White House Refuses to Say President Obama is Pleased with Smoothness of H1N1 Vaccination Efforts

What did you expect from the deceiving Gibbs?…Yep we Blew it

it has “instituted the toughest ethics and transparency rules of any administration in history
LMAO.. yeah transparency lmao
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If you had the brainpower to remember the last administration, you would know this claim is true. It’s not complete or perfect – but the toughest yet.

The Obama White House should have personally sat on the vaccine incubation eggs to accelerate production…
Seriously, there isn’t much they should do in this case. Provide more information? About what? Despite sourcing 5 different vendors, there isn’t enough vaccine because yields have been uniformly low. Nothing the White House says is going to get a single dose to mature faster, and personally I don’t want them blundering into an extensive distribution network with ham-handed efforts to triage distribution.

Totally off topic but I hope you read this Jake. Your new landing page restyle is so much cleaner and easy to read than the one you had a few months ago. Been a while since I’ve been here and though the content is as sparkling as ever, the page looks so uncluttered and more professional than ever. Way to go and keep up the concise and unbiased reportage we all know and thank you for.

HHS should not have stated that a gazillion H1N1 vaccines would be available to people by mid-October.
Is the whole darn administration as amateurish as Obama?

“HHS should not have stated that a gazillion H1N1 vaccines would be available to people by mid-October.”
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There were no claims that a ‘gazillion’ vaccines would be available. Unless you’d like to provide a quote, a source and a date.

Kudos to Compton for asking a tough question.
Too bad we can’t hear Obama’s answer.
“Well you know, uh, I’m not losing sleep over it”.
“I’ve got alot on my plate”
“Bush”

===The government can do nothing more than enter into contracts with them on mutually agreed terms. ===
Unless, of course, Bush is president.

===The government can do nothing more than enter into contracts with them on mutually agreed terms. ===
Unless, of course, Bush is president.
Axey | Oct 28, 2009 4:22:46 PM
? What does Bush have to do with this? Or are you upset that the administration (more the lifers in HHS) learned from the shortage 5 years ago and aren’t making the same stupid mistakes (multiple manufacturers, use of a well proven if slow method, early emergency declaration, not jumping the President to the front of the line, etc.)?
Even in 2004 Bush didn’t take much flak for it, with polls showing about a quarter of people blaming him – which in an election year that went 50/50 down to the wire, are excellent numbers.

I have no facts to back my opinions just the drug induced hallucinations from drinking the kool-aide. Republican control in 2010-2012. Please help us I wish I had my vote back this guy is a Joke.
Posted by: jhw539 | Oct 28, 2009 4:46:53 PM
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This was not posted by jhw539. What a bunch of creeps using someone else’s name because they’re too cowardly to use their own.

===, not jumping the President to the front of the line===
If you are referring to Bush, he didn’t get the shot, at least not until there was enough for everyone. Cheney did, because he was in the high risk category. If I remember correctly, one of the companies vaccine was contaminated. Wouldn’t it be a good idea then to not put all your eggs in one basket, so to speak? What if they had contracted with that company for all of the vaccines? Anyway, you always come through for me.

I have no facts to back my opinions just the drug induced hallucinations from drinking the kool-aide. Republican control in 2010-2012. Please help us I wish I had my vote back this guy is a Joke.— jhw539
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haha……first wise thing he has said
Posted by: julietierra | Oct 28, 2009 6:08:18 PM
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This was not posted by me. Must be some cowardly twit trying to be clever . . .
Yawn . . ..

And your wording about ‘allowing the manufacturers’ suggests you may not understand that these are private, independent multi-nationals here. The government can do nothing more than enter into contracts with them on mutually agreed terms.
Posted by: jhw539 | Oct 28, 2009 4:01:10 PM
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I don’t think you understand. I didn’t write this. Marc Siegel did. He is an M.D. and an associate professor of medicine and the medical director of Doctor Radio at NYU Langone Medical Center. He is the author of the e-book Swine Flu; the New Pandemic.
Let me give you a little more of his text:
First, even though seasonal flu is associated with the deaths of 36,000 Americans every year (most of them elderly), flu season doesn’t generally peak until late January, so there is still plenty of time to produce the yearly flu vaccine to cover strains other than H1N1 if this proves necessary. Meanwhile, the H1N1 swine flu is here now, infecting millions in its hearty second wave, hospitalizing 20,000 and killing over 1,000. The 85 million doses of seasonal flu vaccine, which were produced over the summer, are largely wasted when given prematurely, especially when you consider that the immunity engendered often only lasts for six months.
Second, it is not clear that we will have a regular flu season. In fact, it is far more likely that the prevailing strain throughout our fall and winter will continue to be H1N1. Remember, this is a new pandemic, even if it is mild in most cases. Pandemics tend to grow like weeds. In Mexico, back in March, at the end of last year’s flu season, surveillance studies show that H1N1 took over and crowded out the other flus that were circulating there at the time. Similarly, in Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Argentina, Chile and throughout the Southern Hemisphere during their flu season (which just ended), the vast majority of the cases were due to H1N1 swine flu.
Now argue the point.

Jenny .. . nothing you posted contradicts what jwh had to say . ..
“And your wording about ‘allowing the manufacturers’ suggests you may not understand that these are private, independent multi-nationals here. The government can do nothing more than enter into contracts with them on mutually agreed terms.”
A U.S. health official has blamed the shortage on production delays at two drug makers, and one manufacturer’s failure to gain regulatory approval for its product.

Of course this would be all over the news if Bush was still President. It’s good to be a Democrat.
I don’t blame Obama or his administration (totallY) for the shortages. I do, however, blame them for their standard tactic of saying whatever they think will make them look good, and then revising history when people try to remind them what they said.
In my entire life I’ve never seen a President lie with such ease and conviction on every topic imaginable. And my experience goes back to Johnson. Obama is in a class by himself when it comes to prevarication and self-promotion. If this starts to hurt him politically, he will do everything he can to blame it on Bush. And his sycophantic supporters in the press corps will gladly help him revise whatever history they need to. And then they’ll call Fox News a liar when Fox runs video clips of what he and his administration actually said.

Sucks to be Obama.

Oh, Lord! I just diagrammed Gibbs’ last sentence! Does that mean there’s something wrong with me!?