A competent one, that is. Not an affirmative action pretend one.

Obama lied. Cynically, and completely. And the media failed to go through his garbage cans and fact check him — something they do for all of his opponents.

Dog bites man, not Man bites dog.

No new news there, why report it?

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I can see the headlines:

Today, in a surprise revelation, the media finally realized Obama is a lying sack of equine excreta. Film at 11.

This personal history of the president’s speaks powerfully to the impact of pre-existing condition limits on insurance protection from health care costs.”

…because, after all, an insurance company isn’t a business already operating out of a government-designed straight jacket that controls how much money they are ALLOWED to make — they should also have open-ended payout policies to deal with every person’s problems, regardless of when they occurred. THAT won’t have the perverse effect of financially ruining all existing insurance companies and discouraging anyone from actually starting a new one to replace the failing ones (since they won’t be failing because of business incompetence on their part, but because success would be rendered impossible under government mandate…).

And, with no private insurance to turn to, of course people will turn to their defacto only option… government-run insurance.

Neo, I think you and I both know why they occasionally publish a piece that is mildly critical of Obama but invariably about some innocuous issue that will not seriously hurt Obama. They have to keep up the appearance of impartiality.

When you’re running for President, and you are telling a personal anecdote to support a policy which will be integral to your potential Presidency, you don’t get to whine that it was, like, 15 years ago and it was your recollections and that’s that.

If the story is important enough to tell, then someone in that position has an obligation to get it right.

And he has a habit of it. Remember that time he tried to use the example of auto insurance to support Obamacare, and only proved he was to stupid to understand insurance?

Fun times:

“Acme Insurance Co.? Meep meep. What Obama is actually saying is that he had liability but not collision coverage. Assuming the story is true, he apparently didn’t know enough to get the other driver’s insurance information to file a claim.”

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