Posted on 10/29/2013 6:55:28 PM PDT by tobyhill
As the pitchman for his landmark healthcare law, President Obama promised to make buying insurance as easy as buying a plane ticket online or a "TV on Amazon." It would be simple, he said.
If there were problems, the president predicted, they would be "glitches."
And he said, "If you like the plan you have, you can keep it."
Such claims have come back to haunt the president and his allies less than a month into the launch of the online insurance marketplaces at the heart of his healthcare legislation. With the federal website hobbled by bad design and thousands of policyholders receiving cancellation notices, Obama's promises are not being met prompting charges of deception from some Republicans and concessions from some allies that elements of the law were oversold.
The fallout is only the latest chapter in this White House's three-year struggle to sell the public on the Affordable Care Act, which could come to define the president's legacy. Since signing it into law, the president has variously defended it, promoted it, simplified it and hyped it. But polling shows he has never fully sold, nor educated, the public on the vast new government healthcare program.
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The FIRST thing that Obama says in a speech is ALWAYS a Lie.
The second thing that Obama says in a speech is to accuse a Republican of thinking some evil thing that Obama has already done.
(Source: The Second Edition of the Marxist Obamanation Administration Dictionary).
This is in the liberal LA Times? A random act of journalism for them.
eople will not care about this. Obama has the power. He’s turning on the insurance companies and the wimpy stupid opposition, willnot point out the fallacies.
Where is John Boehner.
They had better step away from Amnesty and start pointing out the lies and the innocence of the insurance companies, Tomorrow, at the very latest, or it will never go away, and Obama will end up in charge of this and people will start accepting it.
The republican House needs to get out in front of this ad immediately and very briefly explain to the mind numbed masses how the insurance companies are not at fault here.
NOW
President Barrack Clusterphuck Obama.
They won’t. They are in Obama’s pocket.
The Won said before the 2008 election “We are five days away from fundamentally changing this country”.
That was the truth.
Everything he’s said since has been a lie.
The Republicans better step back as long as the media is doing the work, and the last thing that they need to do is side with the Insurance companies..
The Insurance companies are big boys, who’s hands are seldom pristine, but they can defend themselves..
He's moving on to the military which he really means to destroy, and would legalize the entry over the border of the entire Mexican nation if he could.
Of course.
I do not see the media doing anything. That’s my real frustration.
Obama has a classic narcissistic personality disorder. He is a congenital, serial liar. Here are the characteristics traits of Obama’s propensity to lie.
When dealing with a narcissist, you face one major problem, and this is the narcissist’s attitude towards lying.
While the majority of people will have learned that not only that lying brings about devastation and destruction, it ultimately leads to total isolation and loneliness. This is, it hinders any sincere communication and hence the narcissist will find her/himself increasingly on the outside and excluded.
However, as much as the narcissist notices this isolation and reacts with increasing panic, it does not bring about a modification of the narcissist’s coping strategy.
The attitude of the narcissist towards lying is very childish and simple: If the narcissist lies and gets away with it, he interprets this as being clever and superior to others. In this sense, while common sense clearly sees lying as a social ill, the narcissist views lying as an excellent tool to obtain what he wants and as a means to demonstrate how stupid others are.
A person now, who wishes to engage in real communication and shows openness will be viewed by the narcissist as an utter fool who deserves to be exploited. Willingness to communicate and to show openness will be seen be the narcissist as weakness and stupidity.
When dealing with a narcissist, extreme care must be taken and events need to be recorded. It also is important to communicate with others who have to deal with the narcissist in order to counter-act splitting. This is, the narcissist uses lies in order to set up people against each other. In general, this is quite simple: The narcissist tells a person A that person B doesn’t like person A and the same the other way round. This then prevents A from talking to B and hence both parties can be manipulated through the narcissist’s lies.
While a normal person will be embarrassed when found out lying, not so the narcissist. The narcissist will see this as a threat to their sense of superiority and will straight away think of ways of how to overcome this threat and this is by forming new lies.
To say it in one sentence: For the narcissist lying is fun and a tool, and anybody who doesn’t lie is a fool in the eyes of the narcissist. Trying to communicate with a narcissist is therefore pointless. This is the problem congressional leaders have had in negotiating with Obama. They say he isn’t honest in his dealings with them and reneges on his word as soon as a deal is imminent. He can’t be trusted because of his narcissistic personality disorder.
As Malcolm X said when questioned about the assassination of JFK: “The chickens have come home to roost.”
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