When Leaders Lie
Now I don’t pretend to know what is in the documents that are being hidden from the Congressional committee by presidential fiat, nor, for the moment, do I care. A bigger story overrides that. The odd confluence of the publication of the Maraniss revelations makes this declaration of executive privilege by Barack Obama almost nauseating because we now know something unequivocally:
The president is a liar.
How then do we believe anything he says when he asserts a privilege? This depends on trust but we can’t even respect him when he’s such a small time prevaricator. There’s a good chance he’s hiding something; one could almost say a certainty. We don’t know where this will lead, but the chances are that it is nowhere good.
We all remember that famous quote, oft mistakenly attributed to Shakespeare, from Sir Walter Scott’s Marmion. It’s worth quoting in its entirety here, if by chance some random scribe from the mainstream media happens by. This was their man, after all:
Yet Clare’s sharp questions must I shun
Must separate Constance from the nun
Oh! what a tangled web we weave
When first we practice to deceive!
A Palmer too! No wonder why
I felt rebuked beneath his eye
I just want to add one thing. I didn’t write any of this to gloat and say “I told you so” because I never supported Barack Obama for the presidency. We are in too sorry a pass for that.
Suppose this man wins and we once again have a documented liar in the presidency, worse yet a man who lied repeatedly before the election and supported his attorney general, the leader of our justice system of all things, who is also a documented liar?
What a horrible situation for our country. Barack Obama, win or lose, is forever tainted. And so is America if he remains our leader.
” What a horrible situation for our country ”
yep — vote responsibly
Obama is a deceiver, a dissembler
His trousers are alight
From what poll or banner
Shall they dangle in the night?
What infernal serpent
Has lent him his forked tongue?
From what pit of foul deceit
Have all his whoopers and all his hiding sprung?
Here’s the one bitter lesson of Obama’s history
His soul should no longer remain a mystery
His many faces change
What you thought you knew grows ever more strange
And he has so many faces
His real self erases
With all those lies dancing in his empty eyes!
WOW! Holy Toledo! (unholy Chicago).
Genius is born and made
This heel,
Who mastered, by infinite means his trade,
Was born a bastard.
j.v.cunningham
in the Cunningham poem, replace ” infinite means” with “infinite pains”.
apologies to J.V. Cunningham……
another relevant from him on the Obama campaign:
“Good fortune, when I met her recently,
passed by, with the intimacy of shame,
who in the dark had handled me…..
and could no longer recollect my name.”
If, as Roger Simon has written previously, POTUS is a narcissist, then he has no real self. But I still say that the question that should most concern us is why his base, fragmented as it is, still follows him. I wrote about that conundrum here: http://clarespark.com/2010/04/05/is-potus-crazy/.
Clare, they continue to follow him because otherwise they would have to admit they made a mistake. If Libs have no other constant, its their unshakable belief that they are always right.
Yes, but have you seen the creases in his trousers? This man is presidential timbre.
By the way, Mr. Simon speaks of the group that Maraniss is a member of, and that would simply be “post modern humanist society.” Lying is not a sin. There is no sin. Mr. Simon, you attack Mr. Maraniss with weapons he simply cannot feel.
Oh, but he does have a real self. Every narcissist has it. He’s just not “connected” with it. Above it ruminate a bunch of floating abstractions loosely linking to a false (synthetic) self-image (of usually some measure of grandiosity) without any genuine centrally organizing principle based on reality. These are, then, what is projected as self. And, that’s what makes the thing (and Obummer) so hard to grasp and pin down; what makes him dangerous; what makes him utterly insouciant of his lies (to him they are the truths of the moment, required to project his image, no more, and are utterly believed); lets him be utterly uncaring of their consequences, and utterly guiltless.
He, more than anybody we have ever before seen on the public stage, is “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, incarnate! His “real self” is well hidden in some closet like a picture he would rather not face, same as his life’s records have been sealed. What’s out there in plain view is the image, the “spinmasters” products. Even the contents of Audacity of Hope is carefully arranged to project the image he wanted the public to respond to positively, once they were persuaded to take it at face value. (2008 book by David? Freddoso nicely picks it apart; only hardly anybody bothered to read it, in ’08).
I predict that if enough facts could be surfaced rapidly enough to completely out-pace any mitigating spin, so as to thoroughly de-frame the image, we might see that image (and him) collapse in some very inappropriate, even nasty, ways, as that would amount to the total destruction of his synthetic/fake persona. For in reality, he’s not white, not black, not red, just gray (+veneer); Dorian Gray, in the flesh. We should put quite some effort into this.
good comment. Obama is indeed an empty suit, all image, but no substantive skills or achievement, other than making people beleive in the image. Obamas only core is the old saying “if you can fake sincerity, you have it made”.
It is also a bit interesting that it is Romney that everybody claims is the empty suit, when in reality he has unquestioned real positive achievements, like his business success, his success at turning around the olympics, and a reasonably successful (although not perfect) governorship.
Roger,
You have given him too elegant an explanation of his innate personality. He is a “man child”. Raised in a contiuum of protected environments, he has never experienced real life. He knows not failure and therefore cannot compromise. He reminds me of an expression I learned several years ago from my then teenage daughter; he is a “poser”, one who presents an image that is surreal and not reality. He is a scared little boy who is putting up a front. Because he is very smart, his image is well perfected but yet it still lacks substance. Bouncing from home to home, environment to environment, he has honed this image well but none of these homes or enviroments gave him a moral foundation like you and I had based on Judeo/Christian morals so he was unprepared to judge right and wrong independently. He needs others (the popular kids) to tell him how to think and what is right and wrong.
All I can say is: Wo is us.
I have also wondered why so many dems still blindly follow Obama, when he is obviously ruining their entire party brand, the same way Bush ruined the repub brand in 2006 and 2008. Many repubs were smart enough to distance themselves from Bush, and the grass roots in the Tea Party explicitely renounced Bush, and proceeded to reform the repub party from within. Thanks to the Tea Party reforms, the repubs are much more ready now to be a credible alternative. The dems cannot credibly cry “they only want to return to Bush” because most repubs have been smart enough to renounce Bush.
Thanks to Obama/Pelosi/Reid, the dems will suffer their 2nd epic defeat in 2012, just like the repubs suffered succesive defeats in 2006 and 2008. If the dems were smart, they would realize this, give up on Obama, and make plans for post defeat reform, just like the repubs did in 2008. Over the long run it would help them, because eventually the repubs will overeach, and if reformed, the dems will be ready for a comeback. Instead the dems are blindly following Obama/Pelosi/Reid off the cliff. And even if Obama somehow wins, do they seriously beleive he will dramatically improve in a 2nd term? In history, most 2nd terms are worse, not better. Did Bushes 2nd term victory help the repub party (obviously not). What will the dem brand look like after 4 more yrs of Obama/Reid/Pelosi blunders and corruption. When faced with lung cancer, you stop doing whatever gave you the cancer (like smoking, or in the dems case listening to obama/Pelosi/Reid), and you cut out the cancer to make sure what is left of you is all healthy. A few dems, like Manchin and Clinton, seem to realize this, but most do not.
You know about the geeky kid who grabs a handful of condoms at the school nurse’s office on Friday afternoon? It’s called “Spes Experientiam Vincit”, or the triumph of hope over experience.
“Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.” Oscar Wilde
Well said! “Hope vanquishes experience.” Audacity? When divorced from reality audacity becomes wishful thinking, so The Audacity of Hope became the wishful thinking that hope could negate reality. Which, in the case of BO, for a small moment it could; got him elected, but without the needed reference to the real world.
Reminds of what the 18th century Prussian king Frederic II (“the Great”) supposedly told his officers before every battle: “L’audace! Messieurs, toujours l’audace!” meaning as much as “Daring! Gentlemen, always dare!” Might it become the new Republican campaign slogan: WE DARE! ?
We Dare — to prosper!
We Dare — to achieve!
We Dare — to create!
We Dare — to live!
We Dare — to be free!
We Dare — to enjoy!
We Dare — to be real!
We Dare — (pick your favorite)!
But, Dare, always dare!
To me, it has the emotional appeal of true Americanism, of our unique brand of Exceptionalism, of sheer motive power, of achievement. Of course we can; anybody can. Not rocket science, not really. But, to dare! Now that’s something else again, a dimension above!
“Liberals” are vaunted intellects and compassionates. Highly educated and intelligent who presented Obama as the perfect model of themselves with bells on. Were there none among them with the nous to investigate this paragon of their world-view? Could none of them have had inkling his stories of his provenance were ever changing. And the meaning? Before they presented him as their figurehead?
He was the prize model for the Changes engineered since the social engines were given into their hands. Consummate liar and figurehead example of them and their means to achieving their ends? Think demogogues Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton that popular and very polished Clinton with his shadow Hillary et al who lie even for politicians with no apparent self defense reasons. Not to dismiss self-congratulations inherent in his being “the first black American” elected President on the democratic-liberal platform.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio has proven beyond reasonable doubt that Obama is flaunting a computer generated forged birth certificate and a fraudulent selective service registration, two items he is using to continue his usurping of the office of the POTUS. He is NOT a ‘natural born Citizen’ and is using these fraudulent documents to continue the lie. These are CRIMINAL lies and that is where the investigation should be going. The Fast and Furious may lead to serious crimes but usurping the office of the POTUS is mortal for the country for crying out loud. How is the Conservative media and the Republican Congress missing this?
What does it take to get Americans, i.e. that part of the population that is productive, supportive, law-abiding peaceable and dare one say moral/non-criminal to open their eyes and see as clearly as you and a few others. To act on that obvious to defend and take back their nation from these vandals?
Must we lose the nation to these destroyers who have “secretly and unknown in the night” engineeered since their vaunted “revolution of the 1960s” their takeover of all civic institutions of the USA? Principly education and propaganda for their sneering Finale in the Presidency of this unknown quantity BH Obama? A nation truly “manchurianised”
Before the caterwauling at the loss. The “we didn’t know” – remember that? when the loss is set in concrete..
A hot war is not the only means to Change a viable society. Far more effective is a cold civil war because it takes the country by stealth. Effectuated by these not to put to fine a point on it traitors who call themselves liberals, democrats, and feel your pain compassionates.
Using in this Country of Law the Law for their changes to their ends. With the patience to endure until their manchuriansied youth come of age. All the time recruiting ever more troops to their Cause. Using words, slogans and pictures with their definitions repeated again and again (Orwell etal) to hypnotise – brainwash – the populaiton for their takeover.
Not a shot fired. As in the demise of the Soviet Union at the hands of truly patriotic American leaders who coninuously stood their ground on the liberties and laws of the USA they represented. Stood up to, and thereby unlocked the prison gates and “tore down that wall” that imprisoned millions in the Communist nations. Lessons learned by the progeny of that Marxist-Leninist system of social organisation.
Foregoing confrontation, using stealth, 24/7/365 bread and circuses for their goal to takeover that most productive, energetic and creative nation and people of all time.
Is what we see happening now that revenge promised by Nancy Pelosi and her liberal sorority sister Hillary Clinton at the loss of the millenium election to “that vast right-wing conspiracy”?
Have we forgotten, did we know, that Millenium is a symbolic date in the West for monumental CHANGE. And that “vast right-wing conspiracy” – odd words to describe free choices of a free people – lost these feel your pain compassionate liberals/democrats not only the election but the historical date. And that the motto for Obama is in effect a belated possession of that date for momentous Change.
Oh “vast right-wing conspiracy” where are you now that America needs you?
This Youtube video from the 2008 election year — is called
“Dear Mr. Obama, Who Are You?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMFXSy3FCoA
and is excellent in expressing the various and opposing views the O expressed … and just asks to know what he stands for … with its
“Who Are You?”
Now we know that the answer was simply — a liar.
Never mind the stuff about McCain at the end — the video is a good summation of the confusion that was created … or rather — the wool that was pulled over so many eyes.
Mr. Simon, your logic is impecable and your conclusion is logical. What is lacking, however, is a proper syllogistic form. Being a lover of things Roman and things philosophical, I will attempt just such a formality.
Doctrina de moribus: falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus.
Factum est: Obama falsus in omnibus.
Ergo: Consecutio pretium habet: Obama, falsus in omnibus, homo mendax est. QED!
I beg Cicero’s forgiveness if my Latin has shied away from rehetorical (or, oh woe, even grammatical) “perfectio”.
Wouldn’t it have been much easier to simply post “unlike most of you, I speak Latin”?
good one
The Latin may be impeccable but the English certainly isn’t.
You guys leave Prof alone — he’s having fun
Nor the orthographical!
What is most interesting to me is that Maraniss’ book ends just as even bigger and, more damaging lies begin; such as his entry into college as ‘foreign student’ taking advantage getting into college on bad grades, but affirmative actions make possible and, his special student loans and grant to foreigners.
Is it coincidence? Not sure, although it wouldn’t surprise me were Maraniss aware to even bigger whoppers, scams and lies were ahead to cover if he continued.
He says he would write another book, wonder whether it will be ‘honest’ in a sense, knowing how his current book has been used to proff lies obama told.
The question is, and has been from the beginning the same. That question often in the business of other, more important? interests, overlooked. Dismissed as irrelevant or product of some disgruntled malcontents read lunatics. Not worth consideration on any reasonable level by any reasonable persons. AND YET there are documents in the public domain absent those SEALED under Executve Order by Obama on taking the chair of the Chief Officer of the USA. Documents that suggest the autobiographical details by and for Obama are not the most significant of his and his enablers let’s call them, in the service of tact, untruths.
That question is of course WHO is Obama, What is he, that all his swains coommend him?
As President of the USA Obama has the powers to CHANGE the entire world. Is it not worrisome that he ia an unknown quantity and that his provenance is equally under wraps?
I don’t know, but Barky isn’t just a liar, he’s a pathological liar.
Of course, we knew when he said “profit AND earnings ratios” that it didn’t matter if he lied or not, since he was obviously a brain-dead idiot with the mathematical sophistication of a slow 8th grader – obviously not someone even close to smart enough to be given any power, at all.
I’d still love to see his SAT scores released, which are so unbelievably awful that I’m sure they would shut everyone up and have the Dog-Eater relegated to the inside of a closet by his own rabid, America-hating supporters.
This melodious slander against our Dear Leader is totally unacceptable. In addition to being the world’s greatest golfer, and having to overcome on a daily basis all the media’s withering barrage of tough questioning into his every move made in the past, present or in the future, our brilliant Dear Leader now has a halo over his head. I know he does because I saw it on the cover of Newsweek magazine and Newsweek magazine would never lie. Additionally our Dear Leader was education at the very finest universities where he excelled in reeling and writhing, of course, to begin with and then all the different branches of arithmetic: ambition, distraction, falsification and derision with additional courses in Karl Marx and Napoleon Bonaparte, with history washing for extra credit. Always trust Dear Leader Emperor Barack Hussein Louie Hugo Benito Isuzu Obama in everything he says and does even if the connection between what he says and does is not apparent to your lowly mind. He wouldn’t be doing what he is doing to whom he is doing it if he didn’t know where he was at when he was doing it or he wouldn’t be where he was at if he didn’t know what he was doing and to whom he was doing it to.
“We are the one we’ve been waning for.” — Quotes in dog-eating history.
“…where he excelled in reeling and writhing…”
You forgot “roiling in coils.” (It’s an obscure Heinlein reference; deal with it)
No, it’s a not very obscure Lewis Carroll reference (to the Mock-Turtle’s Academy, in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland) that Heinlein made.
What are they teaching kids these days?
I’m guessing that a combination of influential friends, affirmative action and reasonably good SAT’s–maybe in the 1200 to 1300 range–are what got him into those elite schools with such an uninspired HS record. He’s not stupid; just smart enough to get into not-very-selective state university if he were white.
and reasonably good SAT’s–maybe in the 1200 to 1300 range–
Yeah … maybe in two tries added together. The guy didn’t break 420 on the math section of his SAT, no doubt.
He’s not stupid;
He’s an idiot. A stone cold moron. He did manage to finally solve the Gordian umbrella/gate dilemma … sort of.
LOL. I wouldn’t let Barky teach a class of 7th graders. He’s that stupid.
It was plainly obvious even before his election that big O is a liar. However the moronic majority in this country wouldn’t see his charade or decided to give him a pass lest they would be accused of racism!! This is what happens when we don’t call spade a spade!! Even now the polls show that a large majority “likes” him whatever that means!!
Polls can lie too.
Ummm… probably shouldn’t use the word ‘spade’…
Well, leftists lie, to paraphrase Rush Limbaugh, who prefers the word “liberal”. Truth doesn’t color very much of the leftist mindscape.
To those among us who cherish truth, the Constitution is a beautiful thing. It serves as a touchstone for distinguishing good politicians from bad. That is how we know that Obama and Pelosi are bad politician. They swear to uphold the Constitution and do everything they can to subvert and nullify it. Obama and Pelosi are done, stick a fork in them.
As Dennis Prager frequently points out, honesty in the public sphere just isn’t very high on the Left’s priority list of important positive values. Who needs public “truth” when you have public :compassion”, for example? We need to do what we can to keep this attitude from spreading. It always leads to big trouble eventually.
I also think the Left was highly invested in Rigoberta Menchu’s false memoir, which got a Nobel Prize. They defended it with arguments along the line of “fake but accurate” after the truth came out, too. Sort of set the standard for honest memoirs from their point of view. “Fake but who cares if it makes us feel good” is more dangerous in public policy issues than in a “memoir”, though.
Oh, like Dan Rather’s concocted Bush’s National Guard records: False but accurate.
Remember, for the Left(ex. news media) there is no “objective truth”. What is “true” (or “right”, or “good”) is what enables them to seize and maintain power.
Richard, you nailed it. For the Left there is no objective truth. Only the dialog that achieves an desired outcome.
I think this also relates to my perception that the Left (despite being Socialist) are far more into the cult of personality and hero worship, where character flaws mean little as long as the individual preaches from the pulpit of Liberalism.
I’ve also put out before that as Liberals kill off true Christianity, lying becomes more acceptable. Without having to answer to a higher power for your false witness, the only deterent to lying is getting caught. And for adepts, telling more lies to get out of exposed lies seems to be no problem at all. Honesty is a noble grace. From an purely existential viewpoint, lying is an asset, the liar able to get the most in the short term.
Ultimately, society benefits from trust and obligation, which is why most belief systems eventually put a premium on honesty. But as we watch the progressives deconstruct enlightened civilization in pursuit of immediate gratification and beastly instinct, we see the value of objective honesty diminished.
MSM = Ministry of Socialist Mindwashing
“Ignorance is Strength; Freedom is Slavery; War is Peace” —George Orwell
Somewhere, probably quite warm, Saul Alinsky smiles.
Yes, a liar…and a criminal…and a marxist-flavored fascist wannabe…and a coward, etc. etc. Yes, this is not news. At least not to anyone who was awake and paying attention in the 2008 election cycle or since. Been there, said that.
4. carla
Liar, liar, pants on fire. Archaic pre-postmodern concept. Serial lying, Clintons’ gift to the presidency, raised to spectacular new heights. It’s OK for a Democrat pol to lie, but woe betide an errant Republican. It’s ‘cool’ (no racial slur intended) for a Democrat pol to engage in sleazy sexual activity (forget Clinton, JFK was our first scumbag president), but woe betide a Republican pol who dallies. The NY Times doesn’t seem to have much to say about this. I’m not knocking the Gray Lady (she’s post postmenopausal). The NY Times does have its usages; cleaning up after you pet and wrapping dead fish.
My understanding is that Cleveland, Harding, and FDR and Eisenhower also had affairs, though I wouldn’t suggest they met the definition of scumbag. Jackson was, for a while, married to a woman who was married to another man, a regrettable occurence perhaps mitigated by the paucity of documentation at that time endemic. Charges that Jefferson fathered illegitimate children by his slaves are uknowable, since the DNA tests performed to date would be unable to distinguish between him and other Jefferson family members of the male line. One Randolph Jefferson in particular was known to frequent the slave cabins.
I’m not sure if any of those occurred (in the case of FDR I think it’s questionable if the “affair” was physical) although I don’t know anything about Cleveland. At any rate, JFK and Clinton did a bit more than just an affair, although I’m not aware that JFK raped anyone.
Besides, leaving affairs aside, Clinton had a hundred Watergates within about one month of his presidency (filegate and the firing of the prosecutors, the latter obstruction of justice, given that he was being investigated or close to it). It is hard to beat that.
Oprah has this white guy on her show. She raves about his story of discovery and redemption. She touts his book, and in no small measure from her help and her exposure, the guy makes millions. But Oprah soon finds out that this “biography” of self discovery is actually a giant fake, a work of fiction full of composite characters who never existed and incidents which never took place. The book is revealed to mainly be a vehicle to make the guy look good, as if he went on a journey of self discovery, overcame hardships, and became a better, more dimensional man. The media digs into the story, discovers the story is a brazen fraud. Oprah goes ballistic. Oprah is outraged. The media goes ballistic. The media is outraged. Oprah has the guy back on the show. Oprah rips him a new one. Oprah exposes the guy as a complete fraud. The guy is destroyed. Nobody hears from him again.
Skip forward a couple years.
Oprah has this black guy on her show…
We can only dream . . . . . Great catch, Morton.
That’s the most bizarre post I’ve ever read. True, but bizarre. (Then Oprah had this Asian guy? What)
Your reaction shows why it is often said that the truth is stranger than fiction. That event actually happened on her show. The white author’s name is James Fey and the book’s title is A Million Little Pieces.
I feel a song coming on!
“How many lies does a man have to tell before we can call him a liar?”
And how many times can he sit on the hearth before his pants catch on fire?
And will some square white guy from LDS try lifting us out of the mire?
The answer, my friends, is coming in the fall,
The answer is coming in the fall!
Apologies to all.
Your lyrics sounded pretty good, sung out
Dylan might approve.
By now, everyone has seen the 2007 ? tape of Obama criticizing GWB for using executive privilege, alluding that Bush was using assertion of privilege to hide something. Videos of an earlier Barack keep coming up to bite him, as he pompously declaimed against things he went on to do himself as president, like using the reconciliation process to pass Obamacare.
Take off on an ad
That ad is hilarious!
Thak you for doing successfully what I could not manage to do! I was humming, but wasn’t getting it to go together! Well done…
It has become all too clear that the Obamunists have gone “all in” on deceit and slander as a political tactic. Clarity of this sort can sting badly, especially if we’ve allowed ourselves to believe what we wanted to believe, rather than what the evidence indicated. Come November, we shall see just how angry the American electorate is about having been systematically deceived by its supposed government.
“Suppose this man wins and we once again have a documented liar in the presidency, worse yet a man who lied repeatedly before the election and supported his attorney general, the leader of our justice system of all things, who is also a documented liar?”
If Obama gets a second term (and I pray God that he does NOT), he will most certainly go the way of Richard Nixon. Fast and Furious is not going away anytime soon. If Obama gets a second term, you can bet Congress will pursue this in court. If the Republicans take over the Senate and keep control of the House, you could also have the very real possibility of Obama and Holder both being impeached. Now THAT would be one for the history books.
Executive Privilege didn’t help Nixon and it won’t help Obama in this case. It also just shows that, like the famous Nixon tapes, we now have a big fat target of information that could implicate the president in an actual crime, such as obstruction of justice or purjury (via Holder) to Congress. This will dog Obama until he is either impeached (like Clinton) or forced to resign (like Nixon), and I don’t think the country at this stage of the game could endure either given the heavy partisan divide in America right now.
The big question is, will Congress pursue this if Obama loses in November? Will a president Romney allow a former president and attorney general to be prosecuted for crimes they committed while in office? That’s a tough question to answer. Gerald Ford pardoned Nixon, but Ford was a Republican. Would a “president George McGovern” have pardoned Nixon if Nixon lost in 1972? We could still be facing a big crisis here even if Obama loses, and I don’t really know the answer to it.
I have the same questions you do and also no good answers. The best scenario would be for Romney to win and have his new attorney general to do a very public release of all the documents relating to Fast and Furious. Then the public would know why this cover up is happening. Will this happen???
Paper shredders tell no tales.
WOULD Obama go the way of Nixon? I’m not so sure. For that to happen, either Republicans would need sixty-seven votes in the Senate or Democrats would have to let Obama know they will not support him. Nixon held on until GOP senators told him they wouldn’t support him any longer. I don’t see Republicans getting two-thirds majorities or a sufficient number of Democrats distancing themselves from Obama in a second term. They’re more likely to play the race card, and with gusto. Better to defeat him in November and be done with it. Let him have his pension and his library and be done with him.
If American officials at any level of government knowingly placed weapons into the hands of known, violent criminals that were subsequently used in the murder of scores, perhaps hundreds, of people those officials MUST be indicted and prosecuted as accomplices in those murders. This is not a matter of politics but of simple decency and the rule of law. If officials in our government are allowed to facilitate murder what may they not do?
drone strikes?
You have asked all the proper questions.
Let’s assume the best short-term scenario, and Obama loses in Nov. During his lame duck period Holder et al (anyone who might incriminate BO via plea-bargain) are pardoned. Dear Leader walks, but at least he walks away.
Richard Nixon was hated and despised by the MSM, which was the only media existing. More importantly, the Left was absolutely ballistic about Viet Nam; Watergate was just a surrogate.
Clinton did a hundred times worse within about of month of being elected; he beat the rap almost entirely.
Literature? LITERATURE?
The only things which we absolutely, beyond the slightest doubt, know to be written by Obama might have been written by a retarded fifth grader. Horrible syntax, rotten punctuation, partial phrases…in a word: utter nonsense and garbage. There are few commenters on PJM who write at that low a level, and they’re usually lib trolls.
The biggest lie is that he had anything at all to do with that stupid book.
Did noone detect, perhaps, the merest scintilla of hubris when one writes a memoir (for chrissake!), before they’ve done any single thing of note? Who did he imagine would even care to read it? And who was stupid enough to pay him IN ADVANCE?
I think Joe Wilson has been sufficiently exonerated, by now.
“…written before Obama supposedly had presidential ambitions…”
Unless, of course, he’s a puppet, in which case the books and even the speeches were all just pre-prepared props. Don’t count that out, Roger.
Roger, What you call lying Obama call ” mama loshen “….
” Not only does the Arabic language reflect the variations discussed in the cultural divide, but several socio-historical forces have further influenced the role of Arabic for the Arabs. These include Arabic’s role as an art form, as religious phenomenon, and as tool of Arab nationalism. These forces appear to have shaped the role of the Arabic language in an entirely different fashion. Rather than viewing language as a means for transferring information with a stress on factual accuracy, language appears to be a social conduit in which emotional resonance is stressed.”
http://nw08.american.edu/~zaharna/arab-comm.htm
I say Obama is finally earning his “Peace Prize” because he’s about to “fundamentally transform the nation”. He’s the poster child, and I do mean child, for limited government. He’s a liar, Congress is full of liars, the Justice Department is one big lie, the media lies 24/7 but none of that is new, it’s the nature of man. Government is inherently corrupt. The lying bureaucrats, who are our employees, treat us with contempt and ride roughshod over our liberties. The thieving bureaucrats, who are spending our money, constantly call us greedy for not wanting to give more of our money to their cronies.
Obama is the anti-George Washington, you could say the difference is black and white. George Washington could be trusted with the power he had, Obama can’t be trusted at all. But, more than that, Obama is typical of today’s politician. He’s no different than 90% of the clowns in DC who call themselves “Honorable” because they have no honor. It’s the old “power corrupts” story and the only way to limit the corruption is by limiting the power. The Founders understood the problem and after more than 225 years we know less than they did. The Founders understood that men are imperfect beings and designed a system to force decision making to the lowest possible level with the greatest possible transparency. And the politicians have been working steadily since to concentrate power at the highest level and obscure all details.
It’s really a great campaign issue for Romney – if he has the guts to take-up the challenge. C’mon Mitt, the TEA’s about to boil…
George Constanza said on TV, “It’s not a lie if you believe it yourself.”. But, in the world of Brian Williams, perhaps the only sign of a working intellect in an otherwise desert-of-the-mind, they spew the nonsense because they have CHOSEN to believe it.
Who can imagine the motivation for doing so?
For wanting to appear “cool” has been tested.
For trying to show “outside-the-box” thinking, which of course simply shows them in a different, more constrictive box.
For the purpose of simply “sicking it to” the conservatives. In other words, spite, which I think is most often the case. (As we say in The South, “being contrary”)
Or, a festooned cornucopia of other “reasons”, not one of which makes any sense because when held to the light of logic and reasoned argument, they fall apart. The natural response to that? Say it LOUDER!
The people on the left, who are usually one giant walking nerve-ending, seem to also have a problem with being very callous to others. Usually it’s others with whom the disagree. When the discussion starts, they become intolerant. So much so, they get rude and often violent.
Such is the manner of children. Growing older doesn’t mean growing up. Williams, Curic, Maher (especially Maher), Letterman, all suffer from the delusion that because they paid, they are also somehow smart. They are, in reality, spoiled children who cannot function without the everyday help they get from staff and aides.
Have you never fantasized about having Letterman in a survival situation. Not the “reality” TV B.S. but a real, no-kidding scenario where his plane crashed and he could either make like Tom Hanks in “Castaway” or become fish-food himself. My money’s on fish-food.
When you take notion to heart, their glaring inabilities become more apparent. Obvious to me always because I seem to see through people’s veneer with some sort of regularity. My friends are unpretentious, “what-you-see-is-what-you-get” types. We’re happy with budget beer or Dom Perignon but we don’t need either to have a good time. I own a double-breasted suit and I’m told I look good in it but it doesn’t change who I am.
When I think about Obama, and I try very hard not to, I see a smart-ass teenager who is angry, spoiled, petulant, ill-suited for life and arrogant.
And a consummate liar.
More Americans are looking through the same pair of glasses that we have been since 2007! History is not going to be kind to Mr. Obama. That is going to be very difficult for him to live with!
I am not a muslim
Ive improved international relations
Ill close guantanamo
I am a strong ally of isreal
I will not employ lobbyists
All bills will be on cspan for 3 days for review
I will faithfully uphold the office defending against foreign and domestic threats
Ive stopped smoking
George bushs reckless spending is endangering our country
Van jones is not a communist
I will reach across the aisle to reunite the partys
I believe joe biden is a smart man
Hillary and i are friends
I respect bill clinton
I dont cheat in golf”………
…and the Treasury just phoned to tell me my last check’s in the mail!
Oops, was there a truth somewhere in the above?
What, just one?
Oh well, who cares?
Now I can spend more time golfing!
Where, Chicago?
No, actually I was thinking of Nairobi.
Good! See ya later!
I like your ending, but whether the O wins or not, there is still a sizable chunk of US citizens who think he is the best thing since sliced bread. Yes, it’s June, but this should not even be a contest now…we should be looking at an 80/20 split for Romney ….that it is says a lot about..what?… the depravity of man?
As to the Holder lies, the gun running operations of the Bush Administration were significantly different from those of the Obama Administration. One major difference between the two is that under Bush’s Operation Wide Receiver the Mexican government was working with the US Government; thus the sovereignty of Mexico was respected. It was recently confirmed by the Obama DoJ that President Bush’s AG, Michael Mukasey, did not know about Operation Wide Receiver. That, to me, opens up a few questions. At what level in the DoJ and other government departments do lower level officials in any administration have the power to skirt laws and as in Fast and Furious (F&F) and other Obama Administration gunrunning operations permit the violation of the sovereignty of other nations? That alone causes me serious concerns about the distribution of power in our ever growing government.
While Operation Wide Receiver had the cooperation of the Mexican Government, at a minimum the FBI had to be involved to allow the background checks for the weapon’s purchasers to be bypassed. In Fast and Furious both US laws and Mexico’s sovereignty were violated. These violations were performed with the knowledge and cooperation of the FBI, DHS, State Department and even the IRS. If I am to believe AG Holder, he and his deputies were not in the approval loop for F&F. If that is true, we have a government that has renegade elements that can violate our laws and other nations sovereignty with impunity. That is very dangerous and I can envision scenarios where some lower level official’s actions could provoke a war.
While the Congressional investigation has centered on the AZ F&F operation there were others by the Obama Administration that have had little public scrutiny. Additionally beyond the questions of who authorized F&F and why, Congress needs to determine at what level can officials authorize such operations and the process. We must not sweep these questions under the carpet.
To even hint that Obama is a liar is Racist. His skin color indemnifies him against any such possibility. Do you understand what it is like to live in America now, comrade?
My dear Roger, our elected leader is a red robed general, but as I ponder his tactics, he appears less the liar than the prevaricator.
His “crooked walk” marching us toward the small c communism that awaits us when he is finished with his overthrow, is less a lie than it is a trap.
We are suffering in the midst of a government by ambush. Obama is a Fabian by nature…less Socialist than communist, (I’m willing to bend to Ayers’ conceit that it is of the small c variety, not brutish…but bookish in strategy and tactic).
Obama doesn’t care what you believe, as long as you don’t see how you are being outflanked. In Hannibal vs Rome, the Roman Republicans kept amassing a brutish and clumsy forward motion of a mass army. They kept getting outflanked and slaughtered.
Catching this administration in propaganda and lies (and watching their sniveling toadies in the mass media advance the fraud and distortion) is a parlor game for them. They want to see how far they can push the ridiculous, trapping the unwary time after time after time….keeping themselves amused while an obvious fraud is “exposed”…with great triumph for having “caught them in a lie”…while they march around the flanks of our Constitution, our rules and regulations, our mass communications, the gutting of our military, the dismantling of our economy, the seizure of our industries, the occupation of our Department of Justice, the betrayal of our military and intelligence secrets, the capture of our Supreme Court, the gang rape of our liberties and the shackling of our freedoms.
Our ability to confront the invasion and overthrow of this land of ours is hampered by our own hand. We keep falling for the ambush. Jay Carney can spout the most ridiculous of claims, Nancy Pelosi can appear to be in need of medication for her delusions, Harry Reid can shirk every single mandated responsibility…and our side’s message is still weak, strangled, mangled and limp.
The mass media is a conspirator in the overthrow. It IS an overthrow. The DOJ has been completely radicalized. EVERY SINGLE ONE.
The military is about to be gutted. Our money is being stolen and redistributed by fraud….and abuse of power.
Kill lists and death panels are now in place. Bill Ayers and his troops have seized our educational systems….and they are indoctrination farms.
Our most precious information has been given to the traitors and announced to our enemies in open publication.
And…we have been cowered into silence for fear of being ridiculed, for our “wrong type of patriotism”.
No, Roger…the red robed general is not merely a liar, he is a prevaricator. We’ve been set up. And we keep playing his parlor games, while they laugh at us behind closed doors. The overthrow is nearly complete. They have tanked the world economy. The banks have been downgraded. The free market is nearly collapsed. I’m no longer afraid of the lies that the small c communists tell, Roger.
I’m afraid of the lies we will have to tell our children and ourselves. That we didn’t allow this all to happen without a fight to save this land of ours from the overthrow. THAT would be the biggest lie of all.
We’ve been set up. And we keep playing his parlor games, while they laugh at us behind closed doors.
Frustrating that every new outrage immediately gets a ton of ink thrown at it. In the most recent one, scholarly discourses on exactly what executive privilege may, and may not, entail.
The fact that the president provided none of the official rationales for his assertion of EP should have nullified the claim right out of the box.
But it didn’t. We can wrangle for years, or at least months, over this newest diversion.
Similarly, Islamists gloat as we treat ther self-righteous huffing and puffing with scholarly analysis, emphasis on the anal.
Meanwhile, the dismantling continues apace.
I agree 100% with your post. They have us and they know it. We play by the rules (the law) and they aren’t hampered with with a conscience at all – anything goes. They don’t even care if they eventually go to jail – exactly how many years can we realistically put them away for anyway? And they still don’t care – as long as the damage is done they are content.
WHERE are Congress and Senate in this. IT IS THEIR JOB to stop these abuses of power by Obama.
Where the Americans at the doors of the Congressmen and Senators, or inundating them with letters, NOT e-mails demanding they do their job of guarding the Republic? Except for polite, peaceful, law-abiding Tea Parties and people who comment on “right-wing blogs. .
Are we to suppose the outrage at Obama’s abuse of power and quasi dictatorship is limited to only a small segment of the population. That “vast right wing conspiracy” that doesn’t have a loud enough voice to be heard.
Correct.
The subversives have used the fact that America had no previous contact with the virus of internal subversion. We had no defenses.
Even today, everybody keeps talking as if we were discussing politics.
The subversives do not move on the political level, they move on the field of war against the system. To disarticulate it.
Brilliant summary, not to mention the comments to your post cfb.
Where’s Oprah when you need her? Didn’t she publicly bust a memoirist for lying? Maybe she’ll bust the Prevaricator in Chief on her show, especially now that Michelle has cast her into the outer darkness.
Right.
What a mess! Our president and his administration, as well as his lovely wife, are liars. The mainstream media knows this and they respond by lying about the liars. Liberals constantly lie to themselves and therefore they turn to the lying MSM so that they can feel comfortable with the Big Lie that forms the foundation their political philosophy as they vote for, and adore, the most successful of liars. One day this circle-jerk of lies will come crashing down upon us all. Point this out to a liberal and be prepared to be dismissed as a liar.
I like the idea of a Romney administration releasing all the documents that the Obama administration currently seeks to hide in the Fast and Furious matter. No doubt, it would further prove the president’s affinity towards lying. However, the mainstream media would likely ignore the document trove as old news. Thus, the media would remain complicit in keeping Obama’s supposed halo in place.
How many murders can a man commit before he is considered a murderer? How many lies makes one a serial liar as opposed to say murders making one a serial murderer? Ethics are hard… unless you do not any any.
Quiet, quiet everyone. I am looking, looking into my crystal ball. And I see the Future. It is telling me that as soon as Obama is out of office, there will be a rush by the media that protected him to …….. What?? Finally write the truth and get those Pulitzers Prizes!! As they say, Love is one thing, Money is another.
What? Who said that? Stand up right now! No, not you! Sit down and shut up! Where are my Greek columns? Somebody find my teleprompters!. I have something really historical and important to say. Michelle, get me a hot dog with chili and cheese and a large coke. I gotta put these pee-ons back in line. The nerve of some people! This is not about me…. I’m Barak Obama!
Leftism is a giant con game perpetrated on the docile and gullible among us, and like all con games is based on lies. 53% of the country were the marks in the last election, this time not so much.
The perfect storm. Mis/mal educate generations, carefully cultivate the ground, and voilà.
We were better at identifying snake oil salesmen in 1948
What is the Difference Between a Sociopath, a Compulsive, a Pathological, a Chronic, and a Habitual Liar?
A sociopath is typically defined as someone who lies incessantly to get their way and does so with little concern for others. A sociopath is often goal-oriented (i.e., lying is focused – it is done to get one’s way). Sociopaths have little regard or respect for the rights and feelings of others. Sociopaths are often charming and charismatic, but they use their talented social skills in manipulative and self-centered ways..
Barack Obama, win or lose, is forever tainted. And so is America if he remains our leader.
Not that simple. We’re already tainted in the eyes of the rest of the world, damned by association — including those of us who rejected Obama way before 2008 — and the stain won’t wash off easily.
To be credible, the housecleaning ahead has to be loud, thorough, convincing and merciless. It will certainly extend to ‘comfortable’ Republicans and many illuminati among the MSM. There’s lots of room for public humiliation. Maybe this the best way, even the only way, to avoid civil war.
All we ever heard from the left during GWB’s Presidency was “Bush lied, people died.” (even though it was not lying to depend on flawed intelligence). Apparently this is revenge from the left – that’s all I can figure – for they most assuredly know that this charlatan’s schtick has an expiration date. He’s at 43% in Gallup – and as details emerge through the fog that is mass media – the numbers will drop even further. And he doesn’t have a prayer, for the only prayers that are answered are the honest ones…
However the beauty of it is that he’s probably lost track of the truth, wouldn’t know it if it fell on him, and will be well and truly surprised at the magnitude of his loss in November. Count on it.
What I am finding interesting is that the delegates from several states are planning on skipping the democrat convention and are refusing to nominate obama as the democrat nominee.
When Leaders Lie
There’s another word for that: always. Political science discovered long ago that the masses have to be deceived in order to be kept in line. It’s a fact that lying has always been an indispensable part of competent leadership: a talented manager who is generally honest with his subordinates is a rare bird indeed. It’s only when the lying becomes too obvious, when a critical mass of the population is no longer fooled, that a leader or a regime begins to lose legitimacy. Abraham Lincoln, who comprehended this truth, was himself a master liar, and therefore a great leader. Where does this put Obama? Perhaps it’s too early to tell.
It’s one thing to lie to prevent mass hysteria or mob panic, but another to constantly make up stuff to inflate one’s ego (ie., Obama’s autobiography) or deflect blame (ie., it’s-the-ATM’s-fault-Obama) create confusion (ie., Obama reacting stupidly) or for covering up corruption (ie., see Obama’s executive order on Holder). The jury isn’t out on how Obama will fare – it’s in – and the verdict isn’t pretty. The verdict on self-serving lies and the lying liars that tell them usually isn’t.
In the wake of the 6 hours of oral argument on “healthcare” before the SCOTUS and the gov’t. lawyer’s (Verrilli) pathetic defense, Obama gave at least a couple of stabs at intimidating the court.
Then, in his extreme arrogance, he proceeded to imply that the SCOTUS has less legitimacy than he does as they are “unelected”.
These behaviors are as disgusting as when Obama criticized the Citizens United decision in his 2011 SOTU.
And still this individual is protected by the media and its fellow travelers.
When the healthcare decision comes out next week and the court throws out the mandate (at least), the spin & lies machine will arc into hyperspace.
I think there are two levels of authority in the Obama administration. There is Obama as Himself, and there is what I refer to as The BackRoom Gang – people like Holder, Jarrett, his wife, and all the other cronies in that ‘set’.
Obama as Himself is not so much a liar, for that requires acknowledging that there IS an objective factual reality to use as a basic reference – as he is someone who is totally, utterly alienated from any contact with the real world. With real facts, real events, with the objective reality of others that ‘press upon his consciousness’. Obama has no reference points other than his own words and imagination.
Obama lives entirely in a virtual world of his own imagination and control. He authors this world – just as he sits over the Kill List, as if it were a video game rather than made up of real people, and, as The Ultimate Controller, unilaterally selects those who will live or die. Just because it is His Will.
I cannot emphasize enough how alienated Obama is from reality. He has no objective reference points. He’s psychologically unable to interact with real events and people because he has to feel utterly in control. You can’t feel in total control if the external world is real and impacts upon you. So, Obama, probably as a young child, retreated into a Virtual World where what he says and imagines – and thus controls – is the only reality.
Therefore, for Obama, there is no such thing as truth or falsehood. Because there is nothing outside of what he himself says and imagines. Nothing. If the external world tries to intrude, and Obama feels he can’t control this external world – then, for him, it simply ceases to exist. The Iranian demonstrators for freedom had no existence for Obama because he couldn’t control them.
So, Obama will say one thing one hour and the very next hour, affirm its total contradiction. That’s perfectly OK for Obama, for the agenda of his words is to control you. Not to make reference to some objective reality. He’ll say whatever ‘affects’ you to put you in his control. Calling him a pathological liar is accurate but doesn’t reveal how alienated Obama is from any connection to reality.
Now, the BackRoom Gang live very much in reality. Their agenda is not so much to control you but to restructure the US into a socialist state. They have no principles, no ethics, no inhibitions about this agenda. They will not tell you, the public, this, as you are as in all socialist regimes, ignorant and requiring to be governed and ruled. They will lie with purpose for their loyalty is not to the American people but to an ideology – socialism.
More than a few people have noted a certain style that, one on one, Obama can be very convincing as a guy who perfectly understands and is attuned to your point of view.
And then in the next moment, turn around as if you, and your view, do not exist.
Con men understand that their job is not to use facts to convince skeptics but to use words to help the gullible to believe what they want to believe.
~Thomas Sowell 2009
He certainly fits the pattern of the “manufactured” radical, one who internalizes the gestures of the oppressed in order stabilize a less-than-coherent personality.
~Sertorius, PJM, 3/15/10
Yes, I do feel that Obama is a ‘less-than-coherent’ personality.
I think he is seriously psychologically pathological. He’s a clinical narcissist, which isn’t your ordinary daily puffed up egoist, but someone who long ago retreated from the real world and isolated himself, totally and completely, in a make-believe world. A world that he authors and thus controls and thus, feels secure.
Radical socialism is a ‘natural’ home for such a damaged psychology, for it operates within a framework of authoritarian control of a Chosen Elite over the ‘ignorant peasants’. You can actually hear and see this vocabulary repeatedly in Obama’s speeches (you don’t understand my health care and that’s why you oppose it; rednecks tied to religion…).
I consider that Obama is not an intellectual socialist; he doesn’t believe in socialism for its presumed benefits to mankind. He not only has no interest in mankind (for only he, himself, exists) and he has no interest in theory (after all, theory is authored by someone else not Obama). He literally lives only within his own words. He has no interest in the outside world, which is why he rapidly walks out of meetings that deal in data and facts.
Obama is a ‘manufactured radical’, who works within socialism because it’s the only political system wherein he can exist, psychologically, for it enables him to control others. This pathological need to control – also includes a deranged need to denigrate (he insults so many world leaders and the Supreme Court and FOX and..)and..to kill. That Virtual Video Game that Obama plays with his Kill List is a symptom of this derangement- he needs to destroy.
“Barack Obama almost nauseating because we now know something unequivocally:
The president is a liar.”
Um, Roger, we have known that for a long time.
Obama is an obvious bs artist only not to people who so want to believe the hogwash that comes off the teleprompter. If you’ve ever been scammed and then realized it later, you know what I mean.
“Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,—
Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, ” James Russell Lowell, 1844.
Children lie to make better a fanciful world and omit errors. Adults have to deal with grim realities. The media wanted a media president and will perpetuate the Obama-Syndrome of blaming the strawman. The syndrome sells because we all do it. The problem with the inner-child is that it may become the inner anarchist.
I’ve always thought that it’s not quite correct to call Obama a liar. A liar, I think, is someone who knows that what he’s saying isn’t true. Clinton was a liar. He knew he had sexual relations with that woman Ms. Lewinsky, but he still denied it. Obama is a fantasist. He thinks that the mere fact that he is saying something automatically makes it true. In his mind he is not a liar. He simply can’t distinguish between his solipsistic perception of reality and reality itself.
When you couple that with his laziness, you get the half truths found in his memoirs. If I maintain in my autobiography that I graduated from high school in 1985 contrary to the records of my high school, you might conclude that I’m lying about it. On the other hand what if I’m merely too lazy to try and recall exactly which year I graduated or spend any time looking it up? If I’m a self-deluded narcissist who thinks that he’s always right, I might just write down the first year that pops into my head. I’m not really lying in that case, I just don’t care.
Obama, Holder, is lying cultural or hereditary?
Lying, as first instinct and defense, comes naturally to individuals in way over their heads, individuals whose first instinct is to conceal their feet of clay.
Guys & gals who may have achieved position and “powah” through affirmative action frequently behave like that.
These discussions have the relevance of debating the number of angels that can dance on the head of a pin – the Left has declared war – when do we?
If your war is to be effectively fought and won, the troops must be fully on board for the mission.
These discussions provide insights, even courage.
Although he has shown signs of understanding the depth of the assault coming his way, I don’t know whether or not Mitt Romney will be tough enough in the trenches.
Marion Obama is way more than a liar.
He has delibrately created an alternate life story and a political heritage that disengages himself from any form of reality. He has plausible deniablity for anything he has ever done or said. Whatever it was, he was creating an image to save his people. He isn’t a liar, he’s a parable writer, a myth-creator, the person who teaches his people what it is to become a fully formedhuman, a god.
He has done it all for us, to deliver us from the evil foundations of this country and the even more evit capitalism.
His actions haven’t ranged from lies to massive distortions to petty crimes to complete flauting of any legal restriction whasoever. His has done what he has done only been to save us from ourselves.
History is already laughing it’s ass off at a country that was once great. The Romans had excuses. We don’t.
Show the Democrats what “voter intimidation” really means. Vote each and every Democrat out of office—starting with Obama.
“Why was he lying? Self-aggrandizement? To sell books? For political purposes? Dreams from My Father was written before Obama supposedly had presidential ambitions. Or was there a hint, dare I say it, of pathology?”
Why write (or have Bill Ayers ghostwrite) Dreams from My Father in the first place? Why focus your first book on a man who abandoned you at a young age — moved to another hemisphere and only came into contact with you once again in his life? I can get being feeling abandoned by such a dad, and having lingering anger and resentment, but to construct your whole narrative on someone who basically fled you, that I can’t understand.
Oprah has this guy on her show. She raves about his story of discovery and redemption. She touts his book, and in no small measure from her help and her exposure, the guy makes millions. But Oprah soon finds out that this “biography” of self discovery is actually a giant fake, a work of fiction full of composite characters who never existed and incidents which never took place. The book is revealed to mainly be a vehicle to make the guy look good, as if he went on a journey of self discovery, overcame hardships, and became a better, more dimensional man. The media digs into the story, discovers the story is a brazen fraud. Oprah goes ballistic. Oprah is outraged. The media goes ballistic. The media is outraged. Oprah has the guy back on the show. Oprah rips him a new one. Oprah exposes the guy as a complete fraud. The guy is destroyed. Nobody hears from him again.
Skip forward a couple years.
Oprah has this guy on her show…
A not so random thought. It is August, hot and humid in Chicago with their world shattered and the Clinton’s bearing enormous (behind the scenes) pressure.
As a man who also has not issued/disclosed ANY medical records, a major press event is announced, Obama has an undisclosed “heart ailment” that prevents his running/holding the office and is therefore dropping from the race. By acclaim the following week, Gov. Ed Rendell is the “new” nominee. Careful, this could happen!
The President of the United States lied..??
Shocked, shocked i tell you.
Either everyone posting here is a hypocrite, or delusional.
Nixon and Kissinger set up hundreds of thousands to die in Indonesia and east timor to support the Suharto regime, thousands in Central America and Asia.
Clinton watched a Million Rwandans hack at each other with machete’s and axes contemplating meaning of genocide and lying about the situation until it was forced on them. The repeal of Glass Stegel in his admin brought about collapse of banking system, which he still lies about.
Reagan Lied, Both Bush’s lied, Kennedy, Johnson, Ford, Carter, all presidents lie. We vote for them to Lie to us and make hard decisions we don’t want to know about.
The problem is If we voted for them we don’t remember the lies or we excuse them. If we didn’t vote for them we are shocked, Shocked at the demise of the presidency.
We get the government we deserve, because we don’t want to know the truth.
Yes the President is a liar and has been since long before we knew him. You’re right about the damage done, it will take a long time to undo. Truth will have to become much more important to the American people than it is right now in order to fix this mess.
Islam preaches it’s okay to lie to your enemies. America is Obama’s enemy and he has gloated and puffed himself up since day one of his presidency. Obama may not have been born a liar but he was raised as one, being fed the doctrines of demons all his life.
America got what she deserved: a wake up call. Only by turning towards and living in he light of truth will America survive. We will have to know and receive the truth about everything. There is a hard road and an easy one. Which one will America take?
What’s with this lying stuff? What makes your truth better than my truth, Roger? And especially, what makes your truth true and The President’s truth not true? My truth is just as good as your truth and it is better truth for me because it is my truth. The President’s truth is better than your truth and even better than my truth because he is the President, and, anyway, if it is true for Him, it is true.
And if that all sounds nonsensical, you need to understand that that form of “truth” is what has been taught in the government schools for the last thirty or forty years. I can lie, I’m quite good at it actually; good enough to get paid for it. I’m especially good at while not precisely lying, not quite telling the truth either or setting others up to believe something while never quite saying what I’m trying to get them to believe. But that makes me a very old-fashioned liar and dissembler because all along the way, I know there is an underlying truth; I’m just choosing not to tell that truth.
Few modern Democrat political types can really be called liars because they simply don’t believe in truth in any objective sense; true for them is true and true for now may well be different from truth before or after. We old-fashioned sorts find them particularly frustrating, even infuriating to deal with because words like liar and hypocrite are meaningless to them when used about them because truth is their truth no matter what we might think.
Truthfully
I’ve always thought that inveterate liars and dissemblers always know on some level that they are lying sacks of you know what.
I think Eric Holder (tho’ he escaped yesterday to somewhere in Europe) is drowning.
There is a price to pay for glossing over such disassembling, some biological price at least.
Onward ! (mine’s better than Barry’s Forward !)
I think they’re thinking they can stall until after the election and in their minds after the election it won’t matter because Democrats never see a loss coming. You can be sure that they all think they’re going to be basking in the glory of having kept the WH and recaptured the Congress to put an end to all this investigative crap by the right wing cretins. Never underestimate lefties’ capacity for self-delusion. (For the record, I’m not at all certain we can beat him, nothing will dissuade his base and the mushy middle is clueless and will vote the last, best TV commericial. If it is at all close, the Ds will steal it and the Rs will blubber about it rather than call in hordes of lawyers. We’ll keep the House, maybe get the Senate back but at minimum temper it so it can be used to govern a bit more.)
I’ll never forget election night in ’02 here. We knew we were going to win and win resoundingly. We’d already been seriously working on transition stuff for weeks. I was down at “Election Central” at the ANC sports arena and as the returns began to come in, the Democrats were shocked to the point of hysteria and were blathering to reporters about fraud and how the voting machines (that the Democrats bought and were still running) were rigged and all the paranoid hysterical crap that falls out of lefties’ mouths. There are the cold, calculating operatives on their side of the ditch, but the rank and file are a bunch of children.
In business its called marketing (or messaging or as in politics talking points). There used to be a code of ethics…now its just a web course that you have to take on a check-off list.
I will tell you why he lied. He was raised as a spoiled, rich, white kid.
This was his smoke screen to establish his “blackness”, that’s where the money and power is.
I’m sure Ayers felt he was writing a novel. Obama’s lie was in claiming authorship.
I stopped watching professional basket ball because all I could see was “travelling” on nearly every trip down the court.
I stopped listening to Obama because all I could hear was carefully crafted deception in nearly every sentence.
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and righteous people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” – John Adams, Letter to his wife, Abigail
It is precisely because we have immoral, unrighteous, and indecent people that they want to do away with the Constitution, and why this Republic is suffering from the hell of their self absorption.
Obama lied in the Presidential debates – shouting “That’s not true!” when McCain correctly stated that he was one of the largest recipients of Fannie Mae PACE largesse. The press ignored that BOLD-FACED lie while concentrating on Sarah Palin trivia. Obama is more than a liar, he a con man who is finally being called out.
The lies are bad, evidence (as if any were needed) of a bad character. But what’s most interesting (to me, anyway) about his autobiography is that *those* are the things he wanted us to believe were true, and that if they were true they show him in an even worse light. To want others to see you as a callous victim of racial prejudice in a racist country, or to want others to see you as disdainful of private enterprise, would only be values to the highly twisted mind of a Progressive. I.e. to want to appeal to Progressives is, in itself, evidence of a bad character.
The Democrats re Fast and Furious – Halffast and Incurious
Most of the lies in Obama’s book, “Dreams from my Father”, in this girl’s opinion, were designed to make Obama seem cool, and tough, and popular.
But I feel a need to reveal in print a pre-election lie that Obama told to the black community, the group that supported him in the 98 percentile range.
He told them he’d help them; get them jobs, get them the money they need so they at least have the necessaries of life. The education they need. The safety they need. In other words, improve their lot in life; mainly though an infusion of dollars. In a very real sense, Blacks would finally get the reparations they waited for and deserved for more than 100 years.
This was a hurtful lie.
Blacks gave him their vote, and, like a slave master of the 1800′s, Obama not only gave blacks the back of his hand, but a virtual three and a half years of abandonment. Black unemployment under Obama has skyrocketed. Crime on blacks is rampant.
But it’s worse than the fact he lied. He just doesn’t seem to care about the black lot in life; why should he? He knows he has their votes.
Instead of caring for the blacks who supported him, he’s turned all his attention to the Hispanics, illegal aliens, undocumented workers under 30 years old, and wrapped together a package of goodies for them and their parents: For their vote.
It amounts to free money. How much is it worth to be put on the road to amnesty? $5,000? $50,0000? $500,000?
For the Hispanic vote, Obama will spend whatever it takes. (In actuality, the government calculates that it will amount to about $80,000 worth of goodies per family. Year after year, of course. Couldn’t black families use an extra eighty or so thousand a year? Year after year. Of course.
Fact is, as the undocumented immigrants are allowed to pick money from the government money tree (which was promised to black voters in the form of reparations) the blacks are left out in the cold.
The thousands and thousands that ObamaCampaigntalk said would be handed out to blacks in various forms will now to be redistributed to Hispanics. Imagine that, money Obama said was earmarked to improve the lot of African Americans Obama takes away because he wants some wants more Hispanic votes. More votes from Hispanics equals no money for African Americans. Money that was promised.
To quote Obama, “No matter what I do; no matter how many millions I take out of one pocket to get the Hispanic vote, I don’t lose.”
That’s because, as Obama says, “I know I have the black vote in my other pocket. I get it for free.
“Obama went on, Blacks are like children; whatever you tell them, they’ll do what you say: A politician’s perfect constituency.”
For African Americans and their 18% unemployment rate that going up like a rocket, it’s a bitter pill to swallow. Maybe it’s just another form of Obama’s executive privilege. The one to lie.
The irony: even when he’s talking to African Americans, his most loyal contingency, ObamaLies cannot be trusted.
If he’s re-elected, Hispanics won’t get “the money,” Blacks won’t get “the money,” white’s won’t get “the money,” retirees won’t get “the money” … because there won’t be any “money.” The country will crash economically (and in every other way) before 2016.
It’s about time someone called the Pres. What he is a dirty rotten liar!!!!!!!!!!!
I see a third book in his future. The title will be somethig like,”How racism killed my presidency”. And rather than some quote from poetry or in Latin, I think the childhood tale, The emperor isn’t wearing any clothes” sums him up.
Hello! Obama ran on a promise to make us a marxist(Anti-Christ) government! Are you telling me that our WOMEN, WHO ON AVERAGE FAR SURPASS THEIR MALE COUNTERPARTS IN VERBAL COMPREHENSION, DID NOT KNOW THAT A PROMISED “FUNDAMENTAL TRANSFORMATION OF GOVERNMENT” INTO MARXISM(ANTI-CHRIST by DEFINITION) ALSO DICTATES THAT CONSTANT “LYING” IS DEMANDED TO MAINTAIN ORDER? I MEAN, THIS IS A DREAM COME TRUE FOR ANY SOCIOPATH! NO? WATCH!
Caps lock dude, caps lock. And get back on your meds.
Also, although Obama ran with the apparent INTENT to turn this country into a Marxist utopia he surely didn’t “run on a promise to”. First of all if he’d promised that he would have lost. Secondly if he’d promised that he would have been telling the truth, thereby undermining your entire point.
And seriously, get back on your meds.
Yes, President O is a liar, and his pants are on fire.
“Or was there a hint, dare I say it, of pathology?”
You may say it but it is much more than a hint. Barack Davis is a malignant narcissist, that is, a psychopath. The defining document of modern psychopathy is Dr. Milton Cleckley’s book, “The Mask of Insanity.” Davis and Ayers have fabricated by far the most elaborate psychopathic mask in history, exceeding Hitler by orders of magnitude. Ultimately, psychopaths self-destructive practices invariably fail, and Davis’s and Ayres’s silly fabrication will also fail. We will get off relatively cheaply compared to the death and destruction generated by Hitler and that of the various Marxist psychopaths.
http://mandynamerica.com/blog/2012/02/14/whats-the-matter-with-the-democratic-party/
http://mandynamerica.com/blog/2012/03/08/karl-marx-was-a-psychopath/
Forgive me for this….you’re probably unlikely to have a copy at hand and I only remember because his name, taken together, seemed altogether odd and therefore memorable to me…but I’m betting you meant to cite Hervey (sic) Cleckley, “The Mask of Sanity,” no?
When leaders do not lie. That would be astounding. Lieing is accepted and even expected by the voters. I saw polls from more than one country when Clinton was doing cigar tricks and I was astounded at the percentages of people who were okay with it. And there was a higher moral standard in the world back than there is now.
How do you know a politician is lying?
His lips are moving.
Another spot-on commentary Mr. Simon. Lying and fantasy are the siblings of the same father, the imagination. Politics, notably the Left, and Hollywood live in worlds of their own design, as do socialists and sociopaths. Hollywood does it for profit, the Left for power, socialists because they are idealists and sociopaths because they are ill. They cannot accept the world as it is, they seek perfection, which is ironic sense most of them do not believe in a perfect God, only in a perfect man. They seek to remake the world and themselves into how they wish it was, not how it is, some of them believe the fantasy by lying to themselves and those around them. I feel this President is all the above. Numerous briefs and books will be written about him and this time in history.If Obama is The Great Gatsby of the twenty-first century , the question is who is Daisy?
RACIST!
“the 44th president is a liar.”
True. But so was the 42nd, and more people knew about it.
He got elected 2nd time anyway.
Bubba surely lowered the bar. The cynical view, promoted by the talking heads, is that “All politicians lie.” Therefore, mendacity is included in the job description. The Founding Fathers rotate on.
Overdue or not, it does indeed seem this worm is taking an unmistakable turn at long last.
Right Scoop has a link to this story today from, of all places, WaPo’s Fact Checker: “ 4 Pinnochios for Obama’s Latest Anti-Romney Ad.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/4-pinocchios-for-obamas-newest-anti-romney-ad/2012/06/20/gJQAGux6qV_blog.html
He’s been lying from the beginning. It’s just that they are now so obvious that his lies can no longer be ignored. He, himself, has made them an integral part of his personality.
During the State of the Union address in 2009 congressman Joe Wilson shouted “you lie” in response to one of the President’s more egregious statements. Now it was most rude and impolite for Joe to interrupt like that, and he received censure from congress for his outburst. But looking back I’ve got to say, “right on Mr. Wilson! You called it like you saw it, and durned if you weren’t correct.”
From this day forward anything cfbleachers writes goes double for me.
Separately, a note to Roger Simon.
Please don’t put it off any longer.
Give cf a permanent forum, and make him one of your editors. Please.
He writes rings around the best in the business. I’d vote for him for President in a New York second.
I second those recommendations (though I’d have to know just a tad more about his beliefs before endorsing him…) His writing certainly is eloquent.
Lying liars and the lies they lie. I knew Øbama was a fraud when I first heard him speak. It’s nice to see the truth FINALLY percolate to the surface about this guy. America deserves better. Romney is somewhat of a fraud no doubt but I’ll take a truth shader over a pathological liar any day.
Have a look at Australia’s prime minister Julia Gillard – “there will be no carbon TAX under a government I lead”
Guess what Australia gets in a few days time – at 23 bucks a tonne.
When leaders lie indeed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40EWX6TXgH4
cheers
Buzz
Hitler had the answer to all Germany’s problems – It was all the fault of the JEWS.
Barry Soetero Kardashian has the answer to all the USA’s problems too – Its all the fault of BUSH – its the 1% – its big business – its the Oil companies – its coal mining – its Wall Street speculators – its the financial meltdown in the EU – its the Arab Spring – its the do nothing Congress – its the GOP, how dare they oppose him
In fact its ANYTHING and EVERYTHING except HIM and his POLICIES.
This man’s whole life story is one big Document HIDING LIE then look at what he laughably called his Autobiography – full of LIES , Half Truths and INVENTIONS.
Just look at his solution to resolving the Fast and Furious disaster why HIDE some MORE Documents of course.
When will the Lame Stream EneMedia the Left Wing moonbats and the RINO’s wake up this MALIGNANT narcissist is never going to tell the truth it will have to be dragged out of him or rather it should have been exposed by an inquiring media BEFORE he was elected.
What is more worrying is that so many are still taken in by this FRAUD. Black I understand they are predominantly RACIST in nature and vote as racist do. But Whites and Hispanics should have more sense.
Its not his PIGMENTATION its his POLICIES
Its not because he is “BLACK??” ists because he is RED.
So how did America get this colossal FRAUD foisted on them. Well the ground was prepared well in advance , the collapse of the Left Wing NAZIs and the Soviet union did not see the end of malignant SOCIALISM it just went underground.
For DECADES now Academia has been infiltrated with Left Wing propagandists. They have been bending naive , gullible malleable young minds with Left Wing propaganda and lies for all that time. So now you have a populace where someone as obviously malignant as Barry Soetero can slip past a compliant and enabling Left Wing EneMedia, staffed with the self same brainwashed graduates, can be elected by a largely ignorant and stupid general populace who are led by their noses by these indoctrinated individuals.
They control the Media they control the Democrat Party they control the Unions and many positions of authority all across the country and they even control the RINO elements of the GOP. They place the Racist Blacks and Self hating Jews like a fiddle and are attempting to get the same hold on Hispanics.
I’m afraid that in many ways we are a nation of liars now with an unspoken pact: hold fast to supporting the big lie and in everything else the trush can be as you want it to be.
Holding fast to that big lie, even when its manifest untruth wreaks havoc all around you, will slowly corrupt your soul but leave you with an exhilerating emptiness and terrifying need to fill it. The truth could set you free but the mirror is cold and petrifying, reflecting what sits before it without mercy while the looking glass reflects nothing but our own most powerful illusions. No wonder so many of us have chosen how we have.
Why was he lying? Self-aggrandizement? To sell books? For political purposes?
He was trying to come to terms with having been born a Moslem. And his father, a ne’er do well scoundrel drunk who also happened to be Moslem was a big sticking point for Barack Hussein. He was trying to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.
Plus, watching him the last few years, the dude seems to just flat enjoy lying.
When I consider that Obama’s real father was Franklin Marshall Davis, the book “Dreams From My Father” and all Obama has done since, makes sense. Add Saul Alinsky to the mix, and you have a deceitful radical out to destroy the US and Capitalism.
Obama himself, in his entirety, is his biggest lie! He is a bagful of lies and that’s all he can deliver.
He clearly is a liar and a self-indulgent narcissist. He has no experience nor, in my opinion, sufficient mental horsepower. The power of the Far-left media is evident in that none of this is widely understood in the voting population. Does he, and does the media really want the collapse of capitalism? That I don’t know. I do absolutely know that the man has the entire resource base of the United States of America at his disposal (and he is disposing of them fast) and will use them in all and every way to get reelected. The advertising for his ObamaCare paid by the U. S. taxpayer is only one small item. I know, but can’t at this moment remember, many more such “theft” of taxpayer monies.
It’s chosen randomly.. . There is a persistent myth that it has something to do with who has viewed your profile recently, or who views it most often, etc. None of these things are true, however. It is completely random.