In an exclusive one-on-one interview with NBC’s Chuck Todd, President Obama said he was sorry to learn that people were receiving cancellation notices in the mail “based on assurances they got from me.” Of course, Twitchy has been telling the stories of these cancellations for weeks; still, that’s only a fraction of the time that President Obama has been assuring Americans that if they like their current doctors and health plans, they can keep them, period.
A one-on-one sit-down was perhaps the only place the president felt he could deliver such an “apology,” but are the people buying it? Well, they’re still forced to whether they want to or not.
Keep your apology! Just repeal! Exclusive: Obama personally apologizes for Americans losing health coverage http://t.co/OGg5ODTyXd
— Maggiebgoode (@maggiejaehnig) November 7, 2013
#Sorry..? But NOT so sorry as to demand Congress fix his mess. http://t.co/qG8AzObBzD ~ #DeliberatelyDuplicitous
— Tom T. (@VRWCTexan) November 7, 2013
This reminds me of South Park when BP CEO "apologized" naked on bearskin rug. LOL. RT @reason247: Obama apologizes http://t.co/ggi43pwPdj
— michael.l.corcoran (@mlcorcoran85) November 7, 2013
Obama: I'm sorry if people are mad that I lied.
— Holly Renee (@_Holly_Renee) November 7, 2013
So I guess that fixes everything RT @AP: MORE: Obama says he's sorry Americans are losing insurance: http://t.co/VxVr0ZfPJh -CJ
— Clemson Tom (@ClemsonTom) November 7, 2013
Obama's new theme song. (I"m Sorry)" I'm sorry, so sorry, That I was such a fool, I didn't know" http://t.co/0GE2Xu0z2u
— Wright (@WrightBrunoS) November 7, 2013
I dont get it. Why is Obama apologizing for people losing their insurance? Last week he said they were all junk policies. Was he lying then?
— Conn Carroll (@conncarroll) November 7, 2013
Yesterday -Blame GOP & insurance companies
Today – Sorry about all this
Tomorrow – Blame GOP & insurance companies
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) November 7, 2013
"I'm sorry this happened based on assurances you got from me"
"So I get my plan back?"
"Fuck no! It's full steam ahead baby!"
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) November 7, 2013
I'm sorry you're in the situation you feel you're in based on your interpretation of my assurances
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) November 7, 2013
This is an "I'm sorry if you were offended" apology, not an "I did something wrong and I will try to fix it" apology. Big difference.
— AG (@AG_Conservative) November 7, 2013
"Do you feel you owe these people an apology that you misled them even if you didn't mean to"@chucktodd everyone #slowclap
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) November 7, 2013
https://twitter.com/charlescwcooke/status/398591093203156992
. . . that Anthony Daniels once told me: That he noticed the passive voice creeping in while serving as a doctor in prisons . . .
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) November 7, 2013
. . . the murderers would say, “and then the knife went in,” or, “and then she was stabbed.” Actually, no. You stabbed her.
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) November 7, 2013
Question is: How long will it be 'til normal service is resumed? Are we back to “it wasn’t misleading” and "insurers did it!” by morning?
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) November 7, 2013
“I am sorry that they think I had no sexual relations with that woman based on assurances they got from me.”
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) November 7, 2013
“I am sorry that people’s federal taxes were raised when they thought they might not be based on assurances they got from me.”
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) November 7, 2013
In years to come I shall use that clip to teach my children what an apology from a lawyer under political duress looks like.
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) November 7, 2013
Tomorrow, we’re going to see a slew of “The President Shouldn’t Have Apologized” columns from people who need mocking relentlessly.
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) November 7, 2013
Honestly, was this a planned apology? It's so half-hearted I'm not sure POTUS knows what he's unleashed.
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) November 8, 2013
If you read the transcript in full, you'd have to re-read to find the apology…
— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) November 7, 2013
There’s at least one other way to look at it.
i'd rather have an apology for all the promises he kept.
— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) November 7, 2013