Obama Campaign Ad Comes Back to Haunt Him

Posted by Bill Dupray on Jun 23 2009 Filed under Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

Instapundit links! Thanks Glenn.

Obama has a new online course he’s offering for free. It is called How to Make Yourself Look like a Lying, Hypocritical Horse’s Ass in 30 Seconds.

Maybe you recall this little gem from our illustrious leader during the campaign.

Here’s the transcript.

John McCain’s health care plan. First we learned he’s going to tax health care benefits to pay for part of it. Now the Wall Street Journal reports John McCain would pay for the rest of his health care plan “with major reductions to Medicare and Medicaid.”

Eight hundred and eighty-two billion from Medicare alone. Requiring cuts in benefits, eligibility, or both.

John McCain. Taxing Health Benefits, Cutting Medicare. We Can’t Afford John McCain.

That was then. This is now. From the Washington Post.

President Obama, in a pivot from some of his harshest campaign rhetoric, told Democratic senators yesterday that he is willing to consider taxing employer-sponsored health benefits to help pay for a broad expansion of coverage.

See, easy. It’s called a bald-faced lie. But wait, our President is no amateur fibber. In fact he may be as good or better than Der Schlickmeister. Like an onion, there are layers of lies here. You see, taxing health benefits is clearly a tax on individuals making less than $250,000 per year, which Obama unequivocally told us he would not do.

But the lie continues. When you read the quote from the Post, I’ll bet you thought that when Obama says he’s going to tax employer-sponsored health benefits, you thought that meant that everybody’s benefits would be taxed. Silly you. What he meant is that everybody gets taxed, except the unions.

From Human Events.

Union members and their families who receive healthcare benefits paid for by their employers would be exempted from a new tax on healthcare under one option being proposed by Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mt), according to a report by the Fox Business Channel’s Peter Barnes.

And exactly how do we justify this disparate treatment. Why, the unions are pals with the president, and in a banana republic run by Barack Obama, it is not who you know, it is who they know that matters.

Maybe you also noticed that Obama’s campaign ad cudgeled McCain over “major reductions to Medicare and Medicaid.”

I guess on second thought, McCain’s plan looks pretty good to Obama after all.

Obama has proposed trimming more than $600 billion from Medicare and Medicaid by 2019 — including more than $300 billion in cuts unveiled in his Saturday radio and Internet address — which could fulfill the promise to curb the growth of federal health spending.

The one thing in the ad that was true, however, was the last line.

Taxing Health Benefits, Cutting Medicare. We Can’t Afford John McCain.

At least McCain wasn’t lying about it.

H/T to Henry C.

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