Healthcare conference caller from Maine: “Is this true? Will people be able to keep their insurance and will insurers be able to write new policies even though H.R. 3200 is passed?” President Barack Obama: “You know, I have to say that I am not familiar with the provision you are talking about.”

Is there anything more dangerous for this president than being without a scripted answer? Regarding the above quote, it is worth remembering that Mr. Obama has been doing his level best to completely revamp America’s healthcare system as quickly as possible. That he would be unfamiliar about the provision that, as written, eventually puts private insurers out of business is breath-taking.

Is the president a) lying? b) so bereft of political acumen he was caught off guard? Or is it c) so arrogant, he considers the “details” of a trillion dollar budget-busting government take-over of the healthcare system irrelevant?

Considering this president’s track record, I’ll go with all of the above.

Precisely like most of the ruling elites that infest Congress, President Obama’s contempt for the average American and their “petty” concerns–like multi-generational, trillion dollar deficits, e.g.–is his defining characteristic. He is far from alone. Such contempt is the essence of the American leftist worldview. It is what animates those who consider themselves so superior to ordinary Americans, that to question their ambitions or motives is to be both stupid and insulting at the same time.

Such is the essence of administration whose promise of “transparency” has yet to be fulfilled.

Imagine the arrogance it takes to demand that healthcare reform, which has bedeviled the best and brightest minds in America for three decades, be completely fixed by August. Imagine the ease with which one can lie when one considers those one is lying to beneath contempt. Imagine the level of moral corruption in a president and Congress which passes multi-billion dollar legislation without being bothered to “familiarize” themselves with it–as in passing bills completely unread.

Now imagine one more thing: imagine the media reaction if former president Bush, attempting to completely overhaul one-sixth of the American economy, said he was “not familiar’ with one of the most salient provisions of the impending legislation. Would “stupidest president in history” have been a week-long catch-phrase hammered home by our “unbiased” news broadcasters?

The answer, with apologies to Sarah Palin: you betcha.

atahlert@comcast.net

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