Obama Comments On Grubergate: “I Did Not Mislead Americans” Even As Gruber Pocketed Millions

The last thing Obama needed brought up during the just concluded G-20 conference, where world leaders generously agreed to boost global GDP by $2 trillion (let’s all hold our breath while they “just go find a cash machine“) while bashing Putin pretty much non-stop for 48 hours to the point where the Russian leader left early (due to “lack of sleep“), was the whole “Gruber thing”, i.e., the recent revelations that the architect of the “Affordable” Care Act, Jonathan Gruber, relied on the “stupidity of American voters” to pass Obamacare. Sadly for the American president, not even halfway around the world could he get away from the humiliation that has clouded his one and only domestic policy “success” in his 6 year tenure.
Alas, a question about Grubergate is precisely what Obama got when after preaching about “accountability to the people”, a member of the press asked the head of the “most hypocritical transparent administration ever” if Obama “misled Americans” about the taxes and about keeping the plan “in order to get the bill passed?”
Obama’s response:”No, i did not.” This was Obama’s conclusion after he had just gotten “well-briefed before he came out here.” Indeed, nothing escapes the American president who continued: “The fact thatsome adviser who never worked on our staff expressed an opinion that I completely disagree with in terms of the voters is no reflection on the actual process that was run.”
Obama’s argument in a nutshell: “we had a lengthy argument” in the US about Obamacare. True, one that was rammed down the throats of Americans as a tax courtesy of the Supreme Court: a decision that as we now know relied on the stupidity of the American voters. Apparently, one that also relied on the partisan nature of the Supreme Court. But it’s ok, because the misleading was done not by the architect of Obamacare but, suddenly, just “some advisor who never worked on our staff.”
Unfortunately, because Obama apparently wasn’t briefed quite as well as he would have hoped, let’s just take a look at what Dr. Gruber did do.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on 11/16/2014 –.