America Under Barack Obama: An Interview with Nat Hentoff (http://www.rutherford.org/oldspeak/articles/interviews/oldspeak-Hentoff_2009.html)

John W. Whitehead: When Barack Obama was a U.S. Senator in 2005, he introduced a bill to limit the Patriot Act. Now that he is president, he has endorsed the Patriot Act as is. What do you think happened with Obama?

Nat Hentoff: I try to avoid hyperbole, but I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had. An example is ObamaCare, which is now embattled in the Senate. If that goes through the way Obama wants, we will have something very much like the British system. If the American people have their health care paid for by the government, depending on their age and their condition, they will be subject to a health commission just like in England which will decide if their lives are worth living much longer.


Read on, - there's much more from this man, who is into his 80s, and has had the time to examine the presidencies of most, that we, in our lives, have
heard, or known of.

Interesting take...........

What's more destructive, a president that may get his way in every sense to dismantle our constitutional government or the people that elected him?

What's more destructive, a president that may get his way in every sense to dismantle our constitutional government or the people that elected him?

Darned good question. He's got tons of help though - the Liberal Congress!


Further on down the article, I found this: (Is Sarah Palin indeed on target?)

JW: Is the so-called health commission that you referred to earlier what some people are referring to as death panels? Is that too strong a word?

NH: That term was used with hyperbole about the parts of the health care bill where doctors are mandated, if people are on Medicare and of a certain age or in serious physical condition, to counsel them on their end-of-life alternatives. I don't believe that was a death panel. It was done to get the Medicare doctors to not spend too much money on them. The death panel issue arose with Tom Daschle, who was originally going to be the Health Czar. Daschle became enamored with the British system and wrote a book about health care, which influenced President Obama.

In England, you have what I would call government-imposed euthanasia. Under the British healthcare system, there is a commission that decides whether or not, based on your age and physical condition, the government should continue to pay for your health. That leads to the government not doing it and you gradually or suddenly die. The present Stimulus Bill sets up the equivalent commission in the United States similar to that which is in England.


If you're too old or in bad physical condition, a "Death Panel" rules whether you live or die.

Darned good question. He's got tons of help though - the Liberal Congress!


Further on down the article, I found this: (Is Sarah Palin indeed on target?)

JW: Is the so-called health commission that you referred to earlier what some people are referring to as death panels? Is that too strong a word?

NH: That term was used with hyperbole about the parts of the health care bill where doctors are mandated, if people are on Medicare and of a certain age or in serious physical condition, to counsel them on their end-of-life alternatives. I don't believe that was a death panel. It was done to get the Medicare doctors to not spend too much money on them. The death panel issue arose with Tom Daschle, who was originally going to be the Health Czar. Daschle became enamored with the British system and wrote a book about health care, which influenced President Obama.

In England, you have what I would call government-imposed euthanasia. Under the British healthcare system, there is a commission that decides whether or not, based on your age and physical condition, the government should continue to pay for your health. That leads to the government not doing it and you gradually or suddenly die. The present Stimulus Bill sets up the equivalent commission in the United States similar to that which is in England.


If you're too old or in bad physical condition, a "Death Panel" rules whether you live or die.

Unless you are politically "fixed" or rich.