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To: Bearcatbob who wrote (118742)	8/18/2009 9:30:47 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541957

Good heavens, Bob, those aren't lies. I was afraid of that. That is the usual way policy debates are framed. What's not the usual way is deliberate out and out brutish lies--death panels, immigrant takeover, socialized medicine, you name it. That strikes me as much like your equating of Palin and Biden. One can disagree with Biden, one can see him making more than his shares of misstatement, but he is, by admission of almost everyone he has ever worked with, a first class intellect and an excellent senator. To consider his gaffes as equivalent to Palin's lack of any sense of serious policy issues is strange. At best.

To: Bearcatbob who wrote (118742)	8/18/2009 9:52:56 PM
From: Paul Kern	Respond to of 541957

I consider his repeated statement re if you like your policy you can keep it. This is said while the plan being designed will destroy the option that some may want to keep. I presume that you have some proof for this fact. If not, please apologize.

To: Bearcatbob who wrote (118742)	8/18/2009 11:18:21 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541957

I consider his repeated statement re if you like your policy you can keep it. This is said while the plan being designed will destroy the option that some may want to keep. It will only "destroy the option" if employers destroy it. People will have exactly the same kind of freedom they now w/r/t their health plan. If their employer carries it, they can choose it or opt out to pay for one on their own. Except now they will also have the public option--assuming of course that that gets done in the end.