By John Lillpop ——Bio and Archives--November 13, 2013
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In a startling rebuke to President Obama, former President Bill Clinton and other Democrats picked apart Obamacare on Tuesday as privacy concerns about the program’s web site multiplied and a video investigation suggested fraudulence among volunteers helping people enroll for government subsidies. Mr. Clinton called on the president to make good on his repeated and emphatic promise that Americans who like their health insurance plans can keep them. The former president said Mr. Obama should take that step on behalf of consumers whose policies were canceled, “even if it takes a change in the law.” The White House said Mr. Obama is considering a “range of options” but didn’t commit to Mr. Clinton’s proposal. In a reminder of Mr. Obama’s on-again, off-again relationship with Mr. Clinton, the president’s spokesman pointed out that Mr. Clinton tried and failed to enact universal health care. The highly public rebuff prompted open speculation that Team Clinton has begun to distance itself from Mr. Obama in preparation for a presidential bid by Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2016. “And so starts the Clinton team slowly walking away from the train wreck that is the Obama presidency,” said John Feehery, a Republican strategist in Washington.”In essence, Clinton told Obama that he(Obama) should keep his promises, regardless of how insincere, to the American people about keeping one’s health care plan and doctor under Obamacare. Keep one’s promise? Good gravy, what a concept! What an idea! Bill Clinton should know that “keeping one’s promises” and “doing the right thing” are heathen notions to the current occupant of the Oval Office, a fallen Messiah from Kenya who must add a swollen butt to his lengthy list of survival mandates after being after being bitten by the side-winding weasel from Arkansas! John W. Lillpop San Jose, California
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John W. Lillpop is a recovering liberal. “Clean and sober” since 1992 when last he voted for a Democrat. For years, John lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, the very liberal sanctuary city which protects, rather than prosecutes, certain favored criminals. John escaped the Bay Area in May and now lives in Pine Grove California where conservative values are still in vogue.