Obama Mocks Suggestion ObamaCare as Bad as Fugitive Slave Act

Explaining ‘Fugitive Slave Act’ Claim Highlighted by Obama(The Wall Street Journal)

In a speech defending his health-care law Thursday, President Barack Obama ran through a list of ObamaCare critics’ claims, among them that the law is the “most dangerous legislation ever.”

But one reference may have caught audience members particularly off guard.

'You had a state representative somewhere say that it’s as destructive to personal and individual liberty as the Fugitive Slave Act,' Mr. Obama told audience members at a Maryland community college. 'Think about that. Affordable health care is worse than a law that lets slave owners get their runaway slaves back.'