Obama accidentally tells the truth

A little honesty on Obamacare, however fleeting, is welcome:

You know, I’m glad President Obama is pushing so hard on this.  It must mean that it’s really important, and I think it really is selfish and greedy of any of us to oppose what is obviously such a universal good.

I’ve attached below a passage from my favorite novel that has been reverberating for me lately:

“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake.  We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power.  Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness; only power, pure power…”

“The German Nazis and Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives.  They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal.  We are not like that.  We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.  Power is not a means; it is an end.”

– O’Brien to Winston in the Ministry of Love, Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

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