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NYTimes: Obama ‘misspoke’ when he claimed Americans could keep their health insurance
Daily Caller ^ | November 3, 2013 | Jeff Pour

Posted on 11/03/2013 1:13:38 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

In its Sunday paper, The New York Times editorial board defended President Barack Obama from criticisms that he had intentionally misled the public when he had claimed if an individual likes their health insurance plan, they could keep their health insurance plan.

The paper’s board also attacked congressional Republicans for stoking fear and confusion, writing that Obama “clearly misspoke” when he repeatedly claimed Americans could keep their health insurance plans as he fought to pass the law and defend it during the 2012 election.

“Mr. Obama clearly misspoke when he said that,” the editorial read. “By law, insurers cannot continue to sell policies that don’t provide the minimum benefits and consumer protections required as of next year. So they’ve sent cancellation notices to hundreds of thousands of people who hold these substandard policies. (At issue here are not the 149 million people covered by employer plans, but the 10 million to 12 million people who buy policies directly on the individual market.)”

Later in the editorial, the Times described Obama’s contradicted claims as an overblown controversy.

“This overblown controversy has also obscured the crux of what health care reform is trying to do, which is to guarantee that everyone can buy insurance without being turned away or charged exorbitant rates for pre-existing conditions and that everyone can receive benefits that really protect them against financial or medical disaster, not illusory benefits that prove inadequate when a crisis strikes,” the editorial said.


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To: John S Mosby

I know the correct meaning of misspoke, but in Obamalies it means lies.


61 posted on 11/03/2013 2:26:13 PM PST by Chickensoup (we didn't love freedom enough... Solzhenitsyn.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

FRAUD


62 posted on 11/03/2013 2:27:31 PM PST by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: Secret Agent Man
Eve was deceived. Adam wasn't. He chose the babe over God.

World's worst trade.


63 posted on 11/03/2013 2:29:31 PM PST by gitmo ( If your theology doesn't become your biography it's useless.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
"Mr. Obama clearly misspoke when he said that,” the editorial read.

Misspeaking involves a slip of the tongue that happens once. It does not involve circumstances where a clearly false statement is repeated in dozens upon dozens of speeches to convince voters to accept legislation they did not ask for, did not want, and still do not want.

The only possible explanations for what Obama said are:

1) Bald-faced lie.
2) Invincible ignorance in the face of thousands of proofs that he was wrong.

The NY Times and Obama's other apparatchiks can take their pick - either way, their guy is either a proven fool or a proven liar and either way, the rest of us must pay the cost. You'd think the NY Times would at least have enough shame left to apologize for their part in pushing Obama's Frankenstein assault on the Constitution, but lick-spittles don't get to be lick-spittles by having any shame.
64 posted on 11/03/2013 2:30:02 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: bustoff
"Still unbelievable that they think we are that stupid."

And why shouldn't they?

65 posted on 11/03/2013 2:32:23 PM PST by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: Secret Agent Man
That depiction is actually incorrect. Adam was NOT present when the serpent spoke to Eve.

You might want to reconsider...

Genesis 3

1 Now the snake was the most clever of all the wild animals the Lord God had made. One day the snake said to the woman, “Did God really say that you must not eat fruit from any tree in the garden?”

2 The woman answered the snake, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden.

3 But God told us, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden. You must not even touch it, or you will die.’”

4 But the snake said to the woman, “You will not die.

5 God knows that if you eat the fruit from that tree, you will learn about good and evil and you will be like God!”

6 The woman saw that the tree was beautiful, that its fruit was good to eat, and that it would make her wise. So she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some of the fruit to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.

66 posted on 11/03/2013 2:35:00 PM PST by Prov1322 (Enjoy my wife's incredible artwork at www.watercolorARTwork.com! (This space no longer for rent))
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To: Helotes
I’d be willing to stipulate that Obama misspoke if that meant we were going have our Senators vote again in light of the newly discovered truth about the ACA.

I think that would be a good strategy. It may work - but if not, it would continually point out the lie and that it was bogus and lame to lie to get it through.

67 posted on 11/03/2013 2:35:55 PM PST by Principled
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To: gitmo

I know that God already knew what was going to happen,

but I wonder what kind of contingency plan He’d have had to do if Adam didn’t go along with Eve.


68 posted on 11/03/2013 2:36:41 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

The paradox comes from our inability to understand God who is outside time.

He had no need for a contingency plan. Some people perceive Jesus’ sacrifice as a Plan B, but John tells us the Lamb was slain from the foundations of the world.


69 posted on 11/03/2013 2:40:52 PM PST by gitmo ( If your theology doesn't become your biography it's useless.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

The paradox comes from our inability to understand God who is outside time.

He had no need for a contingency plan. Some people perceive Jesus’ sacrifice as a Plan B, but John tells us the Lamb was slain from the foundations of the world.


70 posted on 11/03/2013 2:40:53 PM PST by gitmo ( If your theology doesn't become your biography it's useless.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

0bama clearly “misspoke”, and lied while doing so.


71 posted on 11/03/2013 2:43:47 PM PST by windsorknot (>>>)
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To: Prov1322

And YOU might want to reconsider.

http://www.tlogical.net/adameve.htm

The fact that when questioned by God, Eve blames the serpent for deceiving her, but Adam blames Eve (and God for giving him her) but not blaming the serpent - Adam wasn’t deceived by the serpent.

He was WITH HER in the garden, but not RIGHT THERE WITH HER. The actual Jewish Torah (1st 5 bible books) do not have the WITH HER phrase in them. Several bible translations do not, the later ones have added this in.

It’s like I am with my wife IN THE HOUSE but not RIGHT THERE with her, I’m upstairs, she’s in the kitchen, and she brings me something to eat.


72 posted on 11/03/2013 2:47:02 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Donald Rumsfeld Fan
obama’s teleprompter misspoke on multiple occasions.

Someone's been reading FR: “@DLoesch: Can teleprompters misspeak?”

73 posted on 11/03/2013 2:53:46 PM PST by Walmartian (I'm their leader. Which way did they go?)
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To: Political Junkie Too

And he lied in covering up benghazi


74 posted on 11/03/2013 3:04:20 PM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
This overblown controversy has also obscured the crux of what health care reform is trying to do, which is to guarantee that everyone can buy insurance

No guarantee though, for those who liked their insurance and got kicked out.

What a TOTAL bunch of tripe this is!!

75 posted on 11/03/2013 3:06:33 PM PST by what's up
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

President Pinocchio.


76 posted on 11/03/2013 3:17:12 PM PST by firebasecody (Orthodoxy, proclaiming the Truth since AD 33)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; SunkenCiv; Clintonfatigued; Impy; InterceptPoint; fieldmarshaldj; ...
"Misspoke"? Unless I'm mistaken, the verb "misspeak" means to utter a false statement unintentionally. The fact that Obama said, "If you like your current health plan, you can keep it under Obamacare" over and over again in plugging his pet program, is proof that the false statement was no slip of the tongue. Leave it to the cover-up artists at the New York Slimes and other leftist MSM outlets to lie in an awkward attempt to explain away a lie.

The New York Slimes and their less well-known MSM brethren have about as much credibility as "Pravda."

77 posted on 11/03/2013 3:26:03 PM PST by justiceseeker93
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Obama did not “mis spoke.” Obama looked the American people in the eye and lied. His speech was lie after lie after lie, and now he is lying about what he meant in the speech.

The president is a liar.


78 posted on 11/03/2013 3:26:24 PM PST by cpdiii (Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud Man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist. THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: cpdiii

Liar is merely the most likely possibility. But there is also an outside chance that he’s just a dumbass.

“Wait, individual market? what’s that?”


79 posted on 11/03/2013 3:36:30 PM PST by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: justiceseeker93

Actually, nowadays, “PRAVDA” has some good articles.

But I Do agree with you, completely and unequivocally.


80 posted on 11/03/2013 3:37:45 PM PST by left that other site (.)
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