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Obama Wins "Lie of the Year"

Jack Hays

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  1. Lie of the Year: 'If you like your health care plan, you can ...


    www.politifact.com/.../2013/dec/12/lie-year-if-you...keep-it CachedLie of the Year: 'If you like your health care plan, you can keep it' By Angie Drobnic Holan Published on Thursday, December 12th, 2013 at 4:44 p.m."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 careplan, 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.":peace

 
Indeed, President Obama has had some doozies of lies during his Presidency, but I'm not sure if the healthcare lie trumps the Afghanistan one or not.
 
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