In his attempt to respond to my questions, Gibran unwittingly demonstrates why so many people are against President Obama's version of health care reform and the many different bills being formulated by the Democrat-controlled Congress to meet his objective.

In trying to explain himself, Gibran changed the subject from the use of "stimulus" funds to health care, kind of like the way President Obama has changed the subject from "health care reform" to "health insurance reform."

The public is beginning to see through the smokescreens and are spotting the inconsistencies. They are getting the larger picture and their support for the Democrat's brand of health care/insurance reform is slipping.

In one breath, President Obama is telling us that "the status quo is untenable" and that it produces too many specialists and not enough primary-care physicians. Yet five minutes later he is telling us that if we are happy with our plan and we are happy with our doctor, then the federal government won't make us have to change. Also, if these reforms are so urgently needed that President Obama wanted a bill from Congress before their August recess, why are so many of the reforms in their draft bills not scheduled to take effect until 2013? Thinking people hear and read these kind of things and recognize the contradictions and a warning flag starts to go up in the back of their minds.

Then they see old video clips of Obama as a state senator speaking before an AFL-CIO group where he tells them that he is proponent of a "single payer universal health care plan".

Then they hear and see Rep. Barney Frank saying last month that "if we get a good public option, it could lead to single payer and that is the best way to reach single payer".

Even the liberal press is embracing the Democrat's Trojan Horse strategy of enacting a partial reform of the existing system and then gradually evolving to a single payer system.

Just as Gibran refuses to say in dollars how much more he is personally willing to pay in additional taxes [["so what if we have to all pay a little more temporary to fix the problem"), the Democrats are unwilling to tell the public how much more health care/insurance reform is going to cost them in actual dollars and many folks are suspicious of any politician who claims it will be paid for by "bending the cost curve" [[or any other vague and mealy-mouthed explanation).

Small wonder that many people are showing up to their Congressperson's "health care town hall" meetings to tell them they need to "Just Say NO". And in response to the rising opposition, all the Democrats are doing is denouncing those who are doing the protesting instead of trying to make a convincing argument for their reform plans and proposed legislation. That approach is very telling and it is bound to contribute to further erosion in public support for the President's health care/insurance reform plans.