* THE WASHINGTON POST TITLED THIS OP-ED "A DISHONEST PRESIDENCY"
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It’s not easy to get a lie into a presidential speech.
Every draft address is circulated to the White House
senior staff and key Cabinet officials in something called the “staffing
process.” Every line is reviewed by dozens of senior officials, who offer
comments and factual corrections. During this process, it turns out, some of
Obama’s policy advisers objected to the “you can keep your plan” pledge,
pointing out that it was untrue. But it stayed in the speech. That does not
happen by accident. It requires a willful intent to deceive.
The Wall Street Journal broke the news this weekend that,
even as President Obama was telling the American people they could keep their
health plans, “some White House policy advisors objected to the breadth of Mr.
Obama’s ‘keep your plan’ promise. They were overruled by political aides.”
* ONE MORE TIME...
They were overruled by political aides.
(*PURSED LIPS*)
Overruled by political aides? This is simply damning.
And the story gets worse.
(*SIGH*)
After Obama began telling Americans they could keep their
plans, White House aides discussed using media interviews “to explain the
nuances of the succinct line in his stump speeches.” But they decided not to do
so, because “officials worried . . . that
delving into details such as the small number of people who might lose
insurance could be confusing and would clutter the president’s message.”
* YOU'RE READING THIS, RIGHT, FOLKS?
This whole episode is a window into a fundamentally
dishonest presidency.
* ABSOLUTELY!
President Barack Hussein Obama said, “If you like your
health-care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health-care plan. Period. No one
will take it away. No matter what.” That statement was clear, unequivocal and
wrong — and Obama and his advisers knew it.
* AND THEY REPEATED IT AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN!
The president’s defenders are twisting around for ways to
explain away his 16 words. The New York Times wrote in an editorial Sunday that
“Mr. Obama clearly misspoke.”
Misspoke? On 24 separate occasions?
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
* THEY ARE TRULY SCUM OVER AT THE NYT...
Sorry, the president didn’t “misspeak.” This was an
premeditated deception. This wasn’t something Obama ad-libbed. It was a line in
a presidential speech that was carefully reviewed by the entire White House
senior staff. Obama’s political advisers were told by his policy aides the
statement was inaccurate — but they decided to let Americans believe the
falsehood.
Every president faces the challenge of explaining complex
policies in simple terms. But the quest for simplicity is no excuse for
dishonesty.
Obama’s own advisers told the Journal that they knew
those 16 words were untrue, but Obama kept on saying them — over and over and
over again.
If that’s the case, Obama didn’t misspeak. He lied.
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