AMERICANS NEED TO HAVE - AND MUST HAVE - CONFIDENCE IN PRESIDENT OBAMA. HE WILL MAKE THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT A SUCCESS.

     Shame on you!  Those three words are not addressed at President Obama...but targeted at the majority of people surveyed in the recent Fox News Poll...who believe that the President deceived the American public about the Affordable Care Act.  

     The poll indicates that 55 percent of Americans feel President Obama was not being honest when he explained the specifics of his signature piece of legislation.  The survey says 50 percent of the U.S. population are of the opinion that the President knowingly lied about "ObamaCare" and his pledge that Americans would be able to keep their healthcare plan.

     History has proven that we have had Presidents who have lied.  I'm not going to name names here, but we know that Saddam Hussein did not have Weapons of Mass Destruction when the United States went to war in Iraq.  We also know that a President would not have had to resign in disgrace if he had been honest and not covered up information about the break-in and burglary of the Democratic National Committee's headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, DC.  However...to say that our President today...Barack Obama - this President - told a falsehood...by intentionally and deliberately deceiving the American people...well...I am appalled that so many of you have such an obscene view of our current Commander-in-Chief.

     It amazes me that Republicans continue to make harsh, unfounded and unjustified statements in their hope to politically destroy the Obama Administration...Barack Obama's Presidency...and the country's national healthcare law.

     Speaker of the House John Boehner...on Thursday, November 14th, 2013... remarked that "When it comes to this healthcare law...The White House doesn't have much credibility.  Now let's be clear...the only way to fully protect the American people...is to scrap this law once and for all.  There is no way to fix this.  I am highly skeptical that they can do this administratively.  I just don't see - within the law - their ability to do that."

     Instead of being political...and trying to annihilate a law that was signed off by not only the President of the United States...but by the U.S. Senate... the U.S. House of

Representatives...and the U.S. Supreme Court - not to mention the fact that the American people voted in 2012 to re-elect President Obama and not to elect Mitt Romney... who wanted to repeal "ObamaCare" - Speaker Boehner and his conservative cronies should be focusing on efforts to help the President...by making the Affordable Care Act...the law...that all three branches of the federal government voted it to be...and not to tear it apart.

     There is too much hysteria about "ObamaCare" not working.  Do not lose confidence in the President.  He WILL make the Affordable Care Act a success. Mr. Obama has taken responsibility for the technology problems of the "ObamaCare" website and for the troubles that faced the launch of the healthcare exchanges...all of which is gracious and admirable.  But as I stated last Sunday in my November 10th column...none of this is his fault.  That being said...I respect the President for the concerns he has for those individuals whose current insurance policies have been cancelled.  But those Americans who have received cancellation notices...will benefit from "ObamaCare"...and will end up with better health insurance plans...than they had before.  After all...the Affordable Care Act was given that name...because it is "affordable" for ALL Americans.

     A year from now...tens of millions of Americans - who don't have health insurance today...and who were not able to purchase health insurance in years previously...because of pre-existing conditions, high costs and other reasons - will have health insurance...and this whole controversy about "ObamaCare"... will be a thing of the past...and an ugly mess that will have disappeared.  So, therefore...my commentary from last Sunday clearly spells out my thoughts... with my views today remaining the same.  And to the people polled in the Fox News survey...and other Americans who agree with that poll...I repeat the three words that I wrote at the top of this column.  Shame on you!

     And that's The Controversy for today.

     I'm Gary B. Duglin.

     "We'll talk again."

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