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Obama Campaign Spokesman: Americans Don’t Support Repealing Obamacare

Astute readers of this site may remember that Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt is scarcely the sharpest knife in the drawer. After all, it was Mr. LaBolt who let fly with the accusation that GOP Presidential candidate Mitt Romney was a felon, and even when he was criticized by all corners of the press for making such an outlandish claim, refused to back down on it.

Well, now Mr. LaBolt has gone and stuck his foot in his mouth again, in an appearance with MSNBC’s Luke Russert. Specifically, he thinks Americans don’t actually want to see Obamacare repealed, and thinks the polls support him. Watch the clip below, courtesy of the Washington Free Beacon:

BEN LABOLT: Mitt Romney is campaigning against the American people when he wants to repeal the affordable care act. By a 10- to 15-point margin, the American people disagree with him—and he’s proposed no alternative. He says he’s campaigning on replace—

RUSSERT: There’s a lot of polls that show that the American people are not in favor of the affordable care act, especially amongst independent voters.

LABOLT: They’re certainly not in favor of repeal and they believe that this is a settled debate, if you look at the polling, and they support the individual provisions within it. Mitt Romney has made the central premise of his candidacy with his record at Bain.

After watching this clip, we have only one thing to say to Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt. Mr. LaBolt, never change. Everything about your strategy of rejecting reality and substituting it with talking points is simply too hilarious to comment on. We’re just going to wonder openly how you could have missed practically every poll that has come out since the Supreme Court decision on Obamacare, or if you just don’t care that reality flies in the face of your arguments. It really is quite something to behold, either way.

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  • WatchingAmericaDie
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 11:35pm

    The latest Rasmussen poll shows 52% of Likely Voters favor repeal, 42% don’t. This Obama pitchman is simply lying, which is something Obama and all his people do. We need to get rid of Obama.

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    • JohnLarson
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 11:50pm

      It’s 50/50 overall in the polls, and is moving in the direction of the majority favoring it.

      Rasmussen measuring “likely voters” doesn’t measure Americans as a whole, it’s good for election polls taking though.

      So it’s not a lie.

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    • Classical Liberal
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 12:47am

      Obamacare is just not that big a deal as far as election issues go. If the American people really wanted it repealed, you would have seen a candidate who ran on a repeal obamacare platform win the nomination for the republican party in a landslide.

      The tea party has died and the lack of opposition to the health care law is evidence of this. If it wasn’t a core issue in the republican primary, than it will not be repealed. No one in either party wants it repealed. The most we can hope for is reform in the law, well you all can anyway. I’m just about finished prepping for the crash of our joke of a system.

      Pray for your country, the outlook is grim and that is being optimistic. We desperately needed a constitutional reformer, not a businessman bought by the banks which profit off of the reserve banking system. A massively intellectual and informed public would have voted for those reforms. The choices we make now will make or break the future of our country and we are on the verge of a ‘break’.

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    • FortunateSon
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 1:26am

      Hey CL, don’t mean to burst your bubble but the Republican Nominee did win by a landslide. If your going to make those types of misinformed statements you lose immediate credibility. The very first executive order of President Romney is to grant all states a waiver. Our new President will have a MANDATE to repeal this so called legislation.

      Go ahead and keep believing that the TEA PARTY is dead. I cant wait to watch the election returns come in and watch the melt down of these LIBS on National TV. It will be entertaining to watch. Don’t wander away to far from the news reports because it going to be over quick.

      I completely disagree, after November the outlook will be very bright. The nightmare will be over and we can begin to pursue our dreams again.

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    • Gold Coin & Economic News
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:18am

      All I can do is laugh at these fools. They are pathetic and must believe their own twisted reasoning and flat out lie.When they have to lie about hard statistics, you know it’s a matter of time before the whole facade crumbles. This Obamacare nonsense is nothing more than slavery anyway:
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mEUjXTpzZ8

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    • rickc34
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:47am

      The majority of the polls favor doing away with Obamacare. The more liberal stations will show a closer split, but when everyone has to contribute or be taxed even the 50 percent that do not pay taxes it will be a different story. Doctor are already closing their doors or going to a cash only system for their services, what does this mean? Longer waits, medications that will not be available , the goverment wants to control all aspects of healthcare. Have you ever asked yourself why so many Canadians came to the USA for life saving procedures? They could not wait or they would die, they came and paid cash or took advantage of our system.

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    • HKS
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 10:03am

      Regardless of your point of view, you can always find an American to agree with you. What a crock.

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    • alex22892
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 10:16am

      @ CL

      “A massively intellectual and informed public…”

      Dont you mean refined to a point of obsured stupidity. Because I’ve never heard a well developed or analyzed opinion come out of the mouth of a liberal. I mean just look at your comment; you prove latter stated.

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    • melving
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 11:00am

      Better look again and actually talk to the people that work for a living……REPEAL OBAMACARE!!

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    • Classical Liberal
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 12:23pm

      @alex, a classical liberal is basically the same thing as A conservative constitutionalist. The last constitutionalist to win the presidency was Grover Cleveland. Instead of insulting me (ignorantly), try and challenge what I say and refute it with evidence.

      Fortunate son, I took part in the original tea party movement before it was hijacked by the neoconservatives. We were about fiscal reform, then it got bigger and became a republican movement. So yes, the party is dead because what is left does not stand for anything. I supported Ron paul in the last election because he is a classical liberal but is often mistaken for the near anarchist libertarian movement. He also campaigns to end the fiat currency and reform or remove the federal reserve banking system. Some have tried to discredit him for his foreign policy, some have even bought the lies sold by the media that he supports isolationism. I am a young man and was in fact still in high school when the wtc was attacked and when we invaded Iraq. That invasion didn’t sit right with me. I have done my research and have concluded that Paul’s foreign policy is the only one that is just. I have seen enough friends go and get killed or hurt oversees in this pointless war. I’ve had enough and that is why I support Ron paul.

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    • Classical Liberal
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 12:27pm

      Fortunate son, I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for that waiver if I were you. A healthcare slush fund needs capital to operate. There will not be state wide waivers. Pray for reform, because your party already sold you out on repeal.

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 12:43pm

      OBAMA CAMPAIGN SPOKESMAN: “La la la..I can’t hear you”.

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    • Jaycen
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 12:45pm

      @Classical Liberal

      Most of us are aware of the labeling issue between “Classical Liberal” and “Constitutional Conservative”. From your posts, I tend to think you are neither, but are more likely a Progressive. I could be wrong, but I’m not seeing it. And it‘s not just because I think you’re wrong in your conclusions.

      One major concern is your statement about the Tea Party movement being “hijacked” by “neoconservatives”. You have two huge problems with your statements:

      1. “Neoconservative” was a term coined by a Progressive Socialist to bully other Progressives out of their hawkish stance on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I would be shocked to find Neoconservatives supporting the Tea Party Movement.

      2. The Tea Party movement is so decentralized, it would require a immense effort to hijack it. There have certainly been some groups who’ve derailed (see Allen West’s election) or who have moved away from the core philosophy (Free Markets, Fiscal Responsibility, Constitutionally Limited Federal Government), but the movement as a whole remains intact.

      Please feel free to point out where I’m mistaken.

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 12:49pm

      JOHNLARSON….when did “la la la I can’t hear you” become a good policy for you?

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    • Jaycen
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 12:50pm

      @Classical Liberal
      “Pray for reform, because your party already sold you out on repeal.”

      You assume too much. You identify with party politics/groupthink. Are you sure you’re not a Progressive?

      I tend to agree the Republican establishment and Mitt Romney have no intention of giving up all the power that President Obama grabbed for them. That’s why the Tea Party movement exists.

      I also agree that the current situation sucks and we need to change it. That’s why our political process takes time. To keep the country from radical shifts like you see in Europe. The Tea Party will continue to move non-Constitutionalists out of the Republican Party over the next 4 years. Hopefully, we’ll do a good enough job that we can primary Mitt Romney out of office on the next go around.

      From your comments and attitude, I’m guessing your a Ron Paul Progressive. Yeah, I know…you guys like to call yourselves “Libertarians”, but you’re not. Neither is Paul. He’s just a different kind of Progressive. You still think one man makes all the difference, and you still intend to enforce your morality and beliefs on the rest of us through legislation.

      Now your guy has dropped out of the race and you’re bitter. It’s cool. I get it.

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 12:52pm

      ummm…CLASSICAL LIBERAL..maybe you’ve been asleep for a while? Scott Brown (R) MA…campaigned on repealing Obamcare and won Ted Kennedy’s vacant seat..in the bluest of blue states.
      Again..not sure if you were asleep…but 63 Democrat congressmen were expelled from office in 2010 in the midterm election partly for their support of Obamcare.
      Your jedi mind tricks aren’t working champ. Perhap you and LaBolt need to get better material from Media Matters?

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    • G-WHIZ
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:14pm

      Mexico and Central and South-Americans are “Americans”…PC-IDIOTS!!!
      Majority of [U.S.ofAMERICA] wants O’bamacare REMOVED-100% !! This POS only affects the U.S.A.-LEGAL CITIZENS WHO PAY ALL THE TAXES$$!!

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    • Classical Liberal
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 2:52pm

      @avenger, yeah I remember it well as the height of the tea party movement. I remember also being worried about mainstay republicans like Sean hannity and Karl rove trying to latch onto that movement which they did. More and more wannabes started it popping up claiming to be conservatives, but in reality they were the same old neocons who didn’t care if there was a D or R next to there name so long as they had your vote. Scott brown was a textbook example of this. He said what people wanted to hear, and rode the tea party wave into the senate.

      Maybe you didn’t hear this but, the republican house majority is in danger of losing many seats this coming election.

      Jaycen, you seem to be smart enough to be cautious about mitt Romney and the establishment at large. But you are far to optimistic about the current state of the tea party. I‘ll let you know that where I’m from, the independents who were part of the movement early on, fled once the GOP establishment began latching itself to the movement.

      Also, you are right about me not being libertarian. I am in fact a classical liberal and strict constitutionalist. Progressives are those who wish to bring about fundamental changes to the constitution usually towards socialism. If you think Ron Paul or the vast majority of his followers are socialists, you have bought the media lie. Many of the younger paul supporters I have met are still forming political opinions but they do understand the need for constitution

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    • Gregb
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 7:39pm

      The Majority does want this monstrosity repealed. It is just a huge tax bill for the middle class. shame on obama for lying…again and again and again.

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    • stumpy68
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:25pm

      Classical Liberal
      the reason you don’t see the tea party is
      unlike the occupy idiots is they’re working
      and taking care of their families trust me
      also unlike many of the ocuidiots tea party members will
      be voting .

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  • Michael
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 11:30pm

    Hey Ben, what poles are you looking at? The ones taken in Detroit, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago? Get real, Obamacare is a bummer and it is going to cost us, who have insurance, a lot of extra money. Those people, with any sense, already have made arrangements for their insurance in one way or another and I don’t mean depending on someone else to pay for their health issues. This administration is doing everything they can to destroy the people of this country. OMG

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    • mharry860
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 11:44pm

      The poll of only the stupid people, who thinks it means free health care.

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    • rickc34
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:51am

      A Left thinking person is not in their RIGHT mind

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  • right
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 11:30pm

    Repeal,repeal,repeal. Where does this guy get his info? He is way out of touch with the real world.

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    • TurboCat
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 4:23am

      It’s not over until WE THE PEOPLE have spoken! Who do these people think they are?

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  • ricckky
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 11:29pm

    Liars. liars, liars, liars—They are all going to HELL–along with that MS“LSD” bunch!!!!!

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  • sealwifenyc
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 11:16pm

    Ok, so when asked about Obama Care in general, people are opposed to it, when asked about what the bill actually does they are supportive of it, people are incredibly misinformed. In fact when you hear Republicans speak of the individual tenets, they support most of it, they are only opposed to the so called mandate, which happens to be the mechanism that pays for it. The mandate will effect about 1% of the population, people who can afford to buy health insurance, but refuse to do so. Which I find enraging. I have heard the argument from young healthy people that believe they don’t need it, which is nonsense. I am a pediatric neuro-oncologist, have worked/residency at major hospitals and I will tell you this, people who believe they have no chance of getting sick (or having an accident) and don’t have insurance go to the hospital and get sick everyday (and no its not just illegals). Those costs get passed on to the people who do have insurance. Hospital charges more to insurance companies and insurance companies raise their rates. People who don’t have insurance fully expect to receive care and they do (can be into millions easily), that is closer to socialism than being a responsible adult and purchasing insurance that prevents those costs being passed along. The law prevents lifetime maximums, which is especially important to care. Everyday I treat children for the most advanced forms of cancer, and it doesn’t take long to hit those.

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    • team1blazer
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 11:36pm

      If you support this POS legislation, then lady, you are the one misinformed. This 2200 page bill is NOT about healthcare, it is about Government control and redistribution of wealth.

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    • sealwifenyc
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 12:09am

      I was against it at first, solely because I believed as a physician my pay would suffer and I like really nice shoes. But once I actually discovered what is in the law, I support most of it. On the issue of government control, the healthcare industry is already extremely regulated, with the exception of insurance companies. The law provides significant protections to people with pre-existing conditions, which at the rate people are developing diabetes and heart disease is significant. It abolishes maximums, so 7 year old kids with brain tumors don’t lose coverage after a few months of treatment. It also requires insurance companies to use YOUR money to actually pay for care. When something close to 50% of bankruptcies are due to a medical issue, there is a major problem. In terms of wealth redistribution, that is rhetoric. 1 percent of the population facing a modest unenforceable fine is not socialism. The law certainly is not perfect, but it does offer significant protection to the consumer, at a time when health care costs have become unmanageable and our country continues to get sicker and sicker.

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    • demsaredumb
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 1:24am

      @sealwifenyc

      How can you possibly be a Dr and be so ignorant of the facts? Your drinking Obama koolaid,
      so sad.

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    • Silversmith
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:23am

      Sealwifenyc — Wake up!! You are loving the icing on a poisoned cupcake. This bill is over 2000 pages long. Have you read it? I have only been able to skim it, but this thing changes things in every part of our system. Of course there are things that sound great in it, and those things belong in real health care legislation. But this bill has been crafted to change how our world works. It touches on everything from buying gold, to immigration, to student loans, to allowing the government to withdraw funds from YOUR bank account when IT deems it necessary. It puts in place so many mechanisms that destroy our way of life that you won’t care about your hospital costs. Oh sure, you’ll have “access” to health care – when THEY say you do. The title of this bill is a complete lie.

      You want to talk about health care — FINE. This bill is NOT about healthcare.

      Silversmith

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    • bTeri
      Posted on July 18, 2012 at 9:41am

      Cherrypicking a few popular aspects of Obamacare doesnt make Obamacare popular or good legislation. Yes we need healthcare reform but we do not need government centric solutions. From the existing entitlements to the Amtrak takeover the government does not have a great track record of effective and efficient, let alone legal management of these systems. We need tort reform, we need a wide variety of health insurance products not dictated by egomaniacal politicicans, we need those products to be offered across state lines, we need no preexisting conditions and no ceilings… but no, we dont need or want Obamacare.

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  • nighttrainno9
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 11:10pm

    Boy, talk about full of crap, I don’t know 1 person who
    doesn’t want this repealed and I know alot of people.
    People are not stupid, they know obamacare is a huge
    tax and they are aware of the damage it will do to our
    economy not to mention not being happy about having
    something literally shoved down our throats.

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  • Wolfgang the Gray
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 10:54pm

    LaBolt, go back to LaUnatic assylum that you LaEft to join Obama. You are LaMe to the extreme.

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  • chips1
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 10:44pm

    Obama can’t even give a definition of American.

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  • Tankertony
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 10:43pm

    Another example of their little leftist bubble world.
    Reality is what they want it to be.

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  • commonsenseguy
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 10:42pm

    msnbc is doing every thing they can to get their rating up since they find out that micro soft is leaving them, i guess all the nut jobs they have on is not enough to keep all of the nut viewers interested, and this nut job is really whacked,he is right about one thing, most Americans don’t wont obama care repelled, just about everyone does,

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  • soybomb315_II
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 10:41pm

    Listen folks – there is some truth to this. Americans USED to be 60% against Obamacare. Now, that number is somewhere between 52-55%. What happend? The supreme court said it was constitutional so a whole bunch of people withdrew their opposition to Obamacare. It didnt help when Mitt Romney said Obamacare was constitutional just becase the supreme court said so.

    If you want to better your understanding tonight, I encourage you to read the obamacare ruling response of a proper constitutionalist….
    http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/story/2012-07-02/Rand-Paul-ObamaCare-Roberts/55989650/1

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  • v15
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 10:41pm

    I would like to break Ben Labolts’ jaw and move to a state that secedes from the Communist United States. I can see a civil war of some sorts on the horizon in maybe 20 years; not so much a “shooting” war, but where people who have had enough form their own alternate society. And I think the Federal Government will not be able to stop it since the entire country will be in chaos…well chaos in those states that need the federal government.

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  • SandyfromChesterfield
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 10:40pm

    Former White House spokesman Ben LaBolt, the current communications director for Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel, will be the press secretary for the Obama 2012 re-election campaign, I’ve learned.
    http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2011/04/ben_labolt_to_be_obama_2012_pr.html

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  • nachodadi
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 10:40pm

    He must have athletes mouth by now. Too lazy to read the actual polls…….. So lazy that he craps the bed and kicks it out with his feet.

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  • Impenitent
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 10:37pm

    Taxed Enough Already

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  • Too_Far_Gone
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 10:36pm

    What do these freaking liars come off a conveyor belt ?

    Stick it pal ! Shovel your crap somewhere else ..

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  • marine249
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 10:33pm

    I have somwere between 150 to 200
    friends in the small town I live in.
    As far as I know not a one supports
    obamacare/

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  • JUSTANOTHEROPINION
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 10:32pm

    As an American voter I would just like to ask a question: What has this guy been smoking?

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  • dmerwin
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 10:32pm

    Ahhh, last poll I heard about, was about 70% against. This is the problem with “internal polling”, if you poll only yourself, you get the results you expect. This is what liberals do. “hey bob or moonbeam, what do you think about ______, exactly! Exactly what I was thinking!” Stroke of frickin’ genius those boys are.

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    • kaydeebeau
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 11:20pm

      Sadly for some reason the Repubs listen to the leftisi polling – Hey Repub (elites) GROW a SPINE

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 10:32pm

    Obama campaign spokesman: liar, shill and traitor to the nation, one more who is going on with the deception and silent revolution within the nation by Obama and cronies. People want to dump the ObamaCare and ObamaTax.

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    • Too_Far_Gone
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 10:37pm

      And obama !

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    • Too_Far_Gone
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 10:45pm

      Or Barry Soetoro And now we have Barry Hussein Harrison J. Bounel Barack Soetoro Obama using another name..Barack Mounir Ubayd ..

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  • MODEL82A1
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 10:31pm

    Anyone who believes that Mr. LaBolt speaks with anything other than Obama’s officially sanctioned voice is a fool. Including Blaze editors

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  • loggs14
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 10:30pm

    Usual from Obama campaign…. lie, misleade, lie some more… How is it so hard to not lie… but daily the Obama campaign gets caught being liars again…

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  • hillbillyinny
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 10:30pm

    I don’t know what Americans short of the communist/socialist/progressive/liberals DON’T THINK Obamacare should be repealed. . .

    This bonified working/voting citizen of the United States of America, who is also an entreprenuer sure wants it repealed and will work and vote toward that goal!!!

    Sounds like his campaign staff is about as out of touch as he is. Dream on you misfits, and may your dreams NEVER be realized.

    Please God!

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  • godhatesacoward
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 10:28pm

    I guess 2/3 of us aren’t American?!

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  • kaydeebeau
    Posted on July 17, 2012 at 10:23pm

    What planet are you people on – WE HATE OBAMACARE and have hated it since we first learned of it

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    • jmcclena
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 10:37pm

      Umm, you and the readers of this propaganda website hate the Affordable Health Care Act. If you aren’t operating in the right wingnut echo chamber, many, many Americans are quite fond of it.

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    • TEXASGRANNY73
      Posted on July 17, 2012 at 10:41pm

      This so called Obamacare with Obama’s name was actually being pushed by Nancy Pelosi at least in 2006 and before that with Hillary. And Pelosi pushed shoved and paid for votes behind CLOSED doors for Obama. The “people” had nothing to do with this bill in my opinion. I do not know what polls that guy looks at but I read Carl Rove’s the architect and his polls show drop in significant numbers in battleground states. Gotta be a reason. We don’t like forced mandates nor socialism.

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