Charlotte Observer Twist Obamacare Lies into a Pretzel

I swear these butt monkeys at the Charlotte Observer can twist logic into a pretzel.  An associate editor at this rag acknowledges that Obama shouldn’t have lied to the American people.  In doing so, the president’s deception disallowed the choice Americans should have had over the implementation of this monstrosity called the Affordable Care Act.  However, the law is for the greater good.

There’s another rationalization, of course, although it’s one you’ll never hear from the president: He couldn’t tell the truth about Obamacare. If he had – if he’d said “millions of you will have to buy new plans, but they’ll be better plans” – the Affordable Care Act would have died on the table, a victim of severe anxiety.

That’s why many are perfectly content with Obama’s choice. A greater good was accomplished, which is all that ultimately will matter. And besides, don’t we often trust our leaders to be the judge of what’s best for all?

But Americans have an implicit pact with the people who represent us. Unless national security is involved, we expect to have a voice in their deliberations, and that voice is neutered when it’s not fully informed. That was the result of the president’s deception, and it’s why Republicans are pivoting from the botched Obamacare rollout to the broken Obamacare promise. Americans, they know, have less tolerance for dishonesty than incompetence.

Obama, not surprisingly, doubled down last week, blaming the media for “misleading” people by not reporting on the better deal many Americans are getting. Did you expect, “Sorry about that, but I had to fib”?

That’s the calculation the president faced four years ago when deciding what we should know. Should he jeopardize a worthy law – which it is, by the way – by acknowledging its shortcomings up front? Or should he risk a political hit after Obamacare is the law of the land?

But in choosing the latter, he forgot a more basic truth: It should have been our decision, not his.

Obamacare is a worthy law, Mr. St. Onge?  Ask the millions of Americans who are losing the health insurance they like for an overpriced, substandard government issued one.  Deep down, we all know that the editors at the Disturber harbor the liberal maxim:  The Ends Justify the Means.  

They too, like the president, have to constantly deceive their readers.        

Source: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/11/02/4433870/obamacare-and-a-presidents-promise.html#.Unhh2PlJO7N#storylink=cpy