We are one month in to a marathon game of liar’s poker and the American public is playing the losing hand. It’s not as if the Obama folks are stupid. They aren’t. They aren’t even compulsive or pathological. They are simply of a breed apart from ordinary humans — they’re politicians.
And it’s funny because that was the one thing they claimed they weren’t. The one big “change” from previous Washington creatures. But it’s no change at all. They lie about Iraq. They lie about guns. They lie about the economy. They lie about the size of government. Then they lie about lying.
Welcome to the Pinocchio administration : Obama is the only one pulling strings on the media. The rest of us in the audience watch fascinated.
You won’t hear about the lying on ABC, CBS or NBC. Or read it in The Washington Post or New York Times either. Last year, the news media threw considerable influence behind President Pinocchio. Now journalism is in such financial distress, they’d be hard-pressed to fact check his cereal box. Besides it’s a sin of Washington etiquette to call a deliberate political misstatements “lies.” Only the uncouth call them actual lies.
Remember the Barack Obama who proposed pulling our troops out of Iraq by the end of 2008? “The days of our open-ended commitment must come to a close,” he told the Senate, according to a Jan. 31, 2007, Washington Post article. Now, according to the Associated Press, the open-ended commitment has been replaced with “as many as 50,000 troops to remain behind to train Iraqi forces and protect U.S. interests.” Even anti-war lefties think he lied. They are right –- for once.
Remember that guy Obama who supported gun rights? He’s just a faint memory. A year ago, in an interview with Politico, Obama was reminded that supported gun ownership:
“You said recently, ‘I have no intention of taking away folks’ guns.’ But you support the D.C. handgun ban, and you’ve said that it’s constitutional. How do you reconcile those two positions?”
Even then he hemmed and hawed, concluding:
“We can have a reasonable, thoughtful gun control measure that I think respects the Second Amendment and people’s traditions.”
“Reasonable, thoughtful” are words unknown to Attorney General Eric Holder. Holder already has tried to link the Mexican narco-wars to U.S. gun sales and go after supposed “assault weapons.”
Obama’s record on government and the economy is actually worse. He and his surrogates keep maintaining that his budget won’t hurt the pockets of 95 percent of Americans who will get a tax cut.
They lie. The lead editorial in the Feb. 27 Wall Street Journal showed by just how much. Using 2006 tax records, The Wall Street Journal showed how a tax hike won’t begin to pay the 2010 budget of the $4 trillion. Even if the government were to confiscate (aka steal) every penny made by those who earn $250,000 and above, it would only meet one-third of the goal.
To pay for that whole $4 trillion budget, the government would have to pilfer “every taxable ‘dime’ of everyone earning more than $75,000.” That would just barely meet the goal, but those are 2006 numbers when the economy was good. In 2010, we’d need to go even lower.
A tax cut for 95 percent? Not hardly. The government will give money with one hand and take it back and loads more with the other –- lying to us the whole time.
ABC’s George Stephanopoulos summed it up well during his March 1 “This Week” show when, with a slip of the tongue, he referred to the omnibus spending bill as “omni-nous spending” –- an appropriate cross between omnibus and ominous spending.
No kidding. It takes accidental phrasing to get honesty from the mainstream press – especially someone like Stephanopoulos who burns his cell phone minutes strategizing with his long-time Democratic buddies like James Carville, Paul Begala and Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.
The rest of the time, we get precious little information from the press about how we’ll pay through the nose and every other orifice. Instead, it’s just reheated talking points about 95 percent of us getting tax cuts. To quote Sam, “Wow, that wasn’t even remotely true.” - FOX News Forum
It is pretty amazing that he has the approval ratings he has and the political power that he has considering the actions that he has taken. People seem to forget so very easily.
This reminds me a lot of the Clinton years. I just had this conversation with someone the other day. It is so easy to bash Bush, What did Bush do that was so bad?
Iraq War? Do you remember the battles that Clinton got us into? He had Bin Laden on more than one occasion and let him go. Do you remember Bosnia? Somalia?
Economy? Clinton was the one who pushed for the lending practices that are being called into action today. Bush tried to get Congress to act 2 years ago and was turned away by Pelosi and Barney Frank.
Torture? Would you rather that we coddle these people who are making designs on just how to destroy our way of life? I have a feeling that when all of the facts come out about just how many Terrorist plots were foiled due to this so called "Torture" you will be amazed. Sometimes you have to get your hands dirty for the greater good of the Country that you are sworn to protect. I am sure that these Terrorist treat the people that they capture with kid gloves, they don't behead them. Is it Torture to turn two skyscrapers into infernos and then watch them collapse killing thousands? Yet you complain if we in an effort to stop that action don't give the guy a hug and a cigarrette.
It is funny how Obama Campaigned on all of these promises of how America doesn't like Bush Policies. Yet he isn't doing backflips changing them all. We are still planning to be in Iraq for sometime, Afghanistan, won't release information on the Torturing, Iran, North Korea. Maybe Bush had it right. That would just be terrible.
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