Posted on 10/29/2013 5:09:27 PM PDT by mdittmar
The White House argued Tuesday that President Barack Obama didn’t mislead the public when he repeatedly promised Americans “If you like your health plan, you will be able to keep your health plan” under the Affordable Care Act.
Press secretary Jay Carney said the president’s declaration was still technically true even as almost two million Americans across the country are getting, or are about to get, letters canceling policies purchased on the individual market.
“No, the president was clear about a basic fact,” Carney said Tuesday when asked directly whether Obama had misled Americans about the impact of his signature domestic achievement. “If you had insurance that you liked on the individual market, and you wanted to keep that insurance…you could.”
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Truly, we have never had a more craven WH press secretary than Jay Carney.
One wonders how it must feel to be a paid liar.
Gives smoke and mirrors a bad name.
You CAN keep your insurance until they are required to cancel you by law according to 0bamaCare.
0bama is always right.
For once he’s right. Obama did not mislead; he flat out lied.
ROFL AT RALPHIE PIC!!!
OK, thanks for the "clarification." How does that change anything? Obama knew a fact and stated the opposite. That is a LIE. He is a LIAR.
All depends on what your definition of "plan" is . . .
Obama believes that you don’t know enough to realize that you don’t really like your plan so he has decided for you what would be better.
” There really are people and institutions made up of people, who respond with hatred in the presence of goodness and would destroy the good insofar as it is in their power to do so. They do this not with conscious malice but blindly, lacking awareness of their own evil — indeed, seeking to avoid any such awareness. As has been described of the devil in religious literature, they hate the light and instinctively will do anything to avoid it, including attempting to extinguish it. They will destroy the light in their own children and in all other beings subject to their power.
Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. They hate goodness because it reveals their badness; they hate love because it reveals their laziness. They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in order to avoid the pain of such self-awareness. My second conclusion, then, is that evil is laziness carried to its ultimate, extraordinary extreme. As I have defined it, love is the antithesis of laziness. Ordinary laziness is a passive failure to love. Some ordinarily lazy people may not lift a finger to extend themselves unless they are compelled to do so. Their being is a manifestation of nonlove; still, they are not evil.
Truly evil people, on the other hand, actively rather than passively avoid extending themselves. They will take any action in their power to protect their own laziness, to preserve the integrity of their sick self. Rather than nurturing others, they will actually destroy others in this cause. If necessary, they will even kill to escape the pain of their own spiritual growth. As the integrity of their sick self is threatened by the spiritual health of those around them, they will seek by all manner of means to crush and demolish the spiritual health that may exist near them.
I define evil, then, as the exercise of political power — that is, the imposition of one’s will upon others by overt or covert coercion — in order to avoid extending one’s self for the purpose of nurturing spiritual growth. Ordinary laziness is nonlove; evil is antilove.”
M. Scott Peck Psychiatrist & author
What does NOT apply here?
No. He could quite possibly, (comma) intentionally stated punctuation, (comma) knowing his meaning was different. (period)
IOW, an equivocation or, more precisely, and enthymeme.
“What we’re talking about here is the 5 percent in the country who currently purchase insurance on the individual market,” Carney said. “And that market has been like the Wild West. It has been under-regulated, it is the place where Americans have most keenly felt the challenges posed by the insurance system in this country.”
The unregulated wild west! Where the elderly could have insurance that didn’t cover maternity care and pediatric! Where teetotalers could have insurance that didn’t cover drug rehab! Oh the humanity!
Right out of the Clinton playbook.
1. deny, deny, deny.
2. After a month, say that it is old news and has already been discussed enough and it's time to move on.
3. If called before a legislative committee just say: " at this point what difference does it make?".
4. When asked how we got here, “I don’t recall.”
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