Apparently our Glorious President had a sit-down with George Stephanopoulos recently, and the following quote came out of that interview:
STEPHANOPOULOS: That may be, but it’s still a tax increase.
OBAMA: No. That’s not true, George. The — for us to say that you’ve got to take a responsibility to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase. What it’s saying is, is that we’re not going to have other people carrying your burdens for you anymore than the fact that right now everybody in America, just about, has to get auto insurance. Nobody considers that a tax increase. People say to themselves, that is a fair way to make sure that if you hit my car, that I’m not covering all the costs.
STEPHANOPOULOS: But it may be fair, it may be good public policy…
OBAMA: No, but — but, George, you — you can’t just make up that language and decide that that’s called a tax increase. Any…
STEPHANOPOULOS: Here’s the…
OBAMA: What — what — if I — if I say that right now your premiums are going to be going up by 5 or 8 or 10 percent next year and you say well, that’s not a tax increase; but, on the other hand, if I say that I don’t want to have to pay for you not carrying coverage even after I give you tax credits that make it affordable, then…
STEPHANOPOULOS: I — I don’t think I’m making it up. Merriam Webster’s Dictionary: Tax — “a charge, usually of money, imposed by authority on persons or property for public purposes.”
OBAMA: George, the fact that you looked up Merriam’s Dictionary, the definition of tax increase, indicates to me that you’re stretching a little bit right now. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have gone to the dictionary to check on the definition. I mean what…
So, just so we are all clear on the subject, President Barack Hussein Obama considers using a dictionary to check the meaning of a word to be “stretching” the truth; he considers checking and using sources to be damaging to an argument; he considers educating one’s self about the facts to be detrimental to a position.
Does anyone see a problem with this?
I agree with one key point that the President made here:
“we’re not going to have other people carrying your burdens for you anymore”
Good- so does that mean that we are going to cease welfare, food stamps, and other give away programs? Just because you smoked dope/slept/skipped/dropped out of school should not mean that I should shoulder your burdens for you anymore.
Good catch, divemedic! Something tells me he either did not think about that phrase before he said it (which has never happened before…) or it will just go the way of every other single promise he has made since his pre-Senatorial days (because that has never happened before…).
Unfortunately, we both know how our government feels about not forcing people to support other people…
He tries his ObamiVoice: “The Dictionary is NotADictionary, MyWord is the word…” – sheesh, he’s playing Newspeak with us already? If even that – it’s more like, “Pay no attention to the dictionary behind the curtain.”
Heh, true enough, Dirtcrashr. The Great Obamamessiah says that the dictionary definition of a word is irrelevant, and, therefore, the dictionary definition of a word is irrelevant.
All hail Our Glorious President!