Chain-smoking, nicotine-saturated, black-lunged president who turned the entire US healthcare system on its head claims coal causes asthma
Remarkably, real doctors disagree.
How did this idiot ever win anything, let alone the White House?
(CNSNews.com) — President Barack Obama claimed that coal could create “the kinds of air pollution” that is “creating asthma for kids,” in speaking at a town hall event in Annandale, Va., on Tuesday. However, the National Institutes of Health says that “the exact cause of asthma isn’t known” and that “asthma is different for each person.”
“The challenge with coal is that although it’s very cheap, it’s also dirty. And it can create the kinds of air pollution that not only is contributing to climate change but is also creating asthma for kids nearby,” Obama said in answer to a question about balancing deficit reduction with government spending on clean energy.
“You got asthma? Okay. And so sucking that stuff in is not ideal,” said Obama. “So what we’ve said is, let’s invest in clean coal technology that potentially can capture some of these particulates and some of the carbon dioxide that’s going into the atmosphere.”
Asthma, however, is not caused by coal, or the emissions from coal-fired power plants, as the president suggested. According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) the true cause of asthma is unknown, although scientists believe it is caused by a confluence of genetic and environmental factors or early viral infections.
“The exact cause of asthma isn’t known. Researchers think some genetic and environmental factors interact to cause asthma, most often early in life,” the NIH states on its Web site.
“These factors include: An inherited tendency to develop allergies, called atopy (AT-o-pe); parents who have asthma; certain respiratory infections during childhood; contact with some airborne allergens or exposure to some viral infections in infancy or in early childhood when the immune system is developing,” states the NIH.
The NIH did say that respiratory irritants, such as air pollution, can trigger an asthma attack, but not that air pollution causes the disease. The NIH also noted that not all asthma sufferers are affected by the same triggers, meaning that, for some, air pollution may have no effect at all.
“Triggers may include . . . Irritants such as cigarette smoke, air pollution, chemicals or dust in the workplace, compounds in home décor products, and sprays (such as hairspray),” the NIH said.
“Asthma is different for each person. Some of the triggers listed above may not affect you,” stated the NIH.
Obama made his remarks at a town hall discussion — “Shared Responsibility and Shared Prosperity” — at the Annandale, Va., campus of the Northern Virginia Community College.
Posted by WM on Tuesday, April 19, 2011, at 7:11 pm | 
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Everytime the golfer-in-chief opens his pie hole, he polutes the air with his bullshit.
He`s a walking health hazard.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/04/the_cfl_fraud.html
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The Maine report states that although following its recommended procedure for home cleanup
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The recommended cleanup procedures are onerous, inconvenient, time consuming and must be followed exactly to avoid exacerbating the health risk and incurring financial expense. For example, EPA Link recommends:
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Never pour mercury down a drain. It may lodge in the plumbing and cause future problems during plumbing repairs…or cause pollution of the septic tank or sewage treatment plant.
Never wash clothing or other items that have come in direct contact with mercury in a washing machine, because mercury may contaminate the machine and/or pollute sewage.
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It’s ok.. you’re saving the environment by slowly killing yourself…
Apparently his missing academic records would indicate failing health and biology classes.
Um, I told y’all about this before I think. From the hill I’m on, you can see 3 sets of smokestacks for coal burning power plants and another one for a nuclear facility. Nothing except steam comes out of any of them. I know people who work there who swear you could drink it without ill effects. There is zero ash from these smokestacks.
So once again he’s just fucking lying. It pisses me off that he’s doing it at a community college and using kid’s asthma as a way to promote his anti-coal agenda.
I do not like obummer, but that is a nice looking suit… too bad it is empty.
I think this jug-eared finklestein shit kid needs to go to military school now!!
Gosh darn it!!
Empty suit is right. If you did not read this article at Zipwire, please check it out:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/04/its_all_coming_apart.html
Among other things, this comment stand out the most. Of the 5 things we should be concerned with this stands out the most:
1. An Incompetent President – The President is inexperienced and incompetent. He is likely a fraud, as evidenced by his guarded and unknown past. He is incapable of leadership, honesty, or management. Virtually every one of his policy initiatives has been harmful to the economy and country. His intentions are clear; the degree to which he will be able to drive us further down the Road to Serfdom is not.
His intentions are clear.
Hygiene Hypothesis.
Several studies a have tied the increase in asthma and the other diseases to a lack of low level exposure to pathogens and allergens during childhood.
One study noted a lack of asthma among farm kids who had exposure to dust, animals and all the stuff on farms.
And to think these Morons that attend his Pep Rallies,etc…believe this crap!
Dang, he should get a Nobel Prize.
Forget college, I doubt Obumbles has even graduated from high school.
My cousin is a chemical engineer who was able to retire in his 50s because he was so good at his job AND investing. Whenever he hears someone talk about coal being dirty, it looks like he’s been punched in the gut.
He spent the last few years of his “employee” life working on clean-coal technology and now consults on it for his own business. He’s such an honest, boyscout-type of guy that I think the fact that people blatantly lie about it hits him worse than anything. He’s from coal country and sees how bad the economy is in that rustbelt. Here is something that has the potential to power greater swaths of America and provide jobs to those who want them — and it’s being squandered by a bunch of watermelon communists.
And, Barry, all those high-rises you want to shove everyone into, courtesy of the UN’s Agenda 21? Most innercity kids have asthma that’s exacerbated by roach droppings. I imagine having everyone concentrated in roach motels will have the Death Panels signing warrants left and right.
No oil, no natural gas, no nukes and now, no coal because of health and environmental issues. I guess we can move back into caves and burn wood…oh, no, wait that produces carbon ! Drat. We’re finished as a species unless you are one of the ruling elite as defined by the ruling elite.
Ohhhhhhhh……….
You said black.
Racist.
I think you need to sit down in the garden and have a beer with the Prezzzz………
He got in. because the IDIOTS that voted for this POS do not think SHIT STINKS!! ASSWIPE IN CHARGE!!!!
So why did blue lips refuse to turn over his medical records when he through his hat in the ring?
Don’t worry folks, Barry the dimwit will undoubtedly travel to West Va, Pa, KY, and any other coal producing state, and give his anti-coal pitch. Then when he loses those states in 2012, it will be because their all racists.
This guy is an expert on everything….A total embarrassment
I thought these asthma sufferers needed breathalyzers?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbpWonUzlrc
The most smartest man in the hole world!
I wanna know whats with the guitar behind him?
I am still not sure how this man got into the White House. As far as won fair and square, I will never believe it. I think he begged, borrowed, and stole his way in. He reeks of corruption, and has been trained and schooled by the left since the day he was born. (where ever in the sam hill that was) This quote I found says it all.
“The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.”~ Prager Zeitung, Prague Newspaper, 28 April 2010
OVERT SABOTAGE ON CAPITALISM DAILY
“I wanna know whats with the guitar behind him?”
Shadowblitz70, the guitar is for his Elton John cover “I’m your puppet” sung lovingly to Mr. Soros…
I wish he would go squeeze fruit.
This communist invert of a president is going completely bonkers. More and more he is coming across as a dangerous lunatic which even the suck ass propaganda media is finding hard to conceal. Completely bat shit which is really bad news for the rest of us. He needs to be removed from office pronto!
This picture was taken in the secret “bong room” where B.S. spends most of his time when not playing golf. He was completely toasted when this picture was taken.
ASSHOLE ASSHOLE ASSHOLE!
no coal means no electricity
no coal means no steel mills
ASSHOLE ASSHOLE ASSHOLE
Hey Dumbo grab that there geetar behind you and strum us the bullshit song while you are at it……
Well, what do you think allergens are and where do they come from. Coal dust is one such allergen and it CAUSES asthma in the young and they have it for life because there is no cure.
The Precautionary Principle should be applied and this stinking asthma-causing pollution should be banned.
Obama is absolutely correct about this no matter what others say.
It is time we cleaned up the air.
@cleanair — If it’s okay with you, I’ll stick to expert opinions, which precludes the Crackhead-in-Chief
@cleanair
you’re full of shit
Fubar… if any one is fulk of it, you definitely are!
A computer at your fingertips yet you know nothing about this issue at all. Do some research and thn you might know how to discuss issues in a sensible manner.
Wood smoke causes many illnesses including cancer.
Learn the facts before showing the world how little you know.
cleanair says:
Well, what do you think allergens are and where do they come from. Coal dust is one such allergen and it CAUSES asthma in the young and they have it for life because there is no cure.
The Precautionary Principle should be applied and this stinking asthma-causing pollution should be banned.
Obama is absolutely correct about this no matter what others say.
It is time we cleaned up the air.
The American council on Science and Health would disagree. But surely you must know more than them.
http://www.acsh.org/factsfears/newsID.2561/news_detail.asp