Senator Obama, 2006: 'I Have Liberally Stolen Ideas from Jonathan Gruber'

'...because he's bright'

President Obama was recently quoted re. MIT Technology professor Jonathan Gruber,  saying the overpaid Obamacare consultant was
'some adviser who never worked on our staff.'

Of course, Gruber has become the hot topic due to a number of videos that emerged of him discussing/debating the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare. In one clip, Gruber called the American people 'stupid', in another claimed seniors have no idea how to get themselves insured.

Since, major Democrats most involved in ramming O-care down our throats have tried to distance themselves from Gruber, with Pelosi topping them all with “I don’t know who he is,” never mind that yet another clip already surfaced of her (2009) with the then-Democratic-majority-leader referring
to Gruber by name.

Now there's another gem, this one with Dear Leader hisself (above): dated April 5, 2006, it shows then-Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. speaking warmly about Gruber at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C, claiming he's even taken ideas from Gruber's wisdom re. duping gullible voters- nice, huh.