Gov. Howard Dean created quit a stir when he said he would vote NO on the Senate version of the Health Care insurance reform bill, because it did not have a public option or lower the Medicare eligibility age, but the extreme right wing-nuts began using him in their rhetoric which he could not allow to continue so has reluctantly changed his mind and now recommends the senate vote yes for the bill hoping it may be changed for the better in the conference committee. Also discussed is the offensive email portraying Barack Obama as a communist witch doctor sent out by Dr. David McKalip who had to step down from his leadership post in the AMA see the St. Petersburg Times (www.tampabay.com ST. PETERSBURG — The president-elect of the Pinellas County Medical Association stepped down Friday, apologizing profusely for forwarding an e-mail image that portrayed President Barack Obama as a witch doctor in a loin cloth and headdress with bones in his nose. Dr. David McKalip, a St. Petersburg neurosurgeon, said he is taking a year’s leave of absence from a leadership role at the American Medical Association. He also plans to take a lower public profile in the health care reform debate. “That e-mail depicted such an offense image, and it was completely inappropriate for me to thoughtlessly forward it out,” McKalip said. “A person in my position, who’s trying to help patients and trying to do it in organized medicine, needs to think hard about the people he’s going to hurt when he sends …