Remember when Valerie Jarrett promised that President Obama would be signing up for Obamacare today? Shockah! That promise came with an important disclaimer: “To be taken with a squillion grains of salt.” You see, it was just a “symbolic” gesture:
Obama's "symbolic" enrollment for ObamaCare was done in person. They didn't use an exchange website. http://t.co/1iL3u7N50D
— RBe (@RBPundit) December 23, 2013
Via Politico:
In what an official acknowledged is a “symbolic” move since the president gets his medical care from the military, Obama selected a low-cost bronze plan through the District of Columbia exchange. He made the pick over the weekend while vacationing in Hawaii.
Obama “was pleased to participate in a plan as a show of support for these marketplaces which are providing quality, affordable health care options to more than a million people,” the official added.
But Obama did not directly sign up for insurance. Rather, his staff went in person to sign him up, an official told POLITICO.
Well, it’s awful hard to sign up in-person when you’re off frolicking in the Hawaiian surf. And the president certainly wouldn’t wanna cut his vacation short to demonstrate that his namesake law isn’t the colossal sham we all think it is.
https://twitter.com/amandacarpenter/status/415192371370790912
What else would you expect from President Hollywood?
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Today Barack Obama "led by example" by having his staffers perform a secret ritual to sign him up for ObamaCare in absentia.
— John Hayward (@Doc_0) December 23, 2013
You ask whether an arrogant fraud of a President could actually turn a symbolic gesture into a P.R. fiasco? I give you Barack Obama.
— John Hayward (@Doc_0) December 23, 2013
Going to sign up for ObamaCare. Hope I can get through on the website. Just kidding. I'm the President!
— 100 Proof (@ChampionCapua) December 23, 2013
Enrolling in ObamaCare is as easy as having your gigantic personal entourage buy a plane ticket for you on Kayak.
— John Hayward (@Doc_0) December 23, 2013
President Obama is just like us!
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/415199043304693760
It’s hard out there for a POTUS.
This could only be more perfect if Obama staffers used taxpayers as footstools while signing him up for ObamaCare.
— John Hayward (@Doc_0) December 23, 2013
We wouldn’t put it past him if he had the chance.
If I'd written a satire about the day Imperious Leader finally signed up for ObamaCare, it wouldn't have been as funny as what happened.
— John Hayward (@Doc_0) December 23, 2013
Obama's phony ObamaCare enrollment will be remembered as one of the best Christmas presents @SenTedCruz received this year.
— John Hayward (@Doc_0) December 23, 2013
Always nice to see the White House standing behind its policies and leading by example.
https://twitter.com/CalebHowe/status/415200537504538624
Heh. @BarackObama does seem to be more than capable of locating porn when given the opportunity. But let’s face it: When you’re president, you’ve got to prioritize.
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/415200752601432064
We couldn’t’ve put it better ourselves.
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Update:
Exclusive! Screencap from Obama’s ‘symbolic’ O-care enrollment [Photoshop]
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