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FACT CHECK on Obama’s Recent Triangulation on Health Care in Ohio

By Truthteller on October 6, 2008 at 3:10 PM in Bamboozling, Barack Obama, Health Care, Hoodwinking, Ohio

Imagine the horror this progressive Democrat experienced when viewing this advertisement in a major media market in Ohio this weekend while recovering from the flu:

According to Barack Obama, a truly universal health care plan is “government run health care,” and it will result in a tax increase.

Obama, it seems, fails to understand how many of the 18,000,000 who voted for Clinton supported her for her truly universal health care plan. He also fails to understand that many of us who are health care voters will not cast votes for the triangulating Obama in 2008, as we desire truly universal health care plans sometime during our lifetimes.

If we cannot obtain truly universal health care plan from the triangulator who demonizes truly universal health care with Republican tropes in 2008, we will ensure he loses in order to cast votes for someone who will defend truly universal health care in 2012.

But enough about me: let us conduct a fact check

Ohioans and other voters who desire consistency from their politicians should recall this statement Barack Obama uttered in 2003:

At an AFL-CIO conference in inner city Chicago in 2003, Obama states “he would like to see” single payer, universal health care coverage. And yes, that would require a tax increase. But here he is on 24 January 2008 equivocating on universal health care when questioned by a news anchor about his 2003 statements:

Where is the consistency, Senator Obama? Where do you stand? And why did you claim you could not hear the video clip? Do you refuse to be held accountable?

Obama, in other words, did support “government run” health care that would entail a “tax increase.” But now that he desires the votes of centrists and conservatives in Ohio he will claim otherwise. This gambit with health care will have consequences, however. Not only will he lose the support of Clinton supporters who desire truly universal health care; he will offend conservatives and centrists in Ohio who will realize Obama will do and say anything to win an election once they discover he said he supported “single payer,” “universal health care” during a conference in inner city Chicago where he articulated a desire to stage a takeover of the Senate and the White House.

First he supported “government run,” “universal health care.” Then he demonized it during the primary in Ohio with Republican tropes and iconography.

And now he is attempting to stake a position in the center in his newest television ad in major Ohio media markets. Not to be trusted on anything, Obama will do and say anything to win an election. Let us hope Hillary supporters and conservatives and centrists in Ohio will vote accordingly after reading this fact check.