Well, She Got One Thing Right

Sarah Palin's hysterical verdict on Obama's health care plan:

"The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby
with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so
his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level
of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care. Such
a system is downright evil."

- Sarah Palin

Well, now.

She is right -- such a system is, or would be, downright evil. Such discernment she demonstrates! It would be an unspeakable horror if a "death panel" were convened for the purpose of deciding if Down Syndrome babies or old people, or liberals, are worthy of life.

The key here is the conditional sense, or "would be," and it's here that the sage rhetoric of Ms. Palin reveals itself to be quite foul. The scenario she paints is one of fantasy, conditioned, as it were, on the entirety of American politics taking a collective leap into the kind of ammoral insanity she herself is perhaps more familiar with.

See, there is no talk whatsoever -- never has been, never will be, isn't now -- or even the possibility that Obama's plan will actually include such a thing. She knows that. Her speculation isn't based on fact, or even likelihood, but solely on her hatred of Obama, her disdain for liberals, and her unwavering belief that anything coming from the White House has as its origin and its intent unspeakable, un-Christian, evil. And she's entitled to believe that. And, if she'd like, she could build a bunker in her home in Wasilla to keep baby Trig safe. She gets to.

What she, and other "Christian" politicos and leaders DON'T get to do -- gee, stop me if you've heard this before -- is lie, incite chaos, and purposely and purposefully misrepresent the stated actions of President Obama. It's a sin.

It's a sin, by the way, even if a liberal feminist Christian chick points it out. Fortunately, there's a standard higher than even mine or Sarah's.