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How do you spell “Chutzpah”?

December 16, 2009 - 8:02 pm - by Roger Kimball
R. Dittmar
2009-12-17 08:52:18

Having watching our man-child president for several months now, I’ve become convinced that he can’t really be called a liar. Clinton was a liar. Clinton would go in front of cameras and wag his finger and say things that he knew weren’t true. Obama on the other hand is delusional. He thinks that the mere fact that he has opened his pie hole to say something automatically makes that thing true! However you want to describe this, mendacious doesn’t seem to be the adjective of choice. It seems to me that to be mendacious, you actually have to know what the truth is and consciously choose to gainsay it. Obama doesn’t deny the truth. He actually thinks that he can change what is true merely by speaking.