OBAMA'S BIGGEST LIE OF 2013 DOES NOT APPEAR IN THE WASHINGTON POST ARTICLE

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OBAMA'S BIGGEST LIE OF 2013 DOES NOT APPEAR IN THE WASHINGTON POST ARTICLE Posted: 18 Dec 2013 01:30 AM PST Everyone is talking about the Washington Post article chronicling the 10 biggest lies of the 2013 political year – with still weeks to go … The biggest Pinocchios of 2013 It’s time for our annual round-up of the biggest Pinocchios of the year. This was not a presidential election year, so in some ways the subjects that needed to be fact checked were more substantive. In reviewing The Fact Checker’s more than 200 columns in the past year, we found an interesting evolution from statistics about gun violence to claims about President Obama’s health-care law. Our general rule of thumb held: the more complex a subject is, the more tempted politicians are to make misleading claims. President Obama ended up with three of the most misleading claims of the year. But, despite the urging of some readers, his statement that “I didn’t set a red line” on Syria is not among them. We had looked closely at that claim and had determined that, in context, it was a bungled talking point, so that statement actually earned no rating. As always, that and other rulings were met with vehement objections from some readers. The Fact Checker thanks the readers who have offered thoughtful rebuttals to our conclusions. In some cases, in light of new information, we adjusted Pinocchio ratings. In compiling this list, we primarily focused on claims that had earned four Pinocchios during the year. We also tried to focus on issues of broad interest, such as gun control, health care and the size of government. To keep it simple, we have shortened the quotes in the headlines. To read the full column. But the saddest truth is that the biggest and most damaging lie of President Obama’s tenure was not reported … Barack Obama’s 2013 Inauguration Oath of Office … "I, Barrack Hussein Obama, pledge to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America." A little something to remember when you vote in the 2014 congressional election cycle and review how much damage, both foreign and domestic, President Obama and his cadre of progressive socialist democrats have caused to America and Americans. -- steve Related articles The biggest Pinocchios of 2013 Washington Post Releases 10 'Biggest Pinocchios' of the Year...Guess How Many Belong to Obama The biggest Pinocchios of 2013 Obama admin receives Pinocchios aplenty for WaPo's 'biggest Pinocchios of 2013′ Obama wins Washington Post biggest Pinocchio of 2013 10 Biggest Pinocchios of 2013...barack Obama Tops the Pinocchio List Folks, Actually Got 3 Out of 10 Lies Is Glenn Kessler evening up the Pinocchios - giving Obama 4 Pinocchios after over-Pinocchioing Issa with 4? Of the top ten lies of the year how many belong to Obama?

SOMETHING STINKS: EX-MICROSOFT EXECUTIVE & HUSBAND OF LIBERAL PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRAT NAMED TO RUN HEALTHCARE.GOV Posted: 18 Dec 2013 01:34 AM PST What happened to Jeffrey Zients, the management “guru” widely touted by the White House to be the right man to oversee the healthcare automation project? Who is Jeffrey Zients, and how is he qualified to fixHealthCare.gov? In hopes of quickly working out the kinks, the White House has enlisted the help of former budget official Jeffrey Zients, one of Obama’s go-to guys when he wants programs to run smoother. Zients spent much of his career as an entrepreneur, most notably leading Sirius/XM Satellite Radio and Revolution Health, as well as playing a key role in bringing baseball back to Washington. The president brought Zients into his administration as chief performance officer and deputy director of the White House Office of Management and Budget. The key word from those titles is “performance.” This guy has spent some time sniffing out ineffectiveness and inefficiency. In 2011, Obama tapped Zients to head a government-reform initiative that started with changing how the government handles trade and export issues. Roughly one year later, the president named Zients as acting director of the Office of Management and Budget after Jack Lew — now Treasury secretary — moved from the head spot to serve as Obama’s chief of staff.  <Source> From all indications, President Obama and his cadre of progressive socialist democrats appear to have wanted to contain the growing healthcare.gov crisis, so they did what any insular and corrupt administration would do, they used a high-ranking, politically-connected “fixer” who simply lacked the technical expertise to get the job done. Unfortunately, screaming, threatening, and placing IT people under tremendous pressure to achieve a political fix doesn’t work. Especially, if the underlying system architecture was poorly designed and implemented. You can’t fix what doesn’t exist … It is not so much the front-end website that was broken, but the failure of the administration to support the front end with a working back-end. Whoops! You could collect data, but it would go nowhere since an estimated 30-percent of the backend system was yet to be developed. We now see that the mechanism to transmit enrollment and payment data to insurance companies was non-existent or deeply flawed. Leaving millions of Americans who visited the site wondering if they were really covered by January 1st, 2014. So the White House needs another “high profile” fixer with credentials …   White House names former Microsoft exec to run Healthcare.gov The White House is rebooting HealthCare.gov's repairman. Former Microsoft executive Kurt DelBene will take over the volunteer job of overseeing ongoing fixes to the federal Obamacare marketplace HealthCare.gov starting Wednesday, officials said.  DelBene is replacing management guru Jeffrey Zients, who was tapped by President Obama in October to manage the emergency repair job on that then-badly crippled website. The switch comes at a critical time for HealthCare.gov, which has seen dramatic performance improvements under Zients. The site, which had very low enrollment levels in the first two months of operation because its tech troubles, now is engaged in a furious effort to sign up as many people as possible in new Affordable Care Act insurance by the New Year DelBene, who retired last summer as president of the Microsoft Office division after two decades at the software behemoth, is the husband of US Rep. Suzan DelBene, (D-Wash), a fellow ex-Microsoft executive who was elected to Congress in 2012. Before Microsoft, DelBene was a management consultant with McKinsey and Company, and a software developer and systems engineer for AT&T Bell Laboratories. Officials said DelBene has agreed to stay on the job of managingHealthCare.gov for at least the first half of 2014, which would include the March 31 deadline for open enrollment on that and other Obamacare exchanges. Although he will be paid for his work, DelBene plans on returning all of that money to the US Treasury, the White House said. Zients was originally scheduled to start his new job as director for the National Economic Council at the beginning of 2014. But on Tuesday it was disclosed that Zients will take that job after the State of the Union address on Jan. 28. In the meantime, Gene Sperling will stay on as council director until Zients takes over. Source: White House names replacement for HealthCare.gov repairman Jeff Zients Promises to stay at least 6 months? Works for free! What is going on? One, it appears that the new fixer is married to a progressive socialist democrat from the uber-liberal State of Washington. Two, you do not manage an on-going high-tech projects with short-term leaders, even if they are donating their time and effort. Where is the actual leadership team? I deeply believe that DelBene was hired as a “front-man with credentials”and that he is going to be used more for his public relations value than his technical expertise (if any) in supporting a true re-architecting of the system. While the relationship between healthcare.gov's prime contractor and Michele Obama (and Valerie Jarrett) was bandied about previously, I also find it amazing that Kurt DelBene's wife represents Microsoft's district and somewhat disturbing that the uber-wealthy representative may have recommended her husband for the job. Bottom line … There is an old saying in data processing, “garbage in, garbage out.” Definitely something to consider since the basic premise of Obamacare – the wealth redistribution from the young healthy cohort to the uninsured, unhealthy cohort, is economically doomed from the start. Too many socialist political calculations and the nationalization of one-sixth of the American economy is behind a system that cannot be rationally sustained. Leading to the assumption that the system is defective by design – with the sole purpose to throw the private insurance system into chaos and bring about an American outcry for a socialist single-payer system as a remedy to millions of Americans being screwed by a corrupt and ineffective system. This is simply another political calculation to take the pressure off President Obama. A totally inept, corrupt ideologue who needs a $4 million vacation in Hawaii due to the pressures of his office. Surprising since he does little to govern, preferring to spend his time doing what he does best: campaigning on a web of provable lies, fundraising, golfing, shooting hoops, and vacationing. How can any real leader take off on vacation when the nation’s healthcare system is in peril? Oh I forgot, it will all be fixed by the executive/fixer flavor of the day. -- steve