Contributed by: filbert Friday, August 14 2009 @ 12:05 PM CST
It seems that, despite all the media attention lavished on e-mail appeals to his supporters, not everyone pushing for President Obama’s embattled healthcare reform plan these warm August days is an idealistic volunteer in it for the sake of helping move the country forward and gaining medical attention for millions of uninsured Americans.
The website’s large-type headline announces: “Work to Pass Obama’s Healthcare Plan and Get Paid to Do it! $10-15 hr!”
It’s a web ad on Craigslist: “You can work for change. Join motivated staff around the country working to make change happen. You can make great friends and money along the way. Earn $400-$600 a week.”
So both sides appear to have paid lobbyists in this colossal summertime struggle for public opinion and control of the multi-billions flowing into the nation’s burdened healthcare system.
Except, of course, that there has been no evidence–plenty of accusations, mainly from paid leftist web sites, but no evidence–that the anti-Obama, free-market health care movement is using paid rent-a-mobs. This is just in the fevered, biased imagination of the Los Angeles Times. On the other hand, Obama’s allies are shameless in their own astroturfing, while vociferously accusing their opponents of doing what they themselves do every single day.