Hillary supporter compares Obama's healthcare mailer to Nazis marching through Skokie,Ill.

That healthcare mailer

The Clinton campaign convened a conference call with health policy experts to denounce Obama's new mailer (.pdf), which attacks Clintons plan for "forcing" Americans to sign up for insurance, and which features a couple at a kitchen table that recalls, for some, the famous insurance-industry financed "Harry and Louise" ads against the original Clinton plan.

"I am personally outraged at the picture used in this mailing," said Len Nichols of the New America foundation, a leading supporter of mandatory insurance, who called it a "Harry and Louise evocation."

"It is as outrageous as having Nazis march through Skokie, Illinois," Nichols said. "I just find it disgusting that this kind of imagery is being used to attack the only way to get to universal coverage."

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0208/That_healthcare_mailer.html

That campaign was full of lies.

Though Obama is using right wing disinfo to attack Hillary's healtcare plan, it certainly does not rise to the Nazis trying to march thru Skokie

Yikes.

"The problem with Obama is that he's too popular, just like Hitler!"

http://www.politico.com/pdf/PPM44_080130_nd_obama_hrc_healthcare_plan_forces_health_insurance2.pdf

Harsh just harsh. I'd like to see him dance away from this.

Look at the mailer! It shows 2 people sitting at a table. This merits comparison to Nazis??

Jumpin Jesus Christ on a pogo stick, are people following her around trying to pick her discarded tissues out of the garbage just to make up shit about her here?

I support Al Gore (he's a bit busy right now so I have to wait till the SELECTION OF OUR NOMINEE to support the candidate)I just think all of the Hilary hate here is laughable.

It makes all of you so small.:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

So, what...Hillary is your 2nd choice, with Gore not running? What if Gore endorses Obama?

I don't need to repeat myself, maybe you do for effect, but you missed the point about supporting the

NOMINEE

of the party.

:crazy:

Edited (thanks!). I read the piece backwards at first, but the sentiment is the same.

Really, they support Obama's health care plan?

and disproved obama's attack folks would be forced to have health insurance.....

Mandated universal insurance means mandated universal insurance. That means EVERYONE would be forced to have health insurance. What did she say that does not fit with that?

What a bizarre and unreasonable thing said by the Hillary rep.

I looked at it, and it's innocuous. The notion of having John and Joan Q. Public in such a political flyer is as old and standard as anything in politics. To behave as if it this flyer relates in any way to something the insurance industry did 15 years ago is really a reach. Besides, Hillary is "their girl" this time around. She is promoting THEIR favored solution - mandatory insurance.

Hillary has switched sides on this issue since 1993. She's promoting the insurance industry's idea for subverting national heath care so that it gets run by insurance companies, doctors and hospitals.

making a Nazi comparison like that.

The mail piece may well have been reprehensible, but for Nichols to make a comment like that is just plain wrong. I'm glad the Clinton campaign distanced themselves from it.

Dammm... I better burn the family photo album quick.

:rofl:

NGU.

This is mild, and it's really mild when compared to what the Republicans will do.

And every couple sitting at a kitchen table cannot be said to be a comparison to Harry & Louise.

Over the top reaction.

I was 14.

Now they're taking the same disgusting tactics that were used against them and turning them on Obama.

Real class. :eyes:

troubling

Len Nichols needs to get a grip.

How dare they get in the way of the inevitableness that is Hillary. Don't they know she's supposed to have it in the bag? DARE they stand in the way of DESTINY!

I wrote a paper for a college polisci class at the Universiy of Illinois in 1965(!) analyzing a legal case based on the Nazi march in Skokie. It was a pretty topical assignment at the time but more than 40 years later????? Are they expecting this nonsensical comparison to appeal to Jewish Dems? I hope not, because (as a Jewish Dem myself) it strikes me as damned insulting to the many holocaust survivors who lived in Skokie so long ago when George Lincoln Rockwell and his American Nazi Party marched in their town. Other than the older Jews for whom the Nazi march comparison might ring a bell (though not a positive one)I can't think of any group to whom this would have any resonance at all. It's very, very strange.