14 May 2013
Uncommon Commentary #341: Tweets by Twits
The White House Twitter
account put out "tweets" on the Tenth of this month to promote the (Patient Protection and) Affordable Care Act, or ObamaCareless (see the list of domanisms). One
read: "Thanks to the #ACA, 1 in 3 women
under 65 gained access to preventive care—like birth control—with no
out-of-pocket costs. #HappyMothersDay".
A story from LifeNews related this information, but did not explicitly note the irony of
affixing a "hashtag" (if that's what those things are called) that
reads "HappyMothersDay" to a "tweet" touting what
the ACA (or OC) has done for birth control;
hence, one of two reasons for this uncommon commentary. My second reason
for writing is to alert you to the use of the phrase "preventive
care"; since when does this term, which applies to the prevention of disease, subsume birth
control? As I previously
wrote here on the D.D., conceiving
and bearing children is absolutely normal; in fact, without the ability to
reproduce, our species would have gone extinct quite some time ago. Twits
don't come any "twitter" than those who work for Obama.