— Adolph
Hitler, Mein Kampf, Chapter 6.
Controlling the message.
This administration has seemingly adopted the Joseph Goebbels' (the infamous Nazi Minister of Propaganda under
Adolph Hitler) strategy that history has labeled 'the big lie.' Hitler was a master of manipulating
large numbers of people. He intuitively understood that if you simply tell a lie, people who know (or
find out) the truth will easily reject it. But if you tell a huge, enormous lie that is blatantly false,
and repeat it over and over, people eventually will question their own ability to properly process the
information, and they will come to believe it.
The Obama Administration — No
Class, Bad Character. In short, the Obama administration falsely claimed that the Bush administration
had done no planning or analysis regarding the worsening situation in Afghanistan, even though it (1) knew
this was false, (2) had asked the Bush administration not to disclose its work, and (3) relied
in part on the same work it claimed the Bush administration had not performed.
A pay-to-play White House.
Finally, it is clear what President Obama meant when he said this would be the most "transparent administration
in history." He wasn't saying that his White House would be open and accountable; he was saying that his
administration didn't feel much need to come up with plausible lies, they'd be fine using the transparent kind.
Obama's
Doubletalk on Political Dissent. President Obama traveled all the way to China to praise the free flow
of information. It's the only safe place he could do so without getting heckled. With a straight face,
Obama lauded political dissent and told Chinese students he welcomed unfettered criticism in America. Fierce
opposition, he said, made him "a better leader because it forces me to hear opinions that I don't want to hear."
How do you say "You lie!" in Mandarin?
Would
Obama Be President If He Made These Five Campaign Promises? Even amongst politicians, Barack
Obama is such a liar that he makes Bill Clinton look like honest Abe Lincoln by comparison.
Obama's Afghan Pickle.
[Scroll down slowly] By Memorial Day 2008, however, Obama was claiming that it was his "uncle" who
was "part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz." When reminded that his mother was an
only child and his father a Kenyan, Obama designated his "great uncle" as the liberator of Auschwitz.
This proved problematic as well because Auschwitz, as the Republican National Committee gleefully pointed
out, was actually liberated by the Soviets. No matter. Obama was learning that he could say
pretty much anything he wanted without consequence.
A Day Off. [Scroll down slowly]
Nancy Pelosi's promise to end the "culture of corruption" in Congress and Barack Obama's promise to run the "most
transparent administration in history" were unadulterated lies. An ominous thought: both of them might
actually believe they're doing just that, despite mountains of evidence to the contrary. Such a profound
disconnect from reality is making Americans furious.
The Lies of Obama: When
politicians are caught out in lies, their supporters often resort to the old cliché: all
politicians lie. But that is itself a lie: most don't. Even among those who do, there
are enormous differences in the importance and frequency of the lies. And it is surely now clear that
this nation has a far from routine problem in the scale and regularity of President Obama's lying.
End of O's cowardly
lyin'. [Scroll down] It's all smoke and mirrors, bells and whistles, held together with glib
talk, Chicago politics and an audacious sense of entitlement. At the center is a young and talented
celebrity whose worldview, we now know, is an incoherent jumble of poses and big-government instincts. His
self-aggrandizing ambition exceeds his ability by so much that he is making a mess of everything he touches.
How do you spell brazen? In
listening to the State of The Union Address, and other recent pondering of President Obama, I am constantly
amazed at his ability to say things that he knows can be fact checked. Let me give you a few examples.
Why
Americans Hate Washington: In January, the Senate joined the House in passing "pay-as-you-go"
rules to require Congress to pay for new discretionary spending. On Feb. 12, President Obama
signed the bill. "Now Congress will have to pay for what it spends, just like everybody else," Obama
crowed. Less than a month later, Obama and fellow Democrats are busily demonizing a lone senator for
pushing Washington to spend responsibly. It seems this administration is all for fiscal
restraint — as long as you don't mean it.
What a generous way to put it.
The president's habit of telling
untruths: Here's how predictable the president's slippery relationship with the truth has
become: Hours before the State of the Union address,
Washington Examiner reporter Timothy P.
Carney posted a "pre-emptive fact check" that, among other things, prebutted any presidential claim to have
"stopped the revolving door between government and corporate lobbying." As it happened, that night
Barack Obama made an even bolder (read: less truthful) claim: that "we've excluded lobbyists from
policymaking jobs."
Obama
budget spends more in each of the next ten years than the last one. President Obama promised a
turn toward fiscal discipline in his State of the Union Address. But his new budget doesn't just plan on
more deficit spending for a year, followed by austerity. Rather, it actually increases deficits in each
of the next ten years over what he'd planned for in last year's budget.
Lawfare, Voluntary Surrender, and Right-wing
"Extremists". [Scroll down slowly] Barack Obama, who passed his bar in 1991, "voluntarily
surrendered" his license in 2008, for unknown reasons. Why did Obama surrender his license?
Citizen WELLs reports that it may have been because of charges that Obama lied on his bar application.
Chicago Does
Socialism. [Scroll down slowly] I could go on and on, but again the pattern is clear.
Each time Obama prevaricates, we grant him an exemption because of his lofty rhetoric about bipartisanship and
his soothing words about unity. Only later do we notice that in retrospect each untruth is part of a
pattern of dissimulation within just a single year of governance. Obama has proven so far that in fact
one can fool a lot of the people a lot of the time.
Obama Attends Non-Existent
Soccer Game? Reading the story about President Obama breaking tradition and ditching the presidential
press pool over the weekend to watch one of his daughter's soccer games, it appears harmless, right?
Not so. It is rather disturbing when you dissect it.
Jon Voight: A Letter to the
American People. In one year the American people are witnessing the greatest lie that is cleverly
orchestrated by President Obama and his whole administration. The lie is a potent aggression that feeds
the needs of people who either have not educated themselves enough to understand the assault upon us all, or
the very poor and needy who live to be taken care of. President Obama feeds these people poison, giving
them the idea that they are entitled to take from the wealthier, who have lived and worked in a democracy that
understands that capitalism is the only truth that keeps a nation healthy and fed.
Obama's 5 Big Lies About Israel.
In preparation for his attempt to impose a final solution on Israel, Obama is spreading a variety of lies through
the media and his spokesmen about Israel. And by exposing those lies, we can best get at the truth.
Obama Fiddled While the Gulf Burned.
President Obama has tried to sugarcoat his administration's inadequate and tardy response to the worst oil
spill in our nation's history. His claim that the administration has been "all-hands-on-deck ... from
day one" is laughable.
The Truth and Barack Obama:
[Scroll down slowly] Mr. Obama is also the person who, when he was running for the presidency, promised
all health-care negotiations would be broadcast on C-SPAN (They weren't.), that he would accept public financing
for his campaign (He didn't.), that he would put an end to "phony accounting" (He hasn't.), that lobbyists will
not work in his White House (They do.), that he would slash earmarks by more than half (He has not.), that he
opposed giving Miranda rights to terrorists (He favors them.), that he was against an individual health-care
mandate (He supported it.), and that he would resist the temptation "to fall back on the same partisanship and
pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long" (He succumbed to the temptation.).
The shameless,
shocking hypocrisy and lies of President Obama. [Scroll down slowly] He lies all the time.
He lied about how often he attended services at Jeremiah Wright's church; he lied about how his parents met;
how his uncle liberated Auschwitz; how his dad came to this country. The guy just lies about his own
background and life. What a phony... and, btw, for someone who decries people's use of IPODs, why did he
give one to Queen Elizabeth as a diplomatic gift — one filled with his own speeches. How
priceless!
Americans are Drowning in Our Government's Lies.
It's not just the lies about climate change. It's not just the lies about renewable, wind and solar, energy.
It's not just the lies about so-called endangered species. It's not just that the Obama administration
refuses to name Islam as the source of the terrorist attacks on America. ... It is a combination of these and
other factors that are based on a contagion of lies told to Americans by their own government.
Tinkering With the
Truth. President Obama used about an hour of his press conference yesterday [5/27/2010] trying to explain
how — in spite of his handlers' having spent the past month trotting out the Secretary of the
Interior, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Commandant of the Coast Guard to be the faces of the
Gulf of Ocean oil spill — that he, Barack Obama, had been personally on top of this situation from
the moment the drilling rig exploded until that very moment.
Was Elizabeth Birnbaum Fired? Don't
Ask Obama. When President Obama's Interior Secretary Ken Salazar promised to root out the "bad
apples" yesterday at a House hearing, the head of Minerals Management Service was at the same hearing —
about to be plucked from the tree. Elizabeth Birnbaum's departure was first reported as a "firing."
Later, a "resignation." When asked for clarity, President Obama told the press corps today [5/27/2010]
he had no idea.
Obama Knew
Birnbaum Was Fired. How could he not have? At his presser today [5/27/2010], the president
claimed that he did not know whether the head of the Minerals Management Service, Elizabeth Birnbaum, had
resigned or was fired. Obama said he didn't know because he was engaged all morning and Interior
Secretary Ken Salazar was busy giving testimony on Capitol Hill. ... So Obama's point man in the Gulf fires a
key oil regulator without first clearing it — or even mentioning it — to the president
during one of their numerous briefings? Fat chance.
The Thrill is Gone.
The news conference [May 27] was Mr. Obama's first in 310 days. His performance makes it likely
it'll be at least that long before he holds another. The low point came when Mr. Obama professed not to
know whether Elizabeth Birnbaum, the woman he appointed to head the Minerals Management Service, resigned or
was fired. No one expects the president to don scuba tanks and plug the hole himself. But he at
least ought to know what's going on with his own people.
Another
'job offer'. After first stonewalling, the White House yester day confirmed that it
tried to lure Andrew Romanoff out of the Colorado Senate primary with an administration job, to help
its preferred candidate, incumbent Sen. Michael Bennet. Sound familiar? The Denver Post
ran a story on the rumored job offer last September — but White House spokesman Adam Abrams
said then, "Romanoff was never offered a position within the administration."
A Ban
On Truth. The advisory board on offshore drilling says it never endorsed a moratorium, which
was added later by the interior secretary. The only thing transparent about this administration is
its lies.
Another Stumble in the Gulf.
The administration has decreed a six-month moratorium on exploratory drilling in the Gulf, based on a report
that Interior Secretary Ken Salazar wrote for President Obama. Salazar claimed that a panel of seven experts
selected by the National Academy of Engineering had peer reviewed his report. It turns out, though, that
the seven experts never saw the recommendation for a moratorium, and in fact oppose it.
The President's Oil
Reserves Lie: During his speech, the president made a statement that was blatantly false.
The president noted, "We consume more than 20% of the world's oil, but have less than 2% of the world's oil
reserve. And that's part of the reason oil companies are drilling a mile beneath the surface of the
ocean — because we're running out of places to drill on land and in shallow water." We are
not running out of places to drill on land and in shallow water. In fact, it is due to the president's
party of extreme environmentalists that BP had to drill some forty miles from the coastline in deep waters to
extract oil.
Leaks and Lies. For two months,
the Obama administration has been skirting the truth about its inept response to the April 20 BP Deepwater
Horizon drilling rig explosion and the resulting fire and oil spill. The O-Team claims it has been
"on top" of this problem since "day one." Reality shows that both the leaks and the lies
continue.
A Big
Government Disaster. On June 15, 2010, President Barack Obama made his first address
to the nation from the oval office. Hearing his address, several things struck me. First of all,
Obama mentioned that when the oil spill occurred, he ordered scientists and the Energy Department to study
how to repair the spill. True to his big government agenda, Obama wasted time on the study while more
oil continued to pour into the Gulf region. Secondly, Obama also said that we are running out of oil to
drill. This is patently false.
More
about Obama's Oval Office speech.
He Blinded Me
With Science. [Scroll down] The White House issued a blanket moratorium on deepwater oil
drilling. Obama cited a report commissioned by the Interior Department that purported to recommend the
ban. "The recommendations contained in this report," declared the document, "have been peer-reviewed by
seven experts identified by the National Academy of Engineering." Except that was untrue.
Barack Obama's
Attention Deficit Disorder. [Scroll down] So perhaps Obama isn't just our first
"black" president but also our first ADD president. At least, that's what the idea that he could carry
on a deep, 20-year relationship with [Jeremiah Wright] and not know of the man's vile views — and
not share them to some degree — suggests. Of course, there is another possibility:
Barack Obama is a liar. Barack Obama is a radical, a demagogue and a clear and present danger to these
United States.
Blather in Kansas City.
[Scroll down] Just as when the President lied about not having available oil reserves last month in his televised
address to the nation regarding the BP oil spill, he told another outright lie in Kansas City. It was so blatant
that it was almost humorous. Note the President's words, "So our goal has never been to create another
government program, our goal has been to spur growth in the private sector." Really? Does any sane
person who even casually follows politics or watched the 2008 presidential campaign believe this?
Obama's "False Narrative".
[Scroll down] According to the True Narrative, Obama the Great acted with wisdom and courage to forestall
another Great Depression. The charges of profligate spending have been manufactured out of thin air.
The stimulus package has been a spectacular success. ObamaCare will bend the cost curve down. The
economy is doing swimmingly. The outreach to the Muslim world has led to unprecedented breakthroughs.
Nation after nation — Iran, Turkey, Russia, China, Brazil, Venezuela — are bending to
Obama's will. And all the problems America faces — from nearly 10 percent unemployment
to polarization to acne among teens — are owing to Obama's predecessor. Yet ... Obama
has become massively unpopular among independents.
The Worst Ecological Disaster
Ever? David Axelrod on
Fox News Sunday this morning [7/11/2010] said that the Gulf oil spill is
the "worst ecological disaster ever" — or words to that effect (the transcript is not yet
available). This, of course, is historical nonsense. Except in terms of the volume of oil released
into the environment, it is not even the worst oil spill in American history.
Obama's
Economic Unreality. Sadly, with President Obama, each day is crazier than the previous one.
His latest economic speeches border on the surreal. I just can't quite figure out who he thinks his
audience is because so much of what he says doesn't square with reality. In a speech Friday [7/9/2010] in
Las Vegas, Obama painted quite a rosy portrait of his economic record to date — at least rosy
compared with what we've all experienced with our five senses. ... [It's like] a student telling a math
teacher that three minus two equals four.
A
Short History of the Recess Appointment. [Scroll down] Obama used a recess appointment
for Dr. Berwick not to avoid a filibuster but to avoid the Senate's advice and consent power altogether.
He blamed — surprise! — the Republicans for delaying the process, but that is a
bald-face lie, as Republicans would be only too happy to have hearings on Dr. Berwick's appointment in
order to put the deeply unpopular ObamaCare back on Page One four months before the midterm elections.
President Obama's action here shows his contempt for everything that stands in the way of his agenda, even
the Constitution.
Why Do Ethics Cost
More in the Obama White House? On his first day in office, Obama announced that he would freeze
salaries of White House employees making $100,000 or more, and the mainstream media trumpeted the announcement
as a supposed example of their hero's fiscal responsibility. The Washington Post even calculated the
amount that the "freeze" would save taxpayers: over $443,000 dollars a year. The Post, and the
rest of the Obamaton media, portrayed the announcement — described as Obama's first act in
office — as a symbolic tightening of the belt. But when Obama got around to actually
reporting White House salaries, as required by law, the numbers told a far different story. Instead
of tightening his belt, Obama was buying a bigger, fatter, and far more expensive one.
Gaslighting America.
[Scroll down] Obama proxies in the administration, Janet Napolitano and Eric Holder, would have us believe
that we are engaged in "overseas contingency operations" to deal with "man caused disasters." Napolitano
actually contends, straight faced, that our border with Mexico is secure, despite a surfeit of evidence to show
that our Mexican border is an anarchical combat zone. Holder peddles even more pernicious feculence.
Does Barack Obama Have
a Learning Disability? [Scroll down] BHO claims to have been a professor of constitutional
law. ... He was not really a law professor. He was a "senior lecturer," though the University of Chicago,
where BHO served as a senior lecturer, claims that he was "regarded as" a professor. How one is
regarded does not always determine what one is.
Secret Support for Lockerbie Terrorist
Reveals Need for "Lies Czar" in White House. Barack Obama desperately needs a "Lies Czar"
to keep track of the president's lies so that The One can avoid tripping over his own words.
Obama's latest lie-gone-wrong gaffe involves the release of Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, AKA the Lockerbie
bomber. Just last week, Obama stated publicly that all Americans were "surprised, disappointed
and angry" to learn of Megrahi's release.
More about the remarkably good health of
the Lockerbie bomber.
Obama's Lack of Disclosure.
You know when a politician starts a sentence with "frankly," he's about to lie to your face. The same
principle applies to campaign finance legislation dubbed the "DISCLOSE Act." The voter's instinctive
reaction should be: What are they trying to hide now?
Islam Means the End of Religious Freedom.
Obama concluded his remarks by saying: "
And we can only achieve "liberty and justice for all" if
we live by that one rule at the heart of every great religion, including Islam — that we do unto
others as we would have them do unto us." But that is not the rule at the heart of Islam. And
this is not the first time that he has tried to sell that particular lie. But Islam never equates Muslims
with non-Muslims, as Obama pretends it does. Its offer of brotherhood is only open to fellow Muslims.
Its tolerance is only for fellow Muslims.
Demogoguing Social Security.
The Democrats must know they're in trouble: they've turned to one of their hoariest dodges, demagoguing Social
Security. In his weekly radio address yesterday [8/14/2010], Barack Obama accused Republicans of
scheming to ruin the program.
Obama:
Social Security 'is not in crisis'. President Obama said Social Security is not in crisis and
only modest changes are needed to keep it solvent.
Obama's foreign funny
money. In his weekly radio address on Saturday [8/21/2010], the president went on about the
supposed effects of the Supreme Court's January decision in the Citizens United case, which loosened
restrictions on certain types of corporate political activity. Mr. Obama warned of a "corporate takeover
of our democracy." With plenty of melodrama, he complained about "a flood of attack ads run by shadowy
groups." He even claimed, "You don't know if it's a foreign-controlled corporation." Mr. Obama
surely knows his talking points are nonsense. His claim about foreign contributions repeatedly has been
proved false.
The un-faith of
Obama. All Obama has managed to prove over the past year is his inability to tell the truth.
Obama's
credibility is the big issue in religion poll. Thomas Lifson and Byron York have convincingly
demonstrated that the President's own behavior is the source of the one-in-five Muslim answer and that such
an opinion is rational given the evidence. In contrast, the mainstream media's response was a predictably
arrogant dismay that Americans do not believe the President is a Christian, given that the Administration has
said he "is obviously a Christian." ... [But] maybe six-in-ten Americans don't believe the President is a
Christian precisely because he claims to be so. Isn't it possible that Barack Obama has
lost his credibility and, as our parents taught us, such credibility lost is seldom regained?
Another Obama White House Lie About Islam.
In his remarks at the iftar observance, Obama claimed that the "first" iftar dinner in the White House was hosted
by Thomas Jefferson. ... What tosh. There has never been a tradition of iftar dinners at the White House,
sporadic or otherwise, until after the year 1992. Jefferson's dinner was no iftar dinner and no other
president until Bill Clinton even hosted one.
Obama's Misleading Legalities. Why
does President Obama persistently misrepresent a particular Supreme Court decision and make misstatements about
the law? Does he do it intentionally for political gain, or are his legal advisors such poor lawyers that
they misinform him? Whatever the reason, if he were Pinocchio, the statements he made about campaign finance
"reform" in his latest weekly address would give him a nose longer than a Nationals' baseball bat.
United States Declares War on Arizona, Literally.
[Scroll down] Obama proves over and over again his absolute disdain for our Constitution and his deep hate
for our country. His every speech contains at least one derogatory comment about the United States, and
an equal amount of how great is the world of Islam. And there are some people who just can't see the
truth for all of the lies that come out of his mouth.
The Lies And Distortions Just Keep Coming.
[Scroll down] If you work for a small business with more than two or three of employees then you had better
hope that your employer is a millionaire or your job may be in seriously in jeopardy. But Obama doesn't
think employers should be millionaires. Perhaps this is because Obama knows nothing about running a
business. Or maybe it's because his Marxist philosophy tells him that any company worth more than a
million dollars should be owned by the state.
Obama's road show: More
snake oil. The worse the poll numbers get, the more Barack Obama resembles the traveling snake-oil
salesman of old.
Ruse Conference. The
president on Friday revealed the narrative for the Obama re-election campaign of 2012, and it shamelessly
rewrites history. The story goes like this: Bush hurled the global economy on a path toward
depression by cutting the taxes of millionaires. Obama then came to the rescue with his policies —
but the Republicans dug us into such a hole that it's taking even longer to dig out. The trouble with
this myth is that even Democrats running for re-election are shunning it.
More
commentary about President Obama's news conference on September 10, 2010.
So,
Obama wants a longer school year? Sure he does. So, President Obama now thinks that a longer
school year is a good idea? Of course he does, and that's great. But will anything come of it?
Obama has a history with the good idea of increasing instructional time — a history of saying it's a
good idea and then looking the other way as his political allies make sure it never happens.
Barack Obama accused
of exaggerating terror threat for political gain. A US terror alert issued this week about al-Qaida
plots to attack targets in western Europe was politically motivated and not based on credible new information,
senior Pakistani diplomats and European intelligence officials have told the Guardian.
Obama's Biggest Lies. President
Obama loves to make up things that are patently untrue, like every economist agrees his $800 billion
economic stimulus "has done its job," the economy "is moving in the right direction," and the Bush tax cuts
caused the trillion dollar deficits. The facts say otherwise, but he is never challenged by the news
media for his repeatedly dishonest myth-making. Here are some of his worst offenses.
A War Of Lies Against The Chamber.
President Obama has doubled down in his attack on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, continuing to call its ads
foreign-funded. His charges are false and he knows it.
More about President Obama's
fundraising scandals.
President Lies in Press Conference.
"The EPA is under a court order that identifies greenhouse gases as a pollutant." (paraphrase) The truth
is, the court said EPA must make a determination whether they are a pollutant. Big difference.
L.A. contrail a
missile launch? Retired general thinks so. [Scroll down] In my opinion, there is absolutely
no doubt that what was captured on video off the coast of California was a missile launch, was clearly observed
by NORAD, assessed by a four-star general within minutes, and passed to the president immediately. That
is the way the system works, and heads fall if there is a failure. This is one of the most important
tenets of national defense and its sole purpose of protecting the American people. Even the smallest
failure in this system gets intense scrutiny at the highest level. Now, the question that still must
be answered is why NORAD's muted response was simply that North America was not threatened, and later our
government approved the lame excuse that the picture recorded was simply an aircraft leaving a contrail.
This decision was made far above the four-star level, and because the system in place demands it, was made by
the president himself.
More
about the mysterious LA missile.
GM's Bailout Is a
Financial Disaster. Only the government would consider it a success to buy stock at $43.84 a
share and sell it at $33. — But President Obama and those who supported his bailout of General Motors and Chrysler are
claiming just that today [11/18/2010]. First, the alternative to the government bailout wasn't to "give up"
as Obama claimed on Thursday at his press conference. Bankruptcy didn't mean that all jobs were going to
be lost. It didn't mean that all the factories producing cars would be closed. Yet, the president
made that claim in his announcement again today and he continually misstates what would have happened in a
normal bankruptcy.
Wave goodbye to Internet
freedom. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is poised to add the Internet to its portfolio of
regulated industries. The agency's chairman, Julius Genachowski, announced Wednesday [12/1/2010] that he
circulated draft rules he says will "preserve the freedom and openness of the Internet." No statement could
better reflect the gulf between the rhetoric and the reality of Obama administration policies.
Bernanke:
60 Minutes, 2 Big Lies. This past Sunday [12/5/2010] on the CBS program "60 Minutes", Americans
received a massive dose of mendacity from our Fed Chairman. Mr. Bernanke's shaky delivery, and even shakier
logic may cause faith in America's economic leadership to evaporate faster than the value of our dollar. In
particular, Bernanke delivered two massive distortions.
President
Obama's $8 Billion Earmark Rerun: Lesson Not Learned? The Obama administration today [12/15/2010]
told Congress to pass an omnibus spending bill containing $8 billion in earmark projects, even though just a few days
ago the president said one of the lessons he learned from the 2010 midterm elections was to take more
seriously the public's disapproval of — and his pledge to oppose — earmarks.
Obama and Islam.
[Page 14:] "And here in the United States," Obama continued, "Ramadan is a reminder that Islam has
always been part of America and that American Muslims have made extraordinary contributions to our country."
But is this true? Could Obama provide a list of the Muslim Founding Fathers, the Muslim heroes of the
American Revolution, the names of the Muslims killed fighting in the Civil War, World War I, and World
War II? And could he support his rhetoric by producing a list of those "extraordinary contributions"?
It is important for a President to speak for all American citizens in his public pronouncements, not just one
religious group — and it is also important that his efforts at "inclusiveness" not be justified
by historical fabrication.
Obama: 2010 in Faith.
Obama has said that he has not joined a Washington church because it would be too "disruptive" to the services.
Being disruptive apparently did not concern him during his lavish Christmas vacation in Hawaii, however.
According to a MailOnline article, to visit childhood friend Bobby Titcomb's beachfront house, a "10-vehicle
convoy drove the president and wife Michelle from his rental property in Kailua, across highways cleared of
traffic and through a military community."
30 year-old
Chicagoan Wrote Tucson Speech. In a Friday [1/17/2011] article I had speculated that chief
Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau had penned Obama's over-praised Tucson oration, but it turns out that Obama
elevated heretofore unknown Cody Keenan from the "eulogy and commencement beat" for his moment in the Arizona
sun. In an uncommonly frank moment Wednesday night, while flying back from Tucson on Air Force One,
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told a Chicago Tribune reporter and others that Keenan had been
the speechwriter. By Thursday morning, Gibbs was insisting that "Obama had wielded the heavier pen."
The Editor says...
Wouldn't it be great to have a polygraph examiner interview President Obama about the works that he has
allegedly written? Wouldn't it be refreshing to have a reporter ask Mr. Obama to recite a speech he has
given, right after the speech is concluded? My guess is that he would not be able to remember even one
complete sentence, because (I believe) someone else writes all his speeches.
More
about Obama's Arizona speech.
Obama 2.O: The
First Big Lie. [President Obama] has a history of failing to follow through after making
these political pronouncements. In 2009, he demanded every federal department cut their budgets
for a total of $100 million dollars and put a deadline of 90 days on his "order."
However, it seems like no one got the memo or if they did it went straight to the recycling bin,
since the deadline passed and the money was not cut. But it did make for some good press and
very few checked followed up — least of all, the President — to see if his
order was obeyed.
Obama's Prayer Breakfast
Knuckleball. [Scroll down] For a man capable of fabricating a relationship with his
father — to the point of writing a book about it — fabricating a relationship with
Jesus is no big deal, at least not to [Time Magazine's Michal] Scherer and the mainstream media. They
are prepared to believe whatever Obama says and belittle those who don't.
The "Judicial
Activism" Ploy. Barack Obama has a rhetorical solution for every problem. Remember the
repeated claims of "shovel-ready" projects that needed only federal stimulus money to get started? Last
year the President quietly admitted that there were not many "shovel-ready" projects, after all. But the
phrase served its political purpose at the time — and that was obviously all that mattered.
Now, in the wake of rulings by two different courts that ObamaCare is unconstitutional, rhetoric is being
mobilized again, without any fussy worries about facts.
White House Lies On Blackouts
Exposed. [Scroll down] Maxed-out energy grids are a direct consequence of a shortage
of new power plants to meet demand. Indeed, contrary to another of [When Obama Communications Director
Dan] Pfeiffer's falsehoods when he claimed that Texas was not subject to EPA restrictions, one of the delayed
power plants that could have alleviated the energy shortage, the Las Brisas Energy Center, has been the
subject of an EPA battle with Texas state authorities for the past three years. A federal court ruling
last month gave the EPA permission to proceed with greenhouse gas regulation in Texas, temporarily superseding
Texas' non-compliance with the new regulations which came into force on January 2. The White
House's claim that EPA regulations are not currently affecting Texas is a complete fabrication.
Obama's
Attempt to Distance Himself From Wisconsin Rally Fails. "This is a Wisconsin story, not a Washington
one," said Dan Pfeiffer, the White House communications director. "False claims of White House involvement
are attempts to distract from the organic grass-roots opposition that is happening in Wisconsin." But
apparently someone forget to tell the DNC's communication director Bob Woodhouse to scrub his Twitter feed
to reflect this new strategy.
Washington Post
punctures another Obama boast. Barack Obama gives himself another pat on the back and undeserved
good grade. Does he ever have any sense of humility? Will the lies ever stop?
Is Your Wallet Screaming "Inflation"?
I need not mention what we are seeing at the gas pump these days. The price of a gallon of gasoline has
skyrocketed (in my home state of Florida) from just over $1.50 per gallon at the end of the Bush administration
to close to $3.50 for that same gallon today. Anybody that believes that inflation is really
1.63 percent (as told to us by the federal government's Bureau of Labor Statistics in its Consumer
Price Index summary) is not living in the real world.
Clearing up
Today's Obama Energy Lies. This afternoon the President of the United States tried one again
to mislead the public about domestic oil production and how much untapped oil is left in the ground.
He said that domestic oil production is at the highest level in seven years and he indicated that American
reserves are not adequate to help the US reduced its dependence on foreign oil. If Congressman Wilson
was in the audience he might have repeated his famous shout "
You Lie."
Costly Indecisiveness on
Libya. In a remarkably ridiculous statement for a man who has done nothing except charter a
boat in response to the crumbling revolution in Libya, President Obama yesterday [3/16/2011] said that his
administration was "slowly tightening the noose" on dictator Moammar Gaddafi. There has been no noose,
loose or tight, placed on Gaddafi by the U.S. or anybody else.
Retired general: Congress should
give Obama ultimatum. Retired U.S. Maj. Gen. Paul E. Vallely, a noted military leader
who now is a presence on the Internet with his Stand Up For America and Veterans Defenders websites,
earlier told WND he would like Obama to resign. Vallely, who served in Vietnam and retired in
1991 from the U.S. Army as deputy commanding general for the Pacific, said, "We now must call for the
immediate resignation of Barry Soetoro (aka President Barack Hussein Obama) ... based on incompetence,
deceit, fraud, corruption, dishonesty and violation of the U.S. oath of office and the Constitution."
Drilling Unlikely
to Lower Oil Prices, Energy Information Chief Says. Richard Newell, administrator of the U.S.
Energy Information Administration (EIA), said that while oil prices are likely to stay above average for the
remainder of 2011, it is unlikely that an increase in domestic oil production would dramatically affect oil
prices in either the short-term or the long-term. Newell, a political appointee, was tapped to head
the EIA by President Barack Obama in mid-2009.
The Editor says...
This man clearly does not understand supply and demand, and obviously knows nothing about
the oil industry.
CBO:
Obama budget worse than projected on 10-year deficit. The Congressional Budget Office on
Friday [3/18/2011] released its analysis of President Obama's 2012 budget proposal and found it does less
to rein in deficits and the debt than the administration had estimated. CBO estimates Obama's plan
would produce 10 years of deficits totaling $9.5 trillion. By 2021, it would increase the
debt held by the public to 87 percent of gross domestic product.
Obama's Domestic Energy Doublespeak.
The gap continues to widen between what President Obama claims to be true about domestic energy
production and what Louisianians know is true. With prices at the pump climbing toward $4 a
gallon, the President is asking us to believe that his administration supports expanded drilling
off the Gulf Coast. Those of us who live there know that nothing could be further from the
truth.
Obama, The Great Prevaricator.
Whatever Barack Hussein Obama says, you can count on his meaning the opposite and doing the opposite.
No previous administration has been so devoted to twisting the language like a pretzel to avoid saying what
he means or does. It's not a "war" in Libya; it's a "kinetic military action." There are no
Islamic terrorists and there aren't dozens, if not hundreds of illegal aliens crossing the Mexico border
every day. And, after announcing that his administration was lifting the ban on offshore drilling,
it has issued a grand total of one and that was to restart an existing platform.
The Mendacity of Barack
Obama. While I have always been wary of and have written about his dishonesty, after the speech the
president delivered the 13th of April regarding the federal budget, one that was chock full of lies, deceit, and
crass fear-mongering, it must be said that Barack Obama is the most dishonest, deceitful, and mendacious person
in a position of power I have ever witnessed. That performance was the culmination of four years of outright
lies and narcissism that have been largely ignored by the media, including some in the conservative press and
political class who are loath to call Mr. Obama what he is in the bluntest of terms: a liar and a fraud.
Obama's Deceit.
I have had it with this President's blatant dishonesty. His speech today was appallingly deceitful
and misleading. This President, has spent more money and added more debt than any other President
in history. This is not political rhetoric, this is simply fact! Barack Obama's budget deficit
in March of 2011 was larger than the deficit for all of 2007! ... So where did Obama come up with the
claim that he inherited a trillion dollar deficit? In 2008, the deficit under Bush climbed to a
new high of $458 billion.
Does Obama tell the truth
about anything? Barack Obama pledged that if elected he would make it a goal to have much more
transparency in his administration than those Presidents who preceded him. There was going to be Change.
The transparency would bring about 'accountability" in his words. One of the policies he trumpeted would be
making available to the public the White House visitor logs so we can know who visited with the President, the
Vice-President and key officials of his team. Only later did we discover — through outside investigators'
efforts — that these key officials were circumventing the new "policy" by meeting with lobbyists across the
street from the White House at Caribou Coffee, as well as other spots so that their meetings would not show up
on the logs.
The unraveling of Barry Soetoro, a/k/a Barack
Hussein Obama II: [Scroll down] Reviewing only the admissions of Barack Obama, we are told
that Obama was born to U.S. citizen Stanley Ann Dunham, legally adopted by a foreign national named Lolo Soetoro,
had taken the name Barry SOETORO, and was given Indonesian citizenship. He was raised as a Muslim in
Indonesia, and attended a school there that accepted all faiths. At one point, Barry SOETORO moved to
Hawaii to reside with his grandparents after Lolo SOETORO and Stanley Ann DUNHAM divorced. Obama completed
high school as Barry SOETORO Much is missing from his early years, including a legal name change from Barry SOETORO
to Barack Hussein Obama II. Absent of any document to show the legal process of a name change within the
U.S., it is likely that the man sitting in the Oval Office is, in fact, Barry SOETORO.
Obama Fibs About Chevy
Volt. Speaking in Nevada about the rising cost of gasoline, Obama put in a plug for the
administration's favorite flop, GM's Chevy Volt: "I've been in one of these Chevy Volts. This is
a nice car. It drives well." As I trudged along the sidewalk, it occurred to me that the President
had probably fibbed. He had certainly "been in" the Chevy Volt, but he hadn't ever driven one enough to
know how it actually handles. When he tried the Chevy Volt last summer, he drove it "10 feet, and
probably not above 2 mph," according to the Associated Press at the time.
Uncharitable.
'In the United States, rules on charitable giving have made it harder for Muslims to fulfill their religious
obligation," President Obama claimed during his 2009 Cairo speech. "That is why I am committed to
working with American Muslims to ensure that they can fulfill
zakat." This statement contained
two falsehoods. One, as I've previously detailed, was obvious: There are, in fact, no American
laws or rules that make it harder for Muslims to give to charity. What we have are laws against material
support of terrorism — against using devices like charitable fronts to channel money to jihadists.
Border security
is no laughing matter. President Obama claims the border has never been safer, that his administration
has done everything demanded by Republicans, and more, to secure the border, and cites the FBI's Uniform Crime
Reports data to prove his point. He even went so far in a speech earlier this week in El Paso to chide
his critics, claiming they will never be satisfied, not even with a moat full of alligators.
Obama's Revisionist
History. Always a master at misdirection and diversion, President Obama and his flacks have
taken pains to assert that his new "1967 lines as a basis for peace" formulation for Israel's borders is,
hey, "nothing new." There's a grain of truth in this argument. But a mountain of lie.
The lie renders the truth utterly irrelevant. Let's take a little walk down memory lane of prior US
administrations, and see just how fraudulent it really is.
Obama
Suffers From Economic Schizophrenia. With deteriorating economic conditions putting a damper
on his poll numbers and jeopardizing his 2012 re-election prospects, Barack Obama now portrays himself as a
free-market leader for a change.
Obama's Father's Day
Fraud. In the first paragraph of an exclusive Father's Day essay for
People Magazine,
Obama continues the fiction that his father, Barack Obama Sr., "left when I was two years old." ... It is
clear that the marriage of Obama's parents was a sham. The couple never lived together, and it is
likely they were never married. The mom was living with her infant son in Seattle within weeks of his
birth, while the presumed dad was back in Hawaii. ... If the president persists in lying about the first
few years of his life, why should we accept his account of the first few days?
EPA 'Masquerading
Propaganda as Facts', Expert Says. The 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act will save the
United States $2 trillion by 2020, says Environmental Protection Agency chief Lisa Jackson — citing
figures from an EPA report which one expert has faulted for "widely exaggerated claims." Hundreds of
thousands of lives would be saved over the next nine years, thanks to the regulation of air pollutants,
Jackson said at the unveiling of a "prevention" campaign at the Health and Human Service Department's
headquarters in Washington, D.C. on Thursday [6/16/2011].
The Editor says...
Abolishing the
EPA would
be far more likely to "save the United States $2 trillion by 2020."
The General Motors Management Lie.
Back in June of 2009, when General Motors went bankrupt — even though billions of tax dollars had
been spent to avoid bankruptcy — President Obama declared, "What we are not doing — what
I have no interest in doing — is running GM. ... The Treasury emails reviewed by the
Daily Caller
show the government becoming involved in union negotiations, and even micro-managing GM press releases.
Along with other evidence gathered by the House Oversight subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs, Stimulus Oversight,
and Government Spending, it's pretty clear that Treasury officials lied to Congress about the degree of
Administration control over the auto companies, and President Obama lied to the American people.
More
about the nationalization of GM and Chrysler.
The Mendacity of Barack
Obama. While I have always been wary of and have written about his dishonesty, after the speech
the president delivered the 13th of April regarding the federal budget, one that was chock full of lies, deceit,
and crass fear-mongering, it must be said that Barack Obama is the most dishonest, deceitful, and mendacious
person in a position of power I have ever witnessed. That performance was the culmination of four years
of outright lies and narcissism that have been largely ignored by the media, including some in the conservative
press and political class who are loath to call Mr. Obama what he is in the bluntest of terms: a liar
and a fraud.
The
President's Loophole Lie. That jet-tax loophole derided by the president is one he himself
proposed as part of the stimulus approved by a Democratic Congress. Does the left teleprompter know
what the right teleprompter is saying?
President Obama's war on facts.
President Obama's "corporate jet" line from his press conference Wednesday [6/29/2011] is crashing along with
a host of other claims that fact-checkers dismissed in the hours after his speech. Obama referred to
private jets six times in his remarks, essentially describing the Republican position on how to decrease
rampant deficits as being "willing to compromise their kids' safety so that some corporate jet owner
continues to get a tax break."
Rev. Wright Lets Loose on Another Tirade.
President Obama's former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright tells youth in a Georgia church that "whites are liars",
over and over again. ... Does it still not matter to Obama supporters that the President spent thirty years
with Wright as his spiritual mentor, and claims he never heard him say anything like this?
Did
someone mention Jeremiah Wright?
Obama,
the Poor Loser, Poor Liar. As president he has lied an awful lot. He started lying first as
a candidate, and then continued on as president. Americans are generally willing to put up with that when
politicians can deliver the goods. Obama's administration, however, has been a compendium of incompetence
and lying.
Obama Again Blames His Record Deficit & Debt On
Bush. In his weekly address this week Barack Obama blamed the Bush Administration for his
record defict. ... "The good news is, we agree on some of the big things," he said. "We agree that
after a decade of racking up deficits and debt, we finally need to get our fiscal house in order."
Actually, the good news is that the democrat-media complex continues to give him a complete pass when he
opens his mouth and lies.
Obama's Watergate. After
taking office, Barack Hussein Obama began a coordinated effort with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to control the purchases and ownership of guns in the United States.
To justify the implementation of tougher gun control laws and in a direct assault on the Second Amendment of
the U.S. Constitution, this administration cited a statement made to Congress by William Hoover, Assistant
Director for Field Operations for the BATFE on February 7, 2008. According to that report,
90 percent of the weapons used by the Mexican drug cartels were purchased from or originated from the
U.S. That stunning revelation empowered the Obama administration to solicit public support for banning
so-called assault weapons in the U.S., and calling for tougher gun control laws. The problem, however,
is that the 2008 statement is disingenuous at best.
Nobody
Should Believe A Single Thing Obama Says About the Budget. Granted, nobody should believe a single thing Obama says
about
anything — (including his denials that he knew anything about Fast and Furious), but
in light of his press conference today, ahead of his budget negotiations with John Boehner and the Republicans,
I thought it would be good to count the ways Obama has been duplicitous and disingenuous in his actions re the
economy, (which he really and truly seems hellbent on destroying.) As always with him — you
have to look at what he
does — not what he
says.
US
too dumb to know O is always right. When President Obama started talking at his news conference
Monday, I listened intently for 15 minutes or so. Then I got fidgety as his half-truths about the
debt grew into full-blown whoppers. As he droned on, I did something I never did before during an Obama
appearance: I turned off the TV. Enough. He is the Man Who Won't Listen to Anybody, so why
should anybody listen to him?
One
Obama Presser, 36 Obama Lies and Deceptions. Obama held a press conference last Friday, July 15
which turned out to be a purely partisan effort to increase taxes and increase the American debt. His
speech and the answers he gave to cherry picked questions from the press was fundamentally dishonest:
in all I counted three dozen lies, deceptions and misleading statements.
Obama
Lies About Mom, Networks Yawn. In 1996, Gore moved the Democrats to tears by claiming that when
his sister Nancy died of cancer in 1984, he vowed then and there to oppose the tobacco industry. How
courageous — and completely untrue. The Times found Gore campaigned in 1988 boasting of his tobacco-farming
prowess. He lied through his teeth. Network coverage from ABC, CBS or NBC on this whopper, even
as Gore prepared a presidential run? Zero.
Under
the Hammer. No doubt some reporters were shocked, shocked to find that President Barack Hussein
Obama had misled the public about his own mother's death to gain a political advantage. There was never any
doubt that Obama's mother had full medical coverage to treat her terminal cancer. It was disability
coverage, not health care coverage, that she was fighting with the insurance company over. Obama should
have known this because he is the attorney she hired to represent her against the insurance company. ... But
the mainstream media will continue to let Obama say whatever he wants whether there is any truth to it
or not.
Obama is Determined to Destroy America.
What Americans have witnessed over the first two years of his term is Obama's continual blaming of all
problems on either his predecessor or the Republicans in Congress. What they are witnessing is
the duplicity of a man who appears incapable of telling the truth from day to day.
Top 10 Obama Lies. President
Obama is becoming a veritable Pinocchio by stretching the truth on a regular basis.
Barack the Mad. Obama also told his
audience that "it's hard to keep up with all the different plans" for handling the debt crisis. No, it
isn't. There's are only two real plans: the Cut, Cap, and Balance Act, which enjoys the support of a
huge majority of Americans, or leaving the debt ceiling where it is.
There are no other plans.
There are only vague outlines... absolutely none of which have come from President Obama, who has made
no
concrete proposals at all.
Obama's
Wildly Inaccurate Claim about 'Domestic Spending'. In his remarks on the debt ceiling deal,
President Obama said, "The first part of this agreement will cut about $1 trillion in spending over the
next 10 years....The result would be the lowest level of annual domestic spending since Dwight Eisenhower
was president." This claim is utterly false, as domestic spending has actually gone through the roof.
How, then, can Obama make it? He simply chooses not to count any of the major categories of domestic
spending — Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and (soon) Obamacare — as part of
"domestic spending."
The
President's Stale Sermons. Neither the example of the socialist European Union nor that of
big-spending blue-state America suggests that massive government spending and entitlements lead to collective
prosperity. In response to this depressing news, President Barack Obama still offers the same predictably
stale sermons: George W. Bush did it. The Tea Party fiscal reformers are to blame.
Government will fund "millions of green jobs." His political opponents want to destroy Social Security
and Medicare.
Obama: Stop
selling pickup trucks. [Scroll down] Meanwhile, General Motors, which was the principal
beneficiary of the auto bailout, is fighting a lawsuit over warranty claims related to suspension problems
affecting more than 400,000 Chevrolet Impalas sold in 2007 and 2008. GM, now a ward of the state, claims
the warranties shouldn't be honored because the flaw predated the company's bankruptcy. ... Flash back to 2009,
when the feds took control of GM and replaced its leadership with hand-picked cronies. At the time,
Mr. Obama staked his reputation and that of the government on honoring the obligations of bankrupt automakers.
"Let me say this as plainly as I can," he promised. "If you buy a car from Chrysler or General Motors,
you will be able to get your car serviced and repaired just like always.
The entitlement
tsunami is here. When President Obama announced the debt-limit deal with Congress in late
July, he claimed the legislation would result in "the lowest level of annual domestic spending since Dwight
Eisenhower was President." We're spending less now then we did over 50 years ago? How is that
even possible? In short, it's not.
Exactly the opposite is true.
Biden: Failure to invest in clean energy would be nation's 'biggest mistake'.
A failure by the United States to lead the world in developing clean-energy technology would be the "the biggest
mistake this nation has made in its entire history," Vice President Biden said Tuesday.
Fallout From Day Zero: EPAgeddon Averted.
Do we still have to listen to Barack Obama complain that all these out-of-control agencies, like the EPA,
NLRB, and EEOC are "independent" and "beyond his control?" It looks as if white-knuckle panic
rather abruptly brought the EPA under his control.
Obama's
Middle-Class Tax Cut Fabrication. Since this is the first time we've heard about Obama's
"biggest middle-class tax cut in history," which he supposedly signed nearly three years ago, [Glenn]
Kessler decided to follow up with the White House.
Obama's Rhetoric: Cynical,
Hypocritical and Now Untrue? Obama needs to be careful; if he isn't, the public will
not only turn on him because of his manifest incompetence (which Americans are doing in rather large
numbers these days), but also because of his deeply flawed public character. More and more these
days, the president's rhetoric can be fairly judged to be cynical, hypocritical and untrue.
Obama Speech was "Obama
Unplugged". Obama has a deep, almost desperate, need to portray himself as the opposite of
what he is. This appears to involve more than simple political considerations. Obama has an
unusual capacity to conceive of himself in a way that is at odds with reality. And so the most
profligate spender in history warns the rest of us about profligacy and not placing a debt burden "on our
children's shoulders." The man on whose watch America amassed more than $4 trillion in debt
says, "Washington has to live within its means."
Obama
Lies about the 'Do-Nothing Congress'. Obama can disagree with every piece of paper passed by the
GOP House. But when he slyly bashes Republicans by accusing "this Congress" of "doing nothing," he simply
is lying through his teeth.
Obama's State of Mind.
At a town hall meeting in Mountain View, California, President Obama said, "Things have gotten so ideologically
driven and everybody is so focused on the next election and putting party ahead of country that we're not able to
solve our problems." This formulation is priceless, if only because in a single sentence Obama is advancing
three falsehoods, which may be a new indoor record.
More
Than Ten Reasons Americans Don't Trust Obama. In point of fact, the biggest single obstacle that
Obama faces in getting reelected is that Americans don't trust him anymore. Nor should they, based on
results, history and the false premise under which he was elected.
Michelle
Says Bank Discriminated Against Barack's Grandmother. First Lady Michelle Obama said at a
fundraiser in Providence, Rhode Island, on Friday night [9/30/2011] that a bank where Barack Obama's
grandmother had worked discriminated against her for nearly two decades "because she was a woman."
However, the Washington Post reported earlier this year that Obama's grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, had been the
first female vice president of the Bank of Hawaii.
Obama
'makes up meeting with teacher who "lost his job"'. Barack Obama is today facing accusations that
his tale about a teacher told he was losing his job three times was not entirely accurate. The President
claimed on Thursday to have 'had a chance to meet a young man named Robert Baroz' — but they have
reportedly never met. He also talked about the teacher 'receiving three pink slips because of budget
cuts' — but neglected to mention he reportedly never lost his job.
Obama Lies For "A Higher Truth".
It's quite telling that President Obama couldn't find a highly qualified teacher in the Boston Public Schools
to talk about who is actually unemployed. It would seem that liberals who accused President Bush of lying
about WMD don't care if President Obama lies if it promotes a cause with which they agree. It's OK for
President Obama to lie if it is in service of "a higher truth."
President
Obama's Teachers Tale Embellished? Obama said he had met a young man named Robert Baroz who has
two decades of teaching experience, a master's degree and and excellent track record of teaching. "He's
an English teacher in Boston who came to the White House a few weeks ago," the president explained to reporters.
"In the last few years, he's received three pink slips because of budget cuts. Why wouldn't we want to
pass a bill that puts somebody like Robert back in the classroom teaching our kids?" But there are two
elements of Mr. Obama's story that are being questioned. According to the Boston Herald, Robert Baroz
never met the president when he was at the White House. And Robert Baroz is currently employed.
Obama's English Teacher
Fiction. President Obama gave yet another speech on Thursday trying to peddle AJA to the American
people — the American Jobs Act, as opposed to the 1977 Steely Dan album. Obama cited the
experience of a Boston English teacher named Robert Baroz to urge passage of the bill. Unfortunately, the
president used a little creative writing to make the story more effective.
Murders,
Rapes, Falling Bridges and Phantom Jobs. Last month, Obama, stumping for his misnamed "American
Jobs Act," told his AstroTurf audience in Raleigh-Durham that "in North Carolina alone, there are
153 structurally deficient bridges that need to be repaired." ... Wally Bowman, DOT's division chief for Wake
County and six neighboring counties, said, "The key thing is: We don't have any bridges that are about to
fall. We don't have any bridge out there that is structurally inadequate, where it cannot handle the
traffic. We make sure those bridges stay in a good state of repair." Obama obviously hadn't bothered
to do his due diligence; he just made a false assertion to gin up support for legislation that a number of
high-profile congressmen in his own party even reject.
What's the point of the FOIA with this in place?
Obama
Rule Would Allow Feds to Lie About Existence of Official Records. A proposed rule to the Freedom
of Information Act would allow federal agencies to tell people requesting certain law-enforcement or national
security documents that records don't exist — even when they do. Under current FOIA practice,
the government may withhold information and issue what's known as a Glomar denial that says it can neither
confirm nor deny the existence of records. The new proposal — part of a lengthy rule revision
by the Department of Justice — would direct government agencies to "respond to the request as if the
excluded records did not exist."
Justice
Dept. proposes lying, hiding existence of records under new FOIA rule. A proposed revision to
Freedom of Information Act rules would allow federal agencies to lie to citizens and reporters seeking certain
records, telling them the records don't exist. The Justice Department has proposed the change as part of
a large revision of FOIA rules for federal agencies. Specifically, the rule would direct government
agencies who are denying a request under an established FOIA exemption to "respond to the request as if the
excluded records did not exist," rather than citing the relevant exemption.
On FOIA,
Obama wants a license to lie. Obama's Justice Department has proposed a regulatory change that
would weaken the Freedom of Information Act. Under the new rules, the government could falsely respond
to those who file FOIA requests that a document does not exist if it pertains to an ongoing criminal investigation,
concerns a terrorist organization, or a counterintelligence operation involving a foreign nation. There are
two problems with the Obama proposal to allow federal officials to affirmatively assert that a requested document
doesn't exist when it does.
OccupyWallStreet:
The Rap Sheet, So Far. Recently, President Obama said that the Occupiers are just like the Tea
Party. That's a lie.
How
'honest' is the Obama administration? Obama frequently tells blatant falsehoods about important
matters, and then in a Clintonian fashion explains how some interpretation of his words could be made to correspond
to the truth. [For example:]
• "We have excluded lobbyists from policymaking jobs." He hasn't of course. He's
hired at least 50. But the WH's explanation: "we have turned away lobbyists for many, many positions."
• "I haven't raised taxes once." But he had already slashed middle-class tax deductions
for health-care, raised the tobacco tax, created a tanning tax, and done other tax hikes.
• "The exit strategy will be executed this week," Obama said in March of Libya.
The president's habit of telling untruths.
The president, who promised in both word and style to usher in a "new era" of Washington "responsibility," routinely
says things that aren't true and supports initiatives that break campaign promises. When called on it, he
mostly keeps digging. And when obliged to explain why American voters are turning so sharply away from his party
and his policies, Obama pins the blame not on his own deviations from verity but on his failure to "explain"
things "more clearly to the American people."
Obama:
"Since I've Taken Office, I've Cut Your Taxes". President Obama explains why he's "going to give"
Congress "another chance" to pass measures in his jobs bill. Obama also claims that he is the tax-cutter
in the race.
The Editor says...
Any claim of reduced taxes across the board is dubious at best. Regardless of that, if the president spends
money like there's no tomorrow, that will inevitably result in future taxes, rampant inflation, or the collapse of
the currency. That appears to be Obama's plan.
Holder
Sweats as More Lies Uncovered by Feb. 3rd Memo. As Eric Holder's December 8th testimony before
Congress draws near, more and more lies surrounding Fast and Furious are crumbling to the ground. From
new evidence that appears to indicate that President Obama knew about the operation as early as May 2010,
and
that he gave directives for action against Mexican cartels a year prior (March 2009), to even newer evidence
that the DOJ may have "deliberately misled" Congress via a Feb. 4th memo denying the ATF had "'sanctioned'
or otherwise knowingly allowed the sale of assault weapons."
Fast
& furious lies. It was all a lie. The angry denials, the high dudgeon, the how-dare-you
accuse-us bleating emanating from Eric Holder's Justice Department these last nine months. Operation Fast
and Furious — the "botched" gun-tracking program run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives — did, in fact, deliberately allow some 2,000 high-powered weapons to be sold to Mexican
drug cartel agents and then waltzed across the border and into the Mexican drug wars — just as Sen.
Chuck Grassley and Rep. Darrell Issa, who are leading the congressional investigations, have charged all along.
More
about the Fast and Furious scandal.
Obama
Insists He's 'All In' for Domestic Energy Production. President Barack Obama, who punted a
decision on the Keystone XL oil pipeline until after the presidential election, nevertheless insists
that his administration has gone "all in" when it comes to domestic energy production. He also flatly
refused any give-and-take with Republicans to speed up the pipeline project.
America Loses If Obama
Wins. President Barack Obama, speaking of the 2012 election and hoping to rekindle the vigor
of his political fundraisers, said recently, "We are going to win this thing, and America is going to win as a
consequence." In order for American voters to believe Obama's claim that America will win if he wins, they
must overlook the fact that the quality of life for a number of major demographic groups has worsened during
Obama's term in office.
'Let's
Move': A Government Initiative to Lie to Kids. Recently, an aggressive media campaign has been
launched by Let's Move, a government-funded fitness initiative led by Michelle Obama. As you will see in
this TV spot that's airing, one of many, the message of the Let's Move campaign is quite simple: Lying
to your children is fine because it's good for them. ... Instead of a relationship built upon integrity these
health autocrats encourage us to manipulate and lie to our children. This is a paradigm for how the Obama
administration views and treats the American public.
This Is The Section Of
The NDAA That Is Causing People To Freak Out. [Scroll down] After signing the NDAA, Obama released
a statement saying "the [NDAA] does nothing more than confirm authorities that the Federal courts have recognized as
lawful under the 2001 AUMF. I want to clarify that my Administration will not authorize the indefinite military
detention without trial of American citizens." This appears to be untrue.
The Abuse of Power
by Pres. Obama. You see what power has done to Obama? It's frightening. He
says one thing and does another. That isn't unusual in a politician, but Obama brings it to
Olympic gold standard. Every word out of his mouth is worthless when it comes to trust.
First Obama
Re-Election Ad Filled With Fibs. In his very first TV ad of the 2012 campaign, the president is feeding the
public false information about America's dependence on foreign fuels. His twisted statistics actually celebrate the
Obama recession. The Obama re-election campaign is already shaping up as the most deceitful in American electoral
history.
Is
Obama 'Untethered to the Facts'? Are his lips moving? Well, every commercial needs to grab the
viewer's attention and this one does just that. They come out fighting with "Secretive oil billionaires
are attacking Obama." That's an attention grabber, eh? Right from the get-go, 'secretive oil
billionaires.' No names, no pictures, just a statement.
Obama's Amazing Energy Spin
Machine. The bankruptcy of Ener1, a "green energy" firm that got a $118 million stimulus grant, has
brought the Obama administration's commitment to sinking billions of dollars into alternative energy boondoggles
back into the spotlight. Unfortunately, President Obama remains committed to continuing down this wasteful
path, as his statements about energy in his recent State of the Union Address made clear. While the president
spent more time on the topic than any other policy area, he distorted the facts, misrepresented his plans, and
ignored his record.
Contraception
Accomodation: Who Pays For This? If not the religious institutions... or the women... who pays
for the contraceptive services? The Obama administration claims it pays for itself...
Barack
Obama: In the Footsteps of Twentieth Century Despots. Is a pre-packaged television image all that
matters? Is it because Obama happens to have black skin, and everyone is too intimidated by political
correctness to speak out? Are we as a society unwilling to say in the bluntest of terms that a national
leader is a liar and a fraud?
"Squid Ink": The
HHS mandate is already law. [Scroll down] ["]Thus, instead of delaying final regulations
until they could be revised to reflect the prospective changes President Obama outlined Friday, the administration
went ahead and locked into regulation its original position, accompanied by a (non-binding) promise to revisit
the issue.["] ... Kinda makes Obama's protestations of "accommodation" look even more like a fraud and a lie than
they already did. Pass it on. And while you're at it, pass this on, too: There are no exemptions
for individuals, either.
Audacious Lie v. the
Too-Clever-by-Half Lie. [White House Chief of Staff Jack] Lew's statement was so transparently
untrue that the best the White House could offer up as an explanation to [Jake] Tapper was "the chief of staff
was clearly referencing the general gridlock in Congress that makes accomplishing even the most basic tasks
nearly impossible given the Senate Republicans' insistence on blocking an up or down vote on nearly every
issue." Except that Lew was clearly not referencing general gridlock; he was making a specific, false
claim which he repeated and has yet to back away from.
The Five Biggest
Whoppers In Obama's Energy Speech. The White House billed President Obama's energy policy speech
as a response to mounting criticism of record high gas prices. What he delivered was a grab bag of excuses
and outright falsehoods.
API
accuses Obama of lying about energy. The White House is lying to the American public when it says
its policies are responsible for increased oil production, the American Petroleum Institute said.
Obama's Law of Contraception.
I have frequently discussed in this column the concept of Calculated Deception. That is President Obama's
practice of taking advantage of what he calculates average people don't know, and what the Democratic Party-controlled
media won't tell them, to mislead them into thinking and believing what will most benefit him politically. That
practice is now spreading across the entire Democrat party. We are seeing this play out now in particularly
ugly fashion in regard to the fabricated issue of contraception.
Leaked
E-mails Suggest bin Laden Not Buried at Sea. According to the official version of events promulgated
by the Obama administration, after U.S. forces killed Osama bin Laden, his body was flown to Afghanistan for
identification and then buried in the Arabian Sea about 12 hours after his death, supposedly in keeping
with Islamic ritual. However, internal e-mails from intelligence service Stratfor, obtained by the hacker
group Anonymous and posted to the Internet by WikiLeaks, cast doubt on that story.
Bin
Laden WAS NOT buried at sea. The fate of Osama bin Laden's remains have been called into question
after emails leaked from an intelligence analysis firm say the body of the terror leader was actually sent to the
U.S. for cremation. According to the emails, the Al Qaeda boss was shot and killed during the famous Navy
SEAL Team Six raid on his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, was transported back to the U.S. and cremated. The
emails were allegedly obtained by the hacker group Anonymous from Stratfor, an organisation dealing with analysis of
intelligence and geopolitical analysis.
Obama
launches ethics page, still breaks his rules. President Obama unveiled a new Ethics website designed
to facilitate researching lobbying reports, campaign contrbutions, and White House visitor logs, as part of his
promise to run a transparent administration — even though he has proven adept at circumventing his
own rules.
5 questions for Obama. President
Barack Obama's first full news conference in four months has nothing, nothing whatsoever, to do with upstaging the
GOP on Super Tuesday, to hear White House officials tell it. Of course, nobody outside the four walls of the
West Wing really buys that...
Report:
White House played a role in the firing of Shirley Sherrod. Documents obtained by Judicial Watch, a
public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, show that the Obama White House played
a role in the controversial firing of former U.S. Department of Agriculture employee Shirley Sherrod. The
administration had previously denied any involvement in her resignation.
Krauthammer: Obama energy speech 'a double technical'. In a
speech on Thursday [3/15/2012] in Maryland, President Barack Obama claimed former President Rutherford B. Hayes wasn't
particularly good at his job because he was supposedly dismissive of the telephone and its technological
potential. Obama was making a case for his administration's push for renewable energy investments.
But his jab at Hayes was historically unfounded.
'Game
Change': Palin Breakdown Meme Crushed by Facts. It has been well established that HBO's anti-Sarah Palin
movie, "Game Change," is full of distortions about the former vice presidential candidate.
Obama
Propaganda Doc Contains $25 Billion Error. There's no way the White House can spin this
falsehood and there's simply no way a film like this could've been produced without most everyone involved
knowing this falsehood was in there.
Issa
To Napolitano: Insiders Charge DHS Releasing 'False and Misleading' Numbers of Border Crossers. Rep.
Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano seeking
a wide range of documents as part of an investigation into charges by "agency insiders" that DHS has not accurately
counted the number of border crossers who are not arrested or turned back when they enter the U.S. illegally.
Obama's
whopper about Rutherford B. Hayes and the telephone. In a speech on energy Thursday, the president took aim at
the "cynics and naysayers" who dismiss potential new sources of energy, such as wind and solar. Leave aside the canard
about most Europeans believing the earth was flat before Columbus — that's an elementary-school tale with little
basis in fact. What about President Hayes? Was he really so dismissive about the invention of the telephone?
The Master of Words. The new 17-minute
Obama film, titled "The Road We've Traveled," is "being marketed as a documentary." Reporter Keith Koffler also noted:
"The problem with this documentary is that it's a lie. It is not a documentary. It is an extended campaign commercial,
pretending to be a documentary." Depending, then, on one's perspective, a more apt title might be: How Far We've Fallen.
Poking around the
propaganda factory. [Scroll down] In order to refute the charges of Newt Gingrich and others in the Republican
Party that the president is responsible for high gas prices, the president made the following claim: "Do not tell me that we're
not drilling. We're drilling all over this country. There are a few spots we're not drilling. We're not drilling in
the National Mall. We're not drilling at your house. I guess we could try to have, like, 200 oil rigs in the middle
of the Chesapeake Bay." So now, according to the president, if you are for more drilling for oil — if you are for lower
prices at the gasoline pump — you should vote for President Obama. Except he knows, and you know, and everyone else knows
that it isn't true.
Obama: Solyndra "Was Not
Our Program," You Know. This president of ours is having himself quite a day, isn't he? In addition to
his shameless Keystone ploy, he's also trying to distance his administration from one of its most glaring, high-profile failures.
'The Road We've Traveled' With Obama.
Mr. Obama has spent three years wallowing in blame. His culprits have ranged from his predecessor, to tsunamis and earthquakes,
to ATMs, to Fox News, to yours truly. If you Google "Obama, Blame, Bush" and "Obama, Inherited," you'll get tens of millions of
hits. As for inheriting the worst economy since the Great Depression: Perhaps Mr. Obama has forgotten the Carter presidency,
which featured double-digit inflation, double-digit interest rates, and high unemployment. The film is riddled with other
inaccuracies and misleading claims.
The Pants-on-Fire President.
This past Sunday [3/18/2012], the Washington Post ran a lengthy front-page article on Obama's machinations during the debt ceiling
debate last summer. Rush Limbaugh spent a considerable amount of his on-air time Monday discussing one of the highlights of
the piece: Barack Obama deliberately lied to the American people concerning the intransigence of the Republicans in the House
of Representatives. The fact that a pillar of the sycophantic mainstream media would publish a story claiming that their
hero lied is amazing. The question becomes, is he a compulsive liar or a sociopath?
How Many Times Has Obama Lied To
The American People? So, the man that lied when he promised not to accept public funding of his campaign;
the man that lied when he said no abortions would be covered by his health care scheme;
the man that lies every time he speaks about the amount of oil at this countries disposal;
the man that lies when he says a President can't do anything to reduce the price of gas,
and then plans an October Surprise release of our emergency oil to temporarily do just that...
Obama:
Government 'made this country great'. President Obama attacked Republicans for their desire to cut the
government spending that "made this country great," while also faulting them for failing to "balance the budget."
Obama said that Republicans have "one message and that is, we're going to make sure that we cut people's taxes even
more — so that by every objective measure our deficit is worse and we will slash government investments
that have made this country great," he argued, "not because it's going to balance the budget, but because it's driven by
our ideological vision about how government should be. That's their agenda, pure and simple."
The Editor says...
If you do not instantly recognize the President's statement as a pack of lies, you are wasting your time on this web site.
Barack Obama and the End of the
Progressive Era. [Scroll down] If the Republican Party campaigns as it has over the past five decades, Barack Obama
could win an unnecessarily close election despite all the factors arrayed against him. Therefore, every political accusation
has to be answered with a forceful rebuttal; every lie told must be called a lie, and not some polite euphemism; everyone who tells a
falsehood or fabricates an anecdote out of whole cloth must be called a liar.
Obama and the mother of all tyranny. To
begin with, as usual, much of Obama's rhetoric isn't exactly accurate. A "strong" majority did not support Obamacare.
(Parliamentary maneuvering in a Democratic Congress was needed to pass it.) It would be neither unprecedented
(unless you count the way it was passed) nor extraordinary to overturn parts of a federal law. (The Supreme
Court has done it many times.) And a court that restrains democracy is not an activist court as Obama implies,
but typically one that's just doing its job.
Political Word Games.
One of the highly developed talents of President Barack Obama is the ability to say things that are demonstrably false, and
make them sound not only plausible but inspiring. That talent was displayed just this week when he was asked whether
he thought the Supreme Court would uphold ObamaCare as constitutional or strike it down as unconstitutional.
Obama:
Cap-and-trade was a Republican idea. Tuesday's [4/3/2012] comments marked a rare mention of
cap-and-trade by the president, who has largely eliminated the phrase from speeches during the last two years.
Cap-and-trade is aimed at cutting carbon pollution from power plants and other sources by imposing an emissions cap
and allowing trade-able pollution credits. A scaled-back version collapsed in the Senate in 2010.
How
Saul Alinsky Taught Obama to Say One Thing and Do the Opposite. For those who have paid attention, President
Obama has a knack for saying one thing and doing another altogether: a knack for claiming one position while actually
occupying another. We first saw this when this when he was campaigning for president in 2008 and the Supreme Court
struck down DC's gun ban via the
Heller decision. At the time, he claimed to mutually support the gun ban and
the 2nd Amendment. [...] Perhaps his position on a mandate by which government forces citizens to buy healthcare is an even
clearer example.
Carney:
Obama Attacking Supreme Court Is "The Reverse Of Intimidation". White House press secretary Jay Carney is
asked why President Obama is "putting pressure" on the Supreme Court ahead of their decision on the healthcare law.
Carney says what Obama is doing is actually "the reverse of intimidation."
Obama: 'Google, Facebook Would Not
Exist' Without Government Funding. President Barack Obama insisted Thursday that without government spending, "Google, Facebook
would not exist." Obama made the remark at a campaign fundraiser while criticizing the budget passed by House Republicans. Obama
said the Rep. Paul Ryan's budget would, among other things, cut funding for research.
The Editor says...
This is akin to NASA getting credit for
inventing Tang and Velcro.
Time for a Military Approach to the
Border. The Obama administration claims that the U.S.-Mexican border is more secure today than it has ever been in the last
twenty years. However, this ignores the fact that Mexico has higher levels of violence and that sections of the border are controlled
by the drug cartels. I went to Arizona to view the border with Colonel Martha McSally, who is running for Gabrielle Giffords's
congressional seat, and to talk with ranchers about their border concerns.
Obama on
Why Michelle Was a Working Mom (at $316K Per Year). Speaking Friday [4/6/2012] at what the administration called "The
White House Forum on Women and the Economy," President Barack Obama said that after his two daughters were born, he and his wife — both
Harvard Law School graduates — could not afford the "luxury" of having her stay home with the children. In 2005, when Obama
began serving in the U.S. Senate (and his daughters turned 4 and 7), he and his wife were earning a combined annual income
of $479,062.
The Editor says...
It must be tough to scrape out a living on such meager wages.
Levin: Obama's
'Such A Liar,' 'He Sounds Like Marx'. On his show last night, Mark Levin called President Obama a
liar and said that he sounds like Karl Marx when he speaks about the economy.
President of the Twilight
Zone. Deconstructing one of President Obama's speeches can be a bit like taking a trip to an alternate
universe. Take his remarks last week to the Associated Press, contrasting his budget vision with that of Paul Ryan
and Republicans. [...] Given that estimates of Medicare's unfunded liabilities run from a low of $25 trillion to as
much as $90 trillion, the program is clearly going to have to change. The president may believe his changes
are better than Ryan's, but to pretend that he would leave the program exactly as it is while Ryan would leave sick
seniors in the streets to die is simply unstuck from reality.
President
Obama's 'Fairness' Vision Would Bankrupt Nation. It's ironic that President Obama would make two speeches this
week in Florida about "fairness," sandwiched as they were between $10,000-a-plate fundraising dinners. But that's the
level of hypocrisy coming from the White House these days. To be polite, most of the comments Obama makes these days
about the economy, taxes and, especially, "fairness" stretch all credibility. Hearing the large number of outright
falsehoods and partial truths he uses to support his argument, it's impossible not to believe it's simply a ploy to get
votes from those who envy the rich and the successful. A full unpacking of Obama's whoppers would require a much
larger space than we have here.
Who
is this guy pretending to be president? This 2012 Obama is strident and mean, even deceitful, divisive,
telling half-truths after half-truths. He's using Air Force One as his personal Brinks truck with wings to collect
cash all over the country, disguising the trips as official. He tries to intimidate the Supreme Court, an equal
branch of government, when its thinking might stray from his. He distorts history, and if no one calls him, then
it's true. If he's caught, this Obama says you obviously mis-heard. Because, as everyone knows, he could
never mis-speak.
A Policy of Lying.
Why does the most open and transparent administration in history lie about government records?
Indonesian
Source: Obama Would Have to Hunt for Dog Meat in Jakarta. Fidogate has just gone international.
Already the Left is defending Obama for eating dog meat on the grounds that his stepfather — who was
Indonesian — wanted to share his culture and customs with him. But there's just one problem
with this: it wasn't his culture or custom.
Obama: The Lying King.
For the first time in U.S. history, we have a president who boldly and arrogantly lies about
everything, and
his lies go unchallenged by the mainstream media. [...]
Obama said we are drilling for oil. Obama is lying.
Obama said the rich do not pay their fair share. Obama is lying.
Obama said that under ObamaCare, if you like your current health care plan, you can keep it. Obama is lying.
Obama's administration says Republicans want to ban contraception. Obama's minions are lying.
Obama's lies are too numerous to list in this article.
List of Lies: A web site dealing with this specific issue.
Why Obama Lies. As has
often been commented, all of Barack Obama's promises come with an expiration date. They range from the
relatively minor to the truly majestic such as his promise that he would not raise taxes for those families
earning under $250,000 a year and that he would cut the deficit in half.
Top 10 Obama flimflams. This list
of half-truths, sleight-of-hands, and outright lies are a good reason why Obama doesn't deserve a title more
ennobling than huckster-in-chief.
Obama Suckering America into Loving
Russia. Lies have consequences. And the lies told by the Obama administration about Russia for the past four years,
lies which can be characterized only as Goebbels-like propaganda, have had devastating consequences indeed.
Obama
Once Needed 'to Take a Subway or a Bus Just to Find a Fresh Piece of Fruit'. Barack Obama's
vision as president is shaped by the fact that he knows what "it's like to take a subway or a bus just to find
a fresh piece of fruit in a grocery store," Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan said last week.
Donovan seemed to be suggesting that the president had once lived in what First Lady Michelle Obama now refers to
as a "food desert" — a place without a nearby supermarket. The First Lady has launched an
initiative to eliminate these places.
The Editor says...
If you believe this Obama anecdote has any basis in actual events, you are wasting your time on this web site.
One would have to be extremely gullible in order to believe that Barack H. Obama once boarded "a subway or a bus"
(apparently he can't remember which), in search of "a fresh piece of fruit" of no specific kind. When was the
last time you hopped on a bus to go to a grocery store? When was the last time you made the trip to your neighborhood
grocery store for one piece of fruit? What variety of fruit induces such urgency in its consumers? I am
completely confident that Barack H. Obama has never made such a journey, and the story is a shameless fabrication.
Another
Obama Lie Debunked by ... The New York Times! Michelle Obama, the nations pre-eminent childhood nutritionist,
has been arguing that much of the childhood obesity problem is due to the fact that too many urban children live in food
deserts, lacking access to fresh fruits and vegetables, etc. But, as the
New York Times Gina Kolata reports
today [4/18/2012], it isnt true. [...] I should point out in passing, by the way, that Gina Kolata is an exceptional
Times reporter who often contests the conventional wisdom of the left on health and environmental issues, so
kudos to her.
Obama's Latest Plan to Snooker Seniors. For years, the
President and his congressional accomplices have been telling us that the Medicare Advantage (MA) program is too costly. [...] This canard was the pretext
for the massive slashes in MA funding he authorized when he signed Obamacare into law.
Not a Flood but a Trickle. The
number of U.S. guns recovered at Mexican crime scenes is far lower than originally claimed by the Obama administration
and spiked shortly after the conclusion of Operation Fast and Furious, according to data released by the Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, and Firearms Thursday [4/26/2012].
A Recovery That Never Comes.
The President has been promising an economic recovery ever since 2008, when he promised to create 5 million green jobs
and to "act quickly to help people stay in their homes." With all the promises Obama made, many voters who supported
him expected the economy to begin turning around early in 2009. But then, shortly after his election, Obama let it be
known that the economy had been driven "into a ditch" deeper than he had imagined, and the recovery would take some time.
Then he discovered that the economy he inherited was not just in a ditch, it was actually a "mess" as well. There were
always new excuses for why the recovery never came.
Carney: 'I Never Lie'. Jay Carney said he never lies in his
capacity as White House press secretary at a Friday scholarship lunch hosted by the White House Correspondents' Association.
The Editor says...
Naturally, the rest of the article comprises a list of Carney's lies.
Obama will begin to
campaign next week, aide says with straight face. You know that guy who so remarkably resembles Barack Obama, the
one who's been flying all over the country for months talking about what Congress needs to do about the problems he got stuck
with? The fellow who started raising campaign money more than one year, 100+ fundraisers and $127 million ago.
Had another one last night, $35K a pop. Well, apparently, the Chicago crowd expects Americans to believe that these Obama
trips have been "official" forays. And that the Windy City Democrat ever stopped campaigning after 2008.
Live Not By Obama's Lies. Since August
2011, when President Obama went on a bus tour of Iowa coinciding with the Ames Republican straw poll, the White
House has asked the American people to accept the fantasy that the president's hyper-partisan speeches and appearances are
not actually campaign events. The "official" rallies, Obama spokesmen said, would not begin until late in spring
of 2012, when at long last the president would "engage" his Republican opponent Mitt Romney. [In reality,] Obama's
every word and action is geared toward reelection.
Obama's
Tall Tale About Paying Off Students Loans Until 2004 Starts Falling Apart. Like most anything that
dribbles out of his piehole, nothing is quite what it appears to be. Take the case of the story of this very
well-off couple raking in about a half-million dollars a years struggling over a decade after leaving law school to
pay off student loans. Why don't I believe this guy? Well, I guess now that he's manufactured a new
"crisis" he's got to keep telling this lame story.
In stump speech, Michelle Obama evicts mother
from White House. The eviction notice came April 30 when the first lady told fellow Democrats at a fundraiser that she shared their
values. "My family, we lived in a little bitty apartment on the South Side of Chicago over my aunt's house [and] my mom still lives in that house to
this day." However, the first lady's mother, Marian Robinson, has lived in the White House since March 2009, when Essence Magazine announced her move
from Chicago to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Obama
Pushes False GM Success Story. The Obama camp can't stop clucking about how he saved GM and the car industry.
But if the GM bailout is such a success story, why can't it pay back its debt to taxpayers?
Barack Obama, Master of Lies.
As your stomach tightens and your pulse begins to race an overwhelming desire to fight, flee or vomit begins to sweep over
you — adrenaline surging. Intense anger and deep disgust invade your soul. It's happening again.
Barack Obama is speaking. And you're being lied to. All across America, this scenario is repeated every day
as Americans listen to their president on radio, TV or over the internet. There's no argument. No discussion.
No opinion polls necessary. Americans know that Barack Obama is a prolific and, some say, pathological liar.
Washington Post
Rebuts Obama's Malicious Lie. Barack Obama never lets truth get in the way of political advantage. Nothing
new about that; mendacity has been a consistent theme of his 3½ years in office. But it seems that more media
outlets are willing to call the president on his falsehoods these days.
The Hypothetical President. [N]early the entire case for
President Barack Obama's second term is based on not what has happened but what could, would or might under different circumstances.
Things, as you've surely heard from one official after the next, would have been a whole lot worse without the president's guidance.
Lies and Government Jobs Data. For
59 out of the last 60 weeks, the weekly jobless numbers have been revised, after the fact, always in the same direction:
higher. That's unheard of. Those revisions higher make the present week's unemployment number look better in comparison,
more so since the markets often treat the prior week's revision as an afterthought. And there is statistical manipulation in
the unemployment rate, too. The government's reported unemployment number doesn't include people who stopped looking for
work, but who want jobs.
Obama caught in another falsehood. The lies have to do with
decrepit bridges and, of course, Republicans. The great healer, the man who promised to change the way politics
was practiced in Washington, falsely attacked his opposition — again.
Mirages from my president. A new "Vanity Fair"
story highlights an inconsistency in Barack Obama's backstory. In "Dreams From My Father," Obama describes a fight with his white
New York girlfriend, after which she asks him why "black people were so angry all the time?" But it turns out, the event did not
happen — at least, not with the person he said it happened with. What is more, this isn't the first time such a
discrepancy in the memoir has emerged.
Obama's Historical Fiction. The
idea behind
Dreams [
from My Father] was that when the time was right, the people for whom it was written could then sell
Obama to the entertainment addicts in the general population who let others do their thinking. If during this exercise most people
Obama had encountered during his still-young life were turned into composite characters, incidents didn't add up, and the dates weren't
accurate, those are all just facts that can be dismissed for the sake of overall narrative.
Obama: 'I traveled to
Afghanistan to thank our troops'. President Obama's weekly remarks, as provided by the White House[: "]This week, I
traveled to Afghanistan — to thank our troops serving far from home, and to sign an historic agreement that will help us complete
our mission and end the war.["]
The Editor says...
He should have said, "This week, I traveled to Afghanistan at your expense, to get myself on television for another
few minutes and make a campaign speech using American soldiers as background props."
What Does 'Composite Girl' Tell Us About Obama?
The real problem with
Dreams is the inexcusable dishonesty throughout the book. The promiscuous use of composites is merely a symptom of the larger
problem. [...] With the help of his muse and co-author, Bill Ayers, Obama wove a series of racial grievances into the narrative to toughen up Obama's life story.
These stories aren't "compressed," as Obama claims. They are contrived.
Strange Anomalies in the Famous Situation Room
Photo. The concept of a composite presidency certainly comes as no shock as someone who participated as a contributor and authored evidence
presented at Sheriff Joe Arpaio's press conference on Obama's long-form birth certificate report. On the heels of these events — and taking
advantage of an anniversary of the bin Laden raid — are recent campaign tactics to politicize the killing of Osama bin Laden. With the
re-emergence of another round of gutsy call faux heroism regarding Obama's decision, it may also be a good time to revisit the famous "Situation Room" photo
released by the White House. Is it Photoshopped? Like everything else Obama does to make a political point, is the photo a composite as well?
Putting Family First and 'First Family' last. If Obama wanted credence for his
astroturfed bold role as tough guy, decisive thinker, he should never have let himself be photographed in the White House Situation Room, aiming to look casual but
casting himself forever as a wuss.
Was the White House Bin
Laden Photo Photoshopped? While the details of the president's schedule are definitely a matter of personal security in real
time, more than a year later, the right of the Legislature to exercise its checks-and-balances duties is paramount. If Obama was on
the golf course when he should have been in the Situation Room, and he lied to us about his whereabouts, the American people have a right
to know.
The Illusion of Obama's Bin Laden Raid
Situation Room Leadership. Obama was out golfing while the OBL mission was unfolding, and the administration needed the Situation Room photo op for
public perception — to give the
illusion that he's
presidential. Obama's entire "Composite Presidency" and administration are
orchestrated in this fashion. Not only is the photo's legitimacy in question, but so is the narrative illusion behind it. Obama knew of OBL's location
for a year and refused to act. The CIA admits that there was "no live video feed," as implied by the iconic White House photo. It is anyone's guess
what the captive audience was looking at, but it wasn't the OBL raid.
This is a 15-minute video clip that is well worth your time.
Glenn Beck on the lies that
Barack Hussein Obama has told about his past. Beck goes back though Obama's statements about his past and points out the lies he's
told, including some in his big 2004 DNC speech.
'Out for Obama' and Other Outlandish
Campaign Slogans. The White House claimed that "President Obama's decision to reveal his personal position on gay marriage was not
political — and it was not planned," which means that some ambitious silk-screener churned out those gay friendly t-shirts on incredibly
short notice.
Obama and GM Cook the Books. Would you hire
President Obama as your financial adviser? Three years ago his administration invested more than $100 billion in taxpayer money to bail out General
Motors. On Tuesday [5/15/2012], the entire company, not just what the government owns, was worth less than $34 billion. By anyone's definition,
that investment is a glaring failure. Yet over the last few days the Obama campaign, in a $25 million marketing blitz, has flooded the airwaves with
ads in battleground states, claiming the bailout should be counted a rousing success.
Like Warren, Obama Claims Cherokee
Ancestry — But Offers No Proof. President Barack Obama and Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren have more in common
than just their liberal political ideology, Harvard Law pedigree, and Democratic Party affiliation. Both claim Cherokee ancestry, and neither can prove it.
Obamish. It has taken some time and work, but our
president has invented a new language. "Obamese" and "Barackish" aren't quite right, so let's call it "Obamish." Obamish
uses English, but it does so to confuse most listeners while really communicating with only a few. Obamish is a language based
on lies — but, when it's effective, it's a language that establishes plausible deniability around the implementation of
politically risky, far-left policies. Obamish is an arrogant language, premised on a need-to-know custodial view of the governed.
That Professor Obama
Dog Won't Hunt Anymore. The Obama campaign's days of telling us that what looks like bad news is really
good news that we are just too dumb to comprehend are drawing to a close.
'Obama
... Stressed He Probably Knows About Judaism More than Any Other President'. President Obama met yesterday
[5/29/2012] with "about 20 Conservative Jewish community leaders, thanking them for the work they do to improve communities
around the country and discussed their shared commitment to rebuilding the U.S. economy," Haaretz reports. In the
meeting, Obama reportedly boasted about his knowledge of Judaism, telling the leaders that he thinks he knows more "about
Judaism" than all past presidents. He said he gained this knowledge of Judaism from reading.
10
Reasons Obama Must Disclose His College Records. [#5] Appearing this week on Jon Stewart's "The Daily
Show," Michelle Obama maintained that the president decided to transfer to Columbia "when he lost his father." "He
really buckled down," she said, "and thought about how to use his life to the fullest." But he transferred in
1981 — a year before his dad died. So here we have another story that doesn't add up.
Obama's Biggest Lie.
[John] LeBoutillier asked [Edward] Klein what is the biggest lie Obama has told the American public. "He promised that he
would bring us together. He promised that he would not be partisan," Klein responds. "He promised that he would reach
out to the other side, the Republican side. "Instead, he and his small little group of people in the White House hunkered down,
have not reached out, not compromised, making it impossible for Washington to work.
Unmasking the media's birth certificate
hypocrisy. In 2009, the government of Kenya announced that it was planning to build a monument to Mr. Obama at the
Kenyan site it says is his birthplace. Officials in Kenya's parliament insist Mr. Obama was born there; so have multiple
articles in Kenyan newspapers. Kenyan family members also allege that Mr. Obama was not born on U.S. soil. Instead of
addressing the issue immediately and forthrightly, the Obama administration spent millions of dollars in the courts to prevent his
birth certificate from being unsealed. Only when real estate mogul Donald Trump cast a spotlight on the issue did Team Obama
finally relent. No wonder millions of Americans believe the president is being less than truthful. At the very least,
he is a charlatan, who for years helped to perpetrate a massive lie about his background.
Ignore the
spin: Wisconsin was a disaster for Democrats and President Obama. Democrats and their union allies spent an astronomical
amount on a judicial election, four state legislative recalls and the recall of Governor Walker, only to lose. The spin has
already begun. On Tuesday [6/5/2012], White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said the Wisconsin recall election "probably
won't tell us much about a future race."
Obama
Caught Lying Again: He Was Member of 'New Party,' Says Kurtz. Barack Obama was, in fact, a member of the socialist New
Party in the 1990s and sought its endorsement for the Illinois senate — contrary to the misrepresentations of Obama's presidential
campaign in 2008, and in spite of the efforts of Politico's Ben Smith to quash the story.
Why is this man whining? Obama's
blaming his predecessor for his own record as his term comes to a close is incredibly unbecoming. Listen to his tone in the video.
The whining makes him unlikable. But it is not just the tone that is off. His comments are ineffective. It's too soon to
rewrite history. We know he is wildly stretching the truth.
One More Dubious Story in the Obama
Family Saga. The respectable media, left and right, are finally opening themselves up to the possibility that the story
Barack Obama told in his 1995 memoir
Dreams from My Father has been, in large part, manufactured. As a case in point, the
Weekly Standard's Andrew Ferguson has had to do some serious reevaluating of the man after reading David Maraniss's soon-to-be
released book,
Barack Obama: The Story. Writes Ferguson ruefully, "The writer who would later use the power of his life
story to become a plausible public man was making it up, to an alarming extent."
Why Does Media Tolerate Obama's Lies?
The media loves to come up with catchphrases that boil down who they are and how things operate in the world of politics. Phrases such as,
"It's the cover up, not the crime," or, "It's the lie that gets you." Both of these statements have always proven true, at least for every
Republican under the sun, but most certainly not for Barack Obama.
The maddening details of Obama's DREAM Decree are becoming
clearer. As [a recent] CIS report notes, 1) The decree doesn't just apply to illegal immigrants who were "brought to this country
by their parents." It also would give work permits to those who snuck across the border by themselves as teenagers. "Through no fault of
their own" is a talking point for DREAM proselytizers, not an actual legal requirement. 2) The same goes for the phrase "and know only this
country as home." That's a highly imaginative riff on the decree's actual requirement, which is for 5 years "continuous residence."
It turns out "continuous residence" doesn't mean what you think it means.
Biographer David Maraniss Downplays
Obama Lies as 'Literature'. As I wrote yesterday, the media loves being lied to by Barack Obama. As we all know, the furor
over a sitting President caught telling 38 falsehoods in his self-penned biography would be unquenchable were we talking about a president
with an R after his name. Not to mention the lies Obama told the media about his relationship with Bill Ayers and his membership in the
socialist New Party. But as you'll see in the [video clip in this article], Obama biographer David Maraniss, who found no less than
38 falsehoods in Obama's bio, is determined to downplay Obama's lying.
Yes, Obama's Bio Lies Constitute a
Pattern. The unwillingness of the [
New York]
Times and other mainstream publications to call out Obama for
writing fiction and calling it autobiography gives us a good indication of how much of an advantage having a quiescent media is for an
incumbent president.
Is President Obama
A Pathological Liar? [For example,]
Lie No. 9: Obama submitted a phony bio to his book publicist
claiming he was "born in Kenya."
Lie No. 10: Obama denied being a member of the socialist New Party, when
a member roster of the Chicago chapter of the party lists him joining on Jan. 11, 1996.
Lie No. 11:
Obama claimed he had only a passing acquaintance with Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, when in fact they
held a fundraiser for their Hyde Park neighbor in their living room, and years later, while Obama served in the U.S. Senate, hosted a
barbecue for him in their backyard.
Obama's Truthiness. It's becoming
increasingly clear that President Obama is not burdened with too heavy a commitment to honesty.
7 Reasons
Obama's Amnesty For Under 30 Illegals Is Terrible Policy. [#5] Billing this as a way to help children is a dodge: First
of all, thirty year olds are not children. They're adults and if they're eligible for this program, it means they're adults who've been
knowingly breaking this country's laws for 12 years. Someone like that is not worthy to receive American citizenship in the first
place. Oh, but what about the real children who will be helped by this program? What about a 14 year old who was brought here
five years ago by her parents? Well, can't you see the obvious set-up here? What happens when the 14 year old's parents are
caught? Then, when the law is enforced, people will claim we're "breaking up families."
Obama the first Invented-American president. Courtesy
of David Maraniss' new book, we now know that yet another key prop of Barack Obama's identity is false: His Kenyan grandfather was not
brutally tortured or even non-brutally detained by his British colonial masters. [...] His Indonesian step-grandfather, supposedly killed by
Dutch soldiers during his people's valiant struggle against colonialism, met his actual demise when he "fell off a chair at his home while
trying to hang drapes."
White House spins Fast and Furious scandal.
Members of the public "do not expect Congress to waste time on a political motivated fishing expedition," Carney said. Carney tried to spin
the controversy to credit Attorney General Eric Holder for ending a tactic that was first used by lower-level officials during the administration
of George W. Bush. "The practice began in the previous administration, and it was ended in this one," he claimed. [...] "This is
entirely about principle," he said, prompting laughter from reporters.
The Editor says...
The Obama White House spokesman needs to be laughed at more often.
'This Is About Principle,' Carney
Says — Prompting Laughter From WH Press Corps. There is no White House cover-up; the Justice Department has given
Congress "every page related to the Fast and Furious operation;" and congressional Republicans are focused on a "politically motivated,
taxpayer-funded, election-year fishing expedition," White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters on Thursday.
Why 'fast and furious' matters.
[Scroll down] Referring on Thursday to Obama's executive privilege assertion, press secretary Jay Carney assured reporters: "This is
entirely about principle." The White House press corps promptly laughed in his face. This isn't about principle — it's
about protecting the AG from the consequences of a self-inflicted scandal with the potential to bring down the president.
'Mr. Axelrod is not under oath on news shows.'
Either
Holder or Axelrod lying about political meetings, Forbes says. Virginia Republican Rep. Randy Forbes told The Daily Caller that
he thinks either Attorney General Eric Holder or President Barack Obama's chief re-election campaign strategist, David Axelrod, is lying about
private political meetings they allegedly had together.
Lying liars and the 'furious' lies they
tell. Thus begins the fast and furious descent of President Obama. Almost exactly 40 years to the day after burglars slipped
into the Watergate complex, setting off a coverup that toppled a president, Mr. Obama on Thursday [6/21/2012] invoked executive privilege to shield
documents about his administration's shockingly inept "gunwalking" program known as Fast and Furious. That same day, the lies poured forth in
the White House briefing room, delivered by the president's chief spokesman.
Obama Regulation Fiction. "Flack checkers" at the University of
Pennsylvania have called President Barack Obama's assertion that he has supported less regulation than his predecessor one of the "worst
[fibs] of 2012."
The Contents of Obama's Character. [Scroll
down] He lies to us constantly about who he is. Not in the way most politicians lie, spinning and shading events with self-serving
half-truths. He lies with the arrogant bravado of a con man messiah. My grandfather was tortured by the British. My parents
met because of the march in Selma. My white girlfriend wanted to be black.
Obama Plugs Birth Control and Planned
Parenthood in Speech at High School. Listing the reasons why Americans should vote for him, President Barack Obama told an audience at a
high school in New Hampshire on Monday [6/25/2012] that failure to subsidize abortions and contraception is the same as "restricting access" to those
services.
Boehner: The Administration Covered Up 'Lies That
They Gave To The Congress'. Asked if the upcoming House vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress is distracting
from the focus on jobs, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said there are other things congress must deal with. Including why the administration
"covered up the lies that they gave to the congress."
Media to Obama: Feel Free to Keep Lying
About Romney's Outsourcing. Romney did not outsource jobs. Obama is lying and saying he did.
Media Refuses to Make Obama Pay Price
For Lies. Other than his rather bizarre wistful recalling of how great things were in Nixon's America, yesterday in
an off-teleprompter stump speech, President Barack Obama told two humongous whoppers. First, he distorted the Clinton years, as
though those years in any way resembled, well, what the Obama years look like this very day. Secondly, he twisted his very
first campaign, the most Chicago-style of Chicago-style campaigns, into some sort of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington struggle —
when he ran unopposed. And what have we heard from a media currently obsessed with fact-checking? Not a peep, not a
sound, not a word.
Promises, Promises. As a candidate and in
the early days of his presidency, Obama and his top aides made a series of very specific promises on a range of issues. As a
candidate, Obama promised to create five million new energy jobs alone, claimed that by the end of his first term his health care plan
would "bring down premiums by $2,500 for the typical family," and guaranteed that his financial rescue plan would help "stop foreclosures."
Obama's Excuses Are Getting
Weaker. Speaking on his bus tour of Ohio, he repeated the theme we've heard so often since January 2009: It's
not his fault. Only this time he not only heaped blame on the administration of his predecessor but also claimed the problems
dated to the Clinton administration, which heretofore Democrats have spoken of as a golden age of prosperity: "We've got to
deal with what's been happening over the last decade, the last 15 years." It's not clear what event it was that happened
in 1997 — when his secretary of state was serving as First Lady and President Obama had just begun his first term in the Illinois
State Senate — whose impact was so far-reaching that even today the administration is helpless to ameliorate its effects.
Transportation Secretary: Without
Obama 'No One Would Have Ever Predicted' Lexus Hybrids — Which Debuted in '04. The Obama administration is taking credit for inspiring Lexus
to create a hybrid SUV — even though the automobile company began the well-publicized production of its RX 400h SUV hybrid in 2004 — four full
years before Obama was elected.
Obama Prepares to Drop
Tax-Increase Bomb On Job Creators. President Obama is obviously panicked. Last month Obama and his supporters spent a lot more
than Mitt Romney, but even with that cash advantage and the media on their side, the polls haven't budged. Moreover, the President
and his campaign have been running around frantically trying to find something that will stick to Romney, be it provable lies about his
outsourcing or outright smears involving offshore accounts.
Tuning Out a President. Somewhere around early 2006, the nation
tuned out George W. Bush for a variety of reasons, some warranted, but many not. [...] So Barack Obama is likewise being tuned out. "Let me be
perfectly clear," "Make no mistake about it," "In truth," "In point of fact," "I'm not kidding," and "I'm not making this up" all tip off a weary public
that just the opposite is true.
Obama's biggest mistake as
president: not enough speeches. The Democrats' fallback position, again and again, is: "Well, people would
agree with our policies if we could just make them
understand our policies." The truth is exactly the opposite,
of course. People do understand their policies, which is why they disagree with them. All Obama talked about for a
couple of years was Obamacare — whoops, I mean the "Affordable Care Act" — and most Americans hate it.
That's not in spite of his actions. That's because of them.
Obama's Stump Speech Myths: Obama's taking
poetic license with history, both personal and political, on the campaign trail. Where are the media outlets to vet his speeches
for fact-mangling?
The Obama Way: Selling Failure as
Success. Barak [sic] Obama, in 2008, won the presidency on the platform that (among other things) he understood the
country's economic problems and, more importantly, knew how to solve them. Three-plus years later, the administration is now
telling us that "The economy turns out to have been far worse ... than we knew at the time," "we are moving in the right direction,"
and that he now "needs more time to fix the economy." "The economy turns out to have been far worse ... than we knew at the
time" simply tells us that Mr. Obama never understood the problems to begin with.
Obama
Administration official calls Solyndra an "enormous success". Rep. Cliff Stearns, chairman of the Oversight and
Investigations Subcommittee, asked [David G.] Franz if he would agree that "the Loan Guarantee Program has had a tough record."
Frantz replied, "Quite to the contrary, sir, I think it's been an enormous success." [Video clip] There have been so
many "successes" that it's hard to keep track of them all: Solyndra, Beacon Power, Abound Solar, Nevada Geothermal Power, Ener1,
A123, SunPower, First Solar, Evergreen Solar, Solar Trust for America, Fisker Automotive... every one of them swimming in a thick
"success" gravy of bankruptcy and layoffs.
Mitt Romney
was booed for this: Do you agree? Vice President Joe "Millions of Americans Are in a Depression" Biden will
speak to the NAACP convention in Houston today. [...] Biden's political partner, Barack Obama, begged off the NAACP gathering,
citing a scheduling conflict, which does not appear on his calendar.
Can a Candidate Lie His
Way to the Presidency? Barack Obama has developed quite a record as a liar. He lied for more than a decade about
where he was born. He lied about many aspects of his life in his fictional "memoir." He lied about his Chicago years and
his activities and associations there. (Has anyone ever asked the question, what did Obama do when he lived in Chicago, and
whom did he know there, since it seems that all of the activities and associations of which we have a record are now, as Nixon
might say, inoperative.)
Obama Insults Small Business Owners.
President Obama insulted small business owners during a campaign stop in Roanoke, Va. on Saturday [7/14/2012]. "If you've got a
business — you didn't build that," Obama told the crowd. "Somebody else made that happen." President Obama said successful Americans
did not become successful on their own — they had help. "If you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own," he said.
"You didn't get there on your own."
"You didn't build that?!" Once again Barack Obama has
demonstrated that he doesn't have a clue about how America works. [...] Obama claims that anyone in the US who runs a successful business
has not achieved that success on his or her own volition, but instead has to thank the government for making that success possible.
The Editor says...
Wait a minute — let's talk about the businesses that Barack H. Obama has built over the years. Oh yeah, I remember now. He
has never built or managed a profit-motivated business in his life. Not so much as a hot dog stand. When it comes to small business in
America, Obama has no room to talk and no experience to draw upon.
Errors Start To Emerge in Standard Stump Speech of
President Obama. Really understanding President Obama's governing philosophy and agenda doesn't require a whole fleet of investigative
reporters or opposition researchers. All you have to do is take a reasonably careful look at his campaign stump speech, a collection of
half-truths, misrepresentations, and distortions that are ultimately disrespectful of the American people.
Obama
Promised He Wouldn't Raise Taxes On the Middle Class. He Lied. When he was asking for our vote in 2008, then candidate
Barack Obama famously promised the American people, "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." But as the Supreme Court has now authoritatively ruled, the Obamacare individual mandate, requiring workers to purchase
the health insurance the government specifies each family must buy, is a tax. And that tax applies to the middle class and working
people. CBO estimates that health insurance will cost $15,000 per year on average for families soon after Obamacare is fully
implemented, rising rapidly from there. That is the individual mandate tax on the middle class and working people.
Obama's Second Term. Trying to
decipher what Obama's 53 minute speech — when printed, it's 17 pages! — actually says about his proposals on
economic issues is, at best, painstakingly difficult. [...] He claimed that he asked Congress for the authority to reorganize the federal
government for the next century. Does anybody remember that? And where's the bill? Was it presented in the House
and was there a hearing?
Big Lies in Politics.
Perhaps the biggest lie of this election year, and the one likely to be repeated the most often, is that the income of "the
rich" is going up, while other people's incomes are going down. If you listen to Barack Obama, you are bound to hear this lie
repeatedly. But the government's own Congressional Budget Office has just published a report whose statistics flatly contradict
this claim.
Dems Leave Reid Out to Dry on
Tax Accusations. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid continues to accuse Mitt Romney of ducking taxes for 10 years
without a hint of evidence. [...] If Reid thought his accusations would result in another media outcry for Romney's tax returns, he
made the wrong bet. Instead the media seems to be primarily interested in chronicling Reid's bizarre outbursts.
Those Perennially-Crumbling
Roads and Bridges. Just about a year ago, I observed that no matter how much the federal government spends on "infrastructure,"
we still get predictable cries that "we need to do something about our crumbling infrastructure." The need to fix "crumbling roads
and bridges" a perennial rallying cry in President Obama's speeches, even though he touts the stimulus as "the largest new investment in
our nation's infrastructure since Eisenhower." The government spends enormous sums of money, but there's never any sign of it having
an impact, at least in the rhetoric of those who want to spend more.
The Government's Awlaki Story
Does Not Pass the Laugh Test. It was always incredible to suggest, as the Justice Department has, that Awlaki's
release was the result of a series of remarkable coincidences. Until this week, the story went something like this...
Report: FBI Had Anwar
al-Awlaki in Custody and Let Him Go. There is an answer as to why the Muslim cleric was let go, but it may take years
to find out what that answer is.
Obama in Never-Never Land. [Scroll
down] The only constant is that names change as circumstances dictate. Barack Obama does not take money from oil companies, hire lobbyists,
approve of earmarks, or raise money from Wall Street, but somebody with that name did. The new civility is "punish our enemies." Voter
intimidation is asking for an ID at the polls — it is not trying to make it more difficult for those in the military to vote. Developing
domestic energy means canceling the Keystone pipeline and putting vast areas of federal lands off limits to gas and oil production. If the private
sector goes ahead, despite federal regulations and discouragement, with new fracking and horizontal drilling, then the Obama administration achieved record
levels of domestic oil and gas production.
Barack Obama thinks you're stupid.
The Ignorant, the Pets, and the
Dead: That's the Plan. It would take a voter who is gullible, unreflective, and downright ignorant of the way things really
work to accept Obama's fantastic notion that presidential daughters Sasha and Malia could conceivably have been potential victims of
horrific violence in a Colorado multiplex. Only that same voter could possibly credit Reid's claim that a Republican who has been
a national figure for a decade at least could get away with paying no taxes, legally or illegally, for that period and have the fact go
unreported until now.
"The challenge is finding anything his campaign says that is true."
The Postmodern President.
The entire theory of the Obama campaign seems to be that the more outrageous the claim the better, because the more you repeat it the
more the media will talk about it, and the lie will achieve a kind legendary truth.
America Is A Nation Divided Under Barack Obama.
President Obama says he doesn't think "anybody who's been watching the campaign would say that in any way we have tried to divide the country." Does he really
expect anyone to believe that?
The Salami Slice Presidency. What is most remarkable is Obama's obstinate refusal to
acknowledge the tensions he has aggravated. "I don't think you or anybody who's been watching the campaign would say that in any way we have tried to divide
the country," he defensively told
Entertainment Tonight Wednesday evening [8/15/2012]. "We've always tried to bring the country together."
Obama's
mediocre outing before the press corps. In an effort to soothe the increasingly peeved White House press corps, the president
appeared in the White House Briefing Room today [8/20/2012] to take a few questions. It was a remarkably ineffective performance, which
the White House must hope that few people watched. Among other untruths, the president insisted, "Nobody accused Mr. Romney of being a
felon." Well, other than deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter.
Obama's Constant BS About Thomas Jefferson and Islam.
Every year he's been in office, President Obama has hosted an "iftar dinner" to honor Islam in the White House. The President has also each time led his speech
with the outlandish nonsense that Thomas Jefferson held the "first iftar dinner" in the White House. And every time it's been utter hogwash.
Obama has millions of fake
Twitter followers. President Obama's Twitter account has 18.8 million followers — but more than half of them really don't
exist, according to reports. A new Web tool has determined that 70% of Obama's crowd includes "fake followers," The
New York Times
reports in a story about how Twitter followers can be purchased.
Obama Tells Another Whopper. Call me a cynic, but I'm beginning to think this
Obama chap has a little trouble telling the truth.
Liberal Chickens.
It could not last — the attendee of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright's church sermonizing on tolerance; the practitioner of
Chicago politics lecturing on civility; the most partisan voting record in the Senate as proof of a new promised bipartisanship;
earlier books and speeches calling for hard-core progressivism as evidence of a no-more-red-state-blue-state conciliation.
And in fact the disconnect did not last, and Barack Obama finds himself dealing with assorted chickens coming home to roost.
Obama lied about Janesville GM auto
plant, not Ryan. [Scroll down] In other words, everything Paul Ryan said was true: He pointed to Obama's own lofty
promises about the plant being open for the next "100 years" if he were elected and contrasted it with the reality of a shuttered
factory locked up and empty to this day. It was Obama who lied to Janesville workers. Ryan told America the truth.
Obama Campaign Source of Endless Amusement.
After Romney announced he was visiting New Orleans, Obama announced plans to visit on Monday. When the story got around,
Jay Carney announced that really, it had been planned all along. They thought of it first.
Obama Lies While Accusing the Romney Campaign
of Lying. If you want a near perfect encapsulation of how the Obama campaign is leaning on incompetent partisans masquerading as "independent"
media fact checking organizations to do their dirty work, I strongly encourage you to read today's article in the New York Times, "Obama Team Sharpens
Attacks on Rivals' Character."
Media Fail to Fact-Check Michelle's
Speech. The basic premise of Mrs. Obama's speech — that she and her husband had struggled economically like so
many other Americans — is false. Not only did they enjoy many advantages that others do not, but CNS News reports that
Barack Obama inherited half a million dollars in stock from his grandmother, a bank vice president who Michelle misleadingly cited as a
victim of gender discrimination. These fibs are not new for the Obama camp.
Michelle's Lie Number Six: ["]Barack's
grandmother started out as a secretary at a community bank ... and she moved quickly up the ranks ... but like so many women, she hit a
glass ceiling.[" ...] His grandmother was vice president of a bank, the second largest in the state. She came from a
middle-class family. She sent him to Hawaii's most prestigious prep school. Barack didn't grow up in a disadvantaged family.
His mother was a professional woman with an advanced degree. His stepfather worked for an American oil company in Indonesia.
Fact Check: First
Lady's False Fairy Tale of Struggle. First Lady Michelle Obama's pitch to voters last night relied on the premise that she
and her husband understand what it is to struggle to make ends meet. She spoke movingly about their early years — about
how a young Barack Obama drove a car that was "rusted out" and found his furniture "in a dumpster," how they both came from families that
had to "scrape by." Her fairy tale — however well-delivered — was one great, big, colorful lie.
Fact Check: First
Lady's False Fairy Tale of Struggle. First Lady Michelle Obama's pitch to voters last night relied on the premise that she
and her husband understand what it is to struggle to make ends meet. She spoke movingly about their early years — about
how a young Barack Obama drove a car that was "rusted out" and found his furniture "in a dumpster," how they both came from families that
had to "scrape by." Her fairy tale — however well-delivered — was one great, big, colorful lie.
Be wary of these 5 claims by Obama. Here are five dubious assertions the president
frequently makes on the campaign trail.
Democratic Platform:
Obama 'Rescued' Auto Industry — GM, Chrysler ... and Ford? According to the Democratic Party platform, President
Obama rescued Detroit's Big Three automakers — GM, Ford and Chrysler — leading to their recovery and resurgence.
However, the claim flies in the face of the fact that one of the Big Three — Ford — managed to turn things around by
itself, without taking federal help.
Change You Can't Believe.
The lies began even before President Barack Obama started speaking. The introductory video claimed that Obama had been affected — and roused
to action — by "watching [his] mother die." Obama, while very emotive about his mother, neglected to visit her before she died of
cancer — a mistake he admitted and regretted. Yet he has repeatedly lied about her in his speeches, including the lie that she died
without health insurance.
The president and his defenders know the truth won't work, so dishonesty it is.
The Medicare Distortions.
As my colleague Yuval Levin has already explained, these Democrats don't seem to realize that Obamacare changed everything. The
new health-care law cut Medicare by $716 billion over a decade to partially finance the cost of expanding entitlement benefits for
other Americans. Put simply, Medicare was squeezed to grease the way for the president's main first-term ambition —
enactment of a government takeover of American health care. That's a fact, and it's one that doesn't sit well with many voters,
especially seniors.
Rice: Benghazi attack was spontaneous;
Libya: No, it wasn't. There seems to be lingering confusion about the nature of the attack on the Benghazi consulate that cost four
Americans their lives, including the first US Ambassador killed in the line of duty since 1979, J. Christopher Stevens.
Attacks on U.S. Embassies
Were Not About a Movie. The attack in Libya was well planned and executed. It wasn't about a spontaneous protest against
some ridiculous internet movie of Muhammad. The assailants came armed to the teeth, with among other things, RPG 7s. They
knew that the US Ambassador was in Benghazi rather than Tripoli. They knew how to track his movements, and were able to strike
against him after he and his colleagues left the consulate building and tried to flee in a car. As Israel Channel 2's Arab
Affairs Correspondent Ehud Yaari noted this evening, you don't often see well trained terrorists participating in protests of movies.
Warning: Graphic content.
Video
Proof of Obama's Embassy Attack Lies. For days now the Obama administration and supporters in the mainstream media
have claimed the attacks on American embassies in the Middle East were not attacks on America — or the policies of
the Obama government. These reports have also attempted to suggest Libyans, once they found Ambassador Christopher Stevens,
attempted to save him by transporting the ambassador to a nearby hospital. Video evidence now paints a very different and
far more disturbing picture.
Libyan
reports shred White House claim that Benghazi attack was spontaneous, driven by anti-Islam film. President Barack Obama
jets off to campaign events Monday [9/17/2012] in the critical swing state of Ohio, even as Libyan officials and locals have shredded
his defensive claim that a spontaneous protest against a Californian's anti-Islam video caused the Sept. 11 killing of four Americans,
including the U.S. ambassador. "The idea that this criminal and cowardly act was a spontaneous protest that just spun out of control
is completely unfounded and preposterous," Libyan President Mohammed el-Megarif told the liberal National Public Radio network.
Instead, the killing was a military-style attack, he said. That attack hit the poorly guarded group of diplomats, who had to be
rescued by Libyan reinforcements.
Spinning Terror, Again. The Obama
administration continued to claim Sunday [9/16/2012] that the attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, were not planned or coordinated
but spontaneous responses to news of an anti-Islam video that happened to take place on the eleventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
It's a highly dubious claim, challenged by top Libyan officials, eyewitness accounts, several U.S. officials with access to the intelligence
on the attack, and, it must be said, by common sense.
Is the Dam of Obama/Clinton Lies
Beginning to Crack? The main threat to the administration's cover-up has never been American reporters, almost all of whom are
desperately trying to get Obama re-elected. Rather, the danger is that more of the cell phone pictures and movies that were taken by Libyans
of events in Benghazi and, in particular, of Ambassador Stevens, inevitably will surface, and will disrupt the administration's narrative.
Libya consulate attack: The big
unanswered questions. [Scroll down] Noman Benotman, president of the counter-extremist group Quilliam Foundation in
London, told CNN, "An attack like this would likely have required preparation. This would not seem to be merely a protest which
escalated." "According to our sources, the attack was the work of roughly 20 militants, prepared for a military assault; it is
rare that an RPG7 is present at a peaceful protest," Benotman said.
Obama's dueling beliefs expose moral
failings. [Scroll down] In conclusion, available evidence suggests that Mr. Obama was born and raised a Muslim and retained a
Muslim identity until his late 20s. Child to a line of Muslim males, given a Muslim name, registered as a Muslim in two Indonesian schools, he
read the Koran in religion class, still recites the Islamic declaration of faith and speaks to Muslim audiences like a fellow believer. [...] The
issue is that Mr. Obama has specifically and repeatedly lied about his Muslim identity. More than any other single deception, Mr. Obama's
treatment of his own religious background exposes his moral failings.
Obama won't tell the truth about anything.
Who is the real Barack Obama?
President Obama avoids tough questions. He has given up press conferences and interviews with the White House press corps,
preferring instead to divide his time among FM radio stations, vapid entertainment shows and Hollywood magazines. The scraps of
information he does provide, however, further the impression of an empty suit. Even intelligence on a subject as innocuous
as his family's daily habits is layered in contradiction.
Michelle Obama: 'I don't consider us
famous'. First lady Michelle Obama told television host Rachael Ray on Monday that she doesn't think life in the White House,
or the fame of becoming the first family, has changed the Obamas. "I don't consider us famous," Obama said.
Huma Abedin, Elitism and Those Missed Obama Intel Briefings.
"
The President is among the most sophisticated consumers of intelligence on the planet." So says White House spokesman
Tommy Vietor when it was revealed President Obama has been skipping his daily intelligence briefing.
Lie
Like Your Presidency Depends On It. The attacks on U.S. diplomatic posts not only exposed our disturbingly weak foreign
policy. They also revealed how effortlessly the Obama administration lies.
President Obama's creative math.
As President Obama takes time out of his busy [...] schedule to talk with David Letterman and hang with millionaires and celebrities at fundraisers,
let's take a look at his economic record. When talking with Letterman the President said of the $16 trillion national debt said, "we don't
have to worry about it short term." Seriously, he said that. Probably because he doesn't have a plan or a clue how to address the
problem. Or maybe he just doesn't care?
The Editor says...
If Obama is re-elected, the "short term" is all that remains.
Obama's Late Night Budget Bluster.
In an appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman, President Barack Obama suggested that most of the country's debt was accumulated under George W.
Bush, pretended that he has offered a solution to these problems, said that he does not know the total U.S. national debt, and claimed that the debt is not
a short-term concern for the country. It was one of the most dishonest performances from this president in recent memory, and yet it has generated
virtually no attention from a mainstream media.
Is Barack Obama America's Most
Dishonest Politician? A lot of politicians are dishonest, but Barack Obama may be in a league by himself. He appeared on the
David Letterman show last night, and Letterman asked him about the national debt (somewhat surprisingly). Obama's answer was a masterpiece of
prevarication. He described how the debt originated, and claimed, falsely, that he inherited a $1 trillion deficit. In fact, this
country had never run a deficit anywhere near $1 trillion until FY 2009, the first year of the Obama administration.
A
childhood of privilege, not hardship. First lady Michelle Obama told the Democratic National
Convention that "Barack and I were both raised by families who didn't have much in the way of money or material
possessions." It is a claim the president has repeated in his books, on the speech-making circuit and in countless media
interviews. By his account, he grew up in a broken home with a single mom, struggled for years as a child in an
impoverished Third World country and then was raised by his grandparents in difficult circumstances. The facts
aren't nearly so clear-cut.
A Duplicitous Administration.
If they lie, you can't trust them. That's a fairly straightforward rule. It is certainly the one that trial lawyers bank on.
President
Obama Falsely Claims Fast and Furious Program "Begun Under the Previous Administration". In actuality, the Fast and Furious program was
started in October 2009, nine months into the Obama presidency. Previous programs involving ATF agents allowing guns to "walk" across the border
so as to trace them were run during the Bush presidency, but not this particular "field-initiated program."
Where Are the Solar Panels Mr.
President? On June 20, 1979 President Jimmy Carter installed 32 solar panels, used to heat water, on the White House roof.
In 1986 under the Reagan administration those panels were taken down for a routine roof resurfacing and never returned. However, in 2010, President
Obama announced he was bringing solar panels back to the White House roof, which the administration said were slated for installation by the spring
of 2011.
Fact Check: Obama Lies About
Responsibility for Deficit. Yesterday [9/23/2012], President Barack Obama told CBS News'
60 Minutes that "ninety percent" of
the reason the federal budget deficit has risen dramatically under his administration is because of his predecessor, George W. Bush. Not
only is that a baldfaced lie — Obama borrowed more money in less than four years than Bush did in eight — but it is a lie that
many in the media want to believe, as Andrew Sullivan of
Newsweek demonstrates.
Obama's AARP Speech Broke My BS Detector. [Scroll
down] My BS detection device didn't actually begin to smoke until Obama started talking about the mythical Medicare trust fund: "We lengthened
the life of the trust fund by eight years." This lie not only caused serious damage to my machine's internal circuitry, it was too much even for the
administration's lickspittles over at
Politico.
Mr. and
Mrs. Obama Keep Up Pretense of Growing Up Poor. Let's get this straight. Barack Obama never knew a life of
financial hardship. Ditto for Michelle. But the First Couple keeps bringing up their impoverished childhoods and
student loan debts in stump speeches. [...] Obama went to a fancy private school in Hawaii, his grandmother was Vice-President
of a bank, and his stepfather worked for Exxon in Jakarta. From fifth grade through high school he attended the elite
college-prep Punahou School. Michelle's story of economic misfortune is no more believable than her husband's.
If she went to Princeton and Harvard Law on student loans, she should show us the [...] proof. Or stop perpetrating
this deprived childhood hoax on young people who really are low-income and bogged down in debt. You know, the ones who
aren't hiding their college transcripts?
Fact
check shows Obama's claim about blame for 90% of deficit is false. An independent watchdog this morning examined President Barack
Obama's claim that 90 percent of the deficit can be blamed on someone else's policies, and ruled it false.
Obama
Campaign: Birth Control Costs $18,000. If anything as embarrassing as [this] occurred at a Republican presidential
contender's website, including the follow-up ridicule by the opposition, the press would never be able to resist covering it.
Obama,
supporters lying to us. [For example,] He still has not released his school records, which may indicate there is something in them
he wants to hide. But remember he stated that his administration would be the most transparent administration ever; but yet
the press has trouble getting the White House logs.
To believe Obama is to
forget the last four years. Imagine you hire a company to fix your roof. They proceed to do shoddy work, miss every promised deadline
and go wildly over budget. Would you then hire them to add a new room to your house? No, of course not. But that is exactly what
President Obama is asking the American people to do in his latest television ad.
Obama's $4 Trillion Lie Exposed by His Own
Budget. At one point in Wednesday night's [10/3/2012] debate President Obama boasted about his "balanced" plan to cut the projected
10-year deficit by $4 trillion. One problem: His own budget exposes this claim as flat-out false.
Fact Check: Obama says Romney
opposed ending tax break — only he didn't. At a rally Friday [10/5/2012] in Fairfax, Va., Obama claimed Romney had outright
rejected his proposal to end tax breaks for oil and gas companies. "He said there's no way that he'd close the loophole that gives big oil
companies billions each year in corporate warfare," Obama said, in the middle of a litany of complaints on Romney's tax positions from Wednesday's
debate. Just one problem. Romney didn't say that.
Obama: 'Social
Security is Structurally Sound;' Trustees: 'Unfunded Obligation ... Is $8.6T'. President Barack Obama said in Wednesday
night's presidential debate that Social Security is "structurally sound," but Social Security's Board of Trustees said in their 2012
annual report that the program faced $8.6 trillion in "unfunded obligations" — meaning that it is currently obligated to
pay out $8.6 trillion more in benefits than it is anticipated to bring in through taxes.
Obama Underestimated 2012 Deficit by
$500 Billion. In May 2009, President Obama released his updated budget estimates, which projected that the federal deficit for fiscal
year 2012 would be $557 billion. The Congressional Budget Office now says that the deficit for fiscal year 2012 (which ended on
September 30) was about $1.1 trillion — or about twice what Obama said it would be. In other words, Obama's estimate
was off by more than half a trillion dollars.
In This
Reporter's Opinion, Obama's Terror Victory Is A 'Major Lie'. The Obama victory lap following Bin Laden's death has had
its share of hurdles, none higher than the one presented this week by a CBS reporter who knows the facts.
The Big Lie: Obama Did
Not Call Benghazi Attack Terrorism on Sep. 12. For several days, and again on this week's Sunday morning shows, President Barack Obama's
spokespeople, both at the White House and at the Obama campaign, have claimed that he called the Benghazi attack "terrorism" from the outset, in his
Sep. 12 address from the Rose Garden. The media have pushed back, noting that the White House rejected terrorism as an explanation in the
days that followed. But there is an even simpler reason to reject the Obama camp's explanation: it is a demonstrable lie, as a reading of
Obama's actual remarks instantly reveals.
In
VP Debate, Biden Seemed to Overstate His Role in Social Security Reform. Asked about Medicare reform, the vice president
said, "Look, I was there when we did that with Social Security in 1983. I was one of eight people sitting in the room that
included Tip O'Neill negotiating with President Reagan. We all got together and everybody said, as long as everybody's in the
deal, everybody's in the deal, and everybody is making some sacrifice, we can find a way." [...] But according to the historical
record, Biden was not one of the small group of people in "the room," or in "the meeting" — nor was he even a key
player in reforms.
FLOTUS: 'Barack doesn't
have a big ego'. "You see this in, you know, how he leads the country," the first lady said, staying on message in
an interview taped weeks ago to air before debate coverage. "I mean, he is very open to other people's opinions. And
he's always willing to compromise and he's always, always listening. [...]"
Really? Plenty of evidence to the contrary can be
found here.
Obama: Women 'Rely'
on Planned Parenthood for Mammograms; FDA: No They Don't. During Tuesday's second presidential debate,
President Barack Obama said that women "rely" on Planned Parenthood for mammograms, but, according to the Food and
Drug Administration, no Planned Parenthood facility in the United States is licensed to do mammograms.
Michelle O: Barack Never Blamed Anyone
for His Problems. Such an assertion might have some credibility except for the fact he's been whining about Bush for four
years. Other than that, he's always accepted responsibility. Oh, and he also blamed war, tsunamis, the weather, ATMs and
various other factors. Outside of that, he's always accepted blame for things.
WaPo fact check
gives Obama seven Pinocchios on the sequester and mammograms at Planned Parenthood. Obama tried to
dodge responsibility for the sequestration when Mitt Romney criticized him for it during the final debate, claiming
that "[t]he sequester is not something that I've proposed. It is something that Congress has proposed."
That came as news to the man who literally wrote the book on that deal, Bob Woodward.
Obama's
Auto-Bailout Whopper. [Scroll down] But this time, Candy Crowley didn't come to Obama's rescue by
butchering the record. The record clearly shows Romney is right. And Obama is fibbing.
Prez flunks history.
In a recent newspaper interview (Des Moines Register), President Obama declared that Mitch McConnell had "imposed an ironclad filibuster from the
first day I was in office." And, added the president authoritatively, "that's not speculation." No it's not speculation. It's
hooey. [...] McConnell was and is the minority leader of the Senate. Meaning his party does not control the place now and did not control the
place when Obama took office. It was Obama's party, Democrats, who then enjoyed an ironclad majority and power to do whatever they wished in
the Senate.
Obama eases off 'one-term
proposition,' says economic fix takes more than 4 years. Despite saying in 2009 that failing to right the economy in three years would mean
a "one-term proposition," President Obama on Thursday [11/1/2012] may have moved the goalposts.
Who Is Barack Hussein Obama? And
What Is He Really Up To? How could Americans have voted for someone with no practical qualifications or experience for the job?
After four years of trying to deal with the mysterious stranger in the White House, Americans are wondering why they voted for Obama. Voter
remorse has never been higher, and more than half of our electorate continues to be troubled by serious questions that refuse to go away. [...] Why
do Obama's words seldom match his actions? Why do we find, time after time, that Obama has lied to us, and that the American people face
catastrophic long-term consequences as a result?
Obama's Deficit Lies Exposed in Three Easy
to Read Charts. Throughout his first term and during the recent campaign Barack Obama blamed the Bush tax cuts for the trillion dollar
deficits. It was a lie. He knew it was a lie. The media knew it was a lie. They let him get away with it anyway. The
truth is federal revenues went up after passing the Bush tax cuts and the deficit went down.
Sen. Sessions to
EPA: Show Me Evidence for Obama's Global Warming Agitprop. Today [12/4/2012], Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) directed a
letter to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson asking for clarification on President Obama's recent statement
that "the temperature around the globe is increasing faster than was predicted even 10 years ago." That position has been
used by the administration to push the possibility of vastly increased regulation of carbon emissions.
Spender in Chief. Obama's plan for a fiscal cliff
compromise reflects his hostility to spending cuts. Instead, he wants to raise taxes by $1.6 trillion. That's a nonstarter.
He wants another stimulus of $50 billion. It's already DOA on Capitol Hill. Worse, he's back with the most fraudulent spending cut
of all, $800 billion in reduced funding for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan a few years from now when they're no longer being fought.
Secretaries
of State Criticize Michelle Obama for Voter Suppression Claims. Seven Secretaries of State have released a statement criticizing First Lady Michelle
Obama for her false claim that Republicans engaged in voter suppression in the November election: "Unfortunately the First Lady's comments continue the baseless
attacks that have been made upon those leaders who are simply taking reasonable steps to protect the security and integrity of elections. This past election
speaks for itself. In Arizona, a state that has a photo ID requirement, Hispanic voter turnout was the highest in the state's history. [... "]
GM
is alive and taxpayers got ripped off. Even by the standards of Washington, spending about $31 billion worth
of taxpayer dollars to get yourself re-elected is a pretty audacious act. Yet that is exactly what President Obama did with
the GM bailout. "Osama bin Laden is dead and GM is alive" was his campaign's mantra. And lest anyone think that using
TARP funds to keep the auto company alive was an act of charity, Obama said as recently as October: "We got back every
dime." Now that the election is over, he doesn't need to keep up that pretense any more.
With Election Over, Americans
Find They Were Duped By Democrats And Obama. How often in recent weeks have we learned that what we heard on the campaign trail from the
Obama camp, and which were echoed by a cowed and subservient press, were either distortions or outright lies — enough to keep a majority of
us fooled, and help win a second term for the incumbent? Now, we're finding the reality to be something different.
Obama: 'I Cut Spending by Over a Trillion Dollars in
2011'. Appearing on NBCs "Meet the Press" on Sunday, President Barack Obama said that he cut spending by more than $1 trillion in
2011. However, the White House Office of Management and Budget says that federal spending increased by $147 billion from fiscal 2010 to
fiscal 2011.
Networks Ignore Obama's Lie About Mom's Cancer.
This level of dishonesty from the national networks is not merely disgraceful, it's dangerous. Without a free and HONEST press, the Republic can't survive.
Obama on Meet the
Press: "I'm not driven by some ideological agenda.". President Obama turned up on NBC's "Meet the Press" for the first time
since the passage of ObamaCare, and gave exactly the performance that every veteran Obama-watcher would have expected: a bitter,
intransigent partisan claiming to be the only non-partisan, non-ideological participant in the "fiscal cliff" drama.
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 says Washington
'doesn't have a spending problem.' Really? On the face of it, such a statement is completely ridiculous — and a bit
scary.
Obama to Boehner: 'We Don't Have a Spending
Problem'. In an interview with Stephen Moore of the Wall Street Journal, newly re-elected House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH)
opened up about President Obama's utter unwillingness to cut a single dollar from federal spending. In a stunning admission, Obama
reportedly told Boehner, "We don't have a spending problem."
Yes, Obama, There Is A
Spending Problem. Apparently, President Obama never got around to reading the final report of his own deficit commission.
How else to explain his belief that federal spending isn't the cause of the nation's debt crisis?
The Editor says...
Out-of-control spending is this country's biggest problem, and it is the problem most aggravated by Barack H. Obama. His denial indicates
that either he is trying to dismantle capitalism once and for all, or he
is incompetent, or he is a compulsive liar,
or he's just not too bright. Thanks again, Obama voters!
White House
is wrong: First Amendment doesn't protect Piers Morgan from deportation. White House press secretary Jay Carney issued a factually
incorrect response Wednesday [1/9/2013] to the White House petition to deport British-born CNN host Piers Morgan, wrongly claiming that Morgan,
who has launched repeated televised attacks on the Second Amendment, is protected from deportation by the First Amendment.
Meet
The 'Bullies': Breitbat Editor Exposes Obama's Army of Thugs In New Book. President Obama and his leftist allies like to claim they're
anti-bullying. They stand up for the little guy. They stand up to the powerful. They protect victims. They're liars. [...] When
the DHS wasn't busy running StopBullying.gov, they were busy bullying religious employers into violating their consciences by forcing them to cover
contraception for employees. And who headed up the It Gets Better Project? Dan Savage, the thug who screamed at Christian teenagers who
had the temerity to walk out on one of his anti-Biblical screeds. Obama isn't against bullying. Neither is the left more broadly.
Our
Mean-Spirited President Gives a Press Conference and Talks About Guns. Obama's comments on the debt ceiling were breathtakingly
dishonest [...] Obama said, at least three or four times, that this year is different: he refuses to negotiate with the Republicans because
they insist on "getting 100 percent of what they want." But wait! The fact that Republicans are willing to negotiate means that
they aren't insisting on getting 100%, while, conversely, the fact that Obama refuses to negotiate means that he is the one holding out for
100%. Presumably most people are smart enough to understand this.
WH: Obama Is Committed to the Second Amendment.
One day ahead of President Barack Obama's announcement of sweeping gun control measures, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said the
president is committed to the Second Amendment. "First of all, the president of the United States believes that the Second Amendment
guarantees an individual's right to bear arms," Carney told reporters. "He has been explicit about this."
Obama Lies And
Bullies Republicans On Debt Ceiling. "I'm a pretty friendly guy," President Obama said after suggesting Republicans plan
to contaminate food, crash planes and let terrorists build nuclear bombs.
Obama's Debt Claims Debunked, Line by Line.
Should we raise the national debt limit to accommodate more trillion-dollar deficits? In Washington, it's taken for granted that
we should and will. But a lot of fiscal conservatives have got the crazy idea in their heads that any debt increase should be
accompanied by something we haven't seen in years: a budget. An actual plan to balance the budget and stop accumulating debt.
They're Coming to Take Our Guns
Away, Ha-Haaa! [Scroll down] Obama, Biden, and the rest of the political left are using similar language and
characterizations in their description of gun owners. Theirs is a coordinated effort to paint American gun owners as crazed,
government-hating lunatics, whose guns, used for sport, recreation, and defense are somehow a great danger to our society, potential
Adam Lanzas or Jared Loughners.
Gun Control and the Obama Way.
For Mr. Obama, it's never about honest differences over policies. His political opponents have to be painted as morally obtuse,
cruel and motivated by the basest considerations. [...] Mr. Obama's political libel is so common that people have come to accept it.
And journalists who jump on back-benchers from the GOP for their incivility never call out Obama on his ugly little game.
'A Decade of War Is Now Ending'.
Someone needs to inform the jihadists. On a day when we are still counting the bodies — including the American bodies —
from the deadly terror attack in Algeria, this statement from President Obama's inaugural address was particularly jarring.
The Peaceful Transfer of Mobocracy.
The disturbing hollowness of Obama's inauguration derives from this more subtle form of revolution. All the usual trappings of tradition
were on display but at the service of a revolutionary ideology antithetical to them. Obama swore to uphold the Constitution, by which he
meant his lawless reading of it. He invoked God-given rights, by which he meant man-made ones.
Not a 'nation of takers,'
Mr. President? Check the numbers. It is official: America is *not* a nation of takers. How do we know? Because
the president of the United States just said so. President Obama used the occasion of his second inaugural address to take on the question
of moral hazard emanating from our burgeoning entitlement state. In his estimate, there is no such risk — or at least none
worth mentioning.
Obama's Not a "Liberal" — He's a
Communist. Let's get the terminology right. The fact of the matter is, the entire Democrat party today is
Communist/Marxist/Socialist/Collectivist/Statist. There are no more conservative or moderate Democrats. They all support the
big government collectivist agenda — and they're all willing to lie, cheat and steal in order to maintain it. [...] Communists
are liars. Obama will lie right to our faces and not feel a second of shame because the ends justify the means.
Obama highjacking the American Revolution.
[Scroll down] Our "union," Obama went on, was "founded on the principles of liberty and equality." Nice prose —
and transparent nonsense. How could the American Union have been founded on the principle of equality, when "equality" is not
mentioned in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights or the Federalist papers? How could equality be a founding principle of a nation,
six of whose 13 original states had legalized slavery, and five of whose first seven presidents owned slaves all their lives?
What Obama preached in his inaugural was not historical truth but progressive propaganda, an Orwellian rewrite of American history.
White House: GOP
responsible for contracting economy. White House press secretary Jay Carney laid the blame for a surprise economic
contraction squarely at the feet of congressional Republicans Wednesday [1/30/2013], saying economic threats during the "fiscal cliff"
negotiations had prevented important defense spending. "Our economy is facing a major headwinds, and that's Republicans in
Congress," Carney said.
Obama:
'I Often Search Scripture to Figure Out How I Can Be a Better Man as Well as Better President'. "Sometimes I search
scripture to determine how best to balance life as a president and as a husband and as a father. I often search for scripture
to figure out how I can be a better man as well as a better president," Obama said.
The Editor says...
Notice he did not say "The Bible", he said "scripture", by which he probably refers to the
Koran. If he were a Christian, he would almost certainly have referred to "The Bible" by
its name, rather than avoiding any mention of it.
The president is lying about Benghazi.
President Obama's disregard for the truth has made Bill Clinton seem like a novice. His statements are always riddled with inconsistency. Many
could easily have been dissected with a curious media, but that hasn't happen. Very few people can lie as well.
State Of The Union
Shtick: Obama's 5 Unintentionally Comical Lines. "It is not a bigger government we need, but a smarter government."
That's rich coming from the guy who jacked up spending to record levels. According to the Congressional Budget Office,
the federal government is now on track to consume an average of 22.1% of GDP over the next decade. That's bigger than all
but eight of the 60 post-World War II years before Obama took office. [...] Then there was this: "As long as countries
like China keep going all in on clean energy, so must we." All in? Sixteen of the world's top 20 most
polluted cities are in China.
Obama
attempting to redefine the word "citizen". Throw out your Merriam-Webster's Dictionary, folks. President
Barack Obama is now redefining words. During Tuesday night's State of the Union address, the POTUS expressed his belief
that U.S. citizenship is only partly about one's legal status. "We are citizens," the President said. "It's a word
that doesn't just describe our nationality or legal status. It describes the way we're made."
Rubio's
Thirstiness Trumps Obama's Untruthfulness. Why does a re-elected chief executive, dubiously claiming a mandate from
the people, insult the intelligence of millions of Americans struggling to stay afloat in a contracting economy during the worst
economic recovery on record with ludicrous contentions like this: "After years of grueling recession, our businesses have
created over 6 million new jobs"? Why does he present an electorate that just returned him to power with the wild
claim that "already, the Affordable Care Act is helping to slow the growth of health care costs"?
State of the Union blues. No matter what your political
persuasion, even if you're the biggest Obama supporter in the world, you have to wince when he says things that are obviously
untrue. I copied the transcript of his speech into Microsoft Word and started highlighting the lies, but that was an
exercise in futility. Almost everything was highlighted. He lies obsessively. [...] Then I tried limiting myself to
outrageous, interesting lies, but that's not really much of a limit with this guy. For example, he started by talking
about the economy and his very first sentence on the subject boasted about creating six million new jobs.
Six million! Just a few months ago he was running for re-election claiming four million, which was up from
three million, which itself was a figment of his overactive imagination.
Rand
Paul on Obama's Claim That He Cut $2 Trillion From Deficit: "In What Universe?" On "Capital Download, This Week with
Susan Page," Kentucky Senator Rand Paul discussed the role of the Tea Party, his view on immigration and his interest in a presidential
campaign. When asked about Barack Obama's claim to have "reduced the deficit by $2 Trillion," Paul answers, "In what universe?"
Napolitano at
immigration hearing: US borders have 'never been stronger'. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano insisted
Wednesday [2/13/2013] that U.S. borders have "never been stronger" during a Senate hearing on immigration reform. Facing
calls from the GOP to crack down on the flow of illegal border crossers, Napolitano said Congress should pass a comprehensive
immigration overhaul that strengthens security while also addressing the factors that entice people into the country.
Obama calls al-Qaida 'shadow of former
self'. President Barack Obama says al-Qaida is a "shadow of its former self," and does not pose the kind of threat to
America that requires tens of thousands of U.S. troops to fight abroad.
No, Mr
President, the war against al-Qaeda is far from won. There are times, such as last night's State of the Union address,
when I think President Barack Obama has taken leave of reality. How he can claim, when half the Arab world is being overrun by
Islamist militants, that al-Qaeda is now a shadow of its former self is beyond comprehension.
Long voting
lines might not be as widespread as Obama says. Voters in five states reported waiting more than 20 minutes.
Six states notched an average of less than five minutes. Los Angeles County voters waited only three-and-a-half minutes, and
Vermont voters were the luckiest. They reported only a two-minute wait.
Obama Unveils His
Economy-Killing Cap-And-Tax Plan. A nonexistent crisis is a terrible thing to waste, and in justifying his proposal for a
cap-and-tax scheme, President Obama claimed in his State Of The Union that "the 12 hottest years on record have all come in the
last 15." He was lying. The fact is, according to new data released quietly last October by Britain's Met Office, the world's
natural post-Ice Age warming trend stopped about 16 years ago. From the beginning of 1997 until August 2012, there was no
discernible rise in aggregate global temperatures.
Confidential,
expensive USDA sensitivity training: 'The Pilgrims were illegal aliens'. Footage of the United States Department
of Agriculture's compulsory "Cultural Sensitivity Training" program reveals USDA employees being instructed to refer to the
Pilgrims as "illegal aliens" and minorities as "emerging majorities" — at "a huge expense" to taxpayers. The
video clips were made public Thursday evening by the conservative government accountability group Judicial Watch, which obtained
them through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request made on May 18, 2012.
Obama
insists he runs the most transparent administration in history. During a "fireside hangout" on Google+ this afternoon [2/14/2013],
President Obama responded to a questioner who said she was disappointed in the gap between Obama's campaign promises for transparency
and the reality of the last four years. "It feels a lot less transparent than I think we all hoped it would be," she said.
Obama said firmly, "This is the most transparent administration in history, and I can document that is the case."
Oh, really? What
about all this?
No, America's roads and bridges are not
crumbling. Among President Obama's most persistent demands for new spending is the perennial call for large-scale "infrastructure"
spending. To hear Obama tell it, the United States of 2013 is a "Road Warrior" wasteland filled with disintegrating roads and bridges,
desperately awaiting billions of dollars in government spending. In the past, he has amusingly set up photo ops near bridges that wouldn't
be affected by his plans to plump for "infrastructure," selecting them because they looked good on camera, or straddled key congressional
districts. He's currently agitating for $40 billion in "urgent upgrades." It is considered extremely rude to ask him what
happened to the countless billions he appropriated for "infrastructure" in his trillion-dollar 2009 stimulus plan.
If
the leader of the free world can lie with such impunity we are doomed. It really doesn't matter where he himself was deliberately lying or
whether he was merely lending the gravitas of his office to the deliberate lies of others. The point is that the President of the USA has access to
any number of fact checkers and advisers and if he stands up and addresses the nation with a farrago of complete untruths then the buck stops with him.
This dissembling and mendacity becomes all the more culpable when it forms the basis of major public policy decisions which will have a serious impact on
people's lives in the US and beyond.
The
Overwhelming Judgment of Science Rejects Obama's Global Warming Claims. President Barack Obama in his second inauguration address
called for new action to "respond to the threat of climate change." Taking advantage of the bully pulpit and a huge national audience, Obama
mustered his best possible arguments in a brief case for why addressing global warming is supposedly necessary. Unfortunately for global
warming alarmists, Obama's case was exceptionally flimsy. Then again, Obama did not have much to work with, as the overall case for global
warming alarmism is exceptionally flimsy.
Simpson-Bowles Exposes Obama's
Phony Deficit Claims. Liberals are howling about the latest Simpson-Bowles deficit plan because, they say, it's too right wing. It's
hardly that. But the plan does expose how fatuous President Obama's claims about the deficit have been.
Government by Freakout.
It is always cliffs, ceilings and looming catastrophes with Barack Obama. It is always government by freakout. That's
what's happening now with the daily sequester warnings. Seven hundred thousand children will be dropped from Head Start.
Six hundred thousand women and children will be dropped from aid programs. Meat won't be inspected. Seven thousand
TSA workers will be laid off, customs workers too, and air traffic controllers. Lines at airports will be impossible.
Obama Caught In Bald-Faced Lie On
Sequester. Greta Van Susteren played a montage of political statements on the sequester. From the video, it is
clear that the sequester cuts were a product of the White House. It is also clear that Obama continues to get away with a
bald-faced lie that the idea was something Congress proposed. [Video clip]
Woodward:
Obama repeatedly lied about responsibility for budget sequester cuts. President Barack Obama and former White House
Chief of Staff Jack Lew repeatedly lied last year by claiming congressional Republicans were responsible for the looming $85 billion
cut in the federal budget through sequestration, according to The Washington Post editor Bob Woodward. Based on interviews with
two senior White House aides who were directly involved in budget planning, Woodward's report notes that Obama personally approved
Lew's plan to propose the mandatory trigger to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in July 2011.
Obama: Marxist Revolutionary. By now most
people, even the "low-information voters," know that Obama is a habitual, unabashed liar. What they need to grasp, however,
is that his biggest and most dangerous lie is that he is out to help the Middle Class. [...] The Middle Class, aka We, the People,
is his greatest, most hated enemy, and everything he has done since he usurped the office he occupies has been aimed at our
destruction as a viable economic, social, and political entity.
Obama:
Spending money is not our biggest problem. Speaking to American governors this afternoon, President
Obama insisted that spending money wasn't the federal government's biggest problem. "Folks who think spending
really is our biggest problem should be more concerned than anybody about improving our infrastructure right now,"
Obama said explaining that the nation's infrastructure was crumbling.
Is Obama telling the truth
about sequestration? Read President Barack Obama's state-by-state breakdown of the sequester and you get a dire message:
The sky is going to fall on March 1. But a closer read of the detailed reports shows that some of the scariest stuff is
going to happen in slow motion — if it happens at all.
Obama
Administration Warns of Cuts at Non-Existent Agency. The Obama administration has spent much of the past few weeks
sounding the alarm about the impact of sequestration, but it appears it may have overreached, warning of cuts to a federal agency
that no longer exists.
Obamaworld full of lies.
President Obama's transparent mendacity about his responsibility for the sequester is revealing. [...] Obama is a shameless liar for
petty partisan purposes. A shameless liar for petty partisan purposes is a man of bad character. Obama's mendacity
exposes him as a man of bad character, or so it would have been thought in ages past. Obama's lies permeate his attacks on
the Republican Party. They are part and parcel of the permanent campaign. The campaign is a parade of lies marshaled
in a malevolent partisan cause.
Obama Caught Lying about
Sequester. Here is one thing that Obama should do to elevate America's public discourse: Stop lying.
Teacher
pink slips claim by Duncan not backed by evidence. The descriptions of the post-sequester landscape that have been coming
out of the Obama Administration have been alarming, specific — and, in at least some cases, hyped.
The
3 Stooges are running the country. Obama is currently in his fifth year of campaigning and speechmaking, which is considerably
easier than being president. All it takes is a good writer, a teleprompter, a few lies and the ability to cry "wolf" every
month or so. The sequester was Obama's idea. Some would have us believe it is not important whose plan it was, but that is
simply untrue. Sequester was supposed to be an opportunity for the president to play Chicken Little as he so often does by
announcing that the sky is falling when it isn't.
WaPo
Fact-Checker Blasts White House Sequester Scare Tactics. The President of the United States is lying. He's not
lying about his personal life sex a la Bill Clinton; he's lying about policy. And he's not just lying; he's brazenly lying,
audaciously lying. Obama and the media know the stakes in this battle are enormous. If the GOP and sequester can't be
blamed for our failed economy, Obama and his big government philosophy will be. That simply can't be allowed to happen.
Media Turns Against Obama's
Sequester Narrative. If our economy crashes, Obama wants to blame sequester; he wants to argue that our economic woes
are caused by a government that isn't big enough, and that he needs a Democrat-controlled House to correct that. It's an
audaciously dishonest plot, and it almost worked. The monkeys in the wrench, though, have been little things called facts, a
Republican Party refusing to blink, and one brave and honest reporter.
Obama
has lost all credibility on sequestration. This has not been a good week for President Obama's campaign to use $44 billion
in automatic spending cuts as leverage to force Republicans to vote for higher taxes. First, legendary journalist Bob Woodward
dismantled the White House's account of how the sequester was created. Now, Woodward is telling Politico that the White House
responded by threatening him if he went forward with his claim. Then Education Secretary Arne Duncan was caught in a baldfaced
lie about the sequester causing teacher layoffs.
Obama Demagoguery
Supplemented by a Touch of Cruelty. [Scroll down] So we have the president determined to administer as much pain
as he can on Americans even as he excoriates Republicans for their "meat-cleaver approach" that will "eviscerate" key programs.
It is really quite remarkable, this concoction of willful deceptions, hyperbole, demagoguery, mismanagement, and deliberate harm.
And to think that a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, Barack Obama promised to put an end to cynicism. Instead he has
added massively to it. The harm he is doing to our political culture is very nearly incalculable.
The Border
Patrol vs Napolitano's lies about the Border & Sequestration. This Administration's constant yammering about how
secure the border is can only be characterized as a ploy, an outright lie, to fool the American people into accepting more amnesty
and accepting that it is OK to cut our hours and reduce coverage on the border. They want to try something that was a
colossal failure in 1986 to fix things now.
Capitol
official: Obama wrong about janitors. The Superintendent of Capitol tried to assure staff on Friday [3/1/2013]
that employees will not receive a cut in pay as a result of sequestration, despite President Barack Obama's claims to the contrary.
In a news conference earlier in the day, Obama warned that starting on Saturday "the folks who are cleaning the floors at the
Capitol" and "the janitors, the security guards" would face a pay cut.
5 Reasons Barack
Obama is a Creep. [#5] Obama's coverage by the press is like that movie, The Invention Of Lying, where
the main character is the first person on the planet to ever figure out how to lie and everyone simply takes whatever he says at face
value. In this case, the part of "everyone" is played by the mainstream media which starts with the uncritical assumption that
Obama is always right, good, and truthful, while the people who disagree with him are mean, partisan liars.
Barack Obama, the Spending
Jihadist. Mr. Obama's terroristic threats have been amply noted everywhere. Planes will fall from the skies,
starvation in the streets, teachers will be sent home. What is truly astonishing here is not all of the reckless and dire
predictions he has made. Nor is it that already many of his predictions have proved to be demonstrably false. [...] What is
truly astonishing and breathtaking here is that all of this doom and gloom Mr. Obama has predicted is precisely what he wants for
this country.
Sequester Exaggerations
Exposed By Egypt Foreign Aid. What are we to make of the U.S. suddenly finding $250 million to spare for Egypt during a
suppsedly devastating sequester?
Barack Obama's Defective Public
Character. The president has spoken in the harshest possible terms about an idea he and his White House originated and
signed into law. He has used apocalyptic language leading up to the sequestration — and then, as the sequestration
cuts began, lectured us that "this is not going to be an apocalypse" as "some people have said." And Mr. Obama has warned about
the devastating nature of the cuts even as he has opposed efforts to make the cuts less devastating.
The president who cried 'Sequester!'
The sequester is only four days old and it has already done untold damage — not to teachers, air traffic controllers, or the
military, mind you, but to President Obama's credibility. Obama has been caught in one misstatement after another about the
sequester — from lying to Americans about its origins to exaggerating its impact.
Two Airports Cited By Big Sis As Having Sequester-Related Delays Both Say She's Lying.
Did she really think nobody would check?
White House's false sequester claims
prompt media pushback. The White House's media management team will be in the public spotlight this week following a series
of days in which it leveraged the media to distribute what turned out to be misleading or false information. President Barack Obama
told reporters that Capitol Hill workers were facing pay cuts as a result of the looming budget sequester. Education Secretary Arne
Duncan cited the same cause when he incorrectly claimed that a school district was already laying off teachers. And White House
spokesman Jay Carney understated by a factor of 10 the number of illegal immigrants administration officials released in a bid to lower
the cost of housing inmates in immigration detention facilities.
Sperling
Admits Obama Misled in Debate: The President Did Propose the Sequester. White House economic adviser Gene Sperling admits
that, yes, in fact, the sequestration was President Obama's plan. [Video clip]
WaPo: Yep, White House is still
lying about janitors. This is so perfectly symbolic of the White House's strategy on sequestration, that I had to highlight
it. This is the second time the Washington Post fact-checker has awarded the administration Pinnocchios (four this time) in one
week, for the same lie. Which is to say, wow, this is a really big, fat lie.
Ex-Secret
Service Agent: Obama 'Absolutely Not Telling the Truth' on White House Tours. Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino told
Breitbart News that President Barack Obama was lying when he blamed the cancellation of White House tours on his former agency.
"The president's absolutely not telling the truth when he said the Secret Service made that decision to cut [the White House] tours,"
Bongino said. "That's the core of it: he is not telling the truth."
Obama: I
Didn't Cancel W.H. Tours, Secret Service and Congress to Blame. President Obama says he's not the one who canceled the White
House tours. He made the comments in an interview with ABC News.
Reopen
the White House doors to tourists. The decision to drop White House tours always had a whiff of what's known as Washington
Monument syndrome. The ham-handed tactic is employed when government is faced with budget cuts and officials go after the services
that are most visible and appreciated by the public. It's a kind of bureaucratic hostage-taking, so the pushback that the Obama
administration has encountered is a proper comeuppance.
Obama's PR Stunt. Some eighteen hours
before he was scheduled to meet with House Republicans on Capitol Hill Wednesday [3/13/2013], ostensibly in search of a "grand bargain"
that would reform entitlements and reverse the trajectory of US debt, Barack Obama declared three times that the U.S. does not have a
debt crisis and accused opponents of wanting to "gut Medicare, gut Social Security and gut Medicaid."
We can't wait for the
crisis, Mr. President. During a Wednesday [3/13/2013] interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos, Obama warned against
adopting a "crisis mentality" when it comes to concerns about the mounting national debt. With the debt currently approaching
$17 trillion, Obama said, "we don't have an immediate crisis in terms of debt."
The "sequester" was supposed to make this impossible:
Since Sequester,
2,600 New Federal Jobs Opened. Over a hundred jobs are at Homeland Security, which is letting criminal aliens go despite
billions unspent from last fiscal year, with hundreds more jobs available at an Interior Department that warns of park closings.
Patriots
Must Be Prepared to Answer Obama's Lies and Deceptions. [Scroll down] Along with confiscating as much wealth as he
can get away with, Obama believes that the tax code should be about punishing achievers and controlling behavior. Assisted by the
media, Obama sells his perverted definition of "fairness" to low-info voters. Anyway, Obama knows that the mainstream media usually
acts as his personal public relations firm, eagerly selling his lies to the public.
Pro-Abort
Biden on Election of Pope: 'Catholic Church Plays an Essential Role in My Life'. After the election of Pope Francis I
on Wednesday [3/13/2013], Vice President Joe Biden issued a statement talking about the importance of Catholicism to him personally
and how much he is looking forward to working with the pope. As vice president, Biden has advanced causes directly contrary to the
teachings of the Catholic Church — favoring, for example, the legalized killing of children in the womb and legalized
same-sex marriage.
Obama: Our Out-of-Control Debt Is 'Sustainable' for the Next
Decade. In an interview with former Bill Clinton apparatchik George Stephanopoulos aired on ABC Wednesday morning [3/13/2013],
President Barack Obama shared his beliefs about where the nation stands financially. The takeaway quotes from that sit-down concern
Obama's unserious take on the size and grave nature of the federal government's annual deficits, which have exceeded $1 trillion
during each of the past four fiscal years, and the national debt, which, at $16.71 trillion as of Tuesday, has increased by over
$6 trillion since he took office less than 50 months ago.
Obama
Wants to Invest in Infrastructure and Make it Impossible to Build Anything. If you heard one theme that Obama has been on
about at the beginning of both of his terms, it's infrastructure. [...] All the bridges, we were told, were seconds away from falling
down. The highways were full of potholes. [...] The infrastructure pitch sounds good to a lot of people. But it's coupled
with an environmentalist anti-infrastructure pitch.
Obama: No Sense Of Responsibility, Traits Of A Habitual Liar.
The Lies That Enslave A Nation. The Obama
Administration knows how to do nothing better than lie. They are past masters at the disingenuous. They have been at it
from day one. Now they seem to just lie as a matter of course, and think nothing of it even when called on it in public.
China and U.S. Debt. As the U.S. federal debt
is steadily climbing closer to $17 trillion, President Obama and Congressional leadership are making statements that we "don't have
an immediate crisis in terms of debt." All the same, our bloated federal debt does pose a crisis. Not only will it slow economic
growth, threaten us with higher interest rates, and increase inflation; it also allows China to threaten our national security and status
as a world power.
A Criminologist Questions the
Bin Laden Episode. Soon after the raid, successive Obama administration renditions of the event were sufficiently contradictory
that even the leftist London Guardian was motivated to acknowledge the inconsistencies. Was Bin Laden armed, or wasn't he?
Did he resist, or didn't he? Did he use women as shields, or didn't he? Was the compound luxurious, or not? The Obama
administration said different things at different times in regard to these issues, which the London Guardian (and almost every other MSM
outlet) attributed to the "fog of war."
ObamaCare's
Nasty Surprise: Surging Premiums For Many. Last week, one of the world's leading consulting firms, Milliman, warned about
sticker shock ahead for individuals and families buying health insurance. How did the White House respond? In its usual
Orwellian fashion, it said, "Health care costs are falling, thanks to the reform law." Falling is correct only if you're standing on
your head. President Obama repeatedly promised that insurance exchanges would save families up to $2,300 a year. He couldn't
possibly have believed it. From day one, it was obvious the law would push up premiums.
Also posted
under lies about Obamacare.
Liars! Illegal Immigration Surging While Obama Administration
Claims it is Declining. Via Fox Nation, newly released statistics show that illegal immigrant infiltration along the U.S.-Mexico border
is increasing markedly despite recent statements to the contrary by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
Despite DHS
Claims, Stats Show Surge In Illegal Immigrant Border Traffic. "I can tell you having worked that border for 20 years, it is more
secure now than it has ever been. Illegal apprehensions are at 40-year lows," [Janet] Napolitano told reporters this week in Houston.
But figures released Thursday by Customs and Border Protection to Fox News tell a different story. Arrests are actually up 13 percent
compared with the same time last year. The number was 170,223 in 2012, and is 192,298 this year.
Obama: Unbalanced Budget 'Doesn't Spend
Beyond Our Means'. President Barack Obama said his budget — to be released Wednesday — would not spend beyond
our means. "It's a budget that doesn't spend beyond our means, and it's a budget that doesn't make harsh and unnecessary cuts that only serve
to slow our economy," Obama said Saturday [4/6/2013] during his weekly address.
Obama's 'Lying Problem' about Firearms. Almost from the
moment he walked into the Oval Office, Barack Obama has had a serious lying problem when it comes to firearms. The 44th president has a near
pathological predilection for using defective, invalid, and flat-out dishonest statistics in his quest to restrict the 2nd Amendment rights of
American citizens, [...]
Obama's tax, spend,
borrow, and redistribute budget. Here are the facts: According to Obama's own numbers, his budget would leave the American people
with a $19.03 trillion debt burden by 2023. And according to the Congressional Budget Office, under current law our debt is scheduled to
reach $19.94 trillion by that same year, a difference of $900 billion. So right off the bat, half of Obama's claimed debt reduction
turns out to be pure fiction.
Obama's National-Security Fraud.
The Times Square non-attack is quite interesting. The specter of it, projected in the immediate wake of the Marathon murders and maimings, is
horrific ... so horrific that the government, in leaking this tidbit from its botched interrogation of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, knew that news media were
certain to lead their broadcasts with it. The press would never wonder why they, and thus we, were being told about it. But why were they
told? Remember, the Times Square bombing not only never happened, it never came close to happening.
Eric Holder's Reckless Charge.
During a speech to the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Attorney General Eric Holder said that creating a "pathway to earned citizenship" was
a "civil right." [...] Attorney General Holder's claim is more than simply silly; it is also pernicious.
30 Reasons To Dislike
Barack Obama. [#2] He's a former (maybe, who really knows?) coke-snorting pothead who governs with all the care
and due diligence you'd expect from a coke-snorting pothead. [#3] Barack Obama actually said, "The private sector is
doing fine." Given that the private sector has never at any point been doing fine since he became President, he'd have to be
dumb, dishonest or delusional to say something like that. [#4] He is a bigger liar than Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter put
together.
Benghazi Blood Splatter. "We the people" have been lied
to by the Obama Administration from the get-go regarding what transpired in Benghazi on September 11, 2012. Why? Why
were we lied to, and why were Woods and Doherty, who fought bravely for several hours against overwhelming odds, abandoned by their
country when the ways and means to come to their aid were available? Why — and who is responsible?
Corn: 'Carney Got Caught Saying Something That Wasn't
Completely True'. MSNBC contributor David Corn admitted that the reason White House Press Secretary Jay Carney's Benghazi press briefing was so tense
was "he got caught saying something that wasn't completely true" Friday [5/10/2013] on MSNBC. Despite Carney's untruth, Corn said that did not necessarily
amount to lying.
It's Harvest Time in
Washington. From the onset, the Obama administration has woven a web of fabrications so thick it is hard to see where
reality ends and make-believe begins. Over time, Obama has woven that web tighter by installing a gang of Chicago allies,
confidants, tongue-biters and tale-tellers as a "shadow government" answerable only to him. There was safety in this tight-knit
crew of like-minded associates, or so they thought, until recently when parts of Obama's web began to unravel.
Lou Dobbs
Rips 'Nixonian' Obama For Lying 'Through His Teeth' About IRS. Fox Business Network host Lou Dobbs stopped by Megyn Kelly's show on Monday
afternoon [5/13/2013] to offer his reaction to President Obama's press conference — during which he responded to the IRS scandal involving the
agency's targeting politically conservative groups. Dobbs didn't take well to Obama's reaction and went after him for flat-out lying.
"What is outrageous is that the president of the United States this morning stands before the American people and lies through his teeth," Dobbs
charged. "That is what is outrageous."
The lies pile up and the president goes silent. The week
just ended may have been the worst week experienced by the Obama administration, and there are over 220 to choose from. The congressional testimony
by three whistle-blowers on the widening Benghazi scandal drew attention even from the mainstream media outlets, which had chosen to bury the story for
months. The president's press secretary, Jay Carney, in a performance worthy of a short career in this capacity, managed to double down on the
falsehoods, continuing to avoid admitting even the obvious.
Just tell us the truth,
Mr. President. It's never comforting to have one's longstanding fears confirmed. Yet, that's exactly what's happened
over the last week as Americans have been presented with a stunning array of facts that diminish faith in our government. Whether
it's on foreign policy, taxes, or the health-care system our lives depend on, members of the Obama Administration are making it harder
to trust them to perform the most very basic functions of public service. We deserve better. We deserve the truth.
Is Anyone Home in the White House?
One striking feature of the multiple scandals in which the Obama administration is now enmeshed is how little responsibility President Obama
takes for any of them. None, actually. Not only that, he professes to be entirely in the dark, to know only what he reads
in the newspapers, and to have no control over his own cabinet officers and their departments.
CBO: Obama Vastly Exaggerated
Deficit Cuts In Budget. When Obama put out his budget in mid-April he said that it "will reduce our deficits by nearly
another $2 trillion," and "does so in a balanced and responsible way, a way that most Americans prefer." But the CBO report
finds that Obama's budget will cut 10-year deficits by just $1.1 trillion, with annual deficits starting to rise again after 2017.
And far from being balanced, the CBO found that his plan's tax hikes would outweigh spending cuts by nearly 6 to 1.
The Obama media blackout. [Scroll down] "I first
learned about it from the same news reports that I think most people learned about this," the President claimed. "I think it was on Friday."
Aren't there people who are supposed to brief the President on important events? Do those people still have their jobs today? If so,
why? [...] [W]ouldn't a truly concerned President demand the resignation of the staffers who failed him so utterly that he had to learn about the worst
scandal of his Presidency by watching TV or reading a newspaper?
Official
in charge of corrupt IRS department promoted — to top ObamaCare enforcer. If you haven't tuned President Empty
Chair out completely, you may recall him making some absurdly tough noises about cleaning house at the IRS and firing some top officials.
It has now been confirmed by multiple sources, including ABC News, that one of those officials — Acting IRS Commissioner
Steven Miller — was due to leave in June anyway. He's not being "fired" at all; he's leaving on schedule. But
Obama looked America right in the eye and lied through his teeth about demanding Miller's resignation.
Jay Carney: I dismiss the idea that
these are scandals. [Scroll down] Carney asserted that in his opinion, the three scandals within the Obama administration were not
scandals. "I dismiss the premise, the idea that these are scandals," Carney said flatly, calling the controversy over Benghazi a "total concoction
by Republicans," and the IRS scandal merely "inappropriate behavior" by the IRS.
The Lying King. The Obama administration may be the first
since World War Two to attempt a new and innovative policy best described as "trust me to lie to you." If you were astute, then you wouldn't
believe us. If you were sophisticated you would make the default assumption that the Iran policy was for public consumption, since only
rubes and simpletons could have possibly believed that the Obama administration was telling the truth.
Obama Can't Be Both A
Mastermind And Out Of The Loop. The president who claimed extraordinary powers to change Washington is now, we are to believe, unable to
keep tabs on a "vast" federal government. He can't be both a mastermind and out to lunch. Which is it?
Connect dots to Obama. The standard
police warning about con men applies to politicians, as well: When they tell you something that sounds too good to be true, it usually is.
So it goes with the White House claim that it knew nothing — nothing! — about the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal
Revenue Service. Of course the White House knew. And we already have the first piece of evidence.
When It Rains, It Pours. Even when he's
been publicly corrected, Obama repeats mistruths. At his press conference last week, the president spoke of the attack on the American
facility in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012. "The day after it happened, I acknowledged that this was an act of terrorism,"
Obama said. Only he hadn't. What Obama actually said in the Rose Garden on September 12 was: "No acts of terror will
ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for." It was a
generic mention of terror, not directed at the Benghazi attack.
Barack Obama, the Great Bystander.
Obama didn't know the IRS was targeting conservatives until he read it in the papers. He didn't know about "Fast and Furious"
until he read it in the papers, too. He has "complete confidence" in Holder, and didn't know about the decision to collect the
phone records of reporters. He didn't know about the investigation into CIA director David Petraeus's affair. He told
Letterman during the election he didn't know what the national debt was. He didn't know about the AIG bonuses in the TARP
legislation. He said he didn't know how bad the economic crisis was when he took office.
Barack H. Obama says Fort Hood doesn't count as a "large-scale attack."
Obama claims 'no large-scale attacks on the United States' since 9/11.
[President Obama's] definition of 'large-scale attacks,' his speech made clear, doesn't include the 2013 Boston Marathon attack
that wounded hundreds, the 2012 Benghazi terror attack that injured dozens and killed four, and the 2009 attack at Fort Hood
that killed 13 and injured 30. All those attacks had the potential to leave far more American bodies in their wake than
they actually did.
More about the Islamic terrorist attack
at Fort Hood.
Mark
Levin Tears Into Obama: 'Flat-Out, Bald-Faced Lie' That He Knew Nothing About IRS Targeting. Conservative radio host Mark Levin is
very skeptical of the idea that President Obama had absolutely no idea about the IRS tea party targeting before the story broke in the news mere weeks
ago. Levin declared adamantly that it is a "flat-out, bald-faced lie" that Obama didn't know beforehand, citing prior reports by a few
conservative news outlets picking up on the news well before the 2012 presidential election.
Obama: No 'Large Scale' Terrorist Attacks
on U.S. Since I Became President. President Barack Obama said today that there have been no "large scale" terrorist attacks on the United
States since he became president. The statement comes less than six weeks after the terrorist attack on the Boston Marathon, which killed
5 people, injured 280 people (including 16 police officers), and forced the city to shut down while police conducted a door-to-door
search for the terrorists.
Priebus: Obama lying or incompetent
on scandals. Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said President Obama's denial that he was involved directly with
the IRS's targeting of conservative groups and other ongoing Washington scandals shows he is either lying or incompetent. "One of two things
are [sic] going on: ... If the president actually knew something, well then clearly he's not being truthful, and no one around him is," Mr. Priebus
told Fox News' "Fox and Friends" program Tuesday [5/28/2013]. "If he didn't know anything, then I think it suggests a level of aloofness
or perhaps even incompetence that I think it pretty disturbing in its own right."
More
about the use of the IRS as a weapon.
Dem.
Senator Contradicts Obama: 'I Had No Idea' About PRISM. Appearing on MSNBC's Now with Alex Wagner, Sen. Jeff Merkley
(D-OR) said that he was never briefed on the National Security Agency's sweeping PRISM program which databases electronic communications
data. Merkley said that he had no idea about the program and he suspects that a small number of members of the congressional
intelligence committees were the only individuals informed of the program.
Obama calls Democrats
'common-sense folks'. President Barack Obama told a fundraising crowd in California Thursday night [6/6/2013] that Democrats represent
the moderate party. "If you talk to us ... it turns out we're pretty common-sense folks," he told a crowd of 75 in Palo Alto, Calif.,
at a fundraiser for Senate Democrats.
The Editor says...
Is that right, Mr. Soetoro/Obama? Is it common sense to suspend a five-year-old from school for pretending a pencil is a gun?
Is it common sense to give 1.3 billion dollars to
Egypt — secretly?
Is it common sense to take half of the U.S. corn crop and turn it into a gasoline additive instead of food?
Is it common sense to impede offshore oil drilling when gas is $4.00 a gallon?
Is it common sense to let Mexican drug pushers walk off with thousands of guns?
Is it common sense to strip-search little old ladies at the airport?
Is it common sense to spend billions of dollars on solar panels and windmills that nobody in the free market wants?
Is it common sense to spend billions of dollars fighting global warming — even though global warming stopped, all by itself, in 1998?
Do people with common sense attend TUCC more than once?
Do people with common sense vote for a black candidate just because he's black?
Do people with common sense want illegal aliens to get food stamps?
Do people with common sense think Guam is going to capsize if too many people go there?
Do people with common sense welcome Sharia law to the United States?
Do people with common sense kill unborn children?
Mr. Obama openly lies about his record:
Obama tells donors: Democrats
favor 'light touch' on regulation. Making a pitch for Democratic candidates in 2014, President Obama told big donors in California
Thursday night that Democrats favor free-market solutions and less government regulation. "It turns out we're pretty common-sense folks,"
Mr. Obama said at a fundraiser at a private home in Palo Alto, Calif. "We believe in the free market [and] a light touch when it comes to
regulations."
The Editor says...
Really? Mr. Obama's idea of a "free market" is nationalizing General Motors, squandering tax dollars on Solyndra, subsidizing electric cars that
nobody (but the government) wants, and making offshore oil drilling all but impossible. Mr. Obama's idea of "a light touch when it comes to
regulations" is exemplified by the IRS attacking Tea Party people and small businesses, the EPA killing the coal industry, and Obamacare killing
full-time jobs. Mr. Obama is a smooth-talking tyrant.
False:
Obama Claims Immigration Bill Requires Illegals to Learn English. As Breitbart News has previously reported, when illegal immigrants
apply for "registered provisional immigrant" status under the provisions of the bill, the first step in legalization, they do not need to demonstrate
that they can speak English. When they apply for renewal of their RPI status, they still do not need to prove they can speak English.
Only when illegal immigrants apply for their "legal permanent resident" status, or green card, would they be required to demonstrate their ability to speak
English or prove that they are currently enrolled in a course "to achieve an understanding of English and knowledge and understanding" of civics.
Are We Being ImPrism'ed? Libertarians, and some
conservatives, are shouting that we're undergoing a quiet coup d'état, a revolution against our Constitution that is
happening under our noses. It may get that far, but we're not there yet. What is happening is not a revolution but rather the
realization that we cannot believe anything that this administration says.
The Editor says...
If you are just now discovering that you can't believe anything this administration says, you are about four years behind the curve.
Obama Is Just Obama. Obama was noted in his
brief [US Senate] career mostly for compiling the most partisan record among a diverse group of 100 senators, while making the
argument that he worked "across the aisle" and was a model of "bipartisanship." Because newly elected Senator Obama swore that
he would not run for the presidency, we inferred that he would certainly do just that. (Yes, it is axiomatic that when Obama
swears ["make no mistake about it"/"let me be perfectly clear"], then we expect what will follow will prove to be the very opposite.)
'Decimated' Al-Qaida
Could Shoot Down Passenger Jets. Bin Laden is dead and Barack Obama claims al-Qaida is "decimated." So what are
these defeated terrorists doing with shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles?
Obama: 'We Owe' Young Illegals a Path to
Citizenship. President Barack Obama said Tuesday [6/11/2013] that America "owes" it to certain illegal aliens to pass
legislation providing a "pathway to citizenship."
The Editor says...
We owe illegal immigrants nothing. Citizenship is not a debt that any country owes to foeigners.
Obama's Bodyguard of Lies.
President Obama and his people deserve at least one accolade: they have perfected lying into an art form. Is anyone
in Obama's closest orbit a truth-teller?
Lies President Obama told me. Somehow,
Obama was able to spend 4 years attacking your Freedom and lying about it the whole time. And yet, you re-elected him.
President Obama: NSA Spying
Programs 'Transparent'. President Obama said that two National Security Agency programs recently revealed through leaked
secret documents were "transparent" and, in an interview with PBS's Charlie Rose on Sunday [6/16/2013], he dismissed concerns that the
programs were vulnerable to abuse by government officials.
'Incompetent'
and 'liar' among most frequently used words to describe the president: Pew Research Center. The Pew Research Center has tracked
the assorted description of President Obama over the years, and has this to say: "The survey finds that the one-word impressions people
have of Obama have changed a great deal throughout his presidency. Terms like incompetent and liar now are among the most frequently
used words to describe Obama. In April 2009, when his job approval was at 63%, these words were rare," Pew says.
The IRS, the NSA, and Obama's Dirty Tricks.
The president, who is in charge of the IRS, oversaw an agency that actively denied his political opponents their Constitutional rights. He appointed the
head of the IRS, met with him 157 times during the years of his first term, yet denies any direct involvement.
Obama's climate-change
blather only adds to global warming. Virtually everything the guy touches this year turns to Shinola. He went to Ohio State, urged
Americans to dismiss all this silly talk about evil government out to control lives. Days later, oops, here comes the infamous ongoing series of
revelations about the Internal Revenue Service harassing Obama opponents, as other government agents coincidentally knock on doors. But the
nation's chief executive didn't know about it. Then, the FBI goes after phone records of journalists, long a helpful part of Obama's base.
The attorney general lies to a federal judge about one reporter's criminality, then lies to Congress about knowing about it. The chief executive
knew not of that too.
Obama:
'The Planet Will Boil Over' If Africans Are Allowed Cars and Air-Conditioning. President Barack Obama said at a town
hall event in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Saturday that unless we find new way of producing energy "the planet will boil over"
if people in Africa are allowed to attain air conditioning, automobiles and big houses.
Washington's $279 Billion Fraud.
If you think the federal student-loan program looks like a bad deal for taxpayers, imagine how it would look with honest accounting.
And now you don't need to imagine thanks to a new report that's receiving far too little attention. Turns out that the official
"savings" for taxpayers of $184 billion over the next decade really add up to $95 billion in losses.
State Dept: Oops, We Lied, Kerry Was Yachting During
Egypt Coup. On Friday, the State Department admitted that Secretary of State John Kerry was on his yacht off of the coast of Nantucket
as the Egyptian military took over the country from elected Muslim Brotherhood President Mohammed Morsi. Originally, the State Department denied
the report from CBS reporter Mosheh Oinounou that Kerry was aboard the "Isabel" Wednesday afternoon. The State Department said that Kerry was
working "all day" on Egypt, and State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki — the same Obama campaign worker who once claimed that the campaign
knew nothing about Joe Soptic — said that the CBS report was "completely inaccurate."
Another Obamacare Fumble. The White House
says the decision, announced last Tuesday, to delay implementation of Obamacare's employer mandate was made because "a dialogue with
businesses" revealed the need to reduce the reporting burden it placed on employers. This tale is enough to make a cat laugh.
This crew doesn't do "dialogue." Your BS detector badly needs a tune up if it didn't start buzzing when Valerie Jarrett blogged,
"We're listening." The delay is obviously due to the ineptitude of the Obama administration, and this is the fourth major provision
of PPACA to be repealed or delayed for the same reason.
Obama says U.S. is not aligned with any
Egyptian party: White House. President Barack Obama condemned the violence in Egypt on Saturday [7/6/2013] and said that the United
States was not working with any particular Egyptian political party or group as the country reels from a military takeover.
Nemesis, After All. Nemesis warns us on the eve of the
immigration debate that if Obama will ignore the legal requirements of his own bill, then he surely will be even bolder in subverting the
legislative work of others. When shortly he will again lament that he is not a king or tyrant, remember that the disclaimer usually
presages his attempt to act like one. Also remember that the best warning about Obama always comes from Obama: when he sermonizes
to us about cheap photo-ops, endless campaigning and fund-raising, spiking the football, going after enemies, etc., then we expect that he is
shortly to do all that and more.
Cloward-Obama. By now it's
abundantly clear that there is not an honest bone in the Obama administration's body; [...] Everything with these people is a
bait-and-switch, and nothing more so than their "signature achievement," the Patient Deflection and Unaffordable Care Act, better
known as Obamacare. From the start, it was clear that the "health care" law had nothing to do with health care.
President Obama tells kids his favorite food is broccoli.
President Barack Obama made an unscheduled visit on Tuesday to the second annual Kids' State Dinner, a healthy lunch children's event hosted by
first lady Michelle Obama in the East Room of the White House. The president greeted the 54 kid guests and made a few brief remarks.
Obama draws scorn — over
broccoli. President Obama told a student reporter this week that his favorite food is broccoli — news that has drawn its fair
share of skepticism, at least on Twitter. "Obama tells kid journalist his favorite food is broccoli. And his favorite activity is lying to
children," scoffed Comedy Central's Indecision blog in a tweet.
Here's
Obama's 'Smart' Government at Work. The president brags about how he's bringing smart, 21st century technology to government.
But the news surrounding that talk provides a showcase for how inept his administration is when it comes to IT. 'We've made huge swaths of
your government more efficient and more transparent, and more accountable than ever before," President Obama claimed Monday [7/8/2013].
But the very next day, AP reported that a "computer system problem" has caused his administration to delay yet another piece of ObamaCare for at
least a year.
The Top 5 Lies Of Obama's
Climate Change Speech. President Obama is being lauded for his plans to restrict carbon dioxide emissions. But the scheme looks
more like the last refuge of a desperate movement, because the speech he gave in its defense was full of lies. Al Gore called Obama's
Tuesday presentation at Georgetown University a "terrific and historic speech." It was not an honest message, though. His text was
laden with myths, fables, distortions and outright lies.
Mr. President, It's
Not "Carbon Pollution" It's the "Elixir of Life!" On June 25th, President Obama unveiled his plan to reduce what he refers to as "carbon
pollution" — the emission of gaseous carbon dioxide into the air that primarily results from the burning of fossil fuels. In
discussing the rationale for his plan, the President claims that carbon dioxide, or CO2, "causes climate change and threatens public health" and
that "cutting carbon pollution will help keep our air and water clean and protect our kids." Unfortunately, President Obama's statements
could not be further from the truth.
Still
More Lies On ObamaCare. Why should anyone believe what the president says about ObamaCare? Last week he touted nonexistent
rate cuts and rebate checks. And the White House now admits his promise about keeping your doctor was false.
First Lady:
Barack's Working to Free Americans from 'Any Form of Public Assistance'. In an e-mail to supporters, First Lady Michelle Obama
says she grew up in a family that didn't need help from the government, and that her husband is working to make Americans free from dependence on
government once again. [... But] The Obama Administration's Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has arranged to pay a public relations
firm $8 million to promote dependence on government-run health care — enrollment in ObamaCare's health insurance exchanges.
In Pennsylvania alone, HHS is spending $4 million to promote Obamacare at state health clinics.
Obama Suggests Only Lawyers
Understand the Constitution. President Obama suggested in an interview with the New York Times that was published on
Saturday [7/27/2013] that you need to be a lawyer to understand the U.S. Constitution. The president made the suggestion when
talking about members of Congress who have argued he does not have the constitutional authority to unilaterally suspend enforcement
of parts of the Obamacare law.
Bad Lies. We increasingly debate whether our leaders are
incompetent or lying. Unfortunately, we need not choose. [...] Is it possible to have a political discussion if truth is not a ground
rule and a precondition? And, when our leaders view truth only as a malleable tactic, should we engage with them? The answer to the
first question is obviously no. Discussions, agreements and relationships cannot be based on lies. The second question is more
troubling. If our leaders are arrogant, lazy and bad liars, what do we do?
Obama: 'We Don't Have a Domestic
Spying Program'. President Obama tells comedian Jay Leno that "We don't have a domestic spying program." He made the
comment during a taping of Leno's TV show. Obama also says the U.S. is not overreacting by closing some U.S. embassies for a week.
The president tells Leno, "The odds of dying in a terrorist attack are a lot lower than they are of dying in a car accident, unfortunately."
NYT: No spying on Americans? Au contraire.
On Tuesday, Barack Obama insisted that the US government isn't spying on Americans by surveilling the contents of their communications. Less
than two days later, the New York Times makes hash of that claim. The NSA, reports Charlie Savage, sifts through the content of "vast
amounts" of electronic communications between Americans and people abroad in their search for links to terrorism, and not just the metadata.
"Decimated" al-Qaeda
causes U.S. to shut embassies and go on high alert. It seems like only yesterday that President Obama declared al Qaeda "has been
decimated," is "on the run," "on its heels," "on the path to defeat," and any other number of such claims.
Al-Qaeda's Reality Check. During the 2012
presidential campaign, President Obama repeatedly claimed that al-Qaeda had been "decimated" and "on the path to defeat." That makes it a
little curious that the State Department is now forced to close temporarily its diplomatic missions across the Middle East and North Africa
and to issue a global travel alert to U.S. citizens warning of a potential attack by al-Qaeda.
Benghazi Attacks and 'Rogue' CIA Employees.
When the details of Operation Fast and Furious were revealed, the Obama administration wanted you to believe it was an operation hatched and
run out of an ATF office in Phoenix; that was a provable lie. When the IRS scandal broke, the Obama administration blamed it on 'rogue'
employees in Cincinnati; this was a proven lie as well. Now, not long after CNN's Drew Griffin reported that the CIA is intimidating
operatives who witnessed the Benghazi attacks, a letter from CIA Director John Brennan is apparently supposed to convince you that his hands
are clean.
Al Qaeda Scoops American Media
On Fact They Are Not Decimated. As we now know, it is almost never the American mainstream media breaking the big scoops surrounding
anything that might embarrass this president; not the IRS scandal, not Benghazi, and not the NSA revelations. And now the media have been
scooped by no less than al Qaeda with the major revelation that Obama's repeated boasts about "decimating" the terror group were false.
The IRS Attack on Political Speech.
The Internal Revenue Service's scandalous targeting of tea party and conservative groups refuses to die, as one by one the administration's
explanations prove untrue. We were told that the White House, like the rest of the country, learned about the program on May 10
through a planted question asked of then IRS official Lois Lerner at an American Bar Association conference. Turns out the White House
knew earlier. We were told the targeting was the work of a few rogue IRS employees in Cincinnati. Then those employees insisted
that they were being managed from Washington.
The Real Phony Scandal. As the end of September looms and the end
of the current fiscal year, the media is filled with dire stories of the pending default of the United States. This fear is bogus. The
annual debt interest payments are roughly $359+ billion. The government is collecting annual revenue somewhat north of $2.5 trillion.
There is thus plenty of cash to pay our debt interest payments to bond holders. It is therefore misleading at best to say the US government is in
danger of defaulting without a spending agreement for FY2014.
Poll: Voters believe scandals aren't
'phony'. A majority of voters believe the scandals embroiling the Obama administration are not "phony," according to a Fox News poll.
Voters in the Fox News poll also indicated they thought the controversies should be taken more seriously. For example, 69 percent of voters
think the controversy surrounding the National Security Agency surveillance programs should be taken seriously, while 78 percent feel the same about
President Obama's handling of the terrorist attack on the consulate in Benghazi, Libya, last Sept. 11 that killed four Americans, including U.S.
Ambassador Christopher Stevens.
Fox poll shows "phony scandal"
line playing worse that you'd think. After an avalanche of scandals hit the White House this spring, the Obama administration adopted
the public-relations strategy of calling IRS political targeting, NSA domestic snooping, and the deaths of four Americans in an utterly predictable
terrorist attack on a diplomatic facility "phony scandals." How's that working? According to a new Fox poll, even worse than you'd
think.
Obama's Bill Clinton
Moment: 'We Don't Have a Domestic Spying Program'. Like Clinton's famous sidestep [...] this is clever. It's not false if you use the
words in a certain way and only in that way: If spying is narrowly construed to mean, say, warrantless wiretaps on Americans, then it's apparently
true that there's no domestic spying program. But it's also not really true, and it suggests a sort of smirking contempt on the president's part for
his interlocutors, and citizens.
Did someone
mention domestic surveillance?
The Mother of All Scandals. Barack Obama, Susan Rice, and Hillary Clinton
all falsely swore that the obscure amateur video maker Nakoula Basseley Nakoula was guilty of prompting a mass riot at Benghazi. Nakoula — petty crook
and loud opponent of Islam — was a fall guy right out of central casting. [...] There were absolutely no professional consequences for publicly lying —
to the nation, to television audiences, to the relatives of the deceased, to the United Nations — that the Nakoula video was the cause of the deaths of our
Benghazi personnel. Barack Obama was reelected.
Shepard
Smith: Honey Boo Boo More Truthful Than Obama Administration. During the Wednesday edition of his program, Fox News anchor Shepard
Smith, not known as any sort of conservative, attacked the government for being dishonest and witholding critical information from Americans
while at the same time also undertaking highly invasive surveillance programs. "I don't believe much of anything they say anymore.
Because I can't figure out which parts to believe, so I choose not to believe any of it," Smith said in an interview with Fox News legal analyst
Mercedes Colwin.
DOJ, FBI admit they inflated
claims about mortgage fraud crackdown last year. The Justice Department and FBI have quietly acknowledged they grossly overstated the scope of a
mortgage fraud crackdown, which the administration heralded with much fanfare a few weeks before last year's presidential election. According to a memo
circulated by the FBI and a correction posted online by the Justice Department, the number of defendants, the number of victims and the size of the losses are,
in reality, a fraction of what officials claimed last October.
What if the president lied to us?
With the latest major revelation about National Security Agency surveillance, there's a huge taboo question that needs to be put out on the table:
Has President Obama been deliberately lying about the NSA, or have his statements just been repeatedly "wrong"?
White House spokesman 'not familiar with' Chris
Lane murder. Josh Earnest, principal deputy White House press secretary, said he was not familiar with the murder of Australian jogger Chris
Lane during Wednesday's [8/21/2013] White House briefing. When asked by Fox News chief White House correspondent Ed Henry about the Chris Lane
case, Earnest responded, "I'm not familiar with it, actually."
The Editor says...
A press secretary who claims he is "not familiar" with a front-page news story is either lying or incompetent.
Joe Wilson Was So Right. Joe Wilson Day will acknowledge and
applaud the Congressman's bold declaration of the truth about our president, Barack Obama. Four years ago next month, at Mr. Obama's address to a joint
session of Congress on his health care proposal, Mr. Wilson cried out "You lie!" at one of the numerous false statements in the president's speech.
Today, after having had several years to study this president's truthfulness, objective observers recognize that Mr. Wilson's verbal volley could serve as a
suitable response to virtually every proclamation of our current president.
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.
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.
McCaul 'stunned' at Kerry's estimate of
jihadists among Syrian rebels. House Homeland Security Committee chairman Mike McCaul (R--Texas) told reporters that he was "stunned" to hear
[Secretary of State John] Kerry tell House members on Wednesday that the number of jihadists serving in the Syrian rebel forces comprises less than a quarter of
anti-Syrian government fighters. McCaul says he's learned in various briefings that the number of jihadists migrating to Syria to take on the government
there is closer to 50 percent.
Blurred Red Lines. President Obama
isn't easy to follow up San Juan Hill, or for that matter even Capitol Hill. Rather than walk point on national security, he prefers to
blend in with the enlisted men and women. Consider his astonishing statement on Wednesday [9/4/2013] at a press conference in Stockholm
about his comments last year drawing a "red line" on the use of chemical weapons by Bashar Assad in Syria. "First of all, I didn't set
a red line," the President said. "The world set a red line. The world set a red line when governments representing 98% of the world's
population said the use of chemical weapons are abhorrent and passed a treaty forbidding their use even when countries are engaged in war.
"Congress set a red line when it ratified that treaty.[..."]
John Kerry's
top 10 most embarrassing statements on Syria. Secretary of State John Kerry is leading the charge for airstrikes by the Obama Administration
against Syria. The former Senator, however, has a shameful track record of appeasement of the brutal dictatorship in Damascus. During his
time in the Senate, Kerry expended a great deal of effort in extending the hand of friendship to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whom Hillary Clinton
famously dubbed as a "reformer." Significantly, during the Bush Administration years, Kerry was a fierce critic of Washington's hardline stance
against Assad, and worked hard to undercut the White House sanctions regime against Syria, advocating a policy of engagement with a state sponsor of
terrorism and key ally of Iran.
Even the liberals now realize that Obama is dishonest.
Liberals reject
Obama's case for Syria strikes; believe Obama and Kerry are lying. President Obama's liberal activist base is adamantly opposed to
military strikes in Syria, according to a new survey the Progressive Change Campaign Committee released Wednesday [9/4/2013]. PCCC says
more than 57,000 of its activists weighed in, and 73 percent of them opposed the U.S. taking action in Syria. Just 18 percent
supported strikes, and just 14 percent said the U.S. should go ahead unilaterally if it can't find any allies. Indeed, a majority of
the activists don't believe Mr. Obama and Secretary of State John F. Kerry are being honest when they lay out their justifications for
taking military action.
Kerry portrait of Syria rebels at odds with
intelligence reports. Secretary of State John Kerry's public assertions that moderate Syrian opposition groups are growing in influence
appear to be at odds with estimates by U.S. and European intelligence sources and nongovernmental experts, who say Islamic extremists remain by far the
fiercest and best-organized rebel elements.
About the Syria red line that
Obama drew, he now claims it was someone else. You probably could have anticipated this. When President Obama gets in trouble,
he either has no idea about the wrongdoing (think IRS, FBI). Or it was someone else's fault. (You-know-who from Texas.) Now, we know
that the red line statement Obama made as president 381 days ago about how any Syrian use of chemical weapons "would change my calculus" wasn't
really Obama's fault. According to Obama, although it looked just like the American president standing at the little podium with no teleprompter
in the White House Briefing Room, that modest man was actually speaking on behalf of the entire world. "I didn't set a red line; the world set
a red line," Obama claims.
John Fraud Kerry: Leading the Charge of the
Lie Brigade. Obama's choice of John Kerry to lead the charge for war against Syria demonstrates once again just what a tin ear this administration
has. When you have a hard sell from the get-go, it helps to have a credible spokesman.
Obama lies to the world: I didn't set a red line.
This morning in a press conference in Sweden, Obama denied before the entire world that he set a red line, trying to spin it as 'the world set a red line'
or something. [Video clip]
The president thinks you're stupid.
But just so you know, Mr. President, Americans are not stupid. They see through your ham-handed attempt to politicize war (he clearly hoped to use a Republican
rejection in the 2014 mid-term campaigns: "Look, the GOP wouldn't even support me to stop the killing of children!"). And Americans know they aren't getting
the truth on U.S. surveillance, IRS targeting of conservatives, Fast and Furious — and especially Benghazi.
Obama: 'Raising the Debt
Ceiling ...Does Not Increase Our Debt,' Though It Has 'Over 100 Times'. Raising the debt ceiling doesn't increase the nation's debt, Pres. Obama
declared in a speech today [9/18/2013]. In a speech at the Business Roundtable headquarters in Washington, D.C., Obama dismissed concerns about raising
the debt ceiling by noting that it'd been done so many times in the past.
The Editor says...
This is the kind of double-talking flim-flam that one would expect to hear from a used car salesman out in the sticks — not from someone
holding a respectable public office.
Obama Claims Raising Debt Ceiling
Doesn't Boost Debt. In a speech to the Business Roundtable this week covered by CNSnews.com, Obama added this gem to the budget debate:
"Raising the debt ceiling, which has been done over a hundred times, does not increase our debt; it does not somehow promote profligacy." What?
This kind of gibberish is a big reason voters have so little faith in their public officials these days. Suffice it to say that if the debt ceiling has
been raised "over a hundred times" and each time the debt went higher, one would have to conclude there's a very high — indeed, perfect —
correlation between a higher debt ceiling and higher debt.
Surprise:
Obama lying about the debt ceiling. In April, President Obama proclaimed it to be the month when we "teach young people how to budget
responsibly." Less than half a year later he's basically telling those same people that if they buy something they can't afford it isn't really
racking up more debt as long as the credit card company raises their limit by the time the transaction gets to the bank.
Obama's big debt limit deception. On Wednesday [9/18/2013], speaking
to the Business Roundtable, Obama said: "You have never seen in the history of the United States the debt ceiling or the threat of not raising the debt
being used to extort a president or a governing party and trying to force issues that have nothing to do with the budget and nothing to do with the debt."
This is just plain false, and he knows it. That he would say something so factually false in a prepared text is very worrisome.
Americans Are Right To Oppose
ObamaCare. Everybody who dislikes ObamaCare is being duped by GOP propaganda, says President Obama. That must include all those unions
calling it a disaster, and all those who've lost jobs and pay because of the law. Telemundo, the only news outlet that appears willing to ask Obama a
tough question, pressed him this week about polls showing most Americans oppose ObamaCare. "Is everybody wrong?" the host asked. Yes, they
are," Obama responded.
Obama struggles with debt talk at Ford
plant: 'If we don't raise the debt ceiling, we're deadbeats'. President Obama often refers to former President Clinton as his "Secretary of
Explaining Stuff" for his ability to break down complex economic issues, such as Obamacare, for average voters. Perhaps Mr. Obama could have used Mr.
Clinton's help Friday [9/20/2013] when he gave a somewhat long and halting explanation of his confrontation with House Republicans over raising the nation's
borrowing limit.
Ed Henry Slams Jay Carney
Over 'Four Pinocchio' Lie. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney was confronted by FOX News' Ed Henry about Obama's claim that Republican
attempt to attach non-budget items to an increase in the nation's debt limit has "never seen in the history of the United States."
Obama: 'We're Still Trying
to Recover;' NBER: Last Recession Ended 4 Yrs Ago. President Barack Obama — now eight months into his second term — said today
[9/21/2013] that the U.S. economy is "still trying to recover" from events that took place five years ago before he took office. At the same time, the
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), which dates the beginning and ending of recessions in the U.S. economy, insists that the last recession ended
more than four years ago.
Orwell, Obama, and Totalitarianism.
Yes, mendacity is integral to totalitarianism. We have had a sample of it in Barack Obama's two administrations. From TARP to Obamacare
to Benghazi and now an off-and-on-and-off Syrian intervention, all the country has been fed is a continuing stream of lies, fabrications, and falsehoods.
Obama gave away his hand early on when he boasted that his term in office would be the "most transparent" in our history. On that faux
transparency, even liberal journalists are beginning to remove the rose-dyed gauze from their eyes.
Obama the Storyteller. [Scroll down] But a
book by the Washington Post reporter and highly-regarded biographer David Maraniss confirmed reports from others [...] that the book ["Dreams from
My Father"] was filled with "errors" — characters that never existed or were "composites," incidents that never happened, girlfriends
that never existed, mentors that were misidentified, and more. There was a pattern in the book that became a pattern when Obama became a
politician and then the President. Perhaps the most disturbing fabrication in Obama's book was the tale that he routinely used when pushing
ObamaCare and while on the campaign trail of his own mother's death.
More than 19.5 million online fans don't really exist.
Barack Obama is political king of the
fake Twitter followers. Among influential U.S. political tweeters, President Barack Obama is the undisputed king of the fake
followers. A MailOnline analysis ranks his sizable Twitter following as the most deceptive total among the 21 most influential accounts run
by American politicians: More than 19.5 million of his 36.9 million Twitter followers are accounts that don't correspond to real
people. The four phoniest accounts in the sample, which included Democratic and Republican Party leaders in Washington, D.C., were those
belonging to President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, first lady Michelle Obama and the White House communications shop.
Obama's 'Fake' Twitter Followers Explained.
Barack Obama has 36.9 million Twitter followers, 19.5 million of whom, it turns out, are fake. This is a very disturbing sign for Obama's
opponents, as it demonstrates just how much appeal the president still has with his key support base, namely those who identify most closely with him
on a personal level — fake people.
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!
Sy Hersh on Osama bin Laden raid: "Not one
word of it is true". As reported by the Guardian on Friday [9/27/2013], iconic journalist Seymour Hersh tore apart America's mainstream
media before an audience at City University in London, calling for the sacking of 90 percent of editors and claiming that the story of the killing
of Osama bin Laden is "one big lie" and that "not one word of it is true."
Seymour Hersh on Obama, NSA and the
'pathetic' American media. He is angry about the timidity of journalists in America, their failure to challenge the White House and
be an unpopular messenger of truth. Don't even get him started on the New York Times which, he says, spends "so much more time carrying water
for Obama than I ever thought they would" — or the death of Osama bin Laden. "Nothing's been done about that story, it's one big
lie, not one word of it is true," he says of the dramatic US Navy Seals raid in 2011.
Seymour Hersh Rips US Media: 'Carrying
Water for Obama'. Left-wing journalist Seymour Hersh, a living legend with the American mainstream media, states the obvious in a new
interview with The Guardian: When it comes to Obama, the American media's unrequited crush on the president has turned them into useless fanboys and
water carriers.
Phony fatwa? Group claims Iranian
anti-nuke edict cited by Obama [is] a hoax. On Friday [9/27/2013], Obama cited a "fatwa," or religious edict, from Iran's all-powerful Supreme
Leader Ali Khamenei, banning the pursuit of nuclear weapons. "I do believe that there is a basis for a resolution [because] Iran's Supreme Leader has
issued a fatwa against the development of nuclear weapons," Obama told reporters. But although talk of such a fatwa has been around for at least eight
years, there's no evidence it was ever issued, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute, which flatly called the fatwa a hoax.
If 900,000 federal workers can be
furloughed as 'non-essential,' why employ them? Treasury Secy. Jack Lew warns the country will run out of money later this month. Actually,
that's another lie. The country ran out of money $17 trillion ago. It's all borrowed since then, much of it by this administration.
He's Just Not That Clever. This is not leadership.
It's not even a particularly good political tactic. It is the behavior of a bully and, to put it plainly, a liar. Obama's shutdown rhetoric
are not the words of a man who is honestly open to hearing the ideas of others; they are the words of a petty tyrant, an Alinskyite thug, whose true
opinion of the GOP was summed up in 2008 when he said, "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun."
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.
Obama the hostage-taker. For the first time in US history, a president confessed to deliberately
hurting his country to score points against his enemies. Which brings us to the national disgrace this week in which the Defense Department denied death benefits to the families
of fallen service members. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney insists, with operatic righteousness, that Obama never intended for the 26 families of the fallen to be
denied this aid or to be hindered from retrieving their beloveds' remains from Dover Air Force Base. But Carney is surely lying.
Park Service director blames threat
of terrorism for closing Mall during shutdown. The National Park Service director told Congress on Wednesday [10/16/2013] that he had to shut down the
open-air memorials on the Mall during the government shutdown because of terrorism, saying that closing them was the only way to protect them "in a
post-9/11 world." Director Jonathan B. Jarvis also said his agency had received intelligence showing an increased threat of danger since
the shutdown began — though he would not tell two House committees what those warnings were. In a contentious hearing, Republicans accused
Mr. Jarvis of making the shutdown as painful as possible for Americans.
Behold Our Elected Hypocrite. We bought wholesale the
lies of a skillful liar of the most devious sort. And we, our children, and our children's children are doomed to reap what we've sown.
Beating Obama. Obama does many things. He prevaricates, manipulates,
defrauds, abuses and usurps. But one thing that he does not do is compromise. Any strategy built on forcing Obama to compromise is inherently
flawed. He may occasionally throw Republicans a tiny bone to make them feel better about giving in, but only as long as his is the only plate with meat
on it. Obama never compromises because he has never really lost.
Barack Obama and the People of the Lie. The evil pathology now poisoning our
White House and the values of our Constitutional Republic is malignant narcissism. Our president is one of "The People of the Lie." Let us
not fear to say so. It is the truth.
The Press Endures Obama's Unrequited Love.
Journalists pride themselves for being on the cutting edge of events and trends, but they have been slow to realize or to admit that they have been
instrumental in electing a pathological liar to the highest office in the land.
Rep. Joe Wilson Vindicated. On September 9, 2009,
Joe Wilson, Congressman from South Carolina, shouted "You lie!" when President Obama was touting the benefits of his Affordable Care Act, now dubbed
"Obamacare." Many in America were shocked that anyone would call the President of the United States a liar in such a forum as a presidential address
to a joint session of Congress. But, now, as we look back on 5 years of Barack Obama, we see that Obama and his Administration do lie.
And they lie a lot.
A lie from day one. Florida Blue cancelled policies for 300,000
Floridians. Kaiser Permanente dropped 160,000 individual plan holders in California, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina mailed out 160,000
cancellation notices. It's happening nearly everywhere. People were promised they could keep their health insurance plan. That was a lie.
They were duped and dropped. The liar is none other than the president of the United States.
Obama Throws Intel Community Back Under the
Bus. The revelations about NSA spying on allied leaders are now officially a scandal. No, that scandal isn't that the U.S. spies on
its allies — all nations do that and some go further than that. [...] No, the scandal is that, faced with embarrassing allegations, President
Obama is trying to throw General Keith Alexander, the head of the NSA, and the rest of the intelligence community under the bus by claiming that he had no
idea what was going on. Not surprisingly, anonymous leakers in the intelligence community are pushing back to shred the White House alibi.
Obama's politics of oppression and
lawlessness. As pundits and politicians dissect the carnage of ObamaCare, a serious question demands an honest answer: At what point
did the president know his plan to nationalize one-sixth of the national economy was not ready for the October 1 launch? If, as he pleads
with every controversy swirling around his administration, he did not know, his incompetency demands his removal from office. But it is
inconceivable that Barack Obama would not know the status of his signature legislation, his very legacy.
Obama just got used to
saying things that were never challenged. He was going to close GITMO was one of the early promises. He even signed an executive
order to close it within a year. But GITMO is still open and will likely stay open the day that President Obama flies home to Chicago in early
2017. I'm not good at predictions but I can predict today that [President] #45 will inherit GITMO. He said that you could keep your own
health care plan or doctor. [...] It looks like millions won't keep their insurance. Where was the media on both of these? They weren't
doing their job. This is why he got away with making these statements.
Media Knew Obama's
'Keep Your Plan' Promise Was Phony. NBC News on Monday [10/28/2013] claimed to have uncovered evidence that President Obama knew all along
that his promise that "you can keep your health plan" under ObamaCare wasn't true. The story came out just as millions across the country are
getting cancellation notices from their insurance companies. "Buried in ObamaCare regulations from July 2010," NBC said, is an estimate that shows
"the administration knew that more than 40% to 67% of those in the individual market would not be able to keep their plans, even if they liked them."
The Mendacious Mr. Obama. [Scroll down] Beyond
that, it's helpful to bear in mind the characteristics of the Obama White House. This is the group that for weeks knowingly misled the public on
the events surrounding the lethal attacks on the American diplomatic outpost in Benghazi. That claimed that the Affordable Care Act was both a tax
and not a tax, depending on what the circumstances required. That hatched the sequestration idea, then denied it, and then blamed Republicans
for it. That has perfected the art of stonewalling. That is lawless. And that ran a campaign in 2012 that was unusually vicious and
dishonest, up to and including blaming Mitt Romney for the cancer death of a steelworker's wife.
The
unraveling of Barack Obama's 'Potemkin' presidency. Like other false constructs ("shovel-ready jobs" and "leading from behind"), the
mythic promise of Obamacare stands revealed now upon a foundation of lies. It turns out that regulations not drafted in 2010 or shared before
the November 2012 election really, really do matter. Despite strenuous efforts by the Obama Administration to keep essential truths hidden,
clear and unambiguous evidence emerged starting on October 1, 2013 showing that the Affordable Care Act is anything but. You cannot
keep your health plan-period.
God, Lies, and Obama. Americans are far from strangers
to presidential lying. Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon excelled at it. [...] Barack Obama is another matter. His lies are not mainly for
self-defense (although Benghazi has elements of that). They are lies of ideological volition. He lies to get his way. And he
does it so well, with so much seeming earnestness — as in his umpteen (and continuing!) pronouncements that no one would
lose their health insurance or personal physician from Obamacare, when, it's now clear, he knew all the while this was utterly false —
that his behavior appears almost sociopathic. In other words, to Obama these are not really lies, because he has no values, religious or
otherwise, that make them so.
Obamacare
laid bare. [Scroll down] Obamacare is the largest transfer of wealth in recent American history. But you can't say that openly lest you lose
elections. So you do it by subterfuge: hidden taxes, penalties, mandates and coverage requirements that yield a surplus of overpayments.
So that your president can promise to cover 30 million uninsured without costing the government a dime. Which from the beginning was the
biggest falsehood of them all. And yet the free lunch is the essence of modern liberalism. Free mammograms, free preventative care, free
contraceptives for Sandra Fluke. Come and get it.
Obamacare's
Falsehoods: Replace Obama's teleprompter with a lie detector. Every statement made by the President and his press people has become suspect.
President Barack Obama and press spokesman Jay Carney would each need to pass a great many polygraph tests to restore even a slight level of public trust.
Could there be a greater contrast than this: After the first day of the Obamacare website being live, www.healthcare.gov, the White House bragged that
it had 4.7-million visitors. Now CBS News reports the total number of people who actually signed up that day was six. Single digit. Six.
The Obama Facade Cracks at Last. Bob
Woodward, one of the journalists famed for breaking the Watergate story, called the Obama Administration a "rat's nest of concealment and
lies" and described it as a "secret government." That secret activity includes using the Internal Revenue Service to spy on and intimidate
opponents. After he spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast, including critical remarks about President Obama's leadership, the famous
Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon Benjamin Carson joined a long line of conservative who have been audited by the IRS.
Obama's Lying Is Actually Cause for Optimism.
Barack Obama is certainly an accomplished liar. This essay will spotlight a few from among a lengthy list of his outrageous lies; consider whether it is
possible that, in his mind, he is not lying; and then explain why the incessant prevarications might actually reflect something hopeful about the American
people. Obama's lies are legion. They include: [...]
President Pinocchio: He clearly lied about ObamaCare.
"All we've been hearing the last three years is if you like your policy you can keep it. ... I'm infuriated because I was lied to," one woman told the Los
Angeles Times as part of a story on how some middle-class Californians have been stunned to learn the real costs of ObamaCare. And that lie looks like
the biggest lie about domestic policy ever uttered by a U.S. president.
A
Dishonest Presidency. It's not easy to get a lie into a presidential speech. Every draft address is circulated to the White House senior
staff and key Cabinet officials in something called the "staffing process." Every line is reviewed by dozens of senior officials, who offer comments
and factual corrections. During this process, it turns out, some of Obama's policy advisers objected to the "you can keep your plan" pledge, pointing
out that it was untrue. But it stayed in the speech. That does not happen by accident. It requires a willful intent to deceive.
White
House on honesty in the Age of Obama: "What difference does it make?". The White House claims the negatives are minor because "only" 10 to
12 million Americans with individual policies will lose their current insurance, and that these are dwarfed by a vast number who get government subsidies
under Obamacare. But official numbers show 93-million people could lose their current coverage. That's because many employer-based policies will
also be cancelled as inadequate under Obamacare. Until that next wave of bad news hits, Obama's team is pushing the notion that presidential truth-telling
doesn't really matter.
Obama Lies Like a Marxist. A week after he
signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama went on a road trip to Portland, Maine, to boast and prevaricate
about what he had just done. [...] "They'll have to finally acknowledge that this isn't a government takeover of our health care system," he said.
"They'll see that if Americans like their doctor, they will keep their doctor. And if you like your insurance plan, you will keep it.
No one will be able to take that away from you. It hasn't happened yet. It won't happen in the future." Anyone who
actually read the law — or even just a small part of it — would have known this was untrue.
President
Obama didn't misspeak; He lied. Americans don't always pay attention to politics. Who can blame them? And, actually, that's what
Obama has successfully counted on, that his live-streamed snippets of falsehoods blared by a largely complicit media would trump critics' negative
natterings. But the broken promises, false claims and tortured truths have reached a critical mass now. Bludgeoned by Benghazi, IRS
revelations, FBI probes, NSA disclosures, Fast and Furious, Solyndra, Syria's slips and now ObamaCare's sticker shock and outright whoppers, more
Americans detect the odor of betrayal, however reluctantly.
Michelle Obama: 'We Want to
Honor and Embrace All... Faith Traditions'. At a White House Diwali celebration on Tuesday afternoon [11/5/2013], First Lady Michelle Obama
said that she and her husband wanted to celebrate all the faith and culture traditions 'that make us who we are as Americans." Even as she was saying
this, there were 200 plaintiffs pursuing 77 lawsuits asking federal courts to protect their First Amendment right to the free exercise of religion
from a regulation issued by the administration under Obamacare that requires health insurance plans to cover sterilizations, contraceptives and abortion
inducing drugs and devices.
Another
ObamaCare Lie: Mother's Dispute With Insurer. The You-Can-Keep-Your-Insurance line isn't the only ObamaCare whopper the media never checked
out. There's also the tall tale about President Obama's mother's deathbed fight with her insurer. In several speeches, as well as debates,
Barack Obama claimed a heartless insurance company denied his mother, Ann Dunham, health care coverage because of a pre-existing cancer. Her medical
bills mounted while her health failed, he said. Though she died a bankrupt woman in 1995, her nightmare inspired him to keep fighting for health
care reform. The heart-breaking anecdote was used to beat up insurers over denying pre-existing conditions and was key to selling ObamaCare.
Except it wasn't true.
'Pretty Good at Killing'. It has been disclosed
in a recently published book about the 2012 campaign, Double Down by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, that the president told aides that he is
"really good at killing people" with drones. I think the president is being far too modest. Drones aren't the half of it. He's really
good at killing lots of things. [...] He has certainly killed any shred of accountability in the Oval Office. Gone for the last five years has been
any hope of a truth being uttered by an American president or his spokespersons, and it isn't coming back until he is gone. What we have seen in the
last few weeks regarding ObamaCare has been mesmerizing, with endless replays of the president uttering lies which evidence shows he knew were lies
when he said them.
NBC's Chuck Todd: Obama 'Does Not Believe
He Lied'. NBC's Chuck Todd scored a huge interview with President Obama Thursday and opened things by immediately drilling down on the
president's relentlessly repeated lie that under ObamaCare you can keep your current insurance plan if you like it. [...] Even after he elicits a
"sorry" from Obama, Todd keeps after the point for almost ten minutes. Ultimately, though, Todd came away with the impression that Obama
doesn't believe he lied. And Todd is probably right, which is a little unnerving.
'Period'. There are so many instances where it
would be appropriate to use the "period" verbal punctuation with this President. [...] It would be wise to add "period" to all his misdirections, past and
future, as a reminder of the expected level of veracity. "Period" should be used each time this President is quoted or referred to, serving as a
constant reminder of his wellspring of untruths.
Executive Order Ignores Climate
Reality. President Obama is "preparing the United States for the Impacts of Climate Change," by his new executive order issued Friday
[11/1/2013]. [...] It is apparent that neither Obama nor the Sierra Club has been monitoring data from the president's own National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The executive order first cites "an increase in prolonged periods of excessively high temperatures."
This is a false assertion in view of records from NOAA and the U.S. Historical Climatology Network.
The U.S. is in crisis, not
the White House. Consider the non-apology apology about the Affordable Care Act that Barack Obama made earlier this week. Remember
the misleading information about Benghazi which is well over a year old and still unresolved. Think about the proposition that "al Qaeda is dead
and General Motors is alive." Or how about "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. Period!" There are dozens more
Obamaisms, but these are representative. What if, cynically but hypothetically, the so-called "crisis in the White House" is a manufactured
talking point to divert attention from real issues which are far more subversive?
Rep. Trey Gowdy: Are You Going
to Believe What Obama Tells You? The president is expected to say that Americans can keep their insurance policies even if they don't meet
Obamacare coverage requirements. He would administratively "grandfather" more individual plans. Gowdy said Obama is seeking a "political
remedy" — "because his dream of retaking the House has now turned into the nightmare of, he may lose the Senate — because half of
the people that he works for don't believe what comes out of his mouth."
President's
Untruths Go Well Beyond "Keep Your Plan". The president promised to catch the Benghazi terrorists, but hasn't. He promised he
would never let Iran build a nuclear weapon, which they are now weeks away from. He promised he would not let Syria cross a "red line" on
chemical weapons, which he now believes they did but hasn't done anything about. The president promised to change the dishonest ways of
Washington; he now embodies them.
Why it is easy for President
Obama to lie to the American people: That's a really big lie, however you measure it — whether in the tens of millions of people
affected, or the hundreds of thousands of doctors, or the dozens of insurance companies, or the thousands and thousands of employers or the
rerouting of billions of dollars. Yet, the president only said he was "sorry that people are finding themselves in this situation based
on reassurances they got from me." He didn't say that he had profoundly violated the trust of the American people.
Barack Obama, Derelict. Barack Obama and those
who serve at his whim have declared that he knew nothing about the IRS witch-hunt of Republicans, spying by the NSA on Americans
and foreign leaders, Fast and Furious, ObamaCare website problems, that he actually set red lines regarding Syria (though he
denied it later), security problems at the Benghazi consulate, and spying on the Associated Press. When asked, Obama has asserted
that he learned about all these problems only after reading about them in the media.
New Whopper: Obama
Claims 'More than 100 Million Americans' Have Enrolled in Obamacare. His claim that 100 million have enrolled in Obamacare,
which was probably believed by his worship team, just like his other lies, is simply an attempt by Obama to cover up one set of lies with even a
bigger one.
Obama: 'We're Not Lavishly
Spending on a Whole Bunch of Social Programs'. President Obama told a gathering of business executives on Tuesday [11/19/2013] that
the federal government was not "lavishly spending" on social programs. "What we know is, is that our — our fiscal problems are
not short-term deficits. Our discretionary budget, that portion of the federal budget that isn't defense or Social Security or Medicare or
Medicaid, the entitlement programs, is at its smallest level in my lifetime, probably since Dwight Eisenhower.["]
The man
who used to walk on water. It is the bully pulpit. When a president speaks, the world listens. That is why Barack Obama's
credibility matters. If people do not believe what he says, his power to shape events withers. And recent events have seriously shaken
people's belief in Mr Obama. At home, the chaos of his health reform has made it harder for him to get anything else done. Abroad, he is
seen as weak and disengaged, to the frustration of America's allies.
Reining in America's Greatest
Lawbreaker, President Obama. Obama has lied to the American people many times, which is unbecoming of his office. But his
unilateral actions in violation of the Constitution and even statutory law are so brazen that they seem calculated to undermine our very system
of government, even to the point that they can be called "un-American" from the perspective of our heritage. [...] No person, corporation, union
boss or corporate CEO — no criminal — who has violated the law could count every American as their victims. President
Obama can.
Remembering Stanley Ann
Dunham Obama. The moving and infuriating story was a staple on the 2008 campaign trail. His mother had insurance, he
explained, but when she came down with cancer, her insurance company claimed her disease was a "pre-existing condition" and refused to pay
for her treatment. [...] But when New York Times reporter Janny Scott researched the issue for her biography of the president's mother, she
discovered letters proving beyond doubt that Cigna never denied Stanley Ann Dunham coverage for her disease. The dispute was over a
disability plan that would have paid some of her other expenses.
Obama: I'm not a particularly ideological
person. President Barack Obama, on a fundraising swing in Seattle on Sunday [11/24/2013], described himself as "not a
particularly ideological person" despite ongoing political clashes with Republicans over healthcare, the economy, and immigration reform.
Obama: 'I'm Not a Particularly
Ideological Person'. Yes, Barack Obama really said this. [...] He then went on to say that the equally non-ideological
Nancy Pelosi should be returned as speaker of the House. Meanwhile he's bitterly clinging to his sharply ideological signature
failure despite the fact that it has never enjoyed majority support and is obviously causing chaos all over the country, among other
sharply ideological policies, procedures and nominees.
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.
CNN Analyst 'Defends' Obama: 'Every
President Is Going To Lie'. CNN's analyst LZ Granderson has defended President Obama's outright lies about Obamacare with some of
the most insidious, cynical logic seen in recent years. According to Granderson, the American people have rationalized the health insurance lies
fed to them by Obama in this way: "We can deal with the lies that President Obama tells us because we believe in his heart, he has the best interest
for the American people."
White House admits fabricating
story about Obama meeting his uncle. Approximately 3 years ago, as Uncle Omar was fighting deportation following a DUI charge, the
White House asserted to The Boston Globe without any apparent qualification that Onyango Obama "has never met his famous nephew." That statement
was untrue.
After
denial, White House now says Obama lived with uncle. The White House acknowledged Thursday that President Obama lived with his uncle for a
brief period in the 1980s while he was a student at Harvard Law School — despite previously saying there was no record of the two having met.
"The president did stay with him for a brief period of time until his apartment was ready," White House spokesman Eric Schultz said in a statement.
Obama:
I'm Not the Problem; Need to 'Reorganize the Government'. President Obama says his personal management style
isn't a problem: "Part of what we need to do is reorganize the government, which was designed primarily in 1935-45. We could
consolidate agencies," he told "Hardball" host Chris Matthews Thursday in an interview conducted at American University in
Washington. Matthews, an Obama fan, told the president that problems with the rollout of Obamacare suggest he
does not have a "strong top-down authority system."
The Editor says...
The government was designed in the 1780's.
Politico
Destroys White House Claim of Secret Obama-Sebelius Meetings. Late Friday afternoon [12/6/2013], Politico Magazine
published an update dismantling White House claims that President Barack Obama and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius
held "dozens" of unrecorded one-on-one working meetings over the last three-and-a-half years leading up to Obamacare's unveiling.
Obama's Wretchedly Convoluted
Presidency. When President Obama's uncle, Onyango Obama, was arrested in 2011 for drunk driving, the truth — that
Obama had stayed with his uncle years earlier for several weeks as a Harvard law student — would have served the president just
fine. No potential Obama voter would have held it against him that an uncle he had stayed with two decades earlier was picked up for
DUI. Yet the White House went with a lie, claiming that Obama had never met his uncle. Now that the lie has been exposed, thanks
to testimony from "Uncle Omar" at his deportation hearing, the White House says it got its facts wrong.
Our ideological president. At a
fundraiser in Seattle on the day before Thanksgiving, President Obama told a group of Democratic donors, apparently without a hint of irony, "I'm
not a particularly ideological person." One wouldn't know it from the ponderous 48-minute oration on income inequality that he delivered in
Washington on Wednesday.
The Slow, Painful Education of Barack
Obama. Barack Obama claimed to be a different kind of politician who would reach across the aisle to work with others, and
who didn't care where good ideas came from. He promised, for instance, to go through the budget line-by-line and root out waste and
fraud. He got around that promise by never having a budget at all.
Obama is not a
Pathological Liar, He is an Ideological Liar. Like communism, the collapse of the Obama Administration agenda is inevitable,
not solely as a result of its many flawed policies, but because it lacks an ethical dimension in regard to individual rights, justifiable
criteria for its use of state coercion and, in particular, a respect for the truth. Stated simply, Obama lies because the true objectives
of his fundamental transformation of the United States are incompatible with American democracy and tradition.
Obama tells a whopper on IRS
scandal. Fact: The IRS targeted conservative and tea party groups requesting tax-exempt status in the run-up to the 2012
presidential election. That's a fact. Congress held hearings — embarrassing hearings. Three top Internal
Revenue Service officials resigned. No heads rolled, but for the Obama administration, and the lawless Attorney General Eric H.
Holder Jr., that amounted to a major scandal. Even White House spokesman Jay "Circus" Carney called the IRS' actions "inappropriate."
Fact. But President Obama, in an interview last week with sycophant Chris Matthews, now says the entire scandal was made up by the media.
How Presidents Lie. [Scroll
down] Barack Obama has offered all sorts of similar empty pledges, like promising to close the federal detention center at Guantanamo Bay
within a year of taking office. It is still open. Obama also promised to halve the deficit by the end of his first term.
Instead he doubled it. Ditto Obama's promises on the good things to follow Cash for Clunkers, on the shovel-ready jobs that would follow
the stimulus, and on the summer of recovery to be spawned by massive borrowing. At your own job, if you promise the boss that you will do
something and then don't, you're likely to get fired; when presidents do the same, it's called politics.
Does Obama Think He Is Lying? To lie "is the ability to understand
another's mind." And here Obama excels. He clearly knows that the reality of his deeds would never have been accepted if the American people clearly understood what the
ultimate goals would be. Thus, fibbing, misinforming, distortions, and victimizing, have become the rule of the day.
Congratulations, Barack Obama, on
winning PolitiFact's "Lie of the Year"! As my pal Nathan said, this might be the first award he's gotten that he truly deserved. [...] One
question, though: Why is this the 2013 Lie of the Year instead of the 2009 Lie of the Year? That's when he first started pushing the "if you
like your plan" crapola, and that's when conservative health-care wonks started calling B.S. on him for it. The final dimensions of ObamaCare weren't
settled at the time but the general scheme was clear enough — the sick would be covered and the poor would be subsidized with new revenue raised
by forcing "young invincibles" to buy coverage and transitioning middle-class people to more expensive "comprehensive" plans. "If you like
your plan, you can keep it" had to be a lie or else the law would have no chance of working.
IRS Targeting: Round Two. President
Obama keeps claiming that he had no knowledge of the Internal Revenue Service's abusive muzzling of conservative groups. That line is hard to
swallow given that his Treasury and IRS are back at it — this time in broad daylight. In the media blackout of Thanksgiving week,
the Treasury Department dumped a new proposal to govern the political activity of 501(c)(4) groups. The administration claims this rule is
needed to clarify confusing tax laws. Hardly. The rule is the IRS's new targeting program — only this time systematic, more
effective, and with the force of law.
The biggest Pinocchios of 2013.
Our general rule of thumb held: the more complex a subject is, the more tempted politicians are to make misleading claims. President Obama
ended up with three of the most misleading claims of the year.
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.
Barack
Obama's Presidency Is A Complete Failure By His Own, Self-Imposed Standards. How many times has President Obama told us
that he is "fighting for the middle class"? But real median family income has been in a continuous downward spiral since he became
President, actually falling more since the recession ended in the summer of 2009 according to the National Bureau of Economic Research
than during the recession. That has added up by now to the middle class losing a month's pay a year under President Obama's economic
policies. If President Obama is "fighting for the middle class," why doesn't he approve the Keystone Pipeline?
So Many Intolerable Lies. There are so many lies coming out of the
White House that we have become numb to them. But to concede that is to concede the debate. That is what is happening now across our political
spectrum. We are told by the New York Times that there was no terrorist involvement in the Benghazi attack and that Edward Snowden, the NSA
leaker, should be pardoned. The former is an outright lie — see the statements of House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers — and
the latter is a judgment based on another lie.
Bombshell
Documents: Obama, Hillary lied completely about Benghazi. Obama knew he couldn't win the election if he told the
American people the truth. I bet Obama didn't think twice about lying. The media helped him, debate moderators saved
him, and now we're stuck with the most incompetent President of all time.
Starting year six, does Obama
finally own the economy? Of course Obama inherited an economic mess. He deserved time to fix it. The GOP clock started
at one year; after 12 months in office, would Obama own the economy? The public's answer was no, the president should be given more
time. After two years, did Obama own the economy? The answer was still no. Americans still responded positively when Obama
blamed his predecessor. After three years, the story was the same.
Sen. Inhofe on
Obama's Global Warming Claims: 'The President Just Made that Up'. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) told a Senate Environment and Public
Works (EPW) committee hearing today [1/16/2014] that the president must have fabricated two oft-repeated climate claims. "Both statements are false,"
Sen. Inhofe said of Obama's global warming claims, since neither the EPA nor the U.N. IPCC climate group can provide any supporting statistics.
"On multiple occasions, and most recently on May 30th of last year, President Obama has said, and this is a quote he has used several times, he
said that 'the temperature around the globe is increasing faster than was predicted even ten years ago' and that 'the climate is warming faster than
anybody anticipated five or ten years ago.'
The Editor says...
"The temperature around the globe" isn't warming at all.
How
much longer can President Obama claim that he 'didn't know'? Something does not add up. Either President
Obama is not interested in the details of governing, such as the extent that surveillance was being done in his name, or, he is not
telling the truth about rules that he approved.
Should Americans believe anything
Obama says? As the beginning of President Obama's sixth year in the Oval Office draws near, his public approval rating has plunged, battered by the
horrendous launch of the Obamacare website, healthcare.gov, as well as by a succession of extremely disturbing revelations about his administration's handling
of the IRS scandal and the aftermath of the Benghazi terrorist attack. Taken together, these developments point to a question that is painful to pose, but
essential to consider: Can or should Americans believe anything this president tells them about his policies or actions?
Muslim anti-Semitism is only decades
old, Obama claims. Experts are scoffing at President Barack Obama's apparent belief that widespread Muslim hatred of Jews is only
decades old. "Obama reveals that he has no idea, or doesn't want to give the impression that he has any idea, about the reality of
Islamic anti-Semitism," said Robert Spencer, the author of many books on Islamic ideas and director of Jihad Watch. "Anti-Semitism is
hard-wired into Islam," from its origins before 700, said Andrew Bostom, author of three books about Islam, including "The Legacy of
Islamic Antisemitism," which lists centuries of anti-Semitic hatred, murders, pogroms and apartheid-like discrimination.
Obama: "I'm Not a Particularly Ideological
Person." A couple of days ago, I counted the ways why I disliked President Obama following his recent interview with David
Remnick of The New Yorker. In the interview, he attributed some of his unpopularity to racism. Dishonesty and
disingenuousness are unbecoming a President and here's another example from the same interview.
Presidential Theater. What's with this
perpetual charge from the left that women make only 77 cents for every dollar men make? If this were actually true when it came to "equal pay for
equal work" (Obama's allusion only a few words or sentences later), then clearly a lot of employers out there are brazenly breaking a lot of laws.
Where are all those deputized federal regulators when we really need them?
More Pinocchios for the President on
Equal Pay. Perhaps it's progress that the president waited until the second half of the speech to trot out the must-have line about
equal pay and the wage gap. Perhaps his speech writers just needed to fill time so cut and paste a line from dozens of previous speeches: [...] Yet
they are behind the curve in using a statistic that is increasingly acknowledged as misleading.
Fact check: Obama's State of the
Union. We found a few overstatements and cherry-picked numbers among the applause lines and proposals in President Obama's State
of the Union address. [#1] He boasted of businesses creating "more than 8 million new jobs" in the last four years. But
that leaves out a loss of government jobs, not to mention the loss of jobs earlier in Obama's presidency. [#2] Obama credited the
Affordable Care Act with signing up more than 9 million Americans for private insurance or Medicaid. But Medicaid estimates
include renewals, along with new enrollees. [#3] Obama boasted that the U.S. "reduced our total carbon pollution more than any other
nation on Earth." Yes, but the U.S. produces a lot of emissions. Looking at percentage change, dozens of countries did better.
[#4] Federal deficits have been "cut by half," as he said, but they're still at historically high levels.
My 14 Observations of Obama's 2014 SOTU. [#1]
Early on in the speech, Obama said, "Our deficits — cut by more than half." In what country has Obama been living in for the
past five years?
Obama's IRS 'Confusion'. House
committees are still digging into the IRS political targeting scandal, and based on a hearing Wednesday there's more to learn. The day
produced more evidence blowing apart President Obama's claims that there was "not even a smidgen of corruption" or political motivation in the
IRS handling of groups applying for tax-exempt status.
Congressional Testimony
Reveals Obama Lazy, Dishonest, Incompetent. Over and over again during his administration, the American people are lied to, fooled,
given half-truths, or lied to again. There are lots of websites out there tracking his lies, whether they be during his constant campaigning,
during his rare press conferences, during his partisan speeches, or from statements that his administration releases — he is a liar. The
truth is out there and the truth does exist, but he is a confused and scared little man and runs from the truth. Waking up on
September 13 last year, the truth was that he blew it and that his personal actions resulted in several good Americans dying, and
so he lied, and when caught lied some more, and when confronted lied or had others lie for him.
Obama Lied With Every Word. Some of the policies
that Obama kept insisting were neither liberal nor conservative, neither Democrat nor Republican, included raising the minimum wage, raising taxes and
yet another stimulus plan. These policies may be archetypically liberal, but Obama carries his own reality with him, his own mathematics,
his own history, his own dictionary and his own moral code which he adapts to the moment.
The Truth About the 'One Percent'. 'Income
inequality" has emerged as the issue du jour in national politics, threatening to displace the unpopular health-care law and the slow-growing economy this
election year. [...] This crusade is based on three questionable claims. [...] All of these claims are false. By promoting them, the president and
his supporters may hope to distract attention from ObamaCare and the economy. Yet they are igniting hopes they can't possibly fulfill.
Exposing the Lie in the "War on Women". A frequent refrain of President Obama's —
asserted as earnestly as "if you like your health care plan, you can keep it" — is the claim repeated in his State of the Union address that women
"make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns." Promising to close the "embarrassing" gap, he declared that "women deserve equal pay for equal work."
While discrimination can't be ruled out, should it be the default explanation? Are whites the victims of discrimination because they earn less than Asians?
If women do the same work for less, why would anyone hire a man?
Hayes
and Krauthammer Scoff at Media Claim of 'Austerity' Under Obama: 'An Assault on the Dictionary'. Steve Hayes and Charles Krauthammer,
on Friday's [2/21/2014] Special Report with Bret Baier, scoffed at the Washington Post's front page characterization that President
Barack Obama's expected budget proposal "will call for an end to the era of austerity that has dogged much of his presidency." Hayes marveled:
"This is one of the funny things about reading mainstream newspapers and watching mainstream media report on this President, is they somehow are
operating under the illusion we're living in this age of austerity."
Some Very Good News About Americans. The last two elections
put a President in office that lies all the time. The nation's economy has been so awful that 100 million Americans are either
out of work or have ceased looking for work. Democrat political leaders are actually telling Americans that being unemployed is a
good thing because it leaves them free to pursue their hobbies. The President has been pursuing a campaign to make Americans
believe that there is massive income inequality when, in fact, there is relatively little.
Obama
on undocumented Irish: Our immigration system is broken. President Obama says the thousands of Irish immigrants
in the US are being denied opportunities because of the US strict immigration laws. The President was speaking the
traditional Shamrock ceremony at the White House as part of the St Patrick's Day celebrations. The issue of immigration
reform was a priority for the Irish Government delegation, led by Enda Kenny. The delegation has been lobbying in
Washington during the St Patrick's Day trip for reforms to benefit the 50,000 undocumented Irish there. President
Obama said too many undocumented Irish were denied the chance to contribute to society as they were not able to pay taxes
through the tax system.
The Editor says...
One contributes to society by holding down a job, staying out of jail, and declining food stamps, Obamaphones and other
handouts. Even those who pay no income tax still pay sales taxes, gasoline taxes, telephone taxes, and property taxes,
so the claim that Irish immigrants are "not able to pay taxes" is an obvious lie.
Michelle
Obama: My Husband and I Welcome 'Criticism' from 'Media' and 'Our Fellow Americans'. First Lady Michelle Obama
addressed students and faculty at Peking University in Bejing, China on Saturday[,] addressing free speech issues.
A
Rebuttal To First Lady's Claim That They Welcome Criticism. They sure have a strange way of showing their
"welcome." What was the IRS scandal but a project to "shut up conservative voices" that criticize the president?
The IRS is now in the process of codifying the rules they used to illegally target conservative 501(C)(4) groups.
This president has been at war with Fox News since the early days of his administration, and has called out Rush Limbaugh
and Sean Hannity by name. This is the president of "Fight the Smears," "Attack Watch," "Truth Team," and Linda
Douglass's ghastly "snitch network" which was set up to squelch "misinformation" (aka "the truth") about ObamaCare.
And just last month the FCC had to shelve their plans to have "news police" monitoring newsrooms, only because of the
huge public outcry.
DOJ
to Supreme Court: Killing Human Embryo in Womb is Not Abortion. The U.S. Justice Department is telling the
Supreme Court that killing a human embryo by preventing the embryo from implanting in his or her mother's uterus is not
an "abortion" and, thus, drugs that kill embryos this way are not "abortion-inducing" drugs. On Tuesday [3/25/2014],
the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case of Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby. The crux of the
administration's argument in this case is that when Christians form a corporation they give up the right to freely
exercise their religion — n.b. live according to their Christian beliefs — in the way
they run their business. It is in the context of this case, that the administration is making its argument that
killing an embryo seeking to implant in his or her mother's womb is not an abortion.
Bob
Kerrey Calls Obama a Delusional Liar; Renders Himself MSM Nonperson. Imagine if a former
Republican presidential candidate and U.S. senator had called a current Republican president a delusional
liar whose programs are wasteful. Would the mainstream media not be all over the story? Such a
person would be interviewed at length by Wolf Blitzer on CNN as well as made the rounds of the morning
talk shows and the Sunday news programs as well. The media buzz would be red hot on this topic
for days extending into weeks. Well, there is such a person but because he is a Democrat saying
these things about President Obama, we can expect him to become an MSM nonperson.
Politicized
Immigration Policy Frees 68,000 Criminals. A new study from Washington's Center For
Immigration Studies (CIS) found that the Obama administration in 2013 released 67,879 illegal aliens
who had been convicted of a criminal offense — 35% of the total number of the aliens with
criminal convictions encountered by law enforcement. The vast majority, the CIS report said,
were due to "the Obama administration's prosecutorial discretion policies, not because the aliens
were not deportable." So much for President Obama's claim last June that "today, deportation of
criminals is at its highest level ever" because "we focused our enforcement efforts on criminals who
are here illegally and who are endangering our communities."
The
Most Un-American Speech Barack Obama Has Ever Delivered. The 7 million that President Obama touted
today is a false number, he knows that it is a false number, and he knows that it is based on the threat of force.
In fact, his administration couldn't even give a solid number until today. How convenient. So today,
the day after the same administration that has cooked the books on deportations, and cooked the books on unemployment,
the same administration that lied about Fast and Furious, lied about Benghazi, lied about "green jobs," lied about
last week's meeting with the Pope, and whose IRS abused the president's critics — the leader of that
administration touted "7.1 million sign-ups" for Obamacare. Even going by the administration's official
numbers, the president's claim is inflated.
Obama
Lies about Voter Fraud and DOJ Investigations Before Paranoid Audience. A tragic phenomenon has affected
President Obama since he became President. The more radical his audience, the more outrageous his lies.
At his appearance before Al Sharpton's National Action Network, Obama called voter fraud claims "bogus" and said his
Justice Department has "taken on more than 100 voting rights cases since 2009." This is a bald faced lie.
One need merely click [a] link at the Justice Department's own website to see it is a lie. The truth is that
39 cases have been brought, not 100, and only 13 relate to protecting minority voting rights —
usually foreign language ballot issues.
Obama at Sharpton Event: Voter ID Supporters Are 'the Real Frauds'.
Obama, who hails from a city known for the Daley Machine and its "vote early and vote often" slogan, ripped Republicans for
trying to preserve the integrity of the ballot by reducing voter fraud and requiring voter IDs. He made the accusation
that there is a "well-organized effort" to undo gains the Civil Rights Movement has made in the last 50 years, and he
said voting rights are "under particular assault." "Voters who want to vote should be able to vote," Obama said.
"Period."
President
Obama [is] accusing Republicans of trying to restrict the right to vote. President Obama stood Friday
[4/11/2014] with the Rev. Al Sharpton and accused Republicans of trying to keep millions of Americans from voting,
in a fiery speech days after new revelations about Sharpton's past as an FBI informant. "The right to vote is
threatened today in a way that it has not been since the Voting Rights Act became law nearly five decades ago," Obama
told the annual convention of Sharpton's National Action Network in Manhattan. Obama's appearance represented a
presidential seal of approval of Sharpton's role as a civil rights activist, [...]
Obama
decries 'bogus' voter fraud complaints. President Obama labeled complaints about voter fraud "bogus"
and accused Republicans of cynically trying to prevent Americans from accessing the polls in a fiery speech Friday
at a civil rights forum hosted by Al Sharpton. Obama argued that attempts in some states to impose new voter
identification restrictions were actually efforts by Republicans to make "it harder, not easier to vote."
And the president said that while voter fraud should be prevented, it rarely occurred. "So let's be clear, the
real voter fraud is the people who try to deny our rights by making bogus arguments about voter fraud," Obama said.
Obama:
Right to vote 'threatened' by GOP. President Obama on Friday said that Republicans were behind the biggest
threat to voting rights in decades. "The principle of one person, one vote is the single greatest tool we have to
redress an unjust status quo. You would think there would not be an argument about this anymore," said Obama in an
address to Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network conference in New York City. "The right to vote is threatened
today in a way that it has not been since the Voting Rights Act became law nearly five decades ago," he added.
The president directly blamed Republicans, saying new voting laws in states across the country would make it harder for
Americans to get access to the ballot box.
Is
President Obama Appalled By Claire Shipman, Too? This week, President Obama has tried
to rev up his base by flogging an obviously false statistic. It hasn't gone as well as planned,
partly because the media dropped its usual obsequiousness by questioning the assumptions of the
claim that women make 77 cents for each dollar earned by men for the same work. Turns out that
when you control for different career choices, different hours worked, different amounts of time on
the job, the supposed pay gap all but evaporates.
President Obama's Bogus
Voting Rights Claims. Last Friday, in a speech at Al Sharpton's National Action Network conference, President
Obama proudly announced that the Justice Department had taken on more than 100 voting rights cases since 2009.
The problem with that claim is that, since 2009, the Justice Department has taken on only 39 voting rights
cases — and as former Voting Section lawyer Christian Adams points out, only 13 were related to
protecting minority voting rights. And, with respect to some of the cases in which the department has been involved,
it lost spectacularly — such as its false claim that South Carolina's voter ID law was discriminatory.
Obama's Plan: Taxes, Spending And Debt. When Obama released
his budget this March, he said it included "smart spending cuts" and closed "tax loopholes" that benefit only "the
wealthiest Americans." Obama added that his budget would put "our debt on a downward path as a share of our
total economy, which independent experts have set as a critical target for fiscal responsibility." As with
just about everything Obama says, none of these claims turns out be true. When the Congressional Budget Office
scrubbed Obama's budget, it didn't find a balanced or responsible plan at all.
Dems'
2014 challenge: How to win when Americans see a liar in the White House. Timing is
everything in politics and the latest Fox News poll suggests the timing of the 2014 midterm election
could not be worse for President Obama and his fellow Democrats. With public approval of Congress
in the single digits, senators and representatives in both parties may face the most challenging
political environment of their careers. But the Fox survey makes clear that things aren't breaking
well for Obama, either, and his popularity rating may be the most important factor in determining
how Democrats fare in November.
Fox
News Poll: Many voters say Obama lies to the country on important matters. About six in ten
American voters think Barack Obama lies to the country on important matters some or most of the time,
according to a Fox News poll released Wednesday [4/16/2014]. Thirty-seven percent think Obama
lies "most of the time," while another 24 percent say he lies "some of the time." Twenty
percent of voters say "only now and then" and 15 percent "never."
The Editor says...
The fifteen percent who believe Obama never lies are some of the most dangerous people in the country.
Why
Does Nation Tolerate A Habitual Liar As President? It is disgraceful enough for the
most prominent journalists to refuse to ask real questions of the most powerful politician in the
country because they share his left-wing ideology. But when a large majority of the public
recognizes a president as a habitual liar, it is outrageous and entirely un-American for the most
powerful within the nation's press to let him get away with his lies, and betray what they claim
to stand for.
Obama's lies
have led to global mistrust. [Scroll down] Worst of all, Obama lies to his
fellow Americans. All the time. Most infamous was his claim that, under ObamaCare, "if you like
your doctor, you can keep your doctor." Not far behind was his insistence, repeated for weeks during
his re-election campaign, that the terror attack on Benghazi was the spontaneous result of a protest
against an anti-Muslim video. Assorted promises to lift the economy, unite the country, get to the
bottom of the IRS scandal and be transparent are so routinely violated that they hardly register as
false anymore. Still, the overall impression that Obama is President Pinocchio is catching up
to him.
Obama's Most Dangerous Lie:
Rank-ordering the lies of President Obama is a daunting task. But high on any sound list, though absent from most
actual ones, is Obama's claim that al Qaeda has been "decimated" and is "on the path to defeat." This claim was
ripped to shreds yesterday [4/24/2014] at an AEI conference called "Getting it right: A better strategy to defeat al
Qaeda." [...] According to panelist Bruce Hoffman, director of the Center for Security Studies and a professor at
Georgetown's School of Foreign Service, al Qaeda is present and active in twice as many countries as it was six
years ago (i.e., near the end of the Bush administration).
Could You Lie to a
Bereaved Father? The Ben Rhodes memo revealing the duplicity of this administration on the
subject of Benghazi reminds us about the character of those involved. That President Barack Obama
could lie so evenly and so passionately (remember the second presidential debate?) is not perhaps surprising
at this stage. But let's not forget what it took for Hillary Clinton to lie to the grieving father of
an American hero.
Four Pinocchios for Obama's claim that Republicans have 'filibustered about
500 pieces of legislation'. In addressing a dinner of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in
Los Angeles, President Obama made a rather striking claim — that Senate Republicans have filibustered "500
pieces of legislation that would help the middle class." Regular readers knows that The Fact Checker has objected
to the way that Senate Democrats tally these figures, but the president's claim makes little sense no matter how you
do the numbers.
Washington
Post Fact-Checker Nails Obama On Absurd Lie. Obama is already competing for "Lie of the Year" with a
recent claim he made during a fund-raising dinner that is being demolished by the Washington Post fact-checker.
White
House wanted Geithner to lie to the public about social security being behind the deficit. The White House
wanted Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to lie on Sunday talk shows to downplay the part Social Security played in
driving the deficit, it was revealed today. [...] 'I remember during one Roosevelt Room prep session before I appeared
on the Sunday shows, I objected when Dan Pfeiffer wanted me to say Social Security didn't contribute to the deficit.
It wasn't a main driver of our future deficits, but it did contribute,' he says. 'Pfeiffer said the line was
a 'dog whistle' to the left, a phrase I had never heard before. He had to explain that the phrase was code to
the Democratic base, signaling that we intended to protect Social Security.'
Geithner:
White House Wanted Me to Lie on Sunday Shows. Timothy Geithner, the former secretary
of the Treasury Department, says the White House wanted him to lie in scheduled appearances on the
Sunday TV talk shows. [...] Of course, Geithner would not have been the only official from the White
House to have misled the American people on the Sunday talk shows.
Geithner
Fretted Over Social Security Deficits — Before the Dog Whistle. In an election year,
political-speak is done with dog whistles. That's the backdrop readers may want to use in understanding
former Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's confession in his latest book about the talking-points memo he got for
his Sunday morning TV appearances from Obama Administration official Dan Pfeiffer on not equating Social Security
reform with deficit reduction. Pfeiffer suggested Geithner avoid talking about Social Security reform as
helping to cut the deficit in order to send a calming "dog whistle" of a signal to the Democratic base that
Social Security will not be touched, in order to keep voters in the tent.
Ingraham:
Geithner Should Have Resigned When WH Asked Him to Mislead Public. In his book,
[Timothy] Geithner revealed that Senior Advisor to the President for Strategy and Communications Dan
Pfeiffer asked him to de-emphasize the impact Social Security has on America's deficit ahead of an
appearance on the Sunday talk shows. Pfeiffer said that calling Social Security a deficit driver
would serve as a "'dog whistle' to the left." "We now know that the left considers its base a bunch
of unruly canines," Ingraham observed. "Didn't Tim Geithner, as a public servant, have a duty to
actually resign at that point?" she asked.
Krauthammer:
Administration has manipulative relationship with the truth'. Charles Krauthammer told
viewers Monday on "Special Report with Bret Baier" that a moment recounted in former Treasury
Secretary Tim Geithner's new memoir shows that the Obama administration has a "less than arm's
length relationship with the truth." "It's less than arm's length — it is actually a clearly
manipulative relationship with the truth," Krauthammer said. "That it is to be used, or abused, or
inverted, in order to, quote, 'send a message,' to send a dog signal."
Relieving
Mr. Geithner's 'stress'. Timothy F. Geithner, the former Treasury chief, is cashing in
now with a story of what it was like during the financial storm. One titillation revealed in his
book, "Stress Test," is Mr. Geithner's claim that the White House urged him to lie on Sunday morning
television talk shows as the financial crisis unfolded. He was ordered to blow a "dog whistle" to
alert the administration's left-wing base and insisted, knowing it was a lie, that Social Security
would not be affected by a bailout or reform legislation that was struggling through Congress.
State
Dept. Official: 'Just Not Accurate' to Characterize Boko Haram as Muslim. Sen. Marco
Rubio (R-Fla.) questioned [Ambassador Robert] Jackson about whether the administration is properly
characterizing the threat. [...] "Can I suggest that I think there's another motivation that's not
getting nearly enough attention, and that is that this is clearly motivated by an anti-Christian
attitude of this group," Rubio continued, citing "a grotesque statement" from Boko Haram leader
Abubakar Shekau: "It is either you are with jahideen, or you're with the Christians. We
know what is happening in this world. It is a jihad war against Christians and Christianity.
It is a war against Western education, democracy and constitution... This is what I know in Quran.
This is a war against Christians and democracy and their constitution. Allah says we should
finish them when we get them."
Michelle
O: Water Made Albert Einstein Smart. First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move campaign
is claiming water made Albert Einstein smart, Muhammad Ali a Heavyweight champion, and Audrey
Hepburn stylish. Mrs. Obama is again using hashtags, this time to promote her drink water
campaign, and is encouraging individuals to post photos of themselves drinking water on social media.
Trick
or truth! Can you even tell the difference? Here are some commonly asserted
falsehoods that you are expected to believe just because they are repeated often enough. Falsehood
No. 1) Women are paid 77 percent of what men make for the same work, so therefore we need to pass
new legislation to ensure women are paid fairly. Actually, laws already exist to forbid
gender-based pay discrimination, and occasions of true bias are rare. What the proponents of pay
equity really want is equal pay for unequal work. They lump all jobs held by women together and all
jobs held by men together and then create an artificial and meaningless average "male wage" and
"female wage." There is not even the pretense that such numbers represent wages for "equal work."
It is a sham and a mockery intended only as one more means of redistribution of wealth.
White
House says Obama only learned of VA wait-list scandal on TV. White House Press
Secretary Jay Carney wound up with egg on his face Monday as he told reporters that President
Barack Obama first learned from a TV news report that his Veterans Administration was denying
medical care to vets with secret off-the-books-waiting lists. But new evidence emerged this
morning that his transition team was notified five years ago about how VA medical centers' official
wait-list times bore little resemblance to reality and risked denying military heroes critical
health care.
Jay
Carney: Obama First Learned About VA Scandal in the Media. President Barack Obama
first learned of the scandal involving Department of Veterans Affairs hospital administrators
concealing the true wait times vets faced in the press, according to a claim made by White House
Press Sec. Jay Carney on Monday [5/19/2014]. While the president may have not been aware of the
falsified wait lists, however, reports indicate that his administration was informed of excessive wait
times at the VA as early as 2008. Obama even campaigned on the issue of VA waiting lists in 2007.
For
Obama, the buck stops elsewhere. Plausible deniability is the order of the day at
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Everything the administration does is coldly calculated to foster the
impression that President Obama is author of all that is good and entirely blameless when things go
wrong (as they often do). When 40 veterans died waiting to see a doctor at Veterans Affairs
hospitals in Arizona, the White House insisted they were so disengaged from the scandal that they
only knew what had happened after turning on the evening news. "We learned about them through the
reports," said White House spokesman Jay Carney. "That's when we learned about them."
Then somebody remembered that a show of concern might be useful.
You'll
Have to Judge Whether Obama's Latest Statement About Republicans Are Lies or Mere Spin. [Scroll down] The reality
is that Harry Reid's blockade in the Senate of House bills is unprecedented, including even changing the 225 year-old filibuster rules.
As far as as being so committed to a top-down economic theory, it would be an impossible task to find a single Republican who has ever
described economic policy in such a manner. It literally has never happened. Even junior high debate clubs are taught that
straw man arguments are entirely ineffective.
NCA Rebuttal. The National Climate Assessment-2014 (NCA) is
a masterpiece of marketing that shows for the first time the full capabilities of the Obama Administration to spin a scientific topic as
they see fit, without regard to the underlying facts. With hundreds of pages written by hundreds of captive scientists and
marketing specialists, the administration presents their case for extreme climate alarm.
The
6 Lamest Excuses For Failure From The Obama Administration. [#2] The economy is bad
because it got cold during the winter: The economy was bad when Barack Obama took office and it has
stayed bad for 5½ years because of his policies. Rather than admit that the stimulus, the
bailouts, cash for clunkers, the Affordable Care Act, and the rest of Obama's agenda have been choking the
economy, the administration has been reduced to blaming cold weather for its failure.
The
Intellectual Dishonesty of Obama and Other False Purists. To voters angry at
Washington, President Obama has an explanation for the deepening of gridlock, incompetence, and
zero-sum gain thinking during his five-plus years in office: It's not his fault. Not that
finger-pointing solves anything, but Obama wants you to know that it was Republicans and the media
who put his presidency on ice.
Inspector
Clouseau's White House: Obama was also unaware of phone taps on foreign leaders. [O]ver
recent months the Obama administration has developed a peculiar pattern of behavior in this area.
Obama himself and unidentified aides using news leaks have boasted of the president's ignorance of things
that an ordinary person outside the Oval Office bubble would think a chief executive should know.
That's the kind of dodge favored by those whose father never taught them to take responsibility for their actions.
Obama
At West Point: The Psychology Of Surrender. Bluntly: as a professor of irregular warfare and international
security I cannot recall ever reading a more confused speech by a head of state, nor one that is so utterly detached
from reality. From the opening passages that speak of how the world automatically looks to America when "schoolgirls
are kidnapped in Nigeria, or masked men occupy a building in Ukraine," to the president later taking credit for the fact
that "more people live under elected governments today than at any time in human history" it feels as if the President is
living in an alternate reality.
Obama:
I might have been concussed. President Obama said Thursday [5/29/2014] that he may have suffered from mild
concussions while playing football in his childhood. "When I was young and played football briefly,
there were a couple times where I'm sure that that ringing sensation in my head and the needing to sit down
for a while might have been a mild concussion, and at the time you didn't think anything of it," Obama said
at a White House event designed to highlight the risks of sports-related brain injuries.
The Editor says...
Mr. Obama injects himself into the headlines again with another unverifiable anecdote from his past.
You'll have to take his word for it, and we all know how good his word is.
Obama
Gets Foreign Policy Credit Where None Is Due. According to [Secretary of State John]
Kerry — someone known to be less than truthful concerning his own military service, let
us not forget — we are "more engaged than in any time in American history." But the
president doesn't get credit because of a "not fully informed, not factual, conventional sort of
process that gets played out in the media." Even the lapdog media can take only so much of this
kind of insult.
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Top Lies of Outgoing WH Press Secretary Jay Carney. In April of 2002 White House
press secretary Jay Carney offered some important insight into his job. Speaking at a scholarship
lunch hosted by the White House Correspondents' Association, he said he never lies in response to
reporters' questions, even when he knows more than he can say: "When I go stand up at the podium in
front of the White House press corps, I never lie. I never say something that I know is untrue.
Credibility is enormously important to a press secretary." Of course when Carney made that
statement, he was lying about never lying. In fact this press secretary offered up many a falsehood
during his tenure of protecting President Obama from his errors, omissions, and scandals.
Americans
the Obama Administration Will Leave Behind. It sickens me that the Obama
administration has been justifying ransoming terrorist leaders for a probable deserter by reciting
the creed that America never leaves a man behind. The Obama administration frequently leaves men
(and even children) to suffer and die, with minimal apparent effort on their behalf. A partial
list: [...]
How
surprising Obama wasn't surprised by outrage over his Taliban deal. President Obama
was completely surprised by the IRS scandal. Dumbfounded, in fact, that government workers would
help his 2012 reelection campaign. And the NSA scandal. Who could possibly anticipate citizen
outrage over government monitoring all their communications? Obama was clueless about the
ObamaCare debacle, even days after its botched roll-out dominated national news. Months after staff
warnings of fundamental tech troubles within his namesake legislation. And Obama only learned of
the recent VA corruption scandal, fraud and tardy treatment for vets from the media, which had
chronicled his original outrage over unconscionable delays fully six years ago.
Susan
Rice defends her controversial 'honor and distinction' praise for accused Army deserter Bowe
Bergdahl. U.S. National Security Adviser Susan Rice passed up a golden opportunity on
Friday [6/6/2014] to walk back her Sunday television praise for accused Army deserter Sgt. Bowe
Bergdahl as an American who had 'served the United States with honor and distinction.' Rice waded
once again into controversy with comments on ABC's Sunday morning news program 'This Week,' setting
off an immediate firestorm among Americans who had already learned that Bergdahl was no ordinary
hostage overseas.
How
Obama's media strategy unraveled with recovered POW. [President Obama] knew a
firestorm would inevitably erupt over the release of the Taliban 5 from Gitmo, but as long as it
was a political and policy firestorm, he could insulate himself from it by invoking the greatest of
all pop-culture fantasies: a happy ending. The importance of the storyline was so absolute that
his national-security adviser, Susan Rice, found it necessary to go on a Sunday chat show and say
Bowe Bergdahl had "served with distinction and honor." She knew that was not a true thing to say
about Bergdahl's service, but she had to say it because the pop-culture plotline called for it.
World's Greatest
Spin Doctor Commits Malpractice on Himself. [B]etween the disastrous Obamacare
rollout, the IRS scandal, the V.A. scandal, and Vladimir Putin simultaneously blowing raspberries
at Obama and devouring Crimean real estate, the past several weeks have demonstrated that this is
what happens when world events overtake a man wholly unsuited to be president.
Obama
Thinks You're Stupid, that's Why. Obamacare, a failed trillion dollar stimulus,
sky-high food stamp usage, disability rolls soaring, our national debt mortgaging America's future,
our adversaries and enemies on the march. Obama has compiled quite a list of "accomplishment" as he
fulfills one promise — to fundamentally transform America. Tragically, it has been a
very damaging transformation. [...] All these failures have been justified, explained away or
caused by lies (you can keep your insurance, doctor, and save $2500 on premiums; ObamaCare will add
not a thin dime to the deficit; a red line that was Orwellian-erased when it became an
embarrassment; Al Qaeda was on the run; Benghazi was caused by a video; there was not
a "smidgen of corruption" at the IRS). The lies are too numerous to list [...]
IRS
says it cannot locate Lois Lerner emails prior to 2011. The Internal Revenue Service
told Congress Friday it has lost a trove of emails to and from Lois Lerner, a central figure in the
agency's Tea Party controversy, sparking outrage from congressional investigators who have been
probing the agency for more than a year. The IRS said it cannot locate many of Lerner's emails
prior to 2011 because her computer crashed during the summer of that year.
The Editor says...
First of all, her email messages don't reside on her computer. Her email resides on a server somewhere,
and the servers, if they are managed properly, have backup files stored at yet another location. (Ask
Oliver North how that works.) But even if this latest excuse is valid, this is all surprisingly
convenient, isn't it?
Holder:
If Gay Adults Are Fit for Military Service, They re Fit to Lead Boy Scouts. The
Attorney General of the United States told a homosexual advocacy group on Tuesday night that the
Boy Scouts of America "preserves and perpetuates the worst kind of stereotypes" by refusing to
allow homosexuals to serve as Boy Scout troop leaders. "Today, courageous lesbian, gay, and
bisexual individuals routinely put their lives on the line as members of America's armed services,"
Holder told Lambda Legal Tuesday night [6/10/2014]. "And if these men and women are fit for military
service, then surely they are fit to mentor, to teach, and to serve as role models for the leaders
of future generations."
Counting
Lies: How Obama Deepens Distrust in the Presidency. Along with two wars and massive
debt, President Bush left Barack Obama a legacy of false statements — nearly 1,000 of
them on the Iraq War alone, according to Charles Lewis, author of "935 Lies: The Future of Truth
and the Decline of America's Moral Integrity." After promising the most transparent and ethical
administration in history, Obama picked up where Bush left off — further eroding the
public's faith in the presidency. In his first term, Obama secretly expanded Bush's anti-terror
policies and, during his re-election campaign, he assured Americans that their existing health
insurance would not be threatened by Obamacare. "Deceptions like these," Lewis writes, "some
by omission, other by commission, make a mockery of our political discourse."
This
is an actual quote from the president — really. "By every economic measure, we are better off
now than we were when I took office. You wouldn't know it, but we are," the president said Friday [6/27/2014].
That's right, the president — the president of the United States, mind you — says Americans are better
off, they just don't know it. That is the height to which the president has raised his level of mendacity. He
has the sheer audacity to tell Americans that he has successfully turned the economy around, that things are all good,
but that there are no real quantifiable indicators by which they could ever know that. In fact, Mr. Obama says
Americans have never had it so good.
The White House Gets
the VA Story Exactly Backwards. Sad to say, the Obama administration seems clueless about what might be broken
at the VA and how to fix it. Either that, or it is just cravenly saying and doing whatever it thinks is necessary to
make the story go away. Evidence for the clueless hypothesis came on Friday [6/27/2014], when White House Deputy Chief
of Staff Rob Nabors weighed in with his diagnosis of what ails the VA. The document is extraordinary in its
contradictions, sloppy formulations, and non-evidence-based conclusions.
ICE
Demands "Unaccompanied Alien Children" (UAC) Identifier Drop Use of Word "Alien". Controlling
the verbiage and words is a key element in deceiving the public, and keeping the electorate unaware of what is
actually going on. In the foreground we will continue to see President Obama and fellow travelers say they
are opposed to the influx and committed to stopping it. However, in the background they are giving specific
instructions to the federal agencies to continue promoting the process and affirming the intent. In essence
they are doing the exact opposite of what they are saying.
After
saying he's not interested in photo-ops, Obama concludes Texas trip with ... a photo-op.
The president's BBQ photo-op comes less than 24 hours after he said during a press conference
Wednesday that he would not visit the U.S.-Mexico border because he's not "interested in photo-ops."
"Hey guys! I hear the barbecue is pretty good here. Is that true?" Obama said Thursday [7/10/2014] as he cut
directly to the front of the line. "I know this is a long line. I feel real bad, but — I'm gonna cut."
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Times Obama Was Interested In A Photo Op. President Obama dismissed the idea of visiting the
border on Wednesday [7/9/2014], explaining that he wasn't interested in photo ops while trying to solve a
problem. "This is not theater. This is a problem," he said. "I'm not interested in photo ops.
I'm interested in solving a problem." But throughout his political career, Obama has frequently
participated in photo friendly events.
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times President Obama was definitely interested in a photo-op. "This isn't theater. This is a problem," Obama
told reporters in Dallas. "I'm not interested in photo ops. I'm interested in solving a problem."
Unsurprisingly, the president's claim that he's not interested in photo-ops was met with titters — because
he is most definitely a fan of photo-ops. No, really. That's what he does.
The
most dishonest Obama presser of all time? At a press conference last night [7/9/2014], President
Obama placed the blame for the border crisis on Republicans, saying that because they are trying to
block his $3.8 billion supplemental appropriation, they are responsible for the mess. He
further stated that passage of his immigration reform bill would solve the border crisis for 20 years.
Obama: treacherous
or incompetent? It should be obvious that Obama lied about Benghazi, he lied about
Obamacare, the IRS, the VA scandal and in countless other instances. Nevertheless, the liberal
media remain willfully ignorant, will not report the truth and continue to protect Obama, regardless
of the costs to the country. Obama will survive in office until public awareness of his
administration's treachery matches its level of incompetence and exceeds the media's capacity to
tolerate corruption.
Enforcement
Actions — Does President Obama Actually Deport Illegal Aliens? By obfuscating terminology liberals
sometimes can be heard to claim that President Obama has deported more illegal aliens than any previous president. NOT TRUE.
There are two types of border enforcement actions: "Returns" and "Removals". "Returns" are those stopped at the border
and sent immediately back; the ones caught. "Removals" are those who get through the border and are caught later on.
No previous administration has counted "returns" as deported, until Obama.
Barack
Obama Admits He Lied to Get Elected, Then Explains He's Not That 'Partisan' A Guy. President Obama said that
he is done running for higher office, and that means he can tell us the truth now. From a speech he gave in Austin,
Texas late last week: "I'm just telling the truth now. I don't have to run for office again, so I can just,
you know, let her rip." Yes, he really said that — effectively meaning he wasn't being totally
straightforward before he got elected.
WH:
We've 'Substantially Improved the Tranquility of the Global Community'. White House
press secretary Josh Earnest said Monday [7/14/2014] the Obama administration's foreign policies in a number of
areas have enhanced the world's "tranquility" — a word that raised eyebrows as reporters
pointed to situations in Gaza, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Ukraine and the South China Sea. More than one
reporter during Monday's press briefing referred to a front-page Wall Street Journal article highlighting
some of those crises, and citing security strategists as saying "the breadth of global instability now
unfolding hasn't been seen since the late 1970s."
Obama's
claim that the GOP has 'blocked every serious idea': "So far this year, Republicans in
Congress have blocked every serious idea to strengthen the middle class." [...] Three Pinocchios[.]
Global
'tranquility,' Obama-style. If anyone needs further evidence the White House is out
touch with reality, it came in an official statement this week that President Obama has made the
world a more tranquil place. This was the White House's exaggerated response to a well-documented,
front-page Wall Street Journal story that concluded, "the breadth of global instability now unfolding hasn't
been seen since the late 1970s." The article also charged that under this administration, "U.S. global
power seems increasingly tenuous." This should be obvious to anyone who's been following foreign
events — make that crises — since Barack Obama, a freshman senator with little
if any real-world experience, was sworn into office in 2009.
Seven
Lies in Two Minutes:
[1] I will make our government open and transparent ... that our business is the people's business.
[2] I will make it impossible for lobbyists or Congressmen to slip pork barrel projects into law when no one is looking.
[3] Law making will not be done in secret but open to public viewing.
[4] No more secrecy.
[5] Meetings between lobbyists and government agencies will be placed on line for viewing.
[6] The public will have the opportunity to read, on line for five days, bills prior to Presidential signing.
[7] Names of corporations and how much money they would get from tax legislation would be made public.
Corporate tax breaks and pork barrel projects will be placed on line with the names of those who asked for them.
Obama:
'It's Pretty Hard To Find An Economic Measure Where We're Not Significantly Better Off'. President
Obama put his rosy glasses on for an interview with CNBC on Thursday [7/24/2014], claiming "It's pretty hard to
find an economic measure where we're not significantly better off." [...] The president pointed to the massive
ballooning of the stock market and corporate profits under his administration, the decline of workers seeking
unemployment benefits and a recovering auto industry. He even took credit for the nation's natural gas
boom and the moderate rollback of the federal deficit.
Latest
Obama claim: I don't learn anything from the news. In scandal after scandal in the
Obama administration, President Obama has said he didn't know about the problems until he heard it
on the news. But the president changed his tune about his supposed ignorance at a Democratic
fundraiser near Seattle on Tuesday night [7/22/2014]. Mr. Obama told supporters that he doesn't
watch the news because, "Whatever they're reporting about, usually I know." That contrasts with the
explanations that the president and his aides have given from scandals in the past few years ranging
from long wait times and deaths at the VA, to the IRS targeting tea party groups, to the Fast and
Furious gun-running operation, and the Department of Justice spying on news reporters.
Is
the Obama administration losing touch with reality? There is an air of
unreality about the Obama crew these days that became starkly evident last week with a letter to
Congress from National Security Advisor Susan Rice seeking repeal of the 2002 authorization for the
invasion of Iraq and White House press secretary Josh Earnest claiming Republicans are seriously
seeking to impeach his boss. House Speaker John Boehner and every other top GOP leader has denied
it, but that didn't stop Earnest and the Democratic fundraising machine from insisting that
impeachment is "part of their agenda."
Obama
Thanks Muslims for 'Building the Very Fabric of Our Nation'. A statement put out today
by President Barack Obama on the occasion of a religious holiday is raising some eyebrows. [...] The
word choice here, that anyone built "the very fabric of our nation" would usually sound hackneyed
and overplayed — but, in this particular instance, given that the U.S. didn't even have
its first Muslim-American congressman until 2007, the peculiar word choice has left some scratching
their heads.
Obama the Blamethrower.
So how does Barack Obama deal with his failure as a president? There is denial and lying. Hence,
his press secretary announced just recently that the world is more tranquil because Obama is president.
Does it feel tranquil? Syria, Iraq, Ukraine, Afghanistan, all disintegrating as the blood flows.
Al Qaeda controls more territory than ever before.
Are
We Being Lied To? — Detainment Center At Artesia New Mexico Claims Lockdown Due To
Chicken Pox. A few days ago we shared the Washington Times story about a facility in
New Mexico being closed due to a Chicken Pox outbreak. [...] Is the Chicken Pox story a cover for
the more troublesome Tuberculosis outbreak? Is the New Mexico quarantine really because of Chicken
Pox? If so, why didn't they quarantine the facility as they began x-ray screening for the 89
active skin-test TB cases ?
A
confident and clueless president. [Scroll down] He [Obama] brags about the "52
consecutive months of job creation" ushered in by his election, takes credit for the energy boom and
suggests to his interviewers that "I think you'd have to say that we've managed the economy pretty
well." Consider this self-assessment. "Since I have come into office, there's almost no economic
metric by which you couldn't say that the U.S. economy is better and that corporate bottom lines are
better. None." This is a president who must look exclusively to Paul Krugman and the folks
at MSNBC for economic facts and analysis.
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Reasons Not to Trust the 'What Me Worry' Media About Ebola. [#3] The Media Lets The
Obama Administration Lie[.] There is also no doubt in my mind that the same media that is
actively engaged in covering up Benghazi and the IRS scandal would aid and abet the covering up of
anything else the Obama Administration wanted covered up — even an outbreak of Ebola.
The media is also committed to seeing 11 million illegals legalized into voting Democrats and has
already gone to extreme lengths to cover up the parade horribles happening on the Southern border.
Covering up an Ebola outbreak is just one more moral compromise in an ocean of them.
Obama
claims US is 'stronger' than 'when I first came into office' as economy weakens, debt soars. President Barack
Obama claimed Monday night [8/11/2014] during a Democratic Party fundraising dinner that the United States is 'stronger' than it was
when he assumed office in January 2009. His statement, though, appears to be at odds with key economic indicators, America's
sliding reputation abroad, and the American public's estimation of the direction the country has taken under the Obama administration.
Did
White House press secretary Josh Earnest just tell the biggest whopper of the Obama era? Josh
Earnest is either the most gullible individual ever to serve as White House press secretary or the least concerned
with telling the American people the truth. In a letter Monday [8/11/2014] to a coalition of 42 journalism
groups and media organizations, Earnest said this: "The president's commitment to transparency and the crucial
role of the independent press is unwavering. The president has set an historically high standard of transparency
that is part of the legacy to which future presidents will aspire ..."
State
Dept. on Beheading of U.S. Journalist: 'This Is Not About the United States'. Deputy
State Department spokesperson Marie Harf on Wednesday [8/20/2014] condemned the beheading of American journalist
James Foley by Islamic terrorists, but she also stated that the ISIS threat "is not about the United States and
what we do." Harf spoke after President Obama told the nation that "governments and peoples across the
Middle East" should come together in a "common effort to extract this cancer, so that it does not spread."
He then went golfing.
Obama
claims ISIL speaks for no religion, so what does the "I" in "ISIL" stand for? The
Islamic States is just that, Islamic. ISIL has all the trademarks of the past 1300 years of
post-Mohammedan culture — Piracy, theft, slavery, torture, and genocide. But don't tell
that to the president.
Why
is the White House playing politics with the death of James Foley? There is good
reason why most special forces — including our SAS — keep operations secret.
Now, the US has tipped of Isil that its special forces are already conducting operations in Syria.
The element of surprise is diluted, if not lost altogether. And what about the hostages still
being held? Several have been released in return for ransoms. Each one is now dangerous
to Isil, returning to France or Switzerland or wherever, with details of the men who held them, their
modus operandi as well as clues to their location. The status of all the foreign men and women
held by Isil has just become more precarious. So why release the information? The
administration says its hand was forced by media outlets preparing to report the raid. Nonsense.
The
White House Press Secretary Isn't Telling the Truth. And I Can Prove It. [Scroll down] What we've shown, then, is that
several weeks before the New Yorker story was published, the al-Qaeda flag flying over Falluja belonged to ISIS/ISIL. The
president knew it. There is therefore only one possible interpretation: the president had ISIS/ISIL in mind when he made his
"jayvee" reference. And there's only one possible conclusion about what Mr. Earnest said: It's false. He's distorting the
truth in order to exonerate his boss, the president, from having made a statement that was deeply and dangerously misinformed.
Obama interrupting
weekend trip to return to DC. President Barack Obama blamed dysfunction in Congress on a Republican
Party he said is captive to an ideologically rigid, unproductive and cynical faction, as he urged like-minded
Democrats on Friday [8/29/2014] to show up for November's midterm elections.
The Editor says...
Those who are "ideologically rigid,
unproductive and
cynical" are found on the political left.
The Biggest Issue
in 2016. Obama, like Nixon, is an isolated personality whose only real loyalty is to Obama
and no one else. He seems congenitally incapable of confessing any real sin. The more the
posse closes in on him, the more likely Obama seems to get petulant, to hide at Martha's Vineyard, and to
compound past lies with more lies.
Obama:
DHS Chief, Eric Holder Giving Me Immigration Recommendations. President Obama was asked whether he'll be
delaying executive action on immigration until after the mid-term election. He told reporters he was still reviewing
options but that he's going to act "within the legal constraints of my office."
The Editor says...
I find that last statement had to believe. When have the legal constraints of his office ever been an obstacle?
Jaw
Dropping Lies and Propaganda Within President Obama's Meet The Press Interview. There are moments in edited TV content
when a keyed-in viewer can see a cut intended to make a "comfort edit", smoothing out the narrative. The Chuck Todd interview
with President Obama was riddled with them. Even when being interviewed by a fellow ideological traveler.
Obama's Untruth, Inc. Obama
sees history in the same postmodernist fashion in which he looks upon his own past — details are constructed by everyone, and thus
truth is a relative concept that should not be adjudicated by those with privilege against those who are using narratives to advance social
justice. The result is that almost any time the president makes reference to the past, ours or his, we can assume two things: His
facts are wrong, and they are wrong in a way that is meant to highlight his own godhead.
The Distraction of Obama's Character. The
idea that the government should be allowed to seize private property and "spread the wealth" for the good of all; the idea that mass equality
is more important than individual liberty; the idea that all cultures deserve the same respect; the idea that white Christianity is to blame
for the ills of other nations; the idea that America — America as it was founded — is the problem rather than the last,
best hope of earth... These ideas are all untrue and the policies that arise from them are always disastrous.
Fact-Checker: Obama Lied to Chuck
Todd. During his Sunday "Meet the Press" appearance, President Obama brazenly lied to host Chuck Todd about his January
reference to ISIS as "JV." That's not my judgment, it's the judgment of PolitiFact, a site created to protect Democrats.
This time, though, Obama went too far, even for a leftwing site like PolitiFact: [...]
Barack Obama's
Biggest Lie. There's a lot of competition for Barack Obama's biggest lie. The man who
could assure the American public with a straight face over thirty times that they could keep their
doctor under his health plan, when he knew that to be completely false, is [a prodigious] fibber.
But execrable as that serial prevarication may have been, it doesn't hold a proverbial candle to his
most recent whopper — that the Islamic State is not Islamic — not to mention its
corollary, or perhaps subsidiary lie, that real religions do not indulge in murder.
The
Khorosan Group Does Not Exist. We're being had. Again. [...] There is a reason that no one had
heard of such a group until a nanosecond ago, when the "Khorosan Group" suddenly went from anonymity to the "imminent
threat" that became the rationale for an emergency air war there was supposedly no time to ask Congress to authorize.
You haven't heard of the Khorosan Group because there isn't one. It is a name the administration came up with,
calculating that Khorosan — the Iranian-Afghan border region — had sufficient connection to
jihadist lore that no one would call the president on it.
Pentagon
Official: The President Is Lying To America — About Us, And About ISIS.
President Barack Obama has taken a lot of flack since his Sunday night "60 Minutes" interview, in
which he blamed the intelligence community for his failure to tackle the threat posed by the Islamic
State of Iraq and Syria. And that is right and proper. Because not only was his excuse of blaming us
a lie, but when questioned on his lie, White House press secretary Josh Earnest doubled down with a whole new
lie — both of which are easily, publicly proven false.
Our
Lying President and His Lying Press Secretary. I understand why the president and his
press secretary would rather not admit to having mocked ISIS now that it is the largest, richest,
most well armed, and most formidable terrorist group on the planet. But Mr. Obama did, and being
duplicitous about the fact that he did isn't going to help anyone. It will, in fact, further erode
the president's credibility. It is bad enough for this administration to be so inept; it's worse
for them to be so obviously dishonest as well.
King
Barry Is Not On The Ballot, Says Everybody But King Barry. The only time he tells the
truth is when it can hurt somebody who has crossed him. And by running as fast as they can from his
disastrous policies, by distancing themselves as far as possible from him, they've crossed him.
Dishonest
or discombobulated? With Obama, take your pick. Either Mr. Obama repeatedly says things he knows are false, or
he is completely unable to comprehend information to discern the truth. There is no third option.
Why
the White House Fudged the Numbers on Student Loans. Eager to broadcast some good news approaching the
midterm elections, the Obama administration recently announced a welcome dip in student loan defaults, from 14.7 percent
for the 2010 cohort (loans taken out in that year) to 13.7 percent for 2011. Policymakers, alarmed about how
our trillion-dollar student loan burden and soaring default rates are undermining our economic growth, cheered the
report. Unfortunately, it turns out the numbers are bogus.
Journalists
Appalled, Shocked Obama White House Would Lie to Them. Late last night the Washington
Post broke a story about a connection between White House aides and the 2012 Secret Service
prostitution scandal. When the scandal broke two years ago, the White House denied involvement or
knowing about the details of what happened. The Post story proves otherwise and provides evidence a
White House volunteer officially checked a prostitute into his hotel room in Cartagena, Colombia.
The report also details threats made against the Inspector General, who was asked to delay the
release of embarrassing and damaging information about the connection between the White House and
the scandal until after the 2012 presidential election. Now, journalists who cover the White
House are confused about why the administration would lie and cover-up such a minor issue.
That's the point.
The Shrinking
Deficit Myth. Former Reagan administration official David Stockman has one of the more
compelling financial sites operating today. Dubbed David Stockman's Contra Corner, it offers a
distinctly anti-Keynesian viewpoint that attempts to dispel the notion that limitless money printing
can somehow repair a damaged economy. Stockman recently directed a spotlight on the absurd
assertion that Obama has "shrunk the deficit" or "slashed the debt".
Obama:
You Can't Get Ebola 'Sitting Next to Someone on a Bus;' CDC: 'Avoid Public Transportation'. Speaking in a video message to
residents of West African countries currently experiencing outbreaks of Ebola, President Barack Obama dispensed advice on how residents
can avoid the disease, including: "You cannot get it through casual contact like sitting next to someone on a bus." At the same
time, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is advising Americans who travel to the Ebola-stricken nations to "avoid public
transportation."
Ebola:
What Would George Washington Do? A recent poll asked Americans this question: "How
often does Barack Obama lie to the country on important matters?" [...] Fifteen percent —
and God bless them for their loyalty — answered "never." Perhaps they missed it when the
president said that if they liked their health plan under Obamacare they could keep it. Maybe they
missed the administration's repeated claims that the fatal attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi
was a spontaneous reaction to an Internet video. Maybe they really believe that the IRS targeting of
conservatives was, as the president put it, dreamed up by "two Dilberts in Cincinnati."
One
Bad Apple: Obama and his Influence. [Scroll down] And look at the rest of his administration: a
DoJ that obstructs justice over and over and over. An IRS that can conveniently "lose" important
records. A secretary of state who has covered up her involvement in one of the biggest tragedies to
ever befall an American embassy. I could go on and on. Lying has become the way you play the game in
Washington. Has this falsehood-loving corruption flowed any further into American life? Take a
close look at Planned Parenthood and their willingness to hide what they're really up to. Look at
the quiet perfidy in the implementation of Common Core.
The fevered political
plague. Aided and abetted by elected officials who defend the indefensible, the
administration diverts our attention with false assurances: You can keep your health insurance and
your doctors, there's not a smidgeon of corruption at the IRS, al-Qaida is on the run, the border is
secure, and a U.S. Ebola outbreak is extremely unlikely.
Understanding
Obama's Ebola Psychosis. President Obama has been rolling out the red carpet for Ebola. Obama has
no use for science that runs counter to the internal narrative playing in his head. He lies brazenly over and
over again about the communicability of Ebola. He has said: ["]It is not airborne. The only way that
a person can contract Ebola is by coming into direct contact with the bodily fluids of somebody who is showing
symptoms.["] In his weekly radio address on Oct. 18, Obama said: ["]Ebola is actually a difficult
disease to catch. It's not transmitted through the air like the flu. You cannot get it from just riding
on a plane or bus.["] This is easily refuted nonsense. We don't know as much as we would like about Ebola,
but we do know that it is easily spread.
Understanding
Obama's Ebola Psychosis. If it's a day ending in a "y," Obama is telling lies. This
is the man who said there is "not even a smidgen of corruption" at the IRS, "if you like your health
care plan, you can keep it," "transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this
presidency," and "we revealed to the American people exactly what we understood at the time" about
the Benghazi saga. Should we be soothed by the easy prose of the glib, cocky, know-it-all
community organizer who celebrates "Cinco de Quatro" and who thinks "Austrian" is a language, or
should we pay more attention to the actions of prudent medical professionals dressed up in heavy
hazmat suits that look like astronaut gear?
New
emails show White House role in Sherrod ouster. A 2010 email from Agriculture
Secretary Tom Vilsack says his department was "waiting for the go-ahead" from the White House before
accepting the resignation of employee Shirley Sherrod, according to newly released documents,
despite Obama administration assertions that her ouster was Vilsack's decision alone.
Celebrating
Six Years of Broken Promises. Always insecure about his authenticity, Obama has, from
the beginning, tried to reassure his base that he was a real African-American and not just someone
who played one on TV. This anxiety has led to a series of distortions, none more outsized than his
claim as a candidate in 2007 that the events at Selma, Alabama, in 1965 stirred his parents to ignore the
obvious obstacles to their multicultural romance and give birth to baby Barack. "They got together
and Barack Obama Jr. was born," said Obama to a largely black audience. "So don't tell me I don't have
a claim on Selma, Alabama. Don't tell me I'm not coming home to Selma, Alabama." He didn't, and
he wasn't. In reality, Obama's father had long since abandoned the family by the time of the famous
march. While protestors were confronting angry white state troopers in Alabama, the three-year-old
Obama was collecting seashells with his white grandfather in Waikiki.
Reince
Priebus Surprises CNN Host by Stating 'I Don't Believe a Thing' Obama Says. The
fallout from Tuesday's midterm elections continued to be felt on Wednesday evening [11/5/2014], when
the host of CNN's Erin Burnett OutFront pressed Republican National Committee chairman Reince
Priebus on whether his party — which had just won control of both chambers of Congress — will make
"a fresh start" and agree to more compromises when working with the president during his last two
years in the White House. "I don't believe a thing he says," the GOP official responded bluntly.
Reince
on Obama: "I Don't Believe A Thing He Says. This week, after the sweeping GOP victory
in Tuesday's elections, RNC chairman Reince Priebus laid down how badly Obama has already poisoned
the well in Washington.
More
Lies: Obama Never Consulted With Pentagon About ISIS Strategy. Not Once.. Between Jan. 1,
2014 and the end of August, there was not one piece of communication or one single meeting between Obama's White
House and the Pentagon concerning a strategy to deal with the threat posed by the Islamic State. Breitbart.com
is reporting that a Freedom of Information request showed not a single document that indicates any sort of
meeting at all concerning ISIS.
Why
Obamacare Architect's Admission of Dishonesty Should Matter to Every American. Five
years ago it was already obvious that the Obama administration and congressional Democrats were
engaged in an elaborate deception, a series of them really. But back then most of the media
and much of the public didn't seem to believe it. Now things have changed.
'Climate
Change' in the Land of Gruber/Obama. Most Americans don't think Obama tells the truth
about anything, let alone something as controversial as climate. They just made that clear by voting
him down in about 237 elections, if you believe Obama's own assertion that his own policies were on trial.
Limbaugh:
Obama 'Sociopathic,' 'A Lying Con Man' On Obamacare Transparency, Gruber. Radio talk
show host Rush Limbaugh hit President Barack Obama Monday [11/17/2014] following his remarks to Fox
News' Ed Henry about Obamacare and it's [sic] "architect" Jonathan Gruber in Brisbane at the
tail-end of his Asia trip over the past week. [Ed Henry asked, "]Did you mislead Americans about
the taxes, about keeping your plan in order to get the bill passed?" "No, I did not," Obama told
Henry. "I just heard about this. I get well-briefed before I come out here. The fact that some
adviser who never worked on our staff expressed an opinion that I completely disagree with in terms of the
voters, is no reflection on the actual process that was run." "This is unbelievable," responded Limbaugh.
"This little sound bite of 23 seconds may be more jam-packed with lies than any 23-second presidential
sound bite I've ever played for you."
Gruber's Deception.
In Washington, D.C. it is said that the cover-up is almost always worse than the crime. Certainly,
the tortured attempts by supporters of Obamacare to explain away the comments of health analyst
Jonathan Gruber — that the law only passed because of a "lack of transparency" that
became a "huge political advantage" because of "the stupidity of the American voter" —
are more preposterous than even the worst parts of Obamacare. President Obama himself tried to
dismiss Gruber on Sunday [11/16/2014] by claiming he was just "some adviser who never worked on our
staff." He insisted his comments are "not a reflection on the actual process that was run."
Obama
on Gruber: I Just Heard About This Today. Sunday [11/16/2014] on Fox News Channel's
"Fox & Friends," network White House corespondent Ed Henry asked President President Obama about
Jonathan Gruber and the president claimed he had just heard about the ObamaCare architect before
walking out on stage in Australia.
Obama
Encouraged Us to 'Pull Every Clip' On Obamacare So We Did. President Obama issued a
challenge to the press corps over the weekend when asked about Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber's
remarks that passing the law counted on a lack of transparency and the "stupidity of the American
voter." "Did you mislead Americans about the taxes, about keeping your plan, in order to get the
bill passed?" Fox News reporter Ed Henry asked. "No," Obama said, chuckling. "I did not."
Obama:
I did not mislead Americans about health care to get law passed. President Obama says
he did not mislead Americans to get his health care law passed, addressing for the first time
recently unearthed comments from a key backer who said a lack of transparency and the "stupidity of
the American voter" were central to its passage. Mr. Obama is the latest administration official
to downplay MIT professor Jonathan Gruber, whose role in crafting the Affordable Care Act has become
toxic since his comments came to light.
Obama
Is Now Lying About His Lies. This is getting pathological. According to [a] story in
Politico, President Obama, when asked whether he had intentionally misled the public in order to get
the law passed, he replied: "No. I did not." He actually did, repeatedly. Here's just one
example — on the president's pledge that "If you like your health-care plan, you'll be able to keep
your health-care plan, period" — that comes to us courtesy of Glenn Kessler, who works for that
well-known right-wing outlet the Washington Post. Mr. Obama added this: "I would just advise every
press outlet here: Pull up every clip and every story. I think it's fair to say there was not a
provision in the health care law that was not extensively debated and was fully transparent. It was a tough debate."
Obama
Just Stepped In A Pile Of Gruber. First, Obama describes Gruber as "some adviser who
never worked on our staff." While that may be technically correct, it would depend on what the
definition of "staff" is. While Gruber didn't take the pay cut that joining Obama's staff may have
cost him, certainly he was specifically sought out and retained by the administration as a key figure in
their efforts to pass the Affordable Care Act. The other issue raised by Obama's comments is
significant and pertains to Gruber, as well.
Obama
claims Obamacare 'not deceptively marketed'. When the president was asked whether he
had intentionally misled the public in order to get the law passed, he replied: "No. I did not."
Even the Obama-friendly Tampa Bay Times found that Obama's repeated promise "If you like your health
care plan, you can keep it" was the lie of the year[.] We now know that Barack Obama and his
advisers knew all along that millions would lose their plans and doctors[.] But why stop with one
whopper? Premiums soared and are soaring — instead of declining the average of $2500 that Obama
promised. The deficit will leap in future years because of Obamacare. Abortion will be covered
despite promises to the contrary. In the words of Mark Steyn, Obamacare was passed by a phalanx of
lies (and bribes, for that matter, the Louisiana Purchase, among them). Recently, even liberal
journalist Ron Fournier scathingly criticized "Obamacare's Foundation of Lies"[.]
Obama: We
didn't mislead on health care. President Barack Obama denied Sunday [11/16/2014] that
his signature health care reform law was deceptively marketed, rejecting statements by a consultant
on the plan who said aspects of Obamacare were designed to take advantage of the "stupidity" of
voters. "The fact that an adviser who was never on our staff expressed an opinion that I
completely disagree with in terms of the voters is not a reflection on the actual process that was
run," Obama declared at a press conference here, speaking for the first time about the comments by
MIT economist Jonathan Gruber.
The lies that
are central to Obama's agenda: ObamaCare will cut your premiums? By $2,500 a year? And
reduce the deficit? While giving gold-plated coverage to tens of millions more people? Who won't
have to pay much? And none of this will result in anyone losing their current plan? [...] Americans
didn't buy it. Never did. At no time has approval for ObamaCare hit 50% in the Gallup poll.
So the Democrats pushed the program through anyway, without a single Republican vote, via legislative legerdemain.
Obama Never
Heard of that Gruber Guy. This is it, Obama dead-enders. This is the Big One. Your
leader has demanded some humiliating loyalty tests from you in the past, but now he's expressing nothing less
than sneering contempt for your intelligence.
Barack
Obama Lied About Jonathan Gruber Before The World. This isn't just about Barack Obama.
It's the entire administration. [Video clip]
Gruber
Visited White House 21 Times, President Obama Claims He Does Not Know The 'Obamacare Architect'. Jonathan
Gruber visited the White House 21 times, but President Barack Obama and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi still insist
they do not know him personally and deny the "Obamacare architect" label given to him. Gruber called American voters
"stupid" on multiple occasions and was recorded talking about a bait and switch plan involved with the Affordable Care Act
plan, President Obama's signature legislation. White House visitor logs reveal that Jonathan Gruber visited the
building starting in 2009 through June 2014.
Obama
Wanted to 'Work Together' With Republicans So Much That He Spent Nine Months Planning to Work Around
Them. After the voters rejected President Obama and his policies and his party on
November 4, the president spoke to the nation and declared that he had gotten the election's
message. That message was: The American people want Democrats and Republicans in Washington
to work together. He didn't mean that. It was just a line he used to buy time.
Obama:
'There's no way to say race relations are worse'. President Obama said in an interview broadcast
on Sunday [11/23/2014] that race relations in the U.S. are demonstrably better than they were even 10 years ago.
Obama:
I've Been very Restrained With Respect To Immigration. President Barack Obama claimed
he has been "restrained" on immigration and that his position on executive actions has not changed
after he unilaterally granted temporary amnesty and work permits to millions of illegal immigrants.
On ABC's This Week [11/23/2014], Obama said that he has "been very restrained with respect
to immigration" and has "bent over backwards and will continue to do everything I can to get
Congress" to pass a more permanent and comprehensive executive amnesty bill.
Explaining Away Obama.
When the president uses emphatics like "really" or "actually" or "make no mistake about it, "let me
be clear," "in point of fact" or "this is unacceptable," we know that what follows will be untrue
and others will be blamed for the president's own self-induced blunders. Like Jonathan Gruber, and
his surreal statements on amnesty, Obama believes that Americans are too stupid to retrieve videos
and transcripts that prove that Obama makes things up and contradicts himself serially.
A Magic Pen And An Empty Suit.
The one positive thing I can say about the president's amnesty speech on Thursday is that I didn't
lose any respect for him afterwards. That is because me losing respect for Barack Obama is a
mathematical impossibility at this point. The speech had as much substance as the Sports
Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. An empty man in an empty hall spoke empty words to a nation that no
longer believes him. Only rank partisans, drooling drones, and the progressive media revere Barack
Obama anymore. We are watching the tumbling of an empty suit in a dryer. [...] Loaded with sob
stories, the speech and the spin after attempted to make our feelings overwhelm our brains.
Unfortunately for Obama and the Democrats, tales of families being "ripped apart" because their
child was born here while they are illegal are meaningless.
Obama
on CIA torture report: "When we make mistakes, we admit them". President Obama said he
believed it was "important" for the Senate Intelligence Committee to release the results of its
investigation into the CIA's use of enhanced interrogation techniques, saying in a Telemundo
interview airing Tuesday evening [12/9/2014]: "One of the things that sets us apart from other
countries is that when we make mistakes, we admit them."
The Editor says...
Mr. Obama is quick to apologize for what he perceives as America's mistakes, but he never apologizes for his own
numerous, avoidable mistakes, such as the use of the IRS as a weapon, the use of the EPA as a weapon, wholesale domestic surveillance,
Benghazi, Jeremiah Wright, and this and
this and
this.
Obama:
We're 'Ending Combat Mission in Afghanistan' — But Troops Will Remain There. In a pair of
statements made on Christmas Day and Dec. 28, President Obama said that the U.S. is "ending our combat mission in
Afghanistan" but that U.S. forces will remain there "to conduct counterterrorism operations" against what he called
the "remnants of al Qaeda." The president also said of Afghanistan on Christmas Day: "It's not going to be
a source of terrorist attacks again."
The Daze of
the Jackals. To hear the White House tell it, the basic reason Obama failed to go to
the Paris was random chance. Politico cites sources who explain that the march just sort of sneaked
up on the presidency. No one was aware of it until it was too late for the president to take the
plane. [...] Maybe nobody told him that the Saudis wanted to destroy the US oil industry either.
White
House Lies About France Terror to Preserve PC View on Islam. It is common for White
House spokespeople to spin the facts — to find the interpretation that best flatters the
president. It is rare, but not unheard of, for White House spokespeople to lie about facts that are
not yet fully known to the public. It is extraordinary for White House spokespeople to lie about
facts that everyone already knows. Yet that is exactly what Josh Earnest did on Tuesday, when trying
to explain why the Obama administration strains to avoid mentioning radical Islam.
Obama
lies when the truth will do: Charlie Hebdo edition. While millions of French marched
with dozens of world leaders including Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu this Sunday in Paris and around
France, the United States sent only our Ambassador to France and no one else. Eric Holder was
in town, but apparently was too busy or not interested in attending (the Department of Justice had no
comment). Today the outrage was palpable. Many felt that the US should have had a significant
presence there (aren't we leading the war on terror, or something?) and failed to show unity with the
world when we had the option.
When
will Obama stop making false claims about Citizens United? At almost the same time
that protesters mad about the Citizens United decision were disrupting the start of the
Supreme Court's session on Wednesday [1/21/2015], the White House issued a "Statement from the
President" condemning the decision on its fifth anniversary. And once again, President Obama
repeated the same false claim about "foreign corporations" that he made in his State of the Union
speech back in 2010. This White House seems to believe that if you think up a good political
attack theme, stick with it no matter what the truth is.
Ignored
Gaffe: Obama Says Washington, Who Never Lived in the White House, Made 'Some Booze' There. It only took
about 15 seconds into a live segment NBC aired from the White House kitchen before Sunday's Super Bowl for
President Barack Obama to commit a historical gaffe about the very place where he resides. He told the
network's Savannah Guthrie that "We make beer — The first president since George Washington to make
some booze in the White House."
Obama's
Biggest Lie and What It Means. Unlike Nixon and Clinton, who lied in self-defense,
Obama lies proactively, which is decidedly more dangerous. He will say practically anything to
achieve his goals without regard to the truth. The repeated assertion about keeping your doctor and
your health insurance under the Affordable Care Act is just one famous example. But only a few days
ago on Fareed Zakaria's show the president made a statement that dwarfed his claims about Obamacare.
Obama
now claiming 1 in 5 women in America have experienced rape or attempted rape. Gone are
the days that the president makes false claims that 1 in 5 women will be sexually assaulted while
in college. Now 20 percent of all women in America have been raped or nearly raped.
And 25 percent of American women — not just college women — have experienced
domestic violence.
Obama
apparently lied about 'evolving' on support for gay marriage. Few will be surprised to
learn that President Barack Obama apparently "misled" the nation for years regarding his personal
support for same-sex marriage rights. That's apparently what former White House advisor David
Axelrod revealed in his forthcoming memoirs. But, first, a warning: The self-flattery
masquerading as candor in the revelation that Obama lied to the public for the better party of his
political career is tough to stomach.
Obama
claims he was the most productive US president in 50 years — until Republicans took
partial control of Congress and 'stuff got blocked'. President Barack Obama presented
a rose-colored version of congressional history to a liberal-leaning online audience on Monday, as
he claimed that he was the most productive president since Jyndon Johnson until Republicans got in
the way. Asked by the news website Vox if he had a prescription for the political polarization of
Washington since his arrival in 2009, he blamed the GOP.
Obama:
I didn't mislead voters on gay marriage. President Obama is denying a former top
political adviser's contention that he intentionally deceived voters about his position on gay
marriage in an interview published Wednesday [2/10/2015]. The president said David Axelrod, his
former senior adviser, was "mixing up my personal feelings with my position on the issue" when he said
Obama publicly backed civil unions rather than gay marriage because it was more politically palatable.
WH:
Climate change directly impacts more Americans than terrorism. The White House stood
by its decision on Tuesday to include climate change impacts in its national security strategy
released last week. When asked if President Obama believed climate change is a greater threat
than terrorism, White House spokesman Josh Earnest pushed back. "The point that the president is
making is that there are many more people on an annual basis who have to confront the direct impact
on their lives of climate change or on the spread of a disease than on terrorism," Earnest said.
Brian
and Barack: Lies, damned lies, and journalism. The most telling point about David
Axelrod's revelation that Barack Obama fibbed about his position on marriage to get himself elected
is not what it says about politics or even the president. It's what it says about American journalism.
Obama
is a good BS'er, but he's a terrible liar. Obama is given a free pass, as the media
use every euphemism in existence to avoid using the word lie. A lie that Obama covered up using his
faith. A lie that reflects the corruption of politics in general and this president in particular.
It's the sort of lying that one imagines all good government types would be concerned about.
Nothing Random Here.
Yesterday evening's [2/14/2015] Copenhagen synagogue shooting is yet another attack on Jews as Jews —
just as we have witnessed such attacks at the Toulouse Jewish primary school, the Brussels Jewish museum, the Paris
kosher supermarket, the firebombing of the synagogue in the German city of Wuppertal, and at many other places in recent
years, from the Jewish communal centres in Mumbai and Casablanca, to the ancient synagogues in Istanbul and Jerba.
Yet only last week President Obama and his spokespeople were suggesting that it was just some kind of "random" accident
that Jews were being killed.
Eric
Holder: 'We're Not at a Time of War'. The Attorney General tells reporters that the
U.S. isn't at war against ISIS — never mind all those airstrikes, and all those troops
deployed in Iraq.
Obama
Lies. Whereas many presidential lies protect us; Obama lies are protecting our
enemies: ISIS marches on; Iran gets closer to the bomb as Obama rejects calls for more sanctions.
Obama lies are insidious because they wriggle their slimy way through his delicate psyche,
untethering him from the vast world beyond self or golf course. When reality dare intrude into his
bubble of self-deceit it elicits cognitive dissonance, prompting his auto defense mechanisms to blast the
interlopers as phony, or blame it on hyperbolic social media. Meanwhile, ISIS marches on, Iran gets
closer to the big one, and the real interloper is our supposed Commander-in-Chief.
Does
Obama Love America or Islam? Greeting card sentiments come easily to the man who will
say anything. Obama promised to eliminate income tax for seniors making less than $50,000, vowed
transparent open government and promised that you could keep your doctor. His words were empty
promises. Love, of a person or of a country, is not judged by what we say. It is judged
by what we do.
White
House 'Unable to Accommodate' Latino Republican Congressman on Air Force One. The
White House reacted to reports today that it snubbed Latino Representative Carlos Curbelo (R-FL) by
turning down his request to travel to Miami on Air Force One for the president's town hall speech.
"In this case we were unable to accommodate the Congressman's request," White House Press Secretary
Josh Earnest explained to members of the press on Air Force One. "But we typically try to do so
when we can."
The Editor says...
The claim that a taxpayer-funded 747 doesn't have room for one more passenger is transparently absurd.
On the other hand, why would a Republican congressman even bother to ask? The answer was predictable.
White
House Suggests Obama Found Out About Hillary Email Scandal From 'Reading The Newspaper'. Aboard Air
Force One, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest indicated that President Obama probably found out about the
Hillary Clinton email scandal from "the newspaper." Earnest admitted he had "no idea" when Obama learned
that Clinton was exclusively using a private email account based on a home server but that he "wouldn't be surprised,
however, if he had learned about that by reading the newspaper."
White
House knew about Clinton's e-mails in August. The White House learned in August that
House Republicans knew Hillary Clinton had been using her personal email to conduct official
business as Secretary of State, Politico reported Friday [3/6/2015]. It was then that officials
at the State Department first noticed the personal email appeared in a document being provided to
Republicans has part of their investigation of the Benghazi attacks, according to the report.
Administration officials reportedly deferred to Clinton's personal staff, who decided not to tackle
the issue publicly until it was made public this week by The New York Times.
Does
Anyone Fact-Check the President? Let's note two instances from a single town hall
appearance in South Carolina yesterday. The first related to climate. Obama, while defending his
Keystone veto, said: ["]The pattern overall is that the climate is getting warmer. That's
undeniable.["] Far from being undeniable, the claim that "the climate is getting warmer" is
false. Satellite measurements show that there has been no warming for around 18 years, a fact
that has caused great consternation among climate alarmists.
The Keystone Copout: Nothing
Obama says to justify his pipeline veto is true. In an interview last weekend with a
North Dakota TV station, Mr. Obama said: "I'm happy to look at how we can increase pipeline
production for U.S. oil, but Keystone is for Canadian oil to send that down to the Gulf. It
bypasses the United States and is estimated to create a little over 250, maybe 300 permanent jobs."
Except for the prepositions, everything in that statement is false.
Obama
says he learned of Clinton using private email through news reports. President Obama
says he first learned from news reports that his former secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, used a
private email account during her tenure, amid reports the White House and State Department may have
known as far back as last August that Clinton did not use government email. "The same time
everybody else learned it, through news reports," Obama told CBS' Bill Plante, in response to a
question of when the president learned of Clinton's use of a private email account for conducting
government business.
White
House alerted to potential Clinton email problem in August. The White House, State
Department and Hillary Clinton's personal office knew in August that House Republicans had received
information showing that the former secretary of state conducted official government business
through her private email account — and Clinton's staff made the decision to keep quiet.
Sources familiar with the discussions say key people in the Obama administration and on Clinton's
staff were aware that the revelation could be explosive for the all-but-announced candidate for
president. But those involved deferred to Clinton's aides, and they decided not to respond.
White
House: Obama Was Aware Of Clinton's Email Address. The White House says the president did email with
Clinton during her time in office, but he was unaware of that she used the personal account exclusively and housed
it on a private server.
The Editor says...
The president is either lying or he is monumentally stupid, or his staff is incompetent and corrupt. Take your pick.
Obama
Claiming the News Knew Before He Did Is Nothing New - Neither Is the Media Mocking It.
What do Fast and Furious, the IRS Scandal, the VA Scandal, seizing the Associated Press phone
records, and now the Hillary Clinton email scandal all have in common? President Obama
says he didn't know about any of them until he saw the reports on TV news.
Obama
Using the "I'm Completely Ignorant of the Internet" Defense. Remember when Obama was
being sold as the smart tech-savvy pol? And now suddenly he's too stupid to know that the email he
was using for Hillary had no .gov on the end and that Clintonemail.com isn't a branch of the government?
Is this supposed to fool anyone remotely conversant with the internet? First Obama's people, as usual,
that he only found out about Clinton's use of a private email address from the news. Then it turned out
that the White House had known about it all along. Now the fallback position is that Obama is completely
ignorant of how the internet works.
The Editor says...
It is difficult to imagine a community organizer being unfamiliar with email, since it is the most important tool used by community organizers.WzlV
Obama's
Hillary email claim walked back by Josh Earnest. President Obama's claim that he only
learned of Hillary Clinton's private e-mail account from the media was a lie that lasted only two
days. [...] The weaseling of Earnest can't obscure the fact that Obama lied about not knowing his
SecState was violating his own policy on use of government e-mail accounts for all official business.
Unless he was such a moron that he never noticed the .com instead of a .gov e-mail address.
Is
President Obama really as clueless as he claims? Obama told CBS News senior White
House correspondent Bill Plante that he learned of Hillary Clinton's use of her private email
address for official State Department business after a New York Times report. With no apparent
self-consciousness or embarrassment, Obama said he learned about it at "the same time everybody else
learned it through news reports." Then he followed with the equally preposterous and oft-repeated
assurance, "The policy of my administration is to encourage transparency." Wouldn't it be great if
Obama had so little curiosity about matters he truly has no business meddling in?
8 Times Obama
Says He Was Way Out of the Loop. It's a remarkable irony: the same U.S. president
whose administration has gone to great lengths to monitor journalists, whistleblowers and the
public, claims to be oddly in the dark regarding basic information on some of his biggest
controversies. Here are eight instances in which President Obama said he heard it on
the news — or way after-the-fact — just like ordinary Americans.
Obama's
Former Defense Intel Chief: Uhm, Of Course Obama Lied About Al Qaeda Being on the Run to Get Reelected.
People shouldn't be surprised that Barack Obama continually lies to us. He lied to get elected and the lies
were obvious, such as his lie that al Qaeda was on the run. He's been selling us snake oil.
To most of us, this is not big news.
Obama
on Clinton emails, IRS, VA, Fast and Furious: I heard about it on the news. The most
powerful man in the world sure seems to get a lot of information about what's going on inside his
administration from outside news reports. The latest example was President Obama saying in an
interview aired over the weekend that he learned of his former secretary of state's personal email
use from the media. Asked when he first found out Hillary Clinton was using a non-official
system to conduct government business, Obama told CBS News: "The same time as everybody else,
through news reports."
Obama
Once Called Hillary's Refusal To Release Communications With Bill A 'Problem'.
[Hillary] Clinton, who eventually served as Obama's secretary of state during his first term, is now
under fire for conducting business with a private e-mail address that was attached to a personal
server. Obama told CBS he first learned about Clinton's use of a private email address "through
news reports," implying that he never personally corresponded through email with the secretary of
state.
Obama's
odd series of exaggerated gun claims. A reader asked us to examine these remarks,
believing they showed a pattern of exaggeration by the president. (We also got a number of
tweets about the statements.) The president's comments came as part of a long answer in
response to a question concerning programs to keep youth off the streets and away from gun
violence. These are an interesting set of remarks to fact check, because some of the analysis
in part turns on what the listener believes the president was trying to say.
Labor
Secretary: Reagan 'Was Wrong' About Medicare Leading to Socialized Medicine. U.S.
Labor Secretary Thomas Perez says he owns a recording of former President Ronald Reagan claiming
that Medicare will lead to socialized medicine and that Reagan "was wrong." Perez was praising
the Affordable Care Act (ACA) at the Consumer Issues Conference in Washington, D.C. Friday
[3/13/2015] when he said: "You know, I've got this thing in my office — it's an
album cover of Ronald Reagan in the 60's saying Medicare will lead to socialized medicine."
4
Most Noteworthy Moments from Obama's Interview with Vice News. [#1] Obama [says] Some
in Congress Are 'Shills' for Oil Companies. Asked by [Shane] Smith why it's so difficult to
convince Americans to take stronger action on anthropogenic climate change, the president didn't
mince words, using colorful language to describe certain (unnamed) lawmakers who he believes are
too cozy with fossil fuel companies.
Glenn
Beck: Obama Is 'Special Kind of Liar' Who Won't Stop Lying. Glenn Beck was practically
boiling over on his radio show today calling President Barack Obama a bald-faced liar on health
care. He repeatedly said he doesn't want to be the one saying this and insisted he respects the
office of the presidency, but lamented that no one else is willing to say it out loud, so he has to.
"The fact is," Beck said, "the president is a special kind of liar because he can lie about things that have
long been proven to be lies and then... he actually has the nerve to tell you to look up the evidence,
when the evidence, if you look it up, would prove it to be a lie."
MSNBC
Panel Presses Earnest: Shouldn't You Stop Calling Yemen a Success Story? Morning
Joe cohost Mika Brzezinski and NBC News White House correspondent Chris Jansing challenged White
House Press Secretary Josh Earnest Thursday morning [3/26/2015] to defend the Obama administration's
position that Yemen is still a counterterrorism success story, even as the country implodes.
"Should we dial back on the words that it is a success story, when you have the president fleeing
on a boat?" Brzezinski asked.
Obama's
Mental Health: A Checklist. This man who lies pathologically and feels no empathy
(again, too many examples to list but his reactions to the murders of Christopher Stevens and James
Foley are indicative), has disdain for America and has set out to do the nation harm as surely as a
psychopathic murderer sets out to kill an innocent human being. And he does it all without
breaking a sweat or feeling an iota of responsibility or guilt.
Obama's
Amateur-Hour Foreign Policy In The Americas. Seeking applause at a summit in Panama, President Obama vowed to swiftly
remove Cuba as a state sponsor of terror. It just shows how his foreign policy runs — for political convenience,
not national security.
2009
NCIS Investigation: Bergdahl Went Over to the Other Side. Obama National Security Advisor Susan Rice told
ABC News in 2014 that Bowe Bergdahl served with "honor and distinction." Rice called his service "honorable" even
though he deserted his platoon and joined the Taliban. [...] But there is now evidence that Bowe Bergdahl was reportedly
planning on fleeing to Uzbekistan and then Russia.
More
about the Bergdhal prisoner exchange.
Michelle
Obama: 'Our Government... Outlawed Indian Religions'. On Wednesday [4/8/2015], First
Lady Michelle Obama addressed a gathering at the White House that focused on the topic of creating
opportunity for Native American youth. The White House posted her prepared remarks online.
Obama's
Fixer. Wherever Ben Rhodes goes, lies follow. Obama's foreign policy is cooked up
by a very small group of people, among them Ben Rhodes, his deputy national security adviser. This
should trouble Americans. I have been writing about Rhodes for years. He has a pattern of twisting
the truth to serve his masters. All of 37 years old and untrained in diplomacy, he pontificates
omnisciently on Obama's mastery of world politics. He was the drafter of the Baker-Hamilton Iraq
Study Group. This report was criticized for deviating from its main goal to analyze the Iraq War
under George W. Bush. Instead, it advised outreach to Iran and distancing from Israel.
Some of the witnesses called were suspect because of their lack of expertise as well as their biases.
Other witnesses were shocked by the report upon its publication because they said it did not reflect their
testimony, and in fact distorted what they had conveyed. In other words, their testimony was
fictionalized. Who was the principal drafter of that report? Ben Rhodes.
The
deception of the Obama Department of Justice. Throughout Barack Obama's tenure in the
White House he's been accused of leading a lawless presidency and cheapening the rule of law through
his Department of Justice. Many say these accusations are simply based in politics, but a closer
look at the way the Department of Justice has handled multiple cases in federal court suggest
misleading or lying to judges is a habit, not a mistake.
White
House admits lying to Congress and America on Iran deal. Since announcing the nuclear
weapons deal with Iran, we've documented numerous instances where Obama blatantly and callously lied
about the substance of the deal in communications to Congress and the American people. In the
past three days other developments have taken place that demonstrate the extent to which Obama has
lied about what the deal says.
Obama:
Climate change is the greatest threat to America today. President Obama's weekly
remarks: ["]Hi everybody. Wednesday is Earth Day, a day to appreciate and protect this precious
planet we call home. And today, there's no greater threat to our planet than climate change.["]
Obama
Lied: He Has Known All Along That Iran is Only 4 Months From Making Atomic Bombs. Obama and his corrupt
regime attacked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for saying that Iran was only months away from being able to
build its own nuclear weapons. On the contrary, Obama insisted that Iran was a year or more away from that feat.
But now news has emerged that Obama lied. He knew all along that Iran was only months away from the bomb.
Obama
Lied About Iranian Nukes. President Obama lied to the American people about the true
nature of Iran's nuclear program, according to declassified material. Add this to a litany
of lies told by our president.
Obama:
'I've Set Aside More Public Lands and Waters Than Any Administration in History'. In
an Earth Day speech delivered today in the Florida Everglades, President Barack Obama boasted the he
has set aside more "public land and waters" than any president in the history of the country.
Obama also said that the nation's economy gets a 1000 percent return from federal funds that are
"invested" in the National Park Service. "First, we're releasing a report showing that every
dollar invested in the National Park Service generates $10 for the economy," said Obama. "That's
a good investment. I don't run a private equity fund, but I know that if you invest a dollar
and you get $10 back, that's a good investment.
Clever
new Rubio amendment to Corker's Iran bill: The final deal must match this month's WH "fact sheet".
You remember the "fact sheet," don't you? That's the document the White House released on April 2nd, the
day it reached a "framework" deal with Iran, describing the terms that Iran had allegedly agreed to. Snap
nuclear inspections of all suspicious sites, a greatly reduced number of centrifuges, delayed sanctions relief
until Iran satisfied its denuclearization obligations — it wasn't half bad, and certainly better than
what an Obama skeptic might have expected. The only problem: Apparently no one told Iran that
this is the deal they had agreed to.
Obama
Has Sown the Seeds of War: The Middle East Arms Race Explodes. As Obama's deal with
Iran gets closer, the panicky Gulf States are asking for assurances, weapons and security pacts from
Obama before they take matters in their own hands. Can you spot the problems with anything Obama
might promise them? It's hard to take anything the man says seriously. Would you stake the
life of your country on his word?
When elites lie without much consequence,
the public follows their examples. President Obama's approval ratings seem to have
gone up almost in direct proportion to the degree he has lied. On over twenty occasions in
reelection scenarios, Obama lied in stating that he would not issue blanket amnesties and order
non-enforcement of current immigration law given that it would be unconstitutional and unlawful to
do so. We accept at the time that such assurances were about as truthful as his convenient
opposition to gay marriage — rhetorical constructs that warp and weave according to the
realities of the next election.
Obama's
Iran Deal Lie Collapses: Russia Says No 'Snap-Back' Sanctions. President Barack Obama has defended the impending
nuclear deal with Iran by promising Americans that there will be automatic "snap-back" provisions to restore sanctions automatically
if Iran cheats on its obligations: "If Iran violates the deal, sanctions can be snapped back into place," he said in April.
On Wednesday [5/13/2015], Russian UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin told Bloomberg News that there would be no such provisions:
"There can be no automaticity, none whatsoever," he said.
Smartest
President Ever Says Weaponized Chlorine Is Not a Chemical Weapon. It's not just me who
finds this odd, noted Right Wing Nutjob organization the United Nations says that, yes, chlorine
kinda always has been a chemical weapon.
Obama:
that chlorine gas Syria is using, well I'm fine with it. Back in 2013, Syria was
accused of using chemical agents against the opposition. True to form, the Syrian army didn't make
much of a distinction between combatants and civilians. This quickly became one of Barack Obama's
"red lines." I use quote marks here because no one really knows what [...] Obama is talking about
when he talks about "red lines." I think it is some kind of a communist code phrase for "do whatever
it is you want to do," because Iranian nuclear weapons were also a "red line" and now he's agreed that
they can develop them.
Obama's Orwellian
World. At his press briefing today [5/19/2015], White House press secretary Josh
Earnest was asked by ABC's Jonathan Karl if our war strategy against the Islamic State is a success.
"Overall, yes," Earnest replied. Overall, that answer is untrue. Overall, that answer is
insane. Overall, that answer is Orwellian.
3
Years After He 'Ended the War': Obama Declares Iraq a 'National Emergency' for U.S..
President Barack Obama sent a message to Congress yesterday giving notice that he was extending the
"national emergency" the United States has experienced as a result of the problems in Iraq since
2003, when the U.S. first invaded that country and removed the regime of Saddam Hussein.
President Obama pulled the last U.S. troops out of Iraq at the end of 2011. Then — while
running for reelection in 2012 — he repeatedly stated at campaign rallies that he had "ended"
the war in Iraq.
For
Obama, Admitting Failure Is Never An Option. After Ramadi fell to the Islamic State
over the weekend, the Obama administration called its anti-terror strategy a success. If that's
hard to fathom, consider what else the president thinks is going well.
More
don't believe Obama, see ISIS winning. Despite mounting evidence to the contrary,
President Obama has claimed anew the United States is not losing in his war on ISIS. But now
comes a new public opinion poll showing that, once again, a growing number of his countrymen do not
believe the commander-in-chief.
Obama:
I've Restored the US as the 'Most Respected Country in the World'. Monday [6/1/2015]
while President Barack Obama was answering questions at a town hall with YSEALI Fellows, an exchange
program for community leaders from ASEAN, The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, he said his
administration has restored the Untied States as the "the most respected country on earth."
Restored
U.S. Respect? Is Obama Growing Delusional? President Obama says he has restored the
U.S. as the most respected country in the world — a remark so at odds with facts it begs
the question of whether he's lying, living in a bubble or just delusional.
Wake
up and smell the chaos. Here's the money quote, delivered to members of the Young
Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative fellows program who were visiting the White House on Monday
[6/1/2015]. "People don't remember, when I came into office, the United States in world opinion
ranked below China, barely above Russia. And today, once again, the United States is the most
respected country on earth, and part of that I think is because of the work that we did to reengage
the world and say that we want to work with you as partners, with mutual interests and mutual respect."
[...] Too bad the Islamic State, China, France, Iran, Ukraine, North Korea, Libya, Syria, Venezuela,
Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Israel, Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria and Russia don't share the
president's high regard for himself. What a wonderful world it would be!
Behind
Barack Obama's delusions of global respect. At a town-hall meeting last week, President
Obama proudly bragged that "today, once again, the United States is the most respected country on earth."
That jaw-dropper makes sense to him — because the only opinion that counts for the president
is the opinion of folks who share his ideology: above all, the belief that America should never use its
power unless "world opinion" (i.e., pretty much those same folks) agrees.
Team
Obama's [Bogus] ISIS Body Count. It sounded so authoritative, when a top Obama
administration official claimed this week that the U.S. killed roughly 10,000 enemy fighters in its
fight with the self-proclaimed Islamic State. Until that figure was contradicted by a second
official. And then undercut by a third. Not only could Obama administration officials not agree
on the final death toll, they could not say how they determined such a figure with no ground forces
in Iraq and Syria to assess airstrike damage. Nor could those officials articulate how well
such a statistic measures progress against the terror army.
How
Do Americans See Obama? Obama's own judgment on his tenure is now all too clear: He saved us
from another Great Depression, and he has made the United States more secure and more popular in the eyes of the
world than we have been at any time in our recent history. Obama "ended two wars" (in the sense of pulling
troops out of Iraq and steadily bringing them back from Afghanistan). According to Obama, America has never
been more liked abroad, largely because his lead-from-behind policies have ended the image of the U.S. as bully.
He hunted down and "got" Osama bin Laden.
Why
does GOP assist an "agenda that is both diabolical and destructive"? It's hard to
trust a president who does not tell the truth, does not follow the Constitution, backs anarchists,
communists, and socialists in Ferguson and elsewhere as they demonize police, spends wildly and
uncontrollably, and has abandoned our allies to support an Islamist takeover in the Middle East
while negotiating a deal with the terrorist nation of Iran.
Obama
Praises 'Good Idea' to Have More Women on American Money. President Obama signaled support for putting the faces of more
women on American money during a speech in Kansas City on Wednesday [6/17/2015]. "Last week a young girl wrote to ask me why aren't
there any women on our currency," Obama said.
The Editor says...
Raise your hand if you believe that a little girl spontaneously and
coincidentally wrote to Barack H. Obama to ask a feminist question about U.S. currency, just last
week. Yeah. Neither do I.
Also posted
under Liberals think you're stupid.
But
Did Obamacare Really Save A Kid With A Tumor. [Scroll down] "And they've told me
that it has changed their lives for the better," the president declared. "I've had moms come up and
say, my son was able to see a doctor and get diagnosed, and catch a tumor early, and he's alive today
because of this law. This law is working. And it's going to keep doing just that." After
the detailed aside was made, The Daily Caller News Foundation reached out to White House press secretary
Josh Earnest directly asking for some additional details including the context of the conversation and what
were the circumstances leading to the president meeting the mother. Despite several requests over two
days, the White House has refused to substantiate the story.
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]
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.
No,
Mr. President, Castroite Cuba Is Not What Change Looks Like. President Obama's much
hailed "normalization" of ties with Cuba is anything but normal. Cuba is a top violator of human
rights and the rule of law. Normal relations will just entrench the regime, not change it. With a
flurry of the usual cliches about going forward and not being "imprisoned by the past," President Obama hailed
his own decision to normalize relations with Castroite Cuba with his trademark "This is what change looks like!"
in a speech at the White House Wednesday [7/1/2015]. Problem is, it's one of the most inaccurate
statements he's ever made.
Cuba Is Now An American
Tragedy. Time Magazine is celebrating the Obama deal with Cuba on this month's cover and with
an article inside titled, "Welcome to Paradise." They call Cuba the New Cuba. They want us
to rediscover the "charm". This is the Cuba the propagandists want you to believe exists but it
doesn't. We aren't going to bat for them and now we are being sold a lie. It's one of the
biggest lies they've ever told. American people aren't getting the truth on this or much else.
Obama:
'Medicare and Social Security Are Not In Crisis'. In a White House speech directed at seniors, President Obama
re-assured them that Social Security and Medicare were not in crisis, contrary to the message signaled by Republicans.
"Now, we're often told that Medicare and Social Security are in crisis," said Obama pointing out that it was used as an "excuse"
by Republicans to cut spending. "But here's the truth. Medicare and Social Security are not in crisis, nor have they
kept us from cutting our deficits by two-thirds since I took office."
Obama
defends IRS, says tea party targeting didn't happen. President Obama defended the IRS
Tuesday [7/21/2015] in an interview with "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart, saying the tea party-targeting
scandal was actually Congress' fault for passing "a crummy law" and that the real problem is the agency
doesn't have enough money. Mr. Obama, who has overseen a series of scandals at the IRS, the Veterans
Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and now the Office of Personnel
Management, was asked why government didn't seem to be working on his watch.
Obama:
'Real' IRS Scandal Is That It's 'Poorly Funded'. During an interview on the Daily
Show, President Obama insisted that the IRS scandal isn't real. He blames Republicans for not
providing enough money to the federal agency to allow it to do its job. Obama explained that
accusations that they were specifically targeting conservative organizations was false and that IRS
employees were simply implementing laws passed by Congress "poorly and stupidly."
The
Many Lies Paving the Way to Obama's Legacy. I understand he is the president of the
United States, a position that should warrant presumptive trust regardless of one's philosophical or
partisan identification. But I cannot start with a presumption of trust when it comes to this
president, the former true-believing community organizer whose word has proven to be vapid or even
patently false on so many important issues. You see, this president is the classic progressive —
far more classic than the Clintons, for whom truth is purely situational: only good as long as it
fits their purpose, and then on to Plan B. What makes Barack Obama the real progressive is
that he truly believes that his great willpower magically transforms his pronouncements. Indeed,
his mere will makes them accurate — especially if he repeats them enough —
despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
Obama
on Daily Show: 'Government Works Better Now That It Probably Ever Has'. In a
conversation with the Daily Show's Jon Stewart, President Obama defended big government, arguing
that it was working better now than ever. Any problems with the system, he argued, was due to a lack
of spending. "Government works better now than it probably ever has, given what we ask it to do,"
he said confidently, assuring that he was able to improve many functions of government during his
time as president.
Kerry
to House: No vote means war against Iran. Secretary of State John Kerry told a packed
meeting of skeptical House lawmakers on Wednesday [7/22/2015] that a vote against the Iran nuclear deal
would be a vote to "go to war," according to members leaving the meeting. [...] But despite Kerry's shrill
warning about the prospect of armed conflict, some left the meeting saying they weren't convinced.
Among the skeptical Democrats was Rep. Dan Lipinski, D-Ill., who said Kerry's approve-or-else pitch was
falling flat.
Obama
Outrageously Denies IRS Targeting Scandal on Daily Show, Nets Censor. President Barack
Obama outrageously denied there was anything scandalous about the IRS-Tea Party controversy, in his
Tuesday [7/21/2015] interview on The Daily Show, as he lectured Jon Stewart that: "When
there was that problem with the I.R.S. everybody jumped, including you... you got this back office
and they're going after the Tea Party. Well it turned out no." Obama went on to assert "the
truth of the matter is there was not some big conspiracy there." Obama was never challenged by
Stewart on this dodge despite the recent bombshell news that Lois Lerner had a meeting with the Justice
Department and the FBI to target Obama opponents. While all Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) network
morning shows, on Wednesday [7/22/2015], offered glowing coverage of Obama's sitdown with Stewart,
not one of them picked up on Obama's scandal denial.
Kerry,
Moniz Lie (Again) About Iran Deal. If the Iran deal were any good, the Obama administration would
not have to lie about it. Yet Secretary of State John Kerry and Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz continue
to do just that. The latest example is a joint op-ed in the Washington Post, in which the Laurel and
Hardy of American diplomacy attempt to defend the nuclear deal using a series of half-truths and blatant lies
that is worth decoding concisely, in full.
President
punts on IRS. Because there's a looser vibe on late-night talk shows perhaps President
Obama felt free to play looser than usual with the facts. But his characterization of the IRS
scandal during an appearance on Jon Stewart's show this week isn't as easily laughed away as it may
have been by the audience. Yes, the president tried to rewrite a bit of embarrassing history,
chalking up the IRS targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status as the simple fallout
from a "crummy" law enacted by Congress.
Iran:
Obama Admin Lying About Nuclear Deal for 'Domestic Consumption'. Senior Iranian
officials are accusing the Obama administration of lying about the details of the recent nuclear
accord in order to soothe fears among U.S. lawmakers and Americans about the implications of the
deal, which will release billions of dollars to the Islamic Republic while temporarily freezing its
nuclear program, according to reports from Iran's state-controlled media. As Secretary of State
John Kerry and other senior Obama administration figures launch a full-court press to convince
Congress to approve the deal, Iranian leaders are dismissing the rhetoric as "aimed at domestic
consumption." Kerry and other top administration officials have been defending the deal on
Capitol Hill in recent days, claiming that it will rein in the Islamic Republic's contested nuclear
program and fix its nuclear "breakout" period, the time required for it to obtain the amount of
highly enriched uranium necessary for a nuclear weapon, at one year.
Prez
says GOP supports Iranian "Death to America" Chants. Post-racial, post-partisan healing.
It's what I love most about this administration.
Obama:
Voting Fraud Not a 'Real Problem,' Nobody Votes Using Somebody Else's Name. Thursday [8/6/2015] at a ceremony to commemorate
the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act at the White House, President Barack Obama laughed as he said that voter fraud is not a "real
problem" because "nobody wakes up and says I'm going to go vote in somebody else's name."
EPA's
Gross Negligence at Gold King. Anyone who follows mining, oil spill and power plant accidents knows the EPA,
Obama White House and Big Green environmentalist rhetoric: There is no safe threshold for chemicals. They are toxic and
carcinogenic at parts per billion. The water will be unsafe for years or even decades. Wildlife will die. Corporate
polluters are criminals and must pay major fines. We will keep our boots on their necks. This time the White House was
silent, and Democrats and eco-activists rushed to defend EPA and shift the blame to mining and mining companies. EPA officials
made statements they would never use if a private company had caused the blowout. EPA had simply "miscalculated" how much water
had backed up. It was just trying to stick a pipe into the top of the mine to safely pump liquid out for treatment.
We were "very careful." Contaminants "are flowing too fast to be an immediate health threat." The river is already
"restoring itself," EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy insisted.
Michelle
Obama's school lunch group: Americans 'clearly support' new rules. How deluded is Michelle Obama's school lunch
organization "Let's Move"? A press release issued in advance of the new school year claims that kids love the new standards,
and Americans "clearly support" what they're trying to do. [...] Only someone educated in public schools would be unable to
see through this push poll. The facts are a little different. [#1] More than a million kids have dropped out of the school
lunch program. [#2] Food waste — that is, the weight of food thrown out by kids who refuse to eat the unappetizing
fare — is up 56%. [#3] Eighty percent of school districts report having financial problems because fewer kids are
in the program.
Sorry,
President Pants-On-Fire but Alaska is Cooling Not Warming. President Obama recently visited Alaska in search of
the mythical beast they call ManBearPig — as part of his ongoing mission to persuade an increasingly skeptical
world that climate change represents the greatest threat of our age. Not even a string of plausible lies could save
his mission from failure.
Spy
Report Book-Cooking Howls For Reform. Fifty intelligence analysts whose job is to honestly assess what's going
on in the Middle East have charged their reports about Islamic State's rise were systematically altered by senior officials
to the opposite of what they meant: "Happy talk" about the terror group being "on the run" and merely a "JV" version of
al-Qaida, according to a report in the Daily Beast. In a letter to the Pentagon Inspector General's Office, the analysts
said their reports were corrupted to further the White House's narrative that the Middle East was little more than George Bush's
war, and President Obama's premature pullout from Iraq and Afghanistan amounted to "victories." It wasn't, and they didn't.
The shambles of the Middle East and the surprise rise of Islamic State show that something different was going on, and now we know it
had a name: Obama's Domestic Political Priorities.
Obama:
Republicans have 'gone off the deep end'. President Barack Obama said the Republican Party has "gone off the
deep end" with its messy failure to elect a new speaker of the House of Representatives. [...] Obama described himself as not
intrinsically partisan and said some members of his party have faulted him for not being partisan enough.
Obama
says Clinton email server a 'mistake,' but denies national security jeopardized. President Obama said Sunday [10/11/2015]
that Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server to conduct her correspondence while secretary of state was a "mistake," but denied
that U.S. national security had been jeopardized as a result. [...] Obama added that he was not initially aware that Clinton was using
the private server, which was kept at her home in Chappaqua, N.Y., as opposed to a professional data center. When CBS' Steve Kroft
pointed out that the Obama administration has prosecuted people for having classified material on their private computers, the president
said he didn't get the impression there was an intent to "hide something or to squirrel away information."
The Editor says...
Anyone with a brain and an internet provider can quickly surmise that [#1] deception and secrecy were Mrs. Clinton's primary motivations for
setting up a clandestine email server and [#2] Barack H. Obama is a liar.
With
a straight face, Obama asserts Putin is weak and no challenge. In an interview broadcast Sunday night [10/11/2015],
President Obama claimed Russian President Putin's recent major military moves in Syria are a sign of weakness and present no
challenge to the American leader. Well, that's a relief, isn't it? Because after annexing Crimea, fomenting armed
rebellion in eastern Ukraine, ignoring Obama's ineffective economic sanctions, selling arms to Iran, moving troops and naval
assets into Syria, delivering a diplomatic note ordering U.S. planes from Syrian skies, then bombing Assad regime opponents,
all in defiance of the American leader, it sure did strike some as a pretty clear challenge.
A
'60 Minutes' interview with an unserious President Obama. Mr. Obama's claim that Russia meddled in Ukraine out
of weakness was ridiculous. The president doubled down on this nonsensical claim in a "60 Minutes" interview with Steve
Kroft broadcast on Sunday when he said Putin's military mission in Syria is a sign of Russia's weakness, not a show of Putin's
leadership. It was a painful interview to watch as the leader of the free world spoke about his disastrous foreign policy
as if he lived in a fantasy world.
Obama
aides explain how a deadly firefight with ISIS isn't really combat. In the darkness, a fierce firefight erupts.
The Kurdish and Iraqi break-in stalls. The experienced Special Ops guys, who happen to be heavily-armed in body armor,
night-vision goggles and full combat gear, open up. Numerous ISIS troops fall. So does one U.S. operative,
Master Sgt. Joshua Wheeler, a veteran of 14 deployments. They breach the buildings. Prisoners are freed. Valuable
intell gathered. As choppers whop-whop away, smart bombs whistle in out of the night. Prison camp disappears.
All this, according to the silly parlance and ridiculous rationale of Obama administration officials, is not real combat.
Who's More Shameful, Hillary or Her
Media Protectors? [Scroll down] President Obama ran in 2008 promising he would make the world safer by fighting terrorism
through diplomacy. Not long after he implemented his appeasement policies, he began bragging (and the media amplified his boasts) that
the world was already safer — presumably because of his flowery speeches on the glories of Islam. What evidence did he have?
Well, it was the same kind of evidence upon which his bogus Nobel Peace Prize was granted: He talked a good game. Obama sweet-talked
Islam; therefore, terrorists were standing down — even though they weren't.
Obama's latest lie: If you like your guns
you can keep your guns. Of course he's lying. Remember, "if you like your plan you can keep your plan?"
Or, "if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor?" And, "I'll reduce premiums by $2,500 dollars per year?" How'd
those promises work out for you? He also "wasn't going" to force you to buy health insurance either. So have you made
your Shared Responsibility Payment yet? And are you detecting a pattern here?
American Troops Not In "Combat" in
Iraq. Barack Obama thinks if he denies that he is doing things that everyone can see, they still won't see it.
In this case, the Nobel peace prize winner wants to pretend that he isn't starting another Iraq War. Sometimes however
someone in the military forgets to repeat the party line.
Not
News: Obama-Clinton Emails Render His Related Kroft Interview Statements False. A Friday evening story at the New York Times
covered the Obama administration's decision to "try to block the release of a handful of emails between President Obama and former Secretary of
State Hillary Rodham Clinton." In it, reporters Michael D. Shear and Michael S. Schmidt demonstrated that President Obama undoubtedly
did not tell the truth in his interview with CBS News's Steve Kroft in a 60 Minutes episode which aired on October 11.
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."
Why Obama Didn't Announce the Syria Deployment
Himself. Why didn't the president announce the deployment himself? There are a few possible explanations, none of which ought
to reassure us. The first is that Obama genuinely believes that this isn't a big deal, or at least wants to project that it isn't a big deal,
and that it is an action entirely consistent with his past statements — including his assertion in 2013 that "I will not put American
boots on the ground in Syria" — which we must now consider to be abrogated, or just give up on the English language entirely.
Obama
Lackey Ben Rhodes Spreads Lies About Vetting Syrian Refugees on Sunday News Talk Shows. In the wake of Friday's
horrific terror attacks in Paris, Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes was dispatched to the Sunday morning
[11/15/2015] talk shows to spin his boss' claim the previous day that the ISIS threat had been "contained." But he was
also asked about the ability of the Obama administration to properly vet a wave of 10,000 Syrian refugees announced in
September in light of reports that one or more of the Paris terrorists had entered and transited the EU as a Syrian refugee.
And yet Rhodes' response that measures to properly vet the Syrian refugees are in place flatly contradicts the recent sworn
congressional testimony of FBI officials.
Obama: ISIS Is Not Getting 'Stronger,' We Have 'Contained'
Them. I have a well-known reputation for telling it like it is and here's the truth of the matter; if you do believe
Islam is a religion of peace or that ISIS has been contained, then YOU are a fool. If you believe ANYTHING that Obama says;
you are a fool. If you believe Obama has what's good for America on his mind and first in his thoughts; you are a fool.
If you believe that the American military will be given free rein to go after ISIS, al-Qaeda or any other Muslim terrorist group;
you are a fool. If you believe Obama doesn't support ISIS, and quite likely, supports them in some covert manner; you are a
fool. If you don't believe that Barack Hussein Obama is a Muslim, in his heart and in his mind; you are a fool.
Syrian refugees: In
desperation, Obama offers statistics and lies. The Obama administration told reporters this week that roughly half of all Syrian
refugees admitted to date have been children. It claims around 25% are adults over 60 and only 2% have been single males of "combat age."
Not surprisingly, the mainstream media published these statistics without questioning them. [...] So where did the statistics come from? A
U.S. government report? Congressional testimony? No, these numbers were given to the press in a private briefing by three unnamed senior
officials. This means there's no way to check the accuracy of this data or to hold these officials accountable for their claims.
Obama
Claims Fish Swim In Miami Streets Because Of Climate Change — There's Only One Problem. President
Obama's claim on Tuesday [12/1/2015] that fish are swimming in the streets of Miami because of climate change has no basis in
fact, local news outlets are reporting. Obama made the fishy claim, which echoes comments former vice president Al Gore
recently made, during a press conference at a climate summit in Paris.
Obama
Is Wrong: Mass Shootings Do Happen Elsewhere, And More Often. Barack Obama stunned Americans and French alike on Tuesday [12/1/2015]
with his false claims about gun violence in America. "I say this every time we've got one of these mass shootings. This just doesn't
happen in other countries," the president claimed, as he has repeatedly over the years. Talk about being self-absorbed. The French
have witnessed three mass public shootings this year. January saw two attacks, one on the Charlie Hebdo magazine and another on a Paris
supermarket. In the November attacks, 129 people were killed and 352 were injured. In 2015, France suffered more casualties
than the U.S. has suffered during Obama's entire presidency (508 to 394).
President Obama Says the U.S. Is Safe
From an ISIS Attack. President Barack Obama said in an interview with CBS News on Thursday night [12/3/2015] that the U.S.
was safe from a terrorist attack by the hands of the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria, encouraging the American people to "feel
confident" that they are safe and well-defended. "The threat is real — we have to be vigilant," he told CBS News' Norah
O'Donnell at the White House. "But we also can't panic, and we can't respond out of fear. [ISIS] is not going to pose an
existential threat to us." He added: "They are a dangerous organization like al-Qaeda was, but we have hardened our defenses."
Obama
Is Not Delusional: He is ideologically and resolutely anti-American. Barack Hussein Obama is fond of telling
Americans, "that's not who we are," when admonishing us about not agreeing with his policies. It is Obama and his fellow
travelers, who are, in fact, "not who we are." It is why many mistakenly describe his views as being delusional, basing
their conclusion on what mainstream America believes, not on Obama's Islamo-Marxist proclivities. Like earlier Nazi and
communist propagandists, Obama and his fellow travelers traffic in myths, half-truths and, when necessary, blatant lies. In
an Islamic context, it can easily take on the form of taqiyya and tawriya; Islamic doctrines that instruct Muslims to deceive
when it is perceived to be in Islam's interest. [...] Stated simply, Obama and his fellow travelers dissemble and lie because
their true objective, their so-called fundamental transformation, is the permanent decline of the United States as a world
power and the dismantling of the country as a capitalist republic based on Judeo-Christian democratic principles.
Lying About Gitmo. Let's begin with the
conclusion: Barack Obama is releasing dangerous terrorists against the recommendations of military and intelligence professionals, he's doing so at a
time when the threat level from radical Islamists is elevated, and he is lying about it. He is lying about how many jihadists he has released
and lying about their backgrounds, all part of his effort to empty the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay. We write this knowing the
accusation is a strong one and that the word lying will offend the sensibilities of the establishment media. There is an unwritten rule
that requires euphemizing lies with gentler descriptions, especially when talking about the president of the United States. There is a veritable
thesaurus of verbal politeness one can deploy: [...] Not this time. The president is lying.
Here's
what 'constitutional scholar' Obama really taught at law school. Among the lies about himself Obama
consistently repeats is that he was a constitutional law professor. Lie one: Obama was never a professor; he was a
lecturer. He did not have the qualifications to be a professor. Obama never published a single law paper. He was hired
by the University of Chicago when they learned he had been given a book contract on race and law directly after graduating from Harvard.
There was no book — just the contract, which he later reneged on. [...] Lie two: Obama did not specialize in the
Constitution. Obama cared about and taught only one subject: race. One course was about race in the Constitution.
It is on this flimsy basis that he attempts to pawn himself off as a constitutional scholar. [...] Lie three: Obama calls
himself a constitutional law prof to imply that he loves the Constitution. Obama gives the lie to this himself. He is on
record — literally, a radio interview done when he was a lecturer — slamming the Supreme Court's interpretation
of the Constitution because they never tried to invent a right to "redistribute wealth" — a failing he describes as a
"tragedy of the civil rights movement."
WH:
'We Will Close Gitmo Because It is Bad for Our National Security and Because It's Too Costly'. Congress has
expressly forbidden President Obama from transferring prisoners from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to the United States, but White
House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough shrugged it off on Sunday [1/10/2016]. "What the president just said is, he's going
to work with Congress, present them a plan to close (the prison), and then he'll make some final determinations," McDonough
told Fox News Sunday [1/10/2016].
The Editor says...
Guantanamo costs about half
as much as Obama's annual Hawaii vacation.
President
Obama: 'There Are No Existential Threats' to the United States. In an interview with NBC's Today on the morning of his final State
of the Union address, President Barack Obama told interviewer Matt Lauer that the United States didn't face a single existential threat as his
presidency approached its end. "It is sometimes important for people to step back and measure how far we've come," Obama argued.
"The economy right now is better than any other economy in the world by a significant margin. We remain the strongest nation on earth
by far and there are no existential threats facing us."
Obama's SOTU Versus Reality.
Obama claimed that there are no existential threats facing this nation, that his economy is robust, that his educational record is stellar,
that people who are skeptical that global warming is man-made are fools, that the United States is more respected internationally now than
it was before he took office, that Obamacare has lived up to its promises, that the military is overfunded, that ISIS members are just
fanatics and killers riding around in pickup trucks, that his "clean energy" programs are superior, that people who support entitlement
reform are the irresponsible ones — saying we should actually double down on these bankrupting boondoggles — that
proponents of an orderly immigration system are bigots, that Ted Cruz's pledge to aggressively pursue the Islamic State is code for
deliberately bombing innocent civilians, that he himself deserves praise for reducing the deficit, that he values bipartisanship and
compromise and ideas other than his own, that it's morning in America and that he's just getting warmed up and planning on
engineering further transformational change at the expiration of his term. Can you imagine having this record of failure,
bragging about it and promising to deliver more misery into the indefinite future? It would be like the owner of the Chicago
Cubs pledging to keep winning the World Series.
Mr.
Obama, here's why closing Guantanamo is a big mistake. In his final State of the Union address on Tuesday night, President Obama
promised to "keep working to shut down the prison at Guantanamo" and said "it's expensive, it's unnecessary, and it only serves as a recruitment
brochure for our enemies." But he couldn't be more wrong. Guantanamo Bay is a first-rate detention facility that's kept terrorists
off the battlefield and kept America safe. It's critical role in our national security cannot be overstated. Early last year, I
visited Guantanamo Bay and witnessed prisoner operations. I saw firsthand that it is not the barebones prison camp President Obama
purports it to be. In fact, it couldn't be further from the picture he's painted for the public.
No "Major Scandal" in Obama Administration? The IRS targeted
conservative groups applying for non-profit status from 2010 to 2012. In what some see as an attempt to influence elections, the IRS began requesting inappropriate
information disproportionately from conservative groups and then delaying their approval, generally chilling free speech throughout the country. Lois Lerner,
at the heart of the scandal, has refused to testify before Congress, pleading the Fifth Amendment. The media continue to argue that President Obama is not connected
to this scandal, but it can be tied directly to the White House. The President has tried to assert that there isn't a "smidgeon" of corruption at the IRS.
Top 10 ways Democrats prove their insanity.
[#6] It is insane how the president of the United States lies over and over and over again and again and again and so much of the media and his
braindead brainwashed sheep think it is A-OK.
The e-mail
scandal stretches far beyond Hillary. The State Department has confirmed that Clinton's successor as secretary
of state, John Kerry, sent her a message, now deemed secret, from his personal email account. At the time (May 2011),
Kerry chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, with access to top-level secrets. But since Kerry sent the message,
he presumably knew Hillary also wasn't using a government email address. Same for President Obama: He claims he
first learned about Clinton's private email address from news accounts — but it turns out he and Hillary exchanged
at least 18 emails, which State refuses to make public.
Barack
Hussein Obama: America's First Defender-In-Chief Of Islam. Obama mouthed no fewer than 20 flagrant falsehoods during his 5,000-word speech,
including: "For more than 1,000 years, people have been drawn to Islam's message of peace. And the very word itself, Islam, comes from
salam — peace." In fact, Islam means "submission," a very different matter. Submitting to Allah and obtaining submission from others,
if necessary by force, is the great commission of Islam. Peace, or salam, is achieved when the world submits to Allah's laws. OBAMA: "Islam
prohibits terrorism, for the Quran says whoever kills an innocent, it is as if he has killed all mankind." FACT: The Quranic verse the president
quotes — 5:32 — actually condones killing those who "murder" Muslims, "wage war against Allah" or spread "mischief in the land."
Mischief is defined as "treason against Allah," and the very next verse — 5:33 — calls for guilty infidels to be beheaded. Obama
glosses over all of this in his edited version.
Obama caught in massive terror lie. For years,
Democrats and the mainstream media called for the impeachment of President George W. Bush over accusations that his administration used faulty intelligence
to justify the war in Iraq. But it now appears that President Barack Obama's administration is being swept up in an intelligence scandal of a much
larger scale. An investigation has revealed that the Obama administration may have repeatedly used faulty intelligence in an effort to mislead the American
public about our armed forces' progress against the Islamic State and in winning the War on Terror. The revelation came Thursday [2/25/2016], when it was
reported that personnel at U.S. Central Command have deleted countless files and emails amid continuing allegations that intelligence assessments were altered to
exaggerate progress against ISIS militants, according to the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.
Obama:
'I Certainly Have Not Contributed To' Dividing The Country. Barack Obama said Thursday [3/10/2016] that he has
"not contributed to" dividing the country. Blame for that, he said, lies at the feet of Republicans and Obama-critical
media outlets. During a White House press conference with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday, Obama said,
"I've said at the State of the Union that one of my regrets is the degree to which polarization and the nasty tone of our
politics has accelerated rather than waned over the course of the last 7½ years."
Obama
Said He Tried to 'Maintain Faith With Our Founders' in Picking SCOTUS Nominee. Announcing his selection of U.S.
Court of Appeals Judge Merrick B. Garland for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, to replace the recently deceased Judge
Antonin Scalia, President Barack Obama said he did not make his decision "lightly," and that the process required him to set
aside "narrow politics so as to maintain faith with our founders." Supreme Court justices are "charged with the essential
task of applying principles put to paper more than two centuries ago to some of the most challenging questions of our time,"
said Obama in his introductory statement about Judge Garland.
Obama
says he's not 'ashamed' of his presidency. As he looks back at his presidency in his final year, President Obama said
Wednesday [3/23/2016] he has nothing to be "ashamed" of. "I feel pretty good about the fact that I can look back and say that
I operated with honesty and integrity and don't feel as if I said things I didn't believe, or acted in ways that would make me
ashamed," Mr. Obama told reporters in Argentina. "That, I think, counts for something."
White
House 'Fact Sheet' Says Climate Change Could Kill 27,000 Americans In Summer of 2100. In a "fact sheet" issued
by the White House in conjunction with a climate change report made public last week, one of the impacts of increasing
temperatures is the deaths of thousands of American people over the course of one summer. "Extreme heat can be expected
to cause an increase in the number of premature deaths, from thousands to tens of thousands, each summer, which will outpace
projected decreases in deaths from extreme cold," the fact sheet stated. "One model projected an increase, from a 1990
baseline for more than 200 American cities, of more than an additional 11,000 deaths during the summer in 2030 and more than
an additional 27,000 deaths during the summer in 2100," the fact sheet said.
The Editor says...
One degree of warming is not going to kill thousands of people. The "facts" in their "fact sheet" came from a computer model.
That's not a reliable source.
Obama
Again Uses His Main Lie-Tell: "Period". If you've kept up with our president's lying tells you'll recognize one
of them in the following: You can keep your doctor, period. You can keep your plan, period. You'll save $2500 a
year, period. More recently he's been quoted as saying that Iran has not broken the Nuke deal, period. So at this
point we have the advantage of knowing how to tell if Obama is lying (aside from his being awake and talking). When Chris
Wallace of Fox News last weekend asked him if he was involved in the FBI investigation of Hillary's email and server issue he
said that he was not, "Period". So there you have it from the supreme ruler's mouth. Obama is heavily involved in
getting Hillary out of her mess and no punishment will be inflicted on her at all.
Know
The Political Parties By Their Characteristics. President Obama recently said that Miami is having a problem
with a rising ocean, but failed to tell us what street in Miami now has salt water running in it. The fool man is a
liar, but a lie that frightens you is a lie that will open your pocket book and will convince you to surrender your freedom
for the sake of safety, so the liberals attack on this flank every time they can. I have a little sympathy for Paul
Ehrlich, Ted Danson and other of the earlier global warming supporters because they were only believing the lies/miscalculations
of the warming/change schemers. But now we've lived long enough with this filthy lie to know it's a total falsehood and to
know that there's no basis to it at all. Barack Obama is lying through his teeth when he advances his assertions of rising
oceans, and I know that he is only furthering his "fundamental transformation of America" when he mentions this subject.
Obama
in Riyadh: Iran nuclear deal sign of 'strength, not weakness'. President Obama vigorously defended his
nuclear negotiations at the end of a summit of Persian Gulf state leaders and a rocky visit to Saudi Arabia aimed at
reassuring the anxious ally and seeking more support for the fight against the Islamic State. While the president
acknowledged Saudi concern that the United States should not be "naïve" when dealing with Iran, he cited previous
presidents' willingness to engage in talks with Russia during the height of the Cold War as models to follow. "John F.
Kennedy and Ronald Reagan still negotiated with the Soviet Union even when the Soviet Union was threatening the destruction
of the U.S.," he said.
Obama
explains removal of Churchill bust from Oval Office. President Obama explained Friday [4/22/2016] that he
removed a bust of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill from the Oval Office when he first became president to make room
for a bust of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., because King means so much to Obama.
Of Churchill
and chumps. President Obama's ignorance of Winston Churchill is monumental. It is such that at his first
press conference in 2009 Obama could quote Churchill in support of Obama's high-minded approach to war: "We don't
torture. If you know anything, and I mean anything, about Churchill, however, you know Churchill never said any such
thing. [...] Yesterday [4/22/2016] at his press conference with Prime Minister David Cameron in London, Obama took up
the subject of Churchill. "I love Winston Churchill, love the guy," Obama asserted.
Obama
Boasts In Britain: I Saved The World Economy As President. President Barack Obama boasted of his legacy
during a town hall in Britain, asserting that he single-handedly saved the world during his presidency. "Saving the
world economy from a Great Depression — that was pretty good," Obama bragged when asked by a student in London
what he wanted his legacy to be.
It used to be called global warming, then climate change, and now it's climate pollution.
Obama
Declares America 'the World's Second-Largest Source of Climate Pollution'. In an email sent yesterday [4/22/2016] as
Secretary of State John Kerry was signing a global "climate change" agreement at the United Nations, President Obama, who was in
Great Britain, said that the United States was "the world's second-largest source of climate pollution. Obama's message was
sent to the White House email list and posted on the White House website. "This is important because the impact of climate
change is real," Obama said in his email.
The Editor says...
There are no "impact[s] of climate change." The climate has its day-to-day impact on us, but there are no abrupt or
extraordinary changes that would have any discernable impact on anyone.
State
Dept. Spokeshole: Obama Never Said 'No Boots On The Ground' In Syria. Barack Hussein Obama promised
there would be no American boots on the ground in Syria. Sort of like, "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor."
If you think Islam is a religion of peace, then yes...
Obama:
We Are Living In the Most Peaceful Era In Human History. Strange. I don't remember, when I was a kid,
anything in the news about Christians being crucified, or journalists being beheaded. Or planes purposely flying into
buildings. But Obama wants us to know: things are just peachy now, thanks to the fabulousness of his feckless Regime.
After
[a] Navy SEAL [is] Killed on [the] Front Lines, [the] White House [is] Still Refusing to Call U.S. Troop Role in Iraq
Combat. Tuesday morning [5/3/2016] Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced a Navy SEAL operating as an advisor
to Peshmerga forces was killed on the front lines against ISIS. Carter specifically said the SEAL was killed in combat after
he was shot when ISIS soldiers broke through an Iraqi forces checkpoint and made their way to Peshmerga territory just outside of
Mosul. Despite the classification by Carter that the casualty was in fact a combat death, the White House is still refusing [to]
classify the role of U.S. troops in Iraq as combat. Since 2014, three U.S. service members have been killed in the war against ISIS.
WH:
Navy SEAL Was 'Killed in Combat,' But 'Not in a Combat Mission'. A Navy SEAL killed during an Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
(ISIS/ISIL) attack in Iraq was "killed in combat," White House press secretary Josh Earnest acknowledged Tuesday [5/3/2016], but was "not
in a combat mission." The serviceman, identified as Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Charlie Keating IV, was the third member
of the U.S. armed forces to be killed in combat since President Obama sent troops back into Iraq to advise, train and equip local forces,
three years after the formal U.S. withdrawal was completed. Keating was killed when ISIS attacked a Kurdish peshmerga position some
two or three miles behind the front line in northern Iraq, according to the Pentagon.
Obama's
Foreign Policy Guru Boasts of How the Administration Lied to Sell the Iran Deal. It's hardly any wonder that
Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes has a "mind meld" with his boss, the president. According to a David
Samuels New York Times Magazine article to be published Sunday [5/8/2016] and already posted to the website, Rhodes,
like Barack Obama, is contemptuous of "the American foreign-policy establishment."
Obama
Blames Flint Water Crisis on a Preference for Small Government. During a speech to residents of Flint,
Michigan, whose drinking water was contaminated with lead, President Obama appeared to partly blame "a preference for small
government" for the crisis. [...] This is a political talking point not based in reality. The fact is, it was
incompetence, not ideology that led to the water crisis. Two state managers from the Department of Environmental Quality
and a Flint water official have been indicted on charges of misconduct, neglect of duty and conspiracy to tamper with evidence.
Obama
Advisor Openly Brags About Lying to Public, Media Yawns. Remember that time the White House deceived those
gullible Americans about the Iran deal? Haha, good times! That was the undeniable tone of a recent New York
Times profile of President Barack Obama's national security advisor Ben Rhodes. In the profile, Rhodes goes on at
length about his failed attempt to become a novelist, and how he sees his work at the White House as essentially the same
kind of storytelling and narrative-weaving. And when crafting his non-fictional storylines involved selling the
American people fiction, well, Rhodes was more than up to the task.
White
House admits it played us for fools to sell Iran deal. Congratulations, liberals of the Washington press corps
and elite organizations: You're a bunch of suckers. We all know this because the Obama White House just told us
so. In an astounding New York Times piece by David Samuels, senior White House officials gleefully confess they use
friendly reporters and nonprofits as public relations tools in the selling of President Obama's foreign policy —
and can do it almost at will because these tools are ignorant, will believe what they're told, will essentially take
dictation and are happy to be used just to get the information necessary for a tweet or two. Their greatest triumph,
according to Samuels, was selling a misleading narrative about the nuclear deal with Iran [...]
The man who creates the White House's own
reality. What is Ben Rhodes? With a 10,000 word profile, published Thursday [5/5/2016], the New York
Times Magazine certainly seems to indicate that his presence at the top of the Obama administration's foreign policy
operation bears some kind of special significance. [...] The author observes Rhodes complaining bitterly on the day of
Obama's final State of the Union address, during which 10 U.S. sailors were inconveniently seized by the Iranian
Revolutionary Guard Corps, that the news can't be kept secret from the American public so that the president can deliver his
speech without distractions. Of the "average reporter" with whom the White House works to get out its message Rhodes
provides the verdict, "they literally know nothing."
The President['s]
hard sale of the nuclear deal with the mullahs was chock full of spin and half-truths. Here, finally, were
moderates with whom the U.S. could negotiate as President Obama sought to normalize relations with a sworn enemy. So
the Iranian propaganda went as the mullahs hoped for relief from economic sanctions via a nuclear deal with the U.S. and
Western powers. Why would anyone believe such obvious nonsense? One reason — in fact the key
reason — is that Obama joined Iran in knowingly peddling the same false propaganda to America, according to an
extraordinarily revealing New York Times profile of the President's deputy national security adviser, Benjamin Rhodes.
The runt of Rhodes.
President Obama and his team hold a low opinion of the intelligence of the American people. [...] Now comes Obama deputy
national security adviser Ben Rhodes to reveal the lies on which Obama's alliance with the Islamic Republic of Iran was
promoted. [...] Rhodes is not, as he should be, confined to fetching coffee and performing other menial tasks befitting his
qualifications to formulate national security policy. [...] Rhodes himself, however, is an odious ignoramus who knows one
thing: Obama's servitors in the mainstream media are useful idiots.
Obama:
All Faiths are Equal. Few religions chattelize all women, sanction the taking of all and any female child or
adult as fit booty after unprovoked aggressions aimed at wresting land and money and valuables from innocent civilians
doing no one any harm. No Protestant sect advises the mutilation of female genitalia, the forced donning of
impenetrable, crippling body bags to ensure that men cannot gaze on a workaday female going about her daily rounds.
Judaism has no brief with forced conversions under pain of death or the payment of vast sums of Jizzya to 'apologize' for
not converting.
Rose, Obama
Speechwriters Laugh About the President's 'You Can Keep Your Plan' Lie. Charlie Rose and three of Barack
Obama's former speechwriters had a good laugh Monday night while joking about the president's infamous, oft-repeated false
promise that under Obamacare, "if you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan." Obama said dozens
of times in the run-up to the Affordable Care Act's signing and enactment that no Americans who liked the insurance plan they
had would lose it under the Affordable Care Act. In reality, millions of policies were canceled because of the law's
regulations, and Obama was forced to apologize to the American people. The infamous remark was named 2013's "Lie of the
Year" by PolitiFact.
State
Department: 'Glitch' Caused Key Video Segment on Iran Deception to Go Missing. The State Department said
Tuesday that a "glitch" caused eight minutes of video from a 2013 press briefing to be deleted on its website and YouTube
channel. In the missing segment, then State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki seemed to admit that the government lied
about when the Iran nuclear talks began, in answer to a question from Fox News' James Rosen. The original unedited
video reappeared on the State Department website Tuesday morning after Rosen drew attention to its disappearance.
"There was a glitch in the State Department video," spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau told dubious reporters yesterday
[5/11/2016] to explain the removal of Psaki's admission.
Obama
doesn't think rapists, armed robbers, drug dealers are 'criminals'. It's only May, but I think I've found the
euphemism of the year: According to Team Obama, criminals should now be declared "justice-involved individuals."
The neo-Orwellianism comes to us from the bizarre flurry of last-minute diktats, regulations and bone-chilling threats
collectively known to fanboys as Obama's Gorgeous Goodbye. In another of those smiley-faced, but deeply sinister, "Dear
Colleague" letters sent to universities and college this week, Obama's Education Secretary John King discouraged colleges
from asking applicants whether they were convicted criminals.
Obama:
By Almost Every Measure, America and World Are Better Than 8 Years Ago. Delivering the commencement address at
Rutgers University in New Jersey today, President Barack Obama told the graduates that "the good old days weren't that good"
and that both America and the world are better than they were "even eight years ago." "When you hear someone longing
for the good old days, take it with a grain of salt, take it with a grain of salt," Obama said in his address. "In
fact," he said, "by almost every measure, America is better and the world is better than it was 50 years ago or
30 years ago or even eight years ago."
The Editor says...
That's not what the UN high commissioner for refugees says.
Senators
Demand Obama Fire Top Aide for Iran Deal Deception. Leading members of Congress are calling on President Barack
Obama to fire one of his top advisers amid a deepening scandal over accusations the White House intentionally misled
lawmakers and the American public about the contents of last summer's comprehensive nuclear agreement with Iran, according to
a letter sent Monday [5/16/2016] to Obama and obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The lawmakers are pressing Obama
to fire deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes following revelations he and other officials "spearheaded the charge to
mislead elected lawmakers and the American people about the Iran nuclear deal and the negotiations that led to this
agreement," according to the letter.
Obama
on Climate Change: 'We Can See it Happening Right Now'. President Barack Obama told graduates at Rutgers
University in New Brunswick, N.J., "to insist upon and shape an informed debate" about climate change, adding that climate
change is not subject to "political spin." "Climate change is not something subject to political spin. There is
evidence. There are facts. We can see it happening right now," he said in a commencement address.
The Fictional Iran
Deal. Many in the media went ballistic at Mr. Rhodes, and the author of the New York Times Magazine article that broke
the news, for Rhodes' confessions about deceiving the public to sell the Iran deal. I am not one of them. If anything,
I believe this is all very appropriate. This whole Iran deal is, more than anything else, a totally fictional 'deal' that
came out of a totally fictional process, and is being fictionally followed by Iran. It is also a complete and utter fiction
for anyone to believe that the 'deal' will stop Iran from producing a nuclear weapon. So, doesn't it make sense for a fiction
writer to insert some fictional material to propagandize for it? There is no common 'deal' between the U.S. and the Islamic
Republic of Iran.
Napolitano:
Ben Rhodes, the Obama White House and the issue of lying. Last year, the Obama administration negotiated an
agreement with the government of Iran permitting Iran to obtain certain materials for the construction of nuclear
facilities. It also permitted the release of tens of billions of dollars in Iranian assets that had been held in U.S.
banks and that the courts had frozen, and it lifted trade sanctions. In exchange, certain inspections of Iranian
nuclear facilities can occur under certain circumstances. During the course of the negotiations, many critics made many
allegations about whether the Obama administration was telling the truth to Congress and to the American people. Was
there a secret side deal? The administration said no. Were we really negotiating with moderates in the Iranian
government, as opposed to the hard-liners depicted in the American media? The administration said yes. Can U.N.
or U.S. inspectors examine Iranian nuclear facilities without notice and at any time? The administration said yes.
Obama
Blames 'Right-Wing' Media for Angering 'White People'. President Barack Obama accused "right wing" talk radio
and cable channels like Fox News of angering white people in America about the economy, arguing that it was actually doing
really well under his administration. During his speech, Obama decried Republicans who campaigned on stopping "welfare
queens" complaining about "makers and takers" and even referred to Mitt Romney's 47 percent comment. "Their basic
message is anti-government, anti-immigrant, anti-trade, and let's face it — it's anti-change," Obama said, accusing
them of lying just to oppose him.
Obama:
America's Military Is Stronger Because All Combat Positions Are Open to Women. In a commencement speech Thursday [6/2/2016] to
graduates of the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., President Barack Obama said the U.S. military is stronger because women can
now serve in all combat positions and because the U.S. is closing the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba.
News
from the latrine orderly. "Somehow people think that I made it an issue," he told an audience in Indiana this week.
"I didn't make it an issue." He told a questioner that he agrees that other presidential concerns are more important. "There
are a lot of things that are more pressing, you're absolutely right." Mr. Obama sometimes shows a conveniently short
memory. It was his "directive" to the nation's schools that they must accommodate the transgendered among us in the way that
the transgendered — who account for less than one-tenth of 1 percent of the population — insist on being
accommodated. If the schools don't, he will withhold the millions of dollars of federal money they have coming to them.
Scrubbing
Words is Nothing New for Team Obama. [Scroll down] Team Obama did this so recently that when I first read
about the Psaki deletion, I thought we might already have written about it. Just two months ago, during a meeting with
President Barack Obama at the White House, French president Francois Hollande used the term "Islamist terrorism" when
referring to the recent Islamic State terrorist attacks in Europe. As Scott noted here, someone at White House deleted
this language from the official White House video. As it initially did with the Psaki deletion, the White House
official claimed there had been a "technical issue" that "led to a brief drop in the audio." However, he could not explain
why the alleged technical problem occurred at the precise moment that the words "Islamist terror" were spoken or how the glitch
managed to correct itself in time for Hollande's next words.
Deception
Experts Analyze If Spokeswoman Telling Truth About Altered State Dept. Video. Phil Houston is CEO of
QVerity, a training and consulting company specializing in detecting deception by employing a model he developed while at the
Central Intelligence Agency. He has conducted thousands of interviews and interrogations for the CIA and other federal
agencies. His colleague Don Tennant contributed to this report. When former State Department spokeswoman Jen
Psaki posted a tweet on June 1 about the now infamous edited video of a 2013 press briefing, many accepted the tweet as a
straightforward affirmation that she had no knowledge of what happened. But in fewer than 140 characters, we
believe Psaki exhibited a cluster of deceptive behaviors that told us just the opposite.
White
House Lies About Scrubbing Press Briefing Transcript. "Can you state categorically that no senior official in
this administration has ever lied publicly about any aspect of the Iran nuclear deal?" That question to White House
Press Secretary Josh Earnest was asked by Fox News reporter Kevin Corke during the White House Press Briefing on May 9,
2016. "No Kevin," Earnest replied, followed by about five seconds of silence.
White
House Can't Explain Omission of Damaging Line About Iran Deal Deceit From Transcript. White House press
secretary Josh Earnest could not explain Tuesday the omission of a potentially damaging line about the Iran nuclear deal from
the official transcript of a White House press briefing last month, refusing to revisit the matter and rejecting the notion
that there was any wrongdoing. Fox News correspondent Kevin Corke asked Earnest on May 9 if he could "state
categorically that no senior official in this administration has ever lied publicly about any aspect of the Iran nuclear
deal." Earnest responded, "No, Kevin," followed by a brief, awkward silence before discussing the merits of the nuclear
agreement. The words "No, Kevin" never made it into the official White House transcript, however. The transcript
immediately goes from Corke's question into Earnest's talking points about the Iran deal. ABC News first reported this
story and noted the White House's official response is that the line was omitted because it was inaudible.
New
Scientific Research Studies Provide Proof Obama Misleads On Wildfire Increase. As this NPR article documents,
modern U.S. western region wildfire occurrence (and severity), despite the huge increase atmospheric CO2, is below what took
place during historical and ancient times. The latest research, including the three new studies cited by NPR, is
unequivocal about this. Yet the Obama White House and its science "advisor" tout recent wildfire anecdotal stories without
a single reference to the actual empirical evidence of the past — and even no mention of the modern wildfire evidence.
Experts
Debunk Obama's 'Social Cost Of Carbon' Estimate — It Might Be Negative! A soon-to-be-published
paper challenges the Obama administration's so-called "social cost of carbon" estimate, which puts a monetary value on the
supposed future damages from global warming. But the new study's authors not only say the administration's "social cost
of carbon" (SCC) is overblown, they also argue it might actually be negative based on observed temperature increases, not
just climate models. That means there's actually benefits to emitting carbon dioxide.
The Mind of the President.
The "deal" with Iran that was concluded in June 2015 was not even exactly a deal. The document, called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of
Action, was never actually signed, even as the administration continued to insist that the deal was "not based on trust." The
version approved by the Iranian parliament, and the provisions described by Iran's leaders, were different from those submitted to
Congress and the American people. We were assured that Congress would be given a say, but the nature of the say included a
truncated process, suppression of side deals, and a vote in which two-thirds of members were required to override a veto and stop
the implementation, which is very different from the two-thirds of the Senate required to approve treaties. To top it
all off, in key parts of the document — where the administration's long-promised "snap-back sanctions" purportedly appeared — the
text actually included the Iranians' express rejection of the concept, declaring that the entire deal would be off if sanctions were
restored. Meaning "snap-back sanctions" were never agreed to. Meaning a central plank of the agreement wasn't really part
of the deal at all.
WH
Spokesman: 'Our Country Is Safer Than It Was 8 Years Ago'. "The president does believe it is important that his
successor is somebody who recognizes that our country is safer than it was eight years ago, that we enhanced our standing
around the world, that we've strengthened our alliances — that we have refined and improved and strengthened our
homeland security," White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters on Tuesday [6/14/2016]. Earnest made the comment
two days after a Muslim American claimed his deadly attack on an Orlando nightclub was inspired by ISIS. Homeland Security
Secretary Jeh Johnson, also speaking on Tuesday, said the FBI has "hundreds, if not thousands" of open investigations" going
on, and he said the FBI "routinely" breaks up plots to the homeland.
The Editor says...
I'm not so sure. The FBI routinely breaks up its own sting operations and then
crows about them in the national news media, to make it look like they're in complete control.
Obama:
Supreme Court ruling on immigration 'sets our country back'. Obama downplayed the outcome, saying a tie doesn't
resolve anything. "If we have a full court issuing a full opinion on anything, then we take it seriously," he
said. "This, we have to abide by, but it wasn't any kind of value statement or a decision on the merits on these
issues." Senate Republicans are "are willfully preventing the Supreme Court from being fully staffed and functioning as
our founders intended," he continued. "And today's situation underscores the degree to which the court is not able to
function the way it's supposed to."
The Editor says...
Barack H. Obama couldn't care less about what the Founding Fathers intended, and he obviously doesn't know enough about American history to understand that the Supreme Court
was "fully staffed and functioning as our founders intended" when it had only six justices. The Judiciary Act of 1789 set the number at six: a chief justice
and five associate justices. In 1807, Congress increased the number of justices to seven; in 1837, the number was bumped up to nine; and in 1863, it rose to 10.
In 1866, Congress passed the Judicial Circuits Act, which shrank the number of justices back down to seven and prevented President Andrew Johnson from appointing anyone new
to the court. [Source]
Barack H. Obama thinks you're too stupid to check the facts.
Obama:
Never Been Anyone More Qualified For Presidency Than Hillary Clinton. "Hillary Clinton has been tested," the
president said. "She's seen the consequences of things working well and things not working well. And there has
never been any man or woman more qualified for this office than Hillary Clinton." [Video clip]
Obama's
false racism claims are putting cops' lives in danger. Hours before the murders of five police officers in Dallas, Texas, President
Obama was again spouting false claims about racism by the police. He sees racism whenever there is any disparity in outcomes, no matter
what the cause. Obama and others inflame passions, but take no responsibility, and instead use events to push for more gun control.
Yet, shouting racism can endanger the lives of police officers. The Dallas police chief tells us one of the shooters "wanted to kill
white people, especially white officers." After the Trayvon Martin case, there were numerous cases around the country of blacks attacking
whites and invoking Martin's name. Let's not forget that NYPD cops Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were executed by a black man who was angry
about the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. Obama and his administration spoke out repeatedly on the Martin and Brown cases.
They repeatedly claimed racism was involved, but in fact there's no evidence of that in either case. Obama is also wrong, as he was on
Thursday [7/7/2016], to infer racism from higher arrest rates or prison-sentence lengths. "African Americans are arrested at twice the
rate of whites," he said. What he failed to note is that blacks commit murder at almost six times the rate whites do.
Comey
and the Will to Power. Just how was this so-called "investigation" into Hillary's private server and her missing
and deleted emails conducted? Did anyone at the FBI or the DOJ really care that she sent all manner of national security
information via unsecured servers or was it a pseudoinvestigation? [...] One possible scenario: there never was an
investigation at all. From the outset, the administration, the DOJ and the FBI knew it was a can of worms that
must not be opened. So they simulated an investigation when there was none. For months we have been hearing
that there were 150 agents working on it. But Comey said there were "fifteen or twenty." None have
come forward as yet. None have resigned in protest of clearing a guilty target as some of the "leaks" suggested they
would. Was the inquiry a sham for public consumption? Possibly. We learned Thursday [7/7/2016] that
Hillary was not put under oath for her "interview" with the FBI last Saturday. Comey did not attend that interview
and there is no recording nor is there a transcript.
"Executive Level Gaslighting:"
Obama
On Dallas: "it's very hard to untangle the motives of this shooter". Speaking at a press conference in Poland,
President Obama actually said it is "very hard to untangle the motives" of the shooter in Dallas who killed five
police officers Thursday evening. This statement is despite the shooter telling police exactly what his motive entailed.
5
Big Lies In Obama's Dallas Memorial Speech. In the speech, Obama tried to explain why it is that there's so
much tension between blacks and the police these days (without, of course, mentioning his own role in fomenting those
tensions). Here's what Obama said: "That so much of the tensions between police departments and minority communities
that they serve is because we ask the police to do too much and we ask too little of ourselves. As a society, we choose
to underinvest in decent schools. We allow poverty to fester so that entire neighborhoods offer no prospect for gainful
employment. We refuse to fund drug treatment and mental health programs. We flood communities with so many guns
that it is easier for a teenager to buy a Glock than get his hands on a computer or even a book. ... We know these things to
be true." Actually not one of those things is true.
How
The Media Covers Up Muslim And #Blacklivesmatter Terrorism. [Scroll down] Propaganda rarely gets more obvious than
this. And it's not just the media. The "troubled loner" narrative comes from the very top down. Obama insisted that it
was "very hard to untangle the motives" of the Dallas cop killer and that he would leave it to "psychologists" but that "the danger is
that we somehow suggest the act of a troubled individuals speaks to some larger political statement across the country." Micah
Johnson had been very clear about his motives. He was a black nationalist activist angry about #BlackLivesMatter issues who said
that he wanted to kill white police officers. Obama contended that Johnson was clearly crazy because, "By definition if you shoot
people who pose no threat to you, you have a troubled mind." By that definition, the Nazis were all "troubled." But Obama
had cultivated no similar ambiguity after the Charleston massacre. Instead in his eulogy he said that Dylann Storm Roof "surely
sensed the meaning of his violent act. It was an act that drew on a long history of bombs and arson and shots fired at churches,
not random, but as a means of control, a way to terrorize and oppress." And then he demanded that after the actions of one
"troubled loner," the Confederate flag had to come down across the country.
Clueless:
Obama:
'The World Has Never Been Less Violent'. President Barack Obama said at the White House Summit on Global Development
Wednesday [7/20/2016] that "we are living in the most peaceful" era in human history and that "the world has never been less violent."
According to the White House schedule, the president used the summit to "bring together development leaders, public and private sector
financing partners, civil society, diplomats, and entrepreneurs to mark our global progress and catalyze further development efforts."
"So it is worth reminding ourselves of how lucky we are to be living in the most peaceful, most prosperous, most progressive era in
human history," Obama said in the speech.
That
Jihad Attack on the Orlando Gay Nightclub Never Happened, Says President Obama. Do you remember the June 12
jihad attack by a Muslim that killed 49 Americans in the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida? It was a big thing in
the media at the time, complete with reports about a cellphone confession by the jihadi, and evidence that his immigrant
Muslim family knew about the planned jihad attack. Well, you imagined it, see, because extensively documented jihad
attack didn't happen, President Barack Obama told the world on Sunday [7/24/2016]. It was just "a deranged man killing
scores of people," Obama insisted to CBS. No jihad there, he says.
Obama:
'Our Country is Stronger and More Prosperous Than It Was When We Started'. President Barack Obama said in a
speech to the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday night that "our country is stronger and more prosperous that it was
when we started." "I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more
optimistic about the future of America than ever before," Obama said in his speech. "How could I not be —
after all that we've achieved together?"
5
Ways To Tell Obama's Lying About The Iranian Ransom Payment. [#1] Despite what Obama and his media sycophants
are claiming, the payment was conducted in secret. [...] "Nothing screams 'this is legitimate and required under
international law' like flying an unmarked cargo plane packed with foreign currency into a rogue regime's capital —
conduct that the US government typically forbids and punishes," writes Townhall's Guy Benson. This naturally begs the
question of why this was conducted in secret if it wasn't a ransom payment.
Obama
Claimed It's Easier in Some Neighborhoods to Get a Gun Than a Book. Here Are the Facts. President Barack
Obama said it is easier in some neighborhoods to get a gun than a book. Is that true? The fact checkers weighed
in and we have their verdict: it's false. Here's why: To buy a gun in most states, you need to be 18 and pass a
background check. To get a book, all you need is a library card. And when it comes to price, there is no evidence
that books are more expensive than guns. So why does Obama keep making this false claim? [Video clip]
The humiliation
of a president. "We do not pay ransom. We didn't here, and we won't in the future." Barack Obama might
like to have that one back this morning, to stick a pin in the moving finger that writes. But the finger done writ, and
it won't come back to cancel a single line of the president's fatuous fib that the United States didn't pay $400 million to
ransom four hostages taken by the president's friends in Tehran. Perhaps the president can take some solace, thin as it
is, in the fact that nobody believed him, anyway. The lie fell apart Thursday [8/18/2016] when The Wall Street Journal reported
that the money was withheld until the hostages were actually free, and provided details of how the swap took place. Rarely has
a president been caught in such a big and brazen lie.
President
Obama Said Pallet of Cash to Iran Because "Wire Transfers Not Available" — Records Indicate Wire Transfers Two
Days Later. When the discussion of possible ransom payments to Iran surfaced, everyone was wondering why the
U.S. State Department sent pallets of assorted cash currency, totaling $400 million to Iran on January 17th[,] 2016.
The same day the hostages were released. On August 4th President Obama held a press conference to discuss the controversy
and denied it was a "ransom payment". [Video clip]
Josh
Earnest Pens Letter to NYT: We're Still 'Most Transparent White House in History'. White House press secretary
Josh Earnest wrote a letter to the editors of The New York Times Wednesday [8/31/2016] to defend the Obama
administration's record on transparency, still agreeing with President Barack Obama's famous pronouncement that his was "the
most transparent administration" in history. Earnest took exception to a piece from Times media critic Jim
Rutenberg that took a shot at the administration. "Right now, every signal from Mrs. Clinton is that should she
win, her administration would continue the tradition of being still more secretive than the one before it," Rutenberg
wrote. "The Obama White House has achieved just that with its abysmal record on fulfilling Freedom of Information Act
requests and its record of prosecuting whistle-blowers who have shared national security information with the press."
Naturally, Earnest disagreed with that assessment.
NAACP
President Compares Colin Kaepernick to Rosa Parks. The president of the NAACP compared 49ers backup quarterback
Colin Kaepernick to civil rights hero Rosa Parks because of his refusal to stand for the national anthem before football
games. "It's a lofty name, but it's not a stretch," Cornell William Brooks told USA Today on Thursday. "We'll let
history be the judge, how consequential Kaepernick's action is." Brooks said Kaepernick's protest against social injustice
in the U.S. would successfully spur change only if others joined the professional football player in the "movement."
The Editor says...
Obama's comparison makes perfect sense, except Rosa Parks wasn't an athlete, a millionaire, or a Muslim.
Obama is caught in another lie:
U.S. wire
payments to Iran undercut Obama. The United States made at least two separate payments to the Iranian
government via wire transfer within the last 14 months, a Treasury Department spokesman confirmed Saturday [9/17/2016], contradicting
explanations from President Barack Obama that such payments were impossible. Responding to questions at an Aug. 4 press
conference about a $400 million payment delivered in cash to the Iranian government, Obama said, "[T]he reason that we had to
give them cash is precisely because we are so strict in maintaining sanctions and we do not have a banking relationship with
Iran that we couldn't send them a check and we could not wire the money."
Obama
claims sexism is the reason Hillary Clinton isn't doing well. Last week, Nancy Pelosi blamed Hillary Clinton's
disappointing performance in the polls to the fact that third-party candidates like Gary Johnson are siphoning off her
vote. This week, President Barack Obama is getting in to the act of preparing Dems for Hillary Clinton's defeat by
trotting out the tired old excuse that sexism is weighing her down in the polls. Obama, speaking at an event in New
York City on Sunday, suggested Americans are biased against "powerful women," which is why Clinton isn't running away with
this election.
Obama's
Three Worst Lies in His Last UN Address. It was hard to pick only three of the worst lies from Barack Obama's
speech today, but we did it. [Lie #1] Remember when Barack Obama said Republicans are afraid of widows and orphans,
that was right before women and children became suicide bombers. He's still saying it and it's patently untrue. The
Breitbart London editor picked up this massive lie by Barack Obama. He actually lied to the UN with statistics that directly
contradict those of the UN. He's lied to them before. Take the lie about the video causing the Benghazi "protest".
White
House: Ceding U.S. Internet control to global body is 'small government'. White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest
told reporters on Thursday [9/22/2016] that ceding U.S. control of the internet to foreign governments is essentially a form of limited
government. Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, and other concerned lawmakers are fighting to prevent the Internet Corporation
for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a California nonprofit, from falling into the hands of a "multi-stakeholder" global body.
A Commerce Department agency will relinquish oversight of ICANN on Oct. 1 unless Congress intervenes.
Surprise,
It Looks Like Obama Lied; He Knew Hillary Was Using an Illegal Email Server. President Barack Obama used a
pseudonym when communicating with then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by email, and at least one of those emails ended up
on Clinton's private email server, new FBI documents reveal. The FBI dumped a large batch of documents Friday [9/23/2016]
concerning its investigation into Clinton's private email server. The heavily-redacted documents include numerous notes
the Bureau made of interviews with Clinton aides and Department of State officials concerning her private email server.
White
House says U.S. safer under Obama, despite crime surge. The White House said Monday [9/26/2016] that Americans
are safer under President Obama, despite FBI crime statistics showing that violent crime rose about 4 percent last year.
"The numbers indicate that since President Obama took office, the violent crime rate has fallen 15 percent," said White House
press secretary Josh Earnest, who said crime rates are still "near historic lows." The FBI reported Monday [9/26/2016] that
violent crime rose nationwide, fueled by an 11 percent increase in homicides, particularly in some of the largest cities.
Obama:
Visiting black history museum can help heal racial division. President Obama said Friday [9/23/2016] that he hopes the
opening of the African American History and Culture Museum on the National Mall will help people deal with the racial turmoil
embroiling Charlotte, N.C., and Tulsa, Okla., and other cities besieged by violence after deadly confrontations involving the
police. "The timing of this is fascinating because in so many ways, it is the best of times but in many ways, these are
also troubled times," Obama said Friday during a White House reception honoring the celebrities, politicians and advocates
who donated to the museum's creation. "History does not always move in a straight line and without vigilance, we can go
backwards and as well as forward," Obama said.
The Editor says...
Nice try, but history doesn't move at all. History is a chronological record of the world's major events, and time only goes in
one direction. Mr. Obama is apparently trying to have his followers believe that they can all lapse back into slavery if
they aren't loyal to the Democrats.
Obama
to Rabbis: 'Every Pathway Now Closed Off' to Iran Getting Nuke. President Obama told rabbis on a conference
call to mark Rosh Hashanah, which begins Sunday, that "every pathway to a nuclear weapon is now closed off" to Iran thanks to
his administration's "principled diplomacy." Obama told the rabbis on the call — which was organized by the
Central Conference of American Rabbis, the Rabbinical Assembly, the Rabbinical Council of America, and the Reconstructionist
Rabbinical Assembly — that "looking back on the last eight years, I'm both proud of what we've accomplished together,
but also mindful of the work we have before us," according to a transcript released by the White House.
Feds:
Because of Climate Change 'We Will Have to Say Goodbye' to Lady Liberty, Virgin Islands, Yellowstone and More. The Department of
Interior's blog stated Thursday [10/6/2016] that the biggest threat to seven of the most iconic landmarks in the United States is climate
change. "Climate change is the biggest threat to our national parks," the blog stated. "It's not just a future
threat — we're seeing the impacts right now at national parks and other public lands across the country.
The Editor says...
What "impact" of climate change can be seen "right now" at any national park — or anywhere else?
Obama:
Country Can't Function With Only Eight Supreme Court Justices. First, the idea that without the opinion of the Supreme Court the country cannot function
properly is ludicrous and would be laughable were it not being published by a sitting president. [...] There is no constitutional requirement of nine Supreme Court
justices. No law was ever passed by Congress mandating a nine-justice Supreme Court. In fact, there have been several times in our history where the
Supreme Court's bench has been more or less crowded than it was before the death of Justice Antonin Scalia created a "vacancy." The Judiciary Act of 1789 set
the number of Supreme Court justices at six. Eight years later, Congress changed the number of justices to seven. Then, 30 years later, the number
of justices was set at nine. In 1863 it was briefly bumped up to 10. In 1866, the number went back to seven as a result of the Judicial Circuits Act
passed by Congress. In 1869, Congress put the number of Supreme Court justices at nine and there it has stayed ever since.
Obama
tells Trump to 'stop whining' about rigged election. President Obama admonished Donald Trump Tuesday to "stop
whining" about a rigged election system, calling the Republican nominee's claim "unprecedented" and false. [...] And the
president said voter fraud in the U.S. is virtually nonexistent.
WikiLeaks:
White House Knew 'POTUS And HRC Emailed'. The White House knew President Barack Obama had emailed former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email account that was run out of an unsecured server in her New York home,
according to emails released by WikiLeaks. Obama told CBS News in March 2015 he learned of Clinton's private server the
way basically all Americans did, "through news reports." But emails hacked from Clinton campaign chair John Podesta's Gmail
account suggest the White House already knew about Clinton's private email server.
WikiLeaks:
Obama Knew About Hillary Clinton's Private Email. President Barack Obama did know that Hillary Clinton was
using a private email address, despite his assertion that he learned about it "through news reports." The president's
answer was a problem for Clinton aide Philippe Reines, who flagged the issue for top Clinton aides as well as White House
communications director Jennifer Palmieri in an email. "It's not unreasonable to assume that Josh [Earnest] is going to
get asked how this was possible, and he should have the factset," Reines wrote on March 8, 2015.
Obama:
'We Have Not Had a Major Scandal in My Administration'. President Obama told a fundraiser in California Sunday
night that there has not been a "major scandal" in his administration, according to a White House transcript of the
event. He made the remark while criticizing Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) at a fundraiser for congressional
candidates, including Issa's Democrat challenger, Doug Applegate. Obama said Issa's main contribution to the U.S.
Congress has been to "obstruct and waste taxpayer dollars on trumped-up investigations that have led nowhere."
The Editor says...
A list of Obama's many scandals can be found here.
Hacked
Email Shows Obama Knew About Clinton's Private Email While Claiming He Didn't. The same day that President
Barack Obama publicly insisted that he learned about Hillary Clinton's use of private email for government business from news
reports, internal campaign emails show that Clinton staffers knew he wasn't telling the truth. Obama was asked by CBS
in March 2015 when he learned about Clinton's use of "an email system outside the U.S. government for official business" as
Secretary of State. "The same time everybody else learned it, through news reports," he responded.
Wikileaks:
Clinton aides scrambled to fix Obama false claim didn't know about personal email or server. This was in March
2015. He repeated the same thing to 60 minutes in October 2015.
Bill Plante: Mr. President, when
did you first learn Hillary Clinton used an email system outside of the US government for official business while she was
secretary of state?
Obama: The same time when everyone else learned about it through news reports.
Obama
Claims He Didn't Know About Hillary's Private Email Server — But WikiLeaks Just Dropped a Bombshell! President
Obama has lied for 8 years about major topics: Benghazi, Iraq, Obamacare, and illegal immigration. But this is a smoking-gun
proof of a coverup. He would end up endorsing Hillary Clinton for President, and he didn't want his candidate to face criminal
charges.
Irrefutable
Proof Obama Lied to Protect Hillary Clinton's Run for the White House. Thanks to Wikileaks, we now have the
smoking gun email irrefutably proving not only did President Barack Obama know about Hillary Clinton's non-government-issued
email account, he used it in correspondence with her. [...] [I]t appears the lie was a purposeful attempt to protect
Clinton's upcoming bid for the presidency. Shortly after the New York Times broke the story on March 2, 2015, of
Clinton's use of a personal server to supplant the government system — and, as has been revealed, to thwart
transparency — Obama announced publicly his lack of prior knowledge.
WikiLeaks:
What Hillary's Closest Aides And Allies Really Think Of Her. [President] Obama famously told CBS News senior
White House Correspondent Bill Plante that he learned of Hillary's secret email server at "the same time everybody else
learned it through news reports," and went on to say that his policy was "transparency." Only thing is, that was a
straight-up lie. The FBI's notes from their interviews of top Clinton aide Huma Abedin that were released in September
show that not only did Obama know about Hillary's secret account, he communicated with her on it using his own email account
under a pseudonym.
Trump and Science.
[President Obama] politicized science to advance his agenda. His scientific appointees in the White House, the Centers
for Disease Control, and the Food and Drug Administration were distinguished by their progressive ideology, not the quality
of their research. They used junk science — or no science — to justify misbegotten crusades
against dietary salt, trans fats, and electronic cigarettes. They cited phony statistics to spread myths about a gender
pay gap and a rape crisis on college campuses. Ignoring mainstream climate scientists, they blamed droughts and storms
on global warming and then tried to silence critics who pointed out their mistakes.
Tuesday
Humor? President Obama Self-Delusion Edition. Speaking in Greece at the beginning of his 'save my legacy'
world tour, President Obama just uttered the following words... "the healthy majority of Americans agree with my
world-view on many things." Coming just a week after the biggest loss for the Democratic party in decades... if not
ever... this has to be comedy?
Obama
Says He's Had A Scandal-Free Administration. Here Are 11 of His Scandals. Obama's presidency has been
mired with numerous scandals that would be blared on the news 24/7 if he were a Republican. But because he's a Democrat,
too many people buy Obama's argument that his presidency has been scandal-free. Here are 11 of Obama's scandals.
The legacy
Mr. Obama imagines. President Obama is indulging himself only a little more than usual. He boasts in
an interview that his pride swells when he regards his eight years in the White House as "scandal free." It's true that
no one was jailed for taking a bribe, but calling his administration "scandal free" is more than a stretch. All
presidents live in a bubble, but Mr. Obama appears not to have subscribed to a newspaper, not even The Washington Post
or The New York Times, over these past eight years. If he had, he could have read about scandals.
White House: Obama
Proud No 'Major Personal Scandal' Occurred in His Administration. White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said
Monday that President Obama is proud that no one in his administration has suffered a "major personal scandal" during his
time in office. The comment came at the White House daily press briefing during a discussion about former CIA Director
David Petraeus' past guilty plea of mishandling classified information.
It's
just a coincidence so many of our regulations could come in just before we leave, claims Obama White House. The
White House denied on Tuesday [11/29/2016] that President Barack Obama is planning to ram through last-minute regulations to
cement his legacy. Any executive actions the president is planning to implement before Donald Trump takes office were
already in the works, the president's spokesman said Tuesday. 'I'm not going to rule out additional executive actions that
the administration may take between now and January 20. After all the President of the United States is the President
of the United States until January 20,' White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said.
Revealed! "Russia hack"
is Obama revenge plot. President Barack Obama refuses to accept the election results as a repudiation of his 8 years
of liberal rule. If he wants to know why more than 60 million voters selected Donald J. Trump for president, he should
look in the mirror. But he won't blame himself. Instead, he's blaming Russia — and top experts believe it could
be a "false flag" operation.
Obama
Pats Himself On The Back: 'Every Country On Earth Sees America As Stronger' Than Before I Took Office. Obama
opened the press conference by touting his economic and policy achievements before heaping praise on his own shoulders.
"Almost every country on Earth sees America as stronger and more respected today than they did eight years ago." "In other
words, by so many measures, our country is stronger and more prosperous than when we started," he continued.
The Editor says...
These statements are coming from a man who operated the government without a budget for eight years and more than doubled the national debt.
DNC
Chair contradicts Obama and says Russian hacks persisted 'until end of election'. President Obama says he told
Vladimir Putin to 'cut it out' in September, but Russian-backed hacks against the Democratic National Committee continued up
until the election, the party's acting chair said. 'No, they did not stop. They came after us absolutely every day
until the end of the election. They tried to hack into our system repeatedly,' acting DNC chair Donna Brazile told
ABC's 'This Week' on Sunday [12/18/2016].
Whole lotta
lyin' goin' on. By just about everyone's reckoning, the so-called signature achievements of the Obama years are
the enactment of Obamacare and the Iran nuclear deal. They have a lot in common. Both are ruinous and both were
built on an edifice of bald-faced lies. President Obama is the lyin' king and these are the lyin' years. We
recall the foundational lies of Obamacare: If you like your insurance plan, you can keep it. If you like your
doctor, you can keep him. Obamacare will save the average family $2500 a year. Obama enunciated these lies in a
manner suggesting that anyone who disputed them was an idiot. The compilation below documents Obama's incessant
reiteration of the lie about keeping your health care plan. Our familiarity with it should not dull our contempt for
the liar, his partisan allies and his mainstream media adjunct.
Obama
to Armed Forces: 'Women Are at Least as Strong as Men'. President Barack Obama celebrated the social changes
made in the military during his administration by allowing gays to serve openly in the Armed Forces and opening combat roles
to women. "Joe Biden and I know that women are as least as strong as men," he said. "We're stronger for it."
During his speech, Obama called the American armed forces the greatest fighting force in the world and celebrated its new found
committment to diversity.
The
Scandals That Valerie Jarrett Overlooked. Over the New Year's weekend, President Barack Obama's chief policy adviser
and closest strategist, Valerie Jarrett, told a talk show host that her boss would have a happy legacy because there was an
absence of scandal in his administration. When first I heard this preposterous claim, I thought I had misheard it.
Yet it is apparently true that President Obama and his team somehow can overlook recent history and behave as if events with
which we are all familiar never happened.
President
Obama Says U.S. Constitution 'Just a Piece of Parchment'. President Obama, as he concluded his farewell address
in Chicago on Tuesday, called the U.S. Constitution "just a piece of parchment." "Our Constitution is a remarkable,
beautiful gift," said Obama. "But it's really just a piece of parchment." "It has no power on its own," he went
on. "We the people give it power. We the people give it meaning with our participation and with the choices that
we make and the alliances that we forge..."
Obama's Phony War on
ISIS. [Scroll down] We can draw only two reasonable conclusions from this analysis. One would be that American raw intelligence
and analysis is so bad that ISIS strength is actually orders of magnitude greater than the original estimate made only a couple of years
ago, in order for ISIS to have sustained the losses claimed and still be an effective fighting organization. The second much
more likely answer is that the highly politicized Obama intelligence community has repeatedly lied as to the extent of ISIS losses in order
to justify the half-hearted and confused campaign authorized by the president, as well as the highly restricted rules of engagement that limit
the actual effectiveness of the bombing campaign. This, of course, is the same intelligence community now claiming that the Russians
effectively elected Donald Trump and feared Hillary Clinton. A house cleaning cannot come soon enough.
Obama states, "I'm
the Father of the Tea Party." In an interview with fake news ABC Correspondent George Stephanopoulos,
ego-maniac Barack Obama states he's the founding father of the Tea Party. Because it's all about him. What is he
going to do after January 20th when he becomes insignificant?
Obama:
I'm The Father Of The Tea Party. [Scroll down] The 44th president said of himself, "President Obama
believed deeply in this democracy and the American people." "I've gotten people who maybe didn't believe in the process to
get engaged. Ironically, I've even gotten the other side that maybe didn't believe in the process to get engage. I
gather that I'm the father of the Tea Party; I invigorated the grassroots of the Republican Party as well as the Democratic Party,"
added Obama. One could argue that the intensity is more on the GOP side, which had a sustained effort ended with them
retaking Congress, the presidency, 69 [out of] 99 state legislatures, and two-thirds of the governorships.
White
House invokes 'birther' claims after Trump bemoans 'fake news'. "There were a wide variety of the president's
critics who were suggesting and propagating conspiracy theories that somehow the president was not born in the United
States," [Josh] Earnest told reporters. He pointed out the administration released a hard copy of Obama's long-form
birth certificate in 2011. "All of you could look at that piece of paper and verify for yourself to be convinced that the
charges against the president — that were lobbed against the president — were false," Earnest said.
"The incoming administration has chosen a different approach," the spokesman continued. "They've not been transparent."
The Editor says...
[#1] It is easy to produce abundant evidence that the Obama administration is just as opaque as any other presidential administration in
U.S. history. [#2] The document that the White House purports to be the official original long-form birth certificate of Barack H.
Obama, a/k/a Barry Soetoro, was briefly flashed to one reporter who was unable to examine it at any length. The version published on
the White House web site was examined by document authentication experts and quickly shown to be a forgery. Apparently the blizzard of
lies will continue until at least January 20, even in the face of abundant contradictory evidence.
Obama:
We're 'Probably' First Admin 'In Modern History' Without 'A Major Scandal in the White House'. During a preview
of an interview set to air on Sunday's "60 Minutes" on CBS, President Obama said, "we're probably of the first administration
in modern history that hasn't had a major scandal in the White House." Obama said, "I'm proud of the fact that, with two
weeks to go, we're probably the first administration in modern history that hasn't had a major scandal in the White House.
In that sense, we changed some things." [Video clip]
The Editor says...
If Benghazi is not a scandal and Fast and Furious is not a scandal, and the use of the IRS as a political weapon is not a scandal,
and the Secretary of State's secret email system is not a scandal, and the doubling of the national debt is not a scandal, I wonder what
Mr. Obama would consider a major scandal.
Obama
Exits Stage Left, With a Lie and a Threat. When Barack Obama speaks, especially without a teleprompter, you can
almost see the zzzzzzs rising over the heads of his audience. You can only listen to platitudes for so long. But
then, suddenly, Obama will come out with a falsehood so other-worldly that you sit up and say, "[What] was that?" [...] "Making
it harder to vote" means requiring identification in order to prevent voter fraud. Is the U.S. really, as Obama says,
"the only country in the advanced world" that imposes such a minimal requirement? Of course not. In fact, we are
pretty much the only country that doesn't.
Obama's
biggest whoppers. [For example,] "More young black men languish in prison than attend colleges and universities across America."
This was a 2007 campaign claim by Obama, then a senator, that was wildly off the mark. In reality, there are five times more black men
enrolled in colleges and universities than young black men in federal and state prisons — and two and half times the total number incarcerated
(including local jails). Even if you expanded the age group to include African American males up to 30 or 35, the college attendees
would still outnumber the prisoners.
Obama's 10 Most Outrageous Lies. The moonbattery
gushing from the Washington Post like smelly filth from a burst sewer main can be almost insufferable. But sometimes
the paper redeems itself — for example, by looking back on the misbegotten Administration of Hope & Change by
listing the Moonbat Messiah's 10 biggest lies, all of which earned Four Pinocchios.
Obama's
Final Whopper as President. President Obama is known for telling some whoppers — "If you like your
health-care plan, you can keep it" is perhaps the most infamous — so it shouldn't surprise anyone that he told a
final one as president right before leaving office last week. At his final press conference, Obama promised that he
would continue to fight voter-ID laws and other measures designed to improve voting integrity. The U.S. is "the only
country among advanced democracies that makes it harder to vote," he claimed. [...] But Obama's first statement, that the
U.S. is unique in trying to enforce ballot integrity, is demonstrably false. All industrialized democracies —
and most that are not — require voters to prove their identity before voting.
Maher:
Obama's Dishonesty Was 'Within the Normal Parameters' — Trump's Isn't. On Friday's broadcast of
HBO's "Real Time," host Bill Maher stated that untrue statements by President Obama were "within the normal parameters" while
President Trump's aren't.
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.
Revisiting
Obama's Energy Lies. Barack Obama wasn't confused, he was lying. He misrepresented America's petroleum
resources, over and over, because doing so served his anti-progress agenda. And to my knowledge, not a single news
outlet — not one — ever pointed out that Obama was lying, even though everyone who knew anything about
energy was aware of the deception. It is amazing how a change in administrations causes the press to completely
reconceive its role.
The News Is Propaganda.
By stating that one cannot "make the argument that more guns will make us safer" while claiming that "states with the most
gun laws tend to have the fewest gun deaths," the President deliberately lied while also taking the focus and the blame off
of the individual who perpetrated the crime and onto the gun and society itself. The President made no mention to the
fact that the shooting occurred once again on a gun-free zone as he deceitfully claimed that states with the most gun laws have
the fewest gun deaths. If we look at the actual facts "borne out by the evidence," it isn't hard to refute Obama's claim.
Obama
Lied About Removing All Chemical Weapons from Syria. Three years ago, Barack Obama and his Regime were an
abject disaster. But they were claiming success after success after success, particularly in the Middle East. One
of the things that the Obama administration was celebrating was that they had completely removed chemical weapons from
Syria. Obama drew that red line and the Syrians and everybody else realized the bad actor they were dealing with, and
they cowered in fear, and they did remove 100% of their chemical weapons. There's a problem now, though. Those
chemical weapons were just used in an attack in Syria on Syrian citizens. So how could the Obama administration have
gotten rid of all of these?
Obama
Administration Knew Syria Still Had Chemical Weapons, Despite Saying Otherwise. Now recall that John Kerry
bragged on Charlie Rose in 2014 about the Obama administration cutting an historic deal that removed "100 percent of the
declared chemical weapons" from Syria. I don't know how much of a caveat the word "declared" constitutes, but as recently
as January former Obama National Security Adviser Susan Rice was confidently announcing that the Obama administration had
removed chemical weapons from Syria. (Suffice to say, it's been a bad week for Rice's credibility.) Over at
The American Interest, Sean Keeley observes that the Obama administration most certainly knew that the public line they
were pushing about removing nuclear weapons from Syria was a lie: [...]
Obama
official: 'We always knew' Assad kept some chemical weapons. A former Obama official acknowledged Sunday [4/9/2017] that
the U.S. "always knew" an agreement with Syrian President Bashar Assad did not clear all chemical weapons out of Syria, despite the
fact that the administration touted the deal as an unequivocal success at the time.
PolitiFact
Changes Its 'Mostly True' Rating for John Kerry's 2014 Claim About Chemical Weapons in Syria. Back in July
2014, then-Secretary of State John Kerry announced that his department "got 100 percent of the chemical weapons out" of
Syria. Following Tuesday's [4/4/2017] horrific chemical attack on the Syrian city of Khan Sheikhoun — which reportedly
left over 80 people, including scores of children, dead — those claims have come under close national scrutiny.
Syria
uses chemical weapons after Obama said they were gone. An attack by the Syrian government on the people of the Idlib
Provence on April 4 killed 89 people. Early videos of the victims indicated that the weapon was a chemical or
nerve agent, and those fears were confirmed by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons just weeks later.
In 2013, the Obama administration and Russia jointly brokered a deal with Syria that called for the destruction of all of the
country's chemical weapons. In 2014, then-Secretary of State John Kerry said in a television interview that, "We got
100 percent of the chemical weapons out."
Obamacare and the Gutless Wonders of the
GOP. [Scroll down] In fact, the man whose name is inextricably linked to the failed health-care law recently derided Trump for
the failure to get repeal done during his first 100 days. CNN reported, "Obama noted to an audience in midtown Manhattan that 'the
Affordable Care Act has never been more popular — and it's more popular than the current president.'" This, it will come as no surprise,
is another of the former president's trademark whoppers. Fox News just released a poll three days ago showing that only 16 percent
of registered voters support Obamacare as is, while 57 percent of voters want it fully or partially repealed.
List of Obamacare Taxes Repealed.
As a presidential candidate in 2008, Barack Obama had promised repeatedly that he would not raise any tax on any American earning less
than $250,000 per year. He broke the promise when he signed Obamacare. With the passage of the House GOP bill, tens of
millions of middle income Americans will get tax relief from Obamacare's long list of tax hikes.
Comey's
FBI Lied About Lynch-Clinton Meeting. [Scroll down] There are only two possibilities here: either someone
at the FBI destroyed documents relating to the Bureau's communications about the Lynch/Clinton meeting, or someone at the FBI
lied in response to ACLJ's FOIA request. Federal agencies have personnel dedicated to responding to FOIA requests, and
presumably the people who carry out this relatively mundane task would not lie or destroy documents without instructions from
the top. To me, the most interesting revelation of the DOJ documents is the extent to which the Democratic Party media
were anxious to squash the Lynch/Clinton story.
Ben Rhodes,
caught in the act. [Scroll down] There's also a perception that spin-doctor Ben makes up phony
"narratives" to fool the American people, as he did with the Iran Deal, claiming he set up a media echo chamber to mislead
the American public, and with his Libya scandal, where he had then-United Nations ambassador Susan Rice repeat his phony
Benghazi talking points to mislead the American public on the reason an American ambassador was murdered in Libya, claiming
it was the work of a spontaneous mob when in fact it was a full-blown planned al-Qaida attack. The idea was to perpetrate
the Obama myth that al-Qaida was "on the run" as the 2012 election day approach rather than growing stronger than ever.
Obama's
Shameless, Hypocritical DACA Lies. Obama can't stop lying. It's some sort of disease. But it helps
that the media never calls him out on it. The President sets deportation priorities. If Obama hadn't wanted
children of illegal aliens deported, all he had to do was say the word. Instead he created an infrastructure for
partially legalizing them. He did so illegally. And, just as with ObamaCare, unsustainably. But he was
gambling that Republicans wouldn't have the guts to take away what he had illegally given. An
Democrats'
DACA dishonesty. Fulfilling his role as the titular head of "The Resistance," Barack Obama took to Facebook
Tuesday [9/5/2017] to snipe at the Trump administration's announcement that it was rescinding the 44th president's 2012 executive action
called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. "We shouldn't threaten the future of this group of young people who are
here through no fault of their own," Obama said. His post was florid and self-serving. But five words in his
lengthy screed — "through no fault of their own" — are undeniably true. It's not the fault of the
"Dreamers" that their parents brought them here, without papers, as minors. On that we can agree. But whose fault
is it that they are still in limbo? For that answer, Obama needn't take to social media. He can simply look in
the mirror.
Obama
Claims 'Democracy Is at Stake' in Virginia Governor Race. Barack Obama claimed at a campaign rally on Thursday
for Virginia Democrat gubernatorial candidate Ralph Northam that "democracy is at stake" in the Virginia governor's
race. Obama took to his first day back on the campaign trail to lament the way politics has turned "nasty," and yet
Obama melodramatically argued that Virginians need to vote for Democrat Ralph Northam because "democracy is at stake."
Obama told the Virginia audience, "America is a story of progress. Ralph Northam wants progress. He wants to take
us forward, not backward. He wants to reach out for hope, not fear. We need you to take this seriously.
Because our democracy is at stake. And it's at stake right here in Virginia."
Bin
Laden Docs Show Obama Misled, Politicized Intelligence During 2012 Campaign. "Bin Laden is dead and GM is
alive" was a favorite mantra of the Obama campaign during the 2012 election. The implication was that al-Qaeda was
"decimated," as President Obama said several times. But the recent release of documents taken from Osama bin Laden's
Abbottabad hideout shows that al-Qaeda, far from being "decimated," was, in fact, growing even stronger. The
information was deliberately withheld from the American people by President Obama, who released just a few pages of documents
in May of 2012, carefully selected to jibe with the administration's narrative on al-Qaeda.
'Thanks,
Obama!' Former president credits himself for strong economy. Former President Barack Obama is taking credit for
the robust economic growth that is taking place under President Trump. At a conference of mayors in Chicago,
Mr. Obama congratulated himself Tuesday for strong employment numbers in the U.S. this year, saying his climate-change
policies have contributed to growth. "As we took these actions, we saw the U.S. economy grow consistently,"
Mr. Obama said. "We saw the longest streak of job creation in American history by far, a streak that still
continues by the way." He added wryly, "Thanks, Obama."
Obama
Congratulates Himself on Trump Economic Growth. This is to be filed under Obama's Greatest Whoppers, right
under "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan."
NY
Times Reports Obama Only Told 18 Falsehoods During Entire Presidency. A recent New York Times analysis
claims that over his eight years in office, former President Barack Obama only told 18 distinct lies. The Times
set out to compare the trustworthiness of Obama compared to President Donald Trump. "In his first 10 months in office,
[Trump] has told 103 separate untruths, many of them repeatedly. Obama told 18 over his entire eight-year tenure," the
piece reads. On the list are some of Obama's most well-known whoppers, including "If you like your health care plan,
you'll be able to keep your health care plan," and that he "didn't set a red line" on Syria's use of chemical weapons.
By contrast, fact-checker Politifact ruled that over the course of his presidency, Obama made 43 "false" statements and 48
"mostly false" statements. Politifact also identified 7 "pants on fire" statements, which are falsehoods that are "not
accurate and make a ridiculous claim."
New
York Times claims Obama only told 18 falsehoods during his whole presidency. Here are 18 he told in selling Obamacare
in 2009 alone. The New York Times has published a story with an accompanying chart suggesting that while
President Trump has told 103 falsehoods during his first 10 months in office, President Barack Obama told just 18 throughout
his entire presidency. It was a chart clearly designed to be spread widely on social media, given that it confirms all
the priors of the publication's readership. But it was also absurdly charitable to Obama. In fact, an additional
analysis of Obama's public statements, detailed below, finds that in fact, Obama had told at least 18 falsehoods in selling
Obamacare in 2009 alone.
Obama
Lied and Argued Against Executive Amnesty, Then Lied and Said DACA Only Temporary, Now Lies and Calls Trump Racist for
Scrapping DACA! You just couldn't trust a word Obama said! Lying was his way of life. [...] Obama never
intended that his illegal amnesty for 'dreamers' referred to as DACA to be short term. Then after the Democrats lost
the election, President Trump announced an end the Obama-era program that grants work permits to illegal immigrants who
arrived in this country illegally with their lawbreaking parents or guardians.
Flashback:
President Obama Promised 'No Political Influence' in FBI Investigations 'Period. Full Stop.' On April 10,
2016, former President Barack Obama vowed that there was no political influence on any investigations in the FBI. "I
guarantee that there is no political influence in any investigation conducted by the Justice Department, or the FBI, not just
in this case, but in any case," Obama said. "Full stop. Period." Obama made his comment in an interview with
Fox News reporter Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday.
CONFIRMED:
Cash from Obama's $1.7 Billion Ransom Payment to Iran Traced to Terrorist Groups (VIDEO). On January 17, 2016,
a cargo plane with $400 million in foreign currencies was secretly sent to Iran in the dead of night. This was the same
day the Iranian regime released four American hostages held in Tehran. Barack Obama later told reporters this was not a
ransom payment. Obama lied.
Obama
repeats '18 school shootings in 2018' lie. Former President Barack Obama on Monday [3/5/2018] repeated the
now-debunked claim that there have been 18 school shootings in 2018 after the Parkland, Fla., massacre on February 14 that
took the lives of 17 people and wounded 16 others. The claim went unchallenged by the moderator, which was debunked
shortly after the shooting initially by the Washington Examiner. It was also fact-checked by the Washington Post and
even Snopes. Despite the fact that it was debunked, it didn't stop the former president from spreading the lie.
Obama
Can't Stop Lying About Guns, As He Touts The Phony '18 School Shootings' Stat. During a keynote speech in
Washington, D.C., Barack Obama started talking about guns, and repeated the completely bogus claim that Parkland, Fla., was
the 18th school shooting this year. It's hardly the first time Obama has peddled blatant falsehoods to push gun control.
Here are 1,366 well
sourced examples of Barack Obama's lies, lawbreaking, corruption, cronyism, hypocrisy, waste, etc.. [#142]
At the beginning of Obama's second term, he said that he goes skeet shooting "all the time." However, a witness said
that when he saw Obama go skeet shooting, Obama acted as if he had never fired a gun before, that he appeared to be
uncomfortable with a gun, and that he only stayed for five minutes. In addition, during his first term, the media
had never reported on his alleged skeet shooting, although it never failed to cover the more than 100 rounds of
golf that he played during his first term. [...] [#261] In July 2013, Obama said that broccoli was his favorite food.
However, before he made this claim, even though the media showed many pictures of him eating, and even though there were many
articles published about the foods that he ate, as far as I know, none of those pictures or articles ever showed or mentioned
him eating broccoli. While this may seem trivial, it shows that there is nothing — absolutely nothing
at all — that Obama is not willing to lie about. [...] [#294] As of September 2013, Obama had 19.5 million
fake Twitter followers.
The Obama Legacy
Deserves To Be Destroyed. In 2012, Obama told the nation that Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which
by any standard was a stand-in for legislation, was merely "a temporary stopgap measure." By the time Trump overturned
it, the measure represented "who we are as a people." That's because by "temporary" Obama always meant "until Democrats
can make it permanent through the courts or electoral victories."
Barack
Obama Takes Jab At Donald Trump: 'I Did Not Have Scandals As President'. President Barack Obama took a light
swing at his successor during a tech conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday. His eight years in office were scandal free,
he told the audience. "I didn't have scandals, which seems like it shouldn't be something you brag about," Obama joked.
The Editor says...
Newsweek says that was a joke. Was Obama really joking, or is that Newsweek's form of damage control?
Not
so fast Obama, your biggest scandal is unfolding before our eyes. While speaking to a tech conference this week
in Las Vegas President Obamarepeated a claim he and many members of the media have made since his presidency came to an
end. "I didn't have scandals, which seems like it shouldn't be something you brag about," Obama said. "But
actually," he said, "if you look at the history of the modern presidency, coming out of the modern presidency without anybody
going to jail is really good. It's a big deal." The notion is obviously absurd on the face of it, for anyone who
paid unbiased attention over the eight years of his presidency.
Obama Says 'I Didn't
Have Scandals.' So What Are All These? At a Las Vegas tech conference last week, former president Barack Obama told an
audience that his presidency had been scandal-free. [...] Why does it matter now? For one thing, historical revisionism shouldn't
go unchallenged. Democrats are running to retake power, and many of them were participants or accomplices in numerous corrosive
scandals that have been airbrushed. The other reason, of course, is that when we start to juxtapose the mythically idyllic Obama
presidency with the tumultuous reign of Trump, we're reminded that many journalists largely abdicated their responsibilities for eight
years — which has a lot to do with the situation we find ourselves in today.
The
Obama Administration Lied To The American People. Repeatedly. Here's The Proof. The Obama
administration lied to the American people. A lot. The latest proof of their dishonesty: according to the
Associated Press, the Obama administration attempted to end-around its own sanctions in order to give cash to the worst
terror sponsor on the planet.
8
Times Obama's Intelligence Agencies Set People Up To Fabricate The Russia Story. The intelligence bureaucracies
spied on the Donald Trump campaign: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants were granted because of a Hillary
Clinton-funded and unverified document, national-security letters were issued to allow warrantless spying, and the unprecedented
but not-illegal-per-se unmasking of Trump officials' conversations with non-U.S. persons was shockingly routine. Yet the
news of a CIA-connected human source operating as far back as April or May of 2016 is about more than just spying. It is
the latest example in what now looks to be a long line of attempted setups by the Clinton team, many times aided and abetted by
our intelligence bureaucracies.
Another Big Obama Lie. In
his 2008 campaign, Obama promised open-ended negotiations with Iran without preconditions. The negotiations began a few
months after he was inaugurated in 2009 and culminated in the signing of the nuclear weapons deal in 2015. In July 2015,
several top Obama administration officials, including then- treasury secretary Jack Lew, testified that Iran would continue
to be denied access to the U.S. commercial banking system. Later that same month Adam Szubin, acting Treasury
undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence said, "Iranian banks will not be able to clear U.S. dollars through
New York, hold correspondent account relationships with U.S. financial institutions, or enter into financing arrangements
with U.S. banks." And, of course, that was true despite the best efforts of the Obama team to enable Iran to do so.
Some $5.7 billion in Iranian rials was held in an Omani bank. The money was worthless unless it could be converted into
U.S. dollars for exchange purposes. On February 16, 2016, the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control
(OFAC) issued a specific license to the Omani bank to convert the money it held into U.S. dollars through the U.S. commercial
banking system.
Obama's
silky lie and FBI bias in the Clinton investigation. [Hillary] Clinton had endangered top secret information by
using an unsecured, home-brew email server when she was U.S. secretary of state. Any other American who dared risk top
government secrets on a basement server would have faced federal prosecution and prison. Obama's lie was told in 2015,
when Obama was asked by CBS' Bill Plante when he learned Mrs. Clinton had used an unsecured email server. "The
same time everybody else learned it, through news reports," Obama said. He was so silky that you couldn't even hear his
tongue rustling along his teeth. He waxed on about how his administration was all about "transparency." But Obama
did not learn about Clinton's home-brew server like "everybody else."
Obama
Loses 2 Million Followers in Twitter's Crackdown on Fake Accounts. Former President Barack Obama lost more than
2 million Twitter followers on Thursday as the social-networking platform launched a new crackdown on fake accounts,
according to a preliminary analysis from The Daily Beast. At press time, the Twitter purge had cost Obama 2,346,119
followers, or more than two percent of his audience on the site. With more than 101 million remaining followers, Obama
remains the third most-followed person on the site, a few million followers behind singers Katy Perry and Justin Bieber.
Obama LOVES Telling
the Truth... Honest! If I had to come up with one word to describe Barack Obama, that word would would be
"honest." As anybody who was alive and awake for the past decade can tell you, Obama has never, ever lied about
anything. And as they can also tell you, accusing him of lying is racist. That's why all the smart, cool people
make a big show of believing everything Obama says and never questioning his devotion to the truth.
If Trump's a Liar, Then Obama
Makes Pinocchio Look Like a Boy Scout. Who [...] does Obama think he is calling Trump a liar? The former
President's much-celebrated speech in Africa [7/18/2018] actually contained a few good messages. At one point, Obama,
who triumphed in his presidential election through the deft use of identity politics, decried separating people based on the
color of their skin or their gender. [Video clip]
77 Times Barack
Obama Was Totally Wrong. Obama wasn't only wrong in understanding where the electorate was in 2016 but was
frequently wrong throughout his presidency. The following Washington Free Beacon supercut displays 77 instances when
Obama was wrong. The episodes touch on all aspects of his presidency, from his signature legislative achievement of
Obamacare to his naivety towards Russian President Vladamir Putin. [Video clip]
Obama
Claims He Never Tried to Silence Conservative Opponents, He Forgets Operation Rushbo. Obama's attack on Trump
was filled with lies, omissions and more lies. [Obama quotation omitted for brevity, among other things.] It shouldn't
be Democrats or Republicans who say that we shouldn't eavesdrop on reporters, prosecute them or target pundits who disagree with you,
with organized campaigns. But Obama did those things anyway. Operation Rushbo comes to mind. As does James Rosen.
Sorry Obama,
But It's Trump's Economic Boom, Not Yours. Barack Obama is on the road attempting to claim credit for the
booming economy under President Trump. But the only thing Obama deserves credit for is making it easy for Trump to undo
Obama's anti-growth policies.
Top
Obama Official Stabs Him In The Back With Huge Admission About Obama's Juicy Secret. Now, we have known for
years that the Obama administration lied to the American people. The former administration would do play the slight of
hand trick to fool the masses. When conservatives would call them out for their dirty tricks, we would be called
racists. Now the truth is finally being revealed, but what will be done about it all? According to an Obama former
aid, climate change data was faked in order to garner more backers to support his cause and rack up as many votes as possible.
Former
Obama Official Says Bureaucrats Manipulate Climate Stats To Influence Policy. A former member of the Obama
administration claims Washington D.C. often uses "misleading" news releases about climate data to influence public
opinion. Former Energy Department Undersecretary Steven Koonin told The Wall Street Journal Monday that bureaucrats
within former President Barack Obama's administration spun scientific data to manipulate public opinion. "What you saw
coming out of the press releases about climate data, climate analysis, was, I'd say, misleading, sometimes just wrong,"
Koonin said, referring to elements within the Obama administration he said were responsible for manipulating climate data.
Obama
Tells One Whopper Of A Lie. It's About Lying. Speaking in Nevada on Monday [10/22/2018], former president
Barack Obama uttered what may have been the most pompous, patronizing, and pretentious lie from a politician since Woodrow
Wilson, the president who championed executive power over legislative power by expanding the executive branch, who stated,
"The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people." Obama actually said this: "Unlike some I actually
try to state facts. I believe in facts. I believe in a fact-based reality and a fact based politics. I
don't believe in just making stuff up."
Obama
Says Politicians Lying Is Something 'We Have Not Seen Before.'. Obama spun news, evaded questions, contradicted
himself and made false statements a number of times while he was in office. In 2011, Obama claimed he "signed into law
the biggest middle-class tax cut in history," referring to the Making Work Pay provision in his stimulus package.
Obama's calculation for his claim was based on "dubious math," according to The Washington Post. Former-presidents John F.
Kennedy and George W. Bush signed larger tax cuts into law. When campaigning for the Affordable Care Act, Obama claimed,
"If you like your health-care plan, you can keep it." After his bill passed, cancellation notices hit at least
two million Americans' mailboxes because of a short cutoff to bring existing plans in compliance with the new law, The
Washington Post reported.
2018
Midterms: All About Obama. Former President Selfie Stick is back in action, firing up Democrats before
the midterms with his signature rallying cries: I, I, I, I! Me, me, me! My, my, my! According to a tally by
The American Mirror's Kyle Olson, Barack Obama's campaign speech Monday for Nevada Senate Democratic candidate Jacky Rosen
referred to himself 92 times in 38 minutes — or an average self-allusion every 24.7 seconds.
When he wasn't "I"-ing, the former narcissist-in-chief was lying. "Unlike some, I actually try to state facts," Obama
snarked passive-aggressively in a swipe at President Donald Trump. "I don't believe in just making stuff up. I
think you should actually say to people what's true."
Obama: "Nobody
In My Administration Got Indicted". Well, that's not really true, not that many indictments, but there was a
promise to deal with corruption. As you can see, Obama, Hillary, Lynch and Holder remain at large, which should tell us
something about the current administration dealing justly with corruption in DC.
Six
Years Ago Obama Promised to Buy a Chevy Volt. Now It Is Dead. Six years ago, President Barack Obama
promised to buy a Chevy Volt after his presidency. "I got to get inside a brand-new Chevy Volt fresh off the line,"
Obama announced to a cheering crowd of United Auto Workers activists. "Even though Secret Service wouldn't let me drive
it. But I liked sitting in it. It was nice. I'll bet it drives real good. And five years from now
when I'm not president anymore, I'll buy one and drive it myself."
Obama
takes credit for U.S. oil-and-gas boom: 'That was me, people'. Former President Barack Obama took credit once
again for the U.S. oil-and-gas boom, even though critics noted Wednesday that the upswing in oil and natural gas production
occurred in spite of his policies. Mr. Obama told the audience at a gala for Rice University's Baker Institute
that he was "extraordinarily proud of the Paris accords" before saying "I know we're in oil country and we need American
energy." "You wouldn't always know it, but it went up every year I was president," he said to applause. "That
whole — suddenly America's like the biggest oil producer and the biggest gas — that was me, people."
The
Nerve: Obama Takes Credit for America's Energy Independence. "Suddenly America is like the biggest oil
producer, the biggest gas producer," said Barack Obama in an impromptu remark at Rice University on Tuesday [11/27/2018]. "That was
me, people." After a minute of additional economic boasts, Obama instructed the audience, "Say 'thank you.'" Here was
the essential Obama on display: smug, verbally maladroit, and shockingly dishonest.
Drill, Barry, Drill!
Watching Barack Obama try to take credit for the achievements of others has a certain twisted entertainment value. This time it is
the fracking revolution that has made America the world's number one producer of oil and gas. Almost unbelievably — it
would be unbelievable, if we were talking about anyone but Obama — Barack is now attempting to take credit for it!
It's
a lie — except when Obama says it. Barack Obama said in his first State of the Union address, "we
have excluded lobbyists from policymaking jobs." This was false. Obama had hired at least 40 lobbyists for policymaking
jobs by the time he said this, including a Goldman Sachs lobbyist as chief of staff at Treasury, and a Swiss banker lobbyist
at the IRS. Yet when the New York Times wrote up his speech, they referred to that discussion of lobbyists without mentioning
the brazen lie. When the Washington Post more recently "counted" Obama's lies, they didn't count that lie, because
Obama had excluded some lobbyists. That's like me saying "I have excluded cookies from my diet," and then
justifying my devouring of Chips Ahoy, Mint Milanos, and Samoas by saying "I have excluded Candy Corn Oreos and Famous Amos
from my diet." Obama simply was not held to the same standard as other political figures. Sometimes the very same
claim could get a "True" rating from fact checkers when Obama said it, and a "False" claim when someone else said it.
The Perpetual
Presidency. Former president Barack Obama recently continued his series of public broadsides against his
successor, President Donald Trump. Obama's charges are paradoxical. On one hand, Obama seems to believe that he,
rather than Trump, should be credited with the current economic boom and the emergence of the United States as the world's
largest energy producer. But Obama also has charged that Trump's policies are pernicious and failing. Apparently,
Obama believes that all of Trump's successes are due to Obama, and all of Trump's setbacks are his own.
Obama Lied.
That Hillary Clinton and Co. lied all the time is not an issue, because the Clintons are allowed to get away with anything.
The media will never hold them accountable, ever. As for Barack Obama, we all know that he lied about Obamacare. You
cannot keep your plan and you cannot keep your doctor. It doesn't matter to the media, because Obama, being who he is,
cannot be held accountable. He must be worshipped. Some lies are more consequential than others. Thus, we take
notice when we read in the Jerusalem Post (via Maggie's Farm) that Barack Obama lied through his teeth to the king of Saudi
Arabia. That would be the former King Abdullah. And not just once. The source is Prince Bandar bin Sultan.
Apparently, King Abdullah told President Obama that he was the first president to lie to a king of Saudi Arabia.
Dems'
Deceit And Moral Bankruptcy On Abortion. I am old enough to remember when Barack Obama, in the 2008
presidential campaign, vehemently denied that he had supported infanticide while in the Illinois Senate. Fact-checkers
and other Obama defenders came out of the woodwork to defend Obama's moral integrity. What were those facts?
Well, in 2001, Obama voted against Illinois' Born-Alive Infants Protection Act in committee, which would have required
immediate medical care for any child born as a result of a failed abortion. He even gave a floor speech opposing the
bill. But he voted "present" on the actual bill once it passed out of committee. The Illinois Senate passed the
bill, but the Illinois House killed it. In 2002, Obama not only voted against the bill in committee and spoke against
it on the Illinois Senate floor but also voted "no" on the bill. In 2003, Obama voted against another version of the
bill. During the 2008 presidential campaign, Obama ran from this record and even accused Republicans of lying about
it. Only after substantial blowback was he forced to issue a statement acknowledging he had earlier misstated his
position on the bill.
Judicial
Watch: Obama White House Orchestrated Clinton Email Cover Up. According to newly released emails obtained
by Judicial Watch, the Obama White House was tracking a December 2012 Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) records request
concerning Hillary Clinton's unsecured, private email server. These new emails prove that the Obama White House knew
about the scandal earlier than previously admitted, and attempted to cover it up. Months after the Obama White House
got involved, "the State Department responded to the FOIA requestor, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
(CREW), falsely stating that no such records existed."
Obama
Tells Multiple Lies About Guns In The U.S. To A Crowd In Brazil. Former President Barack Obama told multiple
lies on Thursday [5/30/2019] to a crowd in Brazil while discussing gun laws in the United States — something that he
repeatedly did during his presidency. In a clip flagged by Grabien's Tom Elliott, Obama stated: "Some of you may
be aware our gun laws in the United States don't make much sense. Anybody can buy any weapon, any time. Without
much, if any, regulation, they can buy it over the Internet, they can buy machine guns."
Barack
Obama told brazen lies to Brazilians about his favorite target. Barack Obama lied through his teeth during his
speech in Sao Paula, Brazil on Wednesday [5/29/2019]. He told the adoring crowd that "Anybody can buy any weapon any
time — without much, if any, regulation. They can buy it over the Internet, they can buy machine guns.["]
Obama knows it's illegal to buy or own a machine gun and he knows not everyone can buy a gun.
6 Gun Lies
(And One Truth) Obama Told In Brazil. On May 30, former president Barack Obama was a keynote speaker at an
event in Brazil. The event, VTEX Day, is billed as "the largest digital innovation event in Latin America."
During a conversation with a host on stage during the digital innovation event, Obama took the opportunity to speak
negatively about U.S. gun laws. He said, "Our gun laws in the United States don't make much sense. Anybody can
buy any weapon, any time, without much, if any, regulation. They can buy [guns] over the internet, they can buy machine
guns." His statement to a foreign audience includes six lies about our gun laws and one truth.
PolitiFact
Excuses Blatant Lies Told By Barack Obama About American Gun Laws While In Brazil. Last week, former President
Barack Obama was doing something or another in Brazil that we hope did not involve wearing a Speedo and participated in a
"town hall" discussion. He was asked about the most difficult moment of his presidency and he said the sacking of the
US Consulate in Benghazi. Kidding. He said it was the Sandy Hook school shooting. Fair enough. But
what followed next was an series of lies that would have made Goebbels blush.
Did
the Obama administration commit 'the biggest accounting fraud in history' with student loans? The Wall Street
Journal's editorial board (WSJ) recently suggested that the Obama administration pulled off "the biggest accounting fraud in
history" with student loans when eliminating the role of private lenders in the federal student lending market. Experts
who spoke with Yahoo Finance acknowledged the issue with the general policy in hindsight, though they disagreed on who
exactly is to blame. In 2010, Democrats "nationalized the market to help pay for Obama Care," WSJ asserted. "The
Congressional Budget Office at the time forecast that eliminating private lenders would save taxpayers $58 billion over
10 years. This estimate was pure fantasy, and now we're seeing how much."
Politifact
Gets Wrecked After Attempting to "Fact-Check" Claims About an Obama Quote. Fact-checkers gonna fact-check and
Politifact is no different. The industry of pretending to be unbiased while operating as total hacks is apparently good
for the bottom line. The most recent example comes courtesy of a claim about DACA and Barack Obama, namely whether he
ever admitted he didn't have the authority to enact such an order. This all came in a snarky reply to, who else, Donald
Trump. [...] Barack Obama said multiple times, publicly, that he did not have the authority to enact DACA and that Congress
had to be the ones to act. Despite these obvious facts, Politifact rode in to try to rescue the former president from
criticism of his own words.
Iran
Deal and Beyond: We're STILL Stuck Cleaning Up Very Stupid Obama Messes. The Barack Obama Administration
did a lot of very stupid things — in the pursuit of its very stupid Leftist ideology. In pursuit of its very
stupid Leftist ideology, the Obama Administration did a lot of very stupid things — that clearly contradicted the
things they publicly said they were trying to accomplish. Mostly because the Obama Administration was lying. They
knew their Leftist ideology was exceedingly unpopular — so they had to incessantly lie while advancing it.
Trump
fires back after Obama claims credit for economic boom: 'Con job'. President Trump fired back Monday after
former President Barack Obama, in a subtle swipe at the commander in chief, claimed credit for the economic gains in both
their terms. Obama tweeted Monday morning [2/17/2020] to note the anniversary of his signing the 2009 economic stimulus
package. "Eleven years ago today, near the bottom of the worst recession in generations, I signed the Recovery Act,
paving the way for more than a decade of economic growth and the longest streak of job creation in American history," Obama
tweeted, alongside a photo of his signature on the bill.
The Editor says...
Here's a short synopsis of the back story: The U.S. economy tanked in 2008, at the moment when it appeared that Barack H. Obama
was likely to win the presidential election. The economy stayed in its pitiful shape until Obama left office; whereupon, the economy
roared back to life under Trump. Obama did everything he could to destroy this country, while blaming George W. Bush for all his
troubles, with the eager assistance of the dishonest news media: Under Obama, bad economic news was always "unexpected." Under
Trump, good economic news is always "unexpected." The news media is still dishonest, and Obama is still a liar.
Barack
Obama Suggests Donald Trump 'Denied' Coronavirus Warnings. Former President Barack Obama suggested on Twitter
on Tuesday that President Donald Trump "denied" warnings of the coronavirus pandemic. "We've seen all too terribly the
consequences of those who denied warnings of a pandemic," Obama wrote. The former president shared an article on
Twitter about Trump rolling back fuel economy standards, and also accused the president of "climate denial."
Democrat
Law Professor Blasts Obama For False Statements About DOJ Dismissing Flynn Case. Jonathan Turley,
Constitutional Law Professor at George Washington University, slammed former President Barack Obama on Saturday after Obama
made false statements about the Department of Justice (DOJ) dismissing the case against former national security adviser
Michael Flynn. "The news over the last 24 hours I think has been somewhat downplayed — about the Justice
Department dropping charges against Michael Flynn," Obama said in a leaked phone call late this week. "And the fact
that there is no precedent that anybody can find for someone who has been charged with perjury just getting off
scot-free. That's the kind of stuff where you begin to get worried that basic — not just institutional
norms — but our basic understanding of rule of law is at risk. And when you start moving in those
directions, it can accelerate pretty quickly as we've seen in other places."
It
looks like President Obama ordered up phony RussiaGate scandal. RussiaGate is now a complete dead
letter — but ObamaGate is taking its place. Just how far did the then-president go to cripple his
successor? It's now clear the Obama-Comey FBI and Justice Department never had anything more substantial than the
laughable fiction of the Steele dossier to justify the "counterintelligence" investigation of the Trump campaign. Yet
incessant leaks from that supposedly confidential probe wound up consuming the Trump administration's first months in
office — followed by the Bob Mueller-led special-counsel investigation that proved nearly the "total witch hunt"
that President Trump dubbed it. Information released as the Justice Department dropped its charges against
Gen. Mike Flynn shows that President Barack Obama, in his final days in office, played a key role in fanning the flames
of phony scandal.
How
did Osama bin Laden really die? From the evidence, the case could be made that if President Barack Obama had
terrorist Osama bin Laden killed in May 2011 at the latter's Abbottabad compound in Pakistan, Obama would have had to bring
him back from the dead to do so. [...] Le Figaro of France reported that bin Laden had made several discreet trips to Dubai
for treatment before September 11, 2001. Clearly, he had a chronic, life-threatening illness. For him to have lived
ten years after the September 11 attacks without access to high-level care would have required a minor miracle. With
his almost total control of the American media, Barack Obama was the one president capable of pulling a miracle off.
There are those who believe that Operation Neptune Spear was orchestrated to improve Obama's falling poll numbers and remove
his questionable birth certificate from the news. Whatever the real objective of the raid, skeptics argue, it was not
to capture bin Laden.
Obamagate:
Obama's Ship of Lies and Deceit Has Run Aground. Former President Barack Obama is a smooth-talking liar.
He uses his tongue like a brush to paint vivid word pictures so believable, the clueless swoon, believing every word.
Likewise, his administration followed his lead, spinning a web of corruption we're only now starting to unravel. Until
recently, we had no idea how far, deep, and wide the corruption within the Obama administration reached. That is until
the Michael Flynn unmaskers were themselves, unmasked. We now see up close how much Obama and his administration, along
with Deep State players in various three-letter agencies and leftist-run media, bartered in corruption, lies, and the
weaponization of government power. Apparently, there were two streams of flagrant corruption flowing
concurrently. They eventually collided and began running together sometime after the 2016 Presidential election to
create a swollen river of treachery to overrun the proverbial banks of the new Trump administration.
Just
One More Thing Obama Lied About. Barack Obama was the biggest liar in the history of the U.S. presidency.
First, he lied about transparency. His administration was the most corrupt and secretive in history. See Hillary
Clinton's 33,000 deleted emails. See Anthony Weiner's laptop. See the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
warrant to spy on Donald Trump and his campaign aides. And, of course, it's clear Obama coordinated and approved the
entire FBI/Department of Justice criminal coup against Trump. See former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter
Biden robbing taxpayers blind in Ukraine and China. See the nearly $145 million bribe (I mean donation) Russians and
others gave to The Clinton Foundation when Clinton was secretary of state and a large portion of America's uranium stock was
handed to Russia. Obama lied through his teeth about the IRS scandal. The IRS' targeting of conservative groups
wasn't some small mistake out of a small IRS office in Cincinnati, as Obama claimed. It was a White House-coordinated
attempt to destroy the lives of Obama's critics.
The
Father's Day Obama Betrayed Black America. On Father's Day 2008, candidate Barack Obama made his most honest
speech on race, maybe his only halfway honest speech on race. The media barely noticed. The site was the
Apostolic Church of God in Chicago. From the pulpit Obama spoke to the gathered voters — excuse me,
congregants — with uncharacteristic audacity. He reminded his audience that too many black fathers were
missing from "too many homes." He knew something of the phenomenon himself given that his father "left us when I was two
years old." Yes, that con again. Putting aside for a moment his personal story, however fictitious, Obama made the
traditionally conservative argument that fatherless children were five times more likely to grow up poor, nine times more
likely to drop out of school, and twenty times more likely to get into serious trouble than children who grow up with both
parents.
The Unhinging
of America. Soon after the start of the 21st century, Barack Obama, latest edition of this breed of visionary,
positioned himself to lead the team in Washington to help "transform America" — make it ready, that is, for the
new world order. [...] Now there was someone who wanted to be president who could and would utilize Alinsky's Rules for
Radicals — a book that salutes the devil in its opening pages — to take down America, while pretending
to make it better than ever! Could Obama in truth and honesty have, as president, served "one nation under God, with
liberty and justice for all"? Could he have been sincere when he took the oath to "preserve, protect and defend the
Constitution of the United States"? I don't think so.
Barack
Obama's Latest Reason to Vote for Joe Biden Is Actually a Reason to Vote Trump. Barack Obama, the Left's
erstwhile patron saint, appears to have taken his deputy Rahm Emanuel's advice to heart: "You never want a serious
crisis to go to waste." On Wednesday [9/9/2020], Obama rushed to blame climate change for the wildfires ravaging the West
Coast, insisting that Californians' "lives" depend on Joe Biden beating Donald Trump in November. As usual, Obama has
the entire situation backward: Climate change isn't the culprit behind the infernos, poor forest management
is — and the climate regulations Obama champions have prevented the controlled burns necessary for keeping the
fires in check.
Fact
Check: Obama Repeats Debunked Atlantic 'Suckers' Story. Former President Barack Obama spoke on behalf of
Democratic Party presidential nominee Joe Biden at a drive-in rally in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Obama repeated many
false claims familiar from Biden's own stump speech, including the "suckers and losers" hoax.
Fact
Check: 19 False Claims in Barack Obama's Speech for Joe Biden in Florida. President Barack Obama delivered a
speech in Florida on behalf of Joe Biden's presidential campaign on Saturday [10/24/2020], in the course of which he stated
at least nineteen false claims about President Donald Trump and his record.
Obama,
Biden make first joint appearance in Michigan: 'We're done with the chaos'. [Scroll down] Obama then
turned to Trump's character. If a "coworker lied everyday...we would fire him," adding that voters would not have to
worry about Biden's ability to tell the truth. Biden took to the stage and said, "thank you for reminding us what we
can be again," then condemned Trump as a leader. "Three days we can put an end to a president that has failed to
protect this nation," Biden said. "I don't care how hard the president tries, there's nothing he can do to prevent the
people from voting."
As you would expect with any Obama statement, exactly the opposite is true.
Obama:
Trump's Claims of Widespread Fraud Another Step in 'Delegitimizing' Democracy. During a portion of an interview
set to air on "CBS Sunday Morning" and "60 Minutes" released on Thursday [11/12/2020], former President Barack Obama stated
that President Donald Trump's claims of widespread election fraud are "one more step in delegitimizing, not just the incoming
Biden administration, but democracy generally, and that's a dangerous path."
The Editor says...
Contesting an obviously stolen election is not a threat to democracy.
Obama
Compares Trump to Dictator — 'There Has Been a Sense' He Would 'Do Anything to Stay in Power'. In a
sit-down interview with CBS's "60 Minutes," which aired on Sunday [11/15/2020], former President Barack Obama took a shot at
President Donald Trump by comparing him to a dictator. Obama suggested there has been a "sense" during Trump's
presidency that he would "do anything to stay in power," including killing people and suppressing journalists.
Obama's Grotesque
Self-Revisionism. In an episode of CBS's 60 Minutes last Sunday [11/15/2020], former president Barack
Obama not-so-subtly compared Trump's tenure in the White House to something out of a banana republic or a one-party
totalitarian state: [...] But Obama's assessment of Trump is not only dramatic and overtly partisan. It is a
whitewashing of his own administration's lawlessness and overreach. It is sheer projection. Throughout his
presidency, Obama routinely engaged in the sort of behavior he would describe as authoritarian and vindictive.
Obama:
Republican Party 'Is the Minority Party in this Country'. Former President Barack Obama said Tuesday
[12/15/2020] on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" that the Republican Party is "the minority party in this country."
Obama said, "In fact, the Republican Party is the minority party in this country. The only reason they it doesn't look
like the majority party is because of structures like the U.S. Senate and the Electoral College that don't render them the
majority party. So they have certain built-in advantages around power given their population distribution and how our
government works. But the truth of the matter is that 60 percent of the people are occupying what I would consider a
more reality-based universe, and those are the constituents we're speaking to, and that is a more diverse group."
Why
Would Anyone Expect 'Truth, Accuracy, and Fairness' from Barack Obama? Barack Obama describes Israel as having
"engaged in a succession of conflicts with its Arab neighbors." He never describes the run-up to the Six-Day War, in which
Egypt's Nasser, having decided that his forces were now ready to take on the Zionists, had the U.N. peacekeeping troops
removed by U Thant, declared a blockade of Israeli shipping in the Straits of Tiran, moved 100,000 Egyptian troops into the
Sinai and then toward the border with Israel, while Syrian forces in the north were deployed, ready to attack Israel whenever
Egypt gave the word. He fails to mention Nasser's bellicose speeches, predicting the destruction of the Jewish state,
which he gave to huge and hysterical Cairene crowds. We aree left to believe that because Israel struck first, it
"started the war" — when the war really started in mid-May, when Nasser first moved his troops into the Sinai and
then northward toward Israel.
Is
Anyone More Annoying or Treacherous than Barack Obama? Okay, right off the bat, in the annoying category, Obama
is tied with Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris, and the usual Leftist gang of congressional idiots. At the moment,
however, Obama has a louder megaphone. He is shooting his mouth off all over the place, for good reason. He knows
that if Donald Trump somehow is re-inaugurated, the ongoing investigations into Russiagate are eventually going to lead to
Obama himself and that such investigation will reveal his treachery. At this very moment, Barack Obama is highly
knowledgeable about the level of Democrat election and voter fraud that took place this year. He has an intricate,
inside knowledge of the ploys used by Leftist operatives. However, he is silent about the phenomenon. He is
actively espousing the opposite, claiming that no significant fraud occurred and that Trump is making wild accusations (as
per usual in Obama's world). Is anything that Barack Obama says on the up-and-up? Is this monster of a politician
to be believed? No. Not for a nanosecond.
Judge
Orders Biden State Department to Turn Over Psaki Email Pertaining to Big Iran Lie. [Scroll down] Fox then
later discovered that exchange between [Jen] Psaki and [James] Rosen then mysteriously edited out from the video on the State
Department's official website and Youtube channel. Eight minutes including that part and other comments on the Iran
Deal were replaced with a white-flash effect. The Obama Administration initially denied it was deliberate, blaming it
on a "glitch." But they later were forced to admit that the very same day of the comments, a video editor got a call from
a State Department official to eliminate that portion of the briefing from the video. But don't worry, even though it
was deliberately done and they lied about it being a glitch, they don't lie, said John Kirby, by then the State Department
spokesperson. Nor did they think it was important to figure out who ordered it to be edited because "there were no
rules in place" about such things at the time.
The Fourteen Most Troubling Obama And Kerry
Lies About The JCPOA Iran Nuke Deal. Joe Biden and his foreign policy team are negotiating with Iran, trying to
get the U.S. back into the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action ("JCPOA") Iran nuclear deal. Many on the liberal side of
the aisle support this objective, not realizing that the JCPOA allows Iran to build nuclear weapons in the near future and
place the United States, the Sunni Gulf States, and Israel in grave danger. The support for returning to the JCPOA
stems from naivete. Much of the naivete stems from the fact that a considerable amount of what Obama and Kerry told
America about the JCPOA was not true. Because of their reverence toward Obama, the MSM covered up the lies back
then. Because of their Trump derangement syndrome and the happiness that Biden is POTUS, the media still not reporting
the truth about the deal.
Obama
Lies, Cashill Corrects. [Scroll down] Yet Obama, being "broke" and "nearly 40," rode someone else's
recipe for him into the Oval Office only eight years later. How? Who provided the seed capital that created a
Barack Hussein Obama? Why isn't that the major story about Obama? Who "selected" him — using the verb
that the Reverend Jeremiah Wright insisted was accurate? And for what quid pro quo? We still have almost no
answers to that critical part of the creation story. Even David Mamet, the playwright and scholar of the long con,
would have found Obama's meteoric rise implausible. And we're still asking the same questions about him that went
unanswered over a decade ago. The media are still covering for him, and we are still denied the right to know who was
shoved into the White House, by whom, at our expense.
Ben Rhodes'
Book Proves Obama Officials' Lies, and His Own, About Edward Snowden and Russia. Ever since Edward Snowden
received asylum from Russia in 2013, Obama officials have repeatedly maligned his motives and patriotism by citing his
"choice" to take up residence there. It has long been clear that this narrative was a lie: Snowden, after meeting
with journalists in Hong Kong, intended only to transit through Moscow and then Havana on his way to seek asylum in Latin
America. He was purposely prevented from leaving Russia — trapped in the Moscow airport — by the
very Obama officials who then cynically weaponized his presence there to imply he was a civil-liberties hypocrite for
"choosing" to live in such a repressive country or, even worse, a Kremlin agent or Russian spy. But now we have
absolute, definitive proof that Snowden never intended to stay in Russia but was deliberately prevented from leaving by the
same Obama officials who exploited the predicament which they created. The proof was supplied unintentionally in
the memoir of one of Obama's senior national security advisers, Ben Rhodes, entitled The World as It Is: A Memoir of
the Obama White House. It is hard to overstate how dispositively Rhodes' own book proves that Obama officials
generally, and Rhodes specifically, lied blatantly and cavalierly to the public about what happened: a level of
sustained and conscious lying that can be explained only by sociopathy.
'Triple-jabbed'
Obama tests positive for COVID, but is he lying about shot? Although he claims to be vaccinated and boosted
against COVID-19, Barack Obama announced Sunday he has tested positive for the coronavirus, and is showing some
symptoms. "I just tested positive for COVID," Obama said on Twitter.
The Editor says...
Hmmm. Which is more likely: The so-called vaccine doesn't work, or Obama is lying about having been injected with it?
Obama
Announces He Has COVID - Then Drops Some Huge Misinformation. On Sunday, former President Barack Obama
announced on Twitter that he has tested positive for COVID. [Tweet] [...] According to a "source," CNN says he appears to
have caught it in Washington, D.C., after spending most of the winter in Hawaii. But if you check out his Facebook
announcement, there's a small problem in that one. He says that people should get vaccinated and boosted "to help
prevent more serious symptoms and giving COVID to others." [Tweet] You can spread the virus even if you are
vaccinated — and you can still get it, even if you are vaccinated. So, this is just straight-up
misinformation from Obama. Where is the misinformation police to flag his post? Apparently, this misinformation
is cool because it's from Barack Obama.
Obama
Pushes Hardcore Disinformation in Speech Condemning Disinformation. Former U.S. President, and likely our
current shadow president, Barack Obama delivered a speech reeking of hypocrisy on Thursday when he addressed a Stanford
University crowd. Speaking about digital disinformation, Obama compared Putin to Hitler, claimed President Trump
"incited a violent insurrection" on January 6th, and shared several other inaccurate claims. [Tweet] Arrogantly
disregarding the irony, Obama spoke alongside several known disinformation peddlers such as his former aide Ben Rhodes,
president of the civil rights group Color of Change Rashad Robinson and Stanford researcher Renee DiResta. Barack
criticized Trump and other GOP politicians who have continued to question the blatantly faulty 2020 presidential election as
people who are trying to "overturn the will of the people."
The Pantheon of
Lies. Barack Obama recently took to the stage at Stanford University to lecture an audience on the perils of
disinformation. But it was Obama himself who used the occasion to spread lies and misinformation. This shouldn't
come as any surprise. In 2013, PolitiFact awarded Obama its Lie of the Year award for repeatedly promising the American
people that "if you like your health care plan, you can keep it." Obama made this false claim repeatedly as he promoted his
signature piece of legislation: the "Affordable Care Act." After its passage, millions of Americans were sent
cancellation letters from their insurance companies. Nonetheless, Obama, the decorated 2013 liar of the year, stood
behind the podium at Stanford and admonished, "You just have to flood a country's public square with enough raw sewage.
You just have to raise enough questions, spread enough dirt, plant enough conspiracy theorizing, that citizens no longer know
what to believe."
Obama
Approved Accusing Russia of DNC Hack Before FBI Received DNC Server Images. President Barack Obama approved a
statement by the U.S. intelligence community in October 2016 accusing Russia of stealing emails from the Democratic National
Committee (DNC), despite the U.S. government not having obtained the DNC server images crucial to ascertaining whether Moscow
was involved in the theft. FBI emails recently made public during the trial against now-acquitted DNC attorney Michael
Sussmann show the bureau was still in the process of requesting images of the DNC servers on Oct. 13, 2016. The server
images, which are equivalent to a virtual copy of the alleged crime scene, were taken by private cybersecurity firm
CrowdStrike. On Oct. 7, six days before CrowdStrike agreed to mail the server images to the FBI, the Department of
Homeland Security (DHS) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released a statement accusing Russia
of hacking U.S. political organizations and disseminating emails allegedly stolen through the hack. The statement was
approved and encouraged by Obama, according to then-DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson.
Obama
[gets] smacked down for gaslighting about Americans being 'better off' under Joe Biden. In comparison to
Joe Biden, Barack Obama appears to be a picture of probity, wisdom, and dignity. But in reality, he's just a more
unflappable liar, and now that Democrats are on the rocks in the polls, he's cribbed a page from Ronald Reagan, a man
he's always had a curious fascination for, claiming that "the country is better off than when you took office. We
should all be deeply grateful for that." If Obama were ask that as a question, the way Reagan once did, the
open-ended answer would not have been to his liking, so Obama supplied the answer, too. He was all gaslighting.
We're
'Better Off' Under Biden? Who Is Obama Kidding? Let's review just how much "better off" we all are
thanks to Biden and his fellow Democrats.
COVID deaths: When Biden took office on the promise that he had a plan that would end COVID, the official
death count was 424,318. Today it is over 1.044 million. In other words, there have been nearly 620,000
COVID deaths on Biden's watch. And that's despite all the interventions Biden claimed would end the pandemic.
Are the families of those 620,000 people better off?
Inflation: Despite the recent decline in pump prices, gasoline costs 91% more than it did on
January 2021, according to the Consumer Price Index. Food prices are up 14%. Overall prices have climbed 13% in
the time Biden has been president. To put that last number in perspective, the overall increase in the CPI during
President Donald Trump's entire four years in office was just 7%.
Real earnings: How about workers, are they better off? While wages have climbed, they haven't nearly
kept pace with Bidenflation. As a result, workers have seen their real wages decline by 5%, which works out to an
effective average pay cut of $2,726 a year. Does that, in Obama's mind, make them better off?
The Obamas:
Royals in an Imaginary Kingdom. A day after a 27-year-old California woman's head was found under her car,
severed with a sword by her ex-boyfriend in broad daylight; the same week jogger Eliza Fletcher's body was found after
being randomly kidnapped and raped; and the same day deranged Memphis teenager, Ezekiel Kelly, livestreamed his massacre
on Facebook — the Obama's unveiled their portraits at the White House. The two uttered calm, "mostly
peaceful" speeches atop Biden's wreckage of record inflation, record border crossings, record crime, record racial and
political division, and full-blown generalized anxiety over the deliberate torching of America's load-bearing
institutions. The Obamas gave every indication that they have no earthly idea about what's happening in the real
world. "Joe, it is now America's good fortune to have you as president," Obama said in the speech, partly meant to
atone for overshadowing Biden on his last visit. "You have guided us through some perilous times. You've built on
and gone beyond the work we all did together to expand health care, to fight climate change, to advance social justice,
and to promote economic fairness." And then he said it. "Thanks to your decency and thanks to your strength,
maybe most of all thanks to your faith in our democracy and the American people, the country's better off than when you
took office ..." In what world is that true?
Obama boldly states that which is obviously not true:
Barack
Obama says John Fetterman is fit to serve in Senate after stroke. Former President Barack Obama insisted
Saturday that Pennsylvania Lt. Gov John Fetterman was fit to serve in the US Senate despite the lingering effects
of a stroke suffered in May. Fetterman is facing Republican opponent Dr. Mehmet Oz in a tight contest for the
Keystone state's open Senate seat.
Barack
Obama Falsely Claims Guns Are Number One Killer of Children. On Monday evening,
former President Barack Obama tweeted his response to the Nashville Christian school shooting by
repeating the left's false claim that guns are the number one killer of children. On March
23, 2023, Breitbart News reported that actor Billy Porter made the same false claim, screaming that
"the leading cause of death in children are guns" during an appearance on ABC's The View.
Who's
the Real Barack Obama? Things Are Finally Becoming Clearer. Who is Barack
Obama? You'd think a guy who's penned three memoirs and is the subject of several authorized
and unauthorized biographies would be an open book, but he isn't, as most sentient Americans
know. But now we're learning more. A recent story in Tablet Magazine by David Samuels,
which includes an interview with one of Obama's biographers, David J. Garrow, gives us some clues
about America's first half-black, half-white president and why he has meticulously hidden details
of his life from the American people. Basically, Barack Obama fantasized about gay sex and
was a social-climbing, wanna-be billionaire who loathed his real-life story. Obama carefully
refashioned a new character named Barack Obama into a carefully curated creature whose reputation
the real Obama and his acolytes continue to tend with the scrupulousness of a bonsai master.
Many of these things have been whispered about the man since he came onto the American political
scene. Those who said it out loud were largely dismissed. And, as Garrow acknowledges,
an incurious media didn't want to be that guy who asked too many questions because they'd be
called racist.
Obama
Lied to Everyone About Biden's Senility at Infamous L.A. Fundraiser. The push to get
Joe Biden out of the 2024 presidential race continues. The New York Times is now reporting
that Obama himself saw how senile the president was at an infamous Los Angeles fundraiser back in
mid-June. At the time, essentially all mainstream press outlets rushed to dismiss the viral
video showing Biden freezing for multiple seconds on stage before being led off by the former
president. [Tweet] That incident began the now-defunct "cheap-fakes" campaign from the
White House. [...] I want to point out the obvious here. When given the chance to tell the
truth, Obama and his underlings lied to everyone. They didn't just abstain from commenting on
Biden's troubles at the fundraiser. They came out publicly and countered them. They
claimed that anyone who pointed out his senility was pushing disinformation, giving the press
everything they needed to run with the "cheap-fakes" nonsense.
No
One Is Buying It. Barack and Michelle tried to gin up artificial enthusiasm for
Harris by recapturing the good ol' days 2008-era magic of "hope" and "yes we can!" No sentient
human being could plausibly nod along to a comparison between Barack Obama and Harris. Shared
far-left politics and general swarthiness aside, the talented orator Obama does not in any
way resemble the dimwitted California cackler-in-chief, who is less popular than venereal disease
and was only installed as Democrats' presidential nominee following Uncle Joe's bloodless coup due
to a forced hand and lack of any other viable option. In his speech, Obama also referenced
how tapping his "friend" Biden as his 2008 running mate was one of his "best" decisions.
Really, how stupid do they think we are? Obama, although he didn't have the courage to
publicly call for it, was — along with Nancy Pelosi — a leading plotter of
Biden's fateful July coup.
Call
Obama's bluff. Barack Obama derides the radical extremes of our two-party system,
placing all the blame on Republicans (projection) for actions and behaviors perpetrated by him, Joe
Biden, Kamala Harris, and the Deep State moles that Barack Obama has planted throughout the
administrative and bureaucratic state. But with his call to "pluralism," an opportunity has
been presented to (again) reach out to "normies" in the Democrat party and to isolate "the
extremists" on the radical left. Donald Trump should point out that many Republicans crossed
the aisle to vote for Joe Biden's Cabinet picks. Lloyd Austin, current secretary of defense,
was confirmed with a vote of 93-2. Would Senate Democrats wish to work with Donald Trump by
granting the same bipartisan civility to Pete Hegseth, Kash Patel, RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard,
and his other picks that Republicans showed when confirming Alejandro Mayorkas (78-13)?
Obama lies about guns
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Lies about "stimulus" money and job creation
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Lies and prevarication related to Obamacare
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located
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General disingenuousness
At
Pearl Harbor, Obama Twists History to Sell Agenda. Taking the stage in front of World War II veterans who
fought to preserve American liberty against Imperial Japanese aggression, President Barack Obama twisted history to promote
his political agenda. [...] How insulting to those veterans assembled. Obama insinuates that the reason they fought and
sacrificed was because "those who are different" were "demonized." World War II was not a failure to tolerate diversity.
It was a struggle against unmitigated evil fought by virtuous men who deserve honor and respect. Obama offered neither by
minimizing what World War II was and why it had to be fought.
Obama
Administration Tells Supreme Court 'Lawfully' Doesn't Mean 'Legally'. Welcome to what Solicitor General Donald
Verrilli told the Supreme Court on Monday [4/18/2016] is the "immigration world. Or, more accurately, welcome to the
new world President Barack Obama — through his solicitor — is asking the Supreme Court to join him in
declaring. It is a world that contradicts the law of noncontradiction. It is a place where something can be and
not be at the same time. It is a place of illogic — and lawlessness. The Supreme Court heard oral
arguments Monday in U.S. v. Texas. This case pits 26 states against the Obama administration on the question of
whether the Executive Branch — n.b. the president through a bureaucratic subordinate — can unilaterally
declare that more than four million foreign nationals who are illegally in the United States may stay here, work here and
acquire eligibility for Social Security, disability and Medicare.
Obama's Manufactured Fury. Freedom
lovers the world over, and American patriots in particular, have been living for 18 months with Obama's
"furious". It's the slow burning, destructive kind that takes down business and jobs. They have
watched as Obama resolutely pulls the wings off a country the rest of the world looks up to. ... Obama's fury
about the oil spill disaster is like the rest of him: phony.
Ten Mental Mistakes of Obamatons.
Barack Obama peppers his rhetoric with a veritable buffet of verbal trickery. But why? If Obamatons are
correct, and Barack is one of history's great speakers, why must he use cheap rhetorical tricks to win support?
The answer is Obama offers ideas which, on their face, are either counter-intuitive, or false to the average
listener. Speakers do not mislead unless they sense an inability to otherwise persuade their audience.
Therefore Barack needs extra help to persuade. What other explanation can there be for such incongruent
methods?
The War on Truth: Has Obama
ever seriously searched for truth? His lifelong chums are a gaggle of pseudo-thinkers and strong-arm operatives
who float through college into jobs unconnected with honor. He reads us his soul off a teleprompter whose
digitized letters conform to polling data. The terrifying numbers which his surreal spending has created
mean nothing to him. The threats to our nation are real to him only as they affect his polling numbers.
His indifference to truth is the greatest danger he presents the world.
Obama's Worst Interview Ever.
If Barack Obama had been engaged in an ordinary job interview on Wednesday evening [3/17/2010], he would not
have been hired. Any experienced interviewer would have instantly picked up on his avoidance of straight
answers and body language that revealed deceptive behavior.
The Real Obama. The Obama Myth
rests on three assumptions: (a) Obama is a nonideological pragmatist; (b) Obama is an uncommonly powerful
communicator; and (c) Obama has a gut connection with the people. All three are wrong. Only
the Democrats' fantasy that opposition to their agenda is limited to a lunatic fringe has blinded them
from seeing the president's liabilities. Let's open their eyes.
Obama's Bogus Summits.
Yesterday's [4/26/2010] kick-off of the "Entrepreneurship Summit" in Washington DC, intended, according to
Jake Tapper, "to help deepen ties between business leaders, foundations and entrepreneurs in the United States
and Muslim communities around the world" is the fourth hollow and stage-managed "summit" organized by Barack Obama.
The Editor says...
You may recall the jobs
summit,
*
the fiscal responsibility
summit,
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and the beer summit.
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And who could (not) forget the big
Health Care Summit on February 25?
Mr. Obama wants to convey the illusion that he's working, but he has a big problem with overexposure
on television. My impression is that he likes to
preside while other people work, but he
doesn't have any ideas of his own.
Ringmaster-in-Chief.
While we all understand that P. T. Barnum was an exceptional entertainer and showman, his financial
business philosophy was always the same — sell the hoax. ... It becomes more obvious every day that
Barack Obama has turned out to be a far greater pitchman than even P. T. Barnum could have ever
imagined. President — or should I say Pitchman — Obama's understanding of the
gullibility of humanity seems eerily similar to that of P. T. Barnum.
Obama —
Too Little, Too late, Too Cynical. The United States may very well owe a crushing $20 trillion
by 2020. And thus President Obama last week named a bipartisan commission to find ways to address our
national debt. Such a Periclean response might sound sincere and worthwhile. But it comes 13 months
into this administration — and only after Obama added nearly $1.5 trillion in new borrowing in
2009. And by the time the new deficit commission submits its recommendations at the end of this year, the
current 2010 budget will have put us out another $1.5 trillion.
President
Obama's Official Twitterer Connected To MoveOn.org. The woman that poses as Barack Obama on all his
social networking websites such as Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter is connected to the far-left organization
MoveOn.org. For those scratching their heads, the President in theory is a member of these websites.
However, he obviously isn't responsible for typing in the little messages that are going out to his followers
almost 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Obama and the Government
Employees: [Scroll down] While he talks the talk about the deficit and freezing discretionary
spending, Obama engages in a spending binge that would make Imelda Marcos proud. But look what else the
Magician-in-Chief is doing: giving even more money and benefits to government workers, and doing it in
a very
untransparent and sneaky way. Barack Obama is planning a major overhaul of the Federal
government pay system that would boost pay for government workers while loosening scrutiny on how they do
their jobs.
Handling problems the Obama way.
There is a sense of déjà vu in the Obama administration's response to the attempted terrorist
attack on Christmas Day. A by-now familiar pattern has been established for dealing with unexpected
problems. First, White House aides downplay the notion that something may have gone wrong on their part.
The Bizarro President.
72 hours after the Christmas Day terrorist attack on Northwest Flight 253, Barack Obama finally checked in
with the American people — while still on vacation in Hawaii. ... Meanwhile, the president has managed
to find plenty of time to hit the links and work on his golf game. So when the president uses the phrase
"I or we will not rest" until something is done, does it really mean anything?
Obama's Year of Living Blamelessly.
Barack Obama has figured out what went wrong with Homeland Security this past Christmas: George W.
Bush. ... Here's a prediction: Obama will find that he's gone to the Blame Bush well one too many times.
With the Christmas Day fiasco something has "become clear," alright. But it's not the failings of
George W. Bush.
All the president's mendacity.
[Scroll down] And like with so many issues, Obama adorned his rhetoric with sharp warnings of
calamity should he fail, fabricated consensus to buttress his case and a promise of rapture should
he succeed. You'll remember it was Obama who cautioned that failure to pass the stimulus boondoggle
would "turn a crisis into a catastrophe." He claimed that a failure to act on cap and trade will
lead us to "irreversible catastrophe" and a failure to pass a government-run health care system will
mean "more Americans dying every day."
How
O says he's about to mislead. [Scroll down] For connoisseurs of Obama-speak, the address
featured a trifecta, combining three of his favorite rhetorical tropes. There was the vague reference
to "those who" question his agenda; the "false choice" they use to deceive the public; the determination to
"be clear" and forthright, in contrast with those dishonest naysayers. These devices are useful as
signals that the president is about to mislead us.
Obama's Game of False
Choices: From war to foreign policy to the economy, Obama is constantly setting up his "false
choices" in order to soundly "reject" the false choice at hand. The gimmick works well to make Obama
appear really smart, as one who thinks outside the box. In the "fallacy of false choices," Christopher
Beam notes that Obama often sets up straw men and appears to create wiser third options in rejecting the
false choices.
Of College, Character And
'Catastrophe'. Dick Morris' new book — "Catastrophe" — is an education
in itself, on politics, on economics and on foreign policy. It is a strong antidote to the pious
rhetoric and spin that come out of Washington and the media. ... In describing Barack Obama's economic
policies, Morris says simply: "Curing the recession was not his end; it was his means to the end.
The end was bigger government." Obama's actions often make no sense if you believe Obama's words, but
they do make sense if you follow Morris' analysis.
Pelosi's hide-and-seek
accounting. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's directive for lawmakers to disclose individual office spending
online for the first time was billed as a victory for transparency. Well, not really. Earlier this month,
the House clerk posted 3,400 pages of expense reports detailing about $300 million in spending on everything
from staff salaries to mail, but the effort was a sham. The new disclosure system hides more than it reveals.
Obama's
Willful Failure of Comprehension. The violence at Fort Hood, President Obama told mourners on
Tuesday [11/10/2009], was "incomprehensible." The "twisted logic that led to the tragedy," he reiterated,
may be "too hard to comprehend." ... What exactly is so hard to comprehend? Fort Hood jihadist Maj. Nidal
Hasan made his means, motives and inspiration all too clear for those willing to see and hear.
Stop the
'jobless recovery' madness! It's time to stop glorifying our economic doldrums with this
"jobless recovery" nonsense. ... So far there is no sign of an employment turnaround — and
without one, and soon, all the other gains could prove fleeting.
President
Obama's jobs summit is a great feast of folly. Obama's goal is to show he's serious about
taking action on the backsliding economy and to convince the electorate that public activity means real
policy action. I'll have to crash Obama's party, because summits are giant publicity stunts where
loads of taxpayer money is spent on fancy backdrops, flower arrangements and so much glad-handing and
back-slapping that the participants leave with calluses and whiplash.
Obama
Reducing the Debt? Dream On. Obama and his party simply will not agree to keep their
grubby government hands off the estimated $200 billion the banks are going to repay under TARP. ... Obama
[has announced] that he intends to intercept a good portion of the debt repayments and spend it on job
creation and assistance to certain debtors. I assume we're supposed to be too dense to remember
that his stimulus spending to date hasn't created jobs and that most of it hasn't even been used for
that purpose.
Obama's Dover Device. Astonishing
though it may be, there are Americans who actually believe that Barack Obama's vist to Dover was an authentic
expression of concern for our troops and empathy for their loved ones. Of all the Obama fabrications,
this has to be one of the more preposterous. The Narcissist in Chief was not showing empathy because
he doesn't have any.
Obama Similes. Obama
is like Oprah. Much like the media queen, Obama can change vernacular faster than you can say
"ebonics." ... He can simultaneously exist in the world of down home commoners and international elites.
For a guy raised in Hawaii and Indonesia, and educated at Columbia and Harvard, we can see through it,
though. ... I'll never understand the need for vernacular shifts, and many could argue that President
Bush's twang became more evident when speaking to particular audiences. But when Bush's voice
slipped to Southern, it was to his natural dialect; Obama's shift is purely for show.
Obama
is Overreaching. So there is President Barack Obama, giving a speech to a bunch of Democrats, and
he is saying "y'all" do this and "y'all" should consider that, and pretty soon I am asking myself, how did he
become habituated to saying "y'all?" In his youth in Indonesia and Hawaii? From his Kansas
grandparents? At Harvard Law School?
The Recoveryless Recovery.
The [National Bureau of Economic Research]'s Business Cycle Dating Committee is the "official" caller of
recessions. It looks for peaks and troughs in economic indicators. ... It might just be coincidence that
of the seven members on the NBER's Business Cycle Dating Committee, one is the husband of Christina Romer, the
Chair of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisors. Mrs. Romer herself was a member of the NBER's
board, along with her husband, until just after Obama's election.
Our Lowered Economic
Expectations. The stock market reaches an old milestone and the unemployment rate is below
10%. In Obama's America, that's worthy of celebration.
The
three envelopes. Is there anything he hasn't blamed George W. Bush for? The economy,
global warming, the credit crisis, Middle East stalemate, the deficit, anti-Americanism abroad —
everything but swine flu. It's as if Obama's presidency hasn't really started. He's still taking
inventory of the Bush years.
Record Time to Nowhere. It's
all a lot like his economic stimulus, which somehow never seems to dent the unemployment rate. On the
contrary, joblessness continues to grow in tandem with the deficit. But who cares? This president is
articulate even if he doesn't actually say anything, a great leader even if he isn't actually leading. It's
the talk that counts, don't you see?
Welcome to the World
of Newspeak. [Scroll down] Newspeak usage also crops up in legislation with titles that
are the exact opposite of a bill's intent. With ever-shortening American attention spans and media's
increasing focus on entertainment news, Newspeak is not simply a fictional danger but a real threat to the
practice of democracy in America. Some recent examples include: "The Respect for Marriage Act,"
"The Employee Free Choice Act," "Internet Freedom Preservation Act," "American Clean Energy and Security Act"
and "America's Healthy Future Act." A quick examination of each reveals Newspeak at work.
You Mislead!
It is a good thing that other congressmen did not follow Rep. Joe Wilson's lead. If they yelled out every time
President Obama said something untrue about health care, they would quickly find themselves growing hoarse.
Excuses wearing thin for Obama,
media pals. [Scroll down] Just a few months ago, the Obama camp ... was under criticism for
the $787 billion stimulus package it bulldozed through Congress on grounds that massive spending was needed
to keep the unemployment rate from breaching 8 percent. When joblessness hit 9.5 percent in June, Vice
President Joe Biden said, "We misread how bad the economy was." They inherited the worst economy since the
Great Depression, or the economy turned out to be worse than they thought. Which is it? It can't be
both — unless your brain is completely addled by the Obama charisma.
Unmasking Obama. It is now
abundantly clear that the image of Barack Obama sold to the American electorate was tightly edited, air-brushed, and
exaggerated. He has worn a series of masks — eloquent orator, brilliant scholar, centrist, and
literary sensation. All of these masks are coming off as he copes with a job for which image will not suffice.
By hook or crook...
House Approves
Hate-Crimes Measure as Part of Defense Funding. Legislation to punish hate crimes became a flashpoint on
Capitol Hill on Thursday [10/8/2009], as a measure expanding the definition of such crimes was attached to the bill
outlining the Defense Department budget and approved by the House over the strong objections of Republicans.
The monster behind the mask.
Once the bill has been signed (make no mistake, the mask will stop at nothing to accomplish this), then the
mask — the façade of comfort and compassion — can be removed, for then it will be too late to
push the monster back into the dark cave from whence it came. This Halloween, Americans will be treated to the most
sinister — the most evil of all conceptual monsters: A monster of lies and deceit.
Obama's Theorems.
Part of the problem with the president's agenda is that it is predicated on a number of radical ideas that are asserted,
rather than proven. His experts and the elites assure us of a reality that most people in their own more mundane lives
have not found to be true. In short, they may find Obama personally engaging, but they no longer believe what he says.
New Survey on Islam Calls Into Question Population
Figure Used by Obama. A comprehensive new survey of the world's Muslim population finds that
nearly one in four people on the planet is an adherent of Islam, but the number of Muslims it gives for the
United States is significantly smaller than those routinely cited by Islamic organizations — and
used by President Obama in his Cairo speech last June.
What Is
Yosi Sergant? Here's how Obama-era "transparency" works in practice: A government agency
is caught in a scandal. The chairman of the agency issues a statement blaming the scandal on an unnamed
"employee," who, the chairman asserts, "has been relieved of his duties." The statement omits the fact
that the offending employee still works for the same agency, in the same office, as he did before. When
a journalist inquires about this, he is told by a colleague in that very same office — the
communications office! — that she knows nothing about his new assignment. It's hard to
imagine government being more evasive and opaque.
The article above refers
to this scandal.
Obama's Speech: Did It Help Him?
From a policy standpoint, there was nothing new in President Obama's speech to a joint session of Congress
tonight [9/9/2009]. It can only be assessed, therefore, in political terms. Here are some excerpts
from the speech that I thought were noteworthy: "
Instead of honest debate, we have seen scare
tactics." Then, a few minutes later: "
Everyone in this room knows what will happen if we
do nothing. Our deficit will grow. More families will go bankrupt. More businesses will
close. More Americans will lose their coverage when they are sick and need it most. And more will
die as a result." By far the biggest scaremonger on this issue has been Obama himself.
No, Mr. President. In
his
60 Minutes interview to be aired tonight [9/13/2009], President Obama apparently says, "I intend to be president for a while
and once this bill passes, I own it....I'm the one who's going to be held responsible. So I have every incentive to
get this right." No, Mr. President. It's not about you. If legislation passes, you don't own it.
We all own it. Any health care bill will become part of the U.S. Code, not simply an item on the Obama White House
web site. We will all feel its effects. We are all responsible for the future of our country. Here the
people rule.
Obama Won't Give Federal Insurance Benefits to Illegal Aliens,
He'll Make Them Legal First. It is true that both the House and Senate health care bills as they are now
drafted would make illegal aliens ineligible for federally funded health care. But President Obama has stated as
recently as last month at a press conference in Mexico that he will seek "comprehensive immigration reform" legislation
that will put illegal aliens on a "pathway to citizenship."
Distortions — or Truths? Does the House bill
fund abortions? No. However, while the House Energy and Commerce Committee at first voted to exclude abortions
from "essential" services, to the howls of NOW, Chairman Henry Waxman conducted a second vote, to drop the anti-abortion
amendment. That vote carried. In short, funding for abortions remains an open question. ... Obama is a
pro-abortion absolutist. And if abortion-funding is not in the final health care bill, does anyone doubt that
Democrats will move swiftly to incorporate it in future legislation?
Kill
Grandma or Terrorists Win. Remember when George W. Bush was pushing his plan for partial
privatization of Social Security, and he warned that if Congress didn't pass it, it would weaken his
presidency, with dire results for the war on terror? Neither do we. He never said any such
thing. As best we remember, no one thought to make such a ludicrous argument. Add that to the
list of things that have changed in the age of Obama.
An American Socrates and Other Myths.
It is not enough for Obama to repeat his false claims, day after day, speech after speech. No, he must also
portray himself as America's Socrates, our voice of reason amidst the angry mob, an intrepid truth teller, a singularly
unifying and visionary figure, and a man astonishingly free from the ideological baggage that defines his critics.
He views himself as the adult in a world of children. This is all quite silly. Obama is, in almost every
respect, the opposite of what he portrays himself to be. He is a divisive, polarizing figure, among the most
divisive and polarizing we have ever seen.
Obama as the Wizard of Oz.
Even as
Science magazine is hastily backing off on the media fraud of "global warming," Obama's Medi-Scare Campaign
is using precisely the same fear tactics perfected by climate fraud peddlers to take over American medical care. ... But
neither climate fraud nor Medi-Scare do anything to fix the dire "emergency" they are trying to scare us about.
There is no emergency: There is no global warming doom coming up, and there no crisis in American medicine.
War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength.
Obama
and the Permanent Campaign. The administration's rhetorical tricks extend to issues beyond health
care. The economy continues shedding jobs, yet the administration keeps saying the president's policies save
jobs. ... What Team Obama says not only runs counter to the experience of ordinary Americans, it's causing many to
conclude that their White House is misleading them.
One of several T-shirts and bumper stickers
at
Cafe Press.
Reclaiming Popular Sovereignty: The
deceptions and contradictions are astounding. [Obama's] premises for policy change are consistently
duplicitous. He's embarked on a course to deliberately bankrupt the nation; he is at war with
mainstream American values; he is undermining our national security during wartime (prosecuting our
protectors — and otherwise); and he's pursuing unprecedented government control of the private
sector. Just look at his handling of Obamacare. His stated goals aren't arguably fraudulent, but
verifiably so.
ACES Up Her Sleeve. Well before
Barack Obama brought hope to the White House, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi was adamant that something new and different and
wonderful had arrived. In 2006, the incoming Speaker pledged that hers would be the "most honest, most open, and most
ethical Congress in history." At the time, we were skeptical — to say the least. Our refusal to accept
her rhetoric was roundly vindicated last week. That was when Madam-Speaker used every dirty trick at her
disposal to coldly ram a 1,500 page global warming bill through the House of Representatives.
Relentless Cuts Net 0.0025% In Savings.
The administration has fulfilled a promise to cut spending by trimming $100 million from the 2009 budget. That's
right — $100 million with an "m," an imponderably small slice of this year's expenditures.
Preparing
for War: Boning Up on the Left's Health Care Myths. [President Obama] enjoys
saying — incorrectly — Americans pay $6,000 more per year on health care than people
of other advanced nations for no better care. The statement is abominably false. Just
as Obama is manipulating the cost and benefit numbers to enlist popular and Blue Dog support for
his socialized medicine conspiracy, he distorts statistics to make the specious claim that our
health care system isn't far superior to all others.
Destroying Jobs in Order to Save Them.
President Barack Obama is very insistent on the need to "save American jobs." ... But instead of saving
American jobs, Obama's new corporate tax is apt to worsen what is already the highest unemployment since 1983
and make America's companies even less competitive in the global marketplace.
White House 'Reality Check' Web Site Claims.
A new Web site launched Monday [8/10/2009] by the Obama administration to rebut alleged disinformation about the
administration's efforts to reform the health care system claims that reform "would not add one penny to the
deficit" — despite the fact that the two health care reform bills that have been analyzed by the
Congressional Budget Office are predicted by the CBO to increase the national debt by $239 billion and
$1.042 trillion respectively. The administration, meanwhile, has not produced any health-care reform
legislation that has been independently determined to be deficit-neutral.
Obama's punctured
gravitas: Barack Obama's political glass jaw is the illusion of gravitas that was successfully
sold to enough Americans to get him elected. His stentorian deep voice persuades many, never mind the
pablum of vague clichés he dishes out. Rush Limbaugh brilliant punctures the illusion by speeding
up the tape and raising Obama's register when he plays excerpts of the president speaking. Minus the deep
voice, with an altered rhythm no longer hypnotically caressing the listener, the banality of the actual words
becomes clear.
Make way for Obama the Bogeyman.
The World Health Organization (WHO) — helping the Obama administration stir the pot on panicking
the public into believing a deadly viral pandemic is headed our way this Fall — is getting a big
leg up from the Discovery Channel. It's been a summer of Internet warnings "the pandemic is coming", and
now the Discovery Channel will telecast the definitive Viral Pandemic Survival Show. News of the coming
scare show is available courtesy of Kurt Nimmo at Infowars, those folk challenged by mainstream media as
"conspiracy theory advocates".
That sounds to me
like an example of Low-level environmental terrorism.
Some economists warn Barack Obama's economic
predictions too optimistic. President Barack Obama's economic forecasts for long-term growth are
too optimistic, many economists warn, a miscalculation that would mean budget deficits will be much higher
than the administration is now acknowledging. The White House will be forced to confront the disconnect
between its original, upbeat predictions and the mainstream consensus about how the economy is likely to
perform in a new budget forecast to be unveiled next month.
Cap and Trade; a Solution to a Non-existent
Problem with Devastating Consequences. D.H. Lawrence said, "
Never trust the teller. Trust
the tale." But what happens if the tale is wrong? What happens if the teller knows or should
know the tale is wrong? The key word is trust. A relationship must have trust. A society can
only exist with trust. Political leaders can only succeed with trust. Trust cannot exist when an
unnecessary end is reached by false means, which is happening with the US climate and energy policies.
Did
someone mention Cap and Trade?
The U.S. Government's
Climate Con-job. Suppose a company doctored data, misrepresented study findings, replaced observations
with computer simulations and hired PR flacks to promote its new "wonder drug." News stories, congressional
hearings and subpoenas would be in overdrive. Fines and jail sentences would follow. And rightly
so. But the standards change when "climate catastrophe" is involved.
Overheated White House
Environmental Campaigns. [President Obama] has said on global warming, "The science is beyond
dispute and the facts are clear. Sea levels are rising. Coastlines are shrinking. We've seen
record drought, spreading famine and storms that are growing stronger with each passing hurricane season."
Fortunately for the world, not a single one of those claims is accurate.
Obama Revisionism.
During his 4th of July message to the United States, Barack Obama engaged in another round of historical revisionism.
Many have probably not heard the speech ... but the message Obama attempted to sell was a clear distortion of the founding
principles of the United States. Uneducated or undereducated Americans, the products of liberal, politically correct
"instruction" in most public schools, probably would not be able to challenge his slick, deceitful incorporation of the
founding generation into a speech about big government.
Still Decoding Obama.
I recently devoted a piece to trying to decode President Obama. In reading more of his comments, I've
noticed a tendency that now almost qualifies as a reflex: the more strongly the president denies
something — and especially, the more he mocks his critics and feigns amusement at what they
say — the greater the odds are that he will do what he denies.
Imagine what he thinks of
cigarettes. This gem just in from Tuesday's press conference: Obama: "At a time of
great fiscal challenges, this legislation [Waxman-Markey bill coming to the House floor Friday] is paid for
by the polluters who currently emit the dangerous carbon emissions that contaminate the water we drink and
pollute the air we breathe."
The Editor says...
Even Obama's speech writers and teleprompter operators can't possibly believe that carbon dioxide
pollutes "the water we drink" and "the air we breathe." When you turn on your garden hose,
if carbonated water comes out of it, you'll have the greenest grass in town. Simply stated,
carbon dioxide is not a pollutant.
Understanding the Age
of Obama. Are you confused by all that has changed since President Barack Obama took office in
January? If so, you're not alone. ... Wanting to cut $17 billion from the budget, as President
Obama has promised, is proof of financial responsibility. Borrowing $1.84 trillion this year for
new programs is "stimulus." The old phrase "out-of-control spending" is inoperative.
Obama: America
"One of the Largest Muslim Countries in the World". As we noted earlier, and as ABC now confirms, Obama's
speech in Cairo will focus on his Muslim roots and the unique perspective it provides him. Obama also teased the
contents of the speech in an interview with a French television station: "...Now, the flip side is I think that the
United States and the West generally, we have to educate ourselves more effectively on Islam. And one of the points
I want to make is, is that if you actually took the number of Muslims Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim
countries in the world."
Obama's
Muslim comment sparks debate. President Obama's assertion that the United States is one of the world's
biggest Muslim countries has sparked debate about the comment's accuracy and how far the president will extend himself
to the Muslim world. "If you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim
countries in the world," the president told French television station Canal Plus on Monday [6/1/2009], the eve of
his five-day, overseas trip with stops in Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
The Not So Golden Mean.
The best way to view President Obama's speech in Cairo is to understand the way Obama views himself and the
rhetorical devices he employs. In this case, the key to unlocking Obama's speech may be Aristotle's golden
mean, the search for a mid-point between extremes. Obama's rhetorical template is an increasingly familiar
one: he gives voice to one side of a dispute and then the other.
Sorry Barack, but there were no Muslims on the
Mayflower. Speaking at the University of Cairo, President Barack Hussein Obama said that
Americans are indebted to Islam for the great contributions Muslims have made to the history and development
of the United States. "I know that Islam has always been a part of America's story," Mr. Obama told the
throng of unenlightened Muslims.
More
about Obama's speech in Cairo, June 4, 2009.
Obama pretends to be frugal as we sink deeper in
debt. Remember President Obama's New Era of Responsibility? It got off to an inauspicious
start, with a $787 billion economic stimulus package, a $410 billion appropriations bill, and a
record $1.8 trillion budget deficit. But now Obama wants to signal that he's getting serious
about cutting the federal budget. Unfortunately, his plan hinges on the assumption that Americans
do not know how to calculate percentages.
Biden Claims Stimulus Spending
Has Created 150,000 Jobs. Vice President Joe Biden last week claimed that the federal stimulus
spending program has created or saved 150,000 jobs since February, when President Barack Obama signed the
stimulus bill into law. ... However, the basis for his claim is elusive at best.
Relief is too
slow. President Obama's claim that his economic stimulus plan has "saved or created" 150,000 jobs
is all but meaningless, given a 9.4 percent unemployment rate. Nobody can measure plausibly a "saved"
job. ... But Democrats are touting the phony concept of "saved" jobs because they know it's impossible to
disprove, too. It's a lame attempt to spin criticism that the federal recession-fighting plan isn't
fighting the recession very effectively so far.
Untangling the Spaghetti. A couple
of years back, I happened to catch an intriguing headline up north. "The Canadian economy is picking up
steam," reported the CBC. Statistics Canada had just announced that "the economy added 56,100 new jobs,
two-thirds of them full time." ... But I was interested to know just what sectors these jobs had been created
in. And, upon investigation, it emerged that, of those 56,100 new jobs, 4,200 were self-employed, 8,900
were in private businesses, and the remaining 43,000 were on the public payroll. "The economy" hadn't
added those jobs; the government had: that's why they call it "creating" jobs.
Mission Accomplished?
Eight years after war was declared on the US and the most heinous attack on the USA was launched on American soil,
the war has been won (according to President Obama). Done. Over. Does not exist. No
need to call it the war on terror, so says Obama. Now it is merely an "overseas contingency operation".
The Politics of Stupidity: Crazy Word Games from Team
Obama. It looks like the "intelligence" in the Obama administration isn't too intellectual.
Instead of using the word "terrorism" to describe things such as the terrorist attack on 9/11, Janet Napolitano,
head of Obama's Department of Homeland Security, says we're now supposed to use the words "man-caused disasters."
That sounds like a wreck at the Indy 500. ... That change to nicer wording puts Mohamed Atta, ringleader of the
9/11 hijackings and the suspected pilot of the first plane to crash into the World Trade Center, in the same
boat as those folks who shipped the contaminated peanut butter from that plant in Blakely, Ga. Both
produced "man-caused disasters."
The Half-Penny Solution.
President Obama unveiled a budget Thursday with a 2010 price tag of $3.5 trillion financed with
$1.2 trillion of new debt. For domestic agencies, that's a 9.3% spending hike over last year.
Mr. Obama and his advisers know the public won't accept gigantic governmental expansions without at least some
effort to pare the waste in Washington. So they scrubbed "line by line" through this historically huge
budget and identified $16.7 billion of budget savings. This is less than a penny, about 0.47 cents,
of savings out of every dollar Uncle Sam will spend this year.
Rephrasing
Obama's lexicon. In the debate over his top environmental goals, President Obama is backing away
from "cap and trade." Not the policy. It's the phrase itself, deemed confusing by Democratic
pollsters, that has all but disappeared from the president's vocabulary of late. Now when Obama talks
about forcing companies to bid at auction for the right to emit greenhouse gases, he is more apt to mention
"market-based" proposals and "clean energy jobs," hinting at a rich new employment source.
Obama At the Plate.
It's been clear for some time that Barack Obama knows every technique in the debater's handbook, and he must have used most
of them during the course of that first White House press conference: There was the dubious revisionist history rolled
out ever so casually, as if it were accepted fact (tax cuts don't work); the assumption that any fault lies not in us but
elsewhere ... The man can say the most unbelievable things in the most matter-of-fact way, for example, his claim that
there's "not a single pet project" in his stimulus bill.
We don't have a moment to spare, but evidently we
have $1 trillion. Last October, while campaigning in Toledo, Barack Obama called for "a new
ethic of responsibility." The nation's economic troubles, he said, occurred partly because "everyone
was living beyond their means," including politicians who "spent money they didn't have." In his
inaugural address last month, Obama regretted "our collective failure to make hard choices" and heralded "a
new era of responsibility." Now President Obama, as one of his first priorities, is pushing a gargantuan
"stimulus" plan that will add around $1 trillion to the national debt and cannot possibly work as
advertised. Welcome to the new era of responsibility.
The Bread and Circuses Presidency.
Call it the Bread and Circuses Presidency, or better yet the Bailouts and Reality TV Presidency. Forget
expecting results or ethics from the occupant of the White House. Just join an organization or a cause
and stick your hand out for your share of of misappropriated taxpayer money, and get ready to vote online for
which puppy the Obamas should adopt.
Obama
is a Great Pretender. To those who believe that Barack Obama is a different kind of politician —
more honest, more courageous — please don't examine his administration's budget. If you do,
you may sadly conclude that he resembles presidents stretching back to John Kennedy in one crucial respect.
He won't tax voters for all the government services they want. That's the main reason we've run budget
deficits in 43 of the past 48 years.
Michelle Obama serves food
to D.C. poor and homeless, but... First Lady Michelle Obama showed up Thursday as a surprise
and welcome volunteer at Miriam's Kitchen, a soup kitchen for homeless poor people not far from the White
House. She brought with her some food donated by White House staff. ... [But] If this unidentified meal
recipient is too poor to buy his own food, how does he afford a cellphone? And if he is homeless, where
do they send the cellphone bills?
Obama's
Diversionary Tactics: Stickers and Straw Men. From unveiling new emblems to attacking
Rush Limbaugh, Obama sure knows how to change the subject from a tanking economy.
Obama: Pro-Israel
talk, anti-Israel walk. Barely a month into the presidency of Barack Obama, a profound
realization is spreading among the pro-Israel community: we do not have an ally in the White
House. ... So how exactly did this get by most Jewish voters during last year's election?
Ostracized by Obama.
President Obama has used events such as community discussion groups and last week's summit to foster the
impression that he is soliciting opinions from all angles of the health care debate, but the reality is a
lot different. Obscured by the Administration's theatrics is the fact that it has kept at bay those
who advocate free-market solutions rather than government-run health care.
Who's
Obama Kidding? In 2007, the federal budget deficit was $162 billion (1.2% of gross domestic
product). For 2009, the budget deficit is projected to be 11 times larger: $1.752 trillion.
... Nonetheless, contrary to the spin of big-government types, these deficits are not just temporary.
In fact, the Obama administration uses every trick in the book to convert an understandable and potentially
temporary budget lapse this year into a structural lack of fiscal responsibility.
No More of Obama's Talk,
Tone, or Temperament. Another "means into end" abuse of Obama's lies with the word "bipartisan."
Obama has used the word to suggest he is uniquely blessed with the skills to bring people who otherwise would
find it difficult to "come together" to satisfying compromises. Without the approval of both sides,
obviously, a result would not be bipartisan. So "bipartisan" as used by Obama is suggestive of a skill
and process in which he is skilled. Yet "bipartisan" has developed into an end in itself. ... The
process of actively engaging Republicans and incorporating their positions has turned into an end signified
by simple physical participation in photo opportunities.
Tim Geithner's
Black Hole. Pity Barack Obama's economic advisers. The blogs are now demanding their
scalps, and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and his colleagues face a nasty dilemma: There are no
solutions to the banking crisis without extraordinary political and financial risks. Thus, they have
adopted a three-pronged approach, delay, delay, delay, in the hope that somebody comes up with a breakthrough.
The President Politicizes Stem-Cell
Research. Yesterday President Barack Obama issued an executive order that authorizes expanded
federal funding for research using stem cells produced by destroying human embryos. The announcement
was classic Obama: advancing radical policies while seeming calm and moderate, and preaching the gospel
of civility while accusing those who disagree with the policies of being "divisive" and even "politicizing
science."
Obama's $80 Billion Exaggeration.
The basis for the president's proposal is a theoretical study published in 2005 by the RAND Corporation, funded
by companies including Hewlett-Packard and Xerox that stand to financially benefit from such an electronic
system. And, as the RAND policy analysts readily admit in their report, there was no compelling evidence
at the time to support their theoretical claims. Moreover, in the four years since the report,
considerable data have been obtained that undermine their claims. The RAND study and the Obama
proposal it spawned appear to be an elegant exercise in wishful thinking.
The Obama Rosetta Stone:
[Scroll down slowly] One of the first technical examinations of the Romer-Bernstein projections has
been released by Hoover Institution economists John Cogan and John Taylor, and German economists Tobias Cwik
and Volker Wieland. They conclude that the growth and jobs stimulus will be only one-sixth what the
administration predicts. In part, this is because people anticipate that the spending burst will have
to be financed by higher taxes and so will spend less than anticipated.
Obama has it both ways on pork.
President Barack Obama had it both ways Monday when he promoted his stimulus plan in Indiana. He bragged
about getting Congress to produce a package with no pork, yet boasted it will do good things for a Hoosier
highway and a downtown overpass, just the kind of local projects lawmakers lard into big spending bills.
Obama's sales pitch on the enormous package he wants Congress to make law has sizzle as well as steak.
He's projecting job creation numbers that may be impossible to verify and glossing over some ethical problems
that bedeviled his team.
The more things change. Barack Obama
is already finding things more complicated as commander-in-chief than when he only aspired to that
title. ... It was always easy, for instance, to fire up the fruitcake left by promising a quick withdrawal
from Iraq, but now, with responsibility for American security, which also means responsibility for security
in Iraq, rapid withdrawal suddenly becomes unfeasible.
Limbaugh Responds to
Obama. "If I can be made to serve as a distraction, then there is that much less time debating the merits
of the trillion dollar debacle. One more thing, Byron. Your publication and website have documented Obama's ties
to the teachings of Saul Alinksy while he was community organizing in Chicago. Here is Rule 13 of Alinksy's
Rules for Radicals: 'Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.'"
Obama
wields pen at historic pace. Looking to move quickly on his campaign promises, President Obama
has turned to the one tool that he has to ignore Congress and take unilateral action — he signed
eight executive orders in his first 11 days in office, making him by far the most activist new president
in modern history on that score.
Suddenly Obama has Muslim roots. During the U.S
presidential campaign, Barack Obama's handlers vigorously pointed out his Christian faith whenever the
misconception arose he may be Muslim (even though the politically correct response should have been his
religion doesn't matter). ... Once elected, however, he personally insisted on his middle name being spoken
at his swearing-in ceremony. And now — in a gesture to the Muslim world — he has
not only granted the first sit-down interview of his presidency to a pan-Arab television network, but uses the
occasion to gush about his Muslim ties.
Obama: A Profile in Cowardice.
Meet Barack Hussein Obama. The man who turned his own middle name into a no-go zone during the election,
only to bring it out of the closet when he trotted down to a Muslim country. The man whose associates
labeled talk about his Muslim background as racist, only to proclaim his Muslim background loudly and proudly
from the podium of a Muslim country. There's a word for a man like that. Coward.
Good Morning, Suckers.
Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats are playing the voters for fools with the so-called stimulus package.
The massive $825 billion package is not even targeted on programs to stimulate the economy. Instead,
it is laced with runaway government spending for increased welfare, overgrown bureaucracy, pork, political
payoffs, and other waste.
Did someone mention
the so-called stimulus bill?
Obama's
Collectivist Nationalism. Run-of-the-mill politicians try to hide their duplicity. Only
the most gifted of that profession brag that they intend to confound and confuse the public. Such an
effort is beyond ingenious; it is brazenly ingenuous. And it is working.
Four Safe Bets about Obama.
[Scroll down (obviously)] Second, we will hear more and more from Obama and his supporters about the severe difficulty
of the situation they face. The days of healing the planet and reversing the ocean tide are gone. Indeed, the
notion that we can expect any progress in 2009, we will be told, is utterly fanciful; just write it off. In fact, have
you noticed how everything seems harder now that Obama is president?
Obama's Administration of
Grand Gestures. In its first week the Obama administration revealed itself to be infatuated
with dramatic gestures and sweeping pronouncements: Guantanamo is going to be closed, enhanced
interrogation ended, Middle East peace re-established, Iraq to be "left" to the Iraqis, and bipartisanship
restored. But the reality is quite different, leaving open the question as to whether President Obama
really believes his own rhetoric or is slyly wielding symbolism to conceal the very familiar contours of his
not-so-groundbreaking policies.
Obama
runs into trouble with lobbying rules. President Obama's new lobbying rules that intended to close
the revolving door on lobbyists-turned-government officials have run into immediate complications. Obama
has granted some of his nominees waivers when it comes to their lobbyist past — an action that has
resulted in criticism from government watchdog groups.
The rules apply only when they are convenient.
Geithner names ex-lobbyist as
Treasury chief of staff. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner picked a former Goldman Sachs
lobbyist as a top aide Tuesday, the same day he announced rules aimed at reducing the role of lobbyists in
agency decisions. Mark Patterson will serve as Geithner's chief of staff at Treasury, which oversees the
government's $700 billion financial bailout program. Goldman Sachs received $10 billion of
that money.
Obama's Ethics Reform Promise
Faces Early Test. During almost two years on the campaign trail, Barack Obama vowed to slay the
demons of Washington, bar lobbyists from his administration and usher in what he would later call in his
Inaugural Address a "new era of responsibility." What he did not talk much about were the asterisks.
The exceptions that went unmentioned now include a pair of cabinet nominees who did not pay all of their taxes.
Then there is the lobbyist for a military contractor who is now slated to become the No. 2 official in the
Pentagon. And there are the others brought into government from the influence industry even if not
formally registered as lobbyists.
Obama's exec
orders have loopholes. President Obama's first moves earned him triumphant headlines:
"Obama Freezes Pay, Toughens Ethics and Lobbying Rules," and "Obama sets new course." But some of his
biggest accomplishments are twinned with the word "but": Lobbyists are banned, but exceptions can and
will be made; orders on ending torture and secret prisons contain loopholes and provisos. Call it the
fine print, an exception, a waiver, but there have been caveats to many of Mr. Obama's first actions.
The Editor says...
Loopholes, indeed. Sounds like
equivocation to me.
Watch out
Greens! Here Comes The Bus. Will Obama's environmental constituency get thrown under the
bus to make this pig of a stimulus bill fly? The only way large scale infrastructure projects will
stimulate in the near term is if all environmental regulations are bypassed and litigation resulting from
any construction collateral damage is squashed in advance.
Pentagon pick shows challenges of Obama's
ethics rules. The man President Obama nominated to become the No. 2 manager at the
Pentagon isn't the first person for that job to come from the defense industry. But Mr. Obama's own
executive order on ethics has now become a stumbling block as the White House seeks to push the former
lobbyist through confirmation.
Hope He Can Change.
[President Obama should] drop all the talk about the best, the most, the greatest ethical, moral, legal etc.
Just keep quiet and call in Senate leaders of both parties and show them the names of nominees and ask for
pre-hearing advice. I think Geithner cannot now stay: not when Obama confesses that Daschle had to
go to avoid two tax laws for elites and mass. But Geithner's sin was far worse, since he was the nominal
head of the IRS itself. He should step down, and Obama should likewise distance himself from Rangel.
Advice: Keep quiet and carry a big ethical stick.
Obama spokesman defends ethics
standards. Despite the tax problems faced by high-level nominees, and the exceptions made to
the no-lobbyists pledge, President Barack Obama's spokesman is defending the administration's ethical
standards. Robert Gibbs told reporters Tuesday [2/3/2009], "The bar that we set is the highest
that any administration in the country has ever set."
No Consensus on "Stimulus"
Bill. President Barack Obama has done more in the first three weeks of his presidency to validate the suspicions
of his critics than I thought possible. But of all his objectionable actions, nothing compares to his falsely labeled
"stimulus" bill, which he is trying to force upon us with fear and deception.
Obama's
Un-Nourishing Prayer Breakfast: No one wants to stir up controversy regarding an annual gathering meant
to unify religious believers, so it's understandable that press and pundits largely ignored President Obama's profoundly
peculiar remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast on February 5th. Nevertheless, his brief prepared talk (the
White House released a text of his comments before he spoke) February 5th in the nation's capital contained so many
provocations, contradictions and flat-footed misstatements that they deserve more serious attention than they've received.
Obama's Doomsday Scenario Doesn't Add
Up. In Elkhart, Ind., on Monday, President Obama spoke as if America were approaching a doomsday
that only a massive increase in government could avert. ... Do we really face the possibility of an irreversible
crisis? Well, yes. Not the one Obama describes, but the one he may cause.
Obama's Failed and Tired Ideas From the
Past. The entire U.S. GDP is roughly $14 trillion. The government currently spends roughly
$3.5 trillion of that. In his stimulus plan, Obama proposes effectively to borrow another $1 trillion from
the private economy to add to $1 trillion in still further government spending. How exactly is that supposed to
stimulate economic growth and recovery? Is America's economic growth and prosperity produced by increased government
spending, deficits, and debt? I don't think so. The American people don't either.
Our Clever President.
[Scroll down] Along with a fair amount of blarney, Joe Biden also makes more honest and candid observations in an
afternoon than many politicians make in a lifetime. One comes away from a conversation with Biden with at least one
truthful nugget. The same cannot be said for President Obama. Both Monday night and usually, the president
offers his audience one of the finest verisimilitudes of sincerity and manly vigor this side of an old Laurence Olivier
performance of "Henry V."
Reaganomics vs. Obamanomics: In his
inaugural address, President Barack Obama said, "The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or
too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford,
a retirement that is dignified." ... Unfortunately, this rhetoric is not true. Mr. Obama's economic policy is
following not what has been proven to work but liberal ideology. The best way to understand this is to compare
what's being proposed now with what Ronald Reagan accomplished.
Doomsday scenario doesn't add
up. Do we really face the possibility of an irreversible crisis? Well, yes. Not the one Mr.Obama
describes, but the one he may cause. Forget, for a moment, the economic weathermen forecasting the economic
equivalent of global warming. Look instead at the historical data. Claims Mr. Obama, "We have inherited an
economic crisis as deep and as dire as any since the Great Depression." But the historical figures for the gross
domestic product (GDP), calculated by the U.S.Bureau Economic Analysis, say something else.
Failure To Launch. Even
before winning the election, [Obama] began assembling a much-vaunted "team of rivals" to guide U.S. foreign and domestic
policy. ... We were assured that the Obama administration would be ready on "day one." Apparently, that's not the case.
Fiscal
Stimulus Is a Ruse Absent Fed Pixie Dust. It's a jobs-creation program. No, it's
investment in our future. It's a tax-relief plan. Wait, it provides assistance to consumers
hardest hit by the economic recession. It's legislation to jump-start the economy. No, it's a
recovery program. It's a life raft for state and local governments. It's a spending bill.
Which is it? Fiscal stimulus is all things to all people. In other words, it represents the
triumph of faith over reason.
Dukes of Moral Hazard.
[Scroll down] In part to avoid putting an astronomical price tag on this plan, the Administration doesn't
necessarily fix loans for the long term. In fact, the program encourages mortgage servicers to keep the
payments low only for five years, after which rates will rise. During the housing bubble, these were
called "teaser" rates. ... What investors, businesses and working Americans want to hear is a President with
ideas to spur economic recovery. What they've been getting are plans for a long national Chapter 11
workout.
Bogus Bipartisanship.
A timely front page article in the February 4th Washington Post provided desperately needed insight into the most
misunderstood term in Washington today. Of course, I refer to the term "bipartisan." The media
demands it. The political pundits love it. It polls extremely well — almost as high as
"change." It is antithetical to its ugly twin — "partisan." ... So, what
does it
mean?
Picking
Winners and Losers by Executive Fiat. [Scroll down] Perhaps the most chilling aspect of this particularly
noxious stealth provision of the stimulus scheme is not what's in it, but how it — and other such free
market-destroying provisions — were rushed through under deliberate cover of darkness. McCaughey attributes
this strategy to Daschle, as well. A year ago, McCaughey tells us, Daschle warned that the next president should not
make the same mistake the Clintons made with Hillary Care, which was to allow debate. Daschle wrote: "If that
means attaching a health-care plan to the federal budget, so be it. The issue is too important to be stalled by
Senate protocol." So much for "liberal" democracy. So much for transparency. So much for a new era of
hope and change.
Obama
administration lobbyist count increases. Washington lobbyist Christine Varney is poised to take her
third pass through the revolving door of lobbying and government with her nomination by President Barack Obama to
be his administration's top antitrust enforcer. Also, on Thursday, Obama nominated Derek
Douglas, a former lobbyist for the O'Melveny & Myers law firm and Center for American Progress, as special
assistant on urban affairs.
Obama's First Month:
Obama may not be eloquent, but he is glib and clever and at times persuasive. One of his favorite rhetorical devices
is setting up a straw man, then knocking it down. He invoked this classic ploy subtly in his inaugural address,
crudely in his press conference. "We will restore science to its rightful place," Obama said at his inauguration.
Really? Where had science been? "We are ready to lead once more," he said, as if we —
America — hadn't been. He may have disapproved of the prior administration's policies in the world, but that
doesn't mean it wasn't leading. Also in his inaugural speech, Obama said, "we can no longer afford indifference to
suffering outside our borders." When we were indifferent? Not in Obama's lifetime.
Orwell Knew. After a month in
complete control of the federal government, Democrats in Congress and the White House have quickly dispensed with any notion
that we have entered into a new post-partisan era of governance. Their campaign claims of wanting to govern inclusively
were greeted with optimism by the more gullible among us. However, their recent actions leave no doubt as to their
true intentions. They will push through whatever they want whenever they want. The minority party need not
participate.
'Absurd' Understates Obama
Plan. Many are in favor of the Obama Housing Plan that was announced on Wednesday, February 18, 2009.
It was touted as the first plan designed to help struggling homeowners who were unable to refinance because they owe more than
their homes are worth. ... The plan isn't all it's cracked up to be. There are several issues on both the homeowner
and investor side as well as the lender and builder side that make this plan problematic in the long term.
Fuzzy
Green Math: There's something odd in what the administration is telling the press.
According to Greenwire: "The climate program would generate nearly $650 billion between 2012 and
2019, according to Obama's proposal. About $80 billion of the climate revenues would go toward
Obama's proposed middle-class tax cut each year beginning in 2012, the draft says, and the government
would spend $15 billion per year on 'clean' energy technologies." This is absurd on its face, of
course: $650 billion taken in over 8 years, used in part to fund $640 billion over
the same period to help ease the pain it causes, and the ... er, remaining ... $120 billion going for
green pork, leaving us a balance of
minus $110 billion.
Common sense missing in Obama
bailout. There's a reason that English is the most widely spoken language on the planet:
It's the most highly adaptable, capable of evolving to meet new needs in the blink of an eye. For
example: Just last year, offering mortgages at a cheaper-than-market teaser interest rate with little
or no money down was known as "predatory lending." But conditions changed — specifically,
the party occupying the White House — and now we call that style of lending "national policy."
Obama's
trillions dwarf Bush's 'dangerous' spending. Pelosi and Reid called Bush's budgets "dangerous"
and "unpatriotic," but with Obama, they've changed their tune.
Read Obama's Lips.
Obama seems intent on running a permanent campaign, and he's still making the kind of over-the-top promises
that campaigns toss around like Monopoly money. In this speech he promised cap and trade and health care
reform this year. He promised universal college education. He promised a cure for cancer.
Obama also promised that he, too, would "sacrifice some worthy priorities for which there are no
dollars." ... It's only been a few weeks, but so far all the American people have to show for Obama's
election is $1 trillion in new debt and a thousand point drop in the Dow.
Judging Obama:
Obama promises to "save or create" 3.5 million jobs, but if the unemployment rate is unchanged in four
years, do we credit Obama for saving 3.5 million jobs that would have been lost? If new jobs are
created, should stimulus get the credit? If the gain is in the government sector or in areas fed by
taxpayer money, how do we know that the job creation didn't crowd out the creation of more and more productive
jobs?
The Obama
Way: Hit the Ground Promising. One of President Obama's first actions on his first
full day in office was to announce a pay freeze for White House staff. ... The original
intent to
freeze salaries was announced to the press, dutifully reported by the press, put in writing and made
available on the White House's web site. The actual "report" was an oral one, given in private,
with no known details, and we know this only from an unnamed spokesman. And still no pay freeze.
This is worth noting only in respect to the insight it gives us into how business is conducted in the Obama
White House. Announce something good-sounding, follow it up with nothing real, and no one's the wiser.
President's Inner Circle Has
Earmarks in Omnibus. Funny how items show up in spending bills without any notice —
like an earmark for a president who promised not to seek any. President Obama, who took a no-earmark
pledge on the campaign trail, is listed as one of dozens of cosponsors of a $7.7 million set-aside in the
fiscal 2009 omnibus spending bill passed by the House on Wednesday. But not for long. On Thursday,
Rob Blumenthal, a spokesman for the Senate Appropriations Committee said the one earmark in the bill that
carries Obama's name will be edited. The committee will attribute that earmark to other senators on
the list of that provision's supporters, but not Obama.
The Difference Between Change
and Reform. Republican candidates now have talking points about Democrats: The party that talks
about ethical government but hires tax cheats; The party that talks about open government but practices lobbyist-friendly
government; The party that talks about stimulus but enacts "porkulus." Above all the Democratic Party is the
party that takes care of its special interests before it steps up to fix the credit system, a party that reverses welfare
reform without even a public hearing, a party that criticized a president's defense policies for eight years and then
turned around and continued them.
Obama's Phony
Pullout: Forcefully delivered, his speech to the Marines served up more waffles than the International
House of Pancakes. Consider his big sound bite: "Let me say this as plainly as I can: by August 31,
2010, our combat mission in Iraq will end." What does
that mean? Will the 50,000 troops he intends
to leave in Iraq, the trainers and maintainers, be forbidden to defend themselves? Are they just going to
hang out?
Obama Dons the Presidential Cloak. The
White House no longer uses the phrase "stimulus package." They always say "recovery plan." Stimulus is
yesterday. When you say it, they give you a wonderfully blank-eyed look and two sentences later weave in the
phrase "recovery program."
The Power Of Life And Death Is
In Our Words. Words can shield the most blatant reality. Legislation to take away workers'
rights to a secret ballot, when deciding whether or not they want to be represented by a labor union, is
called the "Employee Free Choice Act." The merits or demerits of this legislation have seldom been
debated. Who could be against "freedom of choice"? The Obama administration's new budget, with
deficits that make previous irresponsible deficits look like child's play, has a cover that says "A New Era
of Responsibility." You want responsibility? He'll give you the word "responsibility." Why
not? It costs nothing.
Congress to Erase Obama's Name From
Earmark. Congress will scrub President Obama's name from a list of earmark cosponsors in the $410 billion
omnibus spending bill. The reason: Whether Obama cosponsored the earmark depends on what the definition of
earmark is and when an earmark becomes an earmark, according to the Senate Appropriations Committee. The
provision itself is still considered an earmark, and it's staying in the bill (HR 1105) — but it's
losing the Obama brand.
The Return of Big
Government. Twice last week, [President Obama] insisted he doesn't favor "big government." Then he
proposed a budget that would vastly expand the size and reach of the federal government, add $600 billion to the
deficit, and produce a one-year shortfall of $1.2 trillion (or more). This prompted House Republican leader
John Boehner to proclaim, quite accurately, that the "era of big government is back."
The word is subterfuge.
How Obama's team gets his
messages out while you're not looking. Here's how President Obama's team is using his vast donor
e-mailing list to circumvent any intermediaries and get his pure political message out to millions of supporters
to marshal support for whatever he wants, in this case support for his budget: They send out an e-mail to
an estimated 12 million or 13 million names with a short text message from David Plouffe, the political
campaign's manager and now the campaign manager for "Obama for America."
He'll Only Break Your
Heart. Remember when he told you he would have the most transparent government in history?
He vowed to have a "clean break from business as usual" and said he would protect you from the undue
influence of lobbyists. And what has happened since he made this promise? How many have been
granted an exception? If he respected you, would he make a promise that he knew he would break?
If he cared about you, would he walk all over you?
More on earmarks: Obama's chief of
staff has some in bill. Even though President Barack Obama has repeatedly pledged to ban
congressional earmarks, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has 16 such projects, worth about
$8.5 million, in the bill the Senate is scheduled to begin debating Tuesday. The earmarks
include funds for a Chicago planetarium and a Chicago suburb. Obama has been relentless in
criticizing the use of earmarks; in his address to a joint session of Congress last week, he
boasted how the economic stimulus package was "free of earmarks."
The Never-ending
Surge. It turns out that $1.6 trillion of the "savings" Obama is anticipating are based
on the surge in Iraq continuing for 10 more years — even though Obama has already
announced all combat troops will be out of Iraq by 2010 and the Status of Forces Agreement is set
for 2011.
It's
Not the Economy, Stupid — It's Limbaugh. As the tax-and-spend policies of the Obama
administration extend and deepen the recession, the new administration's strategy to deal with the fallout
becomes clearer and clearer. Blame Rush Limbaugh.
The Magic of Barack
Obama. [Scroll down] Obama shamelessly says his trillion-dollar "stimulus" plan from
which taxpayers will be enslaved for generations, will cut the taxes of the 95%. "That's insane," you
might exclaim. Well, yes, if words retain their customary meaning. When Obama said in 2004 that
people don't want their tax money wasted, the meaning of the word "wasted" is the key to understanding
The One. Obama believes that "reinvesting" tax money into the welfare system is a responsible use
of government-forced contributions from the "wealthy." When Obama speaks of tax cuts, often he is
actually speaking of redistributing tax money. In Obama's world, government spending can actually
mean cutting taxes. Words take on new meaning when Obama the Great performs his magic.
Barack
Obama's most troubling tendency. There are many things that bug me about Barack Obama —
the insane laundry list speeches, the silly rhetoric, the hostility to the free market — but these
are all talked about. He has another habit that hasn't been talked about so much and, of all the
things he does, it makes me the most queasy.
The Stupid
Party. The economy is nowhere near recovery. The banks remain plagued with toxic
assets. The markets are engaged in a limbo contest. Congress is about to take up a budget
that will increase the national debt and decrease the chances for long-term growth. But don't
worry! Lucky for us, the Obama administration, its allies in the Democratic party, and the media
have decided to lead the country in a debate over who the leader of the Republican party is.
Deception at
Core of Obama Plans. "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste," said Chief of Staff Rahm
Emanuel. "This crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things that you could not do before."
Things. Now we know what they are. The markets' recent precipitous decline is a reaction not just
to the absence of any plausible bank rescue plan, but also to the suspicion that Obama sees the continuing
financial crisis as usefully creating the psychological conditions — the sense of crisis bordering
on fear-itself panic — for enacting his "Big Bang" agenda to federalize and/or socialize health
care, education and energy, the commanding heights of post-industrial society.
The Big Tent in the
Wilderness: Would parents wish success for a math teacher who taught their children that
two plus two equals five? No, they would hope for the teacher's failure and firing. A president
who proposes policies based on falsehoods deserves no less. ... At this moment in American history,
"bipartisanship" is just another complacent name for tyranny.
The Obama Double Tax
Whammy: President Obama's proposal to provide only a 28 percent benefit for charitable
contributions by top-bracket taxpayers is part of a double whammy, since he proposes at the same time to
raise the top bracket from 35 to 39.6 percent. The double-barreled increase/decrease reflects
a two-part strategy that is much more than a simple tax increase. Less civil society and more government
power is the result.
Unbelievable, Isn't It?
Wasn't it Obama's political hit men who cooked up the scheme to Limbaugh-ize the GOP? Wasn't it Gibbs and
Rahm Emanuel who egged on reporters? It is not the Republicans who are claiming Limbaugh should be
crowned head of the party. To the contrary the GOP's elected leaders have been imploring the media to get
back to the economy, the grotesque omnibus spending bill, and, frankly, the president's cluelessness about the
market crash.
Hint: They were promised a tax cut during the Obama campaign.
Who Pays for Cap and Trade?
Cap and trade is the tax that dare not speak its name, and Democrats are hoping in particular that no one notices
who would pay for their climate ambitions. With President Obama depending on vast new carbon revenues in
his budget and Congress promising a bill by May, perhaps Americans would like to know the deeply unequal ways
that climate costs would be distributed across regions and income groups.
Obama's Political
Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome. The country cared little that much of FDR's "New Deal" policies
had been originated by Hoover, or that Roosevelt and his "Brain Trust" viewed the Country's dire situation as
chance to experiment. Action was called for and what mattered most was
change. FDR (Obama)
appeared to be so caring and attentive, few suspected any wrongdoing. Just as in the case of the abusive
parent, FDR (Obama) was jovial, cool, and unusually calm in the face of serious adversity. In both
versions of MPS, blame is typically placed on a previous caregiver as part of the deception and to provide a
scapegoat. ... The denial of reality is crucial.
Present at the
creation. President Obama, who repeatedly criticized earmarks while campaigning last year, is
supposedly not happy with the 9,000 projects individual legislators tacked onto the $410 billion spending
bill, but his boss will sign the bill anyway, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel says. It's hard to
believe Mr. Obama is really unhappy with earmarks, which date back to last year when the bill was starting its
trek through Congress.
Anatomy of
Vero Possumus. It is odd that after five weeks we can pretty much see the next four years. ... We
will get utopian rhetoric about a new ethical bar, followed by the nominations of serial tax dodgers, lobbyists,
and DC insiders. We will hear sermons about a new bipartisanship, followed by comical attacks on talk
radio, and deeming "unpatriotic" any who resent the ramming through of the largest increase in debt in
a half-century.
The
Orwellian Presidential Bully Pulpit. The president brazenly sermonizes against scientifically
challenged conservatives while triggering federal funding of research that is scientifically controversial and
preparing to impose cap and trade penalties on corporate America in deference to global warming junk science.
While you won't hear much about this in the mainstream media, there is a meeting currently taking place in
New York City that serves as an ironic backdrop for Obama's embryonic stem cell order.
Obama
grants two more lobbyists waivers. President Obama has issued waivers allowing two appointees
who were formerly registered lobbyists to work for his administration. The waivers ensure the two
appointees can work for the administration under his executive order on ethics, which was intended to
reform the revolving door between K Street and the government.
Obama's New 'Council on Women' Seen As
Vehicle to Promote Feminist Agenda. President Barack Obama on Wednesday created a new bureaucracy to
deal with women's health, domestic violence and economic security. But some conservatives fear the new council will
actively promote the feminist agenda in the government. ... Although the president did not say exactly what issues
the council would address, the group is likely to promote feminist causes such as expanded litigation and the abortion
rights, said Janice Crouse, a senior fellow at Concerned Women for America, a conservative advocacy group.
Obama's
Impractical Pragmatism. The Obama administration is nothing if not pragmatic, we're told.
Obama is not guided by ideology, according to his hagiographers in the press, but is instead simply committed
to doing what works. And that may be true, if you understand that to mean what works politically for
Obama. It's pragmatism, true enough, but pragmatism in the cause of satisfying Democratic interest
groups.
Wrong Move: Obama's
Liberal Agenda. Obama's proposed budget shows all the vision, restraint and grace of a grasping committee
chairman, using the cover of a still-unresolved banking crisis to push through a broad liberal wish list before anyone
notices its costs and complications. The pledge of "responsibility" has become the massive expansion of debt, the
constant allocation of blame to others and the childish cultivation of controversy with conservative media figures to
favorably polarize the electorate. The pledge of "honesty" and "sacrifice" has become the deceptive guarantee of
apparently limitless public benefits at the expense of a very few.
Obama Administration Declares Proposed IP Treaty
a 'National Security' Secret. President Barack Obama came into office in January promising a new era of
openness. But now, like Bush before him, Obama is playing the national security card to hide details of the
controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement being negotiated across the globe.
Copyright treaty is classified for 'national security'.
Last September, the Bush administration defended the unusual secrecy over an anti-counterfeiting treaty being negotiated
by the U.S. government, which some liberal groups worry could criminalize some peer-to-peer file sharing that infringes
copyrights. Now President Obama's White House has tightened the cloak of government secrecy still further, saying
in a letter this week that a discussion draft of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement and related materials are
"classified in the interest of national security pursuant to Executive Order 12958."
From Catastrophe to Not
so Bad? Talk of the Great Depression was necessary to enact a massive spending bill with a $1.6 trillion
deficit; then, once the European-like spending was in place, it was important to flip, drop the gloom and doom, and talk
up the economy for the midterm elections to come.
Please Get Serious, Mr. President.
[Scroll down] Optimism and patience were not on offer just a few weeks ago, when the president was telling us
we were on the verge of CATASTROPHE!!!! unless Congress immediately authorized the spending of some $800 billion.
Obama is asking us to believe that the so-called stimulus was both necessary and sufficient to turn things around in less
than a month. He is straining the limits of our credulity and testing the limits of his own credibility.
The Obama
3-Step. Barack Obama has perfected a three-step maneuver that could never even be attempted by a
politician lacking his rhetorical skill or cool cynicism. First: Denounce your presidential predecessor
for a given policy, energizing your party's base and capitalizing on his abiding unpopularity. Second:
Pretend to have reversed that policy upon taking office with a symbolic act or high-profile statement. Third:
Adopt a version of that same policy, knowing that it's the only way to govern responsibly or believing doing otherwise
is too difficult.
Global gun control: There
may good reasons for deploying the National Guard along the U.S.-Mexican border, but illegal firearms isn't one of them.
The administration recently launched a study to examine whether soldiers should patrol the Southern border to staunch the
flow of firearms headed for drug dealers in Latin America. The silence you hear is the concern about armed drug gangs
headed here. In short, the administration seems more concerned about the guns going south than the non-citizens
streaming north.
Obama,
Kruschev, and Limbaugh. Today, I heard the latest pronouncement from our glorious leader, the
great and powerful Oz. He said he didn't want Americans whipsawed by bursts of either bad or good news,
and that he was highly optimistic about our economic future. Oddly enough, yesterday he announced that
this was the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. So the way I figure it, in order to avoid
being whipsawed, the secret is to only listen to Obama on either odd or even days of the week.
Electing a Child to be President.
[Obama] had, on taking office, already written two autobiographical memoirs, but people are slowly becoming aware
of the fact that there is virtually no paper trail by which to measure him. His birth certificate and legal
standing to be President are in dispute. Records from his college days are hidden from view. His
record as a one-term Illinois legislator is replete with "present" votes that revealed little about his political
positions. He did not even wait to complete a full term as a U.S. Senator before almost immediately beginning
to run for the highest office in the land. In terms of political leadership, he is a child among grownups
and a petulant one at that.
March Madness: How the White House Plays
Defense. Part of the Obama mystique — one his own aides work hard to promote — is
that he and his team are sublimely calm and collected, too cool to care about Washington chatter, too disciplined
to be thrown off message by the uproar du jour. The reality is that the Obama team can be every bit as
reactive and improvisational as any other political operation.
The Banality of Obama:
Pundits have been critiquing the new administration for its socialism, for its willful ignorance of foreign policy,
for its puerile missteps, but the salient fact of the Obama Presidency is its banality. He who promised
change has dredged up the failed nostrums of the past as if they were something new and fresh. In fact,
the ordinariness, the dullness, the lifelessness of the Obama Administration is obvious.
Mr. President: War Is Not
A 'Struggle' Or 'Situation'. First, President Obama jettisoned the admittedly empty and useless
phrase "war on terror," a label which pleased pretty much no one, primarily because it didn't specify an
enemy; it's often been pointed out that the phrase was like calling World War II a "war on blitzkrieg."
Next, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano avoided even mentioning the word "terrorism" in her first
congressional testimony. Now the Department of Justice has announced it is dropping the legal designation
"enemy combatants," which referred to suspected terrorist detainees. The aim of all this muting of the
language in the War with No Name is twofold: for the Obama administration to distance itself from George W.
Bush's "politics of fear," and to whitewash a plain fact that liberals are suicidally reluctant to
acknowledge — that we are at war with radical Islam.
Obama's rhetoric and reality clash.
Barack Obama's optimistic campaign rhetoric has crashed headlong into the stark reality of governing. In office
two months, he has backpedaled on an array of issues, shifting positions as circumstances dictate while ducking for
political cover to avoid undercutting his credibility and authority. That's happened on the Iraq troop withdrawal
timeline, on lobbyists in his administration and on money for lawmakers' pet projects.
The "Depression" for
Us Idiots. I feel like Winston Smith in Oceania, confused about all the doublethink coming out of Washington.
Great Depression — no Great Depression. Recession for years; its end at the end of this year. Signing
statements bad; signing statements good. Fundamentals hardly strong; fundamentals really sound. Earmarks terrible;
8,000 wonderful. Bush's $500 billion deficit reckless; Obama's $1.7 [trillion] sober and judicious; Iraq
horrific and the worst whatever; Iraq suddenly quiet, democratic, and hopeful; highest ethical bar in an administration
ever — Richardson, Daschle, Killefer, Solis, etc. cannot meet the lowest; ... Obama not to be blamed for
massive collapse of stock prices since November; Obama to be praised for modest gains last week. At some point,
someone in the media must be getting embarrassed that they are all working at the Ministry of Truth.
Obama toils as communicator. Before
he took office, White House aides told us Obama would spend his first months telling hard truths about the complexity
of the economic problems and the complexity of the solutions. There's been very little of that. ... One reason
is that White House officials aren't anxious to explain the depths of the problems. They tell us they
anticipate unemployment to exceed 10 percent next year...
The Myth of the 46 Million:
Whether it's in political speeches, commentary, newspaper features, or hard news stories, the statistic of 46 million
uninsured is one of the most-widely cited numbers in the health care debate. It promotes the idea that nearly one out
of every six Americans does not have access to health care and it plays into the arguments of those calling for massive
expansion of government to fix the problem. Yet the ubiquitous figure is highly misleading.
New Obama lOgO for RecOvery.gOv.
Guess what it lOOks like? [It has] gears to represent the American automobile industry that's on its way
out and the manufacturing sector that's already vanished from the land. It has eight stars to represent, uh, some
of the 13 original Colonies. It's got the "website number" that Vice President Biden couldn't remember on TV.
And the new logo has poison ivy leaves to represent the green revolution that hasn't quite caught on yet because few
people can afford the extra costs that come with it and the ones that can are gonna get taxed extra because they can
afford it and didn't vote for the winner anyway.
Obama: Editor in chief? At
4:52 p.m., the White House sent out embargoed excerpts from President Obama's planned remarks
tonight. ... But then at 5:16 p.m., the White House sent out revised — and now
unembargoed — excerpts from the president's comments. But there were two changes in wording
between the two versions that were an indication that the White House was continuing to tinker with the
language even as airtime approached.
The butler did it. It was the mystery
of the week in Washington: Who stuck that language into the stimulus bill allowing $165 billion in
bonuses to the very executives at AIG (Americans Into Government, Inc.) who had just about ruined that
financial insurance company and a good part of the American economy with it?
Obama's Prime Time Pitch. President Obama
sometimes strayed from the facts or made dubious claims during his hour-long evening news conference
March 24. He said his budget projections are based on economic assumptions that "are perfectly
consistent with what Blue Chip forecasters out there are saying." Not true. ... He said he is reducing
"nondefense discretionary spending" to less than it was under the past four presidents. Not true.
Barack Obama's delivery
of no news is quite smooth. Obama created real problems in his first national news conference
by promising Geithner would deliver too much the next day. And when the inarticulate bureaucrat didn't,
the markets plummeted. But this news conference seemed anticlimactic. At times the president
appeared to be mailing in his delivery. He made no notable news and did so quite smoothly. Unless
sticking by his guns over cutting charitable deductions is news.
Obama
Scraps 'Global War on Terror' for 'Overseas Contingency Operation'. The Obama administration has
ordered an end to use of the phrase "Global War on Terror," a label adopted by the Bush administration shortly
after the September 11, 2001 attacks, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday. In a memo sent this
week from the Defense Department's office of security to Pentagon staffers, members were told, "this
administration prefers to avoid using the term 'Long War' or 'Global War on Terror' [GWOT.] Please use
'Overseas Contingency Operation.'"
Homeland Linguistics.
The Obama administration has made great changes in the way we handle national security. And judging by
its actions so far, it seems that the most important failing of the previous administration has been in
semantics. The changes started with Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano deciding that the
word "terrorism" was too harsh. She has made a point of not using it, opting instead for "man-caused
disasters." That was merely phase one.
Transparent
Obfuscation. One problem with the Obama financial rescue plan is that it is almost as
complicated and obscure as the problem it is designed to solve. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner,
testifying yesterday [3/26/2009] on Capitol Hill, called for greater simplicity in financial regulation.
Good luck with that.
FCC Won't Allow 'Diversity' Chief Mark Lloyd to be Interviewed
about Public Policy Views. The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) won't allow its Chief Diversity
Officer Mark Lloyd to be interviewed by the news media about his views and past statements on federal communications
policy. Lloyd, who cites the radical author Saul Alinsky as an inspiration, has argued that public broadcasting
outlets in the United States should be funded on a level equal to the funding of private broadcasting companies —
with the money coming from licensing fees levied on private broadcasters by the government.
Obama, Charity, and
Fairness. Leave it to Barack Obama to justify a tax proposal that would significantly reduce
the amounts going to charity — on grounds the proposal is necessary for "fairness."
Taking Debt To The Next
Frontier. In his budget message, the president says "the time has come to usher in a new era
of responsibility." But a new report shows the only thing his budget delivers is an unprecedented era
of deficits and debt.
Congressman Wants to Know Why
Geithner Contradicted Congressional Testimony in 24 Hours. Geithner told Congress under oath
Tuesday [3/24/2009] that he wouldn't consider China's proposal to shift away from the U.S. dollar toward a world
currency — then the following day said the U.S. would "be open" to the idea. Rep. John
Shadegg (R.-Ariz.) thinks the Treasury secretary's swift about face demands an explanation.
It's Not the Economy, Stupid. If the
multi-trillion-dollar credit card, massive redistribution schemes, and behemoth budget seem so zany, why is anyone
continuing to think of any of this is economic policy at all? Why don't we think of it as, well,
politics? Shrewd and well-played politics at that. For if we do, everything the current leadership
is doing makes perfect sense.
1984 in 2009. Last
week President Obama announced that we would no longer call enemy combatants "Enemy Combatants." Yesterday
[3/26/2009] the Office of Management and Budget sent a memo instructing people who are fighting the Global War
on Terror that it was no longer Global, nor a War, nor had anything to do with Terror.
Hiding
a Mountain Of Debt. With a bit of bookkeeping legerdemain borrowed from the Bush
administration, the Democratic Congress is about to perform a cover-up on the most serious threat
to America's economic future. That threat is not the severe recession, tough as that is for
the families and businesses struggling to make ends meet. In time, the recession will end, and last
week's stock market performance hinted that we may not have to wait years for the recovery to begin.
Obama's
War on English. In an age when a waiter is a server, an actress is a female actor, and a
dubiously-competent socialist cult leader is an American president, it was only a matter of time before
the "Global War on Terror" became an "Overseas Contingency Operation" (OCO). Thus Spoke Zarathustra
this week via a memo sent to the Pentagon and select speech writers, officially establishing Team Obama's
redesigned terminology. The War is over, long live the Operation! ... Victory through euphemism!
Speaking Obama.
In order for us morons on the right to understand the newspeak of the Obama administration I offer this
glossary of terms before and after being "Obamized." Feel free to add to my list while you are still
able.
What
Do You Mean 'If We Ever Want to Leave' Afghanistan? Beware, America. You are about to be duped
by an alliance of Obama-niks and Bush-ites who, together, are laying the groundwork for nation-building in
Afghanistan — nation-building in Iraq having worked out so well (insert acid shot of sarcasm here).
Only they are not going to call it "nation-building." Worse, they are forging ahead without heeding the
remedial lesson of Iraq: No matter how many American dollars spent, no matter how many American lives lost,
it's not possible to transform an Islamic republic that enshrines Islamic law (Sharia) into an ally against Islamic
jihad ... .
The Three (Ways of Making Us)
Stooges: Fans of Barack Obama are impressed with his ability to do two or three things at one time,
as am I. Here is a classic twofer: he succeeded in exposing both the intellectual inadequacy and the
moral bankruptcy of his worldview in one terse statement. As a bonus he threw in an example of his
deceitful manipulativeness.
Obama's
Childish Vision of Politics: Despite his "hard choices" rhetoric, Barack Obama's favorite political
tactic is to claim that no choices need be made at all; all political differences of opinion, he says, can be chalked
up to misunderstanding rather than conflicting fundamental values. All choices are "false choices" if we just
think deeply enough. Or rather, if Obama thinks deeply enough. And so Obama claimed in the Chicago Tribune
that Americans "need not choose between a chaotic and unforgiving capitalism and an oppressive government-run economy."
That choice, he said, is a "false choice." It is a false choice as he phrases it — capitalism isn't
chaotic and unforgiving.
The Master of
Misdirection. President Obama is the master of misdirection. His skill in using this
tactic is a key to his success as a candidate and to his popularity as president. He is a great
salesman, marketing his product — the liberal agenda, plus a few add-ons — in a manner
that disguises what he's really up to. Misdirection isn't the same as exaggeration. Everyone
understands that politicians inflate their accomplishments. So their self-puffery is discounted.
Misdirection is different. It is meant to deceive.
What
Does the President's 'Meaningful Coverage' Mean for Health Care? Upon taking office, President
Obama hit the ground running on comprehensive healthcare reform that he originally referred to as "universal
health care" but now calls "meaningful coverage." What is "meaningful coverage," and what do the few
specifics we've been given concerning it portend for our future physical health and the viability of our
nation as a whole?
Misrepresenting Mexican Gun Origins. Fox
News has completely blown apart the mantra being chanted by politicians and the news media that 90 percent of
the guns used in crimes in Mexico come from the United States. Fact is, says Fox News, only about 17 percent
are trickling in from north of the border, and some of those legally. Why such a disparity in the numbers?
The Price of Extremism. [Scroll
down] One school of thought suggests that Obama is deep down a far-left ideologue and would rather achieve his
agenda than build a lasting coalition. He has to hurry to beat the clock to the 2010 election and wants to do
everything he can to tick off the items on the liberal wish list. In this scenario, his moderate language and
bipartisan themes, as central as they were to his campaign, were essentially deceptive. He's not a centrist
and has no interest in governing as one.
A
Bogus 'Anti-Cigarette' Bill. A law ordering the Food and Drug Administration to regulate cigarettes is
moving through Congress — but is it truly good for public health? Hint: Cigarette maker
Altria (formerly Philip Morris) is one of the bill's strongest supporters. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) has
already gotten the measure passed in the House; Sen. Ted Kennedy is on track to get it through the Senate soon.
Obama's Unreality Tour. Barack
Obama vowed to turn to the U.N. Security Council for strong action following North Korea's weekend missile launch.
He would have done better by turning to Dr. Phil. So, as the good doctor likes to say: Get real.
Get real about North Korea. Get real about the U.N. Get real, also, about NATO, arms control,
Russia, the global financial system, and every other item headlining the president's unreality tour through
the capitals of Europe.
Transparency
Killer at HUD: Another Disastrous Obama Nominee. If you need a shining example of the utter
disingenuousness of Barack Obama's commitment to government transparency, I have two words for you:
Ron Sims. This lifelong political hack is to transparency what sunlight is to Dracula, what salt is to a
slug, what kryptonite is to Superman, what "The View" is to intelligent debate.
Deception is the Root Cause of
America's Ills. In 1998, 46 state attorneys general and major tobacco companies signed the Master
Settlement Agreement. The major tobacco companies agreed, among other things, to give states $240 billion
over 25 years to provide for smoking cessation programs and cover the health costs associated with using
their product. ... Of the $80 billion extorted so far, states have spent about 30% on health, not all
tobacco-related, and less than 6% on smoking cessation programs. Instead, state legislatures spent the
bulk of their tobacco money for items such as museum building, tax relief, rainy-day funds and other expenditures
having nothing to do with tobacco or health.
Mr
Obama's Traveling Circus. While the United States writhes in the agony of seeking a way out of the current
financial mess, President Obama, his wife and a cast of 500 aides and hangers-on took the show on the road, crisscrossing
the old world well-equipped with a supply of the trusty teleprompters needed to render him eloquent. ... It was like a
sideshow featuring never-before-seen characters that the rubes couldn't wait to observe — as they might flock
to see the bearded lady. The Obamas took all this attention as an indication that what was really curiosity was,
in fact, adoration.
A Fool And Your Money. Once
again we have stubborn liberals who refuse to admit that their strategy is wrong and will not work, and instead not only
give credence to their agenda with this scheme, but do so under the guise of "fairness". Massachusetts Democrats
recently advocated voting rights for illegal immigrants because it is an issue of "fairness". President Obama aims
to change the social fabric of this country because as is the system lacks "fairness".
Earmarks:
Online hide and go seek. Scores of House members are hiding their earmark requests in obscure corners
of their official websites — sticking to the letter of their new rule while shunning its spirit. The
lawmakers are interpreting an ambiguous rule liberally, disclosing their requests as required on their official
congressional webpages but avoiding any prominent display.
Is Barack Obama a Muslim wolf in
Christian wool? Obama wants it both ways, has always wanted it both ways. Black and
white, Indonesian and American, Muslim and Christian. He loves playing one off the other, using
one to hide the other even as the traces of the truth may be assembled to reveal the whole cloth of
deception and self-promotion he has been weaving so skillfully since his childhood. No wonder
he is a man of change. He IS a changeling, a veritable chameleon, adapting and amending his
life story to fit the circumstances.
Back to the Future on
Cuba. The repeal of a largely symbolic policy is more than Obama is ready to contemplate. The
administration portrays his new approach as a "major" shift. The Washington Post said he is "breaking from
policies first imposed by the Kennedy administration." As if. He's doing little more than dropping
a few extra restrictions imposed by George W. Bush, leaving the basic embargo encased in rock, like the fossil
it is.
Obama
continues to send mixed messages on economy. President Barack Obama on Tuesday [4/14/2009] shifted
focus back to the economy, but continued offering a mixed message on where things stand and prospects for a
turnaround. "There is no doubt that times are still tough," Obama told an audience at Georgetown
University. "By no means are we out of the woods just yet. But from where we stand, for the
very first time, we're beginning to see glimmers of hope."
Obama's Dodge:
In a speech at Georgetown University yesterday [4/14/2009], Pres. Barack Obama tried to explain how his economic
policies "fit together in a single, overarching strategy." The only constant we could discern, however, was
the president's desire to use the financial crisis to justify enormous expansions of government power.
Obama's code of secrecy.
Government secrecy has become the norm under this administration, particularly when it comes to the financial bailout.
Exhibit A is a gag order preventing banks from divulging how they performed on the Treasury Department's financial
"stress tests." These tests were instituted Feb. 25 to gauge the liquidity of the country's 19 biggest banks and
determine whether they could survive another dramatic economic downturn. Federal officials told the bankers to keep
mum about how stressed out the tests say their institutions are.
Fed Shrouding $2 Trillion in
Bank Loans in 'Secrecy,' Suit Says. U.S. taxpayers need to know the risks behind the Federal Reserve's
$2 trillion in lending to financial institutions because the public is now an "involuntary investor" in the nation's
banks, according to a court filing by Bloomberg LP. The Fed refuses to name the borrowers, the amounts of loans or
assets banks put up as collateral under 11 programs, arguing that doing so might set off a run by depositors and unsettle
shareholders.
King Barack? You might think
the repeated conservative complaint about Obama's egregious lack of transparency is, by now, a tired talking point.
But we're not just referring to minor procedural matters that are substantively inconsequential. He hasn't just
breached his promise to make his legislation available for public preview. He and his congressional cohorts are
burying very important matters in legislation.
What
Obama's hiding and the media are ignoring. It is no accident that history and literature are
replete with rocky tales of doubtful succession, of the maladjustment brought on by pretenders to thrones.
There is something in human nature that yearns for the rightful leader. And there is something in our
Constitution that requires it. So why won't this president, who, after all, promised the American people
an unprecedented level of transparency, reveal his original long-form birth certificate?
Where's Obama's Birth Certificate?
[Scroll down slowly] I am suspicious when a candidate for president has virtually no paper trail
of documents. ... Here's a list of documentation that, as of 2008, was "unavailable":
1. Occidental College records — Not released
2. Columbia College records — Not released
3. Columbia Thesis paper — "Not available"
4. Harvard College records — Not released
5. Selective Service Registration — Not released
6. Medical records — Not released
7. Illinois State Senate schedule — "Not available"
8. Law practice client list — Not released
9. Certified Copy of original Birth certificate — Not released
10. Embossed, signed paper Certification of Live Birth — Not released
11. Harvard Law Review articles published — None
12. University of Chicago scholarly articles — None
What does anyone REALLY know about Obama?
Obama: American Demagogue. All
during the long campaign leading to his election and inauguration, the media kept telling us what a genius Barack
Obama was. He was a lecturer on the Constitution at the University of Chicago. He was in the Illinois
State legislature. He had graduated from Harvard Law School and, before that, Columbia University.
Curiously, throughout all that time, few of his fellow students or faculty had any recall of him. No records
from those days exist or are available. He was (and is) a cipher.
You Might Be a Birther
if... [Scroll down] I might be able to get past the whole long-form birth certificate
issue if this president had released the whole host of other life documentation, generally required for
high-level job applications. To whit, (sic) what is in the following documents that might diminish
the Obama "narrative," as sold to the public by marketing guru, David Axelrod, and a strangely incurious
media?
• Panahou Academy school records, 5th through 12th grades
• Occidental College records, including financial aid information.
• Columbia University records, including the missing senior thesis and financial aid information.
• Harvard University records, including information on how a student who never wrote anything (that
can be found) was elected president of the prestigious law review, and including information on how
Harvard Law School was afforded by humble community agitator, Barack Obama.
• Obama's Illinois state senate records and papers, mysteriously lost.
Obama
at Columbia — Or Was He? The stint at Columbia got dramatic treatment in the 2016 film Barry.
As Matthew Cooper of Newsweek noted, the Netflix production "charts his college years in New York, when 'Barry,' as he was
known, wrestled with his racial identity." Still, there was a problem. "I was at Columbia a year behind Obama," Cooper
explained, but "I never knew Obama." As Cooper recalled, Clinton factotum George Stephanopoulos was a year ahead of Barry and
didn't know him either. Neither did many other Columbia students, including those in Barry's own class. "I don't know a
single person at Columbia that knows him, and they all know me. I don't have a classmate who ever knew Barack Obama
at Columbia. Ever!" That was Columbia alum and Libertarian party vice presidential candidate Wayne Allyn Root in 2008.
As Root told Matt Welch of Reason magazine, he and Obama were both in the 1983 political science, pre-law class at Columbia
University. Root and Barry had the same major, same career path and graduated on the same day, but Root "never met him in my
life, don't know anyone who ever met him."
Obama Used 'Invest' or
'Investment' 18 Times in Press Conference to Describe Government Deficit Spending. When
the government engages in deficit spending it has to borrow money — part of it from foreign
sources — and then charge future taxpayers to pay the interest on the borrowed
money. As long as the government's loans are not paid off, the taxpayers must continue
paying interest on the debt year after year — just as an individual citizen would
need to pay interest year after year on a credit card whose principal is never paid down.
Passive Opaqueness.
The president went to Langely for some damage repair today, telling the CIA employees he knows "the last few
days have been difficult." Here is a tip: when a speaker uses the passive voice he is hiding something.
If the president had been more candid, he would have said "I made your jobs more difficult in the last few
days."
Obama's
Rounding Error: Did President Obama leave off a few zeroes when he ordered federal agencies to trim
$100 million from their budgets? ... Make no mistake: Obama's not asking for cuts of $100 mil from
each department — which would also be negligible. He's looking at a cumulative $100 million —
across the entire federal budget. And this, after he signed one piece of legislation for $787 billion and
another for $410 billion — and then introduced a record $3.6 trillion federal budget.
Will Obama Seize the Radio Stations
Next? Obama started his Administration repeating the mantra that he only cares about what works, not about
ideology. That was meant to draw attention away from the fact that Obama is all about extremist ideology, not
pragmatism. That is why he is so intent on sharply raising tax rates on savings and capital and top income
earners. Nothing practical about that in promoting the economy. Just the opposite. Obama's proposed
severe global warming regulation serves extremist environmental ideology, not practical economics. Misdirection
rhetoric is another trick Obama learned from Saul Alinsky.
It's Not Easy Being Green.
In Barack Obama's America, there are no costs and benefits. There are only "false choices" that must be
avoided lest we fall into the dangerous trap of old thinking. We can increase deficit spending and
improve budgetary discipline, expand health care funding and reduce costs, and pay for social programs
unimagined by LBJ with the tax rates of Bill Clinton. ... Unfortunately, the laws of economics cannot
simply be repealed and benefits still do come at a cost.
Obama Outsources His Presidency.
The first 100 days can reveal a pattern of behavior that comes to characterize a presidency. In this
respect, there are two emerging habits of Team Obama worth watching. One is the gap between what Mr. Obama
said he would do and what he is doing. His administration is emphasizing in its official 100 days
talking points steps he has taken to "deliver on the change he promised." During the campaign, Mr. Obama
denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as "deficits as far as the eye
can see." But Mr. Obama's budget adds $9.3 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years.
What happened to Obama the deficit hawk?
Obama strays from some facts, or
spins. [Scroll down]
— He told a joint session of Congress on Feb. 24 that "we import more oil today than ever before." That's
untrue. Imports peaked in 2005 and are lower today.
— He claimed in the same speech that his mortgage aid plan would help "responsible" buyers but not those who borrowed
beyond their means. But even prominent defenders of the program in his administration concede that foolish borrowers
will be aided, too.
— He said in an address on March 10 that the high school dropout rate has "tripled in the past 30 years."
But according to the Department of Education, it actually has declined by a third.
When the Obama Backlash Comes.
The contradictions between Obama's words and actions are many. He opposes big government, and then he vastly expands
it. He says he favors bipartisanship, but doesn't practice it. He says he is against earmarks, and then signs
the largest pork package in history. And that is just to name a few. Such inconsistencies are contributing to
a lack of confidence in Obama and his economic policies.
Good news!
First 100 days more talk than action.
What has the Obama White House really achieved in its first 100 days? Well, he did pass a stimulus bill that
was largely negotiated and completed before he got into office. ... He appointed a treasury secretary who didn't pay his
taxes, he tried to appoint a Health and Human Services secretary who didn't pay his taxes, and he decided not to appoint
a government accountability czar who didn't pay her taxes. He also visited with Jay Leno. He did very well on
his NCAA college basketball pool. He fired the CEO of General Motors. He appeared on "60 Minutes" a
couple of times. He went to a Bulls-Wizards game. He got a dog. His wife planted a garden.
Confessions of a Contrarian.
I followed the Obama senatorial campaign and even his early career in Chicago, and confess I was not impressed. I
think on any occasion he announces a moral standard it is reactive — not proactive — and we can
be sure it serves as cover for something of questionable morality. So when he says he won't do something,
it usually means he already has.
Obama the Sophist.
I have heard "there are those who say..." from this President quite a bit in the last three months. I think
it's time he start naming names. Who are these people who hold such backward-looking, unacceptable positions?
If they are elected members of the government, shouldn't the President tell us who they are so we can vote them out?
If they are unelected, how is it they have such power? Or maybe there are no such people, at least not of such
relevance they deserve specific mention by the President. Maybe this is just a rhetorical trick designed to
make Mr. Obama's position seem like the only one allowed by common sense.
"Never Again," Obama
Style. No president in modern times has managed to conceal so much of his biography as this
one. The journalists assigned to the Obama beat seem to have lost their traditional avidity for digging
out the missing details. We do not have a medical report, or a college transcript from Columbia, or a
notion of how well he did in Harvard Law School. These things are not automatically significant, but
they can be.
The 100-Day
Assault on America. Aided by an eagerly compliant Democratic-controlled Congress, a sycophantic
media, and a bunch of squishy Republicans, President Obama has taken the country on a radical, mind-boggling
leap into collectivism. ... Obama promises to use taxpayer money to rescue "responsible homeowners" —
whatever that means — from foreclosure, thus artificially propping up prices that shut out renters
who would love to buy now-much-cheaper houses. Obama proposes spending billions (or trillions?) more on
"creating or saving" — whatever that means — 4 million, 3.5 million or
2.5 million jobs. Pick a number.
Reality Knocks. Saying
unsupported piffle is the stuff of campaigns, but the current occupants of the White House seem unaware of their
higher obligation to provide complete and unspun information to the American people. While they may be
determined to throw out whatever hits them as an available political counterattack, neither their own intelligence
officials or the previous ones support the view that a single American was harmed because of interrogation
tactics. The available information suggests the contrary is true.
Doublethink is Truth. Of
course, the term "Global War on Terror" left something to be desired since it was really a Global War on
Radical Islam. Doesn't anyone in the political world believe in plain speaking and clear understanding?
Not exactly. Mostly they believe in "doublethink," the Orwellian concept of holding two contradictory
beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
Let's
Declassify Obama's Birth Certificate Along With the 'Torture' Memos. As long as we're creating a
paper trail a mile long and a mile wide, Obama might want to keep the momentum going and release that long form
birth certificate we keep hearing so much about. ... Hey, if it's no problem to release classified documents,
the birth certificate should be an easy call, as to my knowledge it's not classified. Neither are his
undergraduate records. If he's as brilliant as everyone keeps saying he is, why not prove it by showing
off his stellar grades? What articles did he write while editor of the vaunted Harvard Law Review?
Inquiring minds want to know. Speaking of Harvard, how did he pay for his high priced law degree?
Let's not forget that trip during college to Pakistan in 1981...
Barack Obama aglow after 100-day honeymoon — just like
Carter. [Scroll down] The day has been seized as another opportunity to hone the Obama
image, which was carefully crafted and protected during a campaign in which his persona and life story,
rather than his policies, led to triumph. Advisers who publicly mock the theme of 100 days have
been discreetly parcelling out made-to-order anecdotes to the press, each one designed to show how
decisive, far-thinking or cool under pressure he is.
To Seem, Rather Than To
Be. To the conspiracy-minded, it could all be deliberate — an endless series of
dumb stunts and public flubs and embarrassing incidents serving as bright, shiny diversions
from the real work of the Obama administration. While we all point and laugh (or point and
howl) at these moves, they quietly go forward with their agenda — bringing the banks under
direct federal control, bringing the auto industry under direct federal control, "reforming"
healthcare insurance to bring that under direct federal control, going after the credit card
companies...
Obama Again Uses the Word 'Investment' to
Describe the Deficit Spending He Plans. When President Barack Obama gave a primetime press conference on
March 19, he used the terms "invest" and "investment" 18 times to describe the deficit spending he wants the
federal government to pursue under his budget plan. In another primetime press conference last night, Obama again
used the term "investment" three times to describe the deficit spending while almost in the same breath decrying
"overleveraged banks" and those who "maxed-out on credit cards."
The Green Wind Of Destruction.
To say we're skeptical of the administration's claim that green jobs will bolster economic recovery is putting it
mildly. It's much easier to believe that needless environmental rules will cause widespread job losses.
Green
Job Efforts Kill 2.2 for Every One Created. The Spanish government's renewable energy initiatives
have destroyed 2.2 jobs for every new "green" job created, concludes a new study by economics professor
Gabriel Calzada of King Juan Carlos University in Madrid. Calzada says American jobs will suffer the
same fate if the United States similarly attempts to promote renewable energy at the expense of conventional
energy sources.
The Audacity of Socialism. Barack Obama
has styled himself a centrist, but does his record support that claim? In this series, we examine Senator
Obama's past, his voting record and the people who've served as his advisers and mentors over the years.
We'll show how the facts of Obama's actions and associations reveal a far more left-leaning tilt to his
background — and to his politics.
The News That
Didn't Happen. When the president of the United States spoke at Notre Dame the other Sunday, he
didn't so much speak about abortion as around it. ... There's no way to disagree with a stand not taken.
And yet what he said seemed to strike a chord. Never underestimate the power of the platitudinous.
Unpleasant
surprises buried in cap and trade. If cap and trade is an energy and global warming bill, why is
a three-year package of unemployment benefits, job training and relocation expenses buried deep within its fine
print? And why is a federally subsidized "job bank" needed if laid-off workers would quickly be rehired
for higher paying "green" jobs? The fact that generous unemployment benefits are buried in the bill
means that "green jobs are bunk," the conservative Heritage Foundation's Ben Lieberman told The Examiner.
The Buck Stops
Elsewhere. President Obama wants you to know that nothing is ever his fault. He gave a
speech on national-security matters Thursday [5/21/2009] the gist of which was: George W. Bush left
me a mess, and I'm doing the best I can to clean it up. A more forthright theme would have been:
Radical Islam has thrust the United States into a defensive war, and it's now my duty to protect the
nation — despite legal complications created by left-wing lawyers, many of whom are now working in
my administration.
First Round Knockout.
Proof is defined as confirmation of fact by
evidence. The concept of evidence escapes present-day
Obama because he believes so strongly in his gift: a commanding voice that delivers his ideological rhetoric
with overbearing force. The President actually expects us to believe his word should suffice
sans
evidence.
Obama, Hubris and Cheney. President
Obama's Thursday [5/21/2009] speech was simply breathtaking. ... Standing in the hall of the National Archives,
Obama began by claiming the Constitution as his ancestor. His sophistry soared, claiming that it was our
values that had defeated our enemies throughout history, their soldiers surrendering to ours because they knew we
would treat them better than their own governments.
O So Above It
All. Put Barack Obama in front of a TelePrompTer and one thing is certain — he'll make himself
appear the most reasonable person in the room. Rhetorically, he is in the middle of any debate, perpetually
surrounded by finger-pointing extremists who can't get over their reflexive combativeness and ideological fixations
to acknowledge his surpassing thoughtfulness and grace. This is how Obama, whose position on abortion is
indistinguishable from NARAL's, can speechify on abortion at Notre Dame and come away sounding like a
pitch-perfect centrist.
Still Politicizing
Our Security. Never has a sitting president been as obsessed with scapegoating the policies of the preceding
administration as Barack Obama. We are four months into his administration, folks, and he is still sneering
at — and blaming — Bush and Cheney for our economic woes and national security policies.
You-Won't-Get-A-Credit-Card-Unless-You're-Rich
Bill is Now Law. Amidst the anti-market frenzy in Washington, D.C., President Obama today [5/22/2009] signed
into law a bill that will drive up interest rates on credit cards and force people with good credit to pay more to
subsidize people with bad credit.
Obama's
Credit Card Reform is a Fraud. Congress explicitly rejected any limitation on the interest rate credit
card companies can charge. It remains perfectly legal for them to charge rates that would make a loan shark
blush. ... Competition can do nothing to force down rates since 90% of the credit cards are issued by a handful of
companies. And states are paralyzed when it comes to regulating rates. It is up to Congress to act.
Yet the credit card companies' massive campaign donations succeeded in buying off enough Democrats and virtually all
the Republicans to kill any limits on interest rates.
Where Are the Cries of 'Obama
Lied, Jobs Died'? In mid-February, I identified several clear fibs and pathetic straw-man arguments that
Barack Obama and his teleprompters (not necessarily in that order) employed in four statements he made at his first
presidential briefing and at an appearance in Elkhart, Indiana, earlier that day. It is now painfully clear that
Obama and his apparatchiks have entered an arena many thought Bill Clinton and his crew had all to themselves.
The Myth of Ever
Increasing Fuel Economy. By proposing a set limit for economy on all classes of passenger
vehicles, Barack Obama has basically said one of two things: In 2016, he wants only economy cars
to be sold in the US or he is instructing car companies to squeeze gas from a stone. Since he cannot
change the laws of physics, I envision the date those proposed standards take effect will either be repealed
by the next administration, or continually be delayed. This is just another dictate similar to all
the rest of Obama's plans: not based in reality, but wishful thinking.
More
about Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards.
Hope and Change's
Shelf Life. Rather than explaining the bleak choices before us and explaining why his preferences have
the best chance of succeeding, Obama has so far reduced his presidency to two themes: "Bush did it" and "I'm
not your normal white male President." If he keeps this monotony up, at some point even the comedians are
going to notice the predictability.
Obama Blames 7 Straw Men for
Being 'out of money'. The deficit today is not due to Medicaid and Medicare, or even Social Security, all
failed government programs. It is due, in part, to the explosion in entitlements over decades. By shifting the
conversation away from the deficits today onto long-range problems, he creates Straw Man #4 and #5 —
Medicaid and Medicare.
I Feel Your Pain. Not Theirs. Yours. Concerned
that Sotomayor's famed "empathy" might not shine through in cases such as
Ricci v. DeStefano, the Democrats are
claiming — as Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs said on MSNBC — that she was merely applying "precedent"
to decide the case. You know, just like conservatives say judges should. This was an interesting claim, in the
sense that it was the exact polar opposite of the truth.
Sotomayor: "Empathy" in
Action. "Empathy" for particular groups can be reconciled with "equal justice under law" — the motto
over the entrance to the Supreme Court — only with smooth words. But not in reality. President
Obama used those smooth words in introducing Judge Sotomayor but words do not change realities.
'We Are Out of Money'. President
Barack Obama handed his political opponents a bludgeon the size of Thor's hammer Saturday [5/23/2009]. In a story
played up by the Drudge Report but virtually ignored by the
New York Times and
Washington Post, C-SPAN's
Steve Scully pointed to the massive financial obligations taken on by his administration and to America's generally lousy
financial forecast. He asked Obama, "At what point do we run out of money?" "Well?" the U.S. president began
with his practiced nod to the unhurried, unflappable style of Ronald Reagan. Then he said it: "We are out of
money now."
Federal Deficit Becomes Nearly
Indecipherable. Did you miss the "good news" on May 12? The Treasury Department, led by tax cheat
Tim Geithner, retroactively reduced the deficit through March 31, the first six months of Uncle Sam's fiscal year, by
over $175 billion.
Obama's vanishing gray hair.
Steve Gilbert assembles the evidence, and it is conclusive. Either President Obama is dying his hair, or it has
miraculously gone from graying to solid black since he took office. At one point in the campaign, as a young and
inexperienced candidate, a little gray was a good thing. But now that he is energetically grabbing control of the
economy, a more youthful look is important.
Obama and the Amazing Trillion
Dollar Dreamcoat. Obama is amazing, a miracle worker in fact. So much so that he has decreed an end to
arithmetic. No way can he spend a trillion here and a trillion there without it adding up. But the O administration
is not very good at addition. Or subtraction.
The
Myth of 5 Million Green Jobs. [Scroll down] The central finding of the study is that —
treating the data optimistically — for every renewable-energy job that the government finances, "Spain's
experience reveals with high confidence, by two different methods, that the U.S. should expect a loss of at least
2.2 jobs on average, or about 9 jobs lost for every 4 created." Despite expensive and extensive
green-job policies, a surprisingly low number of jobs were created. And about two-thirds of those "green" jobs
were just to set up the energy source, in construction, fabrication, installation, marketing and administration.
Only 10 percent of the green jobs created were permanent jobs actually operating and maintaining the renewable sources
of energy.
Thousands of New Jobs 'Created' by Obama's
Stimulus Are Summer Jobs for Teens. At least 12,000 jobs "created" by President Obama's stimulus package
are summer jobs for young people, according to a White House report issued on May 27, 100 days after passage
of the $787-billion American Reinvestment and Recovery Act. The White House report, "100 Days, 100 Projects,"
summarizes various projects on infrastructure, renewable energy and "jobs and job training."
Magician-in-chief.
Barack Obama's political magic is based on an ever-growing bag of tricks, relying on illusion, misdirection,
and the media's willingness to believe. Behind the stage presence of openness, bipartisanship, sincerity,
transparency, and geniality are tricks learned from the hardball politics of Chicago. Every magician
needs his stage assistants. Barack Obama has two key people helping to smooth his way: Rahm
Emanuel and David Axelrod. Each knows plenty of tricks of his own.
Transparent nonsense.
The administration repeatedly has stiff-armed Congress, the media, outside organizations and even a prestigious
independent government commission. It has raised "none of your business" from an adolescent rejoinder to
a public policy — to keep the public in the dark. Before examining examples of this alarming
trend, let's remember what newly inaugurated President Obama said in a big press conference on Jan. 21, his
first full day in office. His words and tone could not have been more clear...
"My
Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in
Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of
transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our
democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government."
— Barack Obama
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The Obama
Infatuation. Obama's rhetoric brims with inconsistencies. In the campaign, he claimed he
would de-emphasize partisanship — and also enact a highly-partisan agenda; both couldn't be true.
He got a pass. Now, he claims he will control health care spending even though he proposes more
government spending. He promotes "fiscal responsibility" when projections show huge and continuous budget
deficits. Journalists seem to take his pronouncements at face value even when many are two-faced.
Obama Motors.
President Obama claims to "have no interest" in running General Motors. He does so with a straight
face — and the same monotonous cadence that he employs whether condemning North Korea for nuclear
explosions or joking with Jay Leno. But his actions, as well as his words, betray him. ... Which is
more absurd — his implication that he is the embodiment of the U.S. government or that a former
community organizer, part-time lawyer, part-time lecturer, part-time author, and fulltime politician knows
beans about running the nation's largest automaker?
Double Standard.
Tiller's suspected murderer, Scott Roeder, is white, Christian, anti-government and anti-abortion. The alleged
gunman in the military recruitment center attack, Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, is black, a Muslim convert, anti-military
and anti-American. Both crimes are despicable acts of domestic terrorism. The disparate treatment of the two
brutal cases by both the White House and the media is striking.
Obama's wrong numbers.
Appearing with executives of six industry groups on May 11, Mr. Obama announced what he called a "historic" and
"unprecedented commitment" by the medical care industry to "cut the rate of growth of national health care spending by
1.5 percentage points each year" that would yield $2 trillion in savings over 10 years. The story
got front-page play and nightly news coverage across the country. However, after American Hospital Association
President Richard J. Umbdenstock returned to his office, he was besieged by calls from AHA members opposing such
large cuts in spending. Days later, during a conference call with 230 members, he told them the
1.5-percent-a-year savings touted by Mr. Obama was a gross exaggeration.
Obama's Voodoo Health Economics. On
Monday [6/1/2009] President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisers released a report called "The Economic Case for Health Care
Reform." The report argues that Americans must curb their consumption of medical care in order to avoid soaring
federal deficits, unsustainable burdens on family budgets, and damage to the economy. All of these claims are untrue.
Obama's
Health Care Reform "Paints the Roses Red". President Obama has correctly identified that Americans spend a
great deal more on health care than any other developed nation. According to the Administration's website, the U.S.
spent over "$2.2 trillion on health care in 2007, or $7,421 per person — nearly twice the average of other
developed nations". But, if Americans are spending too much for health care as the Administration contends,
why does the President's health care reform set aside an additional $634 billion over 10 years, over half
of which will come from tax increases? Apparently, as the Cheshire Cat might say, the new Wonderland logic
means that you lower costs by spending more.
Obama's Health Cost Illusion.
The main White House argument for health-care reform goes something like this: If we spend now on a hugely
expensive new insurance program for the middle class, we can save later by reducing overall U.S. health
spending. ... What if this particular theory turns out to be a political illusion? What if the speculative
cost savings never report for duty, while the federal balance sheet is still swamped with new social obligations
that will be impossible to repeal? The only possible outcome will be the nationalization of U.S. health
markets, which will mean that almost all care will be rationed by politics.
What
Happened While Barack Was 'Saving and Creating'. [Scroll down] And, as if "saved or
created" wasn't a fatuous enough standard to begin with, Obama continues to claim that he's "saved or created"
150,000 jobs during the same time the economy has lost 1.6 million. He could at least drop the
"created" half of the canard. Then, I guess, "Hey, if we hadn't gone $700 billion further into debt
in the last three months, we would have lost 1.75 million jobs" isn't an argument he wants to make.
Sure, the jobs news isn't great, but Obama has to start showing some bang for the buck he's "investing" in
"recovery," according to the newest Gallup numbers, which show his approval ratings slipping on spending and
handling of the deficit.
To
stimulate the economy, let it be free. Lobbying is about the only sector of the economy experiencing
a boom right now. This is a predictable effect of the tax-and-spend stimulus model favored by both major
political parties. Taking money out of the economy, wasting some of it on bureaucracy, and then putting it
back in is not going to spark economic growth. About the only thing that has been sparked is a lobbying
feeding frenzy over stimulus funding.
The Media Fall for Phony 'Jobs' Claims.
"Saved or created" has become the signature phrase for Barack Obama as he describes what his stimulus is doing
for American jobs. His latest invocation came yesterday, when the president declared that the stimulus
had already saved or created at least 150,000 American jobs — and announced he was ramping up some
of the stimulus spending so he could "save or create" an additional 600,000 jobs this summer. These numbers
come in the context of an earlier Obama promise that his recovery plan will "save or create three to four million
jobs over the next two years."
Obama's economic
spin machine. The Obama administration was out in full force defending the stimulus this
weekend. The mantra is that the economy is getting better but Americans need to be patient to see
progress. The problem is that, so far, there hasn't been any economic progress.
Obama
quotes verse 5:32, omits 5:33. The supposedly noble sentiments of the first verse, taken from a Jewish
source, are entirely undercut by the second verse, which becomes a bloodthirsty menacing by Muhammad of the Jews.
(And as an aside the Muslim sources estimate Muhammad killed 24,000 Jews in his jihad campaigns against them). Far
from abjuring violence, these verses aggressively insist that any who oppose the Muslim prophet will be killed, or
crucified, mutilated, and banished.
Health Care Huckster. The biggest
obstacle President Obama faces in selling his health care agenda could be the albatross of his own economic stimulus
package. During its last major sales push, the Obama administration promised the $787 billion stimulus
legislation would create up to 4 million jobs over the next two years, serve as a model of transparency, and be free of
earmarks. But those claims haven't held up so well.
The smothering
embrace of nanny government. When President Barack Obama tells you he's "reforming" health care
to "control costs," the point to remember is that the only way to "control costs" in health care is to have
less of it. In a government system, the doctor, the nurse, the janitor and the Assistant Deputy Associate
Director of Cost-Control System Management all have to be paid every Friday, so the sole means of "controlling
costs" is to restrict the patient's access to treatment.
Why
the suddenly shy press corps? The administration is trying to muddy the waters by its constant use
of the meaningless metric "jobs saved or created" — as President Obama did yet again when he said that
the stimulus bill would result in 600,000 jobs "saved or created this summer." But the May
unemployment numbers put the lie to this slippery formulation. The administration told us that with
the stimulus bill we would have 8 percent unemployment and without it we would have 8.7 percent
unemployment. In reality, we have 9.4 percent unemployment. How did the stimulus manage
to "save" jobs when there are a million less jobs today than there would have been if Congress hadn't
passed it?
Watching How Hopenchange is Made:
It seems clear that, if the public knew what is in this [Waxman-Markey] bill, and how much it may cost them,
they would concur with this analysis: it is a "disaster." But the Democrats plan to ram it through
without hearings or even public availability of the relevant text. The same legislative process that brought
us trillion-dollar stimulus spending and trillion-dollar deficit budgets is about to replicate itself yet
again. Why so fast? Aside from the obvious reasons, there is a need to make room for the next bill
to be railroaded through on a fast track by a one-party Congress.
What
is going on with the Cap and Trade bill? The bill is only available online at the House Rules
Committee and is reported as "text of the bill to be introduced." Despite having a bill, H.R. 2454,
that has been reported out of the Energy & Commerce Committee and discharged by eight other committees,
there is now, suddenly, a new bill that is almost 300-pages longer — but it's still being considered
as H.R. 2454.
Did
someone mention Cap and Trade?
Democrats
are relying on deception again. Support for any Democratic policy initiative requires dishonesty, and
the health plan being pushed by President Barack Obama is no exception. Let's examine what the proponents of
government health care are saying. First, there are 46 million uninsured people in the United States.
Even though this may be literally true, it is deliberately misleading. And, it is often stated as "46 million
without health care," which is not just misleading, it's an outright lie.
Gibbs-erish. Such is the lot of
the White House press secretary that he will stick to the White House line, no matter how dumb it sounds. Robbert
Gibbs was up at bat on Thursday [7/2/2009] and went down swinging. In the process he pointed out just how untenable
the White House spin is.
The Empirical President.
Instead of data, the president offers humbug. The great genius of American ingenuity, he suggests, after
receiving billions in government "investments," will create new technologies for extracting usable and cheap
energy from wind, solar, and geothermal sources. But if those technologies are just a wish away, why have
they not been discovered already by businesses hoping to undersell oil and gas? Note that nuclear power,
the one "green" source that is empirically proven to provide relatively inexpensive power without producing
greenhouse gases, is not even on the president's agenda.
40 Acres and a President.
During the election, despite having been portrayed as America's first post-racial candidate, Barack Obama actually
represented the complete opposite. With astonishing cunning and guile, a type that his opponents could
have never imagined possible, Obama and his campaign unabashedly and tenaciously used race to goad Americans
into believing that voting for him would right the wrongs of America's racial history.
Obama's
Economic Incoherence. As the unemployment rate climbs beyond the administration's projections,
Vice President Joe Biden informs us that the administration "misread how bad the economy was." Apparently,
we were going to experience a once-in-a-lifetime economic crisis comparable to the Great Depression without a
particularly high unemployment rate. This was the promise of the Obama administration, which indulged in
hair-raisingly alarmist economic rhetoric while pumping out unduly hopeful economic projections.
Spread Freedom?
Not So Much. The Obama Doctrine is finally coming into focus. ... Obama himself insists that he's
guided by nothing other than a cool-headed pragmatism. Indeed, Obama has a grating habit of describing any
position not his own as "ideological," as if his is the only sober, practical understanding of the problems we
face. ... This attitude has allowed him to dismiss opponents of socialized medicine and the government takeover
of various industries as "ideologues," and critics of trillions in debt-fueled spending as small-minded
cranks.
'Put
nothing in writing,' Browner told auto execs on secret White House CAFE talks. Carol Browner, former
Clinton administration EPA head and current Obama White House climate czar, instructed auto industry execs "to
put nothing in writing, ever" regarding secret negotiations she orchestrated regarding a deal to increase
federal Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards. Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-WI, is demanding a
congressional investigation of Browner's conduct in the CAFE talks, saying in a letter to Rep. Henry Waxman,
D-CA, that Browner "intended to leave little or no documentation of the deliberations that lead to stringent
new CAFE standards."
Stuttering Stimulus. Those who
pushed through this year's $787 billion fiscal "stimulus" seem to be counting on the American people's short memory.
Wasn't it just last year that we were told, repeatedly and with stark emphasis, that this economy was the "worst" since the
Great Depression? That was the pretense for not only the stimulus, but for the federal takeover of the U.S. auto
industry and the quasi-takeover of the U.S. financial industry. ... If the stimulus passed, the White House vowed,
unemployment would peak at 8%. Today, it's 9.5% — and rising. "The truth is, we and everyone else misread
the economy," said Biden. He used that phrase — "the truth is," or something similar — at
least three times in a talk with ABC's George Stephanopolous. But the "truth is" something quite different.
Obama's Op-Ed,
Annotated. At a press conference a few weeks ago, when confronted with the disparity between his
administration's projected unemployment figures under the stimulus (8 percent) and the real unemployment figures
(9.7 percent), Obama said, "Keep in mind the stimulus package was the first thing we did... If you recall, it was
only significantly later that we suddenly get a report that the economy had tanked." So Obama took office amid the
most severe downturn since the Great Depression, at a time when the country was hemorrhaging jobs and the financial
system was on the brink of collapse. He said as much a week before signing the stimulus into law. But
don't blame him for overselling the impact the stimulus would have — his administration was totally
blindsided by a sudden report that the economy had tanked!
Obama Can't Be Trusted With Numbers.
The administration consistently pledges unrealistic results that it later distances itself from. It has gotten away with
it because the media haven't asked many pointed questions. That may not last as the debate shifts to health care.
The Audacity of Conceit. It
is a common mistake of intellectuals to confuse IQ with common sense and verbal fluency with leadership qualities. ... Nobody
would deny that the members of Obama's circle of economic advisors are indeed academically adept, well-spoken men and
women. But have any of them ever run a lemonade stand, much less a bona fide business? Have they ever met a
payroll? ... So what do they bring to the administration other than long resumes and fearsome reputations as intellectual
polemicists? All these brilliant academics have been brought on board for the sole purpose of lending an intellectual
veneer to Obama's political schemes and validate his power grab.
Hoyer Says Small Businesses Don't Make
$280,000 Per Year So They Won't Be Hurt. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said that job growth
and economic recovery would not be harmed by a Democratic plan to increase income taxes by $540 billion to pay
for their health-care reform proposal because the tax hikes would not affect small businesses.
The President Moves the Economic Goalposts.
So what's a president to do when the promises he made about his economic stimulus program fail to materialize? If
you're Barack Obama, you redefine your goals and act as if America won't remember what you said originally. That's
a neat trick if you can get away with it, but Mr. Obama won't. His words are a matter of public record and he will
be held to them.
Numbers Don't
Lie — Except When They're Fabricated. Anyone who remembers his campaign pronouncement that
a Kansas tornado had left "ten thousand dead" and "an entire town destroyed" (the 2007 storm actually killed twelve
people) knows that President Obama hasn't been one to worry about playing fast and loose with a few facts or numbers.
However, Mr. Obama's dogged refusal to deviate from his "150,000 jobs created or saved" by the $787,000,000,000.00
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is beginning to lend itself to more than a little head-scratching.
Mr. Obama and his administration have been making the claim for several weeks now.
Obama wags the dog. President
Obama's political strategy has finally crystallized: When all else fails, blame Bush-Cheney. And make no mistake
about it — all else has failed. ... Congressional Democrats and Obama seem to be disturbingly comfortable
with placing partisanship before national security and are not above manufacturing a scandal as a means to
achieve their objective.
Obama's Ethics: There was
an overwhelmingly fictional quality to President Obama's press conference last night from his opening remarks
on. Promoting his notional health care reform plan, whatever it is, he endlessly asserts a set of talking
points that would be demonstrably false if we had the text of a plan to check it against, such as the House's
thousand-page monstrosity. When he is about to unleash a whopper of special magnitude, Obama emits a
tell-tale sign. He prefaces it with "let me be clear" or "understand this." Last night [7/22/2009]
he achieved such "clarity" twice in his opening remarks.
IG-Gate: Connecting the
SIGTARP Dots. The Obama administration's promises of "transparency" are being revealed as lies
on the magnitude of "The check's in the mail" ... Avoiding public scrutiny of reckless misappropriation of
taxpayer dollars is at least one possible motive for the legislation sponsored by Rep. John Larson
(D-Conn.) ... that would give President Obama power to fire and replace five IGs at federal financial
oversight agencies.
Did someone mention
the Walpin scandal?
"Miss
Information". [Linda Douglass] makes no attempt whatsoever to prove her assertion that Obama's
comments were out of context or irrelevant. And that's what's sort of interesting to me. Her rebuttal
technique is truly Obamaesque, in that she does what Obama himself does: Quotes Obama as proof that
Obama is always right.
Obamacare Meltdown. The revelation
last week that a majority of Americans may actually disagree with the President was something for which his
team was clearly not prepared. Their attempt to marginalize citizens across the country who dared to
speak out against a government-takeover of health care is shameful, arrogant, and desperately sad. With
the American people growing increasingly unhappy with the President's health care plan, Democrats in Congress
are working feverishly to cast those who are concerned as radical props to the special interests. Senate
Majority Leader Harry Reid, in a sign of bold leadership, last week told reporters that protests of
government-run health care were "phony" and "staged."
Barry, Barry,
Quite Contrary. I want to express my deep disappointment with your continued refusal to address
my questions about the new health care reform bill currently being pushed through Congress. A few days
ago, I sent you several dozen questions about the bill. You did not answer a single one of them.
Instead, you keep sending me form emails.
White House Acknowledges Unsolicited
E-Mails on Health Care. The White House for the first time Sunday [8/16/2009] somewhat acknowledged
that people across the country received unsolicited e-mails last week on health care from the administration,
suggesting the problem on third-party groups it claimed placed the recipients' names on the distribution list.
In a written statement released exclusively to FOX News, White House spokesman Nick Shapiro said the White House
hopes those who received the e-mails without signing up for them were not "inconvenienced" by the messages.
The Editor says...
The White House explanation was, in so many words, that their web site was hacked, and some malicious third
party loaded up the White House computer with email addresses. It's the old "somebody else did it"
excuse. If the White House story is true, then the people in charge of the White House web site are
incompetent. If the story is not true, then the White House is being run by liars. Take your
pick: they are incompetent or they are dishonest.
White
House Blames E-Mail Controversy on 'Sinister Conspiracy Theories' . The White House is blaming
the controversy over its Web site and mass e-mails on viral rumors, "fear-mongering" and "sinister conspiracy
theories" even as it acknowledges problems with its online practices. After confirming to FOX News over
the weekend that third-party groups could be responsible for official White House e-mails that have been sent
to people who never signed up for them, President Obama's new media director took to the official White House
blog to "clear up" the confusion.
Meet the new
crop of White House Fellows. Now I am sure all these people are fine people. But the
White House Fellows are supposed to be chosen on a strictly non-partisan basis. Do you think this crew
of community organizers, activists, and environmentalists were evenly split along partisan lines — as
is the nation is as a whole?
Who's Running the
Show? Is Eric Holder running the administration, or is the president disingenuous
when he denies responsibility for reactivating the investigation of CIA detainee-interrogation
cases? ... Either Obama is lying about his objectives at Justice or his attorney general is
seriously off the reservation. At the next prime-time press conference, someone might
ask Obama who is running the show.
Overcoming 'Remote-Control'
Government. The elaborate shell game local politicians play with our money is the biggest
threat to our freedom.
Senate Cloaks Obamacare. You can't read the bill
because they refuse to put it in writing. And you'd better not oppose it because the government will try to muzzle
you. President Obama has consistently refused to put his details into legislative language, and now the U.S. Senate
is doing the same thing. Rather than respecting public demands for transparency, they're figuratively spitting in
the public's face.
Obama's
foreign policy vision not so new age. President Obama's speeches often claim "the time has
come" for something, or "the days" of this or that "are over." It's as if his presidency has introduced
a new epoch. I used to think that invoking the vision of a new age was merely a rhetorical device to
distinguish him from George W. Bush. Now I think it is something more — a way to make
a very old philosophy sound new and failed policies of the past seem fresh and exciting.
Will the Real Barack
Obama Please Stand Up? In a clever twist on the 1960's quiz show, the President of the United
States is playing all three figures himself, all professing to be the real Barack Obama. The centrist
is a leftist, the post-racial plays the race card, the post-partisan is anything but. He supports free
markets, then nationalizes one after another. He swears to "preserve, protect and defend the
Constitution," but says it is defective and walks all over it. He denies being a socialist or a
fascist, but who is he really. Wright and Ayres were just a pastor and a guy in the neighborhood,
but seem to be more. Obama is an American, but seems to loathe America. Obama is the
chameleon in the White House.
The Un-Bama. [Scroll down] Obama
will frequently answer a tough question by saying "on the one hand we want X, while on the other we
certainly must be concerned with Y." He will avoid a clear answer, inviting the audience to
trust to him on the presumption that, because he could mention something of value to both sides, he
must be best suited to work out the optimal compromise. The liberal media fell completely for
this simple and cheap trick. Meanwhile, Obama, the hustler, never intended to solve any problem
with any solution other than one from the far left.
Beware Our Rousseauian
Imaginer-in-Chief. When the president talks about the America he wants to create, he envisions
some futuristic ideal community in which all good things exist, but only if the people — in John
Lennon-esque fashion — first imagine it will be so and then act to make it happen regardless of
whether it is possible. This kind of utopian thinking is not merely political hyperbole, but the main
sales routine for the president's political program.
Obama's First Year. Why
have Obama and his supporters fallen so far and so fast? We must, I think, begin before the beginning.
The Obama campaign was predicated on a fraud.
Obama: Ruling a blow to democracy.
President Barack Obama used his weekly address Saturday to attack this week's Supreme Court ruling that the government
cannot ban campaign contributions by corporations, saying it is a blow to his efforts to rein in special interests in
Washington. "This ruling strikes at our democracy itself," Obama said.
When Is a Person Not a Person?
Socialists have the most incredible lack of intellectual ability, and they lack the most basic tenets of
morality. Why is this? It is because their lives are predicated on political philosophy rather
than on facts and truth. That is how the Kenyan, Obama, came to be the Great Pretender in the White
House. In essence, he spoke well, but didn't have an ounce of truth about him. Yet, people
voted for him, to the astonishment of more rigorous minds.
Obvious Opacity.
Nancy Pelosi insisting on defining clandestine conferences as transparency brings clarity to what America
deals with every time Obama speaks. Since January of 2009, black is white, right is wrong, and open
is shut. Overarching debt is economic stimulus, job loss is growth, socialists are capitalists,
enemies are friends, and despair and despotism are defined as hope and change.
Triangulation makes a comeback.
President Barack Obama's proposal to cap certain government spending in his 2011 federal budget immediately
brought an old term back into the Washington conversation: triangulation.
President
Obama's Lexicon of Rhetorical Devices: Obama is addicted to utilizing language that he has
carefully tailored or perverted to obfuscate the truth. In other words, he uses double talk on a routine
basis. In order to understand what Obama truly tells us when he speaks to us, it is necessary to grab our
Little Orphan Annie Decoder Ring and decipher precisely what he means when he uses his pet phrases.
As Predictable as Clockwork — the
Obama three-step. In the past, every time Obama has been in a jam, two things followed. He first
throws under the bus perceived liabilities (yesterday's Rev. Wright and grandmother will be this year's Rahm Emanuel,
Timothy Geithner and Janet Napolitano). Second, he adopts the no more red state/blue state, "bipartisan," "there
is only one America" rhetoric.
Obama's 2011 budget will include phantom cap-and-trade
revenue. A trade publication is reporting this afternoon [1/29/10] that President
Obama's 2011 federal budget proposal will assume receipt of billions of dollars in revenue generated
from the cap-and-trade program even though that proposal appears now to be all but dead in Congress.
Obama's
Secret Slush Fund. President Obama and Budget Director Peter Orszag have thrown transparency out
the window and created a black box for taxes and spending on climate change hidden inside the administration's
2011 budget. ... A secret budget-within-the-budget. Talk about a lack of transparency. The blank
line is labeled: "Allowance for climate policy."
Americans finally
starting to see through the president's prevarications. The fact that this duplicitous non-achiever
was elected in the first place proves his ability to fool nearly all of the people some of the time. Despite
a near total lack of credentials, a voting record vacillating between rad-lib and "present," and a passel of
communists, terrrorists, anti-Semites and criminials in his close circle of friends, Obama rather easily fooled
nearly all of the people in our great land. Especially those who went to journalism school.
Obama's Bipartisanship Scam: When
the Republican House leadership surprised its members with their invitation to President Obama to speak at the
Republican retreat in Baltimore, many conservatives were dismayed. As the event played out on January 29th,
their concerns appeared justified. ... Throughout, Obama pushed his bipartisanship scam. But he made it
clear that it's a roach motel he's built for the Republicans willing to enter it: they'll go in and
never come out without adopting his ideas wholesale.
Obama Parts Company With Reality.
In his budget announcement today [2/1/2010], Obama said: "[O]ur government is deeply in debt after what
can only be described as a decade of profligacy." So he proposes to put the country far more deeply in
debt through profligacy of a sort that was undreamed of just a few years ago.
Politicians in
Wonderland. There was a recent flap because three different members of the Obama administration,
on three different Sunday television talk shows, gave three widely differing estimates of how many jobs the
president has created. That should not have been surprising, except as a sign of political sloppiness
in not getting their stories together beforehand. They were simply doing what Barack Obama himself
does — namely, just pulling numbers out of thin air.
An
Unusually Bad Prevaricator, Unusually Bad. Obama said in his State of the Union speech (and
similar statements several times since): "By the time I took office, we had a one-year deficit of
over $1 trillion and projected deficits of $8 trillion over the next decade. Most of this was
the result of not paying for two wars, two tax cuts, and an expensive prescription drug program. On top
of that, the effects of the recession put a $3 trillion hole in our budget. All this was before I
walked in the door." Though it's true that the deficit for President George W. Bush's final year in
office was close to $1.3 trillion, it must be noted that Obama and his fellow Democratic-controlled
Congress members approved the TARP bailouts and are largely responsible for the other budget expenditures
leading to that record deficit.
Presidential Promises and
Pretenses. If you accept responsibility for something bad, aren't you accepting blame by
definition? Not if you're Barack Obama, who has a talent for accepting responsibility while
minimizing and deflecting it.
Paygo Paygo. Barack Obama's
rhetoric about the economy in recent days has been a blizzard of excuses, euphemisms, denials, and
scapegoating attacks. Notice that Democrats are more upset that he is caricaturing Las Vegas
than Wall Street. By telling people not to "blow" their money in casinos, Obama is killing
business there, they say. But what about demonizing and discrediting bankers and "fat cat"
employers?
Pay-go gets
passed, then it gets bypassed. The ink is barely dry on the pay-as-you-go law, and Democrats
are seeking to bypass it to enact parts of their job-creation agenda.
The Political Masters Of Propaganda and
Their Well-Intentioned Disasters: "Pay as you go" — it's the new code phrase for raising taxes
even more to pay for the inefficient and in many cases unsound, failure-prone government programs pushed relentlessly
by progressives. Great-sounding slogans. Great-sounding promises, claims and speeches. But now it's
OK to say one thing while cleverly concealing and delivering something different — something most
Americans in survey after survey clearly say they do not want.
The Paygo
Fraud: When a White House statement refers to a "bedrock principle," it means something
slushy and soft and not really a principle at all, but a gimmick, still one more fraud to fool the
public, a joke of the kind that must keep presidential aides rolling on the floor in laughter at
all the fools who cheer them on.
The Paygo Con:
Pay-as-you-go, or paygo, rules require that new entitlement spending and new tax cuts must be paid for dollar-for-dollar
with entitlement spending cuts or tax increases. As Paul Ryan, the ranking Republican member of the House Budget
Committee has noted, the Democrats under Speaker Nancy Pelosi "have violated pay-as-you-go rules by nearly
$1 trillion" over the past three years. And they're not done.
Failure Writ Small. [Scroll
down] What Obama did in New Hampshire is the same as he has done for the past year, and on the campaign
trail before that. He presented a façade of an argument to justify actions Americans would not
possibly support were he to state their real motives. It's exactly how he tried to sell health care
reform (it's vital to economic recovery!), his massive transfer of wealth from private producers to
government employee unions (it's shovel-ready stimulus!), and his cap-and-trade bill (it will create
green jobs!).
Rigging the
Numbers: [Scroll down] "We need to develop a greater resiliency in this country on
security issues," Sarah E. Mendelson of the Center for Strategic and International Studies told the
New York Times. "The administration needs to remind the American public that we have convicted
195 international terrorists in federal courts since 2001." That 195 number is making the rounds.
It is both false and an exercise in hypocrisy.
Who
are the 300 terrorists held in U.S. prisons? [Scroll down] But there's one serious factual
debate going on about Holder's letter, and that concerns those "300 individuals." Just who are they?
It turns out some lawmakers have been trying for months to get an answer. They're not saying the claim is
false — they just want to see what it's based on. But so far they haven't been able to find out.
Obama's
Three Hundred Imaginary Terrorists: In justifying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's civilian trial, the
Obama administration is fond of citing a seemingly slam-dunk factoid: 300 other terrorists are currently
sitting in federal prisons after being tried in civilian court. One problem: that number seems
to have come out of nowhere.
190 Terror
Convictions in Civilian Trials, Mr. President? How About Fewer Than a Dozen? A new study
should finally put to rest the nonsense claim by President Obama, Attorney General Holder, and others in the
administration that "hundreds" of terrorists akin to Khalid Sheikh Mohammad were convicted in the civilian
justice system during the Bush administration. The number thrown around by the administration has
varied widely from 300 to 190 to assorted spots in between.
If
you think our debt's bad now ... On day one of his vow to take "meaningful steps to rein in our debt," Barack
Obama asked Congress to freeze portions of discretionary domestic spending. ... On Day Two, taking a break from the rigors
of austerity, he was in Tampa, Fla., promising $8 billion for high-speed rail projects there and in a dozen other
places. Four days later, he released a $3.8 trillion fiscal year 2011 budget that would add another
$1.3 trillion to the national debt.
Obama vs. Einstein: According to the
Washington Post, David Axelrod, Barack Obama's senior advisor, said that the president worked with "[Harvard
professor] Laurence Tribe on a paper on the legal implications of Einstein's theory of relativity." I've
read that paper, "The Curvature of Constitutional Space." It's complete nonsense. It shows no
understanding of Einstein's theory of relativity, or of the relationship between relativity theory and
Newton's theory.
Who Are the
Gitmo 9? The Obama administration, and Holder's Justice Department in particular, have a knack
for making a bad thing worse. Their typical scandal pattern is: (a) make bold pronouncements
about unprecedented transparency, (b) show a little leg, and then (c) stonewall, after which (d) White
House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel assures some friendly journalist that everything would have been different if
only they'd have listened to him. The result is the the trifecta: The administration ends up looking
hypocritical, sinister, and incompetent.
Obama Administration Using Accounting Gimmicks That Would
Make Enron 'Blush'. Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) says the Obama administration is using an accounting
"gimmick" in its budget by not including the debt owed by mortgage firms Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Senate
Staffers Warned to Stay Clear of Drudge Report. The Senate's official gatekeeper, said the
Drudge Report, a conservative news aggregator, and whitepages.com "are responsible for the many viruses
popping up throughout the Senate," according to an e-mail to the Environment and Public Works Committee.
A
little secret about Obama's transparency: The current administration, challenged by the
president to be the most open, is now denying more Freedom of Information Act requests than Bush did.
Executive
Order Hijinks. I know we tire of the hypocrisy, but I really think this is remarkable.
We spent the eight years through January 19, 2009, listening to Democrats complain that President Bush
had purportedly caused a constitutional crisis by issuing signing statements when he signed bills into
law. ... But now Democrats are going to abide not a mere signing statement but an
executive order that
purports to have the effect of legislation — in fact, has the effect of nullifying legislation that
Congress is simultaneously enacting?
Education
Lessons Are Lost on Obama. I can't pinpoint the moment when the Obama administration went wrong
on the subject of education. But I can pinpoint the moment when it demonstrated that it can't be taken
seriously. It happened on Monday, March 15, when Education Secretary Arne Duncan was expounding to
reporters about revising the No Child Left Behind law. The new policy, he asserted, "is going to
revolutionize education in our country." No, it's not.
Changing its name isn't going to fool anybody.
White House: "Cap and Trade"
is Out. At the same time the White House is opening up to offshore oil and natural gas drilling,
the Obama administration is backing away from "cap and trade," a market-based plan to limit the nation's carbon
output — or at least that particular language used to describe the plan. "I think the term
'cap and trade' is not in the lexicon anymore," Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said this morning on CNBC.
Obama's
Drilling Deception: If this were a sincere change of heart and an honest, stand-alone effort to
wean America off foreign oil, it would be worth heralding. But as always with this administration, there's
a catch...