Playing it smart. By Eric Smith

This is just my personal opinion and I very well could be wrong but my personal opinion is that President Obama knew all along either that certain people would lose their existing health care plans under Obamacare or stood a chance of doing so yet made a purely political decision to state unequivocally that they wouldn't. If that is the case I perfectly understand why he did it because make no mistake, if he had given any indication whatsoever that some people would have lost their existing healthcare plans due to Obamacare he would have gone down in flames like Walter Mondale did in 1984 when in his speech accepting the Democratic Party's nomination for president said "President Reagan will have to raise your taxes and so will I."

Don't fool yourself. Mondale lost the election the moment he spoke those words and President Obama would have lost and lost big too if the Republicans were able to make their argument that Obamacare would cause some people to lose their existing health care plans. If that had happened and Mitt Romney or some other Republican had won in 2012, not only would Obamacare have been repealed, Social Security & Medicare would have soon been wiped out as well and then America really would have been screwed.

I'll take it even further. Suppose President Franklin D. Roosevelt had not said in the Fall of 1940 "I'm not sending your boys to fight in any foreign wars!". The isolationists at the time had stalled our military preparedness to the point of borderline national suicide and were convinced that FDR was hankering to get America involved in World War II because by that time Nazi Germany had already conquered most of Europe and only Britain's Royal Air Force had prevented Hitler from conquering England as well.

Roosevelt knew damn well that going to war against the Axis powers was necessary in order to ensure the survival of the free world but if he hadn't said what he said in the heat of the 1940 presidential election where many in the country were already accusing him of being a would be dictator by seeking an unprecedented third term; Republican presidential nominee Wendal Willkie would probably have won the presidency.

If that had happened there is every reason to believe that American entry into World War II would have been delayed well beyond December 1941; by which time of course the Nazi's would have conquered both Britain & the Soviet Union and had more than enough time to fully develop the long range New York bomber (which would have laid waste to cities on our East Coast), the Atomic Bomb, and some advanced version of the V-2 rocket which would have dropped nuclear weapons all across this country. In other words we would be living under the Nazi Swastika & not the Stars and Stripes right now.

So again, keep it all in its proper perspective. If President Obama had been up front about the possibility of some people losing their health plans due to Obamacare there is a good chance he would not be president right now. So ask yourself; would we have been better off if he wasn't and if so would you all now be lamenting not only the loss of Obamacare but the inevitable destruction of Social Security and Medicare as well.