For some reason, this single utterance by President Obama today about people losing their health insurance under Obamacare is being touted by the media as his apology for lying about it on at least two dozen separate occasions.

("For some reason"? Who am I kidding? We know what the reason is.)

Anyway, here is what Obama said over and over and over:



But it was not true and his own staff knew it:

President Obama repeatedly assured Americans that after the Affordable Care Act became law, people who liked their health insurance would be able to keep it. But millions of Americans are getting or are about to get cancellation letters for their health insurance under Obamacare, say experts, and the Obama administration has known that for at least three years.

So today, says US News and NBC News, the president apologized:


But this us just another example of the classic Washington "non-apology apology."

The president is sincerely sorry that you were dumb enough to believe him when he said you could keep your insurance.

Where, exactly, is the apology? Obama never apologized for not telling the truth, never even admitted it. "I am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me" is no different from what Otter told Flounder in Animal House: "Hey, you [messed] up! You trusted us!"

 Obama has, once again, flipped off the American people. It's our fault we believed what he said, you see. Hopefully, we will never make that mistake again.