Saturday, November 30, 2013 8:02:04 PM � by upchuck � 1 replies
Politico ^ | Nov 26, 2013 | Rich Lowery
At the end of the day, the root of President Obama's mendacity on Obamacare was simple: He didn't dare tell people how the law would work. He couldn't tell people how the law would work. Forthrightness was the enemy. It served no useful purpose and could only bring peril, and potentially defeat. It had to be banished. Instead of candor, Obama made the sale on the basis of dubious blandishments and outright deceptions... According to Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, the authors of Double Down, Obama brought up climate change in a political strategy meeting in 2011 as an example...

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