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Care Versus Control (Thomas Sowell)
Townhall.com ^ | August 4, 2009 | Thomas Sowell

Posted on 08/04/2009 12:57:15 PM PDT by jazusamo

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To: a fool in paradise
“Maybe you are better off not having the surgery, uh, but taking the pain killer.” — President Barak Hussein Obama (June 24, 2009)

What a twisty way with words he has. He's really not talking about the patient being better off medically, but the single payer system being better off financially.

There's probably a name for this rhetorical device, and I wish I knew it. It's a slick switch, or it could have been if he hadn't fumbled it with the 'uh'.

41 posted on 08/04/2009 6:39:41 PM PDT by slowhandluke (It's hard work to be cynical enough in this age)
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