Topic: Obama's Lie of the Year
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Sun 12/15/13 08:29 PM
PolitiFact.com's Lie of the Year for 2013 is something that President Obama kept repeating even though his administration knew that it wasn't true.

It was a catchy political pitch and a chance to calm nerves about his dramatic and complicated plan to bring historic change to America’s health insurance system.

"If you like your health care plan, you can keep it," President Barack Obama said -- many times -- of his landmark new law.

But the promise was impossible to keep.

So this fall, as cancellation letters were going out to approximately 4 million Americans, the public realized Obama’s breezy assurances were wrong.

Boiling down the complicated health care law to a soundbite proved treacherous, even for its promoter-in-chief. Obama and his team made matters worse, suggesting they had been misunderstood all along. The stunning political uproar led to this: a rare presidential apology.

For all of these reasons, PolitiFact has named "If you like your health care plan, you can keep it," the Lie of the Year for 2013.

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Sun 12/15/13 08:41 PM

PolitiFact.com's Lie of the Year for 2013 is something that President Obama kept repeating even though his administration knew that it wasn't true.

It was a catchy political pitch and a chance to calm nerves about his dramatic and complicated plan to bring historic change to America’s health insurance system.

"If you like your health care plan, you can keep it," President Barack Obama said -- many times -- of his landmark new law.

But the promise was impossible to keep.

So this fall, as cancellation letters were going out to approximately 4 million Americans, the public realized Obama’s breezy assurances were wrong.

Boiling down the complicated health care law to a soundbite proved treacherous, even for its promoter-in-chief. Obama and his team made matters worse, suggesting they had been misunderstood all along. The stunning political uproar led to this: a rare presidential apology.

For all of these reasons, PolitiFact has named "If you like your health care plan, you can keep it," the Lie of the Year for 2013.



close call, lots to chose from... but that was one of the freshest lies, and he did keep repeating it...

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Sun 12/15/13 09:16 PM
LoL ,Im pretty sure lie of the year has to be telling all of us,that WMD's where used in Syria.
xD more like his greedy *** wanting to install oil piplines in Syria and Assad said no *****!.

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Mon 12/16/13 07:32 AM

PolitiFact.com's Lie of the Year for 2013 is something that President Obama kept repeating even though his administration knew that it wasn't true.

It was a catchy political pitch and a chance to calm nerves about his dramatic and complicated plan to bring historic change to America’s health insurance system.

"If you like your health care plan, you can keep it," President Barack Obama said -- many times -- of his landmark new law.

But the promise was impossible to keep.

So this fall, as cancellation letters were going out to approximately 4 million Americans, the public realized Obama’s breezy assurances were wrong.

Boiling down the complicated health care law to a soundbite proved treacherous, even for its promoter-in-chief. Obama and his team made matters worse, suggesting they had been misunderstood all along. The stunning political uproar led to this: a rare presidential apology.

For all of these reasons, PolitiFact has named "If you like your health care plan, you can keep it," the Lie of the Year for 2013.



A lie that hits people in the wallet isn't soon forgotten !!!
ask bush sr...

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