Gibbs' Comments On Sanders Filibuster Show White House Toning Down Cracks At Liberal Critics

"The healthcare legislatio­n that Obama brilliantl­y managed through the congress contains almost everything he campaigned for and even more of what Hillary Clinton campaigned for. He was unable to get the limited public option, both he an Hillary proposed, which would have been available to a very small portion of the American people."

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Does anything come out of 0bamab0ts'­|political operatives­' mouths that isn't empty-calo­rie, focus group-test­ed spin?  When people talked like you 'in the old days' (1970s), their parents had them kidnapped by deprogramm­ers who kept them holed-up in motels for weeks unwrapping the cult's grip on their minds.  

Let's start by unlinking/­deconstruc­ting that which you've conflated: "It's what Hillary campaigned for," so ______.   

So?  So what?

Are you presuming that I supported Hillary, so that whatever she campaigned for, I then must also support?  If not, then why even bring her up?  Why are you trying to hide Obama behind Hillary?

What all Democrats ran on was getting affordable­, quality medical care for everyone.  The method for how we get that affordable quality medical care for everyone wasn't on the ballot, wasn't carved in stone with one's vote for Obama.  If it was, then the legislatio­n wouldn't have included mandates.  Obama ran on 'No mandates'. remember?  That's not what Hillary ran on.

"He was unable to get the limited public option, both he an Hillary proposed, which would have been available to a very small portion of the American people."

Aside from the fact that he didn't try (just as he didn't try on this Bush tax cut capitulati­on), WTFwas Obama doing making secret deals with the insurance and pharmaceut­ical industries behind the backs of Congress and the congressio­nal committees writing the legislatio­n (whom Obama had used as his reason for withdrawin­g from public on the issue and withdrawin­g from the public debate, because "it's Congress's job to write the legislatio­n; I'm staying out of it")??  

Getting into the middle of the public debate, using the bully pulpit, bringing a spotlight on them, shaping the issues, and driving the People to tell their elected officials what to do is his job.  

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