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Individual mandates: New conservative ad highlights Obama's biggest flip-flop

Individual mandates: New conservative ad highlights Obama's biggest flip-flop

The conservative PAC American Crossroads is using this week's Supreme Court hearings on ObamaCare to remind voters that President Barack Obama opposed an individual mandate requiring health insurance before he was for it:

"If a mandate was a solution, we could try that to solve homelessness by mandating that everybody buy a house," Obama says in one of the clips from 2008.  As you might recall, the Obama campaign focused its opposition to individual mandates which were a key part of Hillary Clinton's health care plan.  Obama's 2008 campaign went as far as mailing out this flier attacking her plan:

What a difference an election makes...

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