re: #18 jaunte

The whole assertion of pandering seems to rest on whether Obama was saying the reasons for the skyrocketing autism rate were inconclusive, or whether the connection to vaccines was inconclusive. Pretty thin.

And who exactly would he have been pandering to? Was the Jenny McCarthy voting bloc that important?//

In California, the hotbed of anti-vaxxer loons, Obama won by 24 points in 2008, so I don’t think he was “pandering” to anyone.