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Originally Posted by Boreas
This is the excerpt of Soptic's conversation with the Obama campaign, straight from the blog you linked to:
"After we lost our jobs, we found out that we were going to lose our health insurance, and that our pensions hadn't been funded like Bain promised they would be. I was lucky to find another job as a custodian in a local school district. They gave me some health insurance, but I couldn't afford to buy it for my wife. A little while later she was diagnosed with lung cancer. I had to put her in a county hospital because she didn't have health care, and when the cancer took her away, all I got was an enormous bill. That put a lot of stress on me: I thought I'd be paying it off until I died myself. That probably wouldn't have happened if Bain kept its promise and I was allowed to keep our health insurance."
It contains no reference to his wife's insurance coverage. That was mentioned to CNN later.
This is what the campaign said:
"I don't know the facts about when Mr. Soptic's wife got sick, or the facts about his health insurance."
So, where's the problem, mess? (sic)
When you find out that the campaign knew about the Priorities USA ad in advance and approved it in advance, get back to us, okay?
John
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You're kidding, right? Whaddya think I am some kind of dim witted Obama supporter? You reprinted the quote right in the same post where you denied what it said. It's all about his health insurance and his wife's lack of it:
"After we lost our jobs, we found out that we were going to lose our health insurance, and that our pensions hadn't been funded like Bain promised they would be. I was lucky to find another job as a custodian in a local school district. They gave me some health insurance, but I couldn't afford to buy it for my wife. A little while later she was diagnosed with lung cancer. I had to put her in a county hospital because she didn't have health care, and when the cancer took her away, all I got was an enormous bill."
So while his health insurance may indeed have been mentioned also on CNN later, it was also mentioned in May in the conference call hosted by Ms. Stephanie "“I don’t know the facts about when Mr. Soptic’s wife got sick or the facts about his health insurance” Cutter herself.
This is why the Obama campaign is once again bumbling and floundering over this which is just the latest example of Obama himself or his campaign spokespeople blurting out lies before thinking about what they are saying in attempts to cover up their embarrassing level of sleazy and underhanded behaviour. Trying to lie yourself to defend them is just silly.