re: #35 Charles

In other words, yes, you do think it’s fine to lie and distort, because you feel desperate and powerless. Got it.

There’s a word for the position that politicians find themselves in when telling the truth - the minority.

George Bush tried to tell the truth about our inevitably bankrupt Social Security system. It was the beginning of the end of his presidency. In this case, Barack Obama and his allies co-opt the language of the free market and try to paint the public option as something that “encourages competition”. When, the truth of the matter is no one can compete with the government, so the public option is just big fat lie designed to kill the insurance companies. If you’ve got to spin a few yarns to combat that, so be it.