(07-05-2018, 11:28 PM)MalabarJag Wrote:

(07-05-2018, 11:11 PM)mikesez Wrote: To be fair, Trump lying about his crowd size is silly but not consequential on its own, but are Obama's lies more or less consequential or serious?
When his admin blamed the Benghazi attack on a video: The brave men who were lost in Benghazi were already dead when the lie was told. Did the lie change anything? The press outed the lie right away.
Obama's "if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor" was never true of course - neither before his law nor after.  Insurance companies dropped both doctors and patients before, now they only drop doctors.  No one but the very richest of us who might pay for medical care directly ever had any assurance that we could keep our doctor if we liked our doctor.

The filmmaker who was arrested on trumped up charges might disagree about the Benghazi lie not being consequential.

The "doctor" lie helped push through a law that penalized the working class by roughly doubling the out-of-pocket cost of their medical insurance. As an example, ours went from a $250 deductible to a $2500 deductible. I'd say that was rather consequential too.