Wow, I didn’t realize taking Tylenol aided in regulating one’s heartbeat! Is there anything Tylenol can’t do? Do Advil, Ibuprofen and their generic brand counterparts also correct irregular heartbeats? If so, they really should update their labels! New commercials, stat!

Perhaps it is unfair of me to use my biology degree and basic understanding of physiology against Dr. Obama, er, I mean President Obama. Then again, he has a Surgeon General and an entire Health and Human Services agency who I am sure would be happy to clue him in on matters of cardiology, or at least refer him to someone who does (that is, if they’re “into” referrals).

At the very least, he could do a quick search of “pacemaker” on WebMD or some other medical website to easily ascertain that pain relievers are only necessary during post-op following the insertion of a pacemaker not for the actual function of regulating a heartbeat. Yes, my doctor friends abhor medical websites, but Obama could at least consult one to figure out the difference between pain killers and major medical procedures.

Obama likes to equate himself to Abraham Lincoln. Perhaps he should acquaint himself with Lincoln’s famous quip in paraphrasing Proverbs 17:28, “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” Obama should heed this sound counsel, most especially when discussing matters he knows absolutely nothing about, like pacemakers, tonsillectomies and amputations. (All three videos are below.)

Perhaps Obama refuses to understand basic cardiology since cardiologists are … wait for it … specialists! What’s so terrible about specialists? According to Obama, specialists are the arch-enemy of the general practitioner.

Silly me. I thought GPs worked with specialists, offering referrals so patients could receive expert help for specific medical conditions that are well past the “preventative treatment” phase. Let’s say a GP discovered preliminary symptoms related to heart disease during a routine office visit. He or she may refer a patient to a (gasp!) cardiologist for specific heart health care. The cardiologist, upon further examination of the patient, orders a stress test and, as a result, performs angioplasty. Are we to expect GPs to begin performing angioplasties? Imagine your primary care physician’s waiting room then!

Darn those young medical students, buried in heaps of student loan debt, who apparently hold their noses up to the common folk by furthering their education and completing multi-year residencies concentrating on specific medical conditions that require specific medical expertise. Darn them all for inserting pacemakers to people who would apparently be just fine with a pain killer. Darn them all for causing angioplasties to occur in hospital operating rooms rather than in Exam Room #4.

Obama, put away your toy stethoscope and end the silly photo-ops. Doctors don’t wear white coats outside the office, unless of course, you supply them.

Americans are not idiots. We are not so easily fooled. We are tired of the shenanigans and we are growing weary of your incompetence. The American people elected a Commander-in-Chief not a Doctor-in-Chief. Why don’t you concentrate on the war in Afghanistan and let doctors stick to medicine.

Paging real doctors! Paging real doctors! Oh, here’s one. HotAir has a piece on a doctor who refused to attend the photo-op at the White House. Good for him. He speaks out about the invitation to “discuss” current health care proposals. I suppose by “discuss” Obama really means, “I talk, you listen” because there wasn’t a lot of “discussing” going on, merely an empty speech accompanied by a few props clad in white coats. If only Nurse Ratched had made an appearance.

For those of you who don’t remember what Obama said about pacemakers, tonsillectomies and amputations, here’s a trip down memory lane.

Obama doesn’t have time to talk to General McKiernan in Afghanistan (his own appointee) regarding his request for more troops, economic and political aid but he can drop everything to fly 4000 miles to participate in a 45 minute presentation. (Watch Obama’s presentation on HotAir here.)

Did Obama really think he could trump the last 9 months of his “Apologizing for America World Tour” by making a 45 minute appeal to grant an Olympics bid to a city that’s so “great” it’s called Second City? Even in his attempt, he couldn’t keep himself from telling the IOC that America basically needed the Olympics to restore its good name. In response to a question, he actually said:

“Over the last several years sometimes that fundamental truth about the United States has been lost. One of the legacies of this Olympic Games would be the restoration of that understanding of what the United States is all about and a recognition of how we are linked to the world.”

In short, help us get our groove back, IOC!

In this particular scenario, Michelle Obama is the worse of the two offenders. You’ve seen the audacious quote from her speech to the Chicago 2016 bid team (bold italics, mine):

“As much of a sacrifice as people say this is for me or Oprah or the president to come for these few days, so many of you in this room have been working for years to bring this bid home.”

Michelle Obama says participating in this presentation is a “sacrifice” but doesn’t exactly explain what’s so sacrificial about packing designer clothes, flying on a private jumbo jet or getting away for a few days with Oprah Winfrey on the taxpayer’s dime. I would call that an extraordinary get-away unlike any I’d ever experienced! “Sacrificial” wouldn’t even make the list of 1,000,000 adjectives!

Michelle Obama wouldn’t know “sacrifice” if it looked her in the face, wearing fatigues, waving an American flag, surrounded by little boys and girls going without their Mommy and Daddy while they fight in an ongoing war in two countries.

If she thinks this trip is a sacrifice then she is out of touch with the American people. So much, in fact, it’s almost painful. Is she ignorant of the climbing unemployment rate? Is she callous to the situation of our military families? Does she know the sacrifices made every day by everyday Americans to put food on the table, to send their kids to school, to make ends meet while she and her husband spend, spend, spend? She should just get it over with and say to the deployed military personnel, military families, unemployed Americans and the fiscally strained, “Let them eat cake.”

HotAir grabbed CNN’s shock and dismay as the IOC makes the announcement. As the anchor grasps for words, I find myself hoping the jaw-dropping is repeated in newsrooms around American in 2010 when the out-of-touch Democrats get booted from Washington.

As @Doc_O said on Twitter, “Cheer up, Axelrod! Obama failed to bring the Olympics to Chicago in 2016, but he’ll bring the Republicans to Washington in 2010.” I sure hope so, as long as they’re conservative Republicans and not RINOs in the form of McCain, Graham or Snowe.

What can we learn from this?

Obama will spend, spend, spend. Michelle will go on lavish overseas trips and spend, spend, spend. The taxpayers will continue to pay for the spending sprees. What we’ll receive in return: Zero. Nothing. Nada. Zilch.

Wait, that’s not exactly right. We’ll “get” something all right: a huge deficit unlike any we’ve ever seen coupled with skyrocketing inflation. Yes, Bush ran up the deficit in 8 years. It only took Obama 8 months to triple it.

As Obama flies back to America I hope he’s thinking about his next two losses: government-run health care and the hoax of cap-and-tax.

In the meantime, someone hand Valerie Jarrett a Kleenex.