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(19,768 posts)Obama said, clearly, if you like your plan you can keep it. He said clearly if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. No if that, or unless this. In fact, he said period. Repeatedly. For months. And he knew it wasn't true. Those are and were lies. If you claim to others that something is true, and you know it to be false, you are lying. He said people's rates would go down, $2500 per year for the average family. Rates went up substantially, skyrocketing for many, making it unaffordable for some. He had to know that was a false claim too.
Millions of real people have been negatively affected by the ACA, after they were told, promised, lied-to, that they wouldn't be. They have every right to feel betrayed.
So trust is lost. Thing is, when you lose trust, thinking people won't believe anything else you have to say, either. Does anybody believe his assurances that the NSA isn't spying on the American people at large? I don't know anyone who takes him seriously on that. It is assumed he is lying at this point.
Btw, saying to people like Will, and as I believe you have said to me as well when I relayed a negative experience with Obmacare, that in essence, we shouldn't have believed the hype from Obama, and should have read the fine print, is a lowly tack to take after the fact.