Robert Tracinski : “Obama’s Dissolving Credibility”
Robert Tracinski focuses on Obama’s health-care speech.
Tracinski: “I’ll skip the lies by omission….for example….”
“And I’ll skip the non-health care lies, like ….”
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“For now, let’s just stick to the speech’s seven big lies.”
“1) Obama’s proposal is just minor, incremental tinkering….
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2) Obama’s plan is bipartisan….
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3) You can keep your existing insurance…
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4) The ‘public option’ will not be subsidized by government…
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5) The health-care bill will pay for iteself with cost savings….
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6) There are no death panels…
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7) Obama doesn’t want a government takeover of medicine…
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“During the Jeremiah Wright affair, the American people gave Obama the benefit of the doubt because they couldn’t bring themselves to believe that such a respectable, well-spoken man could be such a brazen liar… “
“But now the spell is broken, his audiences are beginning to ask the tough questions — and Obama’s credibility will continue to dissolve as his lies are exposed.”