Is anyone else getting sick of the President's speechifying?

****Children are always abjured to think before they speak: when does this guy have any time to think ( assuming he's had a new thought since his sophomore days?) Today news channels were pre-empted by a speech to the AFL-CIO, clearly a hometown crowd. Although it's hard to concentrate on the repeated ( and vacuous ) tropes, only exhortations were apparent together with lying about what was and was not literally "in" the "bill" with no attention to the truthfulness of inevitable consequences. Obama's lawyerly view of things is the testimony sampled at the tenth floor of a guy who fell from the twentieth:"I'm OK so far."
The evidence is building that Sarah Palin's prediction of "death panels" was not that far off the mark if one is not reassured by the observation that the term doesn't occur in any of the versions of the bill under scrutiny.****
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Government Medicine vs. the Elderly In Britain in 2007-08, 16.5% of deaths came after 'terminal sedation.' By RUPERT DARWALL London
...health-care debate provoked a near unanimous response from British politicians boasting of the superiority of their country's National Health Service....This outbreak of NHS jingoism was brought to an abrupt halt by the Patients Association, an independent charity. In a report, the association presented a catalogue of end-of-life cases that demonstrated, in its words, "a consistent pattern of shocking standards of care." It provided details of what it described as "appalling treatment," which could be found across the NHS...
****It's inescapably logical: if, in the U.S., 25% of healthcare costs occur in the last six months of life, a cost-savings orientation will cause one to truncate the last six months. Even in this cold-blooded and cold-hearted ( and unAmerican ) viewpoint, the question arises as to HOW do the experts know whether it's only six months that are truncated and not six years.****