barack obama honest and trustworthy. only 45% said yes today. 41% said no. compare that in april of 2009 when 73% said yes and only 22% said no. if the website had rolled out badly but the plan promise had been kept, again it would have been a containable problem. it is when you get the two of them working together that you have something that really kind of stirs a lot of people and gets to a place in the public consciousness that is hard to erase. reporter: asked directly whether the four pinnochios and pants on fire labels will be cemented in history white house spokesman jay carney recently said this. end of the year category races are always fun even when they don t jibe with the past categorizations of very same statement. we have owned and acknowledged that rollout, this fall has not
been up to the standards that we expected and where there have been problems. reporter: the record of recovery from past presidential prevarications is a bit mixed. president george w. bush never fully escaped the mission accomplished banner nor did president clinton escape, i didn t have sex with that woman comment. he did have a strong second term president george h.w. bush lost his bid for a second term after the read my lips, no new taxes pledge. as of then, americans today maya president depending on their own prosperity and that of the american economy. jon? jon: doug mckelway, whose pants are not on fire in washington now. doug, thank you. reporter: not that i see. jenna: i am glad he checked just in case. nice job, doug. we ll go back to your questions on obamacare. a lot of questions. live chat on foxnews.com homepage. back with us, dr. patricia mclaughlin, an ophthalmologist and patricia london a practicing
jon: we have some great questions coming in and as promised our panel of doctors will be answering them regarding obamacare and what it will mean for you and your family. meantime the president who brought you obamacare is topping some lists and they are not santa s nice lists. the health care rollout debacle leaving him at the top of this year s washington post pinnochio award list and politifact s highest ranking for pants on fire status. doug mckelway is live in washington with more on that. doug? reporter: hey, jon. with those indof the year demerits, no secret the president s fortunes have fallen. bigger questions what are the political implications of it and can his effectiveness be resurrected for the remainder of the second term a poll asked is