If At First You Don’t Succeed, Lie, Lie Again
Yesterday, Barack Obama made an extraordinary claim: “I didn’t campaign on the public option.” Think Progress adds:
– In the 2008 Obama-Biden health care plan on the campaign’s website, candidate Obama promised that “any American will have the opportunity to enroll in [a] new public plan.” [2008]
– During a speech at the American Medical Association, President Obama told thousands of doctors that one of the plans included in the new health insurance exchanges “needs to be a public option that will give people a broader range of choices and inject competition into the health care market.” [6/15/09]
– While speaking to the nation during his weekly address, the President said that “any plan” he signs “must include…a public option.” [7/17/09]
– During a conference call with progressive bloggers, the President said he continues “to believe that a robust public option would be the best way to go.” [7/20/09]
– Obama told NBC’s David Gregory that a public option “should be a part of this [health care bill],” while rebuking claims that the plan was “dead.” [9/20/09]
They have the links: please visit and see for yourself if these claims are true.
I’d also like to add that my name has never been “Brendan Skwire”, that I’ve never liked bluegrass, and that I’ve never so much as set eyes on an upright bass. I’ve never lived in Philadelphia, and I never been happier that I voted for Barack Obama, who I never voted for anyway.
