THE DAILY BLADE: 10 Reasons Michelle Obama Should Be Proud – Really Proud – Of America
1. Neil Armstrong takes “one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind” on the moon, in 1969 when Michelle Obama was 5 years old.
2. That same year, Shirley Chisholm (D-NY) becomes the first black woman elected to Congress.
3. Mark Spitz wins seven gold medals at the 1972 Summer Olympics Games in
4. That same year, Rep. Chisholm ran for president, accumulating 151 delegates at the Democratic National Convention. As columnist and former Dan Quayle press secretary Rich Galen points out, that “way more than John Edwards, Joe Biden, Chris Dodd, Bill Richardson, Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich will receive at the 2008 Democratic National Convention - COMBINED.”
5. Sandra Day O'Connor is appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan - the first woman to serve on the high court - in 1981, when Mrs. Obama was 17 years old.
6. University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center researchers Michael Brown and Joseph Goldstein share the 1985 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discoveries on cholesterol manufacture and metabolism in the body - which paved the way for the development of statin drugs that have saved tens of millions of people worldwide from premature death and disability from cardiovascular disease - when she was 21 years old.
7. The
8. As firefighters lay down their lives running up the stairs of the World Trade Center, ordinary workaday New Yorkers are helping colleagues and strangers down flight after flight of stairs to safety in 2001, when she was 37 years old.
9. That same year, the
10. American citizens and corporations donated $515 million to Indonesian tsunami victims – a rate of $100,000 per hour - in 2004, when she was 40 years old.
Editorial Note: For their part, The Stiletto’s parents – who are both registered Dems, and devoted their entire adult lives teaching and nurturing inner city children – are very proud that they were able to vote for Barack Obama in their state’s primary election. When The Stiletto asked her mother whether they planned to vote for Obama in the general election as well, without skipping a beat, her mother replied, “You think we’re crazy?” John McCain can count on two crossover Dem votes right off the bat.
Addendum: One of The Stiletto’s friends whose son plays on a Little League team reminded her of something else Michelle Obama can be proud of – and it happened just last year! After they won The Little League Baseball World Series Championship, the team from Warner Robins, GA, noticed that many of the boys on the Japanese team were so disappointed at their loss they were crying. Instead of whooping it up and rubbing the defeat in their faces, each American boy went over to a player on the other team and gave him a hug and a pep talk (video). Recalling the very moving moment, The Stiletto and her friend agreed that we had never been prouder of our country. Too bad Michelle’s not feelin’ it , too.
The 800 Pound Gorilla in the Health Insurance Industry
A simple solution to end this health insurance abuse is have the states regulate the health insurance industry just like a public utility is
regulated. This will rein in the obscene profits made by the insurance industry taking advantage of the vulnerability of sick Americans.
How does one deal with an eight hundred pound Gorilla that misbehaves and denies coverage for your medical bills?
Patsy Bates found out when a California court awarded her 9 million dollars for damages. Her insurance carrier, Health Net cancelled
coverage just when she needed breast cancer treatment.
Her lawyer, William Shernoff, not only read the book, he wrote the book: "Fight Back and Win: How to Get HMOs and Health Insurance to Pay Up".
Bravo for LA City Attorney Delgadillo and New York City Attorney General Andrew Cuomo for going after the health insurance industry for fraudulent practices such as cancellation for pre-existing conditions and underpayment for out-of-network doctor bills.
To read more:
http://jeffreydach.com/2008/02/24/fighting-the-abusive-practices-of-health-insurance-companies
http://www.drdach.com
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