I just finished watching the Obama press conference on Health Care Reform. If you have not watched it, please click above. His opening remarks were the grossest revisionist distortion of reality I have ever heard a politician express. Barack Hussein Obama either believes that the American people are a mass of morons or he perceives reality to be something it is not. Let me address this on a point by point basis:

1. Obama: “As a result of the actions we took in those first weeks, we’ve been able to pull our economy back from the brink… we passed a recovery act that has already saved jobs and created new ones.”

The jobs claim is a plain old dishonest. Unemployment has topped 9.5%, a 26-year high, as of June. So far this year, we have lost 3.5 million jobs, with almost half a million of those job losses occurring in June. Vice President Joe Biden admitted that they misread the economy. The most that the administration claims is to have created or saved is 150,000 jobs. Compared to the avalanche of unemployment, the stimulus gains are pathetic. What is not pathetic is the long-term cost on the taxpayer and the rising national debt… Obama needs to come back to Earth and realize that he has not saved anything. Which brings me to his next whopper:

2. Obama: “The fact is, even before this crisis hit, we had an economy that was creating a good deal of wealth for those folks at the very top, but not a lot of good paying jobs for the rest of America. It’s an economy that simply wasn’t ready to compete in the 21st century.”

Absurd. The United States of America has been the economic engine of the world for decades, that did not change under Bush. We had years of growth and job creation even after the Clinton recession and 911. Obama must have been living in Kenya or Indonesia all these years if he thinks that the US hasn’t been and can’t compete in the 21st century.

3. Obama: “Where we spend much more on health care than any other nation, but aren’t any healthier for it.”

This quote is factually correct… but begs the question: if our government already spends too much on health care, why propose a plan that will only increase the amount of government involvement and the amount of money we spend? Why not use the free markets? Obama is clueless.

4. Obama: “A lot of Americans may be wondering [about health care reform] ‘What’s in this for me?’”

How times have changed. I remember a president not so long ago saying “ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.” Here the Democrats’ pandering is evident… they believe that government’s role is to be our nanny and do things for us.

5. Obama: “It [his health reform plan] will keep government out of health care decisions.”

Flat out lie. Read here. The government will determine what is acceptable, affordable, and treatable. This is why I oppose Obama. He simply, coolly, audaciously lies to our faces.

6. Obama: “Now, if you don’t have health insurance or are a small business looking to cover your employees, you’ll be able to choose a quality, affordable health plan…”

This statement is similar to this one: “if you murder someone, you will get the choice of getting any legal representative you want or the government can give you one free of charge.” Obama is implying choice where there is none. Under the current proposal, there will be an individual and employer mandate that forces everyone to buy health insurance. This will raise costs for small business owners which will be reflected in price and make entering the market more difficult for small start-ups. So when Obama talks about choice, he is really talking about government mandates. I hope you guys have your updated Doublespeak Dictionaries.

7. Obama: “It [his health care reform] will be paid for.”

False. The Congressional Budget Office explicitly stated that the plan will end up costing trillions.

8. Obama: “Our proposals would change incentives so that doctors and nurses are free to give patients the best care, just not the most expensive care”

Didn’t he just say that government would not influence health care decisions??

9. Obama: “So let me be clear: this isn’t about me.”

Another lie. Senator Chuck Grassley, a Republican who has been working on the health care reform bill, reported that Obama said to a fellow Democrat “You’re going to destroy my presidency.“

10. Obama: “We will do it this year.”

Doubtful. As more Americans wake up and realize that this is just another attempt to make the federal government even more powerful, increase the size of the bureaucracy in Washington, and to increase taxes on every American, there will be even more pressure to stop this proposal dead in its tracks.

We do need real reform. We do need to find a way to make health care more affordable and to stop the runaway spending of the federal government… but simply throwing money at the problem and making government even more involved in administering health care to Americans is like pouring gasoline on the fire. We need to cut costs, increase private ownership, and let the free market’s proven record of promoting efficiency and innovation have a greater role in any health care system we come up with.

After seeing this press conference, I was disgusted. I am sick of being lied to… and I think the American public is too.

-AG