This is taken from a reply I posted in another thread. I think merits its own discussion.
“Let me just be specific about some things that I’ve been hearing lately that we just need to dispose of here. The rumor that’s been circulating a lot lately is this idea that somehow the House of Representatives voted for death panels that will basically pull the plug on grandma because we’ve decided that we don’t, it’s too expensive to let her live anymore....It turns out that I guess this arose out of a provision in one of the House bills that allowed Medicare to reimburse people for consultations about end-of-life care, setting up living wills, the availability of hospice, etc. So the intention of the members of Congress was to give people more information so that they could handle issues of end-of-life care when they’re ready on their own terms. It wasn’t forcing anybody to do anything.” (emphasis added)
That's Obama himself, at yesterday's 'townhall,' trying to dodge the truth of the 'rumor' by pulling the ole misdirection play, attempting to tie it to something else, presumably to avoid having to publicly confront the actual 'death panel' provisions of the bill and what role that unelected decision-making body would play, how it would arrive at its decisions and what role Congress or actually-elected-and-accountable-to-the-people officials would have in its oversight.
This can mean only one of two things. Either 1) not even he knows or understands what's in the bill, or 2) he's intentionally misleading us because he believes we 'can't handle the truth.' Neither is particularly reassuring, to put it as kindly as I can.
Of course, none of the Gullible Media picked up on this or, if they did, bothered to challenge it.