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It was a catchy political pitch and a chance to calm nerves about his dramatic and complicated plan to bring historic change to America’s health insurance system.

"If you like your health care plan, you can keep it," President Barack Obama said -- many times -- of his landmark new law.

But the promise was impossible to keep.

So this fall, as cancellation letters were going out to approximately 4 million Americans, the public realized Obama’s breezy assurances were wrong.

Boiling down the complicated health care law to a soundbite proved treacherous, even for its promoter-in-chief. Obama and his team made matters worse, suggesting they had been misunderstood all along. The stunning political uproar led to this: a rare presidential apology.

For all of these reasons, PolitiFact has named "If you like your health care plan, you can keep it," the Lie of the Year for 2013. Readers in a separate online poll overwhelmingly agreed with the choice. (PolitiFact first announced its selection on CNN's The Lead with Jake Tapper.)

For four of the past five years, PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year has revolved around the health care law, which has been subject to more erroneous attacks than any other piece of legislation PolitiFact has fact-checked.

Obama’s ideas on health care were first offered as general outlines then grew into specific legislation over the course of his presidency. Yet Obama never adjusted his rhetoric to give people a more accurate sense of the law’s real-world repercussions, even as fact-checkers flagged his statements as exaggerated at best.

Cap'n Cat wrote:That guy is an American GOD and is leading our nation out of the morass piled up in two Conksecutive Conk administrations. Those who rail against him are jealous of his accomplishments, his cool, calm demeanor and his uncanny ability to foil Conks at almost every turn!





"It's OK, Bobby. Black presidents aren't so bad!"

Officials: US drone strike kills 13 in Yemen wedding convoy

While the U.S. acknowledges its drone program in Yemen, it does not usually talk about individual strikes.

If further investigations determine that the victims were all civilians, the attack could fuel an outburst of anger against the United States and the government in Sanaa among a Yemeni public already opposed to the U.S. drone strikes.

mrklean wrote:It still can't top. Iraq has Weapons of Mass destruction. Are we still looking for them

89Hen wrote:

mrklean wrote:It still can't top. Iraq has Weapons of Mass destruction. Are we still looking for them

Operation Enduring Freedom US casualties by year:

2001 - 12
2002 - 49
2003 - 48
2004 - 52
2005 - 99
2006 - 98
2007 - 117
2008 - 155
2009 - 317
2010 - 499
2011 - 418
2012 - 310
2013 - 119

Grizalltheway wrote:

89Hen wrote: Operation Enduring Freedom US casualties by year:

2001 - 12
2002 - 49
2003 - 48
2004 - 52
2005 - 99
2006 - 98
2007 - 117
2008 - 155
2009 - 317
2010 - 499
2011 - 418
2012 - 310
2013 - 119

Still a fraction of the casualties in Iraq.

89Hen wrote:

Grizalltheway wrote:
Still a fraction of the casualties in Iraq.

4489 in Iraq
2293 in Afghanistan

Make sure to tell the parents of the ones killed in Afg that they are probably only fractionally as upset.

mrklean wrote:It still can't top. Iraq has Weapons of Mass destruction. Are we still looking for them

89Hen wrote:

mrklean wrote:It still can't top. Iraq has Weapons of Mass destruction. Are we still looking for them

Operation Enduring Freedom US casualties by year:

2001 - 12
2002 - 49
2003 - 48
2004 - 52
2005 - 99
2006 - 98
2007 - 117
2008 - 155
2009 - 317
2010 - 499
2011 - 418
2012 - 310
2013 - 119

mrklean wrote:

89Hen wrote: Operation Enduring Freedom US casualties by year:

2001 - 12
2002 - 49
2003 - 48
2004 - 52
2005 - 99
2006 - 98
2007 - 117
2008 - 155
2009 - 317
2010 - 499
2011 - 418
2012 - 310
2013 - 119

You Repukes said Obama was gonna Cut and Run in 08. It looks like he's kicking more azz than W ever did. Plus he killed the Big Fish. Its called War, People die. That's why you don't lie about starting one.

AZGrizFan wrote:

mrklean wrote:

You Repukes said Obama was gonna Cut and Run in 08. It looks like he's kicking more azz than W ever did. Plus he killed the Big Fish. Its called War, People die. That's why you don't lie about starting one.

Or lie about leaving. Or lie about why we're still there.

AZGrizFan wrote:

mrklean wrote:

You Repukes said Obama was gonna Cut and Run in 08. It looks like he's kicking more azz than W ever did. Plus he killed the Big Fish. Its called War, People die. That's why you don't lie about starting one.

Or lie about leaving. Or lie about why we're still there.

kalm wrote:I'm not a fan of Obama or Obamacare....

mrklean wrote:

AZGrizFan wrote: Or lie about leaving. Or lie about why we're still there.

But you said he was going to kut and Run

AZGrizFan wrote:

mrklean wrote:
But you said he was going to kut and Run

Really? Where did I say that? HE said he was going to cut and run. And 5 years later our boys are STILL there...fighting and dying for nothing. Except the heroin trade.

mrklean wrote:

AZGrizFan wrote:
Really? Where did I say that? HE said he was going to cut and run. And 5 years later our boys are STILL there...fighting and dying for nothing. Except the heroin trade.

Hey we did not have a problem doing this in Nam. We lied from the start to get us in that War. SO Whats so fucking new about this. War is Money BIG MONEY. I think that being an Naval Officer, you know the real reason why we fight wars.

AZGrizFan wrote:

mrklean wrote:
Hey we did not have a problem doing this in Nam. We lied from the start to get us in that War. SO Whats so **** new about this. War is Money BIG MONEY. I think that being an Naval Officer, you know the real reason why we fight wars.

Oh, I see...so, since we did it in 'Nam, it's ok to just do it like that forever now?

mrklean wrote:

AZGrizFan wrote:
Oh, I see...so, since we did it in 'Nam, it's ok to just do it like that forever now?

That's what happens when you have Big Corp. running the Country. Remember, Ike warned us about this. We were warned over 50 years ago, now look what happens. We bitch and cry like a bunch of old azz women.

mrklean wrote:

AZGrizFan wrote:
Oh, I see...so, since we did it in 'Nam, it's ok to just do it like that forever now?

That's what happens when you have Big Corp. running the Country. Remember, Ike warned us about this. We were warned over 50 years ago, now look what happens. We bitch and cry like a bunch of old azz women.