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Well, different strokes and all that. The video definitely tickled my
schadenfreude bone, and I confess to laughing when the staff leaves
because they have medicaid (ie., single payer) and when Hitler says
Palin was right about the death panels. True, the source may be from the
right (and thus wouldn't make it past the party committee) but even a
blind rightwinger can find an acorn sometimes. Of course, being
Canadian, I'm pretty well removed from all this and don't have a good
thing to say about your Obamacare; how, though, do you think trade
unionists who have struggled to win better plans would feel about the video?
michael
ps. never having seen the movie excerpt before, it was pretty fresh for me.
Charlie wrote:
Sorry, the video is a terrible piece on Obamacare. It is an attack on
Obamacare from the right: most staff in the room leave because they got
Medicaid under the expansion; Hitler liked the substandard policy he
had; young are set against old; Sarah Palin is validated; and more. Nor
does applying irony because Hitler says these things make the video a
left-wing critique; at best, irony would lead the viewer to take it a
defense of Obamacare.
And aren't we sick of new subtitles for this movie excerpt, a device
that has been used too many times on it to have fresh impact.
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