Isn’t It Funny When a Politician Accuses Someone of Using “Smoke and Mirror” Tactics?

Question by Welcome to Amerika Mr. 0rwell !!: Isn’t it funny when a politician accuses someone of using “smoke and mirror” tactics?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/17/obama-weekly-radio-addres_n_324648.html

“The history is clear: For decades rising health care costs have unleashed havoc on families, businesses and the economy,” the president said Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address. “And for decades, whenever we have tried to reform the system, the insurance companies have done everything in their considerable power to stop us.”

“It’s smoke and mirrors,” the president added. “It’s bogus. And it’s all too familiar. Every time we get close to passing reform, the insurance companies produce these phony studies as a prescription and say, ‘Take one of these, and call us in a decade.’ Well, not this time.”

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28397.html

At a meeting last April with corporate lobbyists, aides to President Barack Obama and Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) helped set in motion a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign, primarily financed by industry groups, that has played a key role in bolstering public support for health care reform.

The role Baucus’s chief of staff, Jon Selib, and deputy White House chief of staff Jim Messina played in launching the groups was part of a successful effort by Democrats to enlist traditional enemies of health care reform to their side. No quid pro quo was involved, they insist, as do the lobbyists themselves. ………………..“What you’ve had was the Senate and the White House sitting down and cutting deals with special interests,” he said. “I don’t think that’s quite what the American people signed up for when the Obama campaign said that they were going to limit the influence of special interests in this White House.”

Criticism — from the left and the right — of the PhRMA deal and the coalitions became more pointed after it was revealed in August that the coalitions were paying two firms with close ties to the White House to cut ads: AKPD Message and Media, which was founded by White House senior adviser David Axelrod, still owes him $ 2 million and employs one of his sons — and GMMB.

Liberals contended drug companies were being let off the hook. And congressional Republicans distributed talking points asserting the PhRMA deal raised “serious questions as to whether the drug lobby is helping to bankroll a multimillion-dollar severance package for one of the president’s senior advisers.”

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Answer by scaerdrys
Yup. It also cracks me up when he calls his opponents demagogues…that guy is like Thucydides’ walking exemplar of a demagogue.
Peace

Answer by Vangaurd
Republicans have no moral authority to ‘raise serious questions’ about anything.

They had 8 years to fix the problem and did NOTHING, just like they’re doing now.

They just want Obama to fail, not for America to succeed.

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