For those who don't know what a 'whopper' is, besides being a giant hamburger, it's a big lie. The liar in chief has lost credibility with fair minded people and even hardened socialists hiding behind the dem party name are losing faith in the 'dear leader'. Over 100 million are losing their current ins. policies and will now have to enrich the ins. companies by paying higher premiums, if they can afford it.
http://nypost.com/2013/11/13/obamas-latest-broken-promise-is-destroying-his-credibility/
When I first saw the headline saying Bill Clinton was advising President Obama to “honor his commitment,” I had to laugh. The idea of Monica Lewinsky’s boyfriend as moral referee always cracks me up.
Then I got to wondering. Which commitment was Clinton talking about?
Is it the one Obama made to the Israeli people, that he had their backs and would never let Iran get a nuclear weapon? Or was it his promise to enforce a “red line” in Syria?
Or maybe it was Obama’s promise to “never rest” until we caught the terrorists who killed our ambassador and three other Americans in Libya?
Or was Clinton talking about the many times the president said he would “never rest” until every American who wanted a job had one?
Or maybe he was talking about the pledge to change the tone in Washington? Or to go through the budget “line by line” and cross out the waste driving up the deficit?
You get the picture — any of those whoppers would qualify. But, of course, Clinton was talking about the broken promise of the moment, the one where Obama vowed that “if you like your health insurance, you can keep it.”
It ranks as one of the biggest presidential lies of modern times, all the more so because Obama repeated it 30 times. The fallout of millions being forced from their policies, an experience exacerbated by the hapless Web site, has created a crisis of confidence so vast, it threatens to swallow the second term.
So Clinton, who falsely swore he never had sex with that woman, spoke from experience when he told an interviewer, “The president should honor his commitment to those people and let them keep what they got.”
He knows the Big Lie is shredding Obama’s ace in the hole — his personal credibility. The key to Obama’s political success is that his job-approval ratings generally have been higher than the public’s view of his policies.
From the economy to health care to foreign policy, voters were mostly negative on the policies. But when it came to Obama himself, more Americans, often a majority, said they liked him, trusted him and believed he had their interests at heart.
ObamaCare is breaking that bond — and creating a domino effect. The public is turning ever harder against his policies, with only 31 percent now supporting him on the economy and 32 percent on immigration in the latest Pew poll.
Most important, they are also giving a thumbs-down on his overall performance. Pew finds that only 41 percent approve of his handling of the presidency, down 14 points since December, while 53 percent disapprove. And Quinnipiac late Tuesday found he’s hit a new low with 39 percent approval, while a majority said he’s not honest.
No president can lead from such a deep, discredited hole. And his ratings are likely to keep sinking because, once the Web site is fixed, millions more “shoppers” will get sticker shocks from the new policies ObamaCare requires. And next year comes the employer mandate, which will shake up the policies and prices of millions of others.
So Clinton’s advice that Obama “let them keep what they got,” is, in a vacuum, a perfectly logical escape route.
But even if it were possible, the reversal would be a dagger in the heart of ObamaCare. The whole Rube Goldberg scheme depends on using insurance policies to distribute wealth from healthy young Americans to older, sicker ones. Letting people keep the policies they have effectively repeals the president’s signature achievement.
Clinton’s advice, then, won’t fly. But if he, or anybody else, has another idea about how Obama can wriggle out of the mess he created, they should speak up very quickly. Otherwise, it will be too late to make a difference.
De Blasio wins with Obama’s babyish Utopianism
---More foo foo nonsense-this is a result of what the kids have been indoctrinated into at certain universities, then they congregate in the metropolis toking doobies and reciting their marxist bibles, because their smarter then the rest of us.
http://nypost.com/2013/11/05/de-blasio-wins-with-obamas-babyish-utopianism/
Maybe the gods have a puckish sense of humor, or maybe they are telegraphing the trouble ahead. Either way, it cannot be mere coincidence that Barack Obama’s namesake experiment in left-wing social engineering is crashing just as New Yorkers are poised to crown an ideological soul mate.
“Don’t do it, don’t go there,” is the only rational response to the prospect of a Mayor de Blasio just as the ObamaCare debacle comes into view. But the race for City Hall proves that elections are not always exercises in rational thinking.
If they were, this contest would have started and ended on how New York could continue its 20-year run of remarkable progress on public safety and prosperity. Instead, voters signaled they preferred the candidate who vowed to dismantle the gains and redistribute the fruits. Backwards, march!
Sex sells beer and newspapers, but class warfare is going like hot cakes in Democratic politics. Preaching unity while practicing division is hardly a new idea, but there is no denying that the old trick is on a new winning streak.
Consider that New Yorkers are buying a pitch almost identical to the one they bought last year, with striking similarities between the president and mayor-in-waiting.
Obama and de Blasio are red-diaper babies whose fathers disappeared, and both have biracial families. Both changed their names and expressed enduring interest in anti-American radicals — Obama learned from Bill Ayres and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, while de Blasio cheered the Sandinistas and Fidel Castro.
They became community organizers before entering elective politics, where they were undistinguished until riding vague promises of change to the top of the heap.
Their triumphs testify to their talents and persistence. But it is no accident that de Blasio became a copycat of Obama, who has redefined liberalism, and not for the better.
Under Obama, Dems have moved so far left that Bill and Hillary Clinton were caught off guard, their center-left orientation leaving them dust-covered relics. Oddly, de Blasio started out in the Clinton clan — he worked for Bubba and helped run Hillary’s 2000 Senate campaign — but adopted the Obama Way after the president topped 80 percent in the city in 2008 and 2012.
De Blasio’s direct appeals to racial and ethnic minorities, the unemployed, white women, the young and unions are straight out of the president’s playbook. So, too, are his scorn for those not charmed by calls for tax hikes; they also share the moralizing habit of denouncing big spending by opponents while embracing it among supporters.
Most troubling, neither Obama nor de Blasio had a whit of management experience before being entrusted with government power and huge bureaucracies. And neither had the wisdom to realize that shooting for the moon to remake a mature, complex society ends up leaving most people worse off, especially those they purport to be helping.
It has taken nearly five years for a majority of Americans to smell it, but the stench of failure surrounding Obama’s radical ideas is unmistakable. His health-care law’s inherent flaws are being revealed, adding to the crisis of incomes and labor participation. Many “ObamaCare losers” will not find a doctor, even if they find insurance.
National security is slipping, too, with our enemies emboldened and our friends alarmed at his abdication of global leadership. Most Americans now say we will become a second-rate power sooner rather than later.
Many New Yorkers fear de Blasio’s utopian schemes will have the same effect here, that he will wreak havoc on finances and the economy and jeopardize the record-low crime levels.
It all begins with the NYPD. If de Blasio handcuffs cops, the inevitable crime spike will claim the lives of more black and Latino young men. If the spike becomes the new normal, families and businesses will look for safer pastures, and the city’s death spiral will have begun.
He will react by freezing prices — rents, for example — and slap more controls on businesses in terms of pay and benefits. Each step will be popular with his base but ultimately fail to help because the laws of economics and human nature are immutable. That is the lesson of Cuba he didn’t learn.
Admittedly, this sounds like a worst-case scenario, but there is no way de Blasio can keep his promises and also keep the city moving forward. He was resolute in vowing to turn the page on the last 20 years, and the consequences of that mistake will, sooner or later, be felt by every New Yorker.
Those counting on his pledge to fix the “affordability” crisis will be especially disappointed because much of the price burden is the trickle-down result of the high cost of government. Everything de Blasio wants to do will only increase that burden.
Naturally, there will be winners. Business titans willing to pay tribute will be rewarded with favors, proving again that cronyism lives when capitalism dies.
Then there are the unions. Their push for retroactive pay is so unreasonable that it could be the first big test. A capitulation will signal weakness and open the door to endless demands for more, more, more.
Don’t be surprised. Just remember, you’ve been warned that de Blasio will do for New York what Obama is doing for America.
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As far as Bengazhi goes, the people that were there had to sign some "secrecy agreement" so they wouldn't TALK.
all lies all the time