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Obama Gave Out White Coats for Doctor Photo Op

Snafu gives fodder to critics who say event was all-show

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(Newser) – It seems Barack Obama’s address before 150 supportive doctors yesterday was just a wee bit contrived for the cameras’ benefit. The White House had asked the physicians to show up in their iconic white coats, just to be sure the viewers at home got the message: Doctors support health care reform. The only problem? Several doctors missed the memo or just plain forgot, and showed up in suits or dresses, the New York Post reports.

Undeterred, the White House scrambled around for extra whites, which the physicians hurriedly donned over their formal wear. The address hit its message heavily—“I think what's most telling is that some of the people who are most supportive of reform are the very medical professionals who know the health-care system best,” Obama said—but broke no new ground, so Republicans derided it as a pure photo shoot.

President Barack Obama addresses doctors from across the country, Monday, Oct. 5, 2009, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington.
President Barack Obama addresses doctors from across the country, Monday, Oct. 5, 2009, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington.   (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
President Barack Obama is applauded in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, Oct. 5, 2009, during an address to doctors on the health care reform.
President Barack Obama is applauded in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, Oct. 5, 2009, during an address to doctors on the health care reform.   (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Doctors, wearing lab coats, who were audience members, take photos in the Rose Garden of the White House, Oct. 5, 2009, prior to President Barack Obama making remarks on health care reform.
Doctors, wearing lab coats, who were audience members, take photos in the Rose Garden of the White House, Oct. 5, 2009, prior to President Barack Obama making remarks on health care reform.   (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
President Barack Obama arrives in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, Oct. 5, 2009, to address doctors from across the country.
President Barack Obama arrives in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, Oct. 5, 2009, to address doctors from across the country.   (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Jayster999
Oct 6, 09 3:08 PM CDT
The man is a B-grade actor, and almost as patriotic as Benedict Arnold. Reply
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Yourself
Oct 6, 09 4:07 PM CDT
better then a C average student who bankrupt company after company that his daddy bought him. which reminds me, wasn't Reagen just an actor too? hypocrit.
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ClearSight
Oct 6, 09 4:14 PM CDT
The deceive rin-chief strikes again... Will Obummers deceptions ever end? Nope....hell Carter's hasn't abated and hes be gone for decades.....
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dax
Oct 6, 09 4:29 PM CDT
Jayster "ALMOST as patriotic as Benedict Arnold" eh? --- Well then by your metric, Cheney must be more sacred than George Washington.
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Netstorm2k10
Oct 6, 09 4:38 PM CDT
Actually, Dax, Arnold did more to keep us from losing in the early years of the war than almost any other general in the Revolutionary army. He almost single-handedly, fighting the battle with a handful of small skiffs, stopped Burgoyne's advance down through Canada. It was only later, after the now thoroughly corrupt 2nd Continental congress treated him with contempt due to politics, that he turned against those leading the US cause. Benedict Arnold, had he been treated fairly, would have been one of the heroes of the revolution, but he acted in haste and in pride.
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