LIE No.1
- Obama repeatedly assured us that he would protect Medicare against cuts; but he now presses for passage of bills that include huge cuts in Medicare.
Obama is proposing decreases in the rate of increase of Medicare. This is not the same as HUGE CUTS.
LIE No. 2
- Early in the health care debate, Obama assured us that he had not said that he favored a single payer system; but he was on record as having said exactly that.
Obama never lied about single payer. Early in the campaign he said if we were building a system from scratch he would think a single payer system would be the best. But he also acknowledged right after that that given the market system we currently have a single payer system wouldn't be appropriate. I disagreed with him but that's what he said. And, stunner, he isn't proposing a single payer system now. Single payer was taken off the table right from the start. Now, if you are implying that in the past he advocated single payer but that his position changed before he ran for president, then you are stretching the truth by calling that a lie. but he is now trying to push through essentially the system he called for during the campaign, with the exception of the mandate. But, from a policy stand point, the mandate makes sense, especially financially, and when he looked more into it he changed his position and acknowledged that publicly.
to imply otherwise is a lie on your part.
- Obama gave primary voters a firm assurance that if he became the nominee of the Democratic party he would (unlike Hillary Clinton) abide by the campaign finance limits of public funding; but as soon as he became the partys nominee, he reneged on that pledge.
Yeah, he definitely flipped on that. Thank god.
- During the presidential campaign Obama criticized the presence of former lobbyists in the Bush administration and solemnly assured us that he would appoint no lobbyists to his administration; but once elected he proceeded to appoint even more lobbyists than his predecessors.
Show your evidence. Verifiable numbers of the registered lobbyists in his administration and verifiable numbers from other administrations.
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