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By Pejman Yousefzadeh Posted in 2008 | Hyperbolize Much? | The Clintons — Comments (9) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
The Clinton campaign convened a conference call with health policy experts to denounce Obama's new mailer, which attacks Clinton's plan for "forcing" Americans to sign up for insurance, and which features a couple at a kitchen table that recalls, for some, the famous insurance-industry-financed "Harry and Louise" ads against the original Clinton plan.
"I am personally outraged at the picture used in this mailing," said Len Nichols of the New America Foundation, a leading supporter of mandatory insurance, who called it a "Harry and Louise evocation."
"It is as outrageous as having Nazis march through Skokie, Ill.," Nichols said. "I just find it disgusting that this kind of imagery is being used to attack the only way to get to universal coverage."
[UPDATE: At the end of the call, Clinton aide Howard Wolfson disavowed the Nazi reference, saying the campaign didn't think it was appropriate, though he acknowledged the passions the issue stirs.]
Yeah, I can imagine why Wolfson would want to back away. But I shudder to think what the Clinton folks say when the cameras and the microphones are off.
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"If we want to take this party back, and I think we can someday, let’s get to work." – Barry Goldwater
But I just go back to The Economist's first rule of debate (which was a personal one of my own prior to their publishing it; great minds think alike?): Whoever mentions the Nazis first in a debate loses.
All you need to know.
"No matter how much lipstick you put on the taxation pig, it's still a pig... and it's currently snout-down in your wallet." - Michael Fisk
How interesting.
Something that small that can get that bad an over reaction is worth knowing.
Just in case.
You used to have to propose tax cuts to qualify as a nazi in the liberal vocabulary, now you only have to fault a proposed health care plan.
Much fuss recently about Jonah Goldberg's book "Liberal Fascism", but it's things like this that give credence to Goldberg's thesis.
"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville
Nonsense. It's way more outrageous than that. Why, it's as outrageous as Stalin's forced collectivization. Or the Rape of Nanking. Or the Red Sox winning two World Series in four years.
"But I shudder to think what the Clinton folks say when the cameras and the microphones are off."
I can't be sure, but they might sound more reasonable. Cameras and microphones make people crazy. Clearly, Mr. Nichols needs to check his meds, because what he said was the most outrageous thing I've ever heard in my entire life (except for that Red Sox thing).
Hyperbole. (sigh) Life wouldn't be worth living without it.
...a sign of the Apocalypse.
If you lived in the Tri-State area, at least.
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC. I've been usurped!
No worries. :)
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC. I've been usurped!
The Daily Iowan (which was quoted in the ad) is a student newspaper?
No, say it isn't so, please. My sides are splitting!