Well, they haven't actually been able to get any comment from her office, but Salon and a number of other people have been checking out some photos of Dr. Benjamin on the internet, and she totally looks like she needs to lose a few pounds.
There is no substantive reason Dr. Regina Benjamin shouldn't be confirmed as Surgeon General. We know that because her detractors have been forced to resort to the "But, but, but ... she's FAT" argument. Namecalling is where you go when you have nothing.
Richard Fausset has done a nice profile of Obama's nominee for Surgeon General, Dr. Regina Benjamin, in the LA Times. Through interviews with local folks, he highlights not only Dr. Benjamin's dedicated service to the Alabama community of Bayou La Batre, but some of the health care concerns facing regular folks across America as well.
[Sammy]Duffy, a disabled 52-year-old who runs a fruit stand, knows Benjamin's story well: how she will treat almost anyone in her tiny medical office; how she accepts payments in oysters and shrimp when patients can't pay cash; and how she elected to stay in this backwater after her clinic was ravaged by two hurricanes and a fire.
"I think she's done wonders for this town," he said.
But ask Duffy what he thinks about the Democrats' plan to broaden health coverage with a government insurance plan, and his brow furrows. Sounds like communism, he says. Or, at the very least, an overreach.
Communism? That's an old favorite bugaboo of conservatives, but the kinder, gentler GOP has favored "socialism" the last few years. Neither term is accurate of course.
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