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It’s starting to become real clear why Mr. Obama has garnered so much GOP and conservative love.

The Obama campaign has sent out a mailer complete with GOP talking points that parrots the insurance industry’s attack on universal health care back in 1993. The “Harry and Louise” ads that many will remember set this country back decades and still define the baseless fears that many Americans have regarding universal coverage.

Let me be clear, this is an attack that goes way beyond Hillary Clinton’s health care plan –it is a slap in the face to all of us that have worked for years to correct the false information and absolute terror many American have had until very recently of universal coverage.

To say that, I, like many others who’ve dreamt of the day when universal coverage becomes an American reality are furious would be an understatement –it got one health care policy expert so upset that he invoked Nazis.

There is absolutely no excuse political or otherwise for the lies and imagery invoked in this mailer and for an attack on universal health care to come from a Democrat, running as a progressive darling, only makes it more untenable.

I’m waiting to hear the Obama campaign’s reasoning for the mailers. For some reason I think it’s going to sound something like, “It became necessary to destroy the village in order to save it.”

Taylor Marsh has the full story with links.

*******UPDATE**********

CNN is distorting this story! They have wrongly linked Len Nichols who said the Obama ads “[were] as outrageous as having Nazis march through Skokie, Ill. … I just find it disgusting that this kind of imagery is being used to attack the only way to get to universal coverage.with the Clinton campaign. Len Nichols is in no way associated with the Clinton campaign officially or otherwise and is a health care policy adviser that works for a non-partisan group and has advised several current and past campaigns.

The Misleading CNN Report can be found here.

The Nation also described Nichols of being a Clinton surrogate. The article viewable at Yahoo News has been ammended but the headline which reads: “Clinton Surrogate Compares Obama Ad to Nazi March” has not been corrected.