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NY Daily News Editorial Attacks America’s ‘Immaturity’ for Showing Anger Over Obamacare’s Lies
Mediaite ^ | November 11, 2013 | Noah Rothman

Posted on 11/11/2013 11:22:28 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

We were just asking for it. This is, essentially, what Century Foundation fellow Michael Cohen took to the pages of the New York Daily News on Monday to say. In a profound scolding, Cohen diagnoses America’s “immaturity” as demonstrated by the backlash against President Barack Obama over to his oft-repeated and false claim that every American who was happy with their health insurance would be able to keep their health insurance.

This was never true. The president and his staff were aware this was not true as early as February, 2010. Some media outlets reported that, for millions of Americans, they would not be able to keep their insurance plans. But, for Cohen, it was a noble lie – one that Americans should accept. He contends that a “schizophrenic” public welcomes the radical reforms contained within the Affordable Care Act but selfishly balks at the prospect of breaking a few eggs to achieve this virtuous end.

“[B]efore we fully castigate the President for his rhetorical flights of fancy, it’s important to keep in mind that Obama was — to a large degree — telling Americans what they wanted to hear,” Cohen writes, as though noting that lying to the public over telling them unwelcome truths was simply easier and therefore exonerating.

“Americans regularly express dissatisfaction with the status quo and demand political change,” he continues. “But at the same time, they recoil at any reform that affects them directly.”

After asserting that “most Americans are largely unaffected” by the ACA, he notes that catastrophic policies purchased on the individual market “could barely be considered insurance.”

“That these Americans would not be able to keep their plans was not a bug of Obamacare; it was the point,” Cohen clarifies, shedding light on a point that would have been informative had he alerted us to it at any time over the course of the last three years.

Acknowledging that reality would have been the honest thing to do. So would asking healthier and wealthier Americans to sacrifice for the greater good of ensuring every American have health-care coverage.

But doing so would have opened Obama and his democratic allies up to the charge that Obamacare would lead to widespread dislocations — and made the path to reform that much politically harder to traverse.

“So accuse Obama of lying about health-care reform,” he concludes, “but understand the simple underlying reality: we can’t handle the truth.”

The instinct to display contempt for those who react poorly to having been lied to by their president, and who are frustrated at those media outlets that failed to adequately debunk this untruth before they became its victims, is a confusing one.

Chances are, however, that Cohen wrote what many of the president’s supporters think but dare not commit to paper – yet. That those voters who are rejecting the president, evidenced in opinion polling and elsewhere, are undeserving of his genius and compassion.

That sense of superiority must be comforting in times like these.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bhofascism; msm; obama; obamacare
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1 posted on 11/11/2013 11:22:28 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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ACA is for douche bags.  <-- immaturity right there!

2 posted on 11/11/2013 11:25:18 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Formerly he was a senior fellow at the New America Foundation and the American Security Project. He also served in the U.S. Department of State as chief speechwriter for U.S. Representative to the United Nations Bill Richardson and Undersecretary of State Stuart Eizenstat. He has worked at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and was chief speechwriter for Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT). He has also worked on political campaigns, both in the United States and overseas.”

Worked for Carter’s boy, Richardson and Dodd. Yep, no bias there.

But hey, we’re the “immature” ones


3 posted on 11/11/2013 11:30:55 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat ("I was all for Obamacare until I found out I was paying for it,")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That’s funny. He’s an idiot


4 posted on 11/11/2013 11:31:51 PM PST by realcleanguy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wait six months. America’s anger will be much riper then.


6 posted on 11/11/2013 11:33:01 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

As MSM-heads expose themselves to their readership, confident that the readership they’ve enjoyed until now will never leave, I look forward to their shock as they lose some of their “loyal flock” who don’t enjoy being told they are stupid so “brighter lights” had to lie to them because they can’t handle the truth.


7 posted on 11/11/2013 11:35:40 PM PST by ransomnote
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
We will not tolerate bait and switch in any day to day transactions or agreements.

They are brain damaged if they think we will with this!

What are you gonna do with your $2500 in healthcare savings? Buy your MD a Christmas gift?

8 posted on 11/11/2013 11:36:10 PM PST by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall ; / ?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

These kinds of minds would accuse the Supreme Being of “immaturity” for getting angry and flooding the earth during Noah’s time. Go figure; the clay trying to dictate to the potter.


9 posted on 11/11/2013 11:36:20 PM PST by Olog-hai
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10 posted on 11/11/2013 11:42:56 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Olog-hai

The louder the MSM screams the more you know they are complicit in covering for the One. The wall of lies is crumbling and their day is coming when they will be judged in the court of public opinion just as the one they blindly followed.


11 posted on 11/11/2013 11:46:22 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What an arrogrant little pr!€k.


12 posted on 11/11/2013 11:58:51 PM PST by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
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13 posted on 11/12/2013 12:04:31 AM PST by LyinLibs (If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
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To: dalereed

Mr. Cohen:
I understanf liberals have a hard time with real facts and truth and that’s it’s in your nature to have knee-jerk reactions devoid of reason when the truth is inescapable and its smacking you hard in the face but here’s a few facts:

Your guy killed the economy
Is highly suspected of assassinating public enemies or persons that would expose his past
When pressured about his birth certificate he posted a forgery, moreover he eon’t provide any other documentation about his school records and he continues to use a SSN that was necer issued to him
Used the NSA to spy on citizens
Is suspected of using same information to blackmail people to do his bidding
Used intimidation tactics wielding the hand of the IRS
Lied to us about Benghazi; we still don’t know where he was during the attack
Lied to us about Obamacare and its reach, costs, that we could keep our plan
Lied to us about Fast and Furious
Lied about his religion; tells us he’s Christian at first then we find out he’s a Muslim
Installs Muslim Brotherhood members in key positions in our government that have access to state secrets that could compromise our security
Hands out huge sums of taxpayer funds and weapons to foreign powers that ends up in the hands of terrorists

AND YOU HAVE THE GALL TO SAY WE’RE BEING IMMATURE ABOUT THE PRESIDENT’S CONSTANT LYING. F O COHEN


14 posted on 11/12/2013 12:05:30 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: jsanders2001

Mr. Cohen:
I understanf liberals have a hard time with real facts and truth and that’s it’s in your nature to have knee-jerk reactions devoid of reason when the truth is inescapable and its smacking you hard in the face but here’s a few facts:

Your guy killed the economy
Is highly suspected of assassinating public enemies or persons that would expose his past
When pressured about his birth certificate he posted a forgery, moreover he can’t provide any other documentation about his school records and he continues to use a SSN that was never issued to him
Used the NSA to spy on citizens
Is suspected of using same information to blackmail people to do his bidding
Used intimidation tactics wielding the hand of the IRS
Lied to us about Benghazi; we still don’t know where he was during the attack
Lied to us about Obamacare and its reach, costs, that we could keep our plan
Lied to us about Fast and Furious
Lied about his religion; tells us he’s Christian at first then we find out he’s a Muslim
Installs Muslim Brotherhood members in key positions in our government that have access to state secrets that could compromise our security
Hands out huge sums of taxpayer funds and weapons to foreign powers that ends up in the hands of terrorists

AND YOU HAVE THE GALL TO SAY WE’RE BEING IMMATURE ABOUT THE PRESIDENT’S CONSTANT LYING. F O COHEN


15 posted on 11/12/2013 12:10:01 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
To say the public is “schizophrenic” is merely yet another lie. An overwhelming majority has been against the ACA from the beginning; problem is that they have swallowed hook, line and sinker the demonization of conservatives and have not been able to kick cold turkey the lethal habit of voting Democrat.
Obama's lies are intended to cover other lies. If Obamacare were so good, there wouldn't be a need to lie about it, not to mention that Obama would insist on signing up his family, and his lackeys wouldn't ask for exemptions; obviously the whole thing is garbage.

Problem is that Obamacare is much worse than just useless and dangerous. It will do a lot more harm than severely damage the best health delivery system in the history of humanity. Obamacare will herald an end to whatever little freedom remains in America and usher in a totalitarian order.

16 posted on 11/12/2013 12:26:32 AM PST by stormhill (Guns Save Lives!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
... served in the U.S. Department of State as chief speechwriter for ... Bill Richardson and ... Stuart Eizenstat ... was chief speechwriter for Senator Chris Dodd

Professional Political Liar Condones Partisan Political Lies; lies To Pardon Lying: details at 11!

17 posted on 11/12/2013 12:34:00 AM PST by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
That sense of superiority must be comforting in times like these

That line reminds me of a quote I ran into a long time ago:

"Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.”
Bellamy Brooks

18 posted on 11/12/2013 12:44:04 AM PST by stormhill (Guns Save Lives!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The liberals are losing. They are starting to strike out against the enemies of “Utopia.” It will get very nasty before it is all over.


19 posted on 11/12/2013 12:50:25 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What an arrogant sob.


20 posted on 11/12/2013 12:54:03 AM PST by stilloftyhenight (TEA baby! Let's roll!)
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