Obama On Death Panel Smear: “I Just Lost My Grandmother Last Year” At his town hall meeting on health insurance reform yesterday, President Obama fired back at the “death panel” smear. “I just lost my grandmother last year. I know what it’s like to watch somebody you love, who’s aging, deteriorate and have to struggle with that,” Obama said, attacking those who would put forward “the notion that somehow I ran for public office or members of Congress are in this so they can go around pulling the plug on grandma.”
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