Obama wins 'Lie of the Year' prize

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PolitiFact website has awarded the US president, Barack Obama with the 'Lie of the Year' award for 2013. The award was given to Mr. Obama due to the various statements he has made during the year with none of them coming true.
One and the most memorable of all is the promise for American public to be able to keep their health plans under the Affordable Care Act. "If you like your health care plan, you can keep it," Obama said and soon after that about four million of Americans have received a letter stating that their insurance has been cancelled. Later on, Mr. Obama denied that he made such promise, reversing his own words and making another statement that only plans of those Americans could be kept who had nt changed the plans since the health care law was passed. However, due to modern technologies and various videos that were recorded of his speech and public criticism, president had to announce that people could keep their plans for one more year until they are cancelled again. "We weren't as clear as we needed to be, in terms of the changes that were taking place, and I want to do everything we can to make sure that people are finding themselves in a good position," Obama stated in his interview with NBC News. "I am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation, based on assurances they got from me." According to the same PolitiFacts poll, straight on the second place for the same award 'Lie of the Year' comes Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) for his statement that Congress was exempt from the ACA. Another politic, congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) is on the third place for her statement that the IRS would keep "a national database" of Americans health care secrets. In general, seven out of ten awards went to the matter related to the ACA. Voice of Russia, RT