FB: Opening ceremony was pro-Obamacare

[ttt]

Oh FFS:

Looks like I'm not the only one thinking the opening ceremony was a bunch of bunk praising socialized medicine. Dancing nurses & doctors? Wonder how much BO paid them for that act?

[batsteph]

Wow. So they're unaware that pretty much the rest of the civilized world is proud that they don't let their citizens suffer and/or die for lack of health care? I'm guessing this person relied heavily on Matt and Meredith's commentary during the show.

[Michelle]

oh puhlease!

Although, with Matt Lauer's and what's-her-name's commentary they could have done a much better job explaining how the children's healthcare system they are very proud of in Britain related to the child literature they then phased into.

So many people got their panties in a wad about the union workers and socialized medicine. Like neither of those examples was significant for Britain or the rest of the world. 8-D

[ttt]

Other countries just don't have the FREEDOM to let children die from lack of healthcare!!!

[lyssbobiss, Command, B613]

I don't see praise of "socialized medicine" at all when I see the opening ceremony. It was a bunch of kids in pajamas. Having nightmares. In hospital beds. If anything, it was anti-hospital. If those kids had been sleeping in their own beds that their parents had put together using bootstraps and elbow grease, Voldemort never would've showed up.

[msmerymac]

One of my college friends who is very politically involved and very liberal put it well on FB:

I missed the tribute to NHS at the Opening Ceremonies, but apparently American conservatives were aghast to learn that the United Kingdom is tremendously proud of its wildly popular government-run health care. Good for you, London. As I've said many times, the whole argument against universal health care in the United States is dependent on pretending that all other advanced nations don't exist.

[Deleted]

Yep, Matt and Meredith talked about it a lot. If anything, their commentary was what was "pro socialized medicine," not the actually ceremony.


eta: ok, I was quoting someone and now that post is gone!

[JLN]

Jul 30, 2012 19:42:06 GMT -5 @irishbride said:

Yep, Matt and Meredith talked about it a lot. If anything, their commentary was what was "pro socialized medicine," not the actually ceremony.


eta: ok, I was quoting someone and now that post is gone!

It was me. I went to modify and accidentally deleted. oops.

[Deleted]

Oh Americans, it's not always about you!!
Lol.
Although Barack probably loved the NHS stuff

[bqbride]

We tuned in halfway through and were thoroughly confused by the kids in their beds and the big, scary dude hovering over them. We thought it was some kind of weird Pink Floyd reference. LOL. It amuses me to no end that those uptight assbags are in a huff over this. When are they ever not in a huff over something?

[mrsukyankee]

They were actually praising one of the top hospitals for young children with major diseases (many dying of or suffering from cancer) - Great Ormond Street as well as the NHS, which is why there were children facing scary monsters. It had nothing to do with the States...lol.

[summer]

Jul 31, 2012 3:50:48 GMT -5 mrsukyankee said:

They were actually praising one of the top hospitals for young children with major diseases (many dying of or suffering from cancer) - Great Ormond Street as well as the NHS, which is why there were children facing scary monsters. It had nothing to do with the States...lol.

Our biggest flaw as a country is that we think every single thing is about us, like we are the sun that other countries revolve around. We're like teenagers. And, as in this case, our media is very much to blame for this. It skews everything and makes it all America-centric and then we end up ignorant of all the other things going on in the world.

[charminglife]

Jul 30, 2012 17:19:03 GMT -5 ttt said:

Oh FFS:

Looks like I'm not the only one thinking the opening ceremony was a bunch of bunk praising socialized medicine. Dancing nurses & doctors? Wonder how much BO paid them for that act?

I wish people would stop regurgitating Limbaugh's talking points on their FB walls.

[ringstrue]

But we have a common Anglo-Saxon heritage! WE MUST CONSTANTLY COMPARE OURSELVES TO THEM!!

[secretlyevil]

Oy vey. Sorry to be a bucket of cold water but it really isn't all about America. Hell, during the first Olympics, no one even knew this continent existed. (Now I have to go research to make sure my claim is correct).

[Deleted]

I'm hoping that this is the stupidest thing I read all day.

[basilosaurus]

How much is the uk (and everyone else) laughing at us for this? Or are they too aghast at our system to begin to laugh?

[msmerymac]

Jul 31, 2012 3:50:48 GMT -5 mrsukyankee said:

They were actually praising one of the top hospitals for young children with major diseases (many dying of or suffering from cancer) - Great Ormond Street as well as the NHS, which is why there were children facing scary monsters. It had nothing to do with the States...lol.

And the Great Ormond Street Hospital was founded/funded by J.M. Barrie, hence to reference to villains in children's stories, like Captain Hook.

[aurora]

Jul 31, 2012 3:57:19 GMT -5 summer said:

...
Our biggest flaw as a country is that we think every single thing is about us, like we are the sun that other countries revolve around.

Wait, are you saying that not everything is about us? :-(

[teflep]

Problem one in this thread is that people are worrying about what fools on fb are saying.