Posted on 12/10/2013 6:38:09 AM PST by RoosterRedux
What is different about Obama? Rarely, when caught, do presidents simply lie about their original dissimulation. Barack Obama, in contrast, when asked about his faux red line in Syria, simply denied ever issuing it (“I didn’t set a red line”).
Unlike presidents who paid high prices rather quickly for their dissimulations, Obama kept getting away with serial deception. The result was similar to a reckless bluffer at the poker table who keeps upping the ante each time he wins with a bad hand — only to lose his enormous pile of bluffed winnings when finally called out. Obama was empowered by a compliant public and a press invested in his progressive agenda. He assumed that while others had had to atone for deception, he did not, given his utopian talk about lowering the seas and cooling the planet, his landmark racial profile, and his youthful charisma and scripted eloquence. Being hip and progressive, he assumed, exempted him from an accounting. Yet unless the economy is booming, even a cool president does not necessarily recover once the public ceases believing what he says. After five years of 7-plus percent unemployment, almost no GDP growth, and record debt, Obama now enjoys few extenuating offsets when he serially misleads.
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Where is the precedent for that?
And the biggest lie of all is the unemployment numbers.
>> Where is the precedent for that?
That boy is a trailblazer, fur shure.
How many Presidents lied to the American people in order to destroy an entire industry, and replace it with a massive expansion of government?
Where is the precedent for that?
If it was good enough for Franklin Roosevelt, it ought to be good enough for whoever it is.
I suggest Obama’s blatant lying is just another way for him to give America the old middle finger salute.
As VDH himself says elsewhere, we all live in the kingdom of lies
“Obama kept getting away with serial deception.”
He gets a free pass from just about everyone; dare one suggest it’s due to the color of his skin?
5.56mm
He gets away with everything, because if anyone dares question or challenge him on anything; well, then it simply HAS to be because of the colour of his skin -you racist! (not you personally, mate.)
If it weren’t for ‘misleading’ there would be no leading at all.
Well, in Baraq's case, it's when his lips move. Or when he attempts brain synapse of any kind.
barry will continue lying and destroying the US and no one in any authority will do a damned thing to stop him.
Yup - you got it.
To say President Bush lied about wmds is not accurate.
Life and death lies!!
Great line.
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