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Skriven 2013-12-20 17:13:18 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
  Kommentar till text 11709 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
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 Janis Kracht wrote to All about Healthcare:

 JK> Just a note...

President Obama Cited by PolitiFact for "Lie of the Year"

Posted on December 13, 2013

Oops.  It may be too late for many Americans, but one self-styled media
watchdog is finally catching up to a reality that others have understood
for a long time:  We cannot take our president at his word.

Though the competition was fierce, what with all the gun control
initiatives floating around this year, President Obama managed to clinch
PolitiFact's "Lie of the Year" dishonors with this whopper:  "If you like
your health care plan, you can keep it."

The Affordable Care Act, informally known as Obamacare, is considered by
many to define Barack Obama's presidency.  If he should know the facts
about anything, this should be it.

Look, we have no position on Obamacare.  We hope all Americans take good
care of their health and have access to healthcare when they need it,
however it makes the most sense to them.

We point this out only to say that bland reassurances by the president
should not be taken at face value, especially when the mainstream media's
scrutiny of his claims tends to be either non-existent or too late to
matter.

For over five years, President Obama has been telling America he supports
the right to bear arms.  Yet as we've reported throughout that time, his
actions - past and present - all indicate a radically different view.

Most recently, President Obama has been pushing for "universal" background
checks.  As we've noted again and again, this sets the stage for universal
registration, which in turn sets the stage for crippling taxation or
confiscation.

Some thought the idea of a national health care law was impossible.  For
better or for worse, they were wrong.  Yet whatever one may think of
Obamacare, nobody can deny "the impossible" was in that case achieved in
part through deception.

Some will tell you the disarming of America is impossible.  We're fighting
to ensure they're right. But any effort to make it happen must also
involve deception.

So when the president tells you he only wants "universal" background
checks, and if you like your gun, you can keep it, consider his track
record, and don't say you weren't warned.


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