Maddux, John Eastland, Robert Byrd, or George Wallace. But we shouldn’t be surprised that the administration should plumb the depths of racial metaphor. It’s all they’ve got left. If they have to shame the American people into accepting this monstrosity, they will do so.
By any means necessary…
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