Unhinged from Reality(Calculated Deception from The Lobotomized President)

American Spectator ^ | 9/16/09 | Peter Ferrara

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President Obama told the nation last Wednesday night:

Some of people's concerns have grown out of bogus claims spread by those whose only agenda is to kill reform at any cost. The best example is the claim made not just by radio and cable talk show hosts, but by prominent politicians, that we plan to set up panels of bureaucrats with the power to kill off senior citizens. Now such a charge would be laughable if it weren't so cynical and irresponsible. It's a lie, plain and simple.

The prominent politician who first complained about the death panels in the Obama health plan was Sarah Palin. Later on CNN, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was asked, "You pull out the dictionary, and the person who tells a lie is a liar. Does the President think Sarah Palin is a liar?" Gibbs answered:

I think that for whatever reason despite many media outlets saying what Sarah Palin said was untrue, she continued to say it. I'll let Webster define what one calls her. I think in the absence of fact sometimes what happens is we fill the void with stuff that quite frankly isn't true….It's obvious and true there aren't death panels.

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Chilling is putting it mildly when you read, for example: "an unelected, largely unaccountable group of experts charged with containing Medicare costs. In an interview with the New York Times in April, the President suggested that such a group, working outside of 'normal political channels,' should guide decisions regarding that "huge driver of cost… the chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives." "