Weeping with WaPo

It could really tear at your heart strings--Washington Post's version of how Obama was first tested on health care while an Illinois Senator. After the first page I thought I'd gag at the obsequious adulation, so I don't know if the writer got around to what's happened in Illinois with all the mandates that now deny people doctors, or that Medicaid, a state run program, has been broke for years. Our Illinois friends chose to keep their mother in an Ohio nursing home (she's on Medicaid) and make the grueling drive back and forth. (They are, of course, union members, DINKS and Democrats.) However the writer did let it slip that the 2004 speech at the Democratic convention was a rerun he'd used many times. That with a phony blaccent and pulpit flourishes was enough to make liberals swoon.

"Summoning a story he would repeat during his 2004 speech at the Democratic National Convention, Obama talked about a father he met who would soon lose his job and health insurance after being laid off from a plant in Butler, Ill. His son needed $4,500 worth of drugs because of a liver transplant, Obama said. . . "

It's great drama, syrupy fiction, and just what we've come to expect from WaPo.