President Obama, in a conference call with faith leaders yesterday, said “some folks out there … are, frankly, bearing false witness” on health care reform.
Obama called the idea of “death panels” an “extraordinary lie” on the call.
He urged people of faith to help the health care reform effort, telling them to “knock on doors, talk to neighbors … spread the truth.” “Men and women of faith have showed us what’s possible when we follow our hopes and not our fears,” he said.
He also, as expected, framed reform as a moral obligation. As a society, he said, we have an obligation to “look out for one another … We are neglecting to live up to that call.”
