Lie of the Year?

Now that the individual mandate has been struck down by district courts perhaps its time to go back and ask where it came from?  After all, Barack Obama explicitly disowned individual mandates so he could defeat Hilary Clinton in the primaries.  Remember that?

"Both of us want to provide health care to all Americans. There's a slight difference, and her plan is a good one. But, she mandates that everybody buy health care. She'd have the government force every individual to buy insurance and I don't have such a mandate because I don't think the problem is that people don't want health insurance, it's that they can't afford it," [then-Sen. Barack] Obama said in a Feb. 28, 2008 appearance on Ellen DeGeneres' television show. "So, I focus more on lowering costs. This is a modest difference. But, it's one that she's tried to elevate, arguing that because I don't force people to buy health care that I'm not insuring everybody. Well, if things were that easy, I could mandate everybody to buy a house, and that would solve the problem of homelessness. It doesn't."

And then he got power and 'woops!' he implemented that which he had explicitly disavowed.  He does a lot of that, doesn't he?  As Jim Geraghty says:  "All of Obama's promises have expiration dates.  All of them".  Lie of the year?  I bet I know what Hillary thinks....