Friday, March 25, 2011

Obama, The Great Prevaricator


By Alan Caruba

“President Obama told congressional leaders there are no plans to use the U.S. military to assassinate Libyan strongman Muammar Gadhafi — despite the administration’s policy of seeking regime change in the North African country — according to sources familiar with a Friday White House Situation Room briefing.”
-- March 25, 2011, Politico.com

Translation: Obama has already given orders to have Gadhafi assassinated.

It’s taken two years, the first in which he was everywhere all the time on television, but it took Americans who weren’t besotted by his dazzling smile, his haute couture, and “no drama, Obama” style, very little time to figure out that whatever Barack Hussein Obama says, you can count on his meaning the opposite and doing the opposite.

No previous administration has been so devoted to twisting the language like a pretzel to avoid saying what he means or does. It’s not a “war” in Libya; it’s a “kinetic military action.” There are no Islamic terrorists and there aren’t dozens, if not hundreds of illegal aliens crossing the Mexico border every day. And, after announcing that his administration was lifting the ban on offshore drilling, it has issued a grand total of one and that was to restart an existing platform.

After identifying Afghanistan as the “real” war in the Middle East and decrying the Iraq war all through his campaign, Obama took weeks to decide what to do there and finally did what Bush had done in Iraq. He increased the number of troops.

I am not a psychiatrist, a psychologist, or any other professional judge of what makes anyone tick, but I know a liar when I hear and see one day after day, week after week, and year after year.

This is a President who devoted virtually the entire first year of his term to forcing a Democrat controlled Congress to pass The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, a massive assault on the nation’s health industry. It was accomplished even after a million people journeyed to Washington, D.C. to protest it.

When it was passed, then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi famously said, “We have to pass the bill so you can find out what was in it.” What was in it was more than two thousand pages of regulations creating countless new government entities, driving up the cost of health insurance, and a hideous piece of legislation that generated a deluge of requests for waivers from its draconian destruction of this essential element of the economy.

Twenty-eight States have refused to recognize Obamacare as law. A judge in Florida has deemed it unconstitutional. And it was a lie from start to finish.

This is a President whose first State of the Union speech draw derisive laughter from the assembled Congress when he referred to climate change, the code words for global warming.

This is a President who is pushing for high-speed rail in a nation whose citizens either fly where they want to go or drive where they want to go. The federally run Amtrak has never had a profitable year in its entire history.

This is a President who is pushing for electric cars when there is a perfectly functioning system for cars that use gasoline and the first ones off the assembly line cost so much and go so few miles as to be an instant joke.

By the end of his first term, “It’s Bush’s fault” became another joke and by the end of his second year, Obama had adopted most of his predecessor’s earlier decisions including Guantanamo and military trials despite his stated goal to shut it down.

The original bailout, TARP, came at the end of Bush’s term in response to the financial crisis that occurred just before the 2008 election. Obama has followed that with still more deficit spending to the point where everyone in America has an $80,000 piece of the debt he created.

There is no need to list the endless lies any more. All except his mainstream media shills and the hardcore liberal fools know he lies and does so all the time.

This should it come as a surprise for a man whose entire life is a construction of lies including the birth certificate he refuses to produce.

All hail Obama! The Great Prevaricator!

© Alan Caruba, 2011

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Mr Caruba,

This piece explains a lot - almost too much!

Wondering what you make of it.

http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2011/03/responsibility-to-protect-end-of.html

Alan Caruba said...

@West World. Stating the obvious often seems surprising in a world where lies are the stock in trade of its "leaders."

The New Zealand website reminded me of my fondness for that nation. I hope the recovery of Christchurch is swift.

Guy in Ohio said...

Unfortunately, the lies aren't directed at those of us who know and understand Obama's game plan ... we can't be fooled. They're directed at the mindless morons, racists, and hard core liberals who desperately want to support him, regardless of what he does. It makes them feel all warm and fuzzy, and gives them the support they need to keep the progressive socialist lie alive in their own minds.

Ronbo said...

@Alan:

I agree.

If Obama says he wants no harm to come to a certain person - what he really means is that he wants them dead.

I hope he never expresses the wish that I live a long life:-)

Link and comments posted on my blog.

joetote said...

It's not even Orwellian in nature. Newspeak and doublespeak cannot begin to compare with the outright lies being put forth by this administration! Not surprising though if one considers his Marxist/Leninist background and leanings as you have. Great article as always alan!

TexasFred said...

Well, I want to thank you for writing this post Sir! It will be my Sunday post, with ALL proper accreditation of course!

Alan Caruba said...

@TexasFred:
Thank you, sir. I will email a short 2,500 word biography you can print with it..or would you prefer the longer 5,000 word version?

TexasFred said...

Either one works, it's gonna be buried on a back page!! :)

Anonymous said...

you are absolutely correct....Obama is in dictionary should be compulsive liar