a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIufVXi3ihp42as2fVvWEJxqrlimnUTAFbilS0LVavG9LiGCTTwsuHSyt2FQWcOPGbSPG3X2LQjR0p3PVjULtqLWBITcY-Y7fhjZMAhVDcOStI6E5lCNYbD7mtsHQ7JDYz2b5_-oqpdoWb/s1600-h/kennethgladley.jpg"img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 151px; height: 229px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIufVXi3ihp42as2fVvWEJxqrlimnUTAFbilS0LVavG9LiGCTTwsuHSyt2FQWcOPGbSPG3X2LQjR0p3PVjULtqLWBITcY-Y7fhjZMAhVDcOStI6E5lCNYbD7mtsHQ7JDYz2b5_-oqpdoWb/s320/kennethgladley.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368907890160390866" //a Most have heard about Kenneth Gladney by now. The so-called Black Conservative from St. Louis who a href="http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics/story/1373035.html"got into a little scuffle with idiots from the SEIU at a recent Town Hall event on Healthcare,/a hosted by Rep. Russ Carnahan (D-MO).br /br /Keeping up with the protests over the past few weeks, and seeing the way things were escalating, it came as no surprise that scuffles were beginning to break out. I lay a lot of the blame on Obama for his lack of leadership, because he failed to calm the fears of those who have been brainwashed over the past few weeks.... and for his Administrations lack of action to change the strategy once it became clear that it had become a train wreck. Obama lost the propaganda war long before any real debate had a chance to begin....which means the Town Hall meetings were a joke. Yet...even today... these idiot Democrats continue to hold these meetings...despite the fact that they are useless at this point and are in fact only making matters worse.br /br /What Obama should do is instruct his Democratic colleages in the House and Senate to cancel any future Town Halls. Instead, there should be a series of nationally televised Town Halls (just like the Presidential Debates) where the shouters are not allowed in to disrupt the event....and where a real debate and discussion could take place. There could also be a panel of experts at these events, and debunkers (like Fact Check and Politifact). This would be a chance for Obama to clear up much of the propaganda that has been allowed to go unchallenged by his Administration over the past few months. br /br /But these dummies are still having these meetings. Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri held one today and was lucky to have gotten out alive. The Town Halls are nothing more than platforms for Right Wing Protests.... there is no vigorous debate or discussion taking place. It's a farce. br /br /And the SEIU should stay home if their people are not smart enough not to be suckered by the Right. By getting involved in a scuffle (and I don't know who started what.... the video does not show the beginning of the incident) they are giving the Republican media machine exactly what it wants. That's what the Right Wing was hoping for by attending these events hosted mostly by Democrats. Thus the Republicans now have their newest Joe the Plumber... and he's just as phony as can be IMO. He's playing up his "brutal beating" as much as possible, and he's allowing himself to be used by the Republican spin machine.br /br /The biggest irony is that he's a href="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_08/019423.php"reportedly asking for help with medical bills./a Why? Because he's a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/10/gladney-uninsured/"unemployed and whatever Health coverage he has apparently isn't enough/a (the whole purpose of the Healthcare Reform that he was protesting against). br /br /There are also some things fishy about this entire incident. I don't doubt it happened...but the more I look into the situation....the more fishy it smells. I won't go as far as some bloggers who suggest that the whole incident was faked.... I believe it happened.... I just believe that the SEIU idiots fell for something that the Right Wing wanted in the first place. Apparently Gladney, who was selling Right Wing shirts, flags and buttons for someone, became the bait that the Right Wing needed. And the dummies from the SEIU fell right into the trap.br /br /The SEIU shouldn't have even been there.... certainly not to cause trouble and definitely not in their stupid shirts, identifying their union. Just stupidity all around. br /br /But it gets worse... I found an even bigger tidbit about Gladney... and I was reminded of one of the TV commercials where you are told about criminals who engage in insurance fraud by staging phony car accidents and by having their own eye witnesses conveniently placed to tell Police what happened...so that everyone can get paid. Again, I don't think this incident at the Town Hall was staged...but the circumstances...and the stage props seem to have been created and placed in a way that the Republican Party could benefit. Why else would part of Gladney's legal representation a href="http://washingtonindependent.com/54511/gladneys-lawyer-hes-unemployed-insured-and-making-money-from-the-alleged-attack"just happen to be at the Town Hall incident as a witness? Convenient./a And seeing the video of his attorney at a protest a few days later, he seemed more like an activist than a personal injury lawyer. Those who are pushing this story don't seem to be making any bones about the fact that Gladney and Republican interests want to milk this incident to get all they can out of it. br /br /It just seems to me that Republicans are taking advantage of this unemployed guy (remember how old phony "Joe The Plumber" had odd jobs...and now he's making big money for the Republican propaganda machine?). It annoys me that they (the Republican Right) are probably partly responsible for his job loss.... then they turn around and recruit him to protest against his own Health care. Amazing! But there's a sucker born every minute.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21083673-6980958977849800148?l=mirroronamerica.blogspot.com'//div
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