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Wonder if anyone will address this?

Last year:

Obama: My Grandmother was a typical white person...

Now:

Obama invokes grandmother's death in health debate

I find it highly offensive that he uses both his grandmother's and his mother's death in this debate.

I remind those who didn't notice that he barely saw his grandmother during her final months, and for all his talk about his mother worrying about insurance he apparently did NOTHING to help her.

He already had that big book advance and he could have told her "Don't worry about the money, mom. I'll take care of it."

He could have cut short his stay in the South Pacific for book writing in order to come to Hawaii and run interference with the insurance company, since he was a lawyer.

He did nothing, and I don't think he was even there when she died. And we all remember how his grandmother didn't get a real funeral and the memorial service had to be scheduled around his campaign.

So, his use of these two now-dead women is highly offensive to me.

From now on, it's no longer "death panels", it's "making Grandma Shovel Ready" - connects multiple spending programs together and ties it all together.

This morning on the C-SPAN talk show, the moderator seemed to take sides and commented that "The death panel notion has been totally debunked." So why did this get removed, if it wasn't there in the first place? And why is the C-SPAN moderator taking sides?

Obama invokes grandmother's death in health debate.

To use the White house's own word, I still find it very, very 'fishy' that his grandmother died the week end before the election...WHILE he was visiting her!