Posted on 11/14/2013 2:21:51 PM PST by jazusamo
I don't know how President Obama could get more surreal. At this point, it's hard to tell whether he's more dishonest or delusional.
At Obama's news conference Thursday, CBS' Major Garrett pressed him, essentially, to admit he'd flagrantly lied when he promised Americans that with the advent of Obamacare, they could keep their health care plans and their doctors if they liked them.
Though Obama did pay lip service to admitting he shouldn't have made the promise "unequivocally," he quickly degenerated into a disjointed string of meaningless verbiage involving nuances, grandfathering, great-grandfathering and whatnot, all designed to confuse us and excuse himself. Besides, he insisted, many congressmen made the same "sincere" pledge that he made concerning keeping their plans. "They did it, too, Mommy."
The unequivocal truth is that Obama made the claim unequivocally not through excess passion born of selfless magnanimity but as a calculated maneuver to sell his unpopular plan. It was not, as he stated, sincere. Had he not made the claim unequivocally, he wouldn't have been able to cram the bill through, even with the unconscionable level of arm-twisting he engaged in.
It's beyond offensive that he blithely waved off his premeditated lie as a bare misstatement.
Obama not only was not forthcoming in accepting actual responsibility for his fraud but mouthed a number of other specious arguments to distract from his culpability and blame his opponents.
Like a jet fighter pilot sending out chaff and flares to divert a heat-seeking missile, Obama tried desperately to disguise this colossal failure as mostly a website problem. How many times did he use the term?
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Valerie Jarrett has already announced that the website won't be fixed by November 30. Instead, they hope to achieve "substantial progress" by "the end of the year".
Of course. And I'm certain the "old news" ploy would work just as well for a Republican president if the party affiliations in the situation were reversed.
Yes, he’s got to be crazy. Gets in front of the nation to declare what he will allow! He sounds more and more like Valerie Jarrett every day. I’m tired of these muslim dictators!
“I have decided to allow the insurance companies to keep my promises. If they don’t give you back your cut rate sub-standard plans you will know that they’re the evil ones.”
Exactly!
Obama’s madman schemes are not going to work. He is not going to bring this nation down. We are USA Strong!
The real problem here that no one is addressing is this - when a “President” tells the citizenty what it can and can’t have!! It’s not all the minutiae of this ridiculous bill, it’s the over-riding concept.
citizenry
WWHD? (What Would Hugo Do?)
What’s next? Are we going to have to pay a fine for not buying a solar panel? The possibilities are endless.
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