The Democrats must be having second thoughts about Obama's strategy to blunt the impact of health care protestors by calling them an "angry mob."

I mean, look at the photos or the videos. Those dudes are really old! Angry white duffers aren't exactly scary. Why are they so old?

Here is Obama's problem in a nutshell: Old people are the ones who care the most about health care -- their own health care. So the more Obama and the Democats talk about the need to change the system to cover more young folks, the less secure Grandma feels.

Right now, President Obama is beginning to sound a lot like former President Bush. I mean, specifically, the Bush who roared back from a narrow election victory thinking he had a mandate to restructure Social Security.

Like Bush, Obama's strategy includes repeatedly promising people who like the current system that they will not be affected. Voters then and now are having a hard time believing the politicians.

The Democrats are so obviously two-faced on health care, selling Obamacare to their supporters as the pathway to single payer, and then turning around and promising the American public in general that nothing will change for them. Who are the Democrats lying to? To their most loyal supporters or to the broader public? Both groups are beginning to get nervous about the answer to that question.

And so like President Bush, the more President Obama talks about health care reform, the less the American people like it.

Quinnipiac's Aug. 5 poll found that Americans disapprove of Obama's handling of health care 52 percent to 39 percent, a big drop in support from just a month earlier, when Americans approved of Obamacare 46 percent to 42 percent.

Old people, the ones who have the biggest stake and the most passion around health care, are the least likely to see anything in it for them. As the Gallup headline put it: "Seniors Least Optimistic about Benefits of Healthcare Reform:" Just 20 percent of Americans age 65 and older believe that health care reform would improve their own medical care.

To get a real sense of Obamacare's potential crash, take a look at one of the most peaceful town hall meetings: deep in the bluest of blue state territory, the New York congressional district of Anthony Weiner.

No, the angry white duffer mob didn't bother to show up, but notice who did? "Just like at his first town hall in Forest Hills on Friday, Weiner's event was attended almost entirely by seniors who were already at the center for lunch," reports the New York Post. One elderly woman asked whether the plan would eliminate "penalties" built in to the existing prescription drug plan. (Translation: "Will my health coverage be expanded?") One old man asked, "Who is going to pay for the 47 million who aren't insured?"

Notice something else that's key. Rep. Weiner refused to defend Obamacare at all. Instead, he argued for his own personal health care reform, a government-run single-payer plan. According to the Post, Weiner "knocked the White House plan as 'this other thing they're trying to do (which) is a little more complicated.'"

Why was one of the most secure Democrats in the country unwilling to defend what his president is actually trying to pass?

And what's going to happen to politicians in the vast purple realms of America if they actually vote for a plan that won't even play in New York City?