"If you like your plan, you can keep it." That assertion, repeated with small variations, was Barack Obama's central pledge when he was campaigning for president and then for the enactment of health-care "reform." The pro-Obama New York magazine has assembled a 95-second video montage of the future and current president making the assertion two dozen times between 2008 and 2010.Bush, Sr. lost his re-election campaign when conservative abandoned him over the broken tax promise.
Surely this is the clearest example of a broken presidential promise since George H.W. Bush's "Read my lips: no new taxes." In Bush's defense it may be said that political exigencies--a Democratic Congress, a foreign-policy crisis--forced him to accede to a tax hike..............
What do you call a political promise delivered repeatedly and emphatically only to be broken deliberately? David Firestone, an editorialist at the New York Times, calls it an "unfortunate blanket statement." We suppose another example of an unfortunate blanket statement was "I am not a crook."............
According to Obama and his defenders, what he meant by "plan" or "insurance" is something different from what you might have thought he meant.
If the Drive-By Media would have informed the public about the number of people who would be losing their healthcare, Dear Leader would have lost.
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