"He can run but he can't hide."

Joe Louis uttered the words in the title about Billy Conn before their fight, but they apply equally to President Obama, especially where health insurance "reform" is concerned. Very recently, a video recording of statements he made in 2003 has surfaced at Breitbart.tv. In the video, Obama states:

“I happen to be a proponent of a single payer universal health care program. I see no reason why the United States of America, the wealthiest country in the history of the world, spending 14 percent of its Gross National Product on health care cannot provide basic health insurance to everybody. And that’s what Jim is talking about when he says everybody in, nobody out. A single payer health care plan, a universal health care plan. And that’s what I’d like to see. But as all of you know, we may not get there immediately. Because first we have to take back the White House, we have to take back the Senate, and we have to take back the House.”

White House flack, Linda Douglass, claims in a new video that these remarks were taken out of context. This is the favorite cop out of people who have been caught telling inconvenient truths.

If the White House is seriously claiming that President Obama would not like to see a single-payer health-care program with "everybody in, nobody out," it should provide the allegedly-missing context that will illuminate the true meaning of his statement.