We are not only in the hot season, we are in the insane season of obfuscation — that is, deliberate confusion as one political party tries to obscure every issue and everything the other side is saying. Nowhere is that more evident than with this thing called Obamacare.
This very name is part of the deliberate confusion. When we hear individuals who would benefit the most from such a program expressing doubt or even opposition to the plan and what it offers, we know there has been massive obfuscation.
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