Parsing Words

This new article is on Drudge today about how the White House has created a video disputing the video that’s up on Drudge whereby the President is shown suggesting that single payer is the way to go.

It doesn’t actually dispute anything!!

The original clip has clips of Obama saying things in the past about moving to single payer universal healthcare. The “rebuttal” says,

“oh – you just can’t believe everything you hear on the internet by people with lots of time on their hands. Instead, believe these clips, where Obama says, if you like what you have, you get to keep it.”

Wouldn’t it have been best to actually dispute the previous statements with showing us what’s in the drafts?

Keith Hennessey has talked about the immediate effect. If you like your current policy, you get to keep it as long as your employer decides to keep it!

The internet really isn’t that hard to “get” is it?

UPDATE Ed Morrissey sees the WH video as akin to an attempt at a Jedi mind trick. (You don’t see what you see)
I can’t disagree.

Wow – What a concept!

Bloodthirsty Liberal sends up a good idea to the President after finding out that the administration is looking into

creating a courtroom-within-a-prison complex in the U.S. to house suspected terrorists, combining military and civilian detention facilities at a single maximum-security prison.

Anyone out here what to guess what that might be? LOL.

(ht Tai Chi Policy)

Links

“Health”care
I have been against physician assisted suicide because of the subtle ways that society would start to make the elderly feel like a burden to their families and start choosing suicide because it was a legal option. I really wasn’t expecting the direct route to that but in Oregon, one women received word that her state health care would not cover an expensive chemo drug, but would be happy to cover suicide!
Or as they say in the WH, no “cash for clunkers”!
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World Affairs
Apparently it’s Bush’s fault that Obama keeps picking the wrong side in geopolitics. (Iran, N. Korea, Chavez, Zelaya etc, etc) Bush was sooooooo bad that Obama automatically thinks “What would Bush do?” and then does the opposite.
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Honduras
20 Questions for Zelaya. Not one that says “What have you been doing the last 3.5 years that makes you think you can accomplish something in your final 4 months of presidency?”

Just in time Calf Blogging

Apparently Mrs. Mocha decided to have herself a little calf while I was gone. On a Friday no less!