Most of the media is quoting Obama as saying on Sunday that Gruber was “an adviser”. Obama actually called him “some adviser”, a term meant to indicate that he was some random person.
“some adviser who never worked on our staff,” that he paid $400k.
Obama Flashback: ‘I’ve Stolen Ideas’ From Jonathan Gruber ‘Liberally’
During a Brookings Institution panel in April 2006, then-Sen. Barack Obama claimed he had “stolen” ideas from a gang of liberal economists and academics, including the now-infamous Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber.
Uh huh, and Bill Ayers was “just some guy who lived in the neighborhood.”