Several readers responded to yesterday's column with emails criticizing us for stopping short of using the L-word--lie--to characterize President Obama's repeated statements to the effect that "If you like your plan, you can keep it." We did use the word in Tuesday's column, although we allowed for the alternative possibility that the president "suffers from a dissociative disorder, a pathological disconnection with reality."

But maybe "Did the president lie?" isn't the best way to frame the question....