OBAMA TO STUFF TURKEY WITH OBAMACARE- UGH!

OBAMA TO STUFF TURKEY WITH OBAMACARE- UGH!
Forget the turkey; stuff yourself with health care talk.

Dave Martin, AP)
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
The Obama administration thinks the holidays are the perfect time to gather round and discuss Obamacare.
Obama's Organizing for Action has launched a website with helpful tips about how to have 'the talk.'
This isn't the first time Team Obama's happily invaded realms previously viewed as non-political.

Loathe peaceful holidays? Detest the spirit of agreeableness and good will that tends to pervade during this time of year? Well, if you're longing for it to be 'tis the season of debates, irritations, and shouting matches, you're in luck: The Obama administration thinks the holidays are the perfect time to gather round and discuss … Obamacare.


Wary about the effect bringing up the most polarizing political topic among your relatives and friends who likely span the blue-purple-red spectrum will have? Don't be, because President Barack Obama's Organizing for Action has launched a website with helpful tips about how to have "the talk." (Here's my first tip: If any adolescents or preteens are present, you might want to use a different phrase than "the talk" when broaching the subject if you don't want an instant exodus.)

The tips including asking your family and guests coming over for the holiday to bring the information they'd need to sign up for Obamacare, because it's absolutely not awkward at all to tell someone you'd like him to bring wine and oh, his social security number and annual salary, too. You're advised to bring up Obamacare during "family time … downtime after meals or between holiday activities." Perfect: When your family is curled up in chairs in a turkey/stuffing/pumpkin pie-induced stupor, you can cut off the idle reminisces about bygone days and football and kids saying the cutest things, and launch that super festive health-care conversation that's sure to have everyone bursting into a rollicking round of kumbaya, despite that pesky little fact that poll after poll shows the country is sharply divided on this issue.

This isn't the first time Team Obama's happily invaded realms previously viewed as non-political. During the presidential election, Obama's campaign e-mailed supporters, asking, "Got a birthday, anniversary, or wedding coming up?" If so, "let your friends know how important this election is to you – register with Obama 2012, and ask for a donation in lieu of a gift."