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Palin's wackiness

The debate in the US on reforming its disfunctional and poor health system - well, at least for the over 45 million who don't have any health insurance - is hotting up.

The opponents to the sort of reforms Obama is pushing are becoming more strident and extreme in their opposition.

The latest to come out against the reform is none other than "our" Sarah Palin, one time Governor of Alaska and VP on the Sen. McCain ticket for the 2008 presidential election.

Read Palin on TPM and ponder.......this woman is seriosuly being touted as a presidential candidate in 2012?

"In a new posting on her Facebook account, former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) made a dire statement about health care reform -- that it could result in an Obama-created "death panel" killing her infant son with Down Syndrome:

'The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's "death panel" so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their "level of productivity in society," whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.'

And she pointed Americans' attention to a recent speech by none other than Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), warning of the dastardly involvement of Rahm Emanuel's brother, who is a doctor, in the health care debate:

'Rep. Michele Bachmann highlighted the Orwellian thinking of the president's health care advisor, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, the brother of the White House chief of staff, in a floor speech to the House of Representatives. I commend her for being a voice for the most precious members of our society, our children and our seniors.'

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