Palin: Obama's "death panel" is "evil"

(MSNBC)
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin called President Barack Obama's health plan "downright evil" Friday in her first online comments since leaving office, saying in a Facebook posting that he would create a "death panel" that would deny care to the neediest Americans.

"The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care," the former Republican vice presidential candidate wrote.

"Such a system is downright evil," Palin wrote on her page, which has nearly 700,000 supporters. She encouraged her supporters to be engaged in the debate.

This is the type of awful rhetoric, utterly misrepresenting the plan, that is going to get people killed. With the "healthers" storming the gates at town hall meetings in a display of mock outrage - spurred on by the RNC and big health - Palin's beyonf-the-pale remarks add fuel to the fire.

Not content to debate on the merits of the plan - a debate they know they would likely lose - they've decided to ratchet up the tension, scare folks half to death and set in motion forces that they ultimately won't be able to control. At what point will they realize that this is not a game and that they're playing with real people and real lives?

If blood spills, it is firmly on their hands. Of course, the right is already lining up deniability on the issues because they KNOW where it's headed. They want to be able to say "told you so, it's Obama's fault".

"Let me suggest ... if anybody's hurt" at town hall meetings, "this White House has some responsibility for it. If something terrible happens at one of these town hall meetings, I think the president in part can be held accountable." - Mark Levin on Hannity