Obama's Death Panel Claims First Victim

In a shocking foretaste of what we can expect from socialised healthcare, evil Kenyan-born "president" Barack Obama today publicly strangled a distinguished disabled physicist. "Professor Hawking's quality of life did not meet the assessment criteria laid down in subsection 6 paragraph 3b of the Life (prolongation of) regulations", a White House spokesman explained. "As a British citizen, he had in fact been looking forward to this for many years."

"This is not the America I gave up governing Alaska for. Hell no!" said Sarah Palin, giving her reaction on Facebook this evening.