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Obama’s transparent lies

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I don’t listen to many radio talk shows. Sometimes, though, when I’m in the car and bored, I tune one in for a while.

So the other day I was listening to someone (Rush? Hannity?) for a few moments and there was a series of audio clips of Obama during the campaign, making promises about the process that would lead to health care reform legislation. Over and over, in many places and at many times, he declared in those ringing tones of his that it would be completely transparent—the deliberations, suggestions, and debates televised on C-Span for all to see.

It’s ironic to hear those promises now, especially since the subject was openness and honesty itself, and there’s been nothing open and honest about this administration. I know that politicians lie, especially in their campaign promises. But although I’ve been around for quite a while, I’ve never in my lifetime heard (in this country at least) a major politician lying so consistently and egregiously without being called on it by the MSM. Obama’s C-Span lie is only one of many promises—about raising taxes, about posting bills online for 72 hours, about earmarks—that have been broken with a brazenness that can only be called Orwellian (if that were not an insult to Orwell) and/or Soviet in its scope.

But this has been the story of Obama’s life—so far. His approval rating has been dropping, but not nearly precipitously enough for me, and not nearly as far or fast as the evidence indicates it should.

During the campaign, Obama’s broken promise about accepting public financing should have rung an alarm. He was testing the waters, seeing what he could get away with, and he discovered that boldly breaking the firmest of campaign promises caused hardly a ripple in either his fawning press coverage or the adulation of his adoring supporters. That made him think that yes, he could get away with almost anything.

And maybe he can. We’ll see.

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Obama’s transparent lies — 43 Comments

  1. reminds me of how a sociopath seduces a young girl to get her ‘prize’.

    what was said was what was necessary to get the goods, and what happens after the goods are got, is not their problem, but the girls.

    the way a sociopath would see it, they are doing her a favor by smartening her up. that if she wasnt so dumb they wouldnt be able to do it, so its their fault.

    said another way that echoes in time

    if you cant hold on to it, then it aint yours

  2. Given the basic nature of his supporters their adulations will not cease, ever. At home and at work and in their politicians, they’re used to sociopaths.

  3. The promise of hope and change is relevant only until the statist acquires the power s/he seeks. Then, we can throw change out the window and rely only on hope.

    Obama, the most powerful person in the world, is still reaching for more power. He is still selling us a bill of goods.

    Why?

    Obama could care less about health care because it is evident he doesn’t much like people but government will become much more intrusive in our lives if it passes. But it will do him no good if the transfer of power occurs in 2014 and he is not then in office. Cap and trade will place a damper on our economy but increase the power of government to rule our lives. Global warming or climate change is more of the same.

    Well, my take is that Obama has turned himself into a “tin man”. A salesman who will say anything to make a “score”. But, what the hell is he selling? Is it nothing more than Obama cares for the little guy? If so, what B.S.

    I think Obama has serious plans for not leaving office. These plans are becoming less likely to be accomplished as he has been overly exposed on TV. He has lost much of his popularity and has become boring and passe. But, I put nothing by the man. I think that Obama has become tired of lying to us and, in his superiority, finds it boring. His speeches are becoming lackluster, at least in their manner of delivery, as a result. Remember, as a liberal statist, Obama has NO principals, only postures, which change from moment to moment as the perceived need arises. How quickly global cooling morphed into global warming and then to climate change, with nary a look back. How much disdain must the liberal have for us to pull this crap off? (By the way, johnjayray.blogspot.com expresses (from Australia) far less respect for liberals such as Obama than I do. Neo, you might want to add this web blog to your blogroll.)

  4. The book The Roosevelt Myth looks like a promising source of information in the quest to understand whether leftist destroyers of liberty who occupy the White House are implementers or implements of a grand plan.

  5. Didnt Obama say that Islam is the religion of peace? at least they are training women…

    ‘Chilling’ new video: How to slit throats
    Jihad maneuvers taught at New York compound
    http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=119087

    The video shows women marching in military formation, scaling walls, engaging in hand-to-hand combat and also reveals a Muslim confirming that the organization’s own census revealed that Muslims are a majority in the United States and they are claiming it as their own.

    The speaker states, “We are 100 percent sure that Muslims are the majority in America.”

    He continues, “Our Islamic political party has based its manifesto on this fact. We want to declare once and for all that America is our country.”

    in another thread, at the request of daniel of brookline i put some more history on things.

    but i like this part the best.

    The hands of law enforcement and investigators are tied at this point, he said, because members of the organization are part of “a minority religion,” “they are African-American” “and in this particular case, are women.”

    the two groups the soviets targeted for militancy, are the same ones doing it.

    are they also connected with the groups out west filming race attacks and selling them?

    The organization’s “Homegrown Jihad” video includes a chilling scene of Jamaat ul-Fuqra’s leader Sheikh Mubarak Gilani telling followers to “act like you’re his friend. Then kill him.”

  6. “That made him think that yes, he could get away with almost anything.”

    Do the words “Yes we can” ring any bells?

  8. Normally someone would catalog this stuff and get it out there… but not only are the media not interested, either are the republicans (it seems).

    I’d probably go with chronological… you could throw in a few points that were not campaign promise violations (i.e., they don’t fit in those boxes) to help draw the picture. Like the administration floating the anti ‘assault rifle’ campaign (i.e., Mexico’s problems are due to us, et cetera)…

    Then send it out as a mailer to everyone… its too much info to fit in commercials.. but it can also be kept brief…

  9. Since he has created so many of them, perhaps ,Obama is actually “the father of lies,” one of the many titles of the Devil.

  11. That would be correct, Neo-Neocon. The Bamma IS a lying liar who lies. Easily. Often preceded by the redundant, “Let me be clear..”

    My Gawd, this Shipwreck is looking like Jimmah Cawtah on amphetamines! Only Far, Far further Left.

  13. If by “MSM” you mean something I give my creaky dog, that’s OK.

    If by “MSM” you mean “Main Stream Media,” dear Neo, you are referring, now, to a Punch ‘n’ Judy Show watched by people who root for one or the other.

  14. Wolla,

    As in. . . Alinsky’s dedication to Rules for Radicals, no doubt. Lucifer–actually working on getting his own kingdom.

  15. I think the lipstick on a pig episode was another revelation to Obama of what he could get away with.

    I see that I have already commented on it here (July 11th):

    “The handwriting was on the wall the day Obama called Palin a pig in lipstick. That is exactly what he did, but everybody in mainstream media pretended he didn’t do so. We learned that day – and, perhaps more significantly, Obama learned that day – that his comrades in mainstream media would let him get away with anything. Not only let him get away with anything, but help him get away with it.”

  18. Makes me wonder why the fuss over Tiger Woods is so excessive. Woods was only screwing a dozen or so willing women. Obama’s out to screw us all, whether we’re willing or not.

  21. . . .I’ve never in my lifetime heard (in this country at least) a major politician lying so consistently and egregiously without being called on it by the MSM.

    Totally. Do you remember this one?: “This health care bill will be deficit neutral.” I just about fell out of my chair. Ha!

  22. Obama’s poll numbers are a bit misleading. According to Rasmussen, 98% of blacks give a Obama a favorable rating (Think O.J. or Marion Berry). That means his floor is 10-15%, not zero. That means if you only look at people who are willing and able to make a judgment one way or the other, Obama’s support is in the mid thirties.

  23. Hmmm. So his declining poll numbers aren’t quite what you expect to see, given your own perception of The Won’s performance to date…?

    Polls? Poll reported by the media?

    The media?

    CRU ‘s climate scientists aren’t the only august body of professionals to cook books. Not the first, not the last.

    Dan Rather called himself a journalist for over forty years before he threw himself on the pyre.

    Hansen at NASA has taken a Federal career all the way from the brink of the advancing glaciers of 1975 to the coming Bangledeshi soup of rising sea levels due to AGW.

    Fraud in the name of religion. Not a new thing.

    I put less stock in what legacy media reports than I do in the National Enquirer.

  24. Tiger Woods has a 5% approval rating..

    Joke:

    What’s the difference between Tiger and Obama?

    Tiger only wants to screw half the population! 😉

  26. Notice how the usual supporters are absent?

    Mitsu, where are you, to stick up for the Liar-in-Chief?

  27. /putting liberal hat on

    Stumbley you fool, Bush lied and people died. Where are those WMD’s? Bush Bush Bush….

    /removing the liberal hat as it was too tight and cutting off my circulation

    Reasonable people can see clearly what is going on. Greta never seems to take a hard stance yet she is calling it. I’m not sure how she translates this stuff to more than Obama. Such as – how does she translate it to Pelosi and Reid?

  28. What is global warming really all about?

    Chavez’ speech at the AGW summit says it all. The parts where he got thunderous applause and a standing ovation point it all out.

    Any questions?

    Slightly less than one half of America against the world. It is what it is.

  29. Greta has been getting increasingly irritated with Obama and the Democrats. One of her frequent targets is two thousand page bills that no one has read or which are not even available for reading. I fear that with Fox she is preaching to the choir. Until the big networks and papers develop a bit of integrity the fiasco in Washington will continue unabated.

  30. I could not understand how Obama could go in front of a joint session of Congress and speak about the attributes of HIS health care plan when he was relying on the Congress to draft the plan. In fact, he had no plan then and still has no plan today. (Could you, in your wildest imagination, imagine Bush, or any Republican president for that matter, making a similar “smoke and mirrors” presentation to a joint session of Congress?)

    This was reported this morning:

    “After pointedly declaring in his speech to the joint session of Congress that “my plan will not include taxpayer funding of abortion,” Obama lobbied Congress in support of abortion funding in the health reform bill. His administration has even lobbied against the pro-life amendments to these bills. Obama’s spokesman Robert Gibbs argued that these health bills are not the president’s, therefore “his plan does not include taxpayer funding of abortion.””

    So, where is his plan already? Doesn’t anyone ask?

    So, you would think that a reporter might ask, “Where is the president’s plan? Does it even exist? If so, can we get a copy? Is the plan what the Congress ultimately agrees upon in conference?

  31. Mr. Frank,

    Unfortunately she is preaching to the choir mostly. But I do believe some people aren’t either a) dismissing her or b) already know what she says

    There is the c) camp. Those people who are learning this year…

  32. Ponder this: The president sides with communist dictators (Chavez, Castro) against the free people of Honduras and then nominates a communist spy as Ambassador to one of Honduras’s neighbors. Is it really so ridiculous to think that within his skinny chest beats the heart of a Marxist?

    You Can’t Make It Up – Or Si, Se Puede!
    corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OTA5N2RlN2E2YWE2ZWUzNDg1ODA5Yjk2Mzg5M2YwZjE=

    he is just like FDR…
    “Some of my best friends are Communists”

    The White House has announced that Mari Del Carmen Aponte will be nominated by the President to become the U.S. ambassador to El Salvador. Aponte is a former director of the radical Mexican organization La Raza and of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education fund.

    hey! isnt that Soto Mayers organization…
    imagine that…

    that its ok to have a group called “the Race”

    This is the second time she’s been proposed for an ambassadorship. The first didn’t go so well. President Clinton nominated her to be ambassador to the Dominican Republic but, as detailed on Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government, it turned out that she had “co-habited” with an agent of the Cuban intelligence service. In fact, a confidential U.S. intelligence memo alleged that she had been recruited to become a Cuban spy in her own right. The revelations caused her nomination to be quietly withdrawn … whereupon she reportedly refused to answer questions from the FBI (saying that since she was no longer seeking an executive branch slot, she no longer needed to cooperate in a background security check). Now, despite that debacle, and heedless of the controversies stoked by Van Jones, Kevin Jennings, et al., Obama wants to press ahead with Aponte.

  35. ‘And here’s the most outrageous part: at the end of this rush, they want us to vote on a bill that no one outside the Majority Leader’s conference room has even seen. That’s right. The final bill we’ll vote on isn’t even the one we’ve had on the floor. It’s the deal Democrat leaders have been trying to work out in private’

  36. hey! isnt that just how the supreme soviet worked? fancy that… what a funny coincidence… no mater how many times such things happen, they dont mean anything…

    let me know if this sounds familiar at all as to how things operate now:

    The soviets were largely rubber stamp institutions, approving decisions handed to them by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. wiki

    that is, their job was not to craft legislation or even care whats in it, their job was to pass it. in this way, laws and changes suddenly appeared. huge voluminous and coordinated with other things yet to be handed over, or issues as yet to be revealed or constructed.

    in this case the council of ministers are the czars. but how would any one recognize wht they were looking at in terms of what they dont know?

  37. if we are going to talk lies, how about the industry of lies?

    and hollyweird is still pushing the same socailist realism meme (french for idea), about how white men are the bad people of the world. ‘

    Avatar is the corniest movie ever made about the white man’s need to lose his identity and assuage racial, political, sexual and historical guilt.

    oh… a more expensive version of that other movie that starts with tying indians to horses (which came way after columbus), and telling us that it was white man that ruined america, claimed that vikings came to america to rape and steal indian women (from florida – notice spanish moss), put them in their deep draught galleons (what happened to long ships), and take them back (which would mean being nice to those peoples sicne they are now part indian, right?)..

    Only children–including adult-children–will see Avatar as simply an adventure film; their own love of technology has co-opted their ability to comprehend narrative detail.

    yeah.. like the man who wrote the golden compass is lamenting that people didnt want to see a story about the death of god and communism (but he now is worried that it was really killed by a cabal of christians and catholics causing a boycott…). he gets no hint from lion witch and wardrobe (which his is a very poor knockoff with the opposite messate), which grossed a lot, and people are waiting for the other ones.

    Set in the near future, Avatar is a throwback to the hippie naiveté of Kevin Costner’s production Rapa Nui (directed by Kevin Reynolds). While prattling about man’s threat to environmental harmony, Cameron’s really into the powie-zowie factor: destructive combat and the deployment of technological force.

    the next paragraph basically points out taht this big story has the same propaganda story as the movie i dont name above!

    Here’s the hypocrisy: As Sully helps the beleaguered, virtuous aliens fight back and conquer the human invaders…

    oh.. like the viking boy who wouldnt murder babies being left behind and becoming one with the indians, who are created and shown like fawns in paradise (including wariors playing pan flutes. what? do they think they are cultured like japanese samurai?).

    Avatar puts forth a simple-minded anti-industrial critique. Despite Avatar’s 12-year gestation, Cameron’s obviously commenting on the Iraq War–though not like his hawkish Aliens. Appealing to Iraq War disenchantment, he evokes 9/11 when the military topples the Na’vi’s sacred, towering Tree of Souls. The imagery implies that the World Trade Center was also an altar (of U.S. capitalism), yet this berserk analogy exposes Cameron’s contradictory thinking. It triggers the offensive battle scenes where American soldiers get vengefully decimated–scored to the rousing clichés of Carmina Burana.

    personally i like the Carmina Burana… the poems of defrocked monks set to music… (and was great in excalibur!). but, what they are doing is the old clockwork orange concept of aligning the epitome of human music, like chopin, with the epitome of human morality.

    a kind of moral chiaraschuro… in which the horrid drags down the sublime, while the sublime seems to elevate the sadistic, sociopathic, and morally incomprehensible, into a pallet for a real artist.

    to show one how far back this goes, one can just boot up an old copy of:
    the incredible mr limpet.

    SAME story… the main character falls into the other world of animals and nature… then regrets being human… then gets us to imagine all humans gone

    Henry Limpet: Well, with the war in Europe and new weapons being invented all the time, why, what if men were actually foolish enough to destroy themselves completely? Then, you see, the fish in the ocean would develop into a new race of men, and, well, this time they might turn out better, you see?

    ah… perhaps if we get wiped out they can make new socialist man..

    but limpet also goes on in how can the lady fish love him as he used to be a monster (human). of course his fidelity to his human wife went right out the window… despite her later showing such love and devotion as to want to remain in her marraige even if he is a fish.

    Henry Limpet: What if I told you I used to be a human being? Ladyfish: I dont care how terrible your past was, Limpet.

    two birds in one stone… hate yourself, and dont use peoples pasts as a judgment. (hey ayers, lucky you).

    Once again, villainous Americans exhibit no direct communication with ancestors. That’s Cameron’s fanboy zeal turned into fatuous politics. He misrepresents the facts of militarism, capitalism, imperialism–and their comforts.

    i wrote this as i was noticing things across time.

    the droning of the big lie in front of you.

    anyone notice that there are TWO Versions of rudolf and the island of lost toys. there is the original with original values andsuch. then there is the new liberal one… which regenerates the characters by computer.

    funny thing though. it stars voices of people like Richard Dryfuss. but when you see the listing on cable, its completely devoid of any information that would clue a parent into the fact that they were putting their kid down in front of a different movie.

    so there is no rating.. not even a note saying not rated. there is no credits. not the director, not the big names stars. nothing.

    if there was the parents would easily know that dryfuss is to young to ahve been a narrator on the show they remember, and they would then wonder where Rankin Bass was..

    anyone want to guess as to the new message?

    unless you notice it, you would think someone nuts for saying it.

    The recent release on DVD of Sesame Street volumes I and II contain a warning so risible as to be unbelieved if I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes: “These early ‘Sesame Street’ episodes are intended for grown-ups, and may not suit the needs of today’s preschool child.”

    http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/magazine/18wwln-medium-t.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1195657220-oGTm9UtXP1DjGzI0P7zmsw

    At a recent all-ages home screening, a hush fell over the room. “What did they do to us?” asked one Gen-X mother of two, finally. The show rolled, and the sweet trauma came flooding back. What they did to us was hard-core. Man, was that scene rough. The masonry on the dingy brownstone at 123 Sesame Street, where the closeted Ernie and Bert shared a dismal basement apartment, was deteriorating. Cookie Monster was on a fast track to diabetes. Oscar’s depression was untreated. Prozacky Elmo didn’t exist.

    Nothing in the children’s entertainment of today, candy-colored animation hopped up on computer tricks, can prepare young or old for this frightening glimpse of simpler times. Back then – as on the very first episode, which aired on PBS Nov. 10, 1969 – a pretty, lonely girl like Sally might find herself befriended by an older male stranger who held her hand and took her home. Granted, Gordon just wanted Sally to meet his wife and have some milk and cookies, but . . . well, he could have wanted anything. As it was, he fed her milk and cookies. The milk looks dangerously whole.

    So, what has parents recoiling in horror from these episodes? Let’s see. Cookie Monster smokes a pipe and later eats it; we won’t even begin to touch upon his cookie binging. Big Bird hallucinates big, fluffy elephants til apparently, folks were threatening to send him to rehab. Oscar the Grouch is… grouchy!! Heaven forfend. Let’s not even touch upon the dubious relationship between the curmudgeonly Burt and his dimwitted amant ami, Ernie.

    My favorite reaction to this warning label comes from an incredibly eloquent man on LJ who also writes for DCist. In his reaction to all this idiocy (whose title, btw, comes closer to Avenue Q than Sesame Street, and more power to him for bucking the politically correct), he writes:

    Or, for parents who’d rather not just let the TV teach their children, they could use it as an avenue towards teaching not just that smoking, gluttony and general bitchiness aren’t behaviors that kids should model, but also that used in the proper context, these things can be used to dramatic, comedic, and allegorical effect.

    Then, maybe those kids won’t grow up into humorless and painfully literal adults who assume that no one under the age of 18 could possibly be capable of some guided critical thinking and the separation of what they see and how it impacts on how they act.

    What saddens me the most is that we’re getting to a point where the show has been around long enough that a lot of the folks saying that Sesame Street of all things is a bad influence probably grew up with the show themselves. Or, maybe they didn’t, and that’s the problem.

    from http://www.solomother.com/sesame-street-is-inappropriate-for-small-children-pause-huh/

    submerged up to our neck in it as a form of social engineering (experimenting on people without permission from them), we dont see how pervasive it is.

    funny how the elite think themselves self actuated, but its the few self actuated that have such a different and profound view that can see taht this is a lot of thing,s but not the output of self actuated people.

  38. From JFK:

    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie: deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth: persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.”

  39. The press for some strange reason does not remind him of these promises, instead Charlie Gibson says, “oh god, your burden must be heavy…..”

  40. I am hardly a wide-eyed optimist, but I say “Take heart!”

    We live in difficult times with an incompetent and mis-directed White House, and yet as Gandalf admonished Frodo, “Even the very wise can not see all ends,”

    With each passing day I see the illusory moral high ground of the far left unraveling stitch by stitch. This is evinced by the rapid swing in the polls of independents away from leftist and democratic ideals. We may have to live through these difficult times just to see the permanent reduction of leftist and statist influence in our country.

    Time will tell, but I see the the left hoisting itself by its own petard on a daily basis. We can only hope, and we can only hope that there is something or someone worthwhile to take its place.

  42. Thank you for the reminder, T. About the value of good-great literature. Artfldgr…2:47pm: Um..You’re serious ? Ya need to get away from your keyboard, Boyo, and read more. Trust me.

  43. I read huge amounts and remember stuff very well in time… and i have gone out in the world and crawled through its muck too…

    literature is a pale copy of life

    life isnt like literature

    the moon isnt always full in life. in life people go to the bathroom. in life the bad guys often win. most murders arent solved. most of the time in real life there is no cavalry. in life when people die, they never come back. real life has smells.

    no amount of reading is a substitute for real life.

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