Harry and Louise and Barack Obama

Well, in the annals of right wing memes embraced by Obama, I come across this, care of Paul Krugman and Ezra Klein.

Here is the Obama ad:


Look familiar?

Just to jog your memory, here is the 1993 Harry and Louise ad:



Yep, it's the same damn thing.

So we have his health plan, which eschews mandates, which means that adverse selection will make it a failure, and he's campaigning in a way that will provide ammunition to enemies of healthcare reform.

This is crap. When people talk about scorched earth campaigning, there is nothing more scorched earth, or sodden earth in the case of Hurricane Katrina, than the Republican side on all of this.

We need the Republicans out of the white house, and increasingly it looks like Obama wants to be another Republican.