Posted on 09/23/2013 10:34:01 AM PDT by Rusty0604
Soon-to-be-candidate Obama, then an Illinois senator, was thinking about turning down an invitation to speak at a big health care conference sponsored by the progressive group Families USA [in January 2007], when two aides, Robert Gibbs and Jon Favreau, hit on an idea that would make him appear more prepared and committed than he actually was at the moment.
Why not just announce his intention to pass universal health care by the end of his first term?…
“We needed something to say,” recalled one of the advisers involved in the discussion. “I can’t tell you how little thought was given to that thought other than it sounded good. So they just kind of hatched it on their own. It just happened. It wasn’t like a deep strategic conversation.”… I can’t quote much more due to fair use but you should read the rest to see how the pattern recurred during the 2008 campaign. Not until two months after he made the promise described above did he bother to get up to speed on health-care policy, and that was only because Hillary destroyed him over it at an SEIU candidate forum.
What’s striking about this story is how it mirrors the genesis of his half-assed “red line” on Syria. That was also the product of an idle remark that sounded good at the time on a subject that Obama obviously didn’t consider a high priority.
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What nonsense.
It was Hillarycare.
Obama’s ENTIRE AGENDA is Hillary’s agenda.
She lost, but her agenda went on. After all, what agenda did the guy bring with him? He had none - he and Hillary admitted many times their agenda was the same, which meant he adopted her agenda (since he didn’t exist before he ran).
Obama was “supposed” to be Hillary’s VP.
But things didn’t turn out as planned : )
So, he took her agenda. Think about it - political agendas are huge things, involving years of planning, kickbacks, promises and payoffs. Sometimes decades. Sometimes centuries.
Obama having an agenda of his own?
LOL
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