Ed Morissey at Hot Air* thinks he’s found Obama’s Dukakis moment:

Barack Obama got ABC to move their news division into the White House in order to make the big pitch for his egalitarian, everyone-gets-treated-equally ObamaCare push. Instead, Obama fumbled into a Michael Dukakis moment that exposed him as a hypocrite. ABC itself leads with Obama’s response that he wouldn’t stay within his own plan for his family:

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Devinsky asked the president pointedly if he would be willing to promise that he wouldn’t seek such extraordinary help for his wife or daughters if they became sick and the public plan he’s proposing limited the tests or treatment they can get.

The president refused to make such a pledge, though he allowed that if “it’s my family member, if it’s my wife, if it’s my children, if it’s my grandmother, I always want them to get the very best care.["]

Oopsie! So ObamaCare for thee, but not for me? Hope and change, baby!

In 1988, Michael Dukakis blew a question about the death penalty when asked about whether he’d want it if his wife Kitty had been raped and murdered. Dukakis said no, but addressed it clinical legalese rather than absorbing the opportunity to address the emotional impact of violent crime, and his candidacy cratered. In this case, Obama did a reverse Dukakis. He went with the emotional argument, and effectively rebutted his own proposal and its egalitarian purpose. It’s a moment of sheer hypocrisy, caught in the modern amber of video.

If ObamaCare isn’t good enough for Sasha, Malia, or Michelle, then it’s not good enough for America. Instead of fighting that impulse, Obama should be working to boost the private sector to encourage more care providers, less red tape and expense, and better care for everyone.

Oh dayamn.

First of all, Ed here is a tool.

Second, Dukakis was saying that he wouldn’t put a criminal to death even if it was a matter personally connected to him, and Obama was saying that he’d use whatever available (presumably legal) options were open to him in order to protect the health of his family – so they’re different things. Really different things – like Day-Glo Frisbees and canned corn are different things.

Third, they weren’t even opposite things, they were really fucking completely unrelated – one is about sticking to a moral position about the value of human life, the presumption of innocence, and the use of political power for retribution in the face of extreme personal violence, and the other is – taking that a minimum standard of health care is something you’re advocating – whether or not you’d stick to that minimum or use your full resources to protect your family.

Fourth, Ed Morissey is a seriously creepy fucktard to equate health insurance and the death penalty. I mean seriously, people, one involves killing people and the other involves keeping them alive. Do the goddamn math.

Fifth, no health care plan is going to say you “can’t” get a test, only that you’d have to pay for it out of pocket – so let’s rephrase the question: would anyone, under any circumstances, under any health plan they’d chosen, guarantee to NOT undergo any medical treatment that wasn’t covered under their healthcare plan?

Sixth, apparently stupid isn’t covered under Ed’s medical plan; would any sane human being commit to putting his or her family on a health care plan that hasn’t even been written yet, and is still being subjected to the tender mercies of multiple Congressional Committees which can’t even agree that such a plan might exist?

Please, please, please stop the stupid… it burns…

Anyhow.

In other news, I’ve now integrated my blog into facebook*** and Twitter. May Dog have mercy on my soul.

* Most appropriately named blog ever.

** My snip, not his.

*** Twice, apparently.