# Palin says Obama would kill her baby

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [August 7, 2009, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-obama-would-kill-her-baby/505703 "2009-08-07T23:45:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Digital\_Stimulus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Digital\_Stimulus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_Stimulus)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2009, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-obama-would-kill-her-baby/505703/301 "2009-08-15T16:32:46Z")

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> [@Yookeroo](#):
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> But it won’t help move things along. They’ll just gin up something else.

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> Wanna bet? They’ll find something else that they can use to drive the fear they’ve instilled in the conservative base..

Of course they’ll _try_ to gin up something else. For instance, I saw two “new” things since yesterday: the first had to do with military health care being affected – naturally, it’s specifically and explicitly exempted in proposals, while the second had to do with [home health nurses](http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1916589,00.html?xid=rss-topstories-cnnpartner) – according to that article, an approach akin to “death panels” is being tried (i.e., they’re totally making shit up).

The point, again, is that reimbursements for end of life consultations is a great idea, but not vital to reform. What’s vital is _structural_ changes; the reimbursements are just a nice feature. Equating them with “death panels” has gained meme power, however, whose infectious power has reached outside the core idiots who are against reform and always will be against reform (for whatever reason). So, I say drop it and force a regrouping; perhaps doing so will provide a slight inoculation against the next one, or the next one may be handled a bit better, or even simply never gain traction at all.

Succinctly: when someone is simply throwing shit at the wall and some of it sticks, the best solution may just be to wipe the wall clean.

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**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2009, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-obama-would-kill-her-baby/505703/302 "2009-08-15T16:46:53Z")

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> [@yojimbo](#):
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> She’s right. Here in socialist Europe we’ve made these hard decisions and it’s great. We have no poor old people or people with Down Syndrome, we kill’em all.
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> Or not.
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> The sad thing is there’s literally millions that are so stupid they’ll buy this bag of bollocks wholesale and think they are fighting the good fight when they fight it.
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> Democracy isn’t easy. If the US was a totalitarian state Obama could just have her disappeared. This shit is only starting I reckon. Wouldn’t surprise me if it ends with some nutbar killing him or blowing up a building.
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> Crazy times people. Strap yourselves in.

Ummm, didn’t Doctor Stephen Hawkings come out in favor of the British system? I believe it was right after some numbnuts proclaimed that he should be glad he lives in American and doesn’t have to depend on that commie European stuff? Classic comedy gold.

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