Maher's excuse for Obama's Obamacare lie also applies to his 'gun control' lies by Kurt Hoffman

The "progressives" have always justified lying to advance their agenda. It is what they do,
what they are. If it advances the agenda, it is good. If it does not, it is bad.
That is their only moral standard, and it explains the mass murders of the 20th century, from
Hitler's form of "progressivism" to Cambodia's and Mao's.

On Tuesday, ultra-"progressive," anti-Second Amendment, anti-NRA (and "gun criminal"?) Bill Maher told CNN's Piers Morgan that Obama should not have lied to the American people, as he did with his categorical assertion that people who were happy with their current health insurance plans would not lose them. But, as Politico notes, he appears willing to cut Obama some slack, over what he evidently believes are extenuating circumstances:

But Maher acknowledged that Obama faced a tough battle with the GOP to pass the Affordable Care Act.
“Can you imagine what it would be like if he said, ‘Yeah, some people you’re rates are going to go up.’ … If they had said that, they might have lost the whole thing,” Maher said.

In essence, while expressing his disapproval of Obama's mendacity, Maher is clearly willing to at least partially excuse it, because the lie was probably necessary to advance an agenda that does meet with Maher's approval.
Come to think of it, there is, as noted above, another agenda of which Maher approves, and it could be argued that Obama has told more lies in the interests of advancing that one than he did in ramrodding Obamacare's narrow passage in Congress.

For example, he claimed that "what works in Chicago may not work in Cheyenne," obviously implying a belief in local autonomy on gun policy, while simultaneously pushing an agenda of nationwide "gun control" laws, that would apply to Chicago and Cheyenne, and everywhere else (and what does he mean by "works in Chicago," anyway?).

He claimed that, "More than 90 percent of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States"--a statement not even remotely true.

He claimed that he and Attorney General Eric Holder knew nothing of "Project Gunwalker," more than a month after Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) had written to Holder about it, and then claimed that Operation Fast and Furious had started during the Bush administration (blatantly false).

He even claimed that the Sandy Hook Elementary School atrocity was carried out with a fully-automatic weapon (emphasis added):

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