Obama does Harry and Louise, again

[bernicewilliams]

February 1, 2008
The Conscience of a Liberal--Paul Krugman's blog.

The Obama campaign sends out an ugly mailer. Sorry, but this is just destructive — like the Obama plan, the Clinton plan offers subsidies to lower-income families. And BO himself has conceded that he might have to penalize people who don’t buy insurance until they need care. So this is just poisoning the well for health care reform. The politics of hope, indeed.

Update: Ezra Klein adds a screenshot of the original Harry and Louise ad — they’ve obviously deliberately copied it. Just to remind everyone, Harry and Louise were the center of the vile smear campaign the insurance lobby waged against health care reform in 1993 — and this time a Democratic candidate is doing the smearing for them.



Read more: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/01/obama-does-harry-and-louise-again/

[AX10]

1. Now that's low.

:puke:

[DS1]

2. damn

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[bernicewilliams]

3. Compare Obama's mailer to the Harry and Louise screenshot

[xchrom]

4. recommend