Obama Reneges on Health Care Transparency

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(CBS) President Obama wants the final negotiations on health care reform - a reconciliation of the House and Senate versions of the bill - put on a fast track, even if that means breaking an explicit campaign promise.

"The House and Senate plan to put together the final health care reform bill behind closed doors according to an agreement by top Democrats," House Speaker Nanci Pelosi said today at the White House.

The White House is on board with that, too, reports CBS News political correspondent Chip Reid. Press Secretary Robert Gibbs stressed today that "the president wants to get a bill to his desk as quickly as possible."

During the campaign, though, candidate Obama regularly promised something different - to broadcast all such negotiations on C-SPAN, putting the entire process of pounding out health care reform out in the open. (That promise applied to the now-completed processing of forging House and Senate bills, too.)

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Obama is a liar...now there's a shocker. /s

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bobo said what he had to to get elected, now he can do what he wants. jesse wright pegged it when he said bobo is a politician, and will say what he has to to get elected.

People need to stop paying attention to what ANY politician says anymore (that INCLUDES repubs) - look at their record if they have any, that will tell you far more about them and their character than anything they might say during a campaign. We’ve been duped too many times now to place any value on their ‘promises’.

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For voters to have made an informed decision on Bambi, it would have taken looking at only 2 facts (out of his manufactured life): his habit of voting “present” to avoid controversial issues, and his rating as THE most liberal member of the Senate. But that was above their pay grade. Without the Hopey-Changey, you’re racist if you don’t elect a black POTUS mantra, only the far left SHOULD have voted for this clown.

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They call folks that don’t agree with him racist, yet how did he get elected if there were that many racists? Yet 97% or more of the black voters did vote for him, and they are NOT called racist (how could that possibly NOT be a race-based vote totally escapes me).

Bottom line - if you are white and don’t like bobo - you are racist; if you are black and don’t like bobo - you are an uncle tom. You are just NOT ALLOWED to NOT like bobo.

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