• ALLHAILHYPNOTOAD@lemmy.ml
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    Obama actually ran on the heritage foundation Romney care plan. It was Hillary Clinton during the 2008 primary that actually ran on a public option.

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      It was Hillary Clinton during the 2008 primary that actually ran on a public option.

      Liar. Obama ran on a public option and no individual mandate. Clinton ran on no public option and an individual mandate.

      Centrists are allergic to telling the truth.

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        I looked it up and you are right, it was on his website he just didn’t openly push it as much. I remembered a speech he specifically said he did not run on the public option. 17 years ago, I went from memory, my bad. I was actually supporting Obama over Hillary back then. Not sure why that immediately made me a centrist liar. You seem kind of intense.

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          I remembered a speech he specifically said he did not run on the public option.

          Yeah, that was gaslighting after it became clear that the public option was always a bill of goods designed to be jettisoned as quickly as possible.

          You seem kind of intense.

          Yeah, 17 years of lies from Clinton supporters and being blamed every time centrism either fails to win or succeeds in blocking their own campaign promises will do that. I didn’t see someone who was mistaken; I saw someone who was trying to pretend that Clinton was even slightly progressive by attributing policy to her that her wing of the party killed.

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            I only brought it up because too many people remember Obama as better than the heritage foundation capitulating fake lefty he was. I thought I was making a point he was more to the right than Hillary who gets more readily pegged as a center right hawk. Oh well.

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              If her performance in 2016 is any indication, if she had beaten Obama, she would have considered her job done.

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                Yeah, I supported Obama back then because I assumed Hillary was lying. Clinton was always a corporatist and she was right with him. NAFTA fucked the working class hard. Plus she pushed the super predator narrative.

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        no corroborating sources when linking them would have been trivial

        You settled nothing. Why should anyone take anyone’s word on here for it?

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          I am under no obligation to prove that the sky is blue to someone who will hear all my patient explanations of Rayleigh scattering and just be like “nope. red.”

          They had debates. They’re still out there. Just pick one. Maybe the ABC one where it was clear that George Stephanopolous was still the Clintons’ press secretary.

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            No one has to care about lazy words lacking substance of corroboration.

            Again, you settled nothing besides showing lack of will to settle anything.

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              No one has to care about lazy words lacking substance of corroboration.

              Like your idiotic and ridiculous lie that Clinton supported the public option and Obama didn’t. You never even attempted to back that up. Yet somehow I have to entertain your deliberate attempts to waste my time by demanding news articles from 16 years ago that you already intend to dismiss without reading.

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                Like your idiotic and ridiculous lie that Clinton supported the public option and Obama didn’t.

                Who do you think you’re replying to? Do you observe commenter names?

                I’m just calling out lazy unwillingness around here to link to corroborating sources (easy & common sense for settling an argument) to instead sling words like petty, incompetent bitches. I don’t think I’m alone in not recalling the exact nuances of healthcare proposals candidates had in 2008.

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                  I’m just calling out lazy unwillingness around here to link to corroborating sources

                  Oh, sorry. I thought you were the initial liar, not a toady for the initial liar. You want sources from me but not them. Convenient.

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      He didn’t pass that either, though, only a massively watered-down version of it packed with every compromise the Republicans demanded, to make sure that the healthcare companies still got to keep over 15% of households in medical debt.