Comments on: Ex-Surgeon General: Bush Muzzled Me

Dr. Richard Carmona Accuses White House Of Censoring His Speech On Sex Education, Stem Cell Research

[randalds]

What a bag of hot air.

Posted by pwrslm at 07:37 PM : Jul 10, 2007

Relative of yours then?

Cousin? Brother? Father?

[pwrslm]

He refused to identify the officials who sought the changes.

What a bag of hot air.

[l8c6]

I happen to know that Rich is a wonderful person and MD. I know this because I worked with him when he was a medical student and Resident so please be kind and respectful
Posted by JDUBS63

I don't know him but I appreciate he is speaking out in a manner that I hope becomes the voice of this country once again.

[l8c6]

I think it's deregulated capitalism that's failed, not Capitalism itself. The concept of capitalism is sound and can be made to work for the benefit of all, but not is it's unregulated and run by the capitalists themselves. Big business has no soul and will crush all who get in it's way, so it's up to the people to force a form of soul on it by regulating it via a strong government. Contrary to what those on the right will tell you government is NOT the problem, only bad government is.
Posted by RandalDS

Thanks---I hope more people begin to see this. We have had a gifted balance in the past and Reagan began the overt promotion of privatization, deregulation and "free market" and the assault on representative government. There is nothing in this world that can be trusted to a lack of opposing concepts and ideals to bring a healthy balance that serves to the greatest common good. All should find it satisfying when the greatest common good is being served except for sociopaths, this type of human anomaly is the exception.

btw, I am feeling a little different about the immigration thing, but still find it needs work.

[jdubs63]

I happen to know that Rich is a wonderful person and MD. I know this because I worked with him when he was a medical student and Resident so please be kind and respectful

[l8c6]

I heare a twist on this I hadn't thought of. It was incredibly frustrating knowing something was terribly wrong in this country and no one in positions of authority were saying or doing anything about it.

He is another Bush casualty that was peeved once he got the stick. Most of us perhaps cannot understand the situation. As he said, he tried to understand the system and if what he was going through was typical. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt that he wanted to write by americas health care. He wants to see it depoliticized. Privatization and politics need to be removed from parts of our government. Supreme court justices should never be selected in the manner in which they are.

There were so many members of the nazi party who had some 'splainin' to do after the fall of the 3rd reich. While it's not quite that bad in these instances it certainly has a resemblance.

[randalds]

RandalDS,

i have to agree. i think the US is the poster-child example of how Capitalism has failed. unless of course you are part of the top richest 1% of the nation.
Posted by williamfold at 06:12 PM : Jul 10, 2007

I think it's deregulated capitalism that's failed, not Capitalism itself. The concept of capitalism is sound and can be made to work for the benefit of all, but not is it's unregulated and run by the capitalists themselves. Big business has no soul and will crush all who get in it's way, so it's up to the people to force a form of soul on it by regulating it via a strong government. Contrary to what those on the right will tell you government is NOT the problem, only bad government is.

[Syndicate]

rushlimpdrug: I agree if they were honorable they would have spoken up sooner instead of trying to protect there a$$es. I wonder if he isn't just telling congress what he thinks they want to hear in order to get a better job. Anyways he sounds like a mid level bureaucrat winning about how his job was hard.

[mizpah63]

Dr. Carmona deserves no sympathy. If he didn't know what a controlling president he went to work for, shame on him. Double shame on him for not resigning as soon as his first reports were censored. Or, in the alternative, turning his work over to the press, JAMA, New England Journal of Medicine, etc., and let Bush fire him. There is no honor in whining after the fact.

[rushlimpdrug]

Richard Carmona - go away. you're a has-been.
-We have heard that tune from all of bush's ex's
-you're just a bitter piece of puszy
- to bad you didn't have the balls to speak up when it mattered.
I'm tired of hearing these cowards speak up AFTER they leave their positions.
Who will be the next pussyy after Richard Carmona

[bareemperor]

Has anyone else noticed that the Bu$h administration was built on greed and dishonesty?

Please hang in there, folks - it will just be another year and a half before he goes away...

[williamfold]

RandalDS,

i have to agree. i think the US is the poster-child example of how Capitalism has failed. unless of course you are part of the top richest 1% of the nation.

[randalds]

%u201CThe reality is that the nation's doctor has been marginalized and relegated to a position with no independent budget, and with supervisors who are political appointees with partisan agendas.%u201D

Former Surgeon General Richard Carmona

This doesn't surprise anyone I hope? The only people Bush kisses the as*ses of as much as defense contractors and oil companies is the big pharmaceutical companies, so it makes sense that he'd turn the Surgeon general into just another republican political operative just like he has with the Pentagon, the EPA, the Justice Department, etc. As soon as Bush took office the FDA (under his newly appointed minions) changed what's considered having high blood pressure and there was a surge in the sales of expe3nsive high blood pressure medicines. They did the same with the standards of what's considered obese so the average athlete is now under that label and the sales of diet pills skyrocketed. Neither of these problems actually increased, but the sales and profits of the drug companies sure did. Bush and his as8s kissing followers use this nation as an ATM to suck more money off from all of us. They throw away our soldiers lives for money, so it's no surprise that they'd do the same for our health or environment.

[williamfold]

the best thing that could happen to this country is a nuclear holocaust and the small group of survivors could start all over, provided they learn from our mistakes. can i start smoking now? lol.

[kansas1946]

Oh, and this is a surprise. Mr. "I never met a science text book that I didn't try to burn" Bush. The only thing we can do is get through the next year and a half and then maybe America can get back to some sort of sanity. This administration has truly bordered on insanity and centered on evil. If we can just hold out...