Hyperbolize Much?
Posted at 11:57pm on Feb. 2, 2008 Department Of Overstatement
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
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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