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.
https://twitter.com/maggiejaehnig/status/398597105935085568
#Sorry..? But NOT so sorry as to demand Congress fix his mess. http://t.co/qG8AzObBzD ~ #DeliberatelyDuplicitous
— Tom T. ن®?? (@VRWCTexan) November 7, 2013
https://twitter.com/mlcorcoran85/status/398597302367322112
https://twitter.com/hollyR_J_N/status/398597484693684224
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
https://twitter.com/WrightShumate/status/398597407471968258
https://twitter.com/conncarroll/status/398590554805530624
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/398587167897059328
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/398591270525734912
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/398592118827925504
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))) (@AGHamilton29) November 7, 2013
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/398594180978458624
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
https://twitter.com/Heminator/status/398602897698471936
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.
https://twitter.com/davidharsanyi/status/398595672972091392