"I'm the death-panel-supporting, socialist, may-not-have-been-born-here president."
--President Barack Obama on Wednesday during a White House meeting with House Republicans about lifting the debt ceiling. According to people "familiar with his remarks" who spoke with the Los Angeles Times, Obama was responding to Rep. Paul Ryan, who accused him of "demagoguery" over his disagreements to Ryan's proposed Medicare overhaul.
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