Tom McGuire:
The AP and the Sheryl Gay Stolberg of the Times cover Obama's town hall on Saturday, where he told the story of his own grandmother to illustrate a point about health care. Since Obama is re-spinning the lesson he took from that experience this creates a bit of awkwardness for the Times, as we will explain.
So on Saturday in Colorado the point of Obama's story about his grandmother was that he was opposed to any sort of government role in "pulling the plug" on her or deciding that some treatments simply didn't pass a societal cost/benefit test, and to suggest otherwise was "dishonest". "Dishonest"?
That is very much at odds with Obama told the David Leonhardt of the Times in April when he talked about his grandmother.
The President: "It is very difficult to imagine the country making those decisions just through the normal political channels.
"So we're trying to sneak it by the rubes before they know what's going on."
And that's part of why you have to have some independent group that can give you guidance."
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O.K., I'll be honest - the main reason I posted this it to be able to point out one of the all-time classic comments: "That primed the pump for Silky Ambulance Chaser and his Lady Macbeth wife who's been on death's doorstep for so long that death has filed a restraining order." ROFLMAO! :-D