Obama in 2009: We Will Call Out Those Who Lie About Obamacare

Townhall ^ | November 5, 2013 | by Katie Pavlich

[Oldeconomybuyer]

My fellow blogger Pundit Pete has brought my attention to President Obama's 2009 Joint Session of Congress speech on Healthcare. What exactly did Obama say about those warning Obamacare would killed their health insurance plans?

If you misrepresent what's in this plan, we will call you out.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-to-a-Joint-Session-of-Congress-on-Health-Care/

[GeronL]

That is kind of funny

[Oldeconomybuyer]

FULL QUOTE: “But know this: I will not waste time with those who have made the calculation that it’s better politics to kill this plan than to improve it. (Applause.) I won’t stand by while the special interests use the same old tactics to keep things exactly the way they are. If you misrepresent what’s in this plan, we will call you out. (Applause.) And I will not — and I will not accept the status quo as a solution. Not this time. Not now.”

CLICKABLE LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-to-a-Joint-Session-of-Congress-on-Health-Care/

[RatRipper]

Call yourself out, Zer0.

[GOPJ]

If you haven’t seen this you’re gonna die laughing... ‘

Enjoy:

http://nypost.com/2013/11/05/the-obamacare-speech-he-never-gave/

[ColdOne]

Once again we can tell when he is lying. His lips are moving.

[gaijin]

Journalists do NOT do journalism.

Journalism is done by NON journalists.

Fact: The most influential journalist in the USA started that job as a GIFT SHOP CLERK.

[MrB]

Like Rush said, many on the left are applauding his deception,

BECAUSE HE BEAT US

by being deceptive.

Bunch of vindictive evil little trolls.

[bigbob]

awkward...

[Loud Mime]

ping

[Servant of the Cross]

They need to add a few more states ...

Arkansas: Pryor lied
Montana: Baucus successor inherits lie
South Dakota: Johnson lied
West Virginia: Rockefeller successor inherits lie

[SparkyBass]

[chris37]

LMAO!

What a maroon.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Awesome!

[AppyPappy]

Obama: Need I remind you people that I am rubber and you are glue?

[Obadiah]

What can be seen with exacting precision are a bunch of poll-tested phrases strung together. More echo-chamber nonsense devised to buy some time and stop the political hemorrhaging. The cheap political parlor trick of simply reflecting back to people what they want to hear. No solutions are in those phrases, just empty rhetoric — again.

[jersey117]

Well then, he’d better start dialing 1-800-F-YOU on his obamaphone.

[TexasCajun]

This needs a thread of its own:

THIS 2009 WHITE HOUSE VIDEO ABOUT OBAMA’S HEALTH CARE VOW MIGHT MAKE THE PRESIDENT PRETTY UNCOMFORTABLE RIGHT NOW

In the “fact check” video, Linda Douglass — the communications director for the White House’s Health Reform Office — works hard to refute critics who said certain private health insurance plans would be cancelled, even saying they were were “twisting” the president’s word.

[GOPJ]

http://nypost.com/2013/11/05/the-obamacare-speech-he-never-gave/

Snippet from the link (IF OBAMA TOLD THE TRUTH)... the rest is even better:

Republicans are out there scaring folks, and saying that they’ll lose their insurance. [Boos, jeers.] No, no — hey, just because they don’t care about people doesn’t mean they are wrong about everything. [Laughter, applause.]

And they’re right about this. Some folks are going to lose their insurance. Millions of them, in fact.

Let me be clear: Just because you have insurance you like, doesn’t mean you can keep it. If it doesn’t meet the new federal standards, your plan is going to get canceled. I guarantee it.

Some of my political advisers say, “Hey, you can’t go out and tell people that, Obama. It doesn’t test well. People hate it in the polls.”

And you know what I told them? “I . . . don’t . . . care . . . about . . . the polls.” [Applause]

I said: “That’s the old politics. That’s what’s wrong with Washington, DC, right there. If you think I’m going to go out and lie about my plan, you’ve got the wrong guy. What did you think hope and change were all about?” [Laughter, applause.]

So, yeah, some of you are going to lose your insurance. Now, because of the marketplace we’ll set up, you’re going to go online and shop for new insurance. Some of you are going to get a better deal. If you don’t make much money, you’re going to get help from the government. [Cheers.]

But let me be clear again — and Axelrod hates this part [Laughter] — many of you are going to pay more than you did before. Maybe double. Because all of these new regulations cost money. You don’t believe in a free lunch, do you? [Confused murmurs.]

What we’re proposing is to get young, healthy people onto the exchanges so they can subsidize everyone else, by buying coverage they don’t want or need at a price that is higher than before. Why would they do that, you ask? [Faint laughter.] That’s what the individual mandate is all about. We’ve got to force them.