Remembering Stanley Ann Dunham Obama (ICYMI: Obamas White Mother) Remember President Barack Obamas mother? Though the airwaves currently echo with his vow If you like your plan . . . I keep remembering Obamas account of his mother being denied coverage by her insurance company as she lay dying of cancer. The moving and infuriating story was a staple on the 2008 campaign trail. His mother had insurance, he explained, but when she came down with cancer, her insurance company claimed her disease was a pre-existing condition and refused to pay for her treatment. In a debate with Sen. John McCain, Obama said: For my mother to die of cancer at the age of 53 and have to spend the last months of her life in the hospital room arguing with insurance companies because theyre saying that this may be a pre-existing condition and they dont have to pay her treatment, theres something fundamentally wrong about that. There would be, if it had been true. But when New York Times reporter Janny Scott researched the issue for her biography of the presidents mother, she discovered letters proving beyond doubt that Cigna never denied Stanley Ann Dunham coverage for her disease. The dispute was over a disability plan that would have paid some of her other expenses. The White House did not deny Scotts account, but shrugged it off as something that had happened long ago. Not so long that it couldnt be milked one last time though, for a 2012 campaign film. In The Road Weve Traveled, the message remained unchanged -- a greedy insurance company had cut off Obamas mother at her moment of maximum vulnerability, and it cost Dunham her life. If someone comes to you and asks for financial aid to cope with a family member who is gravely ill, and you comply, how are you going to feel when you learn there is no sick relative? Its different in politics, explained Michael Cohen in the New York Daily News. The American people want too many contradictory things. Seemingly, the only path to change is telling voters what they want to hear. Doubtless thats what Obama tells himself to justify his deceptions. Its a form of lying for justice. If your goals are noble enough, truth is an acceptable casualty. Obamas propensity to lie is finally widely acknowledged, but it hasnt gone far enough. It isnt just that the pledge about keeping your plan was a noble lie -- the whole law is based upon lies. More lies. Has this man ever told the truth???????? Would he know the truth if it slapped him in the face?
Posted on: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 19:27:57 +0000
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