>As long as the media focuses on the extremes then it will always appear like that is the only discussion taking place.
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>as long as it sells papers and advertising minutes, right? ;-)
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>I still think Obama is trying too hard to have intellectual debate if his opponents are funding derogatory signs and FUD. There's plenty of FUD he could send back at them: maybe he should be telling audiences that statistically 5 of them will be bankrupted by medical bills in the next 2 years and ten of them in the 2 years after that unless things change now. Look around yourselves and wonder which of you will be bankrupt with no job, no home and no healthcare insurance. Against that, a Hitler sign starts to seem a little silly. Then he could move onto rising costs including care for the elderly, turning the "death panel" fibs back on his detractors: the population is aging, costs are rising and if sign-wavers resent paying for it, who do they suppose will? Is grandma to be tossed onto the street to fend for herself, or how exactly are the sign-wavers proposing to pay the bills? He might as well fight fire with fire.

He already has - in his tv speech last week.