Friday, September 11, 2009

Have You Seen My Baby?

While in French class today my teacher who mind my language is a Nazi bitch, was showing us a helpful and interesting website called Euronews.com where you can look up articles and video's about news that relevant to the world not just The United States and watch and read them in all sorts of different languages one of them being french. So when I was suppose to be doing my online math class I decided to look up this site and while I did I came across this cool interview with Moby that I quite enjoyed. Down below is a part of the interview where he talks about Obama's Heath care plan and what he thinks about Ameicans, all of it being pretty entertaining and informative. Thanks Mo

Euronews: “Are you surprised by the attacks against Obama’s health care plan?”

Moby: “Well, the attacks on Obama’s health care plan… it is almost like a surrealist farce. It is like an Ionesco play, you know the playwrite…it is an absurdist, dadaist farce, because people… I mean unfortunately, there is a long tradition of arrogance and ignorance and unequal measures in the United States. But the attacks on Obama’s health care plan are so ignorant and are funded by the health care industry. So my favourite story about the attacks on Obama’s health care plan in the United States is: a member of the House of Representatives was having a town hall meeting with a bunch of rightwing senior citizens, and he asked a simple question : “Who here is opposed to socialised medicine?” Everybody raised their hand. And now his next question: “Who here is on Medicaid and Medicare?” And everybody raised their hand. Medicare and Medicaid is socialised medicine. So, what I am surprised by is just how intense the attacks are on Obama and health care. What I am not surprised by is how ignorant Americans are, once again. Americans will never surprised me in their capacity to be angry and ignorant at the same time.”

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