Obama preaching the politics of fraud

Michael Goodwin:

Once again, Barack Obama is a happy pitch man. He's on stage with a microphone, jacket off, sleeves rolled up, his voice rising and falling as he tries to whip the big crowds into revival-tent fervor.

He's still peddling Hope & Change, although now he calls it health-care reform. He swears his miracle elixir will save your life, your money and your country.

It will do anything you could possibly want -- unless you want the truth.

Then you're squat out of luck. See, truth is a pre-existing condition not covered by ObamaCare.

We used to arrest people for selling snake oil. Now we elect them.

"No false claim left behind" is the perfect summation of President Obama's last-gasp push for a bill that hasn't even been written. No matter details or cost, it'll cure whatever ails you and America.

He's for it, whatever it ends up saying. Just as he was for the House bill and the Senate bill, both before and after they were written, although they contradicted each other in key ways.

And we have to do it now -- now, for history, before it's too late.

For Obama, it's already too late. The public took a leap of faith on him once, and his expensive potions are making the country sicker. The sell-by date on his promise machine has expired.

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There is much more.

There are some true believers out there who are buying into this pitch. But they were presold. They are for the bill no matter what its says ore accomplishes. Yet, it chances of passing grow slimmer each day which explains why Obama is in such a rush to get something out of the house so he can sign it before these guys go home and their constituents tell them how much they do not want these bills.