Let it be known that these were not lies. In fact, according to David Axelrod, Obama was being completely honest when he made these claims. Unfortunately, he was "ill-served" by the law he fought for, signed, and continues to promote at every possible opportunity.
Clearly, it's not his fault.
Axelrod believes that the real problem was that the President "spoke in absolutes." He made clear, pointed, promises - all of which have turned out not to be true, and they’ve come back to bite him in the rear. Never mind that, without the three bald faced lies listed above, the affordable care act would never have become law.
In Axelrod's opinion, Obama should have been a little vaguer, "because there’s always going to be an exception and that exception is going to become an example that your opponents lift up." See, the real problem that's plaguing Obama is that he actually said what his law was supposed to do. If he'd just kept his mouth shut, there'd be no benchmarks by which to measure his failure.
That twisted bit of non-logic is how Axelrod really thinks.
The problem here is that there are already around
5 million exceptions, and
many, many, more on the way. We're not talking about a simple mistake that has produced an unforeseen impact on handful of extreme cases. We're talking about a pre-meditated train wreck that will eventually affect every single American, all predicated on an ongoing series of outright lies that were used to sell the U.S. public a seat in the bar car.
But hey, here's David Axelrod to tell you how the President wasn't lying. He was just being too specific.
