Michelle Obama: 'We Need Someone Who's Honest and Plays by the Rules' as President.  At a Hillary Clinton campaign rally Tuesday [10/4/2016] in Charlotte, North Carolina, First Lady Michelle Obama delivered a fiery speech, taking direct aim at Clinton's opponent, Donald Trump.  "We need someone who's honest and plays by the rules," Obama said, referring to the former Secretary of State as a good replacement for her husband, President Barack Obama.

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It is amusing, in a way, to hear Mrs. Obama, whose husband appears to be using someone else's Social Security number (and has a number of other honesty issues) say, "We need someone who's honest and plays by the rules."  And she says this in support of Hillary Clinton, of all people.

False statements involving Barack Obama.  Dozens of examples of Obama's flat-out lying.

The audacity of Obama's lying.  What makes a good liar?  It's a harder question to answer than you might think, partly because it's a harder and more complex thing to accomplish than you might think.  Let me begin by acknowledging that I do not have a satisfactory answer to the question.  Nevertheless, as an aficionado of the sport, I admire from afar expert practitioners.  And I was reminded just a few days ago that we have in our midst a grand master of mendacity.  In his speech in Milwaukee on Friday, Barack Obama demonstrated once again his effortless, masterly deployment of deceit.  Again, I do not say that we groundlings have been vouchsafed all the inner workings of the mechanism.  But one thing is clear from Obama's performance:  brazenness is key.  If you are going to lie, don't be shy.  Capitalise on the public's inherent goodwill — and its poor memory.  Another useful gambit:  accuse others, preferably in violent terms, of precisely that of which you are yourself guilty.

Trying to Count ALL of Hillary and Obama's Lies is Awfully Tough.  Last week, Deroy Murdock at the National Review did his level best to count out ALL of the times that President Obama and Hillary Clinton have lied about what really happened in Benghazi.  Murdock found the task truly daunting, and it got worse as he went deeper into the morass of lies woven by the two immoral liberals.  Murdock details some of the biggest lies that have oozed out of the Obama team's gaping maws and has found that the one consistent theme of the Obama response has been — lie, lie and lie again.

Obama told us he's honorable — but he's just another liar.  It was always hard to believe the president's repeated claim that he didn't know his own secretary of state was using an off-the-books e-mail server to avoid public scrutiny, in the process virtually guaranteeing that she would commit multiple felonies by taking classified information into the open.  Now we know Obama was lying.  His own aides said so, in e-mails uncovered by WikiLeaks and made public this week.

Regime of Lies.  In addition to a knack for inciting racial division and a blatant disregard for the Constitution, a defining feature of the Obama presidency has been its unashamed and unabashed dishonesty. [...] This administration has been so nonchalant with its lies — and so insistent that those lies are true — that one gets the distinct impression Obama has surrounded himself with people who read "1984" and mistook it for a guidebook rather than a warning.

Josef Goebbels Would Be Proud.  The current 'Ministry of Propaganda' under the Obama administration has taken the art of propaganda to a point that would make Josef Goebbels very proud.  While every administration makes an effort to try to project the message they want to get out, that is certainly nothing new, but the Obama administration has followed the practice of lying and cover up to new levels of deceit and dishonesty.

The Rembrandt of Overstatement.  [Scroll down]  Consider that this is the president who drew that "red line" concerning Bashar al-Assad's use of chemical weapons; promised that you could keep your doctor if you wanted to; and declared just before the Paris massacres that ISIS had been "contained."  This same president wants the world to swallow his baited hook on climate change, discarding, in the process, cavils, questions, and contrasting ideas.

You know how I always say that obama lies about everything?  I do.  I have for a long time.  And I'm right.  He lied about the Iran deal, he lied about health care, he lied about Libya, he lied about Fast and Furious, and on and on.  He just did it again.  Two days ago Obama said ISIS is just about finished: [...] Remember when obama called ISIS the JV?  Remember when obama blamed bad intel for his lousy judgment?  He lied about all of it.  This country should be very uneasy when obama speaks.  He lies about everything.

Obama: Honesty Is 'Absolutely Necessary' Trait for a President.  President Obama said in an interview with CBS airing Sunday [7/24/2016] that honesty was "absolutely necessary" for a president in order to build trust with the American people.

Crazy isn't disagreeing with Obama. Crazy is believing anything he says.
I put together a list:
      "If you like your health insurance plan, you can keep it"
      "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor"
      Obamacare will save you "about $2,500 per year."
      "The NSA is not abusing its power"
      "If you make less than $250,000 per year you won't pay one penny more in taxes"
      "I said that the Benghazi was a terrorist attack from the beginning."
      "First of all, I didn't set a red line,"
      "You didn't build that"
      "It's not a tax, George"
      "We shouldn't mandate the purchase of health care"
      Would have the most transparent administration in history
      I never met my uncle
      No more wiretapping of citizens
      My mother was denied insurance
      Knew nothing about IRS abuse.
      Al Qaeda is on the run
Then I made another list:
      Al Qaeda is on the run
      Al Qaeda is decimated
      ISIS is the JV
      We leave behind a stable and sovereign Iraq
      I didn't set a red line, the world did
      I got bad intel
      The tide of war is receding
      The world is less violent than it has ever been
He's a liar.

Obama, Jon Stewart and Progressivism's Bodyguard of Lies.  The last few years have revealed that Obama is a finely-tuned lying machine.  Those of us who opposed his politics from the get-go realized this early, but his second term, which revealed the depth and breadth of the lies he told to sell Obamacare, brought this dismaying fact home to the rest of America.  The recently revealed Obama lie is the fact that he told a bold-faced lie during the 2008 campaign when he pretended to oppose gay marriage — a lie he told solely to make himself more electable. [...] Although Obama's lies have been the most consequential of late, whether he was lying about gay marriage or health insurance or Benjamin Netanyahu's properly conducted invitation to speak to the House, other people's lies, including lies about lying, have also shaped the national dialog in unseemly and dangerous ways.

Obama's legacy:  Duping America about everything is the name of the game.  One can only imagine how President Obama and his sycophants will pay homage to their getting away with lying to the American people about every aspect of their administration.  Perhaps in the Obama Library they'll have a special room surrounding visitors with giant flat-screen TVs where various Obama staffers will laugh and point at them in an endless video loop.  They'll have to think of something, because May 2016 has been a banner month with the delivery of a forgotten 2008 campaign meme from Mr. Obama and his henchmen.  The good news is, the much-ballyhooed promise of being the "most transparent administration in history" has peeked out from under the covers.  The bad news is, it took the form of admissions from both current and former Obama aides that the White House is a House of Lies.

Obama Lies Compilation.  [Video clip]

Hillary Clinton and Obama's Lies on Benghazi — Too Many to Count, but Let's Try.  They lied about the slaughter of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, at the hands of al-Qaeda-tied terrorists.  They lied, but not to protect vital national secrets or flummox America's enemies.  They lied to get reelected.  And they lied directly, knowingly, and repeatedly to the American people.

Obama's 'Streisand Effect' Presidency.  [Scroll down]  So it's a wonder that the Obama presidency hasn't quite figured out that denying the existence of the obvious actually doesn't help.  When you say there's peace and security in Syria, you're not convincing anyone that's the case. [...] Denial of the obvious has been a feature of the Obama presidency.  Recall that Obama told Bill O'Reilly in his Super Bowl interview a few years back that there was "not a smidgen of corruption" at the IRS.  Well, no.  In fact, the IRS held a press conference to admit its own wrongdoing and the chief IRS official involved is pleading the Fifth.  What about "Obamacare is working"?  We hear that a lot.

Obama Has Just Begun.  In the 2016 election campaigns, most Democratic candidates in swing states will have distanced themselves from the last eight years.  Otherwise, they would have to run on the patently false premise that American health care is more affordable and more comprehensive today than it was in 2009; that workforce participation is booming; that scandals are a thing of the past; that the debt has been addressed; that Obama has proved a healer who brought the country together; that immigration at last is ordered, legal, and logical; that the law has never been more respected and honored; that racial relations are calmer than ever; that the campuses are quiet; that the so-called war on terror is now over and won with al-Qaeda and ISIS contained or on the run; that U.S. prestige aboard has never been higher; that our allies appreciate our help and our enemies fear our wrath; that Iran will now not go nuclear; that Israel is secure and assured of our support; and that, thanks to American action, Egypt is stable, Libya is ascendant, Iraq is still consensual, and the Middle East in general is at last quiet after the tumultuous years of George W. Bush.

War on The Truth: It's a Progressive Disease.  The nation placidly goes about its business as revelations emerge about the Obama administration lying continuously, almost compulsively, about virtually anything, in pursuit of political advantage.  Here is a handful of examples that represent the Obama administration's line on many of the leading public policy issues:
  •   The Benghazi massacre was a spontaneous event triggered by an obscure video, not a carefully planned Muslim terrorist attack of which we had advance warning.
  •   If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.
  •   "Under our plan, no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions, and federal conscience laws will remain in place."
  •   The fence between the U.S. and Mexico is "practically complete."
  •   Common sense voter ID laws constitute "suppression" of minority voters.
It's clear that the present administration views lying as an essential hammer in their political tool chest.

Obama's Recent Out-Of-Touch Remarks: What Planet Is He On?  America has never been held in greater esteem than under Obama's leadership.  Counterterrorism worked well in Yemen until the emergency evacuation of embassy and Special Ops forces — and the loss of millions in arms.  The president's half-hearted "war" on the Islamic State is also a "success."  As is ObamaCare, never been working better.  Just as he promised.  Jobs are finally humming along with unemployment numbers down (because so many gave up looking).  The economy actually shriveled in the first quarter, but that's because of some unexpected phenomenon called winter.  The Mexican border is secure now because the president says so.  Since Bill Clinton was already named the first black president, the actual first black president claims he's given such staunch support to Israel that he's in reality the first Jewish president. [...] If Obama says something, it's true.

Sociopath alert: Barack Obama.  [Scroll down]  When talking about Obama's lies, it's hard to know where to begin.  The logical place is probably his first Presidential campaign.  Think back to a couple of his more well known claims.  Obama said that his would be the most transparent administration in history.  It has of course turned out to be the opposite.  The way he got Obamacare passed was through back room machinations, with the Louisiana Purchase, the Cornhusker Kickback, the buying off of the AMA and AARP and big pharma.  It was also an exercise in obfuscation, as Jonathan Gruber has famously pointed out.  And at the same time Obama was promising transparency in his administration, he made sure that none of his own school records would ever be released.

Obama's 'blizzard of lies'.  A recent Fox News poll asked Americans "How often does Barack Obama lie to the country on important matters?" Thirty-seven percent said "most of the time," 24 percent said "some of the time," and 20 percent said "only now and then."  Just 15% said "never."  Think about that:  81 percent of Americans believe that Obama lies to them at least "now and then" on "important matters."  That is simply stunning.

Stalin, Muhammad and Obama.  President Obama and his commissars fit the longstanding pattern of behavior (insistence, denial, castigation) that the hard left has embraced for generations. [...] Truth is malleable.  Facts are nuisances to be exterminated, along with troublesome people.  Middle-class notions of freedom must be shouted down.  The rule of the intellectuals must be imposed.  Never, ever criticize the cause.  Deny everything.  Never forget that Islam's a religion of peace.

5 lies that have shaped the Obama presidency.  If past presidents are remembered for their signature achievements, Obama will be remembered for his signature lie:  "If you like your health care plan, blah, blah, blah."  The reader knows the rest.  Although the most consequential of Obama's lies — it got him re-elected — it's far from his only prevarication.  I've counted 75 significant lies since his campaign for president began, but that doesn't begin to tally the casual fibs and hyperbole he spouts seemingly every day. Here are five that illustrate just how much Obama's presidency is built on falsehoods.

Obama and the Truth.  It is an unavoidable conclusion that Barack Obama is symbolic of America's attitude about truth in this country.  He was elected twice.  He is symbolic evidence that truth, as a core value, is dying in American culture.  Today lies are commonplace; we have developed euphemisms for them.  They are called "narratives" and maintaining the lie is called "preserving the narrative."  "Spin" and "spin doctors" are shiny euphemisms that mask ugly deceit and deceivers.

Obama's Smoking Gun.  So here we are, five and a half years later, and the country has learned of these deliberate lies:
  •   Health Care: The president told Americans repeatedly that they could keep their doctor and keep their health insurance if they liked them.
  •   Benghazi: Yes, in fact, contrary to repeated denials, the White House did in fact prep then-UN Ambassador Susan Rice to go out on those five Sunday news shows and blame the Benghazi attacks on an Internet video.
  •   The IRS: No, the IRS targeting of conservative groups was not the work of "rogue agents" in Cincinnati.  In fact, the scandal was operating at the very top of the IRS itself with Lois Lerner, who in turn had been conniving with the Department of Justice.

Why Does Nation Tolerate A Habitual Liar As President?  German physician Anton Delbrueck, about 120 years ago, decided that a new psychological classification — "pseudologia fantastica" — was required after noting that some of his patients were incessant liars.  Whether that explains the last two Democrat presidents, today we might need a joint psychological/sociological study of the mass tendency of the country to accept systematic lying from the highest level of government.

Is Barack a Default Satanist? Yes, and Here is Why.  Obama is an unrepentant, unashamed and unapologetic liar.  It has recently been made crystal clear that his chief tool in public persuasion for his most important public policies is a cascade of lies.  Now we must begin to reexamine Obama's previous comments and see how many of his other public statements and claims are sheer falsehoods.  Certainly, if a person shows he is totally committed to lying to get his way, we must suspect all his other claims.

Lying in the Age of Obama.  Barack Obama, as is the wont of politicians, has lied a lot — and from the very beginning of his national career.  He knew Bill Ayers well, Tony Rezko too.  He lied about his decision not to seek the presidency as a newly elected senator, and lied about his willingness to take public campaign financing funds in 2008.  He misled about what he would shortly do about most of the Bush-Cheney anti-terrorism protocols.  Obama lied about much of his own biography. [...] He did not cut the deficit in half in his first four years.  He had no intention of ever doing so.  He lies about the circumstances of America's gas and oil production surge — occurring despite, not because of, him.  He lied about his involvement in the radical ACORN community action group, and fabricated about his father's and grandfather's World War II involvement.

Obama's Noble Lies.  What is the common denominator of the Obama administration's serial scandals — the Justice Department's spying on AP, the IRS targeting of conservative groups, the NSA surveillance, the lies about Benghazi and the ACA — and much of the White House damage-control rhetoric?  In a word:  the advancement of postmodern notions of justice at the expense of traditional truth.

Obama's Fallout for the Left.  Conservatives keep blaring, "Obama lied!" over the president's serial untruths about the Affordable Care Act.  Even liberal pundits now talk of the president's "misspeaking," or even of his "misleading" statements and only so-so corrections.  But so what?  Obama is an iconic figure who will survive even the latest scandal of flatly misleading the American people, just as he was not harmed much by being less than honest about Benghazi, the AP monitoring, and the IRS and NSA scandals.

Obama's big lie.  "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 this newspaper, 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.

Obama ducks criticism of his support of Muslim Brotherhood Morsi with lies.  A lie is a lie in any language.  A lie is a lie in any country.  And on today's political front there is no bigger liar than President Barack Hussein Obama.

Krauthammer: Obama can lie with such surety, cold-bloodedness that I almost admire him.  Last night [12/5/2012] on Special Report online Krauthammer responded to Obama speaking out of both sides of his mouth on the charitable giving deduction (2009 vs yesterday), saying that he almost admired the level of assurance and cold-bloodedness that Obama has when he completely contradicts something he's said earlier.

"The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention.  It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over."

— Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf, Chapter 6.    

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.

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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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."

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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.

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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."

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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."

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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.

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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.'

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"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.

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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."

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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.

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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.

9 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.

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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."

35 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.

22 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.

5 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.

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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."

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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."

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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."

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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."

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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."

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[#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]

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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.

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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.

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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."

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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.

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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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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 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."

"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    
Sources:  [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]    

Cover-up at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.  According to two well-vetted sources with intimate knowledge of the CIA operations and events in Benghazi, the resignation of CIA Director David Petraeus is directly related to the testimony he was expected to provide before a closed-door hearing next week before the Senate Intelligence Committee.  Sources close to the controversy, citing the need for anonymity due to their positions, stated that Barack Hussein Obama was aware of the CIA director's indiscretions "long before" the November 6, 2012 elections, and knew about the FBI's investigative findings weeks before the election, but "erected a firewall" to prevent any disclosure before November 6th.

Krauthammer: Obama "Not Trying To Fix Our Fiscal Issues And Problems; He's Trying To Destroy The Republicans".  ["]Why are Republicans allowing the entire debate to be about taxes and about the war among Republicans over holding the line on the Norquist pledge or not, when what Obama is proposing on raising the rates on the 2% is a triviality?  It will reduce the deficit from 1.10 trillion to 1.02 trillion, 8 cents on the dollar.  It is nothing.  It's lunch money, it's a rounding error.["]

Misleader-in-Chief.  Of all the Presidents in my lifetime, I don't recall a Commander in Chief that seems to purposely mislead.  Yet this President often orates with well crafted phrases that can only be explained as contrived to this purpose.  The circumstances are virtually always similar.  He speaks to a large crowd in which there is no chance for rebuttal or honest questioning.  The audience can be as large as a national television audience, as in the State of the Union.  The larger the audience, the better.

Obama is so invested in reducing gun violence that he hands the job off to Biden.  At Sunday's memorial service for the 26 innocent Newtown shooting victims, President Obama told a tearful crowd:  "In the coming weeks, I will use whatever power this office holds to engage my fellow citizens — from law enforcement to mental health professionals to parents and educators — in an effort aimed at preventing more tragedies like this."  Turns out "whatever power this office holds" is just the ability to tell Joe "BFD" Biden to come up with some ideas by late next month.

The Biden Gun Violence Task Force:
Three Reasons Gun Control Isn't Going to Happen.  In Washington, blue-ribbon task forces are reserved for issues where you want the appearance of taking action, without having to actually do anything.  There's a reason we've had so many task forces on government spending and the debt.  Politicians want to look like they are doing something on an issue.  By the time the task force completes its work, the national conversation will have moved on to a new issue.

Obama: the same man....  Friends, the man — Barack Obama — telling us that mass shootings are "unacceptable" is the same man who, as an Illinois senator, voted — by himself — to murder viable babies that the abortion doctor failed to kill...  He's the same man who called the Ft. Hood massacre by a Muslim radical "workplace violence," and told us not to "jump to conclusions".

Another Team Obama draft memo we're not supposed to worry about.  When President Obama's minions put their policy wishes on paper, we're told it's nothing.  Just "brainstorming."  Idle chatter.  No worries.  It's what they said about the BLM's land grab scheming.  And the DHS's amnesty-by-administrative fiat musings.  And it's no doubt what they'll say about the latest draft memo from ICE chief John Morton to his field agents.

Obama lists those to blame for the fiscal cliff and he's not one of them.  As five or six of you probably saw, President Obama made a rare appearance on a Sunday talk show yesterday to put his spin on the events or non-events.  He sounded pretty pessimistic. [...] What the president didn't have time to explain, apparently, is that he ran more than four years ago and spent about three-quarters of a billion dollars of other people's money on a campaign with the premise that he would unite the contentious capitol and move the nation forward into a new era beyond partisanship through hope and change.

Poll: Republican voters say Obama's hiding something.  More than a third of Americans — and 64 percent of Republicans — believe that President Barack Obama might be hiding something, according to a new poll Thursday [1/17/2013].  Thirty-six percent of the surveyed voters think the president is possibly "hiding important information about his background and early life," the Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind survey found.

The Children's Hour.  Thus far, the criticism surrounding the president's shameless exploitation of schoolchildren at the recent White House 23-Executive-"Actions" performance has focused largely on how wrong it was to use little kids as political props.  Even more reprehensible though is staged propaganda falsely promoted as unsolicited 'Letters to the President' written from the hearts of vulnerable children.  Therefore, based on the content, style, and an odd mix of childlike misspellings and decidedly unchildlike opinions featured in the letters, it's highly probable that four children were used as political pawns recruited to assist President Obama in "fundamentally transforming the United States of America."

More Calculated Deception.  The President did not present to the nation any agenda in his Inaugural Address.  There were only a few code words, with double, even multiple, meanings.  That is the fundamental innovation Obama has brought to our politics:  deniability.  His methodology is, as I have long exposed, Calculated Deception.

Obama Goes Nativist: 'The Border Crossed Them'.  Offering comments on behalf of outgoing Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar Wednesday [2/6/2013], President Obama suggested the Hispanic Cabinet member is more authentically American than New England's Pilgrims.  "His ancestors were here before the Mayflower set sail," Obama noted.

Obama couldn't care less about the Pope.  He is merely injecting himself into the big news story of the day.
Obama — Sued by Catholic Church for Attacking Religious Freedom — Boasts of His 'Work Together' With Pope.  President Barack Obama — whose administration is being sued by multiple Roman Catholic dioceses and organizations for violating their free exercise of religion — issued a statement today about retiring Pope Benedict XVI, boasting of his "work together" with the pontiff.

Barack Obama, extortionist in chief.  On Tuesday [2/19/2013], following another vacation and a round of golf with the disgraced Tiger Woods, President Obama appeared in the Eisenhower Executive Office building next to the White House.  Behind him on risers, looking like a church choir but without the robes, were his usual Greek chorus of potential victims should Republicans cut spending by a single dollar.  The president said the cuts from sequestration would be "brutal" if lawmakers allow "this meat cleaver approach to take place."  Sounds like a bloody horror movie, doesn't it?

Obama's Sequester Strategy Backfiring.  Barack Obama is overplaying his hand in the latest manufactured crisis of his presidency, Sequestration, and may be alienating his most important constituency of all, the media.

Obama, creator of the sequester crisis, decries crises created for political gain.  To hear President Obama talk about the so-called budget cuts known as sequestration, his two-year-old idea of those required slashes in federal spending didn't turn out to be such a good idea after all.  As usual with President Obama, however, the failure of his own plan is not his fault.

Obama Wants to Stop Blame Game, but Blames GOP for Sequester.  At a shipyard in Virginia, President Barack Obama pointed the finger at the GOP for the impasse over the automatic spending cuts set to hit on Friday — even as he insisted he's not interested in playing a "blame game."  Obama said he's not out for political advantage.  He said he told the nation's governors on Monday [2/25/2013] that he's run his last campaign.  "I'm not interested in spin, I'm not interested in playing a blame game.  At this point, all I'm interested in is solving problems," he said.  But Obama earlier said the GOP is at fault for refusing to compromise on the sequester.

Obama and the Sequester Scare.  Furloughed government employees, flight delays and criminals set free are among the dire consequences the president has predicted.  If the Washington Monument weren't already closed for repairs, no doubt it too would be shut down.

Spending kudzu.  Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has been front and center during the latter days of the sequestration showdown, which is good, because he literally wrote the book on government waste.  He produces a new edition of his "Wastebook" every year, chronicling the most absurd abuses of taxpayer money.  It is wise for Republicans to bring up these horror stories when Obama is racing around the country and insisting that a 2.3 percent reduction in the rate of government growth means we can't have firefighters or border security.

Turns out, those D.C. pols fighting over our money make much more than we do.  You may recall the "fiscal cliff" we were driving over not so long ago.  Now, there's "sequestration," which has to do with — read this carefully now — mandatory cuts of future increases in federal spending.  It's a tiny 2.3% of trillions of dollars, but Obama paints them as catastrophic.

Sequester fabrication revealed.  Never underestimate the White House's ability to mislead voters or the willingness of lefty pundits and mainstream media journalists (some overlap there) to be misled.

Apocalypse not.  In any budget crisis, the first thing politicians do is to inflict as much pain on the public as possible.  Cut cops; close parks, libraries and emergency rooms.  The idea is to make people suffer so they'll clamor for tax increases — and keep the pols' gravy train running smoothly.  Never before, however, have we seen the tactic taken to such extremes on a national level as President Obama is now [...]

Is Obama Losing His Media Allies Over The Sequester?  Obama's education secretary went on Sunday talk shows to suggest that 40,000 teachers would lose their jobs, and his transportation secretary claimed air travelers would suffer huge delays.  Obama's chief of staff called sequester fallout a "devastating list of horribles."  All that over a plan that trims just 5% from discretionary spending, leaves exploding entitlement programs untouched, and will produce an $845 billion deficit?  Even the media appear — incredibly — to be growing skeptical of the administration's horrifying predictions.

Obama's Sequester Math: $300 Billion In New Revenues Called 'Spending Cuts'.  When President Obama put out his "balanced" plan to avoid the automatic sequester cuts, no one noticed.  Which is probably just as well for Obama, given how embarrassingly unbalanced it is.

Obama wants even the smallest tax cut to be perceived as catastrophic.
Obamageddon.  The White House political calculus seems to be that if Americans see that cutting 2.3% of federal spending is possible without catastrophe, they might learn something from the experience.  They might even conclude that government doesn't need to be as large as it is, or that government should do some things well but not many others poorly.  They might even learn that governing is about choosing, as opposed to merely allowing the government to grow willy-nilly year after year to gather more clients who depend on government.

Top CDC Official Clueless on WH Vaccine Claims.  The Obama administration continues to stumble in its effort to dramatize the impact of sequestration.  During a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing Tuesday morning, Representative Andy Harris (R., Md.) challenged the White House over misleading claims about sequestration's impact on vaccines for children.

Obama playing both economic savior and Grim Reaper.  The White House typically trumpets each bit of positive economic news as proof that Obama is ushering in a wave of new jobs.  At the same time, the president has been traveling the country warning that doomsday is at hand, that $85 billion in federal spending cuts that kicked in March 1 are about to devastate the economy.

Obama Talks Sequester Doom Then Gives $250 Million to Egypt.  John Kerry said the U.S. is releasing $250 million of our money to the Egyptians two days after Barack Obama predicted doom over Sequester.  The media hasn't put this oddity together.  I guess it's over their heads.  Egypt's president promised to move ahead with negotiations with the International Monetary Fund over economic reforms in return for the money.  Apparently they are in dire straits.  I thought we were in dire straits because of the Republicans.  Didn't Obama just say that on Friday?

We can't cut 2 percent of government spending, but the Muslim Brotherhood gets $250 million.  But... but... I thought we were totally tapped out.  Cutting one single dollar from Obama's non-budgeted federal spending would mean pay cuts for hard-working janitors, who would go insane sitting in 90-minute takeoff queues at airports while attempting to fly home in shame, only to be killed by bacteria from un-inspected meat, but on the bright side their bodies would be incinerated in house fires that we can no longer afford firemen to extinguish, so at least the infection wouldn't spread.

National Security Trumps Smokey the Bear.  The rest of the country may not much care, but sequestration is here.  According to warnings by the Obama administration, failure to avert these automatic spending cuts will lead to planes falling from the skies, bridges collapsing, federal penitentiaries moving to a voluntary self-incarceration policy, and the Jersey Shore returning to the airwaves.  Nevermind that if these things actually mattered to the president he could have fought to prevent them.

Email tells feds to make sequester as painful as promised.  "This email confirms what many Americans have suspected:  The Obama administration is doing everything they can to make sure their worst predictions come true and to maximize the pain of the Sequester cuts for political gain," said Rep. Tim Griffin, Arkansas Republican.

Hume: Obama tack on sequester 'the most peculiar behavior I have ever seen by a president'.  [Scroll down]  "President Obama's behavior in this business about the automatic budget cuts — this itself is the most peculiar behavior I have ever seen by a president."  "A normal president would be trying to reassure the public that this, after all, is not a large sum of money compared to the budget overall," Hume continued.  "The president seems prepared to let the public suffer almost as much as possible, as long as he can blame somebody else.

White House Tells Agencies to Bring the Pain.  The Obama administration is urging federal officials not to exercise maximum flexibility in implementing automatic spending reductions in order to validate White House talking points, according to an e-mail sent Monday [3/4/2013].

Government by Temper Tantrum.  The government wants something.  It wants to spend $3,803,000,000,000.  It's been told that it may only spend $3,759,000,000,000.  (Please notice that nine zeroes are left unmolested.)  And so now the government is going to throw a tantrum.  It will hide its aircraft carrier, stop food-safety inspections, close the White House to tourists who flew in from hundreds or thousands of miles away.

Obama's LOL sequester cuts: White House tours, then 60,000 border security agents.  President Obama's sequester idea of forced budget cuts kicked in.  Mr. Spend Somemore doesn't like the idea any longer.  So, in true petulant Chicago style the first thing the Obama administration cut was White House tours.  These tours of the people's house that Obama and his mother-in-law occupy at taxpayer expense largely involve volunteer guides.  So, the savings don't equal the cost of one minute of one engine on Air Force One.

Government Advertises for Nearly 2,600 New Jobs Since Sequestration.  A search tonight [3/11/2013] of the USA Jobs federal employment website, filtered to positions in the United States and posted over the past 10 days, yielded 2,596 results.  This includes 107 positions at the Department of Homeland Security, which has claimed cutbacks have resulted in everything from a more taxing security line at airports to the need to free illegal immigrant detainees.

No Money for Air Traffic Control, But $500 million for Hamas.  Dear Leader says there's no money for airport control towers.  But that didn't stop him from writing a $500 million dollar check to the terrorists of Hamas.

Obama finds creative means to bypass Congress.  Move over executive orders.  President Obama has another tool to push policy absent congressional stamp — and it's far less known and controversial.  It's called executive action.  The beauty of the action is that it avoids Republican criticisms and conservative charges that Mr. Obama acts like a "monarch" when issuing executive orders, The Hill reports.  So while on paper, Mr. Obama may actually appear as if he's issuing fewer executive orders than many other presidents who have served two terms, the reality is he's still finding plenty of ways to bypass Congress.  He's just not calling those ways executive orders.

Obama is a joke, and the joke isn't funny.  Barack Obama allowed four Americans to be murdered in Benghazi, Libya.  His administration is still covering up the truth.  Seven Benghazi survivors are being kept from the public, while an innocent film-maker sits in jail.  Obama is his administration; their mistakes are his.  Nobody has been held accountable.  While Ambassador Stevens and a pair of Navy SEALs were being murdered by Islamists, Obama was going to bed early and partying in Las Vegas the next day.  Barack Obama allowed an American border guard to be murdered due to a "Fast and Furious" gunrunning operation that was created and botched by his administration. His Attorney General Eric Holder was asked who authorized the operation and still refuses to answer the question.

First Couple hosts celeb-filled concert amid sequestration.  President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle will host a star-studded roster of music legends April 9 for another glitzy installment in the "In Performance at the White House" concert series, according to a White House press released issued Tuesday. [...] Though the White House notably canceled all visitor tours in March, ostensibly due to sequestration, the First Couple's series of White House concerts — billed as "the nation's highest honor for popular song" — manages to survive.

The Editor says...
This event will be televised on PBS, largely at the taxpayers' expense.

By his own standards, Obama is 'self-delusional'.  I fully understand that missing a few baskets is a pretty trivial fault for the most powerful man in the world.  The problem for Obama is that he is such a phony with such highly manufactured image that his appeal is actually quite brittle, once you get definitive evidence that he isn't what he claims to be.

A Primer for Understanding Obama's Budget.  Congress can misrepresent the effects of any given piece of legislation in complex ways.  It does not do so by entering, say, $800 million when the correct number is $900 million.  Instead, Congress enacts certain tax and spending measures as "temporary" when it has no intention of allowing the provision to lapse; or it assumes legislative provisions in current law that would cut spending will be made, when Congress knows they never will.

The President's Gun Tirade and You.  President Obama's lecturing little temper tantrum at the White House Wednesday should cause you some alarm.  What are we to think when the most powerful man in the country spits venom all over the Rose Garden, accusing opponents he lost to in a fair fight on Capitol Hill of lying, craven capitulation to political imperatives, and worst of all, not caring about dead children.

Obama: Let's Not Rush to Judgment on Islamists' Motives.  Watch as Obama tries to argue away the roots and connection to radicalism of the terrorist brothers.  They aren't the white patriot terrorists the left would like, but he tries his best to make them domestic.

President Obama's Symbiotic Relationship With the Abortion Industry.  Obama declined to comment on Gosnell for the same reason the liberal media have consciously blacked out the story.  When Obama was asked, he didn't just beg off because "it's an active trial"; he offered up the obligatory disingenuous liberal talking point:  "I think President Clinton said it pretty well when he said abortion should be safe, legal and rare."  This formulation has always bothered me because it is fundamentally dishonest — and particularly so in Obama's case.  If an unborn baby is not a human life — an evil sophistry that has been responsible for millions of murders in this nation — then why in the world would it be important to make it rare?

Obama's Psychodramas.  Barack Obama has a habit of trying to energize his legislative agenda by stoking the fires of emotionally charged current events — and in ways usually illogical and incoherent.  The shooting of Representative Gabby Giffords and the horrible mass murders at Sandy Hook Elementary School were cited as reasons for rapid enactment of new gun-control laws — even though the proposed tougher registration rules would not have prevented either mayhem.

When He Talks Abortion, President Obama Pretends to Be a Libertarian.  It's no secret that Obama supports a woman's right to choose, in consultation with her doctor, whether getting an abortion is appropriate.  Contrary to his rhetoric, however, Obama doesn't believe that American women should alone be empowered to decide what's best for their health as a general matter.  However emphatically he proclaims the opposite, Obama verily believes that politicians like him ought to interfere in myriad decisions about personal medical care.  It is illegitimate for him to invoke the language of liberty to score points on this set of issues.

President Obama steals credit for energy success he opposed.  President Obama may be the first chief executive to take credit for the results of things he has opposed throughout his time in the Oval Office.  The latest example came last week, when the Department of the Interior announced it had approved 21 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico for energy resource exploration and development.

Carney: Benghazi Happened A Long Time Ago.  White House spokesman Jay Carney denied Benghazi whistleblowers have been denied access to testifying.

Benghazi isn't the only bloody disaster being covered up by the Obama administration.
The Camp Bastion Cover-Up.  Do you remember what happened last year on 9/14?  Where are the White House phone calls for the families who continue to grieve?  What is being done to prevent another fatal attack like the one on 9/14?  And why is the full truth being withheld from the American public?

The Biggest Threat Of Government Tyranny Says There Is None.  The president told college graduates over the weekend to dismiss those warning of government tyranny.  But he wouldn't have brought it up if he didn't feel the need to defend his administration's heavy hand.

In wake of scandal, Obama ousts IRS chief — who was planning to resign anyway.  President Obama insisted Thursday [5/16/2013] that he knew nothing about the internal investigation into the IRS' practice of singling out conservative groups for special scrutiny before it was made public, as he moved to name a new director for the embattled agency. [...] The president, though, did not say whether he was previously aware of the IRS' actions, which allegedly started as early as 2010, well before the inspector general's office began to investigate.

When it rains, it pours: Ten press conference take aways.  [#4] He wouldn't say that the White House had no previous knowledge of IRS wrongdoing.  Instead he said he didn't have any knowledge of the Inspector General's report before it was released.

Carney: White House, Treasury strategized how to tell public.  The White House said Tuesday [5/21/2013] that senior officials took part in discussions over how the IRS would disclose its targeting of conservative groups, marking the latest shift in the White House's official line on the matter.  Press secretary Jay Carney told reporters that Mark Childress, deputy chief of staff, spoke twice with Treasury Department officials about the IRS's public relations strategy.

White House meltdown: A truth deficit.  There seems to be bipartisan consensus that whatever the White House is doing to fend off scandal is making things worse. [...] The constantly shifting stories from Jay Carney and the IRS dissembling and pleas of ignorance only heighten concern that there has been serious wrongdoing.  Former IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman doesn't know how the targeting started and doesn't think he owes anyone an apology.

Holding AWOL Obama Accountable.  President Obama offers only weasel words to explain deaths in Libya and IRS abuses.  He's the master of verbal evasion.  House Republicans need to replace debate with action to hold the president accountable on these issues.

The rise of the fourth branch of government.  [Last week] President Obama insisted he knew nothing about major decisions in the State Department, or the Justice Department, or the Internal Revenue Service.  The heads of those agencies, in turn, insisted they knew nothing about major decisions by their subordinates.  It was as if the government functioned by some hidden hand.  Clearly, there was a degree of willful blindness in these claims.

The Great Sequester is a sham and a farce.
In time of sequesters, federal government posts 27,000 job openings.  The budget cuts known as sequestration were supposed to wreak havoc, forcing the shrinking of critical workforces including airport security officers and food inspectors.  But since sequestration kicked in March 4, the government has posted openings for 4,300 federal job titles to hire some 10,300 people.

The Spending Cuts that Never Were.  Do Washington politicians think we are stupid?  There are no cuts in Federal spending.  Yet big-government politicians and advocates continually beat the drum about (nonexistent) budget cuts.  Are big-spenders playing a "long con?" [...] President Barack Obama tried to blackmail Americans into accepting tax increases by holding air travel hostage.  Let's call Obama's tactic what it is:  extortion.  Obama tried to convince Americans and Congress that unless Congress surrendered to Obama's agenda for higher taxes and higher debt limits, businessmen and vacation travelers would face long delays at airports.

Barack Obama Climbs through the Overton Window.  Opponents of current policies seek to educate people, to convince them that the current policies should be considered unacceptable, by disseminating the whole, complete truth, not just what Democrats and/or the MSM want the public to know.  What is perhaps most upsetting is that Dear Leader Barack Hussein Obama is practicing the Overton Window strategy, particularly through executive orders, and the Democrat Party and MSM are letting him get away with it.

Rasmussen: Only 30% of Americans Trust the Government over Surveillance.  According to a new Rasmussen poll, only 30% of Americans trust the government to use the Constitution as a guide for surveillance issues, while 52% of respondents do not.  When asked whether they believed Barack Obama when he said the government was not listening to their phone calls, 68% of those polled said that it was at least somewhat likely that Obama was not telling the truth.

Ralph Nader: 'Has There Been a Bigger Con Man in the White House Than Barack Obama?'  Ralph Nader last week had some harsh words for the current President of the United States.  Appearing on Democracy Now!, Nader asked host Amy Goodman, "Has there been a bigger con man in the White House than Barack Obama?"

Do You Trust This Man?  There is a common element to the so-called Obama scandals — the IRS targeting of conservatives, the fatal attack in Benghazi, and widespread spying on U.S. journalists and ordinary Americans.  It is a lack of credibility.  In each case, the Obama administration has helped make controversies worse by changing its stories, distorting facts, and lying.  The abuse of trust may be taking a toll on President Obama's reputation.

Honor Trayvon by Ending the Black Genocide.  Barack Obama isn't one to hide his disrespect for federalism or conceal his contempt for the legal system or the U.S. Constitution.  The statement Obama made reveals that his motivation was to once again gain personal political expediency from someone else's heartbreak.  Think about it:  the president sheds tears over murdered children, but it's always attached to advancing a specific political agenda.  That's precisely why, in some circles, as America's most radical pro-abortion advocate, Barack Obama has zero credibility when discussing lives lost to gun violence.

Fact Check: Obama Spins Health Insurance Rebates.  Another year, another round of exaggeration from President Barack Obama and his administration about health insurance rebates.

President Obama's brand new campaign ad wants you to believe he's engaged on the economy.  President Obama wants to let America know that Obamacare, immigration reform, gun control, global warming, and Trayvon Martin aren't the only things that he cares about.  The White House team releases this new campaign ad, as Obama prepares to hit the campaign trail again to start talking about the economy.

Obama Misrepresents 'Stand Your Ground'.  "Stand your ground" does not, therefore, entitle you to shoot somebody just because he makes you uncomfortable.  That's unless the discomfort is the physical kind that results from a violent assault.  Michigan's "stand your ground" law is almost identical, and so is Pennsylvania's.  Suspicious behavior does not rise to what the law calls "reasonable," and attorneys Barack Obama and Eric Holder both know this.  Their efforts to convince the public that "stand your ground" turns streets into free-fire zones are therefore willfully dishonest.

Unmasking the embassy threat.  There is one thing certain about the publicized threat to our embassies; it is not what it is presented to be.  To accept the official explanation of a nebulous threat from al Qaeda as the reason for closing our embassies across the Middle East and North Africa is being dangerously naive and simplistic.  This is much more serious than what we are being told, but not for the reasons we are being given.

Made-up Threat Rehabilitates the Big Brother.  The U.S. State Department issued a global alert about the terrorist threat allegedly posed by Al-Qaeda in Yemen.  The USA announced the closure of its missions in the Middle East and Africa, and their example was followed by France, Britain, and Germany. However, this was only an attempt to justify the activities of the National Security Agency.

Trust but verify, and hunker down.  The big scare seems real enough, but only the terminally unobservant would not notice that the timing of it is awfully convenient for the White House and the fans of the security state.  Who would put a leash on the National Security Agency now, with all the static, chatter and high anticipation about what mayhem might (or might not) come down on the Middle East?

Terror Threat Intelligence Not New.  The timing of the administration's announced closure of numerous U.S. embassies in the Middle East has raised concerns among some U.S. officials that the Obama administration is politicizing intelligence to distract attention from the Benghazi and other scandals.  "Why is this coming out now?" asked one official with access to terrorist threat data.  "Is the administration trying to suck up news coverage with the embassy threats to distract attention from what the CIA was doing in Benghazi?"

The suspicious leaks behind the terrorism alert.  The number of people who would be cleared to possess the level of detail that identified a particular conference call as the relevant SIGINT activity is tiny.  It is one thing to say broadly that U.S. officials overheard "discussions," because someone planning an attack probably discusses it in some way many times.  Even then, though, you could imagine a mad scramble by jihadists for new communication safe zones.  There are two reasons why the government would tolerate this type of leak. [...]

How the president uses language as a cover for the abuse of power.  On Aug. 9, with his approval rating at a near all-time low of 41 percent, facing sharp scrutiny over the National Security Agency's dragnet data-collection plan, Obama held a press conference where he insisted:  "I want to make clear once again that America is not interested in spying on ordinary people."  At the same time, Obama's Justice Department released a white paper defending the proposition that the PATRIOT Act allowed the covert collection of all Americans' phone records for a period of seven years because, under the language of Section 215, they're "relevant to an authorized investigation" of international terrorism.

Bam's phone-y tax.  Take note of the Obama administration's latest "for the children" initiative:  expanding high-speed Internet for schools across the country. [...] Team Obama recognizes there's little appetite in Congress for another program.  So it's not even going to try for legislation.  Instead the plan is to stick AT&T with the bill.  And Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, etc. [...] To the extent Americans notice the new fee, they are likely to direct their anger at the private carriers rather than the politicians.

Just before Snowden Leaks, Obama fired most of his intel advisers.  Remember last week's press conference, where President Obama insisted that he had already kicked off the process of a major review of the way we do intelligence and surveillance in this country — and about how he was going to set up an "outside" review group to look all this over?  The same review group that will be set up by and report to James Clapper (but, the White House assures us, not run by him)?  Right, so a few people pointed out that President Obama already has an independent group that's supposed to do that thing: called the President's Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB).

America the Trivial.  Reggie Love, the erstwhile presidential assistant and "body man" to President Obama, recently reported on the critical moments of the mission to kill Osama bin Laden.  The president apparently was not glued to live video feeds, as the photos from his reelection campaign suggested. [...] The commander-in-chief was playing cards while Navy SEALs risked their lives to kill America's No. 1 enemy — only later to use photos of himself watching live feeds for his reelection sloganeering:  "Bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!"

Obama's Higher Ed Plan — A Power Grab, Not a Shake-up.  Obama's plan will increase the federal government's ability to coerce colleges into embracing even more fully a left-wing agenda — e.g., discriminating against whites in admissions and hiring, unfairly disciplining male students based on flimsy allegations of sexual harassment, and so forth. [...] Obama is not talking about reducing federal subsidies to colleges and universities as a whole; he's talking, it appears, about redistributing them.

Obama State University.  President Obama recently concluded a five-year campus speaking tour in which he explained to students how his financing programs were making college more affordable.  Then on Thursday [8/22/2013] he kicked off a new campus speaking tour to tell students that college is unaffordable, and that the financing program he has championed faces increasing defaults.

A Truly Great Phony.  Like other truly talented phonies, Barack Obama concentrates his skills on the effect of his words on other people — most of whom do not have the time to become knowledgeable about the things he is talking about.  Whether what he says bears any relationship to the facts is politically irrelevant.  A talented con man, or a slick politician, does not waste his time trying to convince knowledgeable skeptics.  His job is to keep the true believers believing.  He is not going to convince the others anyway.

New Obamacare rule uses terms 'shared responsibility payment' and 'penalty' instead of 'tax'.  The Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) final rule on Obamacare's individual mandate, released this week, uses the term "Shared Responsibility Payment" more than 50 times to describe the mandate's non-compliance penalty, which the Supreme Court in 2012 defined as a tax.  The IRS also used the term "shared responsibility penalty" in the rule, which does not identify the individual mandate as a tax.

Obama's careless remarks may lead the U.S. to war.  [Scroll down]  Words, however, are so marvelously malleable in the Obama administration, the Oxford English Dictionary's definition of "coup" ("a change in the government carried out violently or illegally") somehow does not denote what happened in Egypt.  Last week, an Obama spokesman said:  "We have made the determination that making a decision about whether or not a coup occurred is not in the best interests of the United States."

Obama's Plan to Blame Syria on Congress.  Obama's belated agreement to take the Syrian strikes before Congress, while asserting that he will not be bound by whatever Congress decides, buys him a convenient exit strategy.  The Congress trap will let Obama opt out of an attack that he is ambivalent about while blaming Republicans for destroying American credibility.

Obama's bombing resolution seeks blank check from Congress.  President Obama has released the text of the resolution he will send to Congress, asking them to rubber stamp his already-made decision to bomb Syria.  [... But] Nothing in this resolution limits Obama to attacking just the Assad regime.  In fact, it authorizes him to attack any country, or any "non-state actor" anywhere in the world.  [And] Nothing in this resolution limits Obama from sending ground troops into war.  In fact, it authorizes him "to use the Armed Forces of the United States as he determines to be necessary" to prevent spread of chemical weapons.

U.S. faces substantial losses if Egypt aid halted: official.  [Scroll down]  Washington has already halted deliveries of four F-16 fighters built by Lockheed Martin Corp, and must decide soon on several other large weapons shipments, according to U.S. government officials.

The Editor says...
There's nothing wrong with having a few extra F-16 fighters on hand.  The F-16 has always been a marketable product anywhere in the world.  Therefore the assertion that the U.S. will lose money somehow if the fighters are not sold to Egypt is untrue.

Senate-crafted Syria resolution riddled with loopholes for Obama.  Senators on Wednesday [9/4/2013] tried to write a tight resolution authorizing President Obama to strike Syria under very specific circumstances, but analysts and lawmakers said the language still has plenty of holes the White House could use to expand military action well beyond what Congress appears to intend.

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

Obama struggles to convince Congress Syria isn't about him.  Opponents of a military intervention in Syria say the president is trying to save face after declaring the use of chemical weapons a "red line" that should not be crossed.  The idea that Obama's motives are political is taking hold on both the left and right, underscoring the challenge he faces in securing support for a risky military venture abroad.

Reductio ad Obama.  Obama loves to speak in the first-person singular; he seems oblivious to the obnoxiousness of his habitual references (including one in today's press conference) to "my military."  But suddenly it's a matter of whether we mean what we say.

Obama's 'unbelievably small' presidency.  We're conducting foreign policy by faux pas.  This entire episode has been driven not by deliberate strategy but by slips of the tongue.  Obama's declaration of a "red line" on chemical weapons was a slip of the tongue.  So was Secretary of State John Kerry's offer to have Syria give up its chemical weapons.  There is no plan, no coherence to anything this administration is doing on Syria.  More embarrassing still, Obama is actually claiming that the diplomatic "breakthrough" is the result of his administration's show of strength.

55 percent of Obama's Twitter followers are fake.  An incredibly high percentage of President Obama's Twitter followers are fake, while the opposite is true for Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.  According to the Twitter analytics application, Status People, 55 percent of President Obama's 36,802,378 Twitter followers — or approximately 20,240,107 followers — are fake.  A 'fake follower,' according to Status People, is a spam account following the user.

Obama: Not Allowing Gov't to Borrow More 'Would Amount to a New Tax'.  Obama said once the debt ceiling is raised and the shutdown is over, "there's a lot we can accomplish together."  He called for more job creation at a time when Obamacare is prompting some employers to cut jobs or move workers to part-time.  And he called for additional deficit reduction in a "smarter, balanced way," which is code for tax hikes.

Banging the Drum for Default.  Actually, default is not paying the interest/principle on what one has borrowed.  Current federal revenue is way more than enough to easily pay what we owe on federal notes, bills, and bonds.  If the feds do indeed have enough revenue pouring in to meet their obligations, then actual default would be an act of volition, a decision by the president.  The president would have to decide to squander the full faith and credit of the nation.  Such an action would be an impeachable offense.  The president tells us that the deficit has been cut in half.  He's right, but that's only because it's come down from astronomical levels.

150 Straight Days: Treasury Says Debt Stood Still at $16,699,396,000,000.  Every business day since May 17, the U.S. Treasury has published a daily statement claiming that the federal debt subject to the limit set by Congress closed the day at $16,699,396,000,000 — about $25 million below the legal limit.  Monday [10/14/2013], the Columbus Day holiday, according to the Daily Treasury Statement released today, marked the 150th straight day that the Treasury has said the debt subject to limit was stuck at $16,699,396,000,000.

Obama: We Need to Stop Focusing on Bloggers.  On Thursday morning [10/17/2013], President Obama delivered a speech applauding Democrats and "responsible Republicans" for reopening the Government and giving America the opportunity to pay its bills and avoid the first default in two hundred years.  Ignoring the dizzying increase in the national debt to almost $17 trillion and the inevitability of further huge increases with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, Obama insists our deficits have been cut in half.

Just three out of the 13 Americans in Monday's Rose Garden Obamacare photo-op have actually signed up.  When President Barack Obama defended his foundering health insurance overhaul Monday in a carefully staged and scripted White House pep rally, thirteen people stood behind him as examples of Americans whom the 'Obamacare' law would help.  But according to their biographies, just three have actually enrolled in the plans offered in their states.

Chuck Todd Grills Jay Carney: 'Who Misled the President' About Obamacare 'Glitches'?  NBC News Chief White House Correspondent Chuck Todd dug into White House Press Sec. Jay Carney on Monday [10/21/2013] following President Barack Obama's Rose Garden address where he discussed the problems associated with implementing the Affordable Care Act.  Todd repeatedly asked Carney who "misled" Obama and what advisors "let him down" ahead of the implementation of the ACA.

The hidden truth behind early Obamacare numbers.  Officials announced Thursday [10/24/2013] that 700,000 people have applied for insurance plans in both the 36 states that are using a federally run health care exchange and the 14 states running their own exchanges.  But don't apply that 700,000 application figure to the 7 million enrollment goal.  For starters, there's no guarantee that all 700,000 will ultimately enroll in a health insurance plan.  And those 700,000 applications include Medicaid enrollments.

Obama: 'It Doesn't Make Sense to Have 11 Million People Who Are in This Country Illegally...'.  President Barack Obama — who oversees both the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security — said in a speech at the White House on Thursday [10/24/2013] that it does not make sense to have 11 million people in the United States "illegally."  The president said that the people "illegally" in the United States need to be given an "incentive" to stay here and become what he called "legalized citizens."

The Editor says...
Mr. Obama is correct in saying that it doesn't make any sense to have 11 million people in this country illegally.  A sensible president would enforce the Mexican border with U.S. Army troops, if necessary.  A sensible government would make absolutely sure that no illegal alien received a nickel of welfare payments, and no illegal alien would be rewarded for coming across the border to give birth to a so-called anchor baby.  A sensible country would transact all business in English, teach only in English, and would most certainly never allow voting in any language but English.  And in my opinion, Spanish-language broadcasting is a big part of the problem, because it makes illegal aliens too comfortable, and moves the Mexican culture into major U.S. cities.  If you want to sneak into this country, leave the Mexican culture behind and assimilate or leave.

The White House on Spying.  Is it really better for us to think that things have gone so far with the post-9/11 idea that any spying that can be done should be done and that nobody thought to inform President Obama about tapping the phone of one of the most important American allies?

Sergeant Schultz!
Obama's 'in-the-dark' defense.  President Barack Obama is briefed each day on a wide range of domestic and international issues, yet when it comes to major controversies, his administration's response is often the same:  the president didn't know.  The most recent appearance of the tendency came Sunday, as the Wall Street Journal reported that Obama was unaware of the National Security Agency's surveillance of foreign leaders until earlier this year.  The story came on the heels of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius's claim that the president didn't learn of the problems with HealthCare.gov until after the site's Oct. 1 launch.

What did President Obama know and when did he know it?  For a smart man, President Obama professes to know very little about a great number of things going on in his administration. [...] It stretches credulity to think that the United States was spying on world leaders without the president's knowledge, or that he was blissfully unaware of huge technical problems that threatened to undermine his main legislative achievement.  But on issues including the IRS targeting flap and the Justice Department's use of subpoenas against reporters, White House officials have frequently given a variation on this theme.

Obamacare Victims and Israel.  As was the case with ObamaCare, the White House knows that most Americans won't support its policy of doing nothing to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.  So the White House never says that this is its policy.  Obama and his advisers insist that preventing Iran from becoming a nuclear power is a central goal of the administration.  But their actions move US policy in the opposite direction.

WH: We Have 'Rough Estimate' of Enrollment Figures, But Won't Release to Public.  White House press secretary Jay Carney revealed that the administration has "rough" Obamacare enrollment numbers, but that it is waiting to release them to the general public until they're more reliable. [...] Carney's comments come a day after reports that just six people enrolled on the federal exchanges when the Healthcare.gov website launched last month.

A Phalanx of Lies.  We are assured by the headline writers that the president was "unaware" of Obamacare's website defects, and the NSA spying, and the IRS targeting of his political enemies, and the Justice Department bugging the Associated Press, and pretty much anything else you ask him about.

Obama 'Matrix' — a world of deniability.  "The buck stops here."  There's a sustaining beauty to President Harry Truman's desk sign.  In four simple words, it offers a defining purpose to an office of immense complexity — in the end, the president holds the final responsibility.  Most presidents accept this narrative.  But nearly five years into office — after Fast and Furious, after Benghazi, after the snooping on Associated Press phone records, after the IRS political vendetta and now the Obamacare website mess, President Obama has shown his preference for a different kind of "buck" — with a deliberately amorphous Constitution.  By his own choice, Obama has become the "know-nothing" president.

Race is Obama's "Get Out of Jail Free" card.  [The great Obamacare lie] is just one of a growing list of disturbing questions surrounding the Obama Administration, if not the Oval Office itself:  Operation Fast and Furious, IRS targeting, NSA surveillance, Benghazi, NLRB recess appointments, weak economic recovery, expanding welfare nanny-state, exorbitant debt growth, and the sacking of almost 200 senior military officers.  In every case the response from Obama is either that:  He didn't know about it; it is an unimportant or a phony scandal; it's someone else's fault — generally the Republicans or the Tea Party.

'I wanted to go in and fix it myself, but I don't write code'.  President Barack Obama addressed the healthcare.gov website's chronic dysfunctions Friday [11/8/2013] by quipping that he would fix it himself, 'but I don't write code.'  The self-deprecating line came during a speech in New Orleans about shoring up U.S. exports through American port cities.  But the moment also jokingly cast the president — perhaps unintentionally — as a hands-on administrator rather than the aloof executive that White House insiders have described in news articles, broadcast interviews and books.

The Editor says...
Writing computer programs is one more thing Mr. Obama doesn't know how to do.  What marketable skills does he have?

The ignorant omniscience of President Obama.  He knows everything.  And yet he seems to know nothing.  He's passionate about the details of domestic policy but wasn't privy to the details of his own legacy law.  He's an academic with a command of every issue at once but seemingly only finds out what his administration is doing in news reports.  He's so brilliant every normal endeavor he's tried has bored him, but he couldn't bother to entertain himself with more than one monthly meeting on the make-or-break program of his presidency.

Barack Obama's cookie jar presidency.  Regardless of the situation Obama's pet phrase is "We have to weigh all the options."  In Obamaworld that is code for stalling for time either to manipulate the system or perpetuate a new lie.  Barack Obama thrives on controversy which later leads to turmoil.  It has been a hallmark of his administration.  By creating internal chaos he, and his operatives, are able to control the agenda, even when it is unpopular.  Whenever a crisis erupts, the media waits and waits and then waits some more wondering when the president is going to respond.

What The Know-Nothings Know.  Our poor, hapless, uninformed, clueless president!  He campaigned on the promise to fundamentally transform our country into his idealized socialist wonderland, and as soon as his efforts began to bear fruit, he begged us to believe he had no idea how.  It's amazing the surprises with which our poor president has been blind-sided lately.  And, because no one ever speaks to him or tells him anything between speeches, it's all news to him.  Nothing he does, nothing he says, nothing he authorizes, nothing he puts in motion, no one he appoints, nothing bearing his name, and nothing during his lifetime is in any way connected to him.  He doesn't even know his own life story, repeatedly getting the details wrong or inventing composite characters.

President Obama and His Gang That (Still) Isn't Shooting Straight.  Incompetence, deception, and lack of accountability doomed the Obamacare rollout.  That's old news.  What's new?  The nagging durability of the White House's incompetence, deception, and lack of accountability.

A Better Obamacare Won't Save Obama.  A new CNN poll confirms what America's collective gut has been saying for weeks:  Obamacare is sinking its namesake.  The numbers are ugly:  Just one in four respondents say President Obama is a competent manager of the federal government.  For all the hand-wringing about comparing the HealthCare.gov site rollout to Hurricane Katrina, the bottom line is that this president, like his predecessor, has now suffered a signature event that has convinced a majority of Americans that he is unfit for the job.  Piling on, the president also scored his lowest marks on honesty and trustworthiness, with 53 percent of those surveyed responding that they don't feel Obama is being straight with them.

Who was standing behind Obama today? White House won't say.  Nineteen people stood behind President Obama on stage in the Executive Office Building Tuesday as the president kicked off a new campaign to promote Obamacare. [...] But [with one exception] Obama never said who those people were, and, unlike other events, the White House did not release their names or biographies.  A spokesman later said the White House would not provide the information.  A pool report called the group "19 individuals whom the White House said benefited from health care reform."  Beyond that, their connection to Obamacare remains unknown.

Jay Carney Says No One Ever Asked President Obama if He'd Met Uncle Omar Until Now.  On Tuesday [12/3/2013], The Boston Globe reported that Onyango "Omar" Obama, uncle to President Obama, says that his famous nephew stayed with him while a student at Harvard Law School in the 80s, in contradiction to The White House's contention that the two had never met.  At Thursday's White House daily briefing, Press Secretary Jay Carney confirmed that the President had, in fact, briefly stayed with "his father's half-brother," as Carney described Omar Obama, and that no one had actually asked the President about it when the White House initially commented.

Obama: 'You Can't Say You Take Pride in American Democracy' and Be in Favor of Voter ID Laws.  Yes, several states are mounting efforts to hinder the ability of certain people to vote; these "certain" people are ineligible voters.  Call it "extreme," but openly facilitating voter fraud to alter elections is hardly an affirmation of democracy, but a detriment to our election process.  On a side note, perhaps we could take President Obama more seriously when he speaks about voter fraud or voter intimidation if his Justice Department had not dropped the case against Black Panthers who intimidated voters in Philadelphia in 2008.

Focusing on inflation-adjusted minimum wage is misguided.  To put things in perspective, when Obama wanted to downplay the number of individuals who had received cancellation letters due to his health care law, he portrayed the 5 percent who obtained their health insurance through the individual market as representing a small segment of the population.  In comparison, 1.6 million Americans earned exactly the federal minimum wage in 2012, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and another 2 million had wages below that due to certain exemptions.  Combined, the 3.6 million earning at or below the minimum wage represented less than 3 percent of working Americans.

White House Treats Obama's Golf Summit Like Oval Office Meeting.  When the president has an important meeting behind closed doors, the White House sometimes issues a readout — general summary of what was discussed, with administration spin.  After President Obama golfed for five hours with New Zealand Prime Minister John Key, the White House tried to dress it up as a meeting of sorts by releasing a readout: [...]

White House pleads for 'emergency' unemployment benefit extension.  The White House made a strong defense Monday [1/6/2013] of a U.S. Senate push to extend 'emergency' federal unemployment benefits by three months, just 17 days after President Barack Obama told reporters that his administration has done a remarkably good job putting jobless Americans back to work.  Fifteen of those intervening days were consumed with a presidential vacation in Hawaii, placing those two statements on nearly back-to-back working days.

Our Perpetually Surprised President.  He was surprised by the depth of the recession when he came into office.  He then became surprised at the duration of the bad economy.  He was surprised to win the Nobel Prize for Peace.  He was surprised there were no shovel-ready jobs.  He was surprised the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms was running guns to Mexican drug cartels.  He was surprised S&P downgraded the United States' credit rating for the first time in history.  He was surprised the IRS was targeting conservatives.

See No Evil.  I just saw a tease on a news site that said Obama didn't know the extent of the NSA surveillance.  It seems that he also didn't know about our nation spying on the German Chancellor, didn't know the Obamacare website was nowhere close to being ready to roll out, didn't know about the IRS targeting conservative groups, didn't know about the Petraeus investigation, didn't know about the Department of Justice seizing the AP's phone records, had no knowledge of Fast and Furious and doesn't remember a thing about what he was doing the night four Americans were slaughtered in Benghazi Libya.

White house drug czar contradicts Obama on marijuana.  President Obama's latest claims about marijuana are contradicted by research and official positions of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, which is part of the White House.  And Mr. Obama's words have anti-drug leaders worried about negative repercussions among youth.  Mr. Obama claimed to The New Yorker magazine that marijuana is no worse than cigarettes or alcohol and he promoted state efforts by Colorado and Washington to legalize marijuana, which remains illegal under federal law.

To Mark Abortion Decision, Obama Touts 'Freedom and Opportunities to Fulfill Their Dreams'.  In a statement marking the controversial Supreme Court ruling Roe v. Wade, President Obama says that "this is a country where everyone deserves the same freedom and opportunities to fulfill their dreams."

The road to hell.  War is no more.  The lawyers have simply defined it out of existence.  After all, if you don't go to Congress for authorization, where's the war?  It is a condition of what used to be called strategic mindlessness.

The Cowardice of Wendy Davis.  [Wendy] Davis is merely at the forefront of the cowardice epidemic.  On the anniversary of Roe v. Wade earlier this month, President Obama couldn't bring himself to say the word "abortion," preferring instead virtually every poll-tested buzzword.  Indeed, in all of the "war on women" noise, abortion is almost always wrapped in the velvety euphemisms of "women's health" and "reproductive choice."  It should tell you something when passionate advocates of unrestricted abortion are so uncomfortable talking about ... abortion.

Obama personally signed fundraising email referring to Washington, D.C. as a 'state'.  President Barack Obama sent a weary email to supporters Saturday [2/1/2014] that referred to Washington, D.C. as a "state."  Obama's fundraising email Sunday for the Democratic National Committee muses that "The Congress we elect this fall will be the last one I'll ever work with."  The email, which basically amounted to a 115-word tired sigh, was regionally targeted.

A Smidgen Of Baloney.  President Obama told Fox News' Bill O'Reilly that the IRS targeting of dissidents had not a "smidgen of corruption."  In light of rafts of evidence it happened, his dismissal of such an abuse of power is disingenuous at best.

The use of stock photographs can backfire.
Barack Obama's 'hard-working American' is actually a London Overground commuter.  President Barack Obama's political action group, Organizing for Action, is out with a new advert urging Congress to raise the national minimum wage for millions of low-paid Americans.  Set to rising music, the 30-second commercial features a medley of images of hard-working Americans going about their day.  There's only one problem:  one of those "hard-working Americans" is in fact a London Overground commuter.

Obama's Corruption of the English Language Comes Right From Orwell's "1984".  Politicians are always trying to put the best face on unpleasant occurrences — what we call spin.  But nothing comes close to the White House response to a study from the Congressional Budget Office that by 2024 ObamaCare will cost the economy the equivalent of 2.5 million jobs.

Obama's Newspeak.  America, of all places, is becoming Orwellian.  The president repeatedly reminds the American people that under his leadership, the U.S. has produced a record level of new oil and natural gas.  But didn't Obama radically curtail leases for just such new energy production on federal lands?  Have the edicts on the barn wall of Animal Farm been changed again, with the production of new oil and gas suddenly going from bad to good?

Obama's Math Game — Fudging The Numbers On Deportations.  On more than one occasion, I have been challenged when I make the assertion that President Obama is soft on immigration.  He is currently in the process of considering many new changes in the rules of deportation and he is being shouted on by any number of proponents of changing our immigration system. [...] The challenge that has been leveled in my direction basically asks how I can say President Obama is soft on immigration, when he has increased the number of deportations to record levels. [...] As it turns out, it's all in the way you count the numbers.  Just change the definition of a couple of terms and how the deportations are counted and you magically have a record level of deportations of illegal immigrants.

Obama's Orwellian View Of Freedom.  President Obama wants Democrats to reclaim the word "freedom" as their own.  But what he describes as freedom is little more than deeper dependence on government.  Not exactly what the Founders had in mind.

Obama Warns of Getting 'Clobbered'.  President Barack Obama warned yesterday at a private home in Miami that Democrats "get clobbered" in midterm elections.  "[T]he problem is not that the American people disagree with us on the issues.  The challenge is, is that our politics in Washington have become so toxic that people just lose faith and finally they just say, you know what, I'm not interested, I'm not going to bother, I'm not going to vote," Obama told donors.

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Mr. Obama is making a feeble attempt to portray hostility and active opposition as mere apathy.

IRS chief: No 'targeting' of tea party groups, just 'inappropriate criteria'.  House Republicans who have investigated the IRS's handling of applications of conservative groups' seeking tax-exempt status have referred to the practice as "targeting." So have news organizations, including The Washington Post.  But the Obama administration has preferred a more bureaucratic phrase — that "inappropriate criteria" were used to decide which organizations needed extra scrutiny.  That would be words like "tea party."

The '77 Cents on the Dollar' Myth About Women's Pay.  The 23% gap implies that women work an extra 68 days to earn the same pay as a man.  Mr. Obama advocates allowing women to sue for wage discrimination, with employers bearing the burden of proving they did not discriminate.  But the numbers bandied about to make the claim of widespread discrimination are fundamentally misleading and economically illogical.

White House: The '77 cents' wage gap figure isn't accurate, but they'll use it anyway.  A White House adviser had to walk back the oft-repeated myth that women make 77 cents on the dollar that men make after being questioned about the figure during a conference call Monday [4/7/2014].  While detailing executive actions President Obama plans to take Tuesday regarding equal pay for women, Betsey Stevenson, a member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, said very defiantly that despite women contributing 44 percent of their household incomes, they continue to make less than men.  Obama has declared Tuesday "Equal Pay Day" to highlight his administration's focus on that issue.

[The] White House [is] Peddling Stats Debunked by [its] Own Adviser.  Labor Secretary Tom Perez refused to address Tuesday [4/8/2014] the admission by an Obama administration economic adviser that the White House's talking points on the alleged pay gap between the sexes are illegitimate.  Betsey Stevenson, a member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, said to reporters on Monday that the White House assertion that women are paid 23 percent less than men for doing the same work was false.  "If I said 77 cents was equal pay for equal work, then I completely misspoke," Stevenson said.  "So let me just apologize and say that I certainly wouldn't have meant to say that."

Obama Agrees GOP is 'Un-American' for Supporting Restrictions on Voting.  On Wednesday [4/9/2014], President Barack Obama traveled to Texas where he attended a memorial for the victims of last week's shooting at Fort Hood.  Following that memorial service, the president joined supporters at a Democratic fundraiser at what the Associated Press described as an "opulent," "resort-like" Houston home.  There, he chided Republicans for failing to support the White House's push for legislation aimed at securing equal pay for women and restricting access to the polls.  He agreed with one supporter who called Republicans "un-American."

Obama Administration Wants UN to Come Up With Fake Numbers to Back 'Climate Change' Legislation.  The Obama administration is just fraud all the way down. [...] Global temperatures haven't risen in 15 years, but never mind that.  Pay no attention to the Sun's role in our climate.  The UN report is set for release next week.  Plenty of time to inject some happy math.

Foreign-Policy Incoherence.  In 2012, President Obama obfuscated over the health-care debacle; pretended that the murder of an American ambassador in Libya was not the result of a terrorist incident, because he was claiming to have virtually stamped out terrorism; attacked the Roman Catholic Church; accused the Republicans of conducting a war on women, on all categories of benefit recipients, and on working people of modest incomes; and basically dismissed the GOP as a party of warmongering billionaires, exploiters, and crooks.

White House downplays Obama's golf round with lobbyist.  President Obama's weekend round of golf with a veteran lobbyist didn't weaken his pledge to narrow the influence of K Street, the White House insisted on Monday [5/19/2014].  White House press secretary Jay Carney dismissed a question on whether the president's round with Joe O'Neill, the president and CEO of Public Strategies Washington, violated his promise to limit lobbyist access to the White House.  "I think he played a game of golf," Carney said.

The Victim Presidency.  It's a remarkable talent he has.  When he was getting beat up politically for his association with that goofy racist clergyman, he lectured us on the evils of racism, as though we'd been the ones sitting in on those hateful sermons.  Every time he has some spectacular screw-up, which seems to be about once a quarter, he pronounces himself outraged, as though he had not failed us but had been failed himself.  So Barack Obama has sworn that he will not tolerate the incompetence of the Obama administration.  I'd like to think that that means he is going to resign, but I don't think that's what he meant.

Obama, the unaccountable president.  Each time Mr. Obama is faced with a scandal, he does three things:  First, he expresses outrage (he is, after all, a man only of words, not deeds); then, he blames his predecessor, George W. Bush; finally, he wraps the entire mess up in bureaucratic red tape — a blue-ribbon investigation.  That last move, Mr. Obama's go-to dodge, does two things:  No one, not even the president himself, can speak on the matter; And second, a lengthy probe means Americans will be distracted and move on by the time any final finding is reached.

Obama Calls For 'Responsible End' to Afghanistan War [Whatever] That Means.  President Obama made a surprise trip to Afghanistan today.  He was at the Bagram Air Force Base for just a couple of hours and said this:  ["]For many of you, this will be your last tour in Afghanistan.  America's war in Afghanistan will come to a responsible end.["]  What exactly does this mean?  The U.S. wields the most powerful military force in the history of the planet, utilizing the best-trained forces and fiercest weaponry ever designed, and the President chooses the word "responsible"?

The Post-Achievement Politics of Obama and Hillary.  Scandal management consists of Obama making a serious face and promising to take this serious problem very seriously before heading out for a round of serious golfing.  Benghazi, Fast and Furious, the VA; he is just as angry about it as you are.  All he's really doing though is matching your emotional tone to dampen your response.

Obama hints at move to Asheville after second term.  President Barack Obama was born in Hawaii and is a Chicago man through and through.  But could he be a North Carolinian in a few years?  During a speech Wednesday afternoon [6/4/2014] at the Linamar Corp. plant in Asheville, he opened his speech by praising the city and region and even hinted it could be his retirement destination.

Gallup: Majority Says Obama Not 'Honest and Trustworthy'.  Fifty-one percent of the Americans who responded to a Gallup poll conducted June 5-8 said that they do not believe the phrase "is honest and trustworthy" applies to President Barack Obama.

ABC's Jon Karl Grills Carney on White House Claims of Having Decimated al Qaeda.  Given the unfolding rebellion in Iraq, how can the White House claim the end of the Iraq War and the "decimation" of al Qaeda as "two signature achievements"?  That was the key question posed by ABC reporter Jon Karl to White House spox Jay Carney on Thursday afternoon [6/12/2014].  "There is no question that the president pledged to end the War in Iraq and he did," Carney immediately responded, prompting Karl to question:  "There is no war in Iraq now?" And so Carney clarified:  "[No] U.S. combat mission in Iraq."

Obama's fake followers strongly approve of his performance.  What intrigues me about manufactured credibility is how easy it is.  I'm not talking about informal penny-ante stuff, like your friends jumping on YouTube to write enthusiastic recommendations for your latest video.  I mean industrial-scale efforts to manipulate opinion by using the Internet as a tool to artificially inflate popularity.  There's not much cost involved, and it's very difficult to see through the illusion.  And it's an interesting comment on mass psychology that people are powerfully swayed by the sense that a large number of "regular folks" approve of something.  At the very least, they find illusory popularity intriguing, and want to know what all the fuss is about.

9 times the Obama administration was blindsided.  The unfolding sectarian violence in Iraq is just the latest crisis where the Obama administration seemingly has been caught off guard.  From the Veterans Affairs scandal to Russia's swift annexation of Crimea, news of the world somehow keeps taking the commander-in-chief and his team by surprise.  The following is a refresher of major domestic and foreign policy developments that, apparently, were news to the White House. [...]

Brzezinski Charges Obama: Wasn't Al-Qaeda Supposed to Be 'Decimated'?  In an interview pre-taped Friday but aired on Morning Joe Monday morning, MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski pressed President Barack Obama on the deteriorating situation in Iraq, charging, "You said that the war was ended in Iraq.  You said al-Qaeda was decimated.  You said it was stable."  "It was," Obama replied.  "But just because something is stable two years ago or four years ago doesn't mean it's stable right now."

The Age of Mafia Government: The Boss 'Has No Idea' What's Going On.  Mafia leadership never directly calls the hits.  They imply to underlings what they want done, so if the underlings are caught they can't incriminate the bosses in court.  This leadership style is not just the mafia's.  "A Few Good Men" dramatized how it might play out within a Marine unit.  The direct analogy, of course, is that President Obama never seems to know what's happening within his own organization.  He had no idea the IRS was targeting conservative groups.  He heard on the news about the Veterans Affairs debacle, where vets literally died because the agency managing their healthcare was so corrupt and incompetent, even though in the Senate he had served on the Veterans Affairs Committee and had heard of the problems in 2007.

Obama has got to be kidding.  He actually said this: the system "is so broken" that "folks don't know what the rules are."  He was referring to the children's crusade on our borders that has caused chaos as tens of thousands of people try to illegally enter America — a crisis he has created by lax, or no-enforcement, of our immigration laws and by issuing executive orders that basically re-created the Dream Act — a law that could not pass Congress.  But the statement was just stunning in its disingenuousness and yet another example of the most hypocritical president in American history.

Obama: Americans don't have time to think about Benghazi, Obamacare.  President Obama told Democratic donors Wednesday night [7/23/2014] that most Americans don't have time to think about the details of the Benghazi terrorist attack or the problems with Obamacare.  Speaking at a fundraiser at the Los Angeles home of "Grey's Anatomy" and "Scandal" creator Shonda Rhimes, the president took his usual shots at the Republican Party, suggesting its members are focused on the wrong issues and frequently "obfuscate and they bamboozle and sometimes don't say what's true."

Things Obama Just Won't Do.  Some pundits are proclaiming that Obama has just given up, that he's more interested in raising funds for Democrats and playing golf than in working with international leaders and Senate Dems to solve the problems.  That's wrong, because it overlooks the primary political strategy that propelled Obama to the presidency and which he has stuck with through more than five years of his presidency.  Obama's principal strategy, from the beginning of his 2008 campaign (which began the moment he was elected to the Senate in 2004) has been to create divisive issues and blame the Republican Party for failing to solve them.

It's Not Present Obama's Fault That Past Obama Pulled The U.S. Out Of Iraq.  Past Obama is Present Obama's greatest enemy.  Over and over again, Past Obama's words and actions keep tripping up his future self.  Obama says what he means, and he means what he says.  And what he means, what he always means, is that he needs to get through the next five minutes.  Anything he says at any particular moment is in service of that one and only goal.  If it directly contradicts anything he's said before, or anything he says after, that's your problem.

White House official: The Islamic State is the next administration's problem.  On Thursday morning, White House Deputy National Security Advisor Tony Blinken said that the Obama administration is seeking to combat the Islamic State threat, as it executes one "terrorist attack" after another against the United States, in a "deliberate" fashion.  That's a far more generous way of confessing to near paralytic dithering.

White House: We Aren't Going To Get Into What The "Legal, Academic Definition of War" With ISIS May Be.  Over the past few weeks, but more specifically since President Obama spoke to the country Wednesday evening about how he will "degrade and destroy" ISIS, Americans are asking one question:  Are we at war with these people?  Up until now, President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry have said the answer is no.  Today White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said while the United States isn't at war with ISIS, the United States is at war with the terror army in the same way we're at war with al Qaeda.

Is It War or Not? Not-So-Lucid Language from Kerry and Rice.  If it walks like a war and talks like a war, isn't it therefore war?  So why the reluctance to call it that?  Because Mr. Obama's legacy (the guy who ended wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and brought all of our men and women home) is still playing a major role in the language officials like Kerry and Rice are being instructed to use.

WH Can't Define Victory: 'I Didn't Bring My Webster's Dictionary'.  White House spokesman Josh Earnest couldn't define what victory against ISIS will look like.  "I didn't bring my Webster's dictionary," he told a reporter.  [Video clip]

Learning to Speak Barry's Language.  [Scroll down]  A perfect example of Obama's doublespeak Marxist dialectic is his self-coined con phrase, "The Fundamental Transformation of America" (FTOA)[.]  In reality, the FTOA is essentially the absolute destruction of America from within.  Obama knew when he came up with the FTOA term that it would sound far less ominous than the utter destruction of an America much of the rest of the world counts on.  Had Obama honestly enunciated his true intentions for America pre-2008, describing the fundamental transformation of America exactly as it is, he likely never would have been propelled into the Oval Office.

When Troops in Iraq Aren't Boots on the Ground.  When are boots on the ground not boots on the ground?  When they're in Iraq.  You'd be forgiven for being confused about the role of the U.S. military in combating the Islamic State, the band of militants who've taken over territory in Iraq and Syria.  The Obama administration has announced a plan to roll back its advances with U.S. airstrikes combined with the ground forces of local allies, specifically Kurdish and Iraqi forces.  There will be no U.S. boots on the ground, President Barack Obama said, as recently as today [9/17/2014].

White House: It's not combat, but US troops will return fire if they're shot at.  It is becoming increasingly clear that almost no one in the press believes that the nearly 1,700 American service men and women currently in Iraq (a number even The New York Times believes will balloon in short order) will not encounter armed resistance.  On Thursday, when White House Press Sec. Josh Earnest was asked how Americans who are asked to serve in what Gen. Martin Dempsey called a "combat advisory role" alongside indigenous forces would react if they were fired upon, Earnest replied with the obvious [...]

The Rape Epidemic Is a Fiction.  The subject is a maddening one.  President Obama repeated the endlessly reiterated but thoroughly debunked claim that one in five women will be sexually assaulted in her college years.  The actual rate is ... sort of an interesting problem, the information being so inconsistent and contradictory that one almost suspects that it is so by design.

Obama's Mixed Messages on War.  It's funny how President Obama is always talking about "I" and "me" whenever it makes him look good, but suddenly it's "they" and "we" when mistakes are made.

It has EVERYTHING to do with Islam.  Let's not mince words here, the constant attempt at redefining reality by our leaders' insistence that the Muslim violence we are witnessing on a daily basis has nothing to do with the Muslim religion, is frankly offensive and in the end encourages more and ever grislier acts of terror.  In "problem solving 101" we learned that location and formulation of the problem was the first step in finding a solution.  However, covering one's eyes and pretending there is no problem will not make the problem disappear.  In point of fact, it will only make the problem bigger and much harder to solve.

A Culture of Incompetence.  Obama's left never accepts responsibility for anything.  Weaned on the sour milk of thuggish, tenured academicians and marinated in the surreal stew of lawyer-land, the odd creatures that infest our White House have no notion of work or honor or duty.  This manifests itself in different ways.  Mendacity has been elevated almost to a secular religion.  Obama, his officials, his armies of minor minions prevaricate with such aplomb that one wonders if they truly know when they are lying or telling the truth.  The disgraceful trail of obfuscations, dissimulations, and quarter-truths are invariably defended by the administration's flacks with the mantra "we have seen no evidence."  Of course we have not!  The evidence has been destroyed or hidden or lied about.

Obama Blames The Media For His Low Polls.  Americans don't understand that economy is doing great because the press is biased against good news, President Barack Obama told a group of prosperous donors Tuesday [10/7/2014].  "Frankly, the press and Washington, all it does is feed cynicism," he insisted, despite getting six years of favorable coverage from establishment newspapers and TV shows.  "Most of you don't know the statistics I just gave you," Obama said, after listing a series of cherry-picked data that ignored that roughly 10 million Americans who have given up looking for work, and the $7 trillion in added debt.

White House Deletes Obama's 'Unpaid Bills' Admission from Transcript.  Last night at a Democratic fundraiser in Chicago, President Obama mentioned that there are some "unpaid bills" on his desk in Chicago — which he left when moved to the White House after winning the presidential election in 2008. [...] But that transcript is different than the official White House version, which deletes the "unpaid bills" part: [...]

Barack Obama, bewildered bystander.  Barack Obama reflexively insists on playing the shocked outsider when something goes wrong within his own administration. [...] He's not simply protecting his own political fortunes.  He's trying to protect faith in the entitlement state by portraying its repeated failures as shocking anomalies.  Unfortunately, the pretense has the opposite effect.  It produces not reassurance but anxiety.  Obama's determined detachment conveys the feeling that nobody's home.  No one leading.  Not even from behind.

Obama: No Coordination With Iranians Over ISIS, But We Told Them 'Don't Mess With Us, We're Not Here to Mess With You'.  President Obama said Sunday [11/9/2014] the U.S. was not coordinating with Iran in the fight against "our common enemy" in Iraq — the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS/ISIL) — but added that the Iranians had been informed, "don't mess with us, we're not here to mess with you."  Obama also denied having offered Iran a deal linking a nuclear agreement with cooperation against ISIS.  He declined to comment on media reports saying he had sent Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei a letter suggesting such linkage.

Is Obama's health care man Jonathan Gruber 'just another guy in the neighborhood'?  How does the White House think it can distance itself from Jonathan Gruber?  As if we needed any more confirmation, Obama's chosen few view the American people as stupid.  Administration officials heaped this rationale for Gruber's moment of truth on the rising dung pile:  "Gruber did not work in the White House or play the same role [as he did in Massachusetts] in developing the Affordable Care Act."

Gruber claims RomneyCare was a clever way to 'rip off' $400 million a year from the feds.  Jonathan Gruber — the ObamaCare architect who thinks you're stupid and is totally unknown to Nancy Pelosi — has a new video.  Prior to be being paid to trick the CBO and lie to the American people, he was working to implement RomneyCare.  In his newest clip he discusses the way that the original law, with the help of Ted Kennedy, was designed to "rip off" the feds to the tune of $400 million a year.

Obama Hides Executive Abuses by Calling Decrees "Memoranda".  Since taking office, Obama has issues 198 decrees via memoranda — that is 33 percent more than Bush, the runner up for the record, issued in eight years — along with 195 executive orders.  Among other policy areas, Obama's memoranda edicts have been used to set policy on gun control, immigration, labor, and much more.  Just this week, Obama issued another memoranda decree purporting to declare Bristol Bay in Alaska off limits to oil and gas exploration — locking up vast quantities of American wealth and resources using his now-infamous and brazenly unconstitutional "pen and phone."  "Like executive orders, presidential memoranda don't require action by Congress," reported USA Today as part of its investigation into Obama's decrees.  "They have the same force of law as executive orders and often have consequences just as far-reaching.  And some of the most significant actions of the Obama presidency have come not by executive order but by presidential memoranda."  However, despite the newspaper's obvious confusion on constitutional matters — only Congress can make law, not the White House — the review raises a number of important issues.

White House: Obama was 'Speaking Colloquially' When He Said He Changed Immigration Law.  Members of the Obama administration continue to be confronted by President Obama's statement to a group of illegal immigrant protesters in Chicago that he had taken action to "change the law" on immigration.  "Did the president misspeak in a moment of passion to try to calm the crowd?  Or do you fundamentally believe that he has taken action to change the law?" asked CBS reporter Major Garrett during the White House Press Briefing.  White House press secretary Josh Earnest explained that Obama was "speaking colloquially" when he made his remarks.

Obama's Tradition Of Fanning The Flames Of Racial Discord.  On Wednesday [12/3/2014], President Obama laughably claimed that he has "a tradition" of not interfering in controversial cases before they are resolved.  "My tradition is not to remark on cases where there may still be an investigation," he said to guffaws all across the nation.  That may have been true for his predecessors, but it certainly is not true for him.  Whether it was Skip Gates, Trayvon Martin, or Michael Brown, the Community Organizer in Chief made a point of very inappropriately weighing in while the investigation was ongoing.

Fantasyland, U.S.A..  One way of reinventing reality is to warp the meaning of words.  No president in memory has waged such a war on the English language as has Barack Obama — changing the meaning of vocabulary to hide what he fears might otherwise be unpopular.  Take executive orders.  He brags that he does not issue them as commonly as his predecessors, but that is only true because Obama has now renamed some of his executive orders presidential "memoranda."  Add up both categories, and no president in the last half-century has so frequently bypassed Congress to unilaterally make new or ignore existing laws.

John McCain, 78 and Untamed, Savors Senate Dream Job.  [Scroll down]  And he is still seething about his last visit to the Oval Office, in September 2013, when he and Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, backed Mr. Obama's plan to intervene militarily in Syria — only to watch the president change his mind.  "Didn't even get the courtesy of a phone call," Mr. McCain said.  "When somebody looks you in the eye in the Oval Office and says they're going to do something, don't you take their word for it?  I did.  I took his word for it.  And obviously I shouldn't have."

Obama Proposes a Law that Already Exists.  President Barack Obama shamed Congress in his State of the Union address on Tuesday night to pass legislation that already exists.  Apparently not briefed by his secretary of labor and attorney general, Obama announced:  ["]That's why this Congress still needs to pass a law that makes sure a woman is paid the same as a man for doing the same work.  Really.  It's 2015.  It's time.["]  But it was June 10, 1963 when Congress passed "The Equal Pay Act of 1963," which can be found at 29 U.S.C. §206(d).

Barack Obama, Empire Builder.  President Obama believes that his own legacy rests with avoiding all confrontations overseas, withdrawing as many troops as he can, and cutting the defense budget as much as Congress will allow so as to use the funds to address supposed inequality at home.  If chaos results abroad, he can either blame his predecessor, George W. Bush, or assume that his successor will have to deal with what he wrought — or both.  Obama is running out the clock of his presidency on the premise of Après moi, le déluge.

Obama threatens stopping paychecks to 143,000 Homeland Security employees.  President Barack Obama claimed on Monday [2/2/2015] that without a comprehensive budget covering the Department of Homeland Security, more than 130,000 mission-critical employees will be forced to work without pay by the end of the month.  They include 40,000 employed by Customs and Border Protection, 50,000 Transportation Security Administration screeners, 13,000 Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and 40,000 Coast Guard personnel.  Pay would be restored at the end of any withholding period.

Obama tries to get GOP to blink with Homeland Security rhetoric.  President Obama is encountering at least one major problem in his bid to shame Republicans into approving his budget request for the Department of Homeland Security:  Most of the agency will continue to operate as normal, even if its funding runs out at the end of the month.  Border Patrol agents would still conduct inspections.  Transportation Security Administration officials would screen airplane passengers.  And they would have the tools of a sprawling federal agency at their disposal to confront the most dangerous threats, administration officials concede.

Obama: News outlets hype terror threat.  The news media "absolutely" overstates the risks of terrorism because stories about things like climate change aren't "sexy" and don't drive ratings, President Obama said in an interview published Monday [2/9/2015]. [...] Obama said there was not going to be "a lot of interest" in stories showing positive progress on issues like infant mortality or improving productivity for farmers.  "It's not a sexy story," Obama said.  "And climate change is one that is happening at such a broad scale and at such a complex system, it's a hard story for the media to tell on a day-to-day basis."

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I've never heard Obama say a word about infant mortality, and indeed there is no reason to believe that he cares about that issue, since he is the most pro-abortion president in American history.

Welcome To Obama And Hillary's Fun Camp.  The White House appears to be walking back President Barack Obama's call for mandatory voting.  "The president was not making a specific policy prescription for the United States," press secretary Josh Earnest was quoted as saying.  Well, he did stop short of a "specific policy prescription."  But somehow when he transitioned from "I don't think I've ever said this publicly, but I'm going to go ahead and say it now" to "In Australia and some other countries, there's mandatory voting," it didn't sound like he was just sharing a tidbit he learned from pub trivia.

Obama's Mandatory Voting Proposal: Typically Fascist at Heart.  Nothing our president, Barack Hussein Obama, does at this point in his benighted administration should come as a shock to anybody who heard him utter the words "fundamental transformation" back in late 2008, once he knew the McCain fix was in and the election was in the bag.  But his suggestion a few days ago that voting should be mandatory needs to be studied by all to see the pure essence of Obamaism — and then beware of it.  Like everything Obama and the Left propose, this crackpot idea is couched and masked in all the usual "progressive" disguises.  It's "fair," and about "equality."  When in fact it's neither of those things.

FBI figures tweaked to show phony increase in mass shootings, report says.  Crime stats published by the FBI and relied upon by the media distort the gun violence and leave the public with the impression "mass shooting" incidents are a much bigger threat than they really are, according to a criminologist and Second Amendment scholar.  The bureau's annual reports tabulating and classifying a wide range of crime throughout the nation have been historically free of politics, but John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, said the latest statistics contain numbers that are misleading at best and deliberately fudged at worst.  Lott believes the numbers may have been presented to overstate for political purposes the true risk of being a victim of random gun crimes.

The Tricks Obama Is Trying to Play with the Iran Announcement.  If you look at what happened today between the U.S. and Iran through the lens of domestic American politics, Barack Obama has made a very clever play here — because what might be called "the agreement of the framework of the possibility of a potential deal" gives him new leverage in his ongoing battle with the Senate to limit its ability to play a role in the most critical foreign-policy matter of the decade.  The "framework" codifies the Obama administration's cave-ins but casts them as thrilling reductions in Iran's capacities rather than what they are — a pie-in-the-sky effort to use inspections as the means by which the West can "manage" the speed with which Iran becomes a nuclear power.

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Apparently Obama thinks a treaty doesn't have to be ratified by the Senate if he calls it a "framework."

Obama on impact of climate change on his family's health.  "I've seen how scary it is when your kid comes up to you, your four-year-old, and says, 'I'm having trouble breathing,'" the president told CBS News' Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Jonathan LaPook.  "Malia — early on, when she was young — had asthma," Mr. Obama explained.  "And we had to go to the emergency room once.  We had good health insurance, and we had the capacity to really knock it out early, so that over time, she was able to not have to carry an inhaler around."

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I just have a few rhetorical questions:  Doesn't the Obama family live in a climate-controlled environment 24 hours a day, unless they're on the beach in Hawaii?  Was Malia's asthma caused by the climate change in the first four years of her life?  If the climate had been one degree cooler for those four years, would she not have experienced asthma anyway?  Did the emergency room doctor tell Mr. or Mrs. Obama that her asthma was caused by climate change?

Hobgoblins and little statesmen.  A few days ago, Obama displayed, once again, his cursory, puddle-deep off-teleprompter intellect.  In referring to the Israeli position on Iran, President Obama took another intellectual stab, but he missed.  The President said, "Consistency is the hobgoblin of narrow minds."  A blantantly blown misquote.  (Imagine if Dan Quayle or George W. Bush had made such a blunder, not only misquoting, but not footnoting.)  The calculated partial presentation of something to alter the true meaning seems to be this man's forte.

Obama a master of trading future calamity for temporary gratification.  America is relieved that things at least appear calm, as war and death rage abroad.  At almost every critical juncture, the administration chose short-term happy talk in lieu of worries over long-term consequences.  No matter how frequent the disasters abroad, Obama can proclaim the world is at peace in an unprecedented age of stability and security.

President Obama's words-in-the-wind leadership.  Does President Obama have his fingers crossed behind his back whenever he's making promises about Syria?  The Pentagon said late last week that it had finally begun training Free Syrian Army fighters — eight months after Obama announced that America would do so as part of his strategy to "degrade and ultimately destroy" ISIS.  Worse, the news was surely prompted by a Los Angeles Times exposé just days earlier — which revealed that no training had begun, 11 months after the president announced a $500 million program for Syrian opposition fighters

'Just Asking'.  One of the ways of fighting poverty, [President Obama] proposed, was to "ask from society's lottery winners" that they make a "modest investment" in government programs to help the poor.  Since free speech is guaranteed to everyone by the First Amendment to the Constitution, there is nothing to prevent anybody from asking anything from anybody else.  But the federal government does not just "ask" for money.  It takes the money it wants in taxes, usually before the people who have earned it see their paychecks.  Despite pious rhetoric on the left about "asking" the more fortunate for more money, the government does not "ask" anything.  It seizes what it wants by force.  If you don't pay up, it can take not only your paycheck, it can seize your bank account, put a lien on your home and/or put you in federal prison.  So please don't insult our intelligence by talking piously about "asking."

In defeat, President Obama declares victory.  President Barack Obama responded to a stinging defeat dealt by his own party by declaring victory.  It is a common tactic in Washington to downplay bad news, but the White House brought it to a new level on Friday [6/12/2015] after House Democrats soundly defeated a package of free trade legislation that the president had personally implored them to pass.

Obama: Black And Latino Men 'Treated Diffrently Under The Law'.  Obama said, "African-Americans and Latinos make up 30 percent of our population.  They make up 60 percent of our inmates.["]

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The people behind bars are the people who have committed crimes.  If blacks and latinos commit more crimes per capita than white, that explains why so many of them are in prison.  It's not because the law treats them differently, it's because perpetrators have no regard for the law, and they get caught.

Obama says that without family support he could have been in prison.  President Obama, who in recent weeks has shed any reticence to talk about racism and discrimination in American life, suggested inside the walls of a federal prison in Oklahoma on Thursday [7/16/2015] that under different circumstances, he could have been there as an inmate rather than as president. [...] Minutes after he had finished meeting with six nonviolent drug offenders in El Reno federal prison, a medium-security facility, Obama said his life could have taken a trajectory similar to the prisoners' if he had not had the kind of family and community support many young men of color lack.

Joint Chiefs Chair: Obama Offering False Choice Between Deal and War.  Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey testified Wednesday [7/29/2015] that the United States has "a range of options" if it does not accept the Iran deal, contrary to President Obama's assertion that the choice is between his deal and war.  Dempsey was pressed on this point by Sen. Joni Ernst (R., Iowa) when he testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee.  "I understand that you advise the president on these issues," Ernst said.  "Is that what you have told the president — that we either take this deal or we go to war?"  "No, at no time did that come up in our conversation nor did I make that comment," Dempsey said.  "Who is advising the president, then, that we must go to war if this deal is not signed?" Ernst said.  "I can't answer that.  I can tell you that we have a range of options and I always present them," Dempsey said.

Obama urged to retract statement comparing members of Congress to Iranian hardliners.  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called for President Obama to retract a statement he made Wednesday [8/5/2015] saying members of Congress who opposed the Iran nuke deal had something in common with Iranians who chanted "Death to America" in the streets of Tehran.  Obama made the comments in a speech at American University in Washington while going after critics of the deal, who he said were "selling a fantasy" to the American people.  He added that Iranian hardliners chanting "Death to America" don't represent all of Iran.

Obama: Rejecting Iran Deal Will Ensure 'Rockets Falling On Tel Aviv'.  In a meeting with American Jewish leaders on Tuesday, President Obama reportedly predicted that if Congress were to reject the nuclear accord that his administration signed with the Iranian regime, the result would entail Tehran's proxy, Hezbollah, firing rockets at Tel Aviv, according to multiple reports citing sources from the meeting with the President.  Greg Rosenbaum, who serves as the chair of the National Jewish Democratic Council — one of the few Jewish groups that supports the Iran deal — said that Obama again forwarded the much-pushed false dichotomy that there are only two ways to stop a nuclear Iran:  through war or through negotiations.

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Wait, Barry!  It will also cause climate change!  You left that part out!

Why Won't Obama Stop Lying About Iran's Military Budget?  What is Iran's military budget?  Read Obama's lips.  It's either $15 billion or $30 billion.  Either Iran's military budget changes every time Obama gives a speech or he's playing with numbers to make it seem small.  If $30 billion still seems big, how about $15 billion?  And if $15 billion is still too big, get ready for the $7.5 billion Iranian defense budget.  How can you be worried about that?  Obama is borrowing a trick from the Manchurian Candidate.  No one is talking about how big Iran's military budget is, but debating how small it is.

Josh Earnest Responds to KY Clerk's Jailing: 'No Public Official Is Above the Rule of Law'.  As Kim Davis was taken into custody for her continuous defiance of the Supreme Court's decision on gay marriage, Josh Earnest was asked to give his thoughts during today's [9/3/2015] press briefing.  Earnest said that he hasn't talked about it with President Obama on the subject yet, but said that public officials on all levels are legally required to abide by the ruling of Obergefell V. Hodges. "On principle, the success of our democracy depends on the rule of law.  And there is no public official that is above the rule of law," Earnest said.  "That's a principle that is enshrined in our Constitution and in our democracy and it's one that obviously the courts are seeking to uphold."

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When the spokesman for Barack H. Obama insists that "there is no public official that is above the rule of law," one cannot help but scoff, if one is aware of recent history: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22]

Strategic Lying and Obama.  Logical fallacies have long been the lifeblood of dishonest politicians and in Obama, we find an abundance of them.  A favorite fallacy is the strawman, which is an attack on a position that is not even held by the other side.  Obama's strawmen have been those never-named naysayers Obama claims are "urging him to sit on his hands at the White House and do nothing to address any of the economic or national security problems facing the country."  Some telltale indicators that the straw man tactic is being used are the words "there are those who say" or "some say" as in Obama's "[s]ome people say that maybe I'm being too idealistic."  Then there is the false choice embedded inside another straw man as in his "You can't have 100 percent security and then also have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience" — yet no one ever asked for 100 percent of these things in the first place.

Obama spins House vote as support for Iran deal.  President Obama took the position on Friday that the House vote against approving the Iran nuclear agreement is actually a good sign, and shows that people are more likely to support the deal if they take time to read and understand it. [...] Obama's statement was released shortly after the House voted 162-269 against a resolution approving the agreement.  The rejection of the deal was helped along by 25 Democrats who voted with Republicans.

The Obama Administration Is Always 'Surprised' When Bad Things Happen.  After taking office, for example, Obama was surprised by the number of critical issues facing the country.  He was surprised by the magnitude of the opposition to Obamacare, as well as the political cost that Democrats paid in the 2010 midterms.  The disastrous rollout of Healthcare.gov in late 2013 also took the administration by surprise.  Earlier that year, the president learned about the IRS targeting scandal by reading about it in the news; same goes for the scandal at Veterans Affairs.  When former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak declined to step down in the wake of the 2011 Arab Spring uprising, Obama officials were surprised.  Obama was shocked to learn in 2013 that the NSA had been spying on foreign leaders.  The Obama administration has been particularly confounded by events of the past couple of years.

Another day, another 'Obama administration caught off guard by...' story.  At the end of Obama's eight years in office, somebody should attempt to add up all the times his administration was "caught off guard," "shocked," "stunned," "unaware," "clearly not expecting that to happen," "flummoxed by" and "not prepared for..."  Here's another to add to the lengthy list: [...]

Why Obama prefers politicizing to actual politics.  As the Washington Examiner's Byron York recently noted, Obama has a long history of trying to shut down disagreement by accusing his critics of politicization.  He accused Republicans of trying to politicize abortion, the U.S. relationship with Israel, the Iran deal, Benghazi and the scandals at the IRS and the VA.  Just last week he insinuated that Hillary Rodham Clinton's disagreements with his Syria policy (or lack thereof) are influenced by the fact she's running for office.

Obama: Too many folks in our prisons.  [Quoting Barack H. Obama:]  ["]Today, there are 2.2 million people behind bars in America and millions more on parole or probation.  Every year, we spend $80 billion in taxpayer dollars to keep people incarcerated.  Many are non-violent offenders serving unnecessarily long sentences.["]

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Really, Mr. President?  Name one "non-violent offender" currently living in a state penitentiary.

Obama's Legacy Will Be Executive Abuse.  "Change, as always, is going to take all of us," Obama theorized the other day.  "The gun lobby is loud and well organized in its defense of effortlessly available guns for anyone.  The rest of us are going to have to be just as passionate and well organized in our defense of our kids.  That's the work of citizenship — to stand up and fight for the change that we seek."  Get it?  You can be with the loud and reprehensible gun lobby who supports allowing criminals to obtain guns "effortlessly," or you can stand with the kids.  Your choice!  Well, not exactly your choice.  As a reactionary, I wonder is it really the duty of "citizenship" to cheer on a president who single-handedly constrains Americans from practicing one of their constitutional rights?  If President Bush had instituted a series of restrictions on the abortion industry — since it has a loud, well-organized, and well-funded lobby that wants to make abortions "effortlessly" available — without congressional input, would that have been procedurally okay with liberals?  You know, for the children?  I don't imagine so.

The Tears of a Clown.  Apart from the tears, Obama's remarks were utterly standard for him.  I would translate them as follows.  How great I am.  How good I am.  How much I know.  Modest changes in the law would do great good.  Yet evil forces are arrayed against me.  They hold Congress in its thrall.  Congress itself is driven by narrow political considerations.  Not I.  I am impelled by the true vision of the good that has been vouchsafed unto me.  I stand like a colossus above the fray.

Pentagon Avoids the Word 'Combat' After Another U.S. Soldier Killed in Afghanistan.  A U.S. Special Operations service member was killed and two others were injured after coming under enemy fire in Afghanistan's Helmand province Tuesday [1/5/2016], but asked whether this meant U.S. troops were engaged in combat, a Pentagon spokesman said repeatedly that they were there in their mandated mission to "train, advise, assist" Afghan forces.

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This is exactly how we got into the Vietnam war, isn't it?

It was Saul Alinsky who taught Obama How to Cry on Cue.  Over the past seven years, Obama has proven he's anything but a man of good will or good heart.  His contrived tears for the children lost to the Sandy Hook massacre came not within days or weeks of the tragedy, but in fact on his way out the door on January 5, 2016 — some three long years later.  Hard to imagine this professional America hater sniffling into his pillows at the White House, or wiping away a stray tear before taking his next golf swing, or while slurping yet another holiday shaved ice.

Barack Obama and the Hall of Fame of Straw Men.  Barack Obama is famous for the false choice:  time after time, he posits only two alternatives, one of which is his preferred course while the other option is an obvious straw man, sometimes a course that has never been advocated by anyone.  Today's statement on the release of four prisoners by Iran (in exchange for our release of captured Iranians) is a classic of the genre.

Exclusive: Secret Fed Docs Show Obama Misled Congress, Public During Debt Limit Crises.  Federal Reserve Bank of New York officials secretly conducted real-time exercises during the 2011 and 2013 debt-limit crisis that demonstrated the federal government could function during a temporary shutdown by prioritizing spending, even as Treasury Secretary Jack Lew publicly claimed many times that such efforts were "unworkable," according to a new report by the House Financial Services Committee obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation.  The staff report, to be released Tuesday, charges that Lew and other Obama administration officials deliberately misled Congress and the public during the federal budget and debt limit showdowns in both years.

You Don't Know What Obama Said at the Mosque.  If you seek to understand Barack Obama and his views, the best place to go is his speeches.  But you have to read them in their entirety, not rely on hearing them or on the media's summary of them.  When you do, you come to realize how often what Obama says is morally and intellectually confused and even untrue.

Obama is the Meanest, Most Polarizing Figure in American Politics.  [Scroll down]  True to form, Obama detaches himself from the meaness and polarization as if he has no part in it.  The fact is that President Obama has set the tone for American politics over the last decade and he is the meanest, most polarizing figure of them all.  This is after all a man who speaks of Republicans as enemies and he sure treats them that way whether accusing the GOP of wanting "dirtier air, dirtier water and people with less health care", claiming that opposition to the entry of Syrian refugees was a recruitment tool for ISIS or stating Senate Republicans had common cause with the Iranian mullahs.  Let us not forget his contempt for a wide swath of Americans who he believes bitterly cling to their guns and their religion.  I would suggest that it is the Islamists who are far more bitter in their clinging.

Israeli outrage over US Judea-Samaria labeling 'deception'.  Israeli officials expressed outrage late Tuesday, after the International Legal Forum (ILF) argued that the US Customs' January 23 "reissuing" of orders to importers to label all products from Judea and Samaria as not being from "Israel" was a covert policy change.  Slamming the move as deceiving Congress, as well as the American and Israeli public, the Israeli group International Law Forum told Channel 2 that American claims of merely "reissuing" policies from 1995 are in fact false.

The Age of Mafia Government.  [Scroll down]  Mafia leadership never directly calls the hits. They imply to underlings what they want done, so if the underlings are caught they can't incriminate the bosses in court.  This leadership style is not just the mafia's.  "A Few Good Men" dramatized how it might play out within a Marine unit.  The direct analogy, of course, is that President Obama never seems to know what's happening within his own organization.  He had no idea the IRS was targeting conservative groups.  He heard on the news about the Veterans Affairs debacle, where vets literally died because the agency managing their healthcare was so corrupt and incompetent, even though in the Senate he had served on the Veterans Affairs Committee and had heard of the problems in 2007.  Rush Limbaugh has played a montage of all Obama's "I'm just hearing about this and I'm so furious" moments:  About the Secret Service scandal, the Gulf Oil spill, when people found out Van Jones was a Communist sympathizer... the list never ends.  Either Obama is the world's best delegator-in-chief, or he knows a lot more than he's telling us.  Nobody will ever be able to prove that, of course.

First Lady Targets Mississippi 'Religious Freedom' Bill in Commencement Speech.  In a rare entrance into a politically charged controversy, first lady Michelle Obama used a commencement speech Saturday [4/23/2016] at Jackson State University in Mississipppi [sic] to directly target the state's recently-passed "religious freedom" bill.  "We see it right here in Mississippi — just two weeks ago — how swiftly progress can hurtle backward," Obama said.  "How easy it is to single out a small group and marginalize them because of who they are or who they love."

Presidential Proclamation — Mother's Day, 2016.  On Mother's Day, we celebrate those who are the first to welcome us into the world. [...] Regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, or marital status, mothers have always moved our Nation forward and remained steadfast in their pursuit of a better and brighter future for their children.

Why Hasn't Obama Fired Ben Rhodes?  [Scroll down]  Freighted with the far-reaching effects of a major treaty, the Iran deal was never submitted by Obama to the Senate for ratification as a treaty.  Framed as an agreement with Iran, it was never signed by Iran.  Sold by the administration as a transparent deal, it is turning out to be a slush heap of secrets.  The real blob in this drama is the rolling sludge of presidential over-reach, White House fictions and raw abuse of public trust that has brought us everything from the indigestible "Affordable Care Act" to the Benghazi "video" narrative, to the Iran deal.  As the Washington Free Beacon's Adam Kredo reports, leading members of Congress are calling on President Obama to fire Rhodes "over accusations the White House intentionally misled lawmakers and the American public about the contents of last summer's comprehensive nuclear agreement with Iran."

Sen. Cotton:  White House Says One Thing In Classified Briefings, Another Thing To Public.  Sen.  Tom Cotton alleged Tuesday [5/17/2016] that President Barack Obama's administration officials say one thing in classified briefings with members of Congress and another thing in public to the American people.  "It's time that the administration came clean and told the American people exactly what they tell Congress in a classified setting," Cotton insisted.  Appearing on the Hugh Hewitt Show on Tuesday, Cotton said that he "became public enemy number one at the White House... because I'm telling the truth about the Iran deal."

White House says GOP obsessed with sex in transgender issue.  Confronting criticism of the Obama administration's order on transgender students using the bathroom of their choice in schools, the White House is saying it's actually Republicans who are obsessed with sex.  The White House was responding to a Wall Street Journal editorial that said the government's school guidance on transgender students showed the administration's "preoccupation with sex, whether in sophomore year or the fourth grade."  That drew a heated response Tuesday [5/17/2016] from White House press secretary Josh Earnest, who noted Republicans were responsible for approving North Carolina's bathroom law.

Obama's Narcissism [is] a Threat To National Security.  We mention President Obama's narcissism not as an exercise in name-calling but because it continues to be relevant to how he conducts himself in office, and it's not pretty. [...] If anything remotely positive happens on his watch, he presumes to take full credit for it — way more than the normal opportunistic politician.  With the killing of Osama bin Laden, for example, Obama boasts as if the raid were his initial idea and he delivered the kill shot.  Most people in his position would play down their role in such an event and give credit to our special forces personnel who made it happen.  But when things are going poorly, Obama either candy-coats the reality or pretends he's an outsider powerless to do anything but complain about it.  No president has ever been so committed to eschewing accountability.

Obama's Gun Control Red Herring.  President Obama Monday [6/13/2016] suggested that the Orlando attacks must spur a balanced response, one that fights terror but also addresses gun control.  That's what's known as taking your eye off the ball.  Which is also what Obama first did when he removed troops from Iraq and bragged about it, opening the way for ISIS. America left troops in Germany after World War II and South Korea after the Korean war.  And they have kept the peace.  But Obama brought all the troops in Iraq home and campaigned on it.  And the lid came off in Iraq, and now we have this.  Obama's failure to address these attacks for what they are, Islamist terrorism, has serious ramifications, because they allow him to look at this as at least partially a crime issue, and therefore not tackle the real cause of the killings.  Gun control has absolutely nothing to do with Islamist terrorism.  They will find the weapons to do this, unless we are going to ban gun sales and bang down every door to remove the ones people have.  And even then, they'll get them.

Obama Suggests his Immigration Opponents are Racist.  In his remarks about the Supreme Court decision ending his amnesty power grab, President Obama indicated what he really thinks, which is that the millions who want to stop illegal immigration and stem the flood of immigrants from a single culture not our own are, at bottom, racist.

Sheriff Clarke:  There's No Sincerity Behind Obama's Words.  In the wake of the Dallas police station shooting, one law enforcement official is upset with President Obama over his comments about police officers and race.  "I don't believe there's any sincerity behind the President's words yesterday.  He was popping off at the mouth again, exploiting the situation that happened — one in Louisiana, one in Minnesota, exploiting it on the basis of race.  He has no foundation for that.  There's no data or research that suggests or proves anything that he thinks in terms of disparity," Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke said on the FOX Business Network's Mornings with Maria.  Sheriff Clarke also blamed President Obama for fueling rage and anger.

Obama Is Attempting To Completely Rewrite How He Treated Mitt Romney In 2012.  The political-media establishment has provided more than a few tempting targets to push back on in the past 48 hours, but nothing rankles me more than the sudden nostalgia liberal Democrats are heaping on Mitt Romney.  Trump has inspired some sort of Romney renaissance among the left, openly telling Republicans and the media how much they admired and respected the last Republican candidate; that he was at least fit to lead!  As an operative who worked on Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, I can tell you that this hilariously bogus argument from the left lacks even a modicum of self-awareness.

Fmr. CIA Agent:  Obama Displayed 'High Level' of Deception On $400 Million Iranian Payment.  The timing of the payment, President Obama insisted, was simply a consequence of having diplomatic negotiations with Iran for the first time in several decades.  "So the issue is not so much that it was a coincidence, as it is that we were able to have a direct discussion," the President said.  "John Kerry could meet with the Foreign Minister, which meant that our ability to clear accounts on a number of different issues at the same time, converged."  What was never directly addressed was the key question as to whether the $400 million payment was a precondition for the release of the Americans.  The high level of deceptive behaviors exhibited by President Obama during the press conference has left little doubt in our minds that it was.

Obama's strategy on Clinton scandal:  Play dumb.  The Obama administration said Wednesday [8/25/2016] that it didn't know too much and didn't care to look into the latest scandal to hit Hillary Clinton's campaign: the release of documents that appear to show she gave several donors to the Clinton Foundation special access to the State Department when she ran it.  Several questions were asked about whether there were fears at the White House or State Department that Clinton operated a "pay-to-play" system, or whether it even looked bad enough to warrant further investigation.  But at each turn, officials said they simply didn't know enough about it to comment, and indicated they wouldn't be doing much to look into it further.

Government: New 700,000-Word Regulation is Good for You.  The nine-second video of two federal bureaucrats the White House posted on its blog last week was notable for something it omitted.  That something was very big — and putting it on display might not have fit with the apparent propaganda purpose of the video. [...] The regulation is 1,690 pages long.  Page 1,689 is the signature page for [Transportation] Secretary [Anthony] Foxx.  Page 1,690 is the signature page for [EPA] Administrator [Gina] McCarthy.  When Foxx and McCarthy signed the regulation — as recorded in the video on the White House website — they did not place the first 1,688 pages anywhere within view of the camera.  Was that in deference to trees?  Or did the Obama administration not want to show America that these two unelected bureaucrats were signing a 1,690-page regulation.

Obama: 'Conservation has been a cornerstone of my presidency'.  Speaking to a group of Pacific island leaders and conservationists at the East-West Center here Wednesday, President Obama said the world needed to intensify its efforts to curb global warming through conservation efforts.  "Few people understand, I think, the stakes better than our Pacific Island leaders, because they're seeing already the impact," he said.  "Rising temperatures and sea levels pose an existential threat to your countries."  Obama mocked some members of Congress for "debating whether climate change is real or not" while island leaders were dealing with the reality of its impacts.

Obama Compares Himself to Roosevelt: 'Conservation Has Been a Cornerstone of My Presidency.  President Obama warned on Thursday [9/1/2016] that despite his efforts to reduce the effects of climate change, it's "not going to come to an immediate stop."  "We know that there is still going to be an inevitable impact as a consequence of rising temperatures.  And that means conservation has been a cornerstone of my presidency."  Obama even compared himself to President Teddy Roosevelt, as he addressed the 2016 Pacific Islands Conference of Leaders in his home state of Hawaii.

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Mr. Obama said this in Honolulu, Hawaii, [8/31/2016] immediately after returning from Marthas' Vineyard and then reluctantly traveling to Louisiana for a half-hearted photo op.  Mr. Obama certainly hasn't conserved jet fuel during his presidency.

Obama used fake name in emailing Clinton.  FBI files released on Friday indicate that President Obama used a pseudonym in at least some of his email exchanges with Hillary Clinton.  The revelation shocked Clinton aide Huma Abedin, who wondered why the emails weren't classified.  In March of 2015, the president told the press that the first he had heard of Clinton's private email server was through press reports.  But Clinton never obtained a State Department email address, using clintonemail.com, which connected to her private server.  How is it possible the president failed to notice that his emails were not going through official channels?  And why would President Obama use a fake name to communicate with his secretary of state?

Obama: If only young people voted, 'Hillary would have gotten 500 electoral votes'.  President Barack Obama told Rolling Stone in an interview the day after the election that was published Tuesday [11/29/2016] that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton would've won if only young people voted.  "If you look at the data from the election, if it were just young people who were voting, Hillary would have gotten 500 electoral votes," Obama said.  "So we have helped, I think, shape a generation to think about being inclusive, being fair, caring about the environment."  He said young Americans "will have growing influence year by year, which means that America over time will continue to get better."

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Straw man alert!  "If only" covers a lot of ground.  Hillary would have won if only those who are dependent on monthly checks from the government had voted.  Hillary would have won if only unionized government workers had voted.  Hillary would have won if the residents of California had been the only ones voting.  None of that matters.  Donald Trump won an election in which the broadest possible cross-section of America voted.

Obama under pressure to prove Russian interference in election.  The Obama administration is under intense pressure to release evidence confirming Russian interference in the presidential election before leaving office.  The administration up until now has provided little documentation to back up its official October assessment that the Russian government was attempting to interfere in the U.S. election.  Nor has it corroborated subsequent leaks from anonymous officials contending that the CIA believes the campaign was an attempt by Russian President Vladimir Putin to ensure Donald Trump's victory.

'It's a Fallacy' John McAfee shuts down' manipulative' FBI claims of Russian hacking.  Cybersecurity tycoon John McAfee has blasted claims Moscow was involved in hacking the US presidential election, insisting it was "not the Russians".  He called the FBI's claims of the Kremlin hacking the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta a "fallacy".  Speaking to host Larry King on RT America, he said any number of agencies could have been behind any interference.  "When the FBI or when any other agency says the Russians did it or the Chinese did something or the Iranians did something — that's a fallacy," said McAfee.  [Video clip]

Glenn Greenwald, Tucker Carlson Unite to Dismiss Russian Hacking Allegations.  One of the great meetings of journalistic minds took place last week, when left-wing journalist Glenn Greenwald appeared on Fox News with Tucker Carlson.  The segment was devoted to their purportedly strange agreement over the Russian hacking story (which is not actually strange at all, given their mutual antipathy for the center-left).  Greenwald has long dismissed the charge that Russia manipulated WikiLeaks' publication of Democratic party emails as a "smear," mocking suspicions of misbehavior by what he referred to in sarcastic capitalized words as "The Russians"; he called it typical of the Democrats' alleged tendency to use false attacks against Russia to discredit its adversaries.  On Carlson's program, Greenwald attacked the Washington Post for reporting that the CIA and the FBI believed Russia's hacking was intended to help Trump win.  It is a remarkable segment that merits close reading.

Rolling Stone Writer Suggests Something About Obama's Russian Hacking Story Stinks.  In a story certain to anger his paymasters at Democrat propaganda organ Rolling Stone magazine, a leftist writer has broken from the lynch mob over the election hacking hysteria.  Matt Taibbi will find his inbox exploding with hate mail after he dared to suggest that Emperor Obama may not be being honest after his big tantrum on Thursday [12/29/2016] when he booted 35 Russian diplomats out of the country.

Something About This Russia Story Stinks.  In an extraordinary development Thursday [12/29/2016], the Obama administration announced a series of sanctions against Russia.  Thirty-five Russian nationals will be expelled from the country.  President Obama issued a terse statement seeming to blame Russia for the hack of the Democratic National Committee emails.  "These data theft and disclosure activities could only have been directed by the highest levels of the Russian government," he wrote.

CIA Director John Brennan Attempts To Justify His Agency Leaks To Media.  A Fox News Sunday interview with CIA Director John Brennan highlights the scope of professional obfuscation needed when intelligence agents decide to politicize intelligence.  The Obama administration is in the process of attempting to re-write their own history.

Obama Loves Martin Luther King's Great Quote — But He Uses It Incorrectly.  "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice" is a great quote.  But it doesn't mean what Obama says it means.

Samantha Power Reinvents Obama's Record on Russia.  By all means, let's have a debate about the dangers of American presidents and their administrations purveying "alternative facts."  But could the members of the media most ostentatiously seething over President Trump — and now busy presenting their own alternative facts — please spare us the pretense that the White House is suddenly in danger of losing its credibility.  What's left to lose?  We've just had eight years of the Obama administration beaming out  alternative facts  "narratives" to the mascot-media echo chamber, on the theory that saying something makes it so ("If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor"; Iran's "exclusively peaceful" nuclear program; the Benghazi "video"; etc.).

President Trump will Undo the Cruelties of Obama's Political Correctness.  One of the cruelest goals of political correctness is to deny regular Americans the right to protect themselves from terrorism, from loss of jobs, and from exposure to disease, and to spit on their innate desire for safety in their communities.  Barack Obama's not so veiled accusations against the American people over the last eight years exemplify this cruelty.  Those of us worried about the all too frequent and continuous terrorism coming from young Muslim men were labeled Islamophobic.  Those opposed to Obama's open-border policy resulting in loss of jobs, disease, crime, and assaults in our towns, as well as the bankrupting of smaller communities due to taxation burdens, were called xenophobic.  Obama too easily hurled the charge of racism against police and millions of Americans.  It was bullying.