McCain Endorses Claim That Obama Finds Seniors ‘Expendable’: ‘I’ve Never Heard It More Eloquently Put’
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/09/03/mccain-expendable-seniors/During the question-and-answer session, Jim Dolan, president of the Florida Medical Association, expressed his anger with the American Medical Association for supporting President Obama’s health care plan. We “repudiate that action on their part,” Dolan said, speaking for his Florida chapter.
Dolan went on to propagate a version of the false “death panels” myth, claiming that the Obama administration is promoting “dranconian rationing that Rahm Emanuel’s brother, Ezekiel, talks about as though it’s going down to pick up a loaf of bread.” Dolan wondered when are people going to realize that “the people advising this president” feel that the seniors “are expendable.”
Rather than distance himself from Dolan’s false assertion, McCain wholeheartedly embraced it:
McCAIN: Doctor, I know you have a day job, but I’d like to take you with me wherever I go.
I’ve never heard it more eloquently put than you just stated the situation.