The AMA is a pac and a union. It is more favorable viewed by the public than pacs and unions of ordinary workers, such as the UAW. The latter is looked upon by many as greedy.
Veronica----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Paul" <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 4:52 PM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Obama Critique from Hanson Quoting Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>:
You've been responding as if my original aim were something other than to highlight a social/marketing issue. As a result, we've been into all kinds of tangents ... like health care. (On the issue of health care, my knowledge is sparse. I'm very close to an MD, who says the current bill is hated by the AMA -- because it will reduce tests and kill more patients -- but loved by the insurance companies.)
Eric, does your friend belong to the AMA? The AMA is often assumed* to be the voice of American physicians; however, only ca. 25 per-cent of American physicians belong to it; younger doctors disagree more and more with its policies and do not see it as representing them. It might as well be a PAC (as opposed to its being something like the American College of Surgeons, e.g., writ large.
Simply put, I've never seen tie-in merchandising for a President three months into his first term. Have you? It's creepy and false. (The usual rejoinder is, "Look how terrible Bush was. Why can't people celebrate?") Yet that creepy, false marketing of Obama has worked to his disadvantage. People naturally sense something "authoritarian" about branding an administration as though it were a soft drink.
I really don't know what the hell you're talking about--I may just be too dense. But who in the world bases their views on Obama (or on Brett Favre) just because bobble-head dolls of both are no doubt sold somewhere? (The Mall of America?) Yesterday you speculated, to put it softly, that the decreasing sales of Obama Quoting Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>:
You've been responding as if my original aim were something other than to highlight a social/marketing issue. As a result, we've been into all kinds of tangents ... like health care. (On the issue of health care, my knowledge is sparse. I'm very close to an MD, who says the current bill is hated by the AMA -- because it will reduce tests and kill more patients -- but loved by the insurance companies.)
Eric, does your friend belong to the AMA? The AMA is often assumed* to be the voice of American physicians; however, only ca. 25 per-cent of American physicians belong to it; younger doctors disagree more and more with its policies and do not see it as representing them. It might as well be a PAC (as opposed to its being something like the American College of Surgeons, e.g., writ large.
Simply put, I've never seen tie-in merchandising for a President three months into his first term. Have you? It's creepy and false. (The usual rejoinder is, "Look how terrible Bush was. Why can't people celebrate?") Yet that creepy, false marketing of Obama has worked to his disadvantage. People naturally sense something "authoritarian" about branding an administration as though it were a soft drink.
I really don't know what the hell you're talking about--I may just be too dense. But who in the world bases their views on Obama (or on Brett Favre) just because bobble-head dolls of both are no doubt sold somewhere? (The Mall of America?) Yesterday you speculated, to put it softly, that the decreasing sales of Quoting Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>:
You've been responding as if my original aim were something other than to highlight a social/marketing issue. As a result, we've been into all kinds of tangents ... like health care. (On the issue of health care, my knowledge is sparse. I'm very close to an MD, who says the current bill is hated by the AMA -- because it will reduce tests and kill more patients -- but loved by the insurance companies.)
Eric, does your friend belong to the AMA? The AMA is often assumed* to be the voice of American physicians; however, only ca. 25 per-cent of American physicians belong to it; younger doctors disagree more and more with its policies and do not see it as representing them. It might as well be a PAC (as opposed to its being something like the American College of Surgeons, e.g., writ large.
Simply put, I've never seen tie-in merchandising for a President three months into his first term. Have you? It's creepy and false. (The usual rejoinder is, "Look how terrible Bush was. Why can't people celebrate?") Yet that creepy, false marketing of Obama has worked to his disadvantage. People naturally sense something "authoritarian" about branding an administration as though it were a soft drink.
I really don't know what the hell you're talking about--I may just be too dense. But who in the world bases their views on Obama (or on Brett Favre) just because bobble-head dolls of both are no doubt sold somewhere? (The Mall of America?) I have an Obama poster (small) that the Democratic Party sent me gratis after I checked a box on one of their mailings; but suppose it had cost five bucks. The notion that such things are signs of an 'authoritarian' state is. well, novel. I have to confess though that after reading several detective novels set in Scotland, I keep hearing a voice in my ear urging me to drink Irn-Bru. Yesterday you speculated, to put it softly, that the declining sales of Obama tchotskes at K-Mart (all all of their locations?) was a sign of Obama's declining popularity. I would suggest that sales of Pittsburgh Steelers Super Bowl memorabilia since February, is hardly a sign that their fans no longer support them. There are finitely many Pittsburgh fans, of course, and a decline in sales of this junk is surely better explained by the market's having been saturated. *By the media. Robert Paul, somewhere south of Reed College, on a hot day ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off,digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html
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