By The Hand

Singularities
During the 2008 campaign, Obama frequently suggested his mother had to fight with her health-insurance company for treatment of her cancer because it considered her disease to be a pre-existing condition. In one of the presidential debates with GOP rival John McCain, Obama said: 


“For my mother to die of cancer at the age of 53 and have to spend the last months of her life in the hospital room arguing with insurance companies because they’re saying that this may be a pre-existing condition and they don’t have to pay her treatment, there’s something fundamentally wrong about that.” 


But then earlier this year, journalist Janny Scott cast serious doubt on this version of events in her excellent biography, “A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s mother.” Scott reviewed letters from Dunham to the CIGNA insurance company, and revealed the dispute was over disability coverage, not health insurance coverage. (Washington Post, 3/19/2012)


Turns out, Obama lied.


Swept Away
Eight months after deficit talks between the nation’s top two elected officials collapsed, a 4,600-word inside-the-room narrative by The Washington Post on Sunday — the first of several sweeping accounts in the works — paints the Obama administration as walking away from a nearly done agreement with Boehner. And when the president eventually came around and wanted to cut a deal, Boehner said it was too late. In short, the Post piece bolsters the Boehner team’s narrative that it was Obama who got cold feet and became unwilling to strike a grand bargain to fix the nation’s finances. (POLITICO.com, 3/18/2012)


Turns out, Obama lied.


Bio-mess
Obama’s “bringing down gas prices one presidential address at a time” strategy is expected to prompt the Department of Energy to sponsor another contest — one that would award top dollar to the first auto company that can invent a car that runs on speeches. Algae would also be acceptable, of course. (Michelle Malkin, 3/19/2012)


Good one!


By the Phone
In the wake of President Obama calling Georgetown University law student and women's rights activist Sandra Fluke to discuss Rush Limbaugh's remarks, Bristol Palin, the daughter of the former Alaska governor, posted a question to the current White House resident Sunday.

"Mr. President, When Should I Expect Your Call?" (NewsBusters.com, 3/19/2012)


Do it, Mr. President. Call Bristol Palin and return Bill Maher's $1 million....for the sake of Malia and Sasha....