She's a former nun, an Army major, a lawyer, a college professor and a
physician. Now Dr. Barbara Bellar wants to be a state senator from
Illinois, and she has one question about ObamaCare.
“What the blank could possibly go wrong?” Bellar asks, tongue in
cheek, after delivering a one-sentence indictment of President Obama's
health care law.
Bellar, a Republican candidate running for office in the state’s 18th
district, gave the extended one-liner while warming up the crowd at a
recent event for GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney. Someone captured
it on video, and now the doctor's diagnosis of the Affordable Care Act
is an Internet sensation with more than 2 million views.
“So, let me get this straight. This is a long sentence,” Bellar begins.
“We are going to be gifted with a health care plan that we are forced to
purchase, and fined if we don’t,” Bellar continues, “signed by a
president who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who
didn't pay his taxes, by a
government which has already bankrupted
Social Security and Medicare, all to be overseen by a surgeon general
who is obese, and financed by a country that’s broke.”
Bellar then launched into a longer speech, but the friendly crowd at
the event dubbed "Women for Romney/Ryan," was already in the palm of her
hand.
“I had no idea I was being
video taped,” Bellar told FoxNews.com. “I
meant it as a light opener to a more serious issue. It did take on a
life of its own."
But Bellar, who is running for office for the first time, has strong
feelings about ObamaCare, which she considers an “erosion” of rights.
She is seeking to succeed Edward Maloney, who is retiring from the
district, which includes
Chicago's 19th Ward, and has picked up the
endorsement of the
Chicago Tribune.
The title of senator would be just the latest entry on an interesting
and lengthy resume. Bellar was a Benedictine nun for nearly five years,
although she left before she completed her final vows. She is a major
in the U.S. Army Reserves, runs a family medical practice, teaches part
time at both Benedictine and DePaul universities and practices law.
“I’ve been fortunate," Bellar said. "I’m just a life-long learner and have always wanted to help serve others.”
Of the upcoming election, Bellar says that she plans to shake up the statehouse where
President Obama got his start in politics.
“They will not know what hit them,” she said.
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