Will Obama pay a political price for his lies?

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Originally Posted by Jim in CT

Do you have any further info on that?

http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2010pr...20100614e.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/he...1HhI8W1bg&_r=0

I'd say you are being a bit too kind.

Considering how much difficulty Obama has had promoting the HCB it's par for the course.

Personally, I think this will clobber the Democrats in 2014. But I was 100% wrong on what I thought would happen in 2008.

Depends, but I'll bet that once the "I was booted off my coverage and premiums went up" stories are replaced with "I lost my job and no preexisting conditions means I get my cancer medication" stories come forth people may quickly forget a shaky launch.

Also Spence, what about the fact that Obama said the "average" family would save $2500 a year? Whose premiums are decreasing by that much? And for similar coverage?? I'm not heariing about reductions across the board...

There was a story about the economist who was advising Obama in 2008 who said Obama got the talking point wrong. The $2500 figure was total health related expenses rather than directly off the premium.

-spence