Timeless breaking news from the Huffington Post:
President Barack Obama made a major political mistake by lying about the details of his health care plan, according to former House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.).
"The rollout was so bad, and I was appalled -- I don't understand how the president could have sat there and not been checking on that on a weekly basis," Frank told HuffPost during a July interview.
"But frankly, he should never have said as much as he did, that if you like your current health care plan, you can keep it..."
"That wasn't true. And you shouldn't lie to people. And they just lied to people..."
Frank is a strong supporter of the law, and he has repeatedly defended Obama and his legislative agenda.
"He should have said, 'Look, in some cases the health care plans that you've got are really inadequate, and in your own interests, we're going to change them,'" Frank said.
"But that's not what he said..."
"Any smart political adviser would have said, 'Don't lie to people, because you're gonna get caught up in it and it's gonna have this tsunami that you now have,'" Frank told HuffPost.
"My political motto, very simple. I have always told the truth, and nothing but the truth.
"But I don't volunteer the whole truth in every situation."
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Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/01/barney-frank-obama-lie_n_5642132.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
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