{"id":19358,"date":"2013-11-08T13:44:07","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T18:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=19358"},"modified":"2013-11-08T13:44:07","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T18:44:07","slug":"obama-apologizes-then-contextualizes-his-broken-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/19358\/obama-apologizes-then-contextualizes-his-broken-promises\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Apologizes, Then Contextualizes His Broken Promises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night President Barack Obama issued a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/2013\/11\/07\/207909\/analysis-tens-of-millions-could.html\" target=\"_blank\">half-hearted apology for lying to millions of Americans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am sorry that they [i.e. people who are losing their insurance plans due to Obamacare] are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me,\u201d Obama said in an interview with NBC News Thursday night. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to work hard to make sure that they know we hear them and we are going to do everything we can to deal with folks who find themselves in a tough position as a consequence of this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But even with the <em>mea culpa<\/em>, Obama couldn\u2019t resist trying to minimize his culpability. His method was trying to make the amount of people affected seem like a rounding error.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, we\u2019re talking about 5 percent of the population.\u201d Of course, 5 percent of the American population is still 15 million people \u2013 enough to swing an election. More importantly, that number would be <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/56-health-care\/2019-obamacare-lies-a-incompetence-may-be-enough-to-bring-it-down \" target=\"_blank\">several times larger<\/a> if Obama hadn\u2019t already delayed the employer mandate.<\/p>\n<p>A reasonable person in Obama\u2019s shoes would now spend the next month or two in lock-down mode trying to fix his broken website and restore credibility to his administration\u2019s ability to govern. But instead this president is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/charles-krauthammer-rhetoric-vs-reality\/2013\/11\/07\/48e75002-47ec-11e3-a196-3544a03c2351_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">going on the campaign trail<\/a> to defend the indefensible to a skeptical public.<\/p>\n<p>The president doesn\u2019t seem to realize that achievement is what\u2019s needed now, not tired empty rhetoric. If this keeps up, the odds look good for another Republican wave election in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night President Barack Obama issued a half-hearted apology for lying to millions of Americans. \u201cI am sorry that they [i.e. people who are losing their insurance plans due to Obamacare] are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me,\u201d Obama said in an interview with NBC News Thursday night. \u201cWe\u2019ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4073,84,3308,1829,24,35],"class_list":["post-19358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-4073","tag-congress","tag-health","tag-insurance","tag-obama","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19358"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19362,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19358\/revisions\/19362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}