{"id":8359,"date":"2013-11-15T16:53:19","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T16:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/11\/15\/an-incorrect-promise\/"},"modified":"2013-11-15T16:53:19","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T16:53:19","slug":"an-incorrect-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/11\/15\/an-incorrect-promise\/","title":{"rendered":"An Incorrect Promise?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This<\/a> from The New York Times<\/em>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The split between lawmakers and the White House reflects the dilemma the president finds himself in as he seeks to follow through on last week\u2019s acknowledgment about his incorrect promise on health care coverage.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"Lie\"<\/a>
A statement is either true or false, correct or incorrect.  "No Republican voted for Obamacare' is a statement and it happens to be true or correct.  But it is incoherent to speak of a promise as either correct or incorrect.  'I promise to loan you $100 on Friday' is a promise, not a statement.   A promise is either fulfilled or not fulfilled.  If, come Friday, I loan you $100, then I fulfill my promise.  If I don't, then either (i) the promise I made is insincere, or (ii) something happened outside my control that prevented me from loaning you the money, or (iii) I reneged on my promise.<\/span><\/p>\n

To speak of Obama's now famous lie — If you like your health plan  you can keep your health plan, period –  as an incorrect promise shows total confusion or perhaps willful obfuscation.   First, there is no such thing as an incorrect promise.  Second, a lie is not a promise.  Obama lied about the already existent content of the ACA.  He did not promise what that content would be.<\/span><\/p>\n

And then Bubba comes along to add a further layer of incoherence and absurdity to this sorry spectacle.<\/span><\/p>\n

Under pressure from Bill Clinton, Obama yesterday tried to correct his 'incorrect promise'  by changing the law, something he is not constitutionally authorized to do.  The passing , repealing, and amending of laws is a legislative function, not an executive function. 
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Are we in Cloud Cuckoo Land yet?<\/span><\/p>\n

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This from The New York Times: The split between lawmakers and the White House reflects the dilemma the president finds himself in as he seeks to follow through on last week\u2019s acknowledgment about his incorrect promise on health care coverage. A statement is either true or false, correct or incorrect.  "No Republican voted for Obamacare' … Continue reading “An Incorrect Promise?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-truthfulness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}