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Originally Posted by slingblade
Adults comprehend that "Obamacare" is a nick name penned by the Republicans because they are fascinated by weird sounds for some reason.
If you notice they try to put a buzz word on everything. Reminds me of the Old star trek episodes where they would encounter planets that you had sing everything or it had to rhyme. Are you guys the original aliens?
I have also noticed that you post something that is False or out of context and then cannot defend it so you insult or divert it off to some irrelevant detail. Which in most cases you are wrong again.
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JD will not let facts get in the way of his Parroting....
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/...-obamacare-lie
IN THE SPRING of 2009, as the titanic fight over President Barack Obama's health care proposal was beginning,
Frank Luntz—an infamous Republican consultant who specializes in the language of politics—drew up a confidential
28-page report (PDF) for congressional GOPers on how they could confront, and defeat, Obama on this crucial issue. He suggested that they use a particular phrase: "Government takeover of health care." And they did.
Again and again, for the entire months-long debate. During one
Meet the Press appearance, Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), then the House minority leader, referred to Obama's plan as a "government takeover" five times (without once being challenged).
It was a clear falsehood. Obama's system relies on private insurance and the market—especially after he abandoned a public option—albeit with additional government regulation.
PolitiFact.com, a fact-checking site
operated by the
St. Petersburg Times, declared Luntz's formulation the "
Lie of the Year" of 2010. (Luntz didn't have to make an acceptance speech.) Yet the line stuck. A
Bloomberg poll conducted as Congress approved the legislation found that 53 percent of American adults believed it amounted "to a government takeover." A
USA Today/Gallup survey indicated that 65 percent thought the new law would expand government's role in health care "too much." Several months later, a
Gallup poll found that 10 percent selected "government involvement in health care" as the No. 1 health care problem facing the nation—over access or cost. In 2008, only 1 percent had cited government interference as the top problem.
