Obamateurism of the Day
posted at 8:05 am on July 17, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
Barack Obama insisted yesterday that Americans who like their current health insurance plan would not have to change it under ObamaCare. As always, you can tell when Obama is about to tell a whopper when he begins with:
“Let me be exactly clear about what health care reform means to you,” the president told residents of the Garden State. “First of all, if you’ve got health insurance, you like your doctors, you like your plan, you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan. Nobody is talking about taking that away from you.”
Apparently, Obama doesn’t keep up with his own expiration dates. Jake Tapper does, however:
At a rally in Holmdel, New Jersey, today, President Obama continued making a promise about health care reform that he has acknowledged isn’t literally true. …
But last month, as the president acknowledged during a press conference, he doesn’t literally mean that you are guaranteed to be able to keep your health care plan, and your doctor, if and when health care reform passes.
“When I say ‘If you have your plan and you like it,… or you have a doctor and you like your doctor, that you don’t have to change plans,’” the president said after we asked him about this, “what I’m saying is the government is not going to make you change plans under health reform.”
In fact, as Tapper reports, Obama had softened the claim since he got challenged on this point on June 23rd. He had made that claim much less definitive, to a “no one want to make you change,” rather than a declarative “you can keep your plan.”
Looks like TOTUS-R is wreaking revenge for its brother’s destruction by displaying the older version of ObamaSpeak rather than the newer, lower-commitment double-talk. How long before TOTUS-R has an “accident”?
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Obama lied heath coverage died…
doriangrey on July 17, 2009 at 8:08 AM
Go TOTUS-R!
cmsinaz on July 17, 2009 at 8:13 AM
I cringe everytime he begins with “Let me be clear….” Ugh
cmsinaz on July 17, 2009 at 8:15 AM
Is this like Obama lite?
c.u.shoeless on July 17, 2009 at 8:16 AM
Pffft….I think it has become perfectly clear over the last six months that anything Obama says should be taken with a heavy dose of salt as he reverses himself so often that the White House staff have developed a bad case of whiplash.
Dreadnought223 on July 17, 2009 at 8:19 AM
Emmanuel and Axelrod are running the country while they send the show pony out on the motivational speaking tour. Obama doesn’t have a clue but they have found that his magical speaking skills can mesmerize the devoted while they stay in D.C. threatening and knee-capping to get things done. Quite a unique set-up for operating the world’s superpower.
sherry on July 17, 2009 at 8:19 AM
Hey, under Obamacare, patients will get to keep a lot of things the same! They will get to keep the same bad hip, the same bad knee, the same bad heart, the same bad teeth, the same bad gallbladder, and the same bad pain! The more things CHANGE, the more they STAY THE SAME!
bloggless on July 17, 2009 at 8:20 AM
I’m beginning to think that perhaps the Obama train has just hit a wall at 90mph.
JiangxiDad on July 17, 2009 at 8:20 AM
Nancy Kerrigan!
blatantblue on July 17, 2009 at 8:21 AM
I work in the health care field…I don’t want obarfy messin’ with my job…
…d*mn him…
ladyingray on July 17, 2009 at 8:23 AM
LOL, and Rahm is Tonya Harding. Ballerina on ice.
sherry on July 17, 2009 at 8:24 AM
Then quit thinking while you are behind.
doriangrey on July 17, 2009 at 8:24 AM
OT:, but here is something that PRESIDENT Obama said to the NAACP. This is from an article that is now on CNN’s website.
“Even as we inherit extraordinary progress that cannot be denied; even as we marvel at the courage and determination of so many plain folks — we know that too many barriers still remain,” he said.
DethMetalCookieMonst on July 17, 2009 at 8:25 AM
If you had had the sense to be a lawyer you wouldn’t be having this problem… :P
doriangrey on July 17, 2009 at 8:26 AM
How can you keep what won’t be there? Private insurers will be few and very expensive.
Limerick on July 17, 2009 at 8:27 AM
Seriously. People mention overreach. We may be witnessing it. I’m no optimist by nature, but once a decade I allow myself a little “hope.” It would be a lovely thing to see Obama’s Presidency fail in his first 6 months.
JiangxiDad on July 17, 2009 at 8:28 AM
Translation: Look brothers and sisters, I be a bustin cracker’s white a$$ just as fas as I can, but I’s a gonna be needen yo back up to finish these crack a$$ mother f$cker off..
doriangrey on July 17, 2009 at 8:28 AM
…until Ed’s idea catches on…then the lawyers will be in the same sinking lifeboat as me…
ladyingray on July 17, 2009 at 8:28 AM
What’s the tipping point here.
This arrogant bastard is clearly out of control. Every day the government is proposing to spend billions more (that it doesn’t have) on programs designed to make us more like the USSR. When do Americans stand up, say ENOUGH, and start fighting back at this rat bastard traitor and the corrupt politicians in DC?????
I’ve had it but one voice against this hurricane of destruction does nothing.
highhopes on July 17, 2009 at 8:29 AM
too many lawyers
the US is the liver
and lawyers are the cirhossis
blatantblue on July 17, 2009 at 8:29 AM
look, are all of you calling/emailing/writing your congressman? and some of you live in towns where these idjits have local offices. go to those offices to voice your opinion.
keep at it. day after day after day.
the alternative is unacceptable.
kelley in virginia on July 17, 2009 at 8:29 AM
Hey
HEY
Sometimes lawyers can be helpful….
ladyingray on July 17, 2009 at 8:30 AM
The real shame is that between the fading O and idiot Joe, you need to be tracking obamateurisms by the hour.
I have to agree with Daniel Henniger at WSJ, exactly what is the point of all this incessant speech-making?
Obama is a one-trick pony that has been circling the same track for so long, that he can’t keep from stepping in his own sh!t.
singlemalt_18 on July 17, 2009 at 8:32 AM
Seriously indeed, I would love to see him crash and burn right out of the gate too, but in your heart of hearts you know it isnt going to happen. The once great republic has been betrayed by politicians and the media and the vast majority of it’s citizens are just to damned self-centered and narcissistic to even notice let alone get up off their fat a$$e$, turn off American Idol and do anything.
doriangrey on July 17, 2009 at 8:33 AM
Aw man…that’s beautiful!
ladyingray on July 17, 2009 at 8:33 AM
It is the victim mentality that fuels the race industry and affinity groups like the NAACP. They lose influence if suddenly there are no victims. I suspect the race industry will now focus more on the “pattern of societal discrimination” and blame all the inner-city problems on whitey. As if the gang-banger criminal who has multiple bastards from multiple women is excused from personal responsibility. As if the welfare culture predominate in the inner-city is an excuse not to look to get off welfare since it is now a part of the “black experience.”
highhopes on July 17, 2009 at 8:34 AM
Words which keep the same meaning on Thursday as they had on Monday is such an antiquated notion.
Hope and Change!
cs89 on July 17, 2009 at 8:36 AM
Sigh… You just dont get it do you. It isn’t Obama that’s out of control. It’s the political aristocracy that is out of control, or actually assuming total and complete control. Obama is just the lightning rod, the real villains are the politicians, all of them, not just the Democrats, but the Republicans as well. They are all corrupt worthless vile criminals.
doriangrey on July 17, 2009 at 8:37 AM
hehehe…Tonya Harding, President Obama’s new public health care enforcement tsar. “take out private health insurance and Tonya will have you kneecapped”.
Dreadnought223 on July 17, 2009 at 8:38 AM
Agreed. Its the 99% that make the other 1% look bad. :)
Proud Texan on July 17, 2009 at 8:39 AM
John Popper had it sooo right…
doriangrey on July 17, 2009 at 8:39 AM
I wish I thought it would do some good. I live in Massachusetts, they won’t listen, my reps/sens are socialist automatons and a$$ clowns, and yet people here keep. voting. them. in.
I think I need to start writing calling other states’ representatives.
NickelAndDime on July 17, 2009 at 8:42 AM
Let me be clear…
Some may say…
Make no mistake…
[z z z z z zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.................]
I think it was Ed (or was it Charles Krauthammer?) who aptly characterized this crap as Obama’s rhetorical tics
petefrt on July 17, 2009 at 8:43 AM
From today’s WSJ editorial page (great article): “The world is looking on, agog, and wondering why the United States seems intent on jumping off this cliff.”
I gotta say, I’m getting to the point where I can’t look anymore. You all elected a madman.
ProfessorMiao on July 17, 2009 at 8:44 AM
they did a small show in the hamptons last week or so
i wanted to go sooo badly
:[
rin tin tin
blatantblue on July 17, 2009 at 8:45 AM
Identifying “Obama Lie” Markers:
Obama is a prolific, although not very effective, liar.
I recall noticing even during the campaign that often when he was launching a big lie, he would phrase it, “Now nobody is saying…(fill in exactly what he knows the truth that he’s concealing to be…).
I have noticed David Axelrod often uses the same device.
Everytime I hear Obama say, “Now nobody is saying…” I perk up. It’s invariably a lie.
Maybe it would be a useful exercise to compile the “Obama Guide to Spotting the Lie.”
VitalRoar on July 17, 2009 at 8:46 AM
I live in Jim Moran’s district. I could call, write, even visit his office and it wouldn’t make a bit of difference. The effing system is set up so that the liberal bastards in Arlington and Alexandria pretty much make him bulletproof and cancel out any sort of view I hold. I hate them and the system that makes me disenfranchised despite actually seeing the US Capitol every day.
highhopes on July 17, 2009 at 8:46 AM
same here
my congressman Tim Bishop wouldn’t EVER listen
phony lefty son of a gun
here in LI we have one of the largest concentrations of military veterans in the nation, and that fool had the nerve to sit there in his commercials with veterans after he voted to cut funding for em
blatantblue on July 17, 2009 at 8:47 AM
It doesnt matter what I say
So long as I sing with inflection
That makes you feel that Ill convey
Some inner truth of vast reflection
But Ive said nothing so far
And I can keep it up for as long as it takes
And it dont matter who you are
If Im doing my job then its your resolve that breaks
Because the hook brings you back
I aint tellin you no lie
The hook brings you back
On that you can rely
There is something amiss
I am being insincere
In fact I dont mean any of this
Still my confession draws you near
To confuse the issue I refer
To familiar heroes from long ago
No matter how much peter loved her
What made the pan refuse to grow
Was that the hook brings you back
I aint tellin you no lie
The hook brings you back
On that you can rely
Suck it in suck it in suck it in
If youre rin tin tin or anne boleyn
Make a desperate move or else youll win
And then begin
To see
What youre doing to me this mtv is not for free
Its so pc its killing me
So desperately I sing to thee
Of love
Sure but also rage and hate and pain and fear of self
And I cant keep these feelings on the shelf
Ive tried well no in fact I lied
Could be financial suicide but Ive got too much pride inside
To hide or slide
Ill do as Ill decide and let it ride until Ive died
And only then shall I abide this tide
Of catchy little tunes
Of hip three minute ditties
I wanna bust all your balloons
I wanna burn all of your cities
To the ground Ive found
I will not mess around
Unless I play then hey
I will go on all day hear what I say
I have a prayer to pray
Thats really all this was
And when Im feeling stuck and need a buck
I dont rely on luck because…
The hook brings you back
I aint tellin you no lie
The hook…
On that you can rely
doriangrey on July 17, 2009 at 8:47 AM
That’s easy. You don’t need a guide, just look to see when the lips or teleprompter is moving.
highhopes on July 17, 2009 at 8:48 AM
that song RULES
especially at the rin tin tin part
blatantblue on July 17, 2009 at 8:48 AM
JiangxiDad on July 17, 2009 at 8:28 AM
I’m with you Dad.
TXMomof3 on July 17, 2009 at 8:50 AM
Tell me who the bigger fool is, Tim Bishop or the veterans who endorsed him. They got exactly what they wanted and deserved, sorry you had to get it as well…
doriangrey on July 17, 2009 at 8:51 AM
Obama Lied, Liberty Died
Chainsaw56 on July 17, 2009 at 8:51 AM
my heart of hearts isn’t hopeless. Not yet anyway.
JiangxiDad on July 17, 2009 at 8:51 AM
Sure Obama’s a serial liar, a Racist, a poster boy for affirmative action, throws like a girl, hates America, is clueless, and, literally, the biggest threat to the US and the Constitution in 200 years.
But his wife thinks he’s so cute in his White Sox jacket.
You know, the one he got at Cominsky Field. So he’s got that going for him, which is nice.
What a gidrool.
there it is on July 17, 2009 at 8:52 AM
I think you’ll be able to go for the full monty on this one soon enough when people do start dying due to rationing and losing their doctors that have known them for years. Their lives will be on Obamas’ hands.
oddjob1138 on July 17, 2009 at 8:53 AM
I was just going to say the same thing.
ProfessorMiao on July 17, 2009 at 8:53 AM
Awesome.
petefrt on July 17, 2009 at 8:55 AM
Yer so right…
ladyingray on July 17, 2009 at 8:55 AM
I don’t think most voted for him, but the ones who did were senile old men, to be perfectly honest.
Or the types that were Democrats forty-fifty years ago, and still think Democrats are the same as back then
Most veterans I believe swung for this guy Lee Zeldin last November, 28 and Iraq war veteran
blatantblue on July 17, 2009 at 8:57 AM
Yes so long as you don’t change your job or coverage.
They are so full it. They know the people won’t like it, so they lie and think we are all stupid to not check the details. They are pushing this through as quick as possible, so the people will not be informed as we are here, and MSM are flying his flag.
Ed Laskie on July 17, 2009 at 8:58 AM
Obama wasn’t lying here. He was committing the sin of omission.
katy on July 17, 2009 at 9:03 AM
A little Texas humor.
A Department of Water Resources representative stops at a Texas ranch and talks with an old rancher.
He tells the rancher, I need to inspect your ranch for your water allocation.
The old rancher says, ‘Okay, but don’t go in that field over there.’
The Water representative says, ‘Mister, I have the authority of the Federal Government with me. See this card? This card means I am allowed to go WHEREVER I WISH on any agricultural land. No questions asked or answered. Have I made myself clear? Do you understand?’
The old rancher nods politely and goes about his chores.
Later, the old rancher hears loud screams and spies the Water Rep running for his life and close behind is the rancher’s bull. The bull is gaining with every step. The Rep is clearly terrified, so the old rancher immediately throws down his tools, runs to the fence and yells at the top of his lungs…..
Your card! Show him your card!’
Johan Klaus on July 17, 2009 at 9:08 AM
Emmanuel and Axelrod are running the country while they send the show pony out on the motivational speaking tour. Obama doesn’t have a clue but they have found that his magical speaking skills can mesmerize the devoted while they stay in D.C. threatening and knee-capping to get things done. Quite a unique set-up for operating the world’s superpower.
sherry on July 17, 2009
And when the country implodes they can walk away without penalty because they were only “working for” Ogabe. I’m sure the “I was only following orders” defense will work this time. Disregard those SS patches on our uniforms.
SKYFOX on July 17, 2009 at 9:09 AM
Let me be exactly clear, Obama is a liar.
ICBM on July 17, 2009 at 9:11 AM
I don’t think he really cares about that. He will just take credit for a reduction in carbon-producing entities.
Consider it as Unversal Health Care having a positive effect on Cap and Trade.
Yoop on July 17, 2009 at 9:11 AM
LOL!! Thanks, I needed that.
ProfessorMiao on July 17, 2009 at 9:14 AM
Agreed, but doesn’t the ultimate responsibility lie with the American people themselves?
Oldnuke on July 17, 2009 at 9:15 AM
The big red lying flags: “Let me be perfectly clear” and “As I’ve always said”.
mr.blacksheep on July 17, 2009 at 9:18 AM
My boss said as soon as obamacare kicks in he’s cutting us all off our insurance and he’s laughing his butt off about it.
Best of all, he said, if any of us calls obama a liar he’ll fire us for racism.
And he’s right. Racism is a serious issue in our country, and a wise latina once deigned to tell me that it is important I treat my overlords with due deference.
jeff_from_mpls on July 17, 2009 at 9:18 AM
A job is the best health care system known to man.
Obama has it all backwards.
Start with jobs promotion (lower taxes, incentives for new technologies, etc.) to get the economy moving and the health insurance problem takes care of itself. People can then afford to buy their own from the current systems.
These may need tweaking (to rein in abuses) but we don’t need Dr. Nanny Von State strangling us all.
Barry is simply a bass-ackwards moron.
profitsbeard on July 17, 2009 at 9:22 AM
Actually, my boss said as soon as obamacare kicks in he’s not only cutting the whole company off our insurance, he’s going to buy a really expensive BMW and he told us that every time we walk by it in the parking lot to thank president obama, and my boss is absolutely laughing his butt off about it.
And then my boss started needling all the fat people in the office with stuff like “you’re gonna be dead before you’re 60″ and stuff like that.
So we’re all pretty pumped up about the new obamacare.
jeff_from_mpls on July 17, 2009 at 9:24 AM
Yeah. And he didn’t want to take over the auto industry either. It just sort of happened.
Obama’s a fascist creep.
RobertE on July 17, 2009 at 9:25 AM
He loves the sound of his own voice. He loves the audiences. He believes he inspires people. He doesn’t care if what he says is true. He has a gift! He’s really just the man behind the curtain, though.
scalleywag on July 17, 2009 at 9:29 AM
Scalleywag
His narcissism is showing…
ladyingray on July 17, 2009 at 9:35 AM
Kind of like OJ, Ike, and every other wife-beater. “You know I didn’t want to have to do that, baby…but you left me know choice.” *wham* *smack* *punch*
Why are we getting the smack-down when we never said “I do”?
Laura in Maryland on July 17, 2009 at 9:39 AM
:-(
SouthernGent on July 17, 2009 at 9:47 AM
You forgot the “There are those who disagree, and that is fine, but at the end of the day I believe that [insert lie here]
highhopes on July 17, 2009 at 9:50 AM
The filthy liar in the White House isn’t a man. Men stand up for principles and doing what is right. Men are morally grounded. Obama is nothing but a little boy playing President because he won the genetic lottery and was light-enough skinned multi-racial to be an affirmative action politician of choice.
highhopes on July 17, 2009 at 9:53 AM
It took me a second to figure out that you weren’t talking about Eisenhower. >_<
thomasaur on July 17, 2009 at 9:53 AM
“let me clear” and “As I have always said” seems to be a recurring thing for Obama, yet those two phrases are never what they mean when he says them. He is never clear, and constantly lies.
jharada on July 17, 2009 at 9:59 AM
My husband’s entire career was with DOD civil service. They had a pretty good retirement plan. If you worked for thirty years and were at least 55 your retirement would be 80% of the three highest pay years. Then it dawned on the geniuses in D.C. that Social Security was in serious trouble so they dumped all the civil service employees into it. You can still get the retirement plan but you have to pay extra for it. The same thing will happen to the insurance. The minute it gets into trouble they will pull all the employees who’s payroll they control will be put into the national system to keep it afloat. That will stink because we pay half of our insurance but it’s good.
Cindy Munford on July 17, 2009 at 10:04 AM
Huh???
They don’t know how to change a tire.
txdoc on July 17, 2009 at 10:07 AM
Seriously…I’ve not heard that???
Laura in Maryland on July 17, 2009 at 10:11 AM
Not his biggest fan, are you :)
He lost me with the stimulus package. I was willing to give him a chance but that, IMHO, was the worst thing he could have done starting out the gate. He compromised a lot of his “promises” in the first few months. I don’t listen to his speeches anymore.
scalleywag on July 17, 2009 at 10:13 AM
No Laura, it took me a second or two to realize that you were talking about Ike Turner and not Eisenhower.
thomasaur on July 17, 2009 at 10:16 AM
It’s a sad thing when you realize that the real brains behind this administration is TOTUS.
UltimateBob on July 17, 2009 at 10:27 AM
*red-facepalm* If you need me, I’ll be in the corner with the other morons.
Laura in Maryland on July 17, 2009 at 10:31 AM
…and if you run into Drywall, please ask him if I can borrow his dunce cap.
Laura in Maryland on July 17, 2009 at 10:32 AM
Took me a second also. I am not sure if it has age or historic implications.
Cindy Munford on July 17, 2009 at 10:33 AM
Probably a little of both, being in our early 50′s there is only one Ike that immediatly comes to mind. Don’t sweat it Laura, you are no dunce.
thomasaur on July 17, 2009 at 10:37 AM
Obamacare to be legislative failure for the boyKing?
JiangxiDad on July 17, 2009 at 10:38 AM
Thanks. I’m going to get a cup of coffee and shake awake.
Laura in Maryland on July 17, 2009 at 10:42 AM
Strange…I knew exactly who she was talking about…
ladyingray on July 17, 2009 at 10:47 AM
“I cringe everytime he begins with “Let me be clear….” Ugh”
cmsinaz on July 17, 2009 at 8:15 AM
Yup! Right up there with, “as I’ve consistently said…” Which is newspeak for a complete reversal of what was said afore.
Archimedes on July 17, 2009 at 10:48 AM
Barry’s lying thru his teeth……..again.
GarandFan on July 17, 2009 at 10:50 AM
JiangxiDad on July 17, 2009 at 11:02 AM
Yes so long as you don’t change your job or coverage.
They are so full it. They know the people won’t like it, so they lie and think we are all stupid to not check the details. They are pushing this through as quick as possible, so the people will not be informed as we are here, and MSM are flying his flag.
Ed Laskie on July 17, 2009 at 8:58 AM
Unfortunately Ed, I think to many take the maxim that “ignorance is bliss” to far, and remain oblivious to what is happening in front of our eyes.
Archimedes on July 17, 2009 at 11:07 AM
Priceless!
Josiah on July 17, 2009 at 11:16 AM
ladyingray wrote:
They are good as mulch.
noblejones on July 17, 2009 at 11:28 AM
I still got a big problem with him refering to us as “Jersey” Some midwesterner doesn’t have the right to try and fit in here like so many yuppies before him.
Rbastid on July 17, 2009 at 2:00 PM
“Let me be exactly clear…Tornado season is going to be HORRENDOUS this season in Washington DC ” Due to the enormous amount of Flip Flopping that is going on.!
BARACK OBAMA….He Says Nothing Better Then Anybody!
Just Ask Him, He Says He Has A Gift!
Eagles Dominion on July 17, 2009 at 3:14 PM
Obama-nation makes Bill Clinton look honest.
darktood on July 17, 2009 at 4:04 PM
The cartoon makes me want to visit his site… I don’t know why….
RufusW on July 17, 2009 at 4:36 PM
“
Errrr, uhhmmm so “health reform” means no change to anyone’s “personal’ health care?
So what is the point of “health reform”
If it ain’t broke don’t fix it
DSchoen on July 17, 2009 at 5:04 PM
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