What Obama actually meant by “If you like your…”
All is now explained.
When President Obama said, “”If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan, period” he actually meant to say “periods,” plural.
As in “…”, otherwise known as the ellipsis:
Ellipsis…is a series of dots that usually indicate an intentional omission of a word, sentence or whole section from the original text being quoted…Ellipses can also be used to indicate an unfinished thought or, at the end of a sentence, a trailing off into silence…When placed at the beginning or end of a sentence, the ellipsis can also inspire a feeling of melancholy or longing.
Obama is now filling in those missing words:
Now, if you have or had one of these plans before the Affordable Care Act came into law and you really liked that plan, what we said was you can keep it if it hasn’t changed since the law passed.
Ah, now I remember that’s what Obama said. Of course. Dummy me.
Just like I don’t remember Clementis’ hat:
Orwell wrote that “doublethink” requires a person:
“”¦to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself. That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed.”
What Barry meant to say…will keep changing, just as the Communist Party Line did, and will be repeated by the lap dog media.
It’s not working. Unlike the rest of his candidacy where people could project their best selves and ideas onto him and Obama stood there smiling, radiating in the projection, this was a very concrete, specific promise. The noose has been tied. Obama the Waxen Symbol is now melting in the heat of technocratic performance. Realize, he’s never had to perform before in his life. What had he ever delivered on in his life other than showing up?
holmes:
Whether it works or not depends on how practiced Americans (and the MSM) are in the art of doublethink, and how many are paying attention.
POTUS circa 2010:
Where the “period” means UNCONDITIONALLY, in common usage.
POTUS circa 2013:
Where he adds a condition whereas three years ago it was UNCONDITIONALLY.
Which reminds me of the famous quote from Through the Looking Glass:
And next year, when the POTUS is asked about “what we said was you can keep it if it hasn’t changed since the law passed,” he will probably give a different meaning.
As Obama’s stances have shelf lives, so do the definitions of what he says.
Obama’s words mean whatever he wishes them to mean, nothing more, nothing less.
Drudge has three different stories by liberal rags taking Obama to task for lying, which is the most criticism I can recall of Obama from the left. I doubt that it’s the lying per se but that he was so unskillful at it.
Now, he’s lying anew with historical revisionism but he’s on video so his new lies are easily exposed. And he’s verbally stumbling because he knows that people know that he’s lying again to try to cover up his previous lies.
The low-info voter’s awareness can’t be shielded from this because it’s many of them whose insurance policies are being cancelled and/or premiums being raised.
There’s also a ‘comfort zone’ factor with most people’s family doctor and losing their doctor will have an impact and, the vast majority of doctors are not going to support the meme that it’s the evil insurance companies fault.
Obama and the left are trying to blame the insurance companies but Obama’s unequivocal, prior assurances put the lie to that meme.
Either a) he repeatedly lied or b) he was duped by those more clever than himself or c) the democrats are completely incompetent. I pick A & C.
Obama is at 39% approval today and his personal approval is dropping. I think people are catching on, and I think the response has been pretty feckless, if not even more damaging. He was the great liberal hope. I don’t want to get too exuberant because we’re kind of a dummed down nation, but he might have set back liberalism at least a decade. It gives us a fighting chance.
I think back to Benghazi, when the administration told a big, wild, unnecessary lie. At the time I wondered why they couldn’t just stall and fudge and equivocate in the way that politicians usually do. In this case it’s a bigger and more consequential lie, and even wilder, because it’s a direct contradiction of what he was videotaped saying 29 times.
He’s not getting away with it, and that would be a great satisfaction, if it weren’t for this woozy feeling that everything is spinning out of control.
What the hell is going on?
Gringo:
I hope you realize my “excuse” about the ellipsis was tongue-in-cheek.
Neo- yes, I realized it was tongue-in-cheek. I was just adding another riff on the theme.
Evil is going on.
People lack the imagination to consider the consequences of that.
I imagine if Mr. Obama had been our first President, history books would have recorded something like this about his voyage to adulthood.
1. I cannot tell a lie. I didn’t chop down the cherry tree with my little hatchet.
2. If there was a hatchet involved, it probably belonged to Jefferson. I don’t even own a damn hatchet.
3. Regarding the video of me chopping down the cherry tree with my little hatchet, that is not really me.
4. Even if it was, take a long look at the instrument I am wielding. Is that “a hatchet” or just a very small ax?
5. Re the damage at the 4:27 mark. Do those cut marks look like they were made with “a hatchet?” I didn’t think so.
6. Chainsaw.
7. The sweeping pan at 10:04 reveals that the entire orchard has been leveled. So much for the “single tree” theory my opponents keep harping on.
8. What I’ve said all along was that I didn’t chop down a single cherry tree with my little hatchet and I think the evidence bears me out.