Following is NOT from me, but from HotAir

An unprecedented amount of overexposure, nearly realizing my dream of someday being able to turn on the tube and find him staring back as I scroll through every channel. ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, Univision (no Fox, natch), plus who knows? Maybe they’ll squeeze in an appearance on the Food Network, to talk about how important it is to have health insurance in case you accidentally put some tinfoil in the microwave or something.

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The following is NOT from me, but from William A. Jacobson at Le-gal In-sur-rec-tion

Barack Obama was interviewed tonight on 60 Minutes by Steve Kroft. This little nugget had been previewed in pre-interview press hype. Obama states that he will be held accountable by voters if health care restructuring fails, but in fact just the opposite is true:

I have no interest in having a bill get passed that fails. That doesn’t work. You know, I intend to be President for a while, and once this bill passes, I own it. And if people look and say, “You know what? This hasn’t reduced my costs. My premiums are still going up 25 percent, insurance companies are still jerking me around,” I’m the one who’s going to be held responsible. So I have every incentive to get this right.

Kroft immediately went on to another topic. Was Kroft even listening? Didn’t he know that as good as this statement by Obama sounded, it actually made no sense at all?

The new health care plans and restructuring will not take place until after the 2012 Presidential election. Obama will go into the 2012 election without anyone having experienced directly the impact of his plans. Obama will not be eligible to run again in 2016, regardless of whether he is held “accountable” for ruining our health care system.

If Obama’s motivation is to be “President for a while” as he says, then the ultimate success or failure of the health care restructuring plans will have absolutely no impact.

We, not Obama, will be held accountable for Obama’s failure and our own mass delusion.

The mainstream media still is too smitten to care.