Palin quoted Reagan when he spoke against Medicare - Krugman

[Fuzz]

Unbelievable. Sarah Palin finished her closing remarks by quoting Ronald Reagan:

It was Ronald Reagan who said that freedom is always just one generation away from extinction. We don’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream; we have to fight for it and protect it, and then hand it to them so that they shall do the same, or we’re going to find ourselves spending our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children about a time in America, back in the day, when men and women were free.

When did he say this? It was on a recording he made for Operation Coffeecup — a campaign organized by the American Medical Association to block the passage of Medicare. Doctors’ wives were supposed to organize coffee klatches for patients, where they would play the Reagan recording, which declared that Medicare would lead us to totalitarianism.

You couldn’t make this stuff up.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/raising-the-white-flag-of-surrender-to-medicare/

[ColbertWatcher]

1. Hmm. I thought that was Peggy Noonan! n/t

[Blackhatjack]

2. Sounds like a tv ad is in order reminding voters Repubs are against medicare...

so many cherry-picked lines are damning when viewed in their original context.

You play fast and loose... you sometimes get burned.

[zazen]

3. "freedom is always just one generation away from extinction:" well, he had that one right n/t