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If You Think Health Care But It's Not, It's Obamacare.

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When Obama gave his "apology" last week he stepped in it with women. His apology was out of the total cad playbook;

"It's unfortunate you believed it when I said I cared for you (over 30 times)."

Obama promised women (over 30 times) if they liked your healthcare, they'd keep it. He also promised them (over 30 times) they could keep their doctors and their health care costs would go down. These promises have turned out to be lies. Lies he knew were lies when he said them. The deeper problem is that the lies were part of Obama's seduction of women. Using lies, he seduced women into believing the government will take care of them, beautifully.  In 2012, Obama put his seduction online with the one website of his that actually works, his campaign website:

 

(CNN) Last week, President Obama's campaign launched a fictional storybook ad called, 'The Life of Julia.' The slide show narrative follows Julia, a cartoon character, from age 3 to age 67 and explains how Obama's policies, from Head Start to Obamacare to mandated contraception coverage to Medicare reform, would provide Julia with a better life than Mitt Romney or Paul Ryan could.

Julia is not your typical all-American girl, but an obviously independent, yuppie liberal woman. She goes to public school, graduates college, and becomes a Web designer. She is able to pursue her career because, at age 27, "her health insurance is required to cover birth control and preventive care, letting Julia focus on her work rather than worry about her health."

At age 31 she 'decides to have a child,' with no mention of a father or husband. Her son Zachary heads off to a Race to the Top funded public school, while Julia goes on to start her own Web business. She retires at age 67 with Social Security and Medicare supporting her financially and spends her later years volunteering in a community garden.

Julia's happily-ever-after tale is remarkably void of reality. Nowhere in her fictional life is it mentioned that Head Start has done little, if anything, to improve elementary education, that she will likely graduate with $25,000 in student loan debt, that she has a 50% chance of being unemployed or underemployed after college, that Medicare and Social Security are headed toward insolvency, and that her share of the national debt is $50,000 and growing.

"For Republicans, Julia's story might seem like a joke too good to be true, but they should take it very seriously. Because buried within 'The Life of Julia' is the ideological vision of modern liberalism -- to create a state that takes care of its people from cradle to grave. The story of Julia is a microcosm of Obama's vision for America and emblematic of his view of the government's role in an individual's life." -William Bennett

But now Obama's lies to women have threatened his plan to have the government take care of women from cradle to grave.  Threatened. But will it disrupt the plan?

Anyone that grew up in the 1970s during the classic Chiffon margarine campaign learned you got disruption when you fooled Mother Nature. Well, at first blush, it looks as if women's nature may not be so different from Mother Nature's nature. From the Pew Poll yesterday:

"President Barack Obama's approval rating is at its lowest level since he entered the White House in 2009, with a majority saying for the first time in a Quinnipiac University poll that the president is not honest and trustworthy."

"Among women voters, one of Obama's biggest support groups, only 40 percent said they approved of his performance in the White House, versus 51 percent who said they did not."

"Any Democrat with an 11-point approval deficit among women is in trouble. And any elected official with an 8-point trust deficit is in serious trouble."



Unfortunately because we are dealing with women and not Mother Nature, Obama isn't in real trouble as he's not up for re-election. Hence the true cad has been revealed. He used women for as long as he needed them dumping them as quickly as a 200 lb sack of sand when he was done. Future Democrats running for election may be in trouble -the-old-misdirected-anger wheeze. This poltical reality might explain why Bill Clinton, the president who lied about having "sex with that woman" wagged his finger (figuratively-speaking) yesterday in Obama's general direction saying 'honor your commitment'.

But the reality is both men, if they understand one thing, they understand women. Especially the women they've stepped in it with. Like they've done for decades with own their wives, they'll apply the presents to bring the women back into line. The only difference being the presents : Mrs. Clinton gets political power and Mrs. Obama gets shopping trips and vacations. Women will merely get more of what they've got; more bluster about the Republican's supposed war on women, free birth control and abortion 24/7. For women, that may be enough.

Would it have been enough for Mother Nature?

Virginia *Is* For Lovers.

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 The guy the girls elected Guv.

"Virginia is for Lovers." is one of the most iconic ad campaigns of the past 50 years. With last week's election of Terry McAuliffe (D) to the governor's seat, "Virginia is for Lovers" has become more than a tagline : It has become reality. Terry McAuliffe, the innovative Democrat bag man who came up with the idea of selling 'nights' in the Linclon bedroom for $$$$$ during the Clinton presidency ran a campaign promising the people of the Commonwealth of Virginia all the sex they wanted without consequences. Planned Parenthood made the Virginia's governor's race their number one priority, spending over 1 million dollars to smear Ken Cucinelli and elect McAuliffe. McAuliffe was not content to rely on Planned Parenthood to carry his race and spent over 5 million of his own on abortion ads, portraying Cucinelli as an 'extremist'.

The truth is, Terry McAuliffe, as his 'Sex the Lincoln Bedroom' scheme proved is the real extremist. From Katrina Trinko (NR) September 19, 2013:

In a series of recent ads, the campaign of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe gleefully paints Cuccinelli as an extremist who secretly thinks women should be kept barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. The common theme in the ads is that Cuccinelli wants to “interfere” with women’s choices...[...] “It’s Ken Cuccinelli we should worry about,” intones a male (!) narrator ominously, adding that he is “pursuing an extreme agenda, interfering in our personal lives, and waging war on abortion even in cases of rape and incest.”

In another spot, Holly Purvitz, a calm, gray-haired OB-GYN of 30 years, fixes her hazel eyes worriedly on the camera and says, “I’m particularly offended by Ken Cuccinnelli. Cucinnelli wants to make all abortion illegal, even in cases of rape and incest. Even to protect a woman’s health,” Purvitz says. “I want a governor who’s focused on schools and creating jobs. . . . Who’s Ken Cucinnelli to interfere in the lives of women across Virginia?”

But who’s the real extremist on abortion? McAuliffe has been happy enough to attack Cuccinelli’s position, but he’s been evasive about his own views. In March, Susan B. Anthony List president Marjorie Dannenfelser in a prepared statement accused McAuliffe of “support[ing] a platform of abortion on-demand at any time, for any reason, paid for by Virginia taxpayers. That means he supports a platform of sex-selective abortion, late-term abortion, partial-birth abortion, and abortions on teenage girls without parental consent — all paid for by Virginia tax payers.” The Washington Post reported that, when it reached out to McAuliffe’s campaign for comment, “McAuliffe spokesman Josh Schwerin declined to say whether Dannenfelser had accurately represented McAuliffe’s position on abortion.”

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Furthermore, McAuliffe opposed additional regulations of Virginia abortion clinics while Cuccinelli supported them. “Cuccinelli bullied the Board of Health to pass medically unnecessary regulations intended to close women’s health clinics, which provide numerous services,” McAuliffe’s website scolded... [...]

And those harsh regulations? Well, according to the Virginia Catholic Conference, here’s what they entail:

The Commonwealth’s strong permanent regulations will now prevent abortion facilities from subjecting women to unsanitary conditions, including physicians performing abortions with unwashed hands or blood splattered on examination tables and medical trays. No longer will inadequate building standards prevent emergency medical technicians from retrieving a woman in need of emergency care from inside the facilities to transport her to a hospital emergency room.

Strange, because these all sound like initiatives that someone who supports women’s health and safety should back.

Another McAuliffe TV ad depicts Cuccinelli as the jerk who wants to make sure women stay in unhappy marriages. “If Cuccinelli had it his way, a mom trying to get out of a bad marriage over her husband’s objections could only get divorced if she could prove adultery or physical abuse or her spouse had abandoned her or was sentenced to jail.” Okay, but here’s the key bit McAuliffe leaves out: Men would face the same rules in trying to end their marriages, if that law [against no-fault divorce for parents of minors] had passed. (PolitiFact, an outlet not known for being sympathetic to social conservatives, agreed the legislation would have affected both men and women.) The legislation, recognizing that divorce often had bitter consequences for kids, was an attempt to make sure that neither spouse in a marriage with minor children could opt out of the marriage on a whim.

The McAuliffe campaign is also talking about contraception, attacking Cuccinnelli’s past support for “personhood” legislation. Some argue that those bills would have made some (not all) forms of contraception illegal. Cuccinelli took on the issue directly in August, saying, “I’ve never supported legislation that invades people’s choices about contraception.” Cuccinelli spokeswoman Anna Nix then elaborated to PolitiFact that “Ken Cuccinelli is not interested in legislating contraception.” So, while we still can’t get McAuliffe to go on record whether he’s okay with the abortion of babies who could survive as preemies after labor was induced, we do have Cuccinelli on record saying he’s not going to impose new laws affecting contraception.

The McAuliffe campaign, like most on the left, appears unable to see the distinction between supporting religious liberty and supporting bans on contraception. Cuccinelli, the McAuliffe campaign ominously warns on the website, has “even advocated civil disobedience to stop expanded birth control access.” This is a reference to Cuccinelli’s belief that the Obama administration is wrong to require employers with religious objections to contraception to offer contraceptive coverage to their employees. McAuliffe might as well say Cuccinelli wants to stop expanded access to Bibles because he’s not recommending that secular private schools dole out Bibles.

It’s an old Democrat and mainstream-media trick to depict a Republican as hating women because he supports socially conservative values...

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The old Democrat trick worked as exit polls demonstrated. Ken Cuccinelli, who was promising to not expand Obamacare, promote the coal industry and school choice won the married vote, 50 to 43%. McAuliffe swept the unmarried vote, 62 to 29% (67 to 25%women).




The irony is that one of the first ads of the "Virginia is For Lovers" campaign promoted the state as a place to honeymoon. In 2009 then-Governor of Virginia, Linwood Holton (R), spoke of his concerns of the campaign's imaging:

"That is a slogan that is subject to more than one interpretation and I was concerned about whether people would be offended by it. My initial reaction was not to do much of anything about it. When he returned to the Executive Mansion one day to find his children singing along with the ditty then associated with "Virginia is for Lovers," he figured: If it was OK for them, it would be OK for adults.


If it's Ok for kids, it's Ok for adults.

With Ken Cuccinelli as governor, Virginia would've gotten an ok-for-kids governor. One that the McAuliffe campaign pretended Terrry would be, "focused on schools and creating jobs." Instead Virginia has a governor who's not ok-for-kids, beginning with the unborn ones. As McAuliffe focuses on implementing the tried-and-true Democrat plan of failed social policies and reckless spending, Virginia will only get worse for kids. Like it has in other places where the Democrat plan has worked. Places like Detroit.

America will soon see in Virginia the merging of two ad campaigns : Virginia is for Lovers, imported from Detroit.

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One-Size-Fits-All Health Insurance From The Guy With The Composite Girlfriend.

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Mrs. Peperium



Like many characters in the memoir, he introduced her to advance a theme, another thread of thought in his musings about race. To that end, he distorted her attitudes and some of their experiences, emphasizing his sense that they came from different worlds. Decades later, during an interview in the Oval Office, Obama acknowledged that, while Genevieve was his New York girlfriend, the description in his memoir was a “compression” of girlfriends, including one who followed Genevieve when he lived in Chicago.

- Vanity Fair, Young Barack Obama In Love
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"Starting next year, all plans sold in this country will be required to provide 10 essential benefits, including some, like mental health and substance abuse treatment and maternity and newborn care"

-- NYTimes, Insurance Policies Not Worth Keeping

Obamacare forces them to drop many of their plans that don't meet the law's 10 minimum standards, including maternity care, emergency visits, mental health treatment and even pediatric dental care. That means consumers have to sign on to new plans even if they don't want or need the more generous coverage.

-- CBS More Than 2 Million People Getting Booted From Existing Health Insurance

"In West Virginia and New Hampshire, for example, residents shopping on the exchanges can only purchase plans from a single company."

--CNN, For Many The Promises of Obamacare Do Not Ring True

"I asked the representative to send me the information about essential benefits. She replied that I could just find it on the web site. When I told her I was unable to find abortion listed as a benefit on the site, she proceeded to read to me the list of essential benefits from the site. Abortion was not listed, but “preventative services” is listed. I asked her whether abortion was covered under “preventative services” as I had been told previously. She replied that it was and that abortion coverage is mandatory for the D.C. market. She also told me that for more detailed information on essential benefits I could click on the link to healthcare.gov below the list of benefits."

-- TownHall, D.C Obamacare Exchange Plans All Pay For Abortion

 

"As a 60-something, relatively healthy person [Larry Kudlow], I don’t want lactation and maternity services, abortion services, speech therapy, mammograms, fertility treatments or Viagra. I don’t want it. So why should I have to tear up my existing health-care plan, and then buy a plan with far more expensive premiums and deductibles, and with services I don’t need or want?"

-- Commentary, Ripping Off The Self-Insured

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Americans of all sizes are now like Obama's old girlfriends, compressed.

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