Obama's surgeon general nominee advises Burger King

**RockX** · 08-14-2009, 12:26 PM

President Obama's nominee for surgeon general, whose job it is to help encourage Americans to get thinner and healthier, has been working part time as a scientific adviser to the fast-food giant that sells sandwiches like the Whopper and BK Triple Stacker.

Dr. Regina Benjamin, hailed by Mr. Obama for her efforts in running a health clinic in hurricane-ravaged rural Alabama, has been paid $10,000 since last year for serving on a scientific advisory board for Burger King, according to newly filed public financial disclosures

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009...o-burger-king/

Attachment 239
"Hi, I'm Dr. Regina Benjamin, and I'm not only an adviser to Burger King. I'm also a customer."

:lmao:

**uscitizen** · 08-14-2009, 01:59 PM

Ahh my favorite burger joint. I knew I liked her for some reason.

**Cancel 2018. 3** · 08-14-2009, 03:45 PM

let me ask:

is there any dem that can support this appt? i don't get it.....

**PostmodernProphet** · 08-14-2009, 04:55 PM

Originally Posted by webbway

okay, now wait a minute....her job is to help ME get thinner?.....

**Canceled1** · 08-14-2009, 05:01 PM

Originally Posted by PostmodernProphet

okay, now wait a minute....her job is to help ME get thinner?.....

Oye vey!

**Buffalo Soldier** · 08-14-2009, 05:46 PM

Don't be hatin on the BK lounge. Obviously sister has killed a few double whoppers.

**nji098** · 08-14-2009, 11:09 PM

Originally Posted by webbway

President Obama's nominee for surgeon general, whose job it is to help encourage Americans to get thinner and healthier, has been working part time as a scientific adviser to the fast-food giant that sells sandwiches like the Whopper and BK Triple Stacker.

Dr. Regina Benjamin, hailed by Mr. Obama for her efforts in running a health clinic in hurricane-ravaged rural Alabama, has been paid $10,000 since last year for serving on a scientific advisory board for Burger King, according to newly filed public financial disclosures

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009...o-burger-king/

Attachment 239
"Hi, I'm Dr. Regina Benjamin, and I'm not only an adviser to Burger King. I'm also a customer."

:lmao:

Gee, didn't Obama run on the promise of Change like, say, ending the corrosive influence of greedy uncaring Corporations on the Public Good ?

**nji098** · 08-14-2009, 11:34 PM

Originally Posted by nji098

Gee, didn't Obama run on the promise of Change like, say, ending the corrosive influence of greedy uncaring Corporations on the Public Good ?

Think the Media might have mentioned the connection and/or implied any hypocrisy if she had been a Bush appointee ?

Cancel4 · 08-15-2009, 10:16 AM

More racist and sexist Hate Speech from the rightwingnuts.

**Fish** · 08-15-2009, 10:50 AM

Originally Posted by DNC

More racist and sexist Hate Speech from the rightwingnuts.

Sexist? Probably. Racist? Not in this particular thread, no.

Cancel4 · 08-15-2009, 10:55 AM

If she was white would this thread have been started?

**Fish** · 08-15-2009, 10:58 AM

I would imagine. The same basic point is that this lady shilled for Burger King. If the Surgeon General had any more power than "World's #1 Grandpa" then maybe I would care a little bit more.

**Fish** · 08-15-2009, 12:30 PM

Hello, DNC? Can you tell me how this is racist?

Cancel4 · 08-15-2009, 01:06 PM

Originally Posted by Buffalo Soldier

Don't be hatin on the BK lounge. Obviously sister has killed a few double whoppers.

Dr. Regina M. Benjamin, Obama's pick for the next U.S. Surgeon General, is a MacArthur grant recipient who holds advanced degrees in medicine and business administration.

She is a family practice doctor who runs her own medical practice, the Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic that treats predominately poor patients in Bayou La Batre, Alabama.

She was the first Black woman to be elected to the American Medical Association board of trustees and became president of the Alabama Medical Association, making her the first African-American woman to be president of a state medical society in the U.S.

To refer to her as "sister" in stereotypical Amos n' Andy dialect is offensive and racist.

**cawacko** · 08-15-2009, 03:23 PM

Originally Posted by DNC

Dr. Regina M. Benjamin, Obama's pick for the next U.S. Surgeon General, is a MacArthur grant recipient who holds advanced degrees in medicine and business administration.

She is a family practice doctor who runs her own medical practice, the Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic that treats predominately poor patients in Bayou La Batre, Alabama.

She was the first Black woman to be elected to the American Medical Association board of trustees and became president of the Alabama Medical Association, making her the first African-American woman to be president of a state medical society in the U.S.

To refer to her as "sister" in stereotypical Amos n' Andy dialect is offensive and racist.

LOL... dumb *ss cracker.