The Great Health Care Summit, Part 2

It was also pretty interesting that Obama kept saying he wanted to talk about the issues and chastised Republicans numerous times about talking points (when they were reading from the previous bills or bringing up legitimate concerns, like McCain bringing up special interests in the bill). Here is how Democrats talk about the issues:

OBAMA: I can certainly remember Malia coming into the kitchen one day and saying, "I can't breathe, Daddy." ... My mother didn't have reliable health care and she died of ovarian cancer.

REID: A young man by the name of Jesus Gutierrez.

MURRAY: I remember a little boy, who was 11 years old, who's name was Marcellus.

HOYER: I had a message on my machine: "I was just diagnosed with a tumor."

HARKIN: Got a letter yesterday from a farmer in Iowa.

ROCKEFELLER: I knew this kid, Samuel Ford, and he had leukemia.

CONARD: My own father-in-law in his final illness.

WAXMAN: People from California who were told by Anthem WellPoint that their insurance was going to go up 39 percent.

DODD: A guy in my state, Kevin Galvin.

SLAUGHTER: Her sister died. This poor woman had no dentures. She wore her dead sister's teeth.

That doesn't really sound like the issues to me. It sounds like sob stories designed to bypass the real issues and any meaningful debate.