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The Obama-disaster news conference
The Washington Post ^ | 14 Nov 2013 | JENNIFER RUBIN

Posted on 11/14/2013 4:19:29 PM PST by mandaladon

President Obama’s just-completed press conference was arguably worse than the Obamacare rollout. Alternately confessing, apologizing and blame shifting, he inadvertently made the case against his own executive skills, Obamacare and big government in general. His announced fix is aimed at remedying the mass cancellation of individually-purchased insurance plans by letting insurance companies re-offer non-compliant policies. This makes clear that contrary to the statements from Jay Carney and Valerie Jarrett, Obamacare and not the insurers were the cause of the cancellations. Obama let slip that this is one big blame-shifting exercise when he announced that no one would be able to say Obamacare caused them to lose insurance. It is of course false because it is unlikely all the canceled policies can be restored. The fix undermines the essential premise of Obamacare, namely that young, healthy people need to be herded into the exchanges. Not only will this explicitly encourage many people to stay out but also will communicate that the entire program is in flux. Don’t sign up now — the deal may improve as the president gets more desperate! But it really was the series of unbelievable lines for which this press conference will be remembered: “We fumbled the rollout on this health-care law.” “I completely get how upsetting this can be for a lot of Americans.” “It is a complex process.” “I was not informed directly [How about indirectly?!] that the Web site would not be working. . . . I don’t think I’m stupid enough to go around saying this is going to be like shopping on Amazon or Travelocity, a week before the Web site opens, if I thought that it wasn’t going to work.”

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TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aca; obama; obamacare
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To: mandaladon

Never trust a homosexual cocaine using compulsive liar.

A good rule to live by.


21 posted on 11/14/2013 6:58:41 PM PST by Gabrial (The nightmare will continue as long as the nightmare is in the Whitehouse.)
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To: Son House
Then he could blame the (continuous) bad economy on Biden for low information voters consumption...

Or he could just send Biden outside without his helmet. Shouldn't take long to create a distraction.

22 posted on 11/14/2013 7:20:20 PM PST by TangoLimaSierra (To win the country back, we need to be as mean as the Libs say we are.)
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To: mandaladon

It is beginning to look like the American people would have been better off, if the President was indeed just an empty chair. At least the chair would know its limitations.


23 posted on 11/14/2013 7:37:02 PM PST by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: Taxman

“I guess it is too much to hope and pray that Ophonybama and his LIEberal hangers-on will resign en-mass and ask for asylum in some Communist or Moslem country, taking their stolen taxpayer funds with them?”

someone should propose legislation, they can take as much loot as they can carry and will be provided safe passage to the border of their choice.


24 posted on 11/14/2013 7:41:08 PM PST by willywill
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To: Future Snake Eater; mandaladon
If she's a conservative, I'm a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model.
25 posted on 11/14/2013 9:15:50 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet ("Of the 4 wars in my lifetime none came about because the US was too strong." Reagan)
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To: willywill

Sounds like a plan!


26 posted on 11/14/2013 10:00:01 PM PST by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
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To: Sylvester McMonkey McBean

I’m always torn when it comes to Obama’s behavior. On the one hand, he’s not very smart, just extremely ideological and focused on imposing his ideology (much of which is very personal and really means just imposing himself and making clear that he’s on top). On the other, he really hates the US and I think he is trying to bring us down, although again, in a way that will benefit him and give him a platform for even greater domination on a global level.

I am really hoping that the stupid part will keep the malevolent part from succeeding.


27 posted on 11/15/2013 2:14:26 AM PST by livius
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To: Son House
How much tax payer money is going to be used to fix the next problem with this 2000 page bill?

How could there possibly be any more problems with this well thought out plan?


28 posted on 11/15/2013 2:23:17 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: mandaladon
"I don’t think I’m stupid enough to go around saying this is going to be like shopping on Amazon or Travelocity, a week before the Web site opens, if I thought that it wasn’t going to work.”

Oh, I think he was DEFINITELY stupid enough!

29 posted on 11/15/2013 5:43:06 AM PST by NRA1995 (I'd rather be a living "gun culture" member than a dead anti-gun candy-ass.)
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To: mandaladon
I don’t think I’m stupid enough to go around saying this is going to be like shopping on Amazon or Travelocity ...

But he was stupid enough to say that when the exchanges opened on October 1st, you’d be be able to purchase high-quality health insurance for less than the cost of your cell phone bill!

30 posted on 11/15/2013 7:43:46 AM PST by mellow velo (Oxymorons: jumbo shrimp, rap music, liberal think-tank)
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To: mellow velo

... and he was stupid enough to tell Americans to call an 800 number for their insurance in a lame attempt to pimp the law a little over a week ago.


31 posted on 11/15/2013 7:45:13 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: mandaladon

This is from the Wash Post? Wow!


32 posted on 11/15/2013 7:52:39 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: mulligan

He is a complete ass


33 posted on 11/15/2013 7:55:48 AM PST by AmericanInTokyo (Kim Jong Un won't have a single "bad underwear day" unless/until we've a patriot in the White House)
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To: mandaladon
Obama's presser contained 283 first-person references, which has got to be a new narcissist world record. That comes to one every eleven seconds. He speaks as if he is some bystander offering his own assessment of some car accident he just witnessed.
34 posted on 11/15/2013 9:22:34 AM PST by Hoodat (Democrats - Opposing Equal Protection since 1828)
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To: mandaladon

EVERYTHING “President” Muhammad Al-Obama DOES is illegal.


35 posted on 11/15/2013 10:48:00 AM PST by 2harddrive
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