3 months ago • 3 notesPresident Barack Obama ended months of internal White House debate by siding with a group of mostly female advisers who urged him not to limit a health-care law mandate to provide contraceptives, even at the risk of alienating Catholic voters in November, people familiar with the discussions said.
Vice President Joe Biden and then-White House chief of staff Bill Daley, also Catholics, warned that the mandate would be seen as a government intrusion on religious institutions. Even moderate Catholic voters in battleground states might be alienated, they warned, according to the people familiar with the discussions.
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But, as always, Obama thinks he knows better than everyone else….and, as usual, it blew up in his face.
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February 9, 2012
Report: Biden And Bill Daley Warned Obama Against Contraception Mandate Over Fears It Would Alienate Catholic Voters…
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