Sunday, April 1, 2012

President Liar, Year One 2008-2009


By Alan Caruba

After years of hearing liberals tell us that any criticism of President Obama is because he is Black, it seems to me they ought to admit that he got elected because he is Black. In the interest of accuracy, he is half-Black and half-White. I say this because the media has now begun calling the shooter of Trayvon Martin a “White-Hispanic.”

Beyond that, it was apparent to anyone watching and listening to Barack Obama that a moron was running for office; one willing to say anything for five minute’s advantage. He literally lied his way into the Oval Office.

One need only revisit Obama’s campaign and his first year in office to grasp how audacious his capacity for lying was and is.

In June 2008 he was boasting that he was “the only candidate who isn’t taking a dime from Washington lobbyists” at the same time his fundraising team included 38 members of law firms that had earned $138 million to lobby the federal government. He had 79 “bundlers”, five of them billionaires, who tapped their personal networks to raise at least $200,000 each.

On October 24, 2008, Charles Krauthammer wrote “First, I will have no truck with the phony case ginned up to rationalize voting for the most liberal and inexperienced presidential nominee in living memory.” Columnist Patrick J. Buchanan, on October 31, 2008, wrote “If Barack Obama is not a Socialist, he does the best imitation of one I’ve ever seen.” So, yes, we were warned and, yes, a majority of voters refused to acknowledge the obvious.

An editorial in the January 8, 2009 Daily Mail, a British daily, characterized Obama’s ascent to power as a “Victory for style over substance, hyperbole over history, rabble-raising over reality” adding that it was a victory for Hollywood, for “a man who is no friend of freedom”, “a victory for those who believe the state is better qualified to raise children than family” and presciently, “a victory for social democracy even after most of Europe has come to the painful conclusion that social democracy leads to mediocrity, failure, unemployment, inflation, higher taxes and economic stagnation.”

Following his election Obama was being either ignorant or deliberately lying when he told a November 2008 Governor’s Global Climate Summit in Los Angeles that “Few challenges facing America—and the world—are more urgent than combating climate change. The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear. Sea levels are rising. Coastlines are shrinking. We’ve seen record drought, spreading famine and storms that are growing stronger with each passing hurricane season.”

Not one single word of this was true and, a year later in 2009, a cache of emails between so-called climate scientists revealed that global warming was a hoax based on phony computer models Moreover, a perfectly natural warming cycle had already ended in 1998!

Is there anyone who does not know that Obama’s stimulus plan turned out to be a massive and costly failure? The answer is yes and some of them will vote for Obama in November. Lenin called them "useful idiots."

By February 2009, Bradley R. Schiller, a professor of economics, writing in The Wall Street Journal wrote “President Barack Obama has turned fear-mongering into an art form. He has repeatedly raised the specter of another Great Depression. First he did so to win votes in the November election. He has done so again recently to sway congressional votes for his stimulus package. This fear-mongering may be good politics, but it is bad history and bad economics.”

As voters ready themselves to vote in November, it would be wise to revisit the way Obama hid his true past from them in 2008 and since. His college records were sealed, his Indonesian adoption records were sealed, his passport file was sealed and, of course, his official birth records were sealed. He has since provided a birth certificate that an investigation by Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio recently asserted was a complete forgery. His first executive order in office was to put these and other documents off limits to public examination.

As 2009 came to a close, virtually all of Obama’s initiatives were in shambles, not the least of which was his foreign policy and, in particular, his Middle East policy. He alienated Israel and the Arab League refused to provide any kind of peace gesture. Despite efforts to soften the public perception of Palestinians, they are still shelling Israel with rockets from Gaza.

By the time 2009 was history, Obama had given the Queen of England an iPod preloaded with 40 show tunes, bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, praised Marxists Daniel Ortega and Hugo Chavez, announced he would meet the Iranians with no pre-conditions, announced the termination of the U.S. space program the day after the North Koreans tested an intercontinental ballistic missile, wanted to try CIA agents on charges of torturing terrorists, wanted a civil trial for the mastermind of 9/11, and wanted to shut down Guantanamo. He put a card-carrying Communist and admitted tax cheats part of his administration, and that’s just the short list!

In lieu of the likelihood that Obamacare, to which he devoted his first year in office, will be struck down by the Supreme Court, his open microphone gaff in which he urged the Russians to wait until he is reelected so he can give them more U.S. missile technology secrets and reduce our nuclear arsenal, and countless other deceptions, Wall Street Journal columnist, Peggy Noonan, described  his tete-a-tete with Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev as “creepy.”

“What is happening is that the president is coming across more and more as a trimmer, as an operator who’s not operating in good faith,” wrote Noonan.

As millions of Americans still struggle with unemployment, the rolls of Food Stamp recipients grow, the mortgage crisis continues, gas prices increase, and much of the world holds Obama in contempt, the lies just keep coming, the class and race warfare is being ramped up, and media chatteratti continue to talk up his chances of being reelected.

© Alan Caruba, 2012

11 comments:

Mike Victor said...

I don't consider myself a 'conspiracy theory' type of guy, but I'm thinking this man displays all of the attributes of a 'mole.'

At the least, he is disingenuous in a most disturbing manner. I do trust him. I will vote to cast him out. Pity we can't do it now.

Agent Infidel said...

You need to correct Mayvon to Trayvon in first paragraph !!

Ole said...

You say "His first executive order in office was to put these and other documents off limits to public examination."

I have not heard this before and wonder whether this is unusual or SOP for presidents. Do you know?

zossen said...

Good grief!! lol We all common sense people know Odumbo sucks. But when you read off the list of failures and absurd actions this loser has taken it amazes me how he isn't embarrassed of himself. What a tool!

Alan Caruba said...

Mike, I am pretty sure you meant to write "I do NOT trust him." A lot of other folks feel the same way.

Alan Caruba said...

@Agent. Thanks for catching that. It has been corrected.

Alan Caruba said...

@Bill. This may be SOP for presidents, but most have made their paper trail available during their campaigns. To the extend that Obama has not must raise questions about what he is hiding.

LarryOldtimer said...

When Obama was running for election, he said loud and clear, that his energy policies would cause fuel prices to sky-rocket.

The only promise he has kept.

There is no fast way to build the infrastructure to increase the amoount of carbon fuels.

In New England states, three refineries have shut down, and a large Shell refinery will cease operations if Shell can't find a buyer by July.

Eco-whackos refused to allow needed pipe lines to be constructed, so it will be a bad winter indeed, with almost no carbon based fuel to use.

This not-a-natural-born citizen actually exactly fits the description of...a foreign enemy of the US Constition.

Whatever happens, we have been virtually destroyed . . . by nonsense energy policies.

Lime Lite said...

Your summary is scary reading. If Americans fail to wake up then goodness only knows where the country will be in 4 years time. I fear that the liberals are biding their time for Obama to be re-elected to unleash all their crazy plans on the nation. But, I have faith in Americans to do the right thing in November.

TexasFred said...

I believe it is Zimmerman that is called a *White Hispanic*...

There's not much doubt that Trayvon Martin is a Black person...

Alan Caruba said...

@ TexasFred:
That's why I referred to Zimmerman saying "... the media has now begun calling the shooter of Trayvon Martin a “White-Hispanic.”