This could be especially bad for a candidate like Obama, whose campaign is focused on himself more than his policies. People may wonder if he's just telling them what they want to hear, rather than what he'll really do as President.  And if people begin to question whether or not they can trust what he is telling them, it's going to cut deep into his support, since much of it is based on personal connection to Obama.

Will the media play up the story, or will they let it pass by? We will probably know by Sunday morning which it's going to be. Because, if I was the Clinton campaign, this is what I would be trying to get everyone to talk about before the Tuesday elections (and the sooner the better).

That's the GOP tactic of accusing your opponent of doing what you're doing.

Filth.

The Bush 2000 campaign was more forthcoming than Obama's.

And by the way, if you lived in a midwestern industrial state you might have a better idea of why this tactic is particularly disgusting.

That would explain the lack of industry regulation in Obama's health care plan.

Clinton (& Edwards etc) the mandate works on both consumers AND industry (and other stakeholders).
It includes industry mandates to stop customer discrimination, forcing compliance with standards etc.

Obama's plan uses words like "encourage" industry to play nice, use "voluntary" mechanisms etc. All optional.  His subsidies are just corporate welfare, more people get covered sure, but they get the same crap coverage everybody else is already pissed about, and the govt subisidies, in effect, flow through to the HMO.

HMOs have maxed out the market in the USA, a 'saturated market', they are keen to expand to overseas markets. Canada might look good I guess for a new hunting ground?

No. None Nada.

The principals are David Cutler, Austen Goolsbee and Jeffrey Liebmnan.

Free market, free traders one and all.

And that's been the biggest clue to Obama's perfidious campaign from the start.

This is what's behind his remarks about Social Security (Jeffrey Liebman, SS privatization supporter), his tepid response ($500 tax credit) to the mortgage crisis, his lame (tax cuts) initial response to recession countermeasures and his failure to provide a government run health insurance option (David Cutler, wants health care industry profits as high as possible) unlike Edwards and Clinton.