Obama denies ‘you can keep it’ videotaped promises

The Daily Caller ^ | 11/5/13 | Neil Munro

[Haiku Guy]

President Barack Obama told his enthusiastic supporters Monday night that he never promised what video recordings show him promising at least 29 times.

The videos show Obama promising 300 million Americans that “if you like your health-care plan, you will be able to keep your health-care plan, period.”

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[plain talk]

I love it. The Republicans have a tendency to ignore opportunities like this. I think they should camp out on this lie and totally discredit the President and tie the dems to it. Find videos where dems said same thing. Play the videos and run ads. Spend the money now and drive down the democrat numbers down well in advance of the 2014 elections. ObamaCare is a disaster and they can’t talk their way out of it. If republicans can’t hit these softballs they don’t deserve to be there.

[Mears]

“This is pathological. “

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That’s it in a nutshell. He definitely has a few screws loose.

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[FourtySeven]

So in other words, Mr.President, we didn’t directly ask you that specific question so it’s our fault for not understanding you, correct?

Exactly.

How dare you all not ask the correct questions!

And by the way, you're all racist for not doing so.

So there.

[FourtySeven]

No one told him that he said it.

Exactly.

He's just finding out now that this is what he said before. He just read it in the newspaper like everyone else.

Do you disagree? If so, you are a racist.

So there.

[Haiku Guy]

So in other words, Mr.President, we didn’t directly ask you that specific question so it’s our fault for not understanding you, correct?

When some body says "PERIOD" after a statement, or says that something is an ironclad guarantee, that something can never happen under any circumstances, a follow up question might be considered already answered.

[Qbert]

This contempt for the American people is sickening.

[Cheerio]

Faux is as bad as CNN and the rest of the bunch of liars in the propaganda machine.

I have refused to watch Fox for the past year after they starting shilling for the Won just like the rest of the video media. Fox radio news is worse than CNN with Zero sound bites 30/24/7/365. I write the local station and tell them "Hey once is enough - just report the news and knock off the fingernails on chalkboard routine. Just like the politicians, they could care less what my opinion is - they have their marching orders from the White Hut.

[Haiku Guy]

The thing that frosts my mug is that I have been going to Tea Party rallies for the past three years, and we have been saying at every turn that Obamacare will be a debacle, that people will lose their health insurance, and that Obama is lying.

For doing so, we have been called liars, racists, terrorists or worse.

And yet, anybody who wants to step forward and apologize for calling the Tea Party these things will, even at this point, have his apology graciously accepted.

[Cheerio]

In the current one parent culture, lying must just be part of life. We truly have sunk deeply into the cesspool - IMHO end times are near.

[FourtySeven]

When some body says "PERIOD" after a statement, or says that something is an ironclad guarantee, that something can never happen under any circumstances, a follow up question might be considered already answered.

That's what I don't get either about this lame excuse excuse. The Man-Who-Would-Be-King said "period" at the end of that sentence countless times. There is NO REASONABLE WAY there could have been any precondition, hidden or otherwise attached to the statement!

Not for any REASONABLE person anyway.

It's astounding who is buying this load and how. Just boggles the mind.

[Blood of Tyrants]

What is worse is the LSM who will back him up and the millions of Obama worshipers who will believe him.

[a fool in paradise]

In 2004 NewsCorp execs endorsed John Kerry for President. Fox News isn’t conservative. It’s to the right of CNN.

[Cheerio]

When some body says "PERIOD" after a statement, or says that something is an ironclad guarantee,

We all know a GUARANTEE from a PROMISE. Here is exactly what went down, but the print media loves to drop off the word GUARANTEE.

As Obamacare was being pushed through Congress in 2010, the Obama administration and its allies were unequivocal in two claims: If you like your doctor and you like your current health care plan, you can keep them both. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sibelius and then-House speaker Nancy Pelosi backed the president fully in this regard. The White House even went so far as to post a "Health Insurance Reform Reality Check" on its website, where "Linda Douglass of the White House Office of Health Reform debunks the myth that reform will force you out of your current insurance plan or force you to change doctors." President Obama upped the ante, putting the promise in the form of a "guarantee":

THE PRESIDENT: Here is a guarantee that I've made. If you have insurance that you like, then you will be able to keep that insurance. If you've got a doctor that you like, you will be able to keep your doctor. Nobody is trying to change what works in the system. We are trying to change what doesn't work in the system.

Hat tip Weekly Standard at http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/hhs-admits-you-might-not-be-able-keep-your-doctor-under-obamacare_740093.html

[a fool in paradise]

"NO ONE CAN TAKE IT AWAY. NO MATTER WHAT."

He's also on tape saying that the Cadillac coverage plans have to change, that they are wasteful. So if you had one and liked it, it became outlawed as it was.

Never trust a Stalinist. They lie. Always.

[caligatrux]

This is Animal Farm. George Orwell must be spinning in his grave.

All animals are equal... but some animals are more equal than others.

[Haiku Guy]

I heard Anne Coulter on the radio last week saying that Health Care Plans that are arrived at through collective bargaining will be permitted to change without losing their ‘gradfather” status. So union members will be able to keep their plans, but non-union members will be screwed.

I don’t have the cite for that. I just heard it on the radio.

[matt04]

F&F, Benghazi, etc. he was able to get out of it because he never made any public statements BEFORE. He believed his BS on ObamaCare so much he touted it dozens of times.

Now he has no clue how to get out of it, and neither do his handlers. He might suddenly spend a lot more time at the WH or on vacation to avoid the press.

[fivecatsandadog]

Effing moron. Cuz his brain is in a very different place than where ours is. Some of it gets flushed every day......

[FourtySeven]

Good find. “No matter what”. Sounds like there aren’t any preconditions there to me!

Link to full text: http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/215699

USA Today also has the full text but I don’t think we can link to them here.

[fivecatsandadog]

I’d love to ask each of those bobble-headed sheeple standing behind him in that video: How’s it working for ya now?