Defending the Indefensible – Obama’s Apologists Wiggle in the Face of the Truth

Recently Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson (a fervent Obama apologist) was asked for his reaction to the irrefutable evidence that President Obama had been wrong in saying time after time that no one would lose health insurance he wanted.  Robinson paused, smiled and said that the President was basically right he just shouldn’t have been “so categorical.”

Before even White House spokesman Jay Carney picked up the theme, CNN anchors were remarking that no matter the President’s “inaccuracy” those losing their policies would be able to get better ones under the Affordable Care Act.

So what’s the problem?

Later, the Administration added yet another explanation.  Since the insurance companies were doing the canceling and not the President, he wasn’t at fault. 

Ah, truth can indeed be difficult to explain away.

The President is a graduate of Harvard Law School.  Any lawyer can tell you (myself included) that words are indeed our stock in trade.  Precision matters.  Do not say “no one will lose his insurance” when the truth is some will, particularly when some equals many millions of people.

 

Somehow, that doesn’t sound like a rounding-up problem or a mistake in being too categorical.

Whether the substitute health policies offered an individual are superior to a cancelled policy is rather beside the point.  The choice promised by the President was a mirage. 

Whether the President was lying in saying so is a question bearing on his integrity and character.  For Americans, it’s enough to know they weren’t told the truth.  Why not?  Because the Administration was going to do what was deemed best for Americans regardless of the peoples’ wishes?  That would seem undeniable.

For Jay Carney to lay blame for the cancellations on the insurance companies is disingenuous (a polite way of saying he was being misleading), at best.

Insurance companies are compelled by Obamacare to cancel policies which do not provide the coverage mandated by the new law (including maternity care for infertile applicants!).