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My favorite part is we are providing Iraq and Afghanistan with universal health care.

NEW YORK — Add this to President Barack Obama’s problems in selling his health care overhaul: A lot of the tech-savvy activists who helped put him in office are young, feeling indestructible and not all that into what they see as an old folks issue.

It’s a crucial gap in support and one the White House may have to correct if Obama is to regain the momentum and get Congress to act on his top domestic priority.

I am honestly curious—where the hell is everyone? Maybe we don’t care in today’s fast paced twitterific world, but health care will one day be important for us younger voters as well.

About a dozen people carrying guns, including one with an AR-15 assault rifle, milled among protesters outside an event where President Barack Obama was giving a speech Monday in Phoenix.

It’s the latest incident of gun-rights advocates visibly displaying firearms near the president.

Phoenix police say the people with guns, including a man carrying the assault rifle, didn’t need permits. No crimes were committed, and no one was arrested.

The man carrying the assault rifle declined to be identified, but told The Arizona Republic that he was carrying the weapon because he could, adding that he still has some freedoms.

Last week, during Obama’s town hall meeting in Portsmouth, N.H., a man stood outside with a gun strapped to his leg.

This is the third report in a week of someone bringing a gun to an event where the President was speaking. Last Tuesday a man was arrested before Obama’s New Hampshire health care town hall for carrying an unlicensed loaded gun. Also outside the New Hampshire town hall, a man was seen with a (legal) handgun strapped to his leg, holding a sign referencing the famous Jefferson quote: “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

Have these people totally lost their minds? I can guaran-fucking-tee you that the famous Jefferson quote—especially the action of fulfilling it—goes against every patriotic and democratic belief that that person holds. There is nothing patriotic about killing your own elected leader. These people are far-off radicals who need to open their minds to something other than the bullshit they’ve been fed.

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