Barack Obama's Filibuster Hypocrisy.  In April of 2005, Sen. Barack Obama took to the floor of the United States Senate and passionately spoke out against Republican efforts to end the filibuster.  Then a rising star in the Democratic Party, Obama noted that despite the pressure partisans might feel, it was imperative to "rise above an 'ends justify the means' mentality because we're here to answer to the people — all of the people — not just the ones wearing our party label."  Last week, Obama made precisely the opposite argument during John Lewis' funeral, contending that eliminating a vital check on partisan power was justified as long as Democrats got the policies they desired.  After offering a shamefully dishonest comparison between George Wallace, Bull Connor, and contemporary Republicans, Obama argued that passing a "voting rights" bill was worth stripping away counter-majoritarian norms.

Ilhan Omar Is Right:  Obama Did Get Away With Murder.  In 2008, Barack Obama ran on the ambiguous promise of "hope" and "change."  He made sweeping — unsubstantiated — claims about his ability to bring peace to the Middle East; to save the ailing American economy; and to make the world's ocean levels recede. [...] Once in office, though, a funny thing happened.  The oceans did not recede.  In fact, according to the American Left, anthropogenic Global Warming got worse!  The economy did not get better either.  Unemployment stayed above five percent for most of Obama's presidency (and real unemployment, the number of those who have no chance of finding work ever again, was in the double-digits).  What Obama did focus his energies on, particularly in his first two years, was forcing a highly unpopular healthcare law on the already-struggling American people.  The "Affordable" Care Act did nothing to ameliorate the onerous cost of medical care in the United States today.  Its implementation, like its passage, was rushed and created more problems than it had helped.  And, Obamacare simply added to the ballooning debt.  Speaking of which, the 44th president has the dubious distinction of not only having presided over eight consecutive years of turgid economic growth, but also of having exploded the country's debt to historic levels.

Here are 1,366 well sourced examples of Barack Obama's lies, lawbreaking, corruption, cronyism, hypocrisy, waste, etc..  [#3] On November 15, 2007, in Las Vegas, Nevada, Obama said that lobbyists "...will not work in my White House."  However, by February 2010, he had more than 40 lobbyists working in his administration. [...] [#22] Although Obama had made a campaign promise to have all of the health care reform negotiations broadcast on C-SPAN, he broke that promise after he was elected. [...] [#52] Obama had promised to his teen campaign volunteers that if they each spent nine hours going door to door on Obama's behalf, he would invite them to attend his speech of September 6, 2012.  However, after the teens did the volunteer work, Obama broke his promise. [...] [#66] Although Obama had promised to wait five days before signing all non-emergency bills, he broke that promise at least 10 times during his first three months in office.

America Is Finally Catching Up on Clean Coal.  That the Obama administration was out to severely curtail fossil fuel use is well known.  The former president's scorn for coal was abundantly obvious, and the Paris agreement was its embodiment.  Despite proclaiming the U.S. the "Saudi Arabia of coal," in May 2008, Obama soon back-flipped once in office and turned against the resource.  Within a year, Obama unleashed the war on coal when he proposed a nationwide cap-and-trade system targeting local plants, stifling coal companies with excessive regulation, and cutting billions in funding for clean coal projects across the country.

Obama Vs.  Trump:  Who Really Colluded With Russia?  Obama hadn't even been in office for a whole year when he gave in to Moscow's biggest demand by dropping the missile defense shield for Poland and the Czech Republic.  During his campaign, he had enthusiastically backed the defensive program, declaring, "We have to send a clear signal that Poland and other countries in that region are not going to be subject to intimidation and aggression."  Like all of his campaign promises that were based on political triangulation, law enforcement, counterterrorism, Jerusalem and gay marriage, it was a campaign lie to be thrown out after the election.

3 Presidents Before Trump Promised To Move U.S. Embassy To Jerusalem.  The critics of Donald Trump attacked his decision.  Meanwhile, the truth is, that for decades, some of the most beloved Democrats have used the promise of recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel as a way to get votes.  In 1999, while campaigning for New York's US Senate seat, first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton said in a letter, that she considered Jerusalem to be the "eternal and indivisible capital of Israel" and will be an active advocate — if elected to New York's Senate seat — to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. [...] As it turns out, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama (twice) also made the same promise.  The only problem is, none of them had the courage to do it.

Obama's promises for presidential center may not be enough this time for African-Americans.  Now that [Barack H.] Obama is about to build his presidential center in Woodlawn's Jackson Park, some residents are wary of his ability to transform neighborhoods without doing harm to longtime residents who could end up displaced by gentrification.  A nasty fight over a community benefits agreement with the Obama Foundation has exposed an unexpected rift between the former president and some of the South Side residents who helped lift him to prominence.  Not everyone on the South Side, it seems, thinks Obama did enough for black folks during his eight years as president.  And as he prepares to build a presidential center that will pay tribute to his legacy, some South Siders are calling him out for what they consider broken promises.

Final tally:  President sticks taxpayers with $100M vacation tab.  As a candidate in 2008, then Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., vowed he would give up vacations if elected president, in order to completely focus on his job.  Fast-forward to the present, and it is now projected Obama will have spent more than $100 million in taxpayer funds on vacations during his eight years as president.

Obama's Parting Gift:  Trillion-Dollar Deficits As Far As The Eye Can See.  Barack Obama came into the White House in 2009 promising a "new era of responsibility."  What he's left President Trump is a government careening toward fiscal ruin.  That's what the latest report from the Congressional Budget Office shows.

Obama and Israel, from 2008 to 2016: A Story of Betrayal and Reversal.  In 2008, candidate Obama pledged, "As president, I will work to help Israel achieve the goal of two states, a Jewish state of Israel and a Palestinian state, living side by side in peace and security.  And I won't wait until the waning days of my presidency.  I will take an active role, and make a personal commitment to do all I can to advance the cause of peace from the start of my administration."  Ironically, he has done the opposite, not only failing to move the peace process forward but rather, in "the waning days of [his] presidency," taking aggressive steps to undermine the peace process and to betray Israel.

Obama's Legacy:  Normalizing Race Riots and Domestic Terrorism.  Imagine for just a moment that such a thing was possible; that you could jump into a wondrous machine, travel back in time to 2008, [...] and knowing what you know now, issue this warning to the American people:  If Barack Obama is elected president, in just eight short years the following will be the result:  Not only will race riots, domestic terror attacks, and anemic economic growth be a fact of life, but through government and media propaganda, these events will be normalized.  What I mean by that is that as countrymen, as Americans, we will accept such things as normal, as the way things are, as life in our country today.  And in the wake of this, Barack Obama will enjoy an approval rating of over 50%, and his successor, Hillary Clinton, running on his legacy, will be the heavy favorite to win the presidency. [...] For the crime of shouting this truth, you would not only be denounced as insane, but as a virulent racist, a fear-mongering Klansman spewing evil in order to stop The First Black President.  And yet, here we are.

The Obama legacy:  More tyranny and chaos abroad.  In foreign affairs, unlike math, the ultimate determination of success or failure isn't immediately obvious.  Major foreign events — wars, revolutions, coup d'etats and treaties — can take a long time to play out.  The Korean Conflict, once nearly as unpopular as the Vietnam War, is now probably viewed by most Americans as a "good war," and Washington's 63-year defense of Seoul as a worthwhile investment.  Thirty-seven thousand U.S. servicemen, a number that dwarfs those killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, didn't die in vain.  Historical judgments are temperamental and subject to change until sufficient good news or bad piles up — and even then things can change given the mood and character of the nation looking back.

The Dragon Comes With a Suitcase.  The Era of Hope and Change has been one prolonged act of suicide.  If anyone had said that Obama would manage to alienate Israel and the Philippines, lose Turkey, pay Iran a hundred billion dollars, preside over the loss of a won war in Afghanistan, lose billions of dollars in military equipment to ISIS, watch a consulate burn, restart the Cold War with Russia, cause Japan to re-arm and go the knife's edge with China would you have believed it?  If someone had told you in 2008 millions of refugees would be heading for Europe and that the UK would leave the EU after Obama went there to campaign for them to remain would you not have laughed?  He promised "smart diplomacy" and the restoration of American prestige in the world.  How did it come to this?

The US promised to rebuild Haiti after the earthquake. Here's what actually happened.  Promoted by Bill and Hillary Clinton through the work of the Clinton Foundation and during her tenure as secretary of state, the 600-acre, $300 million Caracol Industrial Park was meant to be the U.S. government's flagship reconstruction project in the Caribbean nation.  At its star-studded opening in 2012, then-Secretary Clinton called it "a model not just for Haiti, but for the world." [...] The State Department and its partners said the park would create 65,000 jobs when fully operational.  Nearly four years later, there are just over 9,000 employees.  Workers that Circa spoke with make the equivalent of $3.81 per day.

Failing to Learn from History.  Paging through humanity's history, time and again we find numerous instances of costly historical errors where people ignore facts and reason by entrusting their lives to a "savior.  And time and again, we have ended up paying the price for our folly. [...] History has warned us of three kinds of people:  charlatans, demagogues, and politicians.  And more often than not, someone will rise up who is all three of these characters wrapped into one.

Flashback: Obama Promises No Vacations For Himself As President.  Weasel Zippers has revived an old video of Barack Obama promising not to take vacations if he were elected president.  The video features then-Sen. Obama discussing his book "The Audacity Of Hope" with New York Times columnist Bob Herbert in 2008.

Obama discards his no boots on the ground pledge.  Here, briefly, is Obama's tangled history with ISIS:  23 months ago he dismissed it as the JV.  Seven months later he admitted no strategy to address the rampaging radical jihadist horde of rapists, beheaders, executioners and crucifiers conquering broad territories in Syria and the Iraq that Obama exited so hastily in 2011.  Remember Obama has frequently assured his party:  "I will not put American boots on the ground in Syria."  After ISIS publicly beheaded an American hostage, Obama vowed to "degrade and ultimately defeat" it.  He announced a half-hearted strategy of bombing and an expensive training program for so-called moderate Syrian rebels.  Both flopped.

16 times Obama said there would be no boots on the ground in Syria.  Since 2013, President Obama has repeatedly vowed that there would be no "boots on the ground" in Syria.  But White House press secretary Josh Earnest said the president's decision Friday [10/30/2015] to send up to 50 special forces troops to Syria doesn't change the fundamental strategy:  "This is an important thing for the American people to understand.  These forces do not have a combat mission."

Where Are The Million New Manufacturing Jobs Obama Promised?  Manufacturing shed 9,000 jobs last month on top of the 18,000 lost in August, completely erasing the gains made so far this year.  Since January 2013, the industry has gained only 338,000.  All this flies in the face of President Obama's repeated promise in 2012 that if reelected, he would create 1 million new manufacturing jobs by the end of his second term.  Obama said that these new jobs would "put middle-class people back to work."

Journalists: Obama Isn't Open And Transparent After All.  A coalition of 50 journalism groups Tuesday condemned President Barack Obama for his stranglehold on information — this despite promising to be the most open and transparent president.  The most recent call to end the strict control of information is not the first time the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) has tried to end the practice.  Despite the previous attempts, the administration has continued to ignore them. David Cuillier, a chairman for the group, noted what the Obama administration is doing falls in strict contrast to his earlier promises.

Obama Broke Pledge To Thwart Nuclear Terrorist Threat.  Never mind President Obama's sales pitch on Wednesday [8/5/2015] for his nuclear surrender to Tehran's ayatollah.  This deal breaks a campaign promise in the sales pitch he made for himself in 2008.

Remember When Barack Obama Assured Rick Warren He did Not Support Gay Marriage? — 8/20/2008.  The Liar-in-Chief was always planning to push Gay Marriage on the nation.  He just lied about it in 2008 to get himself elected.  His "belief" that Marriage is "between a man and a woman" was not much of a conviction.  He's a total charlatan.  [Video clip]

5 Big Whoppers Told About ObamaCare On Its 5th Anniversary.  [#1] "In many ways, it's working better than anticipated."  That was how the president characterized ObamaCare over the weekend.  It's hard to know what he could be referring to, since just about every promise used to sell it to a skeptical public is still unfulfilled.  Premiums that were supposed to have dropped by $2,500 went up by more than that.  Millions who were told they could keep the plans and doctors they liked were forced to drop them.  Enrollment has been below expectations, and the share needing subsidies has been much higher.  ObamaCare is covering fewer uninsured than promised, is costing workers jobs, and is hurting part-time and lower-wage workers who have either lost coverage or had their hours cut.

Obama's Immigration Flip Flop Explained: He Ordered up a Study!  It seems like there are a couple of ways you can legitimately flip flop if you are the president of the United States.  First, your position can slowly evolve. [...] The other way is, you formally charge your aides with studying the issue by conducting a review of the issue.

Same-sex marriage gets another big boost from the Obama administration.  Midway through his first term, President Obama said he was "unwilling to sign on to same-sex marriage primarily because of my understandings of the traditional definitions of marriage."  As a US Senate candidate he had declared his belief that "marriage is between a man and a woman."  But Obama also mused that "attitudes evolve, including mine," and it seems now that that evolution has occurred at head-snapping speed — prompted by others in his administration, including Vice president Joe Biden (who apparently got out ahead of his boss on the issue) and Attorney General Eric Holder.

President Obama Evolves on Marriage and He Wants the Constitution to 'Evolve' With Him.  After supporting marriage as the union of a man and a woman until just before the elections of 2012, Obama announced back then that he supported democratic efforts to redefine marriage — but he didn't think judges should redefine marriage.  Now, just before the elections of 2014, Obama has announced that he thinks there's a constitutional requirement to redefine marriage to include same-sex relationships.

America's Number One Vote Suppressor?  When he was first running for statewide office in Illinois, state Sen. Barack Obama said he could not support marriage for same-sex couples because "I am a Christian."  When, just four years later, in 2008, he was asked about this issue at Rev. Rick Warren's Civic Forum, then-presidential candidate Barack Obama said marriage was between one man and one woman and that "God is in the mix."  If you like your God, you can keep Him.  As for President Barack Obama, he has moved on. [...] In just six years, President Obama has gone from opposition to counterfeit marriage to full-throated endorsement of it.

What if you don't like your President? Do you still have to keep him?  They are ubiquitous.  They stink.  They constitute the pile of excrement known as Obama promises.

$175 premium for a young, healthy student? Thanks, Obamacare!  American media outlets were finally able to track down a mythical creature — a person who actually signed up for the Obamacare exchanges online.  But that person, Chad Henderson, admitted to the Washington Post that the premium for the plan he enrolled in was $175.  Ouch!  Wasn't Obamacare supposed to lower premiums?

My Unrecognizable Democratic Party.  Since 2012 there has been nothing about the Obama presidency to justify the confidence that Democrats now exhibit.  Mr. Obama was elected in 2008 on the basis of his persona and his pledge to end political and ideological polarization.  His apparent everyone-in-it-together idealism was exactly what the country wanted and needed.  On taking office, however, the president adopted a my-way-or-the-highway style of governance.

"I can make a firm pledge.  Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase.  Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes...  you will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime."

— Barack Obama,    
Dover, NH, September 12, 2008.    

Black's Law Dictionary, 1991, page 1001.

Barack Obama Broke Promise to Honor Cold War Veterans.  President Barack Obama once promised, as a U.S. Senator, to honor veterans of the Cold War, who have never received official recognition and are therefore prevented from full participation in many Veterans Day celebrations.  But he never fulfilled that promise — neither in the Senate nor the White House — leaving Cold War veterans in the cold.

Sick veterans wait for Obama's promise.  It was one of the simplest, most poignant promises Barack Obama made in 2008 in his first campaign for the White House:  He would fulfill "a sacred trust with our veterans" by significantly reducing the government's lengthy backlog of pending claims for disability coverage.  The goal:  All veterans could get a decision on disability claims within 125 days.

ACLU demands Obama keep 'unmet promises' in 2nd term.  The American Civil Liberties Union is giving President Barack Obama no time to kick back and celebrate after he won reelection last week calling on the president to keep promises that were ignored or undelivered in his first term. [...] Specifically, the ACLU lays out three areas of focus:  closing Guantanamo, standing up for a woman's right to have an abortion and rescinding "anti-immigrant federal programs and policies."

That didn't take long — Obama reverses himself on Israel.  Obama's real position, then, is that he will attempt to dictate the tactics and operations through which Israel exercises the right to defend itself.  And Obama's efforts to dictate constitute a constraint on Israel's right to defend itself.

Obama Considers Corporate Funding for Inauguration.  Four years ago Mr. Obama barred corporations from donating to his inauguration, a gesture meant to show that well-heeled interests wouldn't have undue influence in his administration.

Obama Considering Corporate Sponsorship of Second Inauguration.  Reports suggest Barack Obama is considering laying the cost of his second inauguration at the feet of corporate sponsors rather than private donors.  This would represent a reversal of his 2009 inauguration, when he banned donations from corporations.

Angered Staten Island Resident Tells President Obama: "You Lied".  President Obama promised to help victims of Hurricane Sandy after the storm ravaged the East Coast.  But after meeting with the president, one Staten Island family says he has broken that promise.

Obama's Broken Promises to Sandy Victims.  Six weeks after Sandy hit the New Jersey and New York coast, residents are still struggling and in desperate need of shelter.  Many hard-hit victims are not getting help despite President Barack Obama's pledge of the full support of the federal government, and they are dealing with red tape the president said would not be tolerated.  In the Red Hook community of Brooklyn, N.Y., many residents are still living in their unheated, powerless homes in freezing temperatures.  Help from the government for residents has not come.

It's Dictators All the Way Down.  Look down on Cairo, Baghdad, Benghazi or Ramallah, or any of those other exotic eastern precincts where the democracy dreamers thought the reformation and renaissance of Islam would begin, and as far as the eye can see, it's dictators all the way down.  The great spiritual, political and cultural revivals that were supposed to neuter terrorism, end the need for drone strikes and naked scanners, for men pouring water down on other men in secret prisons, and for all the rest of it, has never come to pass.

Obama Promised Not to Use Signing Statements, but Released One Last Night.  In 2008, Barack Obama promised that he would not use signing statements, but last night [1/2/2013] he released when to accompany his signing of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013.

Jersey Shore marina owner: President broke his promise.  A New Jersey woman who became the face of post-Superstorm Sandy anguish when she appeared in a photo hugging President Obama among the ruins of her destroyed marina now says the President broke his promise to help her rebuild.  Donna Vanzant, who hugged and chatted with the President when he visited her devastated North Point Marina in Brigantine on Oct. 31, told The Philly Post blog that she got the brush-off from Obama when she emailed him about relief efforts days after the photo op.

The Editor says...
Wake up, lady.  You have been used.

Sandy Victim: Obama is a 'Straight Out Liar'.  Another of Hurricane Sandy's victims expressed his disgust with the president this afternoon:  "He's a phony, he's a liar.  Straight out liar. [..."]

Obama's inaugural committee on the receiving end of transparency complaints.  In the run-up to his 2009 inauguration, President Obama's inaugural committee made much ado about the fact that they would not be accepting any donations from lobbyists or corporations, nor individual donations in excess of $50,000 [...] but this year, the enthusiasm level is sufficiently tarnished that they decided to reverse course on that much-vaunted corporate ban and took the limit off of individual contributions.  Why it was distinctly not okay to accept mega-donations in order to wave off well-monied interests in 2009, but it is okay now, is still unclear.

'He made a promise to help us and he broke it'.  Obama visited the destroyed marina Ms [Donna] Vanzant owns in Brigantine, New Jersey on October 31 and promised her 'immediate' aid.  Soon after, Ms Vanzant wrote him an email.  'Many days later, I got a response back,' she told the Philadelphia Magazine.  'It was disturbing.  'It had nothing to do with what I was asking him.  It was a form letter.  It thanked me for supporting the troops. [...]'

President Obama: The Great Demancipator.  President Obama four years ago told us he thought the "signing statements" employed by his predecessor, George W. Bush, were not only improper, but they were unconstitutional.  Coming from a constitutional law professor, who was sworn in on Lincoln's Bible, those are serious words.  But that was then.  Now, Mr. Obama has issued a signing statement of his own.

Having Blocked Reform for 8 Years, Obama Will Push for Immigration Overhaul in 2013.  He undermined bipartisan attempts at comprehensive immigration reform from 2005 through 2007 as a Senator.  He broke his promise to introduce immigration reforms in his first term, and used election-year executive action in a cynical ploy for Latino votes.  Now, the New York Times reports, President Barack Obama is about to push for new immigration legislation, using his State of the Union address and his new political clout.

Obama's spending adds $4 billion to the national debt every day.  In 2009, the President pledged to cut the annual deficit in half by the end of his first term.  Instead, we have seen four straight years of trillion-dollar deficits and a national debt exceeding $16 trillion.  Rather than cutting wasteful spending, the federal government added $4 billion each day to our gross national debt.  This path is not sustainable.

Preserving the Second Amendment.  [Scroll down]  Those words, "executive orders, executive action," used in conjunction with constitutionally protected rights and liberties, ought to alarm us all.  They used to frighten Barack Obama.  On Oct. 2, 2007, then-Sen. Obama railed against what he called the abuse of executive powers purportedly perpetrated by President George W. Bush in his administration's efforts to protect the American people from acts of terror by radical Islamists.  Apparently, the current occupant of the Oval Office has overcome his early concerns about chief executives exceeding their authority.

Obama's 'bipartisan' State of the Union paints Republicans as anti-science, job-hating Neanderthals.  The State of the Union repeated a lot of the same themes of the past few years.  That's because a lot of Obama's promises remain unfulfilled and are still reliant on slipping them through a hostile Congress.  Take his signature pledge to raise the minimum wage to $9, which he insisted will stimulate the economy and create jobs.  Back in 2008, Obama said he's raise the minimum wage to $9.50 by 2011.

Fort Hood Hero Says President Obama 'Betrayed' Her, Other Victims.  Three years after the White House arranged a hero's welcome at the State of the Union address for the Fort Hood police sergeant and her partner who stopped the deadly shooting there, Kimberly Munley says President Obama broke the promise he made to her that the victims would be well taken care of.

Boxer Introduces Carbon Tax Bill Three Months After WH Promised 'We Would Never Propose' One.  Today, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) introduced a bill to levy a carbon tax. But, back on Nov. 15 of last year, Pres. Obama's press secretary promised the administration would "never" do so.  According to Reuters, the new tax law "would set a $20 tax for each ton of carbon dioxide equivalent a polluter would emit beyond a set limit, which would rise 5.6 percent annually over a 10-year period."  Last November, however, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters that would never happen.

Obama still chasing 'green jobs' will-o'-the-wisp.  It's one thing to say we have to throw a lot of money at solving global warming to save the planet.  It's quite another to pretend that there is a "green economy" just waiting to happen, filled with hundreds of thousands or even millions of good jobs, as Obama has often promised.  The new "green energy economy" that Obama has repeatedly spoken of — a future of lower ocean levels in which Americans work at good-paying jobs manufacturing windmills and solar panels — has always been among the most optimistic features of his vision for America.  But given that it is an economically impossible pipe dream, it is also one of the biggest flops of his presidency.

Obama promised to close Guantánamo. Instead, he's made it worse.  Despite running on an explicit campaign promise to shut down the island prison which has become a symbol of the abuses of the "war on terror", President Obama has continued to preside over its operation.

White House visitors, get lost.  Brownie troops, baseball teams and kids from places like Ottumwa, Texarkana and East Gondola who have been washing cars and saving dimes for years to pay for their senior trip, can scratch the White House off the list of places to see in Washington.  In a fit of pique over how sequestration didn't shut down the government, President Obama has canceled all public tours.  Last year, when things were going more his way and Mr. Obama was in a more generous mood, he called the historic building "the people's house."

Obama Warns: 'Increasing America's Debt Weakens Us Domestically And Internationally' — In 2006.  "[T]he cost of our debt is one of the fastest growing expenses in the Federal budget," said President Barack Obama. [...] Obama made this appeal from the floor of the U.S. Senate in 2006 as he and his fellow Democrats rallied against raising the debt ceiling limit.  Then, the national debt stood at just over $8 trillion.  Today, it has ballooned to more than $16 trillion.

Gay Marriage: Bill O'Reilly Misses the Point.  Before central control out of Washington was imposed in 2003, policy arguments for criminalizing homosexual acts were won explicitly "with that."  And because of "that," the idea of gay marriage has been unthinkable throughout the history of the American nation. [...] Barack Obama was for gay marriage (1996) before he was against it (2004 Senate race; 2008 presidential race) before he was for it again (2012).

Networks Silent as Obama Gives Up on Closing Guantanamo.  Barack Obama's State Department on Monday [1/28/2013] announced that it will close the office dedicated to shutting down Guantanamo Bay.  According to the New York Times, this means that the President "does not currently see the closing of the prison as a realistic priority, despite repeated statements that [the administration] still intends to do so."  Yet, all three network newscasts on Monday night [1/28/2013] and the morning shows on Tuesday skipped the revelation.

Obama's plan hatched at Columbia University.  Obama promised to cut the deficit in half; instead he gave us five consecutive trillion dollar deficits.  He promised to spend responsibly; instead he became the biggest spender in world history.  He called Bush's $4 trillion in debt over 8 years reckless, then proceed to pile on $6 trillion in only 4 years.  He swore to be on the side of small business, but he added 6,118 new rules, regulations and mandates in just the last 90 days

Economy Less Important To Obama Than Vacations, Golf.  The Government Accountability Institute, which has mined the records of the White House calendar, says President Obama "has spent a total of 474.4 hours (or 47.4 10-hour workdays) in economic meetings or briefings of any kind throughout his presidency" while he "has played 115 total rounds of golf and spent 86 days on vacation, for an estimated combined total of 976 hours."  Don't forget that this is the president who has refocused his attention on, or pivoted toward, jobs and the economy on multiple occasions.

The Obama enemies list.  When he first ran for president in 2008, Mr. Obama praised whistleblowing as "acts of courage and patriotism" that "should be encouraged, rather than stifled, as they have been during the Bush administration."  He pledged to "strengthen whistleblower laws to protect federal workers who expose waste, fraud and abuse of authority in government."  Mr. Obama has forgotten that promise.

Obama's 2007 Promise: 'No More Illegal Wiretapping of American Citizens'.  His administration would not "spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime, " then-Senator Obama promised in a Woodrow Wilson International Center, Council on Foreign Relations speech on August 1, 2007:  "I will provide our intelligence and law enforcement agencies with the tools they need to track and take out the terrorists without undermining our Constitution and our freedom.["]  [Video clip]

Obama: I didn't visit Kenya, 'I was trying to spread the wealth'.  At a townhall meeting in South Africa, President Obama was asked why he hasn't kept his word on visiting Kenya during his presidency.  "One of the things you learn as president is, not only do people want you to fulfill your promises, but they want you to fulfill your promises yesterday," Obama said.  The first family's recent trip to Africa didn't include a visit to his father's homeland, which is why the young Kenyan woman called Obama out on his broken promise.

Obama's Promise To Win Afghanistan Now Total Pullout.  President Obama's new strategy for what he once called "a war that we have to win" is a "zero option" of irrevocable defeat.  The world's strongest military power can no longer win wars.

ObamaCare Will Now Add To Deficits In First 10 Years.  In September 2009, President Obama promised the country that "I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits — either now or in the future."  But it turns out Obama did sign such a plan — in fact, ObamaCare could add upwards of 180 billion dimes to the deficit in its first 10 years, an IBD analysis of various official budget reports found.

A union cloud over Obamacare as broken promises infuriate the president's base.  As the details of Obamacare become more known, Americans become more concerned, and for good reason.  President Obama promised that if you were happy with your health care, you could keep it.  As with so many other government promises, this, too, turns out to be an empty one.  Even people you think would be solid Obama supporters are waking up to the more damaging aspects of the Affordable Care Act.

Where's that 5% unemployment rate Obama promised by now?  On the surface, the July jobs report — the unemployment rate dipped to 7.4% last month thanks to a shrinking workforce as the economy added a disappointing 162,000 net new payrolls — is just another dismal data point in America's "new normal" recovery.  But it's also an important milestone and metric for judging the Keynesian fiscal experiment known as Obamanomics.

Amateur Hour (once again) starring Barack Obama.  During the 2008 campaign, Sen. Barack Obama traveled the country vowing to usher in an era of openness and transparency if elected president.  Gone would be the bad old days of President George W. Bush running roughshod over the Constitution with his "enhanced interrogation techniques" and his surveillance via the Patriot Act.  No, this community organizer from Chicago was going to end all that, tell The People what was really going on.  But, guess what?  (Spoiler alert.)  He didn't.

Classic Obama charade: Appoint a crony to investigate himself.  "It's not enough for me, as President, to have confidence in these programs," Obama reasonably told a nationwide TV audience.  "The American people need to have confidence in them as well."  He's absolutely right.  Sounds good too, like Obama's 2008 promise to sign on his first day as president an executive order to close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility within one year?  True to his word, less than 24 hours in the Oval Office the Democrat signed that order.  To note that 1,665 days later Guantanamo is still going strong is a racist criticism.

252 Examples Of Obama's Lying, Lawbreaking, Corruption, Cronyism, Etc.  Obama's campaign promises were so much better sounding than anyone else's — no lobbyists in his administration, waiting five days before signing all non-emergency bills so people would have time to read them, putting health care negotiations on C-SPAN, reading every bill line by line to make sure money isn't being wasted, prosecution of Wall St. criminals, ending raids against medical marijuana in states where it's legal, high levels of transparency.

Obama's Long List of Broken Promises.  Has any previous president devalued his words quite so much, in quite so many ways?  Perhaps, but I rather doubt it.  In order to support my claim, it's worth taking a stroll down memory lane, to compare what Mr. Obama has said with what he has done.  The sheer bandwidth of his broken promises and empty claims is quite extraordinary.

ObamaCare's Gift To Lobbyists.  For years, Obama complained about "the revolving door that lets lobbyists come into government freely" and use their time in government "to promote their own interests over the interests of the American people whom they serve."  Now, the Hill reports how Obama's signature law is making former government officials fabulously rich as corporate lobbyists and consultants.  As the news site explains, "the voracious need for lobbying help in dealing with ObamaCare has created a price premium for lobbyists who had first-hand experience in crafting or debating the law."  Thus, ObamaCare reveals the gap between Washington and the rest of us.

The Obama Administration Is A White House Of Historic Incompetence.  It started with the stimulus package.  One-third of the money went to public employee union members — a political payoff not very stimulating to anyone else.  Billions went to green energy loans, like the $500 million that the government lost in backing the obviously hapless Solyndra.  Infrastructure projects, which the president continues to tout, never seem to get built.  He's been talking about dredging the port of Charleston, for example, to accommodate the big container ships coming in when the Panama Canal is widened.  The canal widening is proceeding on schedule to be completed in 2014.  The target date for dredging the port of Charleston:  2024.

Obama's inept foreign policy.  One of the things we were promised back in the 2008 election campaign was that under a Democratic administration America would be better liked and more influential in the world.  Forget those dumb cowboys in the Bush/Cheney administration whose brash style grated on foreign sensibilities:  Smooth, Europhile Democrats would win over the world, ushering in an era of peace and good feeling.  So, as Sarah Palin might say, how's that hopey-changey stuff workin' out for ya?

Obama's Half-Assad War.  In Obama's 2002 speech against the Iraq war, he scoffed at "armchair weekend warriors" who pursue "dumb" and "rash" interventions. [...] In his 2002 speech, Obama said that "petty dictators" don't justify military intervention, that Saddam Hussein posed no "imminent threat" to the U.S., that war would divert attention from domestic problems, and that a poorly conceived war would "fan the flames" of the Middle East and make a bad situation worse.  Substitute "Syria" for "Iraq" in the speech and one has a decent rejoinder to his Saturday announcement:  Assad is a petty dictator; he hasn't attacked the U.S.; this is a wag-the-dog diversion by a floundering president; the lack of any coherent strategy is sure to destabilize Syria and boost Islamic radicals.

Obama waives ban on arming terrorists to allow aid to Syrian opposition.  President Obama waived a provision of federal law designed to prevent the supply of arms to terrorist groups to clear the way for the U.S. to provide military assistance to "vetted" opposition groups fighting Syrian dictator Bashar Assad.

WSJ Details 'Head-Spinning Reversal on Chemical Weapons' in Obama White House.  In a 66-paragraph masterpiece, Journal reporters Adam Entous, Janet Hook, and Carol Lee gave a behind-the-scenes look of how, "Through mixed messages, miscalculations, and an 11th-hour break, the U.S. stumbled into an international crisis and then stumbled out of it." [...] It really is a great exploration of the Keystone Kops nature of the Obama team's bungling of Syrian foreign policy.

Obama Was Against Syrian Rebels Before He Was For Them.  Despite reports that half the Syrian "rebels" are al-Qaida terrorists and other jihadists, the White House insists they're mostly freedom fighters worthy of aid.  That's not what the commander in chief said last year.

'Red line' just one of roughly 500 Obama promises that have come and gone.  President Obama vowing that Syria would "cross a red line" by using chemical weapons is far from the only marker he's laid down or promise he's tried to keep since running for president in 2008.  The president has made more than 500 campaign-related promises alone.

Obama refuses to follow the law on nuclear waste.  Just months after announcing his candidacy for president of the United States, then-Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., wrote the Las Vegas Review-Journal in 2007 seeking to clarify his position on the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage project.  "I want every Nevadan to know that I have always opposed using Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste repository," he wrote.  "States should not be unfairly burdened with waste from other states."  Problem is, the 1987 amendments to the Nuclear Waste Policy Act directed the U.S. Department of Energy to pursue the Yucca Mountain project as the only nuclear waste-solution projection.

More about Yucca Mountain.

Obama as Chaos.  Amid all the charges and countercharges in Washington over the government shutdown, there is at least one common theme:  Barack Obama's various charges always lead to a dead end.  They are chaos, and chaos is hard to understand, much less refute.  By that I mean when the president takes up a line of argument against his opponents, it cannot really be taken seriously — not just because it is usually not factual, but also because it always contradicts positions that Obama himself has taken earlier or things he has previously asserted.

Obamacare Snake Oil.  Don't look now, but as Obamacare's critics are focusing incessantly on the abortive rollout of the law's health-care exchanges, the Left is moving the goalposts in the broader debate — and rather spectacularly, too.  Obamacare, recall, was sold with a specific set of political promises:  The new regime, advocates insisted, would reduce the deficit, cover the needy, and reduce total health spending — all while lowering the premiums of those who were already insured.

Obama Not Practicing What He's Preached On Civility.  Remember when President Obama was showered with kudos for his 2011 speech calling for "more civility in our public discourse"?  He sure isn't practicing today what he preached then.

Michelle Obama on Barack: 'He Keeps His Promises'.  ABC's Barbara Walters did another in a series of sycophantic gushing and fawning interviews with the Obamas Friday [11/29/2013].  In the wake of the President's fallacious claim that people could keep their health insurance plans if they liked them, the most preposterous part of the interview was when Michelle Obama said her husband "keeps his promises" without any pushback from Walters.

Obama hires revolving-door lobbyist and Clinton fixer John Podesta.  Podesta founded a lobbying firm his brother still runs; he was a corporate lobbyist more recently than he was a White House chief of staff; and he was a registered lobbyist as recently as 2005.  This resume is noteworthy because Candidate Obama — in part to distinguish himself from Beltway insider Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries — promised that lobbyists "won't work in my White House."  Obama has maintained that he has "excluded lobbyists from policymaking jobs."  And much of the major media still somehow believes him.

Obamacare's War on Civil Society.  [Scroll down]  Among the people highlighted in the [New York] Times article was attorney Barbara Meinwald, who was receiving coverage through the New York City Bar.  Now her $10,000 policy is gone.  A temporary plan is available, costing $5,000 more but including fewer doctors.  Moreover, reported the Times, she "also looked on the state's health insurance exchange.  But she said she found that those plans did not have a good choice of doctors, and that it was hard to even find out who the doctors were, and which hospitals were covered."  Well now!  Whatever happened to all the improved coverage that the president talked about?

They Lied: Obamacare's 12 False Premises and Broken Promises.  Obama's broken promise that people who liked their health plans could keep them only scratches the surface of the administration's health care mendacity.  As the following list illustrates, it was one of at least a dozen false or misleading statements that senior administration officials and ranking Democrats made before, during, and after Obamacare was signed into law.  The persistent misrepresentations and outright lies were in fact integral to the law's passage, to its implementation, and to the damage-control phase that began with the botched launch of the online insurance exchanges in October.

Obama: 'I Don't Think We Need to Fundamentally Transform the Nation'.  In an apparent reversal of his past campaign statements, President Barack Obama told Fox News's Bill O'Reilly in a Sunday interview that he does not believe in fundamentally transforming America.

Five years of Obama promises: What's changed?  We went back 1,818 days to one of the first speeches Barack Obama gave as the 44th president.  Back to Feb. 12, 2009, less than a month from his first morning in office when he grandly announced the imminent closing of the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility. [...] There was one other area Obama talked about in Peoria 259 weeks ago:  fiscal restraint.  It almost seems ludicrous now after his four straight years of trillion-dollar-plus deficits and another contentious debate looming this month over raising the national debt limit yet again, well above the current fiscal hole that's $17 trillion deep.  "We've got to get serious about starting to live within our means," said Democrat Barack Obama.  No, really.  He said that.

The Fox and the Attention Hog.  The most interesting question came not from [Bill] O'Reilly but from a viewer, who wanted to know:  "Mr. President, why do you feel it's necessary to fundamentally transform the nation that has afforded you so much opportunity and success?"  Obama rejected the premise of the question, saying, "I don't think we have to fundamentally transform the nation."  That glib denial of the record — he promised fundamental transformation in 2008 — characterized most of the interview.

Big Dem donors want public financing of elections now.  What a coincidence!  After Barack Obama became the first major-party candidate since Watergate to opt out of the presidential matching-fund system and its spending limits and raised hundreds of millions of dollars in two election cycles, wealthy liberal activists want Congress to impose a public-finance system for federal-government elections.  In fact, it's some of the same people that Obama's broken promise to remain within that now-defunct system enabled.

Big Brother vs. Little Sisters.  Despite straight-facedly promising that he would protect the religious liberties of people and groups and would not violate their conscience rights by forcing them to provide or support contraceptive or abortion services, President Obama has vigorously engaged in a scorched-earth campaign to do just the opposite.  It's not enough that Obama has imposed a mandate on a formerly free America to compel people to purchase health insurance under his woefully inferior new health care scheme.  He is insistent on gratuitously forcing it on those whose faith-driven consciences object to the mandate, even when exempting them surely wouldn't impair the workings of his already chaotic law.

The Progressive Aristocracy.  In recent weeks, we examined the Obama administration's willingness to reverse positions that it had once proudly proclaimed — on whether an individual mandate is necessary, whether the individual mandate is a tax, whether it is important that you can keep your plan or doctor, whether lobbyists should work in a president's administration, whether a donor should be appointed U.S. ambassador, and so on.  Then we noted environmentalists who said they would not criticize or attack lawmakers who supported the Keystone Pipeline, as long as they were Democrats.

Did the President Take a Pay Cut Like He Promised? White House Won't Say.  The White House is refusing to confirm whether President Barack Obama followed up on his pledge to take a five percent pay cut due to sequestration last year.  Obama promised last April to take a 5 percent pay cut in "solidarity" with federal employees who were furloughed as a result of the automatic budget cuts, known as the sequester.  The cut was meant to equate to the level of spending cuts imposed on nondefense federal agencies.

White House won't say if Obama kept promise to return 5% of his salary.  President Barack Obama pledged in the spring of 2013 to give back 5 percent of his $400,000 salary in solidarity with federal government workers who were expected to lose an average of two weeks' pay because of automatic budget cuts — known in Washington parlance as a 'sequester.'  A year later, however, it's not clear that he made good on his $20,000 promise.

Oops! What Obama says on Iraq conflicts with what Obama said on Iraq.  Obama ordered a few air strikes Friday [8/8/2014].  But he wants everyone to understand now that it was Iraq's fault no U.S. troops remained there to stabilize the delicate democracy.  Obama is, of course, infamous for his convenient memory and prediction capabilities.  If you like that president, you can keep that president.  But what did Obama say about U.S. troops in Iraq, when did he say it?  And Joe Biden and others.  And have they been consistent?  Here's a brief collection of quotes from those days and more recently: [...]

Obama's 2012 Debate Boast: I Didn't Want to Leave Any Troops in Iraq.  Before leaving for vacation on Saturday, President Obama spoke briefly about the genocidal Islamist terrorists who are taking over large swaths of Iraq.  When one reporter asked the president if he regretted not leaving any U.S. troops in Iraq, Obama replied that that wasn't even an option: [...]

Obama: Pulling All U.S. Troops Out of Iraq Was Not 'My Decision'.  When he was running for re-election in 2012, President Barack Obama repeatedly took credit for ending the war in Iraq and bringing all U.S. troops home from that country.  At the White House on Saturday, however, when talking about his decision to use military force against the al-Qaida-related ISIS terrorist group in Iraq, Obama said removing all U.S. troops from Iraq was not "my decision."  "You know I say what I mean and I mean what I say," Obama said in Hollywood, Florida on Nov. 4, 2012.  "I said I'd end the war in Iraq.  I ended it."  That statement was similar — or identical — to many others Obama made on the campaign trail in the 2012 campaign.

Flashback: Obama Promises No Vacations For Himself As President.  Weasel Zippers has revived an old video of Barack Obama promising not to take vacations if he were elected president. [...] The future president was talking about how those running for president need to be prepared to "give their life to it."  "The bargain that any president strikes with is, you give me this office and in turn my, fears, doubts, insecurities, foibles, need for sleep, family life, vacations, leisure is gone," Obama said.  "I am giving myself to you."

White House loosens restrictions on lobbyists.  President Barack Obama is loosening restrictions on lobbyists who want to serve on federal advisory boards, a White House official said on Tuesday [8/12/2014], a setback to the president's efforts to tamp down special interest influence in Washington.

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Instead of calling it a flip-flop or a betrayal of a campaign promise, the Reuters writer called it "a setback to the president's efforts," as if he had no control over his own actions.

The K Street President.  Finally, mainstream journalists are onto Barack Obama's game.  Their breaking-news shocker?  Turns out all that "hope and change" stuff was just hot air.  A new report from the D.C.-based press shows that — gasp — the White House is infested with Beltway lobbyists. [...] The "most transparent administration ever" is playing disclosure-dodging renaming games to hide lobbyists' grubby paw prints.  By officially de-registering as corporate lobbyists and morphing into "consultants," "counselors" or "advisers," Obama's K Street operators can maintain the fiction of upholding the Great Agent of Change's grand ethics pledge.

How Obama's broken promises have put America in danger.  Obama seems to have a lot of trouble standing by his word.  He repeatedly promised to close down Guantanamo Bay if he became President.  It's still open.  He repeatedly promised Newtown families he would get action on gun control after Sandy Hook.  Nothing happened.  He repeatedly promised 'no more secrecy' in open, more transparent government.  Five years later, we discovered the NSA were secretly bugging and hacking almost the entire planet.

The Case against Obama's Amnesty.  Just a few years ago, a prominent national Democrat firmly and unequivocally rejected the idea that the president of the United States could singlehandedly enact an amnesty program for millions of illegal immigrants.  In 2011, for example, this Democrat reminded us that "there are laws on the books that Congress has passed," and that therefore it would not be permissible for the president to "suspend deportations through executive order."  In 2013, this same Democrat noted that granting a unilateral amnesty for adults residing in our country illegally was "not an option," because it would amount to "ignoring the law."  As you might have guessed, that Democrat was President Obama.

Caught on Camera: Obama Called Exec Immigration Action Illegal... 25 Times!.  Tomorrow night, President Barack Obama will announce what appears to be the most sweeping executive action on immigration in American history.  For years, he has called such action illegal; in fact, "The Kelly File" found 25 instances in which Obama said so on camera.

Former colleagues decry Obama as opportunist on immigration.  A decade ago, then-state Sen. Miguel del Valle was trying to round up support for a bill to grant driver's licenses to illegal immigrants in Illinois.  He was a few votes shy, and had at least one good target in mind:  fellow state Sen. Barack Obama.  Mr. Obama was a rising star and someone Mr. del Valle considered a friend and a solid vote for progressives on social issues, though he hadn't been very involved with immigration.  Mr. Obama, however, was reluctant to get on board the driver's license bill.  He came around, but warned Mr. del Valle it was politically painful.

Boehner's Office Lists 22 Times Obama Argued Against Executive Amnesty.  [#1] "I take the Constitution very seriously.  The biggest problems that we're facing right now have to do with [the president] trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all.  And that's what I intend to reverse when I'm President of the United States of America."  (3/31/08)

The 112 broken promises Mr. Obama made in previous SOTU speeches.  As we prepare for yet another State of the Union address filled with promises and pledges to the American people, the folks over a Grabien have pieced together a nearly 13-minute montage of the 112 promises that President Barack Obama made in his previous addresses to joint sessions of Congress but never kept.  Included in the video are broken promises to lower insurance premiums and reduce healthcare costs, freeze spending for five years, veto spending bills that don't balance the budget, entitlement reform, tax reform, and eliminate red tape that's hurting American businesses.

Say, I wonder how President Obama did on his 2014 promises?  President Obama made a lot of promises about how he'd make the world a better place in 2014. He said he'd fight the bad guys, force them to back down, stand up for freedom around the world.  So, let's test how he did.

Axelrod's Book Claims Obama 'Modified' Gay Marriage Position to Win in 2008.  According to former Obama senior advisor David Axelrod's new book, President Barack Obama misled on his gay marriage position in the 2008 election, claiming to be against the change when he in fact fully favored it.  According to Believer: My Forty Years in Politics, Obama had long been in favor of same-sex marriage, but struggled to find a way to articulate the then-unpopular stance.  In the 2008 race aides worried it would cost him key support in African-American communities.

Our Agonized President.  The law professor turned president is having another one of his endless policy reviews.  Previously he agonized over, inter alia, whether to surge troops in Afghanistan (yes — but with a timeline and a force cap), whether to arm the Syrian resistance (not really), and whether to attack Bashar Assad for crossing the "red line" on chemical weapons use (yes then no).  Now the issue is whether to send Ukraine "defensive" but "lethal" weapons.  As in past administration policy reviews, word is leaking out about which insiders favor which course of action.

Obama Not Called 'Black Jesus' Any More.  "Confession is good for the soul," said Mark Twain, "but it's bad for the reputation."  Candidate Barack Obama in 2008 confessed to his top advisor, David Axelrod, "I'm just not very good at bull____ing."  Actually, he was very good at it.  He told millions of Americans that he believed marriage was "a sacred union" between a man and a woman.  He answered about marriage in Rick Warren's question famed Civic Forum, going even further to say that "God is in the mix."  Four years later, he claimed he had evolved.

He's a Raging Partisan.  President Obama's claim to have disapproved of gay marriage until he changed his mind in 2012 has been exposed as a lie.  It was a small, politically expedient lie, but it got a lot of attention last week.  Meanwhile a bigger lie hovers over the Obama presidency like an avenging angel, unseen and unheard.  The bigger lie wasn't a fleeting comment.  It was the crux of Obama's presidential campaign.

DHS creates path to citizenship for Dreamers: report.  The Obama administration quietly told Congress this week that its deportation amnesty programs will, in fact, include a pathway to citizenship, according to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, who said that breaks a promise President Obama made to the country when he announced the program.

Read Obama's Lying Lips.  On November 4, 2008 Barack Obama was elected President in what many considered a landslide victory, winning the popular vote by 8 million votes.  One of his campaign slogans was "change we can believe in."  Let's take a look at what he said after being elected.  Here are some examples of his statements regarding Iran.  On July 1, 2010 he said, "the United States and the international community are determined to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons."  In the 2012 State of the Union address he again made his views clear by stating emphatically, "America is determined to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and I will take no options off the table to achieve that goal."

The Tough Questions Hillary Faces As Candidate.  Today both Obama and Clinton support same-sex marriage, both acknowledging that their views have "evolved" over the years.  Obama's public positions certainly "evolved."  In 1996, as a state Senate candidate in Illinois, he filled out a questionnaire saying he was for it.  As a U.S. Senate candidate in 2004, he was against it.  In 2008, as a candidate for president, he was not only against it, but told interviewer Rick Warren on national television, "I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman.  Now, for me as a Christian, it's also a sacred union.  God's in the mix."  Yet, by 2012, when he sought re-election as president, he was for it, again.  Last year he decided it was a constitutional right for same-sex marriages to be recognized in all states.  One of his closest presidential campaign advisers in 2008, David Axelrod, wrote in his book "Believer: My Forty Years in Politics," that Obama was deceiving the public about his true position from 2004 through 2012.

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For 7th year in a row, Obama breaks promise to acknowledge Armenian genocide.  This week is the 100th anniversary of what many historians acknowledge as the Armenian genocide — the Turkish massacre of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians[.]  And it's also the seventh year in a row President Barack Obama has broken his promise to use the word "genocide" to describe the atrocity.

Obama Literally Edits Out the Genocide, Marks 'Armenian Remembrance Day'.  The White House moments ago issued President Obama's annual statement to mark Friday's [4/24/2015] Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, and as promised there is no genocide to be found.  In fact, the White House press release just called it "Armenian Remembrance Day."

World War O.  Obama pledged in his 2013 inaugural address that "a decade of war is now ending," but the numbers suggest otherwise.  The U.S. takes regular lethal action in at least five countries.  U.S. troops are deployed in three conflict zones.  And America is directly involved in a pair of Arab civil wars.

Hundreds invited, but then turned away, from White House event.  Hundreds of people who were invited to the White House to watch the arrival ceremony Tuesday morning [4/28/2015] for the visit of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Tuesday turned away at the gates after waiting in line for more than an hour on a cool morning.  Those who did not make it to the South Lawn for the 9 a.m. event had already gone through a background check.  They included children, members of the military and media, federal employees and those who work at non-governmental organizations.  Some had traveled to Washington from other states.

The False Assurances of Anthony Kennedy and Barack Obama.  Justice Anthony Kennedy, while dictating one of the most sweeping social changes in history in his opinion in the Obergefell v. Hodges case that legalized same-sex marriage across America, waxes magnanimous towards foes of the expansion of the millennia-old definition of marriage.  He said those who believe same-sex marriage is wrong may "reach that conclusion based on decent and honorable religious or philosophical premises, and neither they nor their beliefs are disparaged" in the court's pronouncement.  Likewise, President Obama spoke deferentially of "Americans of goodwill" whose "[o]pposition in some cases has been based on sincere and deeply held beliefs."  But these statements are platitudes at best; more likely, they are simply disingenuous.

Our False Messiah.  President Obama recently denied that he ever promised, if elected, to heal our partisan divides.  Referring to our so-called political gridlock, thus spake Obama at a fundraising event at the home of Tyler Perry:  "When I ran in 2008, I in fact did not say I would fix it.  I said we could fix it.  I didn't say, 'Yes, I can.'  I said, 'Yes, we can.'"  As David Rutz demonstrates in the handy video compilation below, however, Obama's denial was — how to put it? — contrary to fact.  [Video clip]

What Obama Has Taught Us.  He twice ran for president expressing opposition to gay marriage while emphasizing the religious element of holy matrimony, which, he argued, precluded same-sex marriages.  Is he delighted that the Court ignored his prior views?

Ten Broken Obamacare Promises.  Since the passage of Obamacare in 2010, many of the President's famous promises have been routinely broken.  As he so ironically threatened in 2009, "If you misrepresent what's in this plan, we will call you out."  To that end, here are 10 promises of Obamacare that have already [as of 12/18/2013] proved to be broken.

Obama's last chance to keep a promise.  President Obama's political career was once predicated on his ability and willingness to bridge the partisan divide.  He shot to fame with a 2004 Democratic convention speech in which he claimed, "there's not a liberal America and a conservative America, there's the United States of America[.]"  Now, 12 years later, Obama still talks about partisanship although now he refers to the Republican intransigence that thwarted it rather than his own determination to see disagreement as mere obstruction and as a pretext for high-handed and undemocratic fiats.

Obama Is Leaving America a Much Weaker and More Divided Nation.  [Scroll down]  Under Obama's watch, race relations have drastically deteriorated with little or no input from the White House.  As a president who went in to office with a mandate, both houses of Congress and the overwhelming good will of a majority of the American people, which together constituted a license to do just about anything he wanted, he wasted opportunity after opportunity to heal America's division.  For older African Americans who thought they'd never see the day when they could vote for a black president, the hopes and expectations were through the roof, thinking that, at last, here was a man who actually understood first hand what it was like being black in America, someone who could address the unique problems that only people of color could understand.

Judge Orders White House To Stop Hiding Its Bogus Global Warming 'Proof'.  [Scroll down]  The released material is not highly sensitive.  So one wonders why the government bothered to redact it in the first place — and fought its release in court for over a year.  Upon assuming office, Holdren's boss, President Obama, and his attorney general, Eric Holder, issued guidance telling agencies not to withhold information just because they can, or based on technicalities, and to err on the side of disclosure, rather than secrecy.  As Holder once noted, "On his first full day in office, January 21, 2009, President Obama issued a memorandum to the heads of all departments and agencies on the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).  The President directed that FOIA 'should be administered with a clear presumption:  In the face of doubt, openness prevails.'"  But that commitment to transparency has been flouted throughout the government, especially in Holder's own Justice Department.

Obama's next gift to Iran means breaking another promise to America.  President Obama's Iran policy can be summed up in four words:  All carrots, no sticks.  Endless carrots, too — even ones his team told Congress the Iranians would never get.  In the drive for Senate approval of Obama's nuclear deal with Iran, the administration repeatedly said Tehran would be denied access to the US financial system.  Looks like it's about to get it after all.  The move would not only give Iran financial resources well beyond the $150 billion it's already pocketed under the nuke deal, it would also leave all the remaining economic sanctions in tatters.

Obama will leave his successor more Middle East disasters than he inherited.  Before he won the Nobel Peace Prize, Obama won the peacenik vote.  When he ran for president in 2008, he was the one aiming to "turn the page" on America's failed foreign policy.  He criticized the Iraq War as a distraction from the real business in Afghanistan.  And yet, Obama is going to hand his successor more foreign policy disasters than he inherited.

Gallup Poll Reveals Obama Has Turned Back Clock On Race Relations.  Barack Obama was supposed to be a biracial leader who could heal the nation's racial wounds and bring the country together.  But since he took office, national tensions over race have gotten worse than ever, with the share of Americans who worry a lot about race relations soaring to 35% from a bottom of 13% just after Obama took office, according to a shocking new Gallup poll.  In fact, racial strife is the highest it's been in the poll's 15-year history.

The Progressive Regression.  An Affordable Care Act whose premiums just exploded by more than 20 percent despite massive deductibles, a Nobel Peace Prize-winner meddling in Syria, Libya, and points beyond, and a post-racial presidency coinciding with Ferguson, Baltimore, and Dallas all give lie to the promise of hope and change.

This is an original compilation, Copyright © 2020 by Andrew K. Dart

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Cognitive Dissonance in Post-Obama America.  Nearly 12 years have elapsed since the night in October 2008 when Barack Obama told a crowd of his supporters in a speech at the University of Missouri that they were "five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America." [...] No matter how much Obama was willing to spend on "fundamentally transforming" the country, however, he could never satisfy the unrealistic hopes of his most ardent young supporters.  In that October 2008 speech in Missouri, he promised them "policies that invest in our middle class, and create new jobs, and grow this economy, so that everyone has a chance to succeed, not just the CEO, but the secretary and janitor, not just the factory owner, but the men and women on the factory floor."  Obama promised them "new ideas and new leadership and a new kind of politics, one that favors common sense over ideology."  He promised an end to policies that "give more and more money to billionaires and millionaires and big corporations."  How did that work out?  The biggest donors to the Democratic Party are "billionaires and millionaires and big corporations," who did just fine during Obama's tenure in the White House, whereas "the secretary and janitor" and "the men and women on factory floor" didn't do quite so well.  We need not blame Obama for the problems of the less fortunate in order to say that it was wrong for him to promise them a "chance to succeed" that he had no feasible plan to deliver.

Obama administration was corrupt, more and more evidence reveals daily.  There was so much hope in January 2009 when Barack Obama took office.  Here was the first black president of the United States, promising to be a leader for all Americans, to halt the rise of the oceans and to be the most transparent administration ever.  Even black Americans were saying the Civil War was finally over.  Unfortunately for America, it didn't turn out that way.  As more and more evidence is revealed daily on the evening news, it is now very clear the Obama administration was the most corrupt presidency in the history of the republic.

Barack Obama:  A Traitor for the Ages.  Presenting himself in 2008 as a political moderate who fully embraced America's two-party constitutional democracy and its free-market capitalist economy, Obama's ideological beliefs were never closely examined by the mainstream media.  But as his presidency unfolded, serious questions began to pile up about who he really was, specifically how closely he was aligned with the oppressive theories of Marx and Lenin.  Obama denied being a Bolshevik, but many objective people doubted that assertion based on the long trail of troubling circumstantial evidence. [...] In his 1995 memoir, Dreams From My Father, Obama described the only six months he would ever work for a profit-making company as "working for the enemy," adding that he felt like "a spy behind enemy lines."  Obama also acknowledged in Dreams an affinity he had for Marxist professors, yet he has refused to release his transcripts of his years at Columbia, a university known as a hotbed of Marxist professors and student groups.  Release of those records could provide important clues about his true ideological leanings.

The Origins of Our Second Civil War.  We forget especially the role of Barack Obama.  He ran as a Biden Democrat renouncing gay marriage, saying, "I believe marriage is between a man and a woman.  I am not in favor of gay marriage."  Then he "evolved" on the question and created a climate in which to agree with this position could get one fired.  He promised to close the border and reduce illegal immigration:  "We will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes, to better identify illegal aliens in the workplace.  We are a nation of immigrants.  But we are also a nation of laws."  Then he institutionalized the idea that to agree with that now-abandoned agenda was a career-ender.  Obama vowed to "work across the aisle" and was elected on the impression that he was a "bridge builder" who would heal racial animosity, restore U.S. prestige abroad, and reignite the economy after the September 2008 meltdown.  Instead, he weaponized the IRS, the FBI, the NSC, the CIA, and the State Department and redefined the deep state as if it were the Congress, but with the ability to make and enforce laws all at once.  "Hope and Change" became "You didn't build that!"

Obama, Jon Stewart and Progressivism's Bodyguard of Lies.  [Scroll down]  For example, people who value traditional marriage wouldn't have voted for Obama if they knew he was lying.  People who thought the Affordable Care Act would lower premiums and allow them to keep their policy and their doctor wouldn't have supported Obamacare.  The invariably low support for Obamacare would have been even lower but for Obama's fraud, something that might have stopped even those Democrats' intent upon the bill's passage.  People who believed in racial harmony would never have voted for a man who, despite his flowery words in 2004 and 2008, practices racial demagoguery at every opportunity.  And of course, people might have thought twice about electing a self-professed "Christian," whose recent behavior indicates he spoke the truth only when he said "The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam."

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Blue-Collar Workers are Now Solidly Republican.  The combination of Obama's soothing rhetoric and his status as the first black presidential candidate, had appeal.  For the most part, it turned out to be a ruse.  When he became president, he almost immediately shed the pretense of the moderation presented to the American people during his 2008 campaign against John McCain.  Instead of being a moderate, he immediately moved to the far left after his election with Obamacare and the $800 billion bailout for Wall Street, both of which proved to be highly unpopular with a large percentage of the people who helped put him in office.

The Left Doesn't Hate the US; It Hates Us.  When Barack Obama became president with full control of both houses of Congress, the left was ecstatic.  Some were proud of their country for the first time, blissfully unaware that most Americans had always been proud of America.  It was clear to Democrats that citizens had finally agreed to give them the opportunity and power to realize their dream of a "fair" America of equal outcome with an unchecked government elite making all decisions for everybody in a socialist utopia where everyone can have everything they want, and no decisions or policies could ever be wrong and thus ever reviewable.

Elites Value Mellifluous Illegality over Crass Lawfulness.  Recall that Obama came into office promising that he would could lower the seas and cool the planet, with a generation of young like-minded activists who, we were lectured, were the ones we had all been waiting for.  Now president emeritus Obama worries that perhaps his messianic appearance came too soon for us to fully appreciate his divinity.

The further Oprah-izing of America.  In 2008, over 90% of my fellow black voters were hypnotized by Obama's skin color.  I tried to warn black family and friends that Obama was not black in terms of being one of us.  Obama was first and foremost a liberal Trojan Horse disguised in black skin, totally focused on furthering the liberal agenda rather than dealing with issues plaguing black Americans.  Consequently, blacks moved economically and culturally backward during Obama's reign.

A nation settles into depravity and madness.  In 2008, voters signed up for an untested junior Illinois senator who promised them racial harmony and a post-racial nation.  They got Black Lives Matter and a war on cops instead.

Obama: a Hollow Man Filled With Ruling Class Ideas.  What on Earth motivated the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and law professor David J. Garrow to write an incredibly detailed 1078-page (1460 pages with endnotes and index included) biography of Barack Obama from conception through election to the White House?  Not any great personal affinity for Obama on Garrow's part, that's for sure.  Rising Star:  The Making of Barack Obama is no hagiography.  On the last page of this remarkable tome, Garrow describes Obama at the end of his distinctly non-transformative and "failed presidency" as a man who had long ago had become a "vessel [that] was hollow at its core."  Near the conclusion, Garrow notes how disappointed and betrayed many of Obama's former friends felt by a president who "doesn't feel indebted to people" (in the words of a former close assistant) and who spent inordinate time on the golf course and "celebrity hobnobbing" (1067).  Garrow quotes one of Obama's "long-time Hyde Park [Chicago] friend[s]," who offered a stark judgement:  "Barack is a tragic figure:  so much potential, such critical times, but such a failure to perform... like he is an empty shell... Maybe the flaw is hubris, deep and abiding hubris..."  (1065).  Garrow quotes the onetime and short-lived Obama backer Dr. Cornel West on how Obama "posed as a progressive and turned out to be a counterfeit.  We ended up with a Wall Street presidency, a national security presidency... a brown-faced Clinton:  another opportunist."

Before and After Obama: 10 Signs of a Diminished America.  One of the outgoing President's most surreal claims is that race relations improved on his watch [...] Some of this is due to factors beyond the President's control, but every time Obama got involved directly, he had a knack for ratcheting up tensions and resentments.  Most trenchantly, Sheriff David Clarke accused him of launching a "war on the police."  The less incendiary versions of this criticism fault Obama for indulging the grievances of demonstrators and helping to perpetuate divisive mythologies, such as those surrounding Trayvon Martin in Florida and Michael Brown in Missouri.  At key moments when Obama could have used his office, and unique influence as the first black President, to reduce tensions and stand up for law and order, he waffled or fell silent.  That's the opposite of what most Obama voters were expecting.  His election was supposed to be an act of redemption.

The Obama Tragedy.  The tragedy is that the first black U.S. president, with his beautiful, upwardly rocketing family, could have served his black fellow citizens as an example of American opportunity and could have preached the gospel of family, responsibility, and hard work, changing the culture immeasurably for the better.  He chose instead to become as divisive as George Wallace.

The Imperial President's Toolbox of Terror:  A Dictatorship Waiting to Happen.  Ever since Congress granted George W. Bush the authorization to use military force in the wake of 9/11, the United States has been in a state of endless war without Congress ever having declared one.  Having pledged to end Bush's wars, Barack Obama has extended them.  As the New York Times notes, "He has now been at war longer than Mr. Bush, or any other American president... he will leave behind an improbable legacy as the only president in American history to serve two complete terms with the nation at war."

Black against White.  Barack Obama's presidency promised to be an era of racial healing.  Many people voted for the manifestly unqualified senator because they wanted to make a gesture, to give a vote of confidence to the African-American comunity.  Americans on the left and the right patted themselves on the back for electing Obama, for electing someone based on race, not qualifications.  Even those who did not vote for Obama allowed themselves to rejoice about what they perceived to be America's racial maturity.  No one quite understood that ovecoming the sin of racism would not solve the financial crisis.  We now know that the American people miscalculated.  The era of racial healing looks more like an era of racial animosity.  The utterly composed and contained Harvard Law grad began more and more to look like a deer caught in the headlights, in way over his head.  It was not so much that the idol had feet of clay as that his mind had been captured by the black liberation theology of Jeremiah Wright.

Did someone mention Jeremiah Wright?

Some 2,500 Americans Have Died in Afghanistan and Iraq Under Obama.  In Barack Obama's keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention — the speech that catapulted him onto the national stage — the bright-eyed, loose-limbed senator from Illinois spoke of America's responsibility to its soldiers.  "We have a solemn obligation," Obama said, "not to fudge the numbers or shade the truth about why they're going, to care for their families while they're gone, to tend to the soldiers upon their return, and to never ever go to war without enough troops to win the war and secure the peace."

For Obama, an Unexpected Legacy of Two Full Terms at War.  President Obama came into office seven years ago pledging to end the wars of his predecessor, George W. Bush.  On May 6, with eight months left before he vacates the White House, Mr. Obama passed a somber, little-noticed milestone:  He has now been at war longer than Mr. Bush, or any other American president.  If the United States remains in combat in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria until the end of Mr. Obama's term — a near-certainty given the president's recent announcement that he will send 250 additional Special Operations forces to Syria — he will leave behind an improbable legacy as the only president in American history to serve two complete terms with the nation at war.

The Daily Caller Presents: The 23 Least Intriguing People Of 2015.  [#16] Barack Obama.  Where's the hope?  Where's the change?  Where's the messiah and "Lightworker," "that rare kind of attuned being who has the ability to lead us not merely to new foreign policies or health care plans or whatnot, but who can actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet?"  Where is the "triumph of word over flesh, over color, over despair?"  This guy just turned out to be a dull nerd with a wretched foreign policy.

The return of racism and violence: Thanks, Obama.  Oh, the silly, silly whites who thought that electing Barack Hussein Obama would ensure that America was indeed a post racial nation.  Too bad they didn't realize that Obama had plans to derail progress in that notion because that's what socialists do to capitalist societies — they destroy them.  If the fawning media had ever bothered to properly vet the Illinois senator's background, reporters would not be feeling that tingle up their legs but rather they'd get an uh-oh feeling in the pit of their stomachs.  He was raised by socialists and communists and probably inhaled Saul Alinsky's 'Rules For Radicals.'  Oh and there's the evidence that he and his wife are not great fans of the United States, except as providers of expensive vacations.

Obama's Legacy and the "Endless" War.  President Obama's decision to halt the planned withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan is a reminder that wars rarely are as neat as campaign promises, particularly when the battlefield is the hostile terrain of Afghanistan, a land where foreign invaders have found it challenging to maintain military occupations.  Getting out always has been messy there, as the 19th-century British and 20th-century Soviets discovered.

Obama scraps Afghanistan pullout plan.  President Obama is halting plans to pull all troops out of Afghanistan by the end of next year, instead cutting the number in half going into 2017, according to a senior administration officials.  Today's level of 9,800 military personnel will remain through "most of" 2016, officials said.  Without specifying exactly when, late in the year the number of troops, all of whom are non-combat, will drop to 5,500.

In Afghanistan, Obama Starts to Face Reality.  "Ending the wars" has been at the top of this president's foreign-policy goals since he took office in 2009, without regard for the consequences.  His reversal of his pledge to liquidate our presence in Afghanistan and decision to leave 5,500 American troops in Afghanistan when he leaves office in 2017 is a concession to reality, although a limited one.

Obama's Budget Plan: Tax And Spend With A Vengeance.  When the president released his budget in February, he said it was full of new ideas for the 21st century.  But now we know it's just good old tax-and-spend liberalism.  Obama went on to say "these proposals are practical, not partisan" and bragged how his budget would cut future deficits by $1.8 trillion "primarily from reforms in health programs, our tax code and immigration."  But a Congressional Budget Office review of the budget shows it's little more than a call for more spending, far higher taxes, ever-growing deficits and steadily expanding debt.  Not exactly the "new era of responsibility" that Obama promised when he took office.

Former top presidential adviser says Obama LIED about his support for gay marriage for years so he could get elected.  President Barack Obama is slapping back at a former longtime top adviser who writes in a new book that he lied for years about his position on gay marriage so he could get elected president in 2008.  David Axelrod 'is mixing up my personal feelings with my position on the issue,' the president said Tuesday [2/10/2015], in a startling admission that his public stance on the divisive social issue wasn't always in sync with what he actually believed.

Obama Misled the Nation in 2008 about Same-Sex Marriage.  This flashback is particularly appropriate seeing as today marks eight years to the day since Obama declared his candidacy for the White House in 2007.  On that cold Illinois day, Obama promised an end to "the smallness of our politics" and "our chronic avoidance of tough decisions."  But within months of his utterance of those words, members of his own campaign team were counseling him to do just that on the subject of marriage — avoid it, and then mislead people in the same small and petty way as every other politician before him.  Obama did just that throughout the '08 campaign and throughout his first term until his vice president forced his hand in 2012.

10 Ways Obama Has Failed as President.  [#9] President Obama came into office having loudly condemned many of the Bush administration's measures against terrorism.  Then he continued them.  You can call this hypocrisy or you can call it subversion.  But President Obama has achieved a unique combination: managing to morally discredit America's anti-terrorism policies without actually ending them.

Obama's 'Iraqization' of America.  When it comes to Iraq, Obama lectures the Sunnis and the Shiites on getting along and forming a government that won't exist for the sole benefit of a single group at the expense of the other.  But in America he runs exactly that type of government. [...] Instead of repairing the economy, he focused on wealth redistribution.  Instead of bringing Americans together as one nation, he calculatedly tore them apart around manufactured crises of race, gender, class and religion.  He pitted blacks against whites, liberal Protestants against Catholics, the poor against the middle class and the cities against the suburbs.

The Madness of 2008.  America is suddenly angry at the laxity, incompetence, and polarizing politics of the Obama administration, the bad optics of the president putting about in his bright golf clothes while the world burns.  Certainly, no recent president has failed on so many fronts — honesty, transparency, truthfulness, the economy, foreign policy, the duties of the commander-in-chief, executive responsibilities, and spiritual leadership. [...] Nor did we hear on the campaign trail that Obama would push gay marriage, open borders, near-permanent zero interest rates, six consecutive $1 trillion deficits, and record food-stamp and Social Security disability payouts.

Obama-knows-best goes bust.  "Trust me" is President Barack Obama's preferred mode of action in times of crisis — and his go-to comment to nervous staffers has always been some version of "Relax, I got this."  But that message is an increasingly hard sell for Obama in his second term, following revelations that the man who once railed against the Bush administration over civil liberties abuses has himself surreptitiously quarterbacked the greatest expansion of electronic surveillance in U.S. history.

The American Appetite for Deception.  The promise of an implausibly transcendent president was sold to the American people.  They bought it.  What they received was something radically different from that what was advertised.

Obama's third war.  The "peace president" is about to embark on his third military adventure, this time in Syria, without having learned the lessons of his botched efforts in Afghanistan and Libya.  He hasn't even learned from the Bush administration's mistakes — which he mocked with such delight.

The 12-Year War: 73% of U.S. Casualties in Afghanistan on Obama's Watch.  Twelve years ago today, nineteen al Qaeda terrorists hijacked four U.S. commercial airliners and flew them into the World Trade Towers, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania.  In the war that Congress authorized against al Qaeda only three days after that attack, the vast majority of the U.S. casualties have occurred in the last four and a half years during the presidency of Barack Obama.  In fact, according to the CNSNews.com database of U.S. casualties in Afghanistan, 73 percent of all U.S. Afghan War casualties have occurred since Jan. 20, 2009 when Obama was inaugurated.

Pigs on Two Legs Turn on Each Other.  Barack Obama, once the progressive "god" who was acclaimed to have the power to cool the planet and halt the rising of the seas, had the recent audacity to suggest, quite understandably, that young black teens need not ostentatiously show their wealth with gaudy chains, or highlight their sexuality with a cadre of "twerking" girls.  Worse, the now multi-million-dollar-mansion-residing Obama sort of suggested that young inner-city African-Americans who do such gauche things might be insecure about either their income or their sexuality.  Now even the divine Obama is having his ankles bitten on social media as a counterrevolutionary, despite his prior denunciations of white bitter clingers, "the 1 percent," and greedy capitalists who delusionally believed they had built their own businesses.

Obama Says 'Things Will Work Better' If Women 'Run Things'.  On his MSNBC show The Beat on Tuesday, Ari Melber played a clip of Barack Obama at a rally in Nevada, saying:  "Nevada, you could be the first state ever to elect a state legislature where the majority are women [wild applause.]  Which, I'm pretty sure things will work better if you give women a chance to run things for a while.  But you have to vote!"  [Video clip]  If Obama really believed that, why didn't he step aside and let History's Most Qualified Person take the Democrat nomination in 2008?  Melber concluded:  "Former President Obama basically saying it's somebody else's turn."  Now that he had his turn.  Currently in the Nevada state legislature, 38 percent of the seats are occupied by women.  That's the third highest in the country.

Here are 1,366 well sourced examples of Barack Obama's lies, lawbreaking, corruption, cronyism, hypocrisy, waste, etc..  [#27] Although Obama said, "We need to uphold the ideal of public education," he expressed his true opinion of America's public education system by sending his own children to private schools while living in Chicago and Washington D.C. [...] [#96] On January 10, 2013, President Obama signed a bill that provides armed guards to himself and his wife for the rest of the lives.  However, in 2004, when Obama was an Illinois state Senator, he voted against allowing people in their own homes to use guns to protect themselves and their families from rapists and murderers.

HA! Hyper-Partisan Obama Warns Society About Becoming Splintered By Online Biases.  During his campaign for president, Barack Obama vowed to deliver "hope and change" to Washington and pledged to move toward a post-partisan political world.  When he became president, he did just the opposite.  He blamed Republicans in Congress for all his failures and stoked the partisan flames that engulfed Capitol Hill.  Now, though, the "elder statesman" says political leaders — including himself, of course — need to make sure that the online world does not become too splintered by biases.

"I do think at some point you've made enough money": Obama Book Deals to Net $60 Million.  Publishing rights to two books written by former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama could go for $60 million in an ongoing global auction.  The former president and first lady wrote the books separately, but are auctioning off the publishing rights simultaneously, The Financial Times reports.  If the books secure the projected $60 million price-tag, it would greatly surpass original expectations.  Researchers originally estimated the two memoirs would net the couple $40 million, according to business analytics data from American University.

TMZ: Obama Family Building a Wall Around New Home.  President Barack Obama will reportedly have a big, beautiful wall around his new home in Washington DC.  According to spy photos from TMZ, workers are currently building a brick wall around the rental home where the Obamas plan to live after leaving the White House.  The home was sold in 2014 for $5,295,000 and has 9 beds and 8.5 bathrooms.  It has 8,200 square feet and was built in 1928.

Obama Warns Trump Not To Overuse His Favorite Tool.  Obama has absolutely no sense of self awareness.  Either that, or he knows he's full of it but thinks people still believe him.  He worked around congress, using executive orders countless times.  But he's going to lecture Trump, who hasn't even taken office yet?

Man Who Loves Executive Orders Warns Next About Using Same.  The crazy thing here is that Obama seems sincere, and does not understand his hypocrisy and silliness. [...] Obama's idea of the legislative process is to write some suggestions on a sticky note with a few ideas he'd like done, then complain, cast blame, and demean Republicans before even discussing the ideas with the same legislative branch.  Then either sign an EO or jam through a rule/regulation.

Aleppo's fall is Obama's failure.  Contemplating the extermination of Aleppo and its people, I was reminded of a sentence that I read this summer.  It appeared in an encomium to Elie Wiesel shortly after his death.  It was a sterling sentence.  It declared:  "We must never be bystanders to injustice or indifferent to suffering."  That was Wiesel's teaching, exactly.  The problem with the sentence is that it was issued by the White House and attributed to President Obama.  And so the sentence was not at all sterling.  It was outrageously hypocritical.

White House Slams Bush Administration for Not Being Transparent Enough.  White House spokesman Josh Earnest slammed the Bush administration Thursday for not being as transparent as the Obama administration. [...] When Obama came into office he had made a promise to be the most transparent administration in history.  Since that promise, the administration has not held up to that standard.  Vice recently reported on newly released documents from the Department of Justice showing the White House has worked behind the scenes to push against reforms that would give the public better access to information from the federal government.

Obama puts down his encrypted phone long enough to tell us: Knock it off with the encryption.  Amid the row between Apple and the FBI over the unlocking of a mass murderer's iPhone, President Barack Obama has told the tech world to suck it up and do what the Feds want.  Speaking today [3/11/2016] at hipster-circle-jerk SXSW in Austin, Texas, the United States' Commander in Chief said phones and computers cannot be unbreakable "black boxes," and that an "absolutist" view on encryption won't fly with the laws and courts of the land.  Of course, the President and his staff, his military, his government agencies and his intelligence services all rely on tough and non-compromised encryption — but that's not for you.  You're too busy "fetishizing" your smartphone, the leader of the free world said.

Obama's Empty Judicial Chairs.  On a hot day in June, the grandson of a bank president took to the floor of the Senate to denounce the daughter of sharecroppers.  "I feel compelled to rise on this issue to express, in the strongest terms, my opposition to the nomination of Janice Rogers Brown to the DC Circuit," Senator Obama said.  Born in segregated Alabama, Janice Rogers Brown had been a leftist like Obama before becoming conservative.  When Obama rose to denounce the respected African-American jurist for her political views it had been almost a full two years since President Bush had nominated her in the summer of '03.  Obama had arrived a few months earlier on his way to the White House and was eager to impress his left-wing backers with his political radicalism.  He held forth complaining that Judge Janice Rogers Brown, who had gone to segregated schools and become the first African-American woman on the California Supreme Court, was guilty of "an unyielding belief in an unfettered free market."  And he filibustered Judge Brown, along with other nominee, trying to deny them a vote.

Obama's Moral Hypocrisy on the Syrian-Refugee Question Is Astounding.  The Syrian-refugee debate has become a national embarrassment.  It begins with a president, desperate to deflect attention from the collapse of his foreign policy, retreating to his one safe zone — ad hominem attacks on critics, this time for lack of compassion toward Syrian widows and orphans.  This, without a glimmer of acknowledgment of his own responsibility for these unfortunate souls becoming widowed and orphaned, displaced and homeless, in the first place.  A quarter-million deaths ago, when Bashar al-Assad began making war on his own people, he unleashed his air force and helicopters.  They dropped high explosives, nail-filled barrel bombs, and even chemical weapons on helpless civilians.  President Obama lifted not a finger.

Obama Touts Religious Liberty to Pope While Litigating to Force 15 Dioceses to Cooperate in Abortion.  "So we stand with you in defense of religious freedom and interfaith dialogue, knowing that people everywhere must be able to live out their faith free from fear and free from intimidation."  That is part of what President Barack Obama said — in touting his administration's commitment to religious liberty — when he greeted Pope Francis at the White House today [9/23/2015].  At the same time, according to a count maintained by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, Obama's Justice Department is actively fighting 56 separate federal court cases aimed at forcing 140 religious ministries and institutions to cooperate with an Obamacare regulation that requires virtually all health care plans in the United States to cover contraceptives, sterilizations and abortion-inducing drugs and devices.

Obama's 'New' Syria Strategy: Blame Congress.  Obama's hope is that the public will forget that he reversed every single anti-Bush position that propelled him to power over Hillary Clinton and then John McCain in 2008:  the opposition to "dumb war," the rejection of unilateral action, the insistence on UN approval, the skepticism of WMD intelligence, and the adamant definition of the limits of presidential war powers.  It is hard to remember a more striking example of hypocrisy in American history.

Obama Indicts Obama.  One of the problems that Barack Obama has in mounting an attack against the Assad regime is that the gambit violates every argument Barack Obama used against the Bush administration to establish his own anti-war candidacy.  The hypocrisy is so stunning that it infuriates his critics and stuns his supporters.

White House selling 'Peace on Earth' for $18.95 (*Offer not valid in Syria).  As President Obama readies a possible military strike against Syria Thursday, the White House 2013 Christmas ornament is going on sale with the slogan, "Peace on Earth."  The White House Historical Association is advertising the new ornament on its website and on signs around town, including one in Lafayette Park across from the White House.  This year's ornament honors Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president, who pushed for a precursor to the United Nations.

Attack On Syria Is About Saving Face, Not U.S..  The president isn't bothering to ask Congress or the United Nations for permission to attack the Assad regime.  What was unconstitutional to candidate Obama is politically handy now, and that stinks.

Obama: Do as I say, not as I do.  While his premise — work hard, succeed; loaf, fail — is spot on, he moves on in his Harvard mind to conclude, nonsensically, that succeeding while others fail is inherently unjust.  "This growing inequality is ... morally wrong," he said in Galesburg. [...] Said by the man who runs Washington — the biggest insider in the nation's capital.  And said by the man who flies in his barber from Chicago for a new fade, who has suits hand made by a private tailor, whose daughters vacation in Cancun, whose wife suns it up in Florida one day, then hits the slopes in Aspen the next — all on the taxpayers' dime.

Obama refuses to pay his interns (while campaigning to raise the minimum wage).  As President Obama campaigns to increase the minimum wage, his own interns aren't getting paid a cent to work a minimum of 45 hours a week.  White House interns are expected to show up to work 'at least' Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., according to the administration's website.  Housing and commuting assistance aren't provided either, so the White House encourages applicants to petition nonprofits for help funding their living expenses.

School Obama's Daughters Attend Has 11 Armed Guards.  Shame on President Obama for seeking more gun control and for trying to prevent the parents of other school children from doing what he has clearly done for his own.  His children sit under the protection guns afford, while the children of regular Americans are sacrificed.

White House Thanksgiving: Six Types of Pie.  As food pantries across the United States are overwhelmed by the newly poor and food stamp use is the highest it's ever been, the Obama first family is enjoying a Thanksgiving meal with six different types of pie.

Fair Share: Obama Staffers Owe $833,970 in Back Taxes.  Federal employees as a group owe a whopping $3.4 billion in unpaid taxes, including 1,181 employees of the Treasury Department delinquent on a total of $9.3 million in taxes.

36 Obama aides owe $833,000 in back taxes.  How embarrassing this must be for President Obama, whose major speech theme so far this campaign season has been that every single American, no matter how rich, should pay their "fair share" of taxes.  Because how unfair — indeed, un-American — it is for an office worker like, say, Warren Buffet's secretary to dutifully pay her taxes, while some well-to-do people with better educations and higher incomes end up paying a much smaller tax rate.  Or, worse, skipping their taxes altogether.

White House War on Women Escalates.  The White House's Flickr account recently released a photo of President Barack Obama and his top advisers.  The complete absence of women in the image is another reminder that females are underrepresented in Obama's staff.  Additionally, the president still pays his female employees significantly less than their male counterparts.

The New Liberal Aristocracy.  [Scroll down]  Class warrior Barack Obama spent his winter break in a ritzy rental on a Hawaiian beach.  It cost the taxpayers $7 (or is it $20?) million to jet him and his entourage 6,000 miles for their tropical vacation.  But whether the first family escapes to Hawaii or Martha's Vineyard or Costa del Sol, the image of a 1 percent lifestyle seems a bit at odds with the president's professed disdain for "millionaires and billionaires," "fat cats," and "corporate-jet owners" who supposedly can afford such tony retreats only because they have done something suspect.

Obama Defends Morgan's Free Speech, Assailed Limbaugh's.  The White House stood behind Piers Morgan's vociferous anti-gun statements last night by releasing a statement reminding Americans that "freedom of expression is a bedrock principle in our democracy."  Yet when conservative talk radio icon Rush Limbaugh was under fire for comments made about Sandra Fluke last year, President Obama proclaimed in a press conference that the comments were "inappropriate" and had "no place in public discourse."

Obama Appoints Islam's Apologists.  For an administration that has made "diversity" a worn shibboleth for almost every other series of appointments, why this sudden departure from generating a photo-op like a Benetton ad of Christmas past?  Were there no "wise Latina women," "academically distinguished African-Americans," or "experienced white women" available?  What is it that makes these three candidates so phenomenal as to cause Obama to drop the diversity consideration?  All of these candidates are rabidly pro-Islam, pro-Arab, or both.  All are apologists for those causes.

As he was saying...  "The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure.  It is a sign that the U.S. government cannot pay its own bills.[" ...] What an incriminating and indicting statement uttered by the president, who has rung up more debt than the first 43 put together.  By his own words he is a colossal failure as a leader as he continues to have trillion-dollar deficits with no sign of addressing the issue in a realistic way.

School Obama's Daughters Attend Has 11 Armed Guards.  The school, Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC, has 11 security officers and is seeking to hire a new police officer as we speak.  If you dismiss this by saying, "Of course they have armed guards — they get Secret Service protection," then you've missed the larger point.  The larger point is that this is standard operating procedure for the school, period.  And this is the reason people like NBC's David Gregory send their kids to Sidwell, they know their kids will be protected from the carnage that befell kids at a school where armed guards weren't used (and weren't even allowed).

NRA's new ad calls Obama 'elitist hypocrite'.  The National Rifle Association released a new video on its Web site Tuesday [1/15/2013] calling President Obama an "elitist hypocrite" for having Secret Service protection of his daughters at school but saying he was "skeptical" about installing armed guards in all schools.

Kids Write Obama on Abortion.  I'm getting sick and tired of the Obama administration using children selectively in order to help the president advocate his public policy positions. [...] As I sat and watched Obama surrounded by little human political shields, three things struck me as being especially hypocritical:  1. Just a few years ago, the president would have supported murdering all of those children by dismemberment.  2. The president would have classified their dismemberment as "health care" within a comprehensive reform package necessary to preserve the well-being of children, and finally  3. All the children at the press conference were protected from being murdered at that particular moment by government agents carrying concealed weapons.

Inaugural lunch: glaring nutritional hypocrisy.  For all their criticism of fatty foods and the mindless rubes who consume them, Barack Obama's second inaugural luncheon was a display of dietary excess.  The surf and turf meal began with lobster and creamy chowder sauce, included grilled bison with plenty of gut-busting sides, and ended with apple pie a la mode.  Not including alcoholic beverages, the meal tips the scale at more than 3,000 calories — more than the average individual should eat in a day and a half!

Obama Defiles Reagan Stagecraft.  [Scroll down]  President Obama lost all credibility when he decided to use children as props.  Again, despite the melodrama, this man does not care one iota about child safety.  Barack Obama believes in partial birth abortion and gladly provides unlimited government funding to terminate as many unborn children as Planned Parenthood can possibly snuff out.  Yet, while unveiling his executive actions the president said, "This is our first task as a society, keeping our children safe.  This is how we will be judged."

Waterboarding Bad, Assassination Good.  So, as NBC News' Michael Isikoff reports, according to an Obama/Holder Justice Department memo, it's okay for the U.S. government to authorize the extrajudicial killing of American citizens who are believed to be senior operational leaders of al-Qaeda, even if there's no intelligence that they're involved in an active plot against the U.S.  According to Jay Carney, such killing is "legal, ethical, and wise."

Obama launches 'Made in America' tour at Canadian-owned auto-parts plant.  [Scroll down]  Mr. Obama, visiting a Canadian-owned auto parts plant in Asheville, N.C., on the day after his State of the Union address, instead proposed $1 billion in federal aid to create a network of 15 "innovation institutes" nationwide.

Explaining the Inexplicable.  The president, as is his wont, blasted the "one percent," the "millionaires and billionaires," and the "well-connected" in his recent State of the Union speech — and then he flew off to golf and hang out with the one percent of the one percent in South Florida while his wife and kids jetted to Aspen to ski.

President Obama's accelerating abandonment of principle.  How ironic is the recent news that President Obama engages in crony capitalism and that he doesn't always play by the rules?  Our righteous president has often leveled such charges against America's corporate leaders, suggesting they skirt the law of the land, and that the playing field is not level for ordinary people.  How disappointing then to find a pattern of favoritism and hypocrisy emerging from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Obama Talks Out of Both Sides of His Mouth on Campaign Finance.  Last Friday, a story by Nicholas Confessore of the New York Times revealed that President Obama's political team is trying to raise $50 million to fund the conversion of his reelection campaign into Organizing for Action, a "powerhouse" new national lobbying group.  The story said that at least half of the organization's budget will come from a small number of well-connected donors who each raise or contribute more than $500,000.  In return, those donors get a spot on a national advisory board, the right to attend quarterly meetings with the president and access to other White House meetings.

President Obama doesn't (really) care about campaign finance reform.  Organizing for America, the new grassroots lobbying and advocacy organization being run by top aides to the 2012 campaign, has set a budget of $50 million with at least half of that total coming from large checks written by a handful of very wealthy donors, according to the New York Times' Nick Confessore.  The group has also been set up as a non-profit 501(c)(4) organization, meaning that it can not only accept unlimited donations from individuals but that it is under no requirement to disclose the sources of those contributions.

Let's starve! Kids forced to go hungry for hours during Michelle Obama media event.  A very courageous fifth [grade] teacher in the Chicago Public Schools has written a scathing critique of the almost comical misery she and her students endured when they participated in a massive February 28 event kicking off Michelle Obama's Let's Move! Active Schools campaign.  The First Lady's campaign is an effort to improve (and in some cases, bring back) physical education in American schools. White House officials called the event "a groundbreaking, earth-shattering, awesomely-inspiring day."

Obama Proclaims April the Month to Teach Young People 'How to Budget Responsibly'.  President Barack Obama, who has increased the national debt by $53,377 per household, has proclaimed April "National Financial Capability Month," during which his administration will do things such as teach young people "how to budget responsibly."

MSNBC: We Have to Break Through This Idea 'That Kids Belong to Their Parents'.  In a 30-second promo for MSNBC's Lean Forward campaign, Dr. Melissa Harris-Perry advocates that society end the "private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families," and instead institute a "collective notion" that kids "are our children," they belong to the community.

The 1-percenter who doesn't pay his 'fair share' — President Obama.  The White House admitted in a Friday afternoon [4/12/2013] news dump, of course, that President Obama paid only an 18.4 percent effective federal income tax rate on his adjusted gross income last year of $608,611.  The highest income-tax rate last year was 35 percent (and has now increased to 39.6 percent, thanks to the fiscal cliff tax hike).  Once again, the president piously demanded that "the wealthiest Americans should pay their fair share" and yet, in the very same paragraph, the multimillionaire president admitted to paying less than half the standard rate for his income bracket.

'Civility President' Again Uncivil After Gun Defeat.  After Rep. Gabby Giffords was shot, President Obama called for "more civility in our public discourse."  Now, after losing a Senate vote, he uncivilly calls his political foes willful liars — with Giffords at his side.

Obama's Political Army Targets Sen. Ted Cruz's Office for Direct Protest.  Tonight after the capture of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, President Obama called on Americans not to "rush to judgment against groups of people."  The president applies such thinking when terrorists strike and kill, but not to Americans who happen to disagree with him.  He spent Wednesday afternoon yelling at Americans who disagree with him on gun ownership.  Saturday, the political army that answers directly to Barack Obama and no one else, Organizing for Action, will muster in Dallas to target Sen. Ted Cruz for disagreeing with him on gun ownership.

Obama Blames U.S., Repeats 90% Gun Lie In Mexico.  Once again blaming his own country for Mexico's gun violence without mentioning Fast and Furious, the gun runner in chief pledges to find and jail gun smugglers.  Perhaps he should start with his own administration.

Obama Hailed 'World Press Freedom Day' As His DOJ Was Seizing AP Phone Records.  President Barack Obama issued a statement heralding World Press Freedom Day in May 2012, at the same time his Department of Justice was secretly obtaining phone records from Associated Press reporters and editors.

Barack Bamboozles Berlin.  [Scroll down]  Speaking of contradictions, Mr. Obama shared that [John F.] Kennedy's words are "timeless because they call upon us to care more about things than just our own self-comfort."  This from a president who's about to embark on a $100 million African vacation, toting along a wife whose "self-comfort" demands recently included bunking in a $4,000-a-night Princess Grace suite in Ireland.

Irish Politician Nominates Obama for Hypocrite of the Century.  From Nobel Peace Prize to war criminal accusations.  What we were sold is not what we received.

Obama calls US 'better off' after Defense of Marriage Act overturned.  President Obama on Wednesday [6/26/2013] praised the Supreme Court's decision to strike down the federal Defense of Marriage Act, calling the nation "better off" in the wake of the historic ruling.  "I applaud the Supreme Court's decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act," Obama said aboard Air Force One, en route to a weeklong trip in Africa.  "This was discrimination enshrined in law.  It treated loving, committed gay and lesbian couples as a separate and lesser class of people.  The Supreme Court has righted that wrong, and our country is better off for it."

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Interesting.  Mr. Obama doesn't like "discrimination enshrined in law."  How does he feel about affirmative action, hate crime laws, and reverse discrimination?

US government declares hacking an act of war, then hacks allies.  In 2011, the Pentagon released its first formal cyber strategy, which called computer hacking from other nations an "act of war," according to the Wall Street Journal.  In late June of this year, WSJ reported that Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower, released information alleging the U.S. government was hacking Chinese targets "that include the nation's mobile-phone companies and one of the country's most prestigious universities."

Mrs. Obama is the Captain of the Food Police, but when she's not looking...
Obama lunches on fried shrimp, fried oysters, onion rings, french fries.  It's only been three days, but President Obama has quickly settled into the vacation diet on Martha's Vineyard.  But don't tell the first lady.  During a rainy day on Tuesday, he traveled to Nancy's in scenic Oak Bluffs for a fried lunch. According to the pool report:  "POTUS's food order at Nancy's was fried shrimp, fried oysters, onion rings and french fries."  Obviously not on the lunch trip was first lady Michelle Obama, the first family's fitness buff.

Obama: 'President Does Not Have Power Under Constitution to Unilaterally Authorize a Military Attack'  [Scroll down]  Obama, by contrast, unambiguously took the correct constitutional position when he was running for president — almost 220 years after the Constitution was ratified — then turned around and took an indefensible position two years into office as commander in chief.  Obama's convenient change in position now justifies his own actions that exceed the constitutional limits on presidential power.

Obama's Half-Assad War.  In Obama's 2002 speech against the Iraq war, he scoffed at "armchair weekend warriors" who pursue "dumb" and "rash" interventions. [...] In his 2002 speech, Obama said that "petty dictators" don't justify military intervention, that Saddam Hussein posed no "imminent threat" to the U.S., that war would divert attention from domestic problems, and that a poorly conceived war would "fan the flames" of the Middle East and make a bad situation worse.  Substitute "Syria" for "Iraq" in the speech and one has a decent rejoinder to his Saturday announcement:  Assad is a petty dictator; he hasn't attacked the U.S.; this is a wag-the-dog diversion by a floundering president; the lack of any coherent strategy is sure to destabilize Syria and boost Islamic radicals.

Crown O Clown in Chief.  The Los Angeles Times quotes a U.S. official who says President Obama wants an attack "just muscular enough not to get mocked." [...] But how can we not mock a president who says he's "made the decision" that military action against Assad is a moral imperative and essential to U.S. security; and that he's "made a second decision" to not make a decision but to wait for Congress to decide.  A president making these two completely contradictory statements is bad.  But to make them in the same speech?

Lying to America: Obama Begins 'Debt Ceiling Tour'.  Obama's faux argument that we must raise the debt ceiling in order to pay our debts was an interesting one, considering previous comments that he made regarding American debt.  While on the campaign trail on July 3, 2008, Obama attacked then President Bush on the debt of our nation.  [Obama quote omitted]  So, back then increasing our debt was "unpatriotic."  Now, Obama wants us to believe that not only will raising the debt ceiling not increase our debt, but it is a simple, routine thing to do.  No wonder our debt has ballooned from $10 trillion under Bush to $17 trillion under Obama!

Obama: Transforming America.  Plenty of presidents have proved vicious, but few so adept in attributing their own base behavior to others.  Damning fat cats and corporate-jet owners allows a president to hold serial $50,000-a-head fundraisers.  Ridiculing Romney's elevator seems to make vacationing in Aspen, Costa del Sol, Vail, and Martha's Vineyard perfectly natural.

Barack Obama, Imaginary President.  Under President Bush in eight years we added $4.9 trillion to the national debt.  Under President Obama in four years we have added more than $6 trillion. [...] Obama can't be the same guy who went around the country a few years ago calling out George Bush for the increase in the national debt that occurred under Bush's watch.

Obama, Master Deceiver.  Another tool Obama uses effectively is accusing people who disagree with him of doing exactly what he is doing.  In his press conference today he took great pains to explain how Republicans were the beneficiaries of millions and millions of dollars that no one knew anything about.  His intent was to infer that large corporations and so forth have bought off Republicans.  He even went as far as to say that he and Democrats do not do that.  Whoa!  I do believe it was Mr. Obama and his fellow Democrats who took millions and millions of dollars illegally from contributors overseas.  They used a portion of the election law that allows for small contributors to not have to report who they are or where they live.

The 'White Poppy President'.  The same president, who barely two months ago tried to keep 80-plus-year-old war veterans from visiting their open-air Washington war memorials, will participate in a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery on Veteran's Day this Monday.  The same president, who is gutting the U.S. military, will host a breakfast to honor veterans and their families that is closed to the press.

New survey: Despite Michelle Obama, Americans are eating less healthy.  According to the Obama White House, the first family consumed a Thanksgiving dinner of turkey, honey-baked ham, cornbread stuffing, oyster stuffing, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, greens, green bean casserole, dinner rolls and macaroni and cheese.  Then, the family washed all that down with nine kinds of pies:  huckleberry, pecan, sweet potato, peach, apple, pumpkin, banana cream, coconut cream and chocolate cream.

A Handy Dandy Warmist Survival Guide For Christmas Climate Change Discussions.  Do you know what Obama's plan is?  Jacking up the cost of living for Everyone Else while taking long fossil fueled flights to Hawaii.  This is the man with the highest carbon footprint in the world.

Obama's winter vacation hypocrisy.  Is Barack Obama entirely lacking in self-awareness, or does he simply think that his intended audience will believe anything he says?  Maybe both.  Otherwise it is hard to explain away the obvious irony inherent in a president from Hawaii on a long winter vacation in Hawaii blasting his political opponents for going "home for the holidays."

From Hawaii, Obama Blasted Republicans Who 'Went Home for the Holidays'.  In his weekly address released on Saturday, January 4, President Obama had the audacity to slam Republicans for "going home for the holidays" and letting unemployment insurance benefits expire.  The only problem is that Obama said this while still on his holiday vacation in Hawaii.

Analysis: Men still make a lot more than women in Obama's White House.  This week, Maria Shiver presented President Barack Obama with the most recent report on the economic plight of women in America.  The report looks at women's financial insecurity, poverty, and inequality, including the contested assertion that the median earnings of full-time female workers make 77 percent of the full-time male's income, and offers public and private solutions to raising their economic status in America.

White House imposes secrecy rules on First Lady's lavish, celebrity-filled birthday party.  There was a party in the East Room of the White House Saturday night [1/18/2014], an affair attended by a reported 500 people, a lavish celebration with celebrities galore, appearances by some of the world's most popular performers, lots of dancing and powerful government officials, including, of course, the most powerful official of all, the President of the United States.  And the White House wants to make sure you know as little as possible about it. [...] [M]aybe, since the president has announced he is devoting the rest of his time in office to an "inequality agenda," the White House felt photos of a champagne-soaked, star-studded party would be somewhat off-message.

How does Obama stack up on women's pay himself?  President Barack Obama calls it "wrong" and an "embarrassment" that women make 77 cents for every dollar a man makes, saying women deserve equal pay for equal work.  But a McClatchy review of White House salaries shows that when the same calculations that produced the 77 cents is applied to the White House, the average female pay at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is less than the average male pay.  When counted the same way that produced the 77-cent figure, the analysis found, women overall at the White House make 91 cents for every dollar men make.  That's an average salary of $84,082 for men and $76,516 for women.

Obama at Prayer Breakfast: 'Killing the Innocent' Is 'Ultimate Betrayal of God's Will'.  At the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. on Thursday [2/6/2014], President Barack Obama said that "killing the innocent" is the "ultimate betrayal of God's will."  But the president was talking about terrorism, not abortionv

When Socialists gorge at the White House.  Obesity isn't a factor when it's dinner for poo-bahs and not for school cafeteria menus.

Sacrebleu! Obamas to serve gut-busting 2,500-calorie state dinner for Hollande.  Rep. Rodney Davis, Illinois Republican and a critic of the administration's school-lunch requirements, called the high-calorie State Dinner menu "the height of hypocrisy." "Even if you're estimating a small cut of steak, this is a menu where you're talking 2,500 calories, which is almost three times as much as what the first lady and the USDA allow our school kids to eat in the school lunch program," Mr. Davis said.

All Mrs. Obama's calories.  That was some spread Barack and Michelle Obama put out the other night for François Hollande — a feast fit for the leader of a nation that gave the world haute cuisine.  Even so, it has one Republican congressman steaming.  Illinois Rep. Rodney Davis wants to know what example the White House is setting with a 2,500-calorie dinner (with 153 grams of fat to boot).  Because that's a day's worth of calories the USDA recommends for an average man.  And it's three times the calories the USDA allows American students in the school lunch program.

Pure Gold: Obama Slams Bush for Expanding Executive Power, Ignoring Congress.  As you may recall, we tend to reserve the "pure gold" descriptor for uniquely egregious instances of Obama hypocrisy.  This one surely qualifies.

Obama Plays Water Guzzling Desert Golf Courses Amid California Drought.  President Barack Obama traveled to California on Friday to highlight the state's drought emergency at two events near Fresno, calling for shared sacrifice to help manage the state's worst water shortage in decades.  He then spent the rest of the weekend enjoying the hospitality of some of the state's top water hogs:  desert golf courses.  Vacationing with DVDs of his favorite television shows and multiple golf outings with his buddies, the duffer in chief played at two of the most exclusive courses in the Palm Springs area.

Obama, yes, Obama denounces pols who ignore their job to campaign all the time.  Well, President Obama did it again in a speech Tuesday night.  He was trying to dodge blame once more for the ineffectiveness of his leadership and administration realistically addressing the country's genuine challenges at home and abroad after 1,876 days in the White House.  Fresh from another golfing vacation during the Crimean crisis and a happy photo-op party with NCAA basketball champions, the busy Obama told the crowd:  "What's holding us back is politics.  What's holding us back is an atmosphere in Washington that puts a premium on saying no; puts a premium on an eye towards the next election instead of delivering on behalf of the American people."

Female Share of Federal Workforce Declining Under Obama.  Since Obama has been in office, according to data from the Office of Personnel Management, the percentage of women in the civilian federal work force has been shrinking.  Before Obama took office, it was already smaller than the percentage in the overall national civilian labor force.  Under Obama, it has gotten smaller still.

Pro-Abortion President Proclaims 'Every Child Should Have Every Chance in Life'.  President Barack Obama — the first sitting president to address Planned Parenthood Federation of America — issued a proclamation on Monday marking National Child Abuse Prevention Month.  "In the United States of America, every child should have every chance in life, every chance at happiness, and every chance at success," Obama said in the proclamation.  In March 2003, then-Illinois' State Senator Obama chaired the committee that considered the Born-Alive Infants Protection bill (SB 1082), which he voted to kill.  According to the National Right to Life Committee, the state legislation that Obama voted against is almost identical to the federal legislation that protects children who survive an abortion that became law in 2002.

Public School Kids Protest 'Let's Move' Lunches As First Daughters Get Meatball Subs, Ice Cream.  With public school students using #ThanksMichelle to tweet photos of their skimpy, stomach-turning school lunches, I decided to look at what Michelle Obama's daughters are served at Sidwell Friends school, and it turns out the girls dine on lunches from menus designed by chefs.  While the Obama daughters have enjoyed dishes like chicken coconut soup, local butternut squash soup, crusted tilapia, they also get their fill of what Mrs. Obama might consider junk food.

While Public School Kids Eat 'Healthy Lunches,'Obama Girls Dine On Meatball Subs And Ice Cream.  Not only have disgruntled kids across America voiced their displeasure over First Lady Michelle Obama's school lunch program from the beginning, many have used #ThanksMichelle to tweet photos of their daily choices. [...] By contrast, the prestigious Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C., where the Obamas send their children to school, serves school lunches designed by chefs.  This week, for example, they might enjoy meatball subs, BBQ wings and ice cream, in addition to chicken curry, deviled egg salad and the "Chef's Choice."

Gun Control Advocate Biden Played With Squirt Guns Today.  First it was the president, and now Vice President Joe Biden was caught playing with toy guns while trying to convince us he is a champion of gun control.  The Washington Post photographed Biden playing with a squirt gun near the US Naval Observatory today [6/21/2014] with a group of children.

On Air Force One, No Lightening Up on Burgers and Cake.  A blue-cheese burger with lettuce, tomato and garlic aioli, accompanied by Parmesan-sprinkled fries.  Chocolate fudge cake.  Pasta shells stuffed with four cheeses, topped with meat sauce and shredded mozzarella, and served with a garlic breadstick.  Cake infused with limoncello. Buffalo wings with celery, carrots and homemade ranch dip.  Such was the fare served to passengers aboard Air Force One during a particularly grueling three-state day on the campaign trail just before the 2012 election.  Not much has changed since.

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Barack H. Obama can eat like a king if he chooses to, but not if his wife is the self-appointed Queen of the Food Police.

Tavenner: Transparency for Thee But Not for Me.  It has been widely reported that the latest Obama administration official to delete emails requested by congressional investigators is Marilyn Tavenner, who runs the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).  Far less coverage, however, has been devoted to the ironic fact that Tavenner's agency administers the Physician Payment Sunshine Act.  The "Sunshine Act," as it is generally known, is a provision of Obamacare meant to ensure that physicians conduct business transactions with complete transparency.  In other words, the very bureaucrat whose emails have conveniently gone missing oversees the agency tasked with keeping your doctor and his business associates honest.

Obama Slams Tax-Dodging Companies He Takes Donations From.  The White House sees no hypocrisy in the president soliciting money from donors involved in tax-dodging maneuvers Barack Obama himself is trying to end.  Bloomberg reports that Obama has attended fundraisers hosted for him and the Democratic National Committee by several donors tied to companies that are or are attempting to avoid taxes for their companies by merging with foreign companies.  Obama has pushed Congress to close that tax loophole and directed the Treasury to implement measures that will lessen the practice.

Obama Hearts Private School — For Himself and Family.  Barack Obama, for his own education, never set foot in a public school. [...] What about the Obama's own children?  Surely the children of a pro-public school politician would attend public schools as a seal of approval.  On the contrary, the children of then-Sen. Obama attended a private school operated by the University of Chicago, where Obama had taught as an instructor in the law school.  This job enabled the Obama girls to go at little or no cost to Obama.  After Obama was elected president and preparing to move to Washington, D.C., Michelle Obama engaged in a public search for an appropriate school for their children.  Michelle considered public schools in D.C.  "There are some terrific individual schools in the D.C. system," her husband said later.  But, come time for enrollment, the Obamas chose Sidwell Friends, a private Quaker school whose most famous recent grad is Chelsea Clinton.  Annual tuition?  Almost $40,000 a year, and this excludes books and other material.

The Failed Missionary.  President Obama's loud support for multiculturalism and his condemnation of Western colonialism have never stopped him from seeking to spread liberal ideology in foreign lands. [...] It is laughable that Obama would lecture African countries on the loss of freedom that accompanies "inequality" even as religious freedoms in his own country are extinguished in the name of equality.  His bogus definition of equality culminates in license eliminating liberty.

President Obama sees nothing wrong with partial-birth abortion, and yet...
Obama: Killing Humans And Harvesting Their Organs Is An Atrocity That Must End.  President Barack Obama told a group of young African leaders on Monday [8/3/2015] that harvesting organs from humans that are killed as part of an African ritual was "craziness" and a "cruel" tradition that needed to stop.  He warned of dehumanizing marginal groups of humans and of the problems that arise when "you are not able to see someone else as a human being."

President Obama's fine discrimination.  Finally, someone on the left did the right thing, and spoke up against the killing of humans and harvesting their organs and sending them to market.  Troubles arise, President Obama said, when "you are not able to see someone else as a human being."  Indeed.  This surely mortified the folks at Planned Parenthood.  Well, not necessarily.  He wasn't talking about the killing of those humans, but about other humans.  The president was talking about the grisly ritual killing of albino men and women for their body parts in Africa, where they are sometimes killed for native rituals.

"In our age, there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.'  All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia."

— George Orwell