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President Barack Obama addressed MIT economist Jonathan Gruber’s comments for the first time on Sunday.
“I just heard about this,†Obama told Fox News’ Ed Henry during a press conference at the G20 Summit in Australia. “I get well briefed before I come out here.â€
“The fact that some adviser who never worked on our staff expressed an opinion that I completely disagree with in terms of the voters is no reflection on the actual process that was run,†Obama said.
Poor little barry just can't help himself, can he? Climbing the tallest tree in a windstorm when it would be so much better to stand on the ground and tell the truth...
Obama Flashback: ‘I’ve Stolen Ideas’ From Jonathan Gruber ‘Liberally’
During a Brookings Institution panel in April 2006, then-Sen. Barack Obama claimed he had “stolen†ideas from a gang of liberal economists and academics, including the now-infamous Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber.
“You have already drawn some of the brightest minds from academia and policy circles, many of them I have stolen ideas from liberally,†Obama said. “People ranging from Robert Gordon to Austan Goolsbee; Jon Gruber; my dear friend, Jim Wallis here, who can inform what are sometimes dry policy debates with a prophetic voice.â€
Despite Obama’s attempt to distance himself and his unpopular signature health care legislation from Gruber, it is clear that 2006 Obama never anticipated videos of his once-trusted adviser calling American voters ‘stupid’ would surface in 2014.
http://freebeacon.com/politics/obama-flashback-ive-stolen-ideas-from-jonathan-gruber/
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"We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and then bid the geldings to be fruitful."
C.S. Lewis
A community may possess all the necessary moral qualifications, in so high a degree, as to be capable of self-government under the most adverse circumstances; while, on the other hand, another may be so sunk in ignorance and vice, as to be incapable of forming a conception of liberty, or of living, even when most favored by circumstances, under any other than an absolute and despotic government.
John C Calhoun, "Disquisition on Government", 1840