Obama caught in another lie

When Barack Obama says he's going to cut taxes for "95 percent of Americans," he really means he's going to raise taxes for most of the Middle Class and small business owners.

When Barack Obama says he's going to end the war in Iraq, he's really saying he's going to expand the war in Afghanistan and into Pakistan.

When Barack Obama says he's going to solve the energy crisis in 10 years, he's really saying he will raise taxes on most forms of energy, including gasoline and electricity while his energy czar, Al Gore, figures out how to save polar bears.

You get the picture. The man has been known to tell a lie or two.

When Barack Obama says his government-run health care program will lower the cost of health insurance, he's really saying you'll not only end up paying more for health care, you'll have to wait in line to see a doctor like they do in Canada and Europe.

James C. Capretta, writing at National Review Online, says it's Obama's health-care plan that will push people out of the job-based coverage they now have. That means more Americans will lose health coverage and be forced into government-run programs if Obama gets his way.

From Capretta's column:

In recent days, Barack Obama and Joe Biden have been throwing stones at the health care plan of Republican presidential candidate John McCain. Coinciding with new TV ads being aired in battleground states, the Democratic ticket is trying to alarm voters with claims that the McCain plan would force higher costs onto some households and unravel job-based insurance.

Both of these criticisms are demonstrably not true of the McCain plan. But they are true of Obama’s own plan. Independent estimates show an Obama-like scheme would push tens of millions of workers and their families out of employer-sponsored insurance — and the workers would be powerless to stop it.

Read the full column, "Obama's Glass House," at National Review Online.