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Heritage has put together this devastating 17-second video exposing Obama's lie from yesterday that he never advocated a single-payer health care system.

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tnxplant| 8.12.09 @ 9:44AM

Additionally, in this same town hall, he says " I want to make a distinction between a universal plan versus a single-payer plan, because those are two different things." Yet in his earlier remarks in the video, he refers to "single payer health care plan - universal health care plan" as being synonymous.

Also, is he saying that "supporter" and "proponent" have different meanings? Both mean "advocate" according to the dictionary (I know, I'm too old-school here.)

Why would anyone trust this kind of double-talk?

Greg| 8.12.09 @ 9:47AM

I love it when he compared the US Post Office with UPS/FedEx...priceless...just priceless.

Gene| 8.12.09 @ 10:51AM

I know there a lot of bama voters out there that are reading this, so listen UP YOU GOT WHAT YOU VOTED FOR.

Pete| 8.12.09 @ 11:00AM

It's the condescending expression he has when blatantly lying that gets you....

The media is a disgrace. They'll cover a spray painted swastika but not a direct lie by the President?

And the White House "rebuttal" was a joke - they said the video took things out of context but rather than show more footage of the same events to prove the "out of context" charge, they showed a recent event where Osama says the opposite. How is that a rebuttal? That is the whole point - that he is saying the opposite of what he clearly believes based on his own previous statements.

Willie| 8.12.09 @ 1:49PM

I wonder what a Psychiatrist would say about Obama's blatant public lies. Obama must have a mental or moral disconnect to be capable of this perfidy. It's not normal behavior.

Pingback| 8.14.09 @ 8:09AM

Live or Let Die | America Watches Obama links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…that said, the provision has to be viewed within the larger context of the changes that President Obama envisions for the health care system as a whole. Though he denies it now, Obama was once a proud advocate of a single-payer system in which government is the sole purchaser of health care. Throughout the health care debate, he has cited erroneous statistics to promote the idea that government-run systems get better value for…

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