{"id":2681,"date":"2012-07-15T14:25:14","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T20:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/?p=2681"},"modified":"2012-07-15T14:25:14","modified_gmt":"2012-07-15T20:25:14","slug":"barack-obama-versus-barack-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/2012\/07\/barack-obama-versus-barack-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama Versus Barack Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2009, the so-called Individual Mandate was, according to Barack Obama (and I quote), &#8220;absolutely NOT a tax increase&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Listen:<br \/>\n<\/br><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TdgPauuMmJI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><br \/>\n<\/br><\/p>\n<p>Magically, however, in 2012, two short days ago, in fact, that exact same Individual Mandate was, according that exact same Barack Obama, <i>after all<\/i> a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/politico44\/2012\/07\/obama-uses-the-tax-word-to-describe-mandate-128921.html\">tax<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Barack Obama:<\/b> \u201cBy the way, if you\u2019ve got health insurance, you\u2019re not getting hit by a tax,\u201d the president said during his Friday rally in Roanoke, his third Virginia campaign event of the day. \u201cThe only thing that\u2019s happening to you is that you now have more security because insurance companies can\u2019t drop you when you get sick.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n<p>Give them enough rope, they hang themselves every time.<br \/>\n<\/br><br \/>\n<\/br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2009, the so-called Individual Mandate was, according to Barack Obama (and I quote), &#8220;absolutely NOT a tax increase&#8221;. Listen: Magically, however, in 2012, two short days ago, in fact, that exact same Individual Mandate was, according that exact same Barack Obama, after all a tax: Barack Obama: \u201cBy the way, if you\u2019ve got health &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/2012\/07\/barack-obama-versus-barack-obama\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Barack Obama Versus Barack Obama&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[580],"tags":[2602,877,879,880,2617,2095],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}