It's a beautiful thing: Susan Sheybani "Prozac" story on DNC Web Site!

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Oh, Susie...I hope you are enjoying your 15 minutes.



http://www.democrats.org/healthcare/news/200407290008.html

If Bush Campaign Previews New Jobs Plan: Let Them Eat Prozac

At their press conference today, the RNC previewed the Bush campaign's strategy for the next stage of the campaign: "For the next four weeks Bush and others will lay out a plan for the next four years."

Also today the Bush campaign previewed the first piece of their new domestic agenda: How to address the massive loss of good paying American jobs: "A campaign worker for President Bush said on Thursday American workers unhappy with low-quality jobs should find new ones — or pop a Prozac to make themselves feel better. 'Why don't they get new jobs if they're unhappy — or go on Prozac?" said Susan Sheybani, an assistant to Bush campaign spokesman Terry Holt."

DNC Spokesman Jano Cabrera said, "It's taken four years but the Bush team finally came up with an idea for dealing with the record job losses that have occurred on its watch. But there's only one thing that will make Americans happy again, and it's not Prozac – it's George Bush's defeat this November."

[Sugarbleus]

1. PRICELESS!!!

This is a keeper. I'm going to look into this. I thank you for posting this more than I can say... :thumbsup:

[LostInAnomie]

2. Has any major media covered this?

Can you imagine if a Dem would have said that? They would have burned them.

[liberalitch]

10. wouldn't happen....

because a democrat would never say.... ANYTHING like that about someone who had just lost a huge chunk of their income.

[Longhorn]

14. MSNBC.com had it yesterday. n/t

[Skittles]

3. heartless republican whore

I'll never forget the picture I saw in LIFE magazine many years ago - it was an auto worker, father of seven kids, laid off when the factories closed, standing in line to get unemployment. He had broken down in tears. The stress of one person trying to find work is huge and this woman makes light of the fact that her precious King George has caused a mass exodus of jobs. I try not to wish ill on people but she needs to find out what it's like to be unemployed and scared.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

6. These stories keep hitting closer and closer to home, don't they?

A good friend of mine has a son who's been out of work for quite a while. All he can find are the "non-living wage" jobs. She and her husband are helping him financially but they are not wealthy people and they can't do it forever.

I don't have kids, I don't know what it would be like to say "son, I can't help you any more."

If Bush's current strategy is to "run on his record," THIS is his record. Much has been said in recent days about Bush and Cheney losing points because people believe they don't care about them or their families. People are RIGHT, and Sheybani has become the poster child for that lack of caring.

[liberalitch]

11. more and more of my friend are living with their parents....

not just for their sake but also because combining ALL of their wages/pensions makes not living like a rat possible.
Our parents (don't forget) are getting slammed by this so called scriptmed reform.... I know my mom's costs have doubled.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

17. What job? What healthcare would pay for the Prozac? Go Cheney yourself,

heartless witch!

[Piperay]

4. Another...

'compassionate CONservative'. :puke:

[w13rd0]

5. Not only does this story...

...demonstrate the callous nature of BuchCo, it also illuminates an interesting factoid that's reinforced by the comments of others in the administration (Powell on Ambien for instance). These are people that LOVE to self-medicate. Self-medication is the cure-all, along with tax cuts, for these people.

Lost your job, take a Prozac.
Son sent to Iraq, try an Ambien to sleep at night.
Husband dying of a debilitating disease for which stem cells might provide a cure, drop a Lithium.
GOP steals the fucking election, get over it and take a Qualude <sp>.

Of course, this is only if you can actually manage to pay for these various "wonderdrugs", if you can't, well then, fuck you.

[PA Democrat]

7. And for an encore

she will do jokes about the latest casualties of suicide bombings in Iraq.

People who "kid" about the misfortunes of others are lacking one of the core traits that makes us human- the ability to feel empathy for others.

[greekspeak]

8. Offended Prozac user

I take Prozac each day for panic/anxiety disorder. She makes light of the users of this drug, who need it, while at the same time insulting poor people. Actually I fit both catagories; I get my meds through a school program I feel blessed to have access to.

Clearly, Little Miss Sunshine, who appears to be nothing but a mouthy young upstart trying to get her three minutes of fame, has no idea what she is saying. I am offended by her assinine comments. All I can say is that she told it like she sees it, unlike the rest of the Bushies. You know they would all say such things--and worse--if they knew it did not push the envelope.

[liberalitch]

12. See yet another group of people slighted....

by their thoughtless, heartlessness.
Thank Buddha that there are medications like that out there to help people who need it.... and needing it is NO laughing matter!

[greekspeak]

16. THANK YOU!!

Prozac has been a godsend for me. After a major panic attack in November, I could barely sit through a class or even go grocery shopping. If it was not for Prozac, by now I would surely be an agoraphobe. I wonder how many more people like me are out there.

For ditzikins to make light of my lack of financial resources and my need for drugs is an insult to me. I am not poor because I am lazy, and neither are most poor people. I work hard trying to get myself educated so I can in turn educate others.

Puke cabal can be so needlessly heartless and cruel. Marie Antoinette had nothing on these flim-flam artists and their paper moons, muslin trees, and cardboard seas.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

18. Greekspeak, I hear you. Wellbutrin and Xanax have helped me.

Thank G-d for medicines like those.

[greekspeak]

19. Glad to hear it SCRUBDASHRUB

I used to be afraid that I would have to take drugs to keep me leveled out, but besides diminishing my anxiety, they have been helpful for me in other ways. Without such drugs, many people would be suffering needlessly.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

21. Amen.

[kodi]

9. a 21st century version of let them eat cake>> let them eat prozac

comfort breeds indifference.

[Flubadubya]

13. Yep, I just started to ask...

What do you take for the "let them eat cake" syndrome? I don't think the Pharmacomonopoly in this country has come up with a Procompassion pill yet.

[dumpster_baby]

15. When do we get to the 21st Century version of "Off With Their Heads!"?

I am waiting for that.....

[Cocoa]

20. this is THE gaffe of the election so far

it should be all over TV, the late-night jokes, etc.

[Cats Against Frist]

22. "The Prozac President"

Wonderful catch phrase -- Karl Rove would be proud of us.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

23. Here's a little story about Susie's boss, Bush campaign's Terry Holt

http://blog.johnkerry.com/rapidresponse/archives/cat_election_2004.html

Terry Holt Crosses the Line on Hardball

Backed into a corner by Chris Matthews, Bush spokesperson Terry Holt crossed the line by questioning John Kerry’s record of military service.

Terry Holt, 5/25/04:

MATTHEWS: John Kerry went to Vietnam. He volunteered. Why didn't the president volunteer to go to Vietnam? He's for the war.

HOLT: Well, the president flew as a air…fighter pilot–

MATTHEWS: Well, why didn't he go to Vietnam? Shouldn’t people that support wars go and fight them?

HOLT: In fact, he was one….he served in the National Guard honorably for this country.

MATTHEWS: Why didn't he go and fight in the war if he believes in it?

HOLT: Well everybody made a decision about how best they served. He served as a fighter pilot in the Texas air guard.

MATTHEWS: But if you believe in a war, shouldn’t you fight it rather than someone who doesn’t believe it, a draftee who gets drafted?

HOLT: But in John Kerry's case, he went to Vietnam… He took his own photo camera, by the way, so he could get some good pictures.

-- MSNBC, Hardball, 5/25/04

And if you're not thoroughly disgusted yet, another on CNN:

http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0402/10/ltm.01.html

Aired February 10, 2004 - 08:33 ET

HOLT: Well, obviously, you know, John Kerry is a liberal Democratic senator from Massachusetts, but it's not so much liberalism as his it's his phonyism. It's a combination of contradictions of his hypocrisy in his record that really lead us believe that his principles may be in question, that he doesn't stand firmly on any ground, whether he was for the war and supported the president two years ago -- or last year, or whether now Howard Dean -- he has eclipsed Howard Dean in the primaries, he's against the war, whether he was an honorably serving member of the military in Vietnam or whether he's cut intelligence spending since Vietnam. There's a whole range of contradictions that we think are going to be troubling to most Americans.

HEMMER: Just to be clear, you are calling him a phony?

HOLT: Well, you know, he says he's going to show special interests the door, but he's taken millions and millions of dollars. He's the No. 1 serving senator to take special interest money over the last 15 years. It seems hypocritical and a bit contradictory.

[in_cog_ni_to]

24. THIS should be in a Kerry ad.

This quote should be part of a Kerry ad talking about how the repukes don't REALLY care about people losing their jobs. The mainstream media won't expose it. Kerry should. OR, is quoting a GOP operative "bashing baby Bush?" :eyes:

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

25. Contact the Kerry Campaign and suggest it, or give the story a kick

I feel that all DU participants who have a reaction to this story should contact Kerry Headquarters. I tried on Friday (called the California office) and was told that they were just a financial office and was asked to contact DC...I plan to do so on Monday). This is major ammunition for Kerry. I also suggest that all DU members do a Google search on Terry Holt...Sheybani's boss...and come up to speed on his efforts to conduct a character assassination on Kerry.

THIS is what we are up against, folks...THIS is the battle. Let's help Kerry fight it and WIN.

Contact National Headquarters

Kerry-Edwards 2004, Inc.
P.O. Box 34640
Washington, DC 20043
202-712-3000
202-712-3001 (fax)
617-523-2030 (TTY)

State offices here:

http://www.johnkerry.com/contact/

:kick:

[thecrow]

26. Hey Susie...

what makes you think that an unemployed worker has a health plan that makes Prozac AFFORDABLE?