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Obama: US Public Not Misled on Health Care Law
ABC News ^ | November 16, 2014

Posted on 11/16/2014 5:45:17 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

President Barack Obama says the American public was not misled about certain provisions of his health care law.

A newly surfaced video shows an adviser in the law's drafting, MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, saying "the stupidity of the American voter" helped Democrats pass the complex legislation. Gruber made the comment in 2013 but it is adding to conservatives' current call to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; gruber; grubercare; jonathangruber; nancypelosi; obamacare; rinocare; socialism
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Barack Obama says the American public was not misled about certain provisions of his health care law

But they were misled about almost all of the provisions.

21 posted on 11/16/2014 5:59:55 AM PST by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

My comments here are not a political point and if I saw this in a Republican I would make the same points.

This is an exhibition of behavior that is troubling and I think it really point to a real mental disease.

He is unable to confirm the reality that is plain. He is defiant in his insistence that “up is down”.

Its one thing to push the spin on a political point but the election is done and with Gruber’s comments people know, they don’t think, that they were lied to.

Other leaders form other countries have commented about his psychological fitness and I am really concerned that those ideas about him being unbalanced are true.

Sociopath, Narcissist, ?


22 posted on 11/16/2014 6:02:53 AM PST by R0CK3T
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Obola SWEARS on his birth certificates about Gruber.


23 posted on 11/16/2014 6:03:15 AM PST by Diogenesis (The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
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To: R0CK3T

He’s not that complicated. He’s a crack head.


24 posted on 11/16/2014 6:04:01 AM PST by kjam22 (my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
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To: FoxInSocks

Yep, more wordsmithing by the Liar in Chief.
Hard not to laugh out loud at them, as with an ignorant and petulant child.
But, it’s sure as hell not funny.


25 posted on 11/16/2014 6:06:38 AM PST by polymuser ( Enough is enough)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer


26 posted on 11/16/2014 6:08:49 AM PST by Iron Munro (DHS has the same headcount as the US Marine Corps with twice the budget)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

He honestly thinks he can simply speak things into truth. Or something...


27 posted on 11/16/2014 6:09:06 AM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
We were not misled. We had Obamacare crammed down our throats against our will.

Even after Scott Brown was voted in by Massachusetts voters as the 41st vote to overturn Obamacare in the Senate, the will of the American people was overridden when the election was ignored and the bill was passed anyway vis a vis an abuse of the so-called "reconciliation" process which was never intended to be used in this anti-democratic manner.

28 posted on 11/16/2014 6:10:56 AM PST by Sons of Union Vets (Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Period!
Period!!
Period!!!

Such a shameless liar Obama is.

29 posted on 11/16/2014 6:22:08 AM PST by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Fu**ing media. Let me guess that ABC news IGNORED all week the story about the architect Gruber saying they lied about Obamacare and thinks Americans are stupid, BUT have just reported on Obama’s defense against a charge they never reported.
30 posted on 11/16/2014 6:22:34 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

In January 2010 ABC NEWS had this to say about Gruber:

“”Gruber has been a go-to voice for reporters seeking a respected academic view on health care reform costs””

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2010/01/on-jonathan-gruber-and-disclosure/


31 posted on 11/16/2014 6:26:10 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: Rome2000

I got in an early comment (first 5) on the ABC thread.

And now Dear Leader Obama and the democRats are getting ready to Gruber us with a massive illegal alien executive amnesty, that will further drive down wages and reduce opportunities for Americans, while turning America into a 3rd world socialist nightmare like Venezuela. Who cares, as long as the newly amnestied illiterate non-English-speaking “Americans” vote democRat for life! Sure, they’ll be sucking up welfare, and getting our kids sick at school with TB, Chagas fever and Enterovirus D-68, but that’s just a small price to pay to ensure the supremacy of the democRat party!


32 posted on 11/16/2014 6:28:34 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: KC_Conspirator

33 posted on 11/16/2014 6:31:02 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: austinaero

Obama is all in now....lying his azze off boldly and proudly and loudly. The man is beyond disgraceful.


Yep. Lyin’ King and his coconspirator media.


34 posted on 11/16/2014 6:33:54 AM PST by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"Obama: US Public Not Misled on Health Care Law"

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35 posted on 11/16/2014 6:34:26 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Everything about socialism is sham and affectation. - 23.11; Ch23 Evil; Economic Harmonies; Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850)


36 posted on 11/16/2014 6:42:45 AM PST by PGalt
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To: norwaypinesavage
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37 posted on 11/16/2014 6:43:16 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Every time this mookabooker opens his yap he’s telling a lie.
Worthless piece of dung.


38 posted on 11/16/2014 6:50:57 AM PST by Joe Boucher (The F.B.I. Is a division of holders Justice Dept. (Nuff said))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Define: certain provisions
39 posted on 11/16/2014 6:53:13 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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