Posted on 10/13/2014 10:08:59 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Largely lost in the hubbub over former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s new book Worthy Fights is one intriguing revelation. As reported in the New York Times, the accusations that Barack Obama was not what he appeared to be, perhaps not even a natural-born citizen, caused him to become tentative on the national stage. “Those challenges have encouraged the president’s caution and defensiveness, which in turn has emboldened further challenges,” Mr. Panetta wrote.
As the originator of one of those challenges, namely that terrorist emeritus Bill Ayers helped Obama with his 1995 memoir Dreams from My Father, I can confirm the validity of Panetta’s accusation. When challenged, Obama has become not only defensive but also downright dishonest.
Obama’s insecurity has caused him to violate the promise he made to his assembled staff on his first full day in office. “I will also hold myself as President to a new standard of openness,” said the newly minted president. “Information will not be withheld just because I say so. It will be withheld because a separate authority believes my request is well grounded in the Constitution.” As I document in my new book, You Lie, Obama has dishonored this promise in a hundred different ways.
In the last six years, the White House has withheld information large and small, public and private, petty and grand. A perfectly instructive and heretofore unsung incident took place at a CNN studio on September 23, 2009. The guest was bestselling celebrity journalist, Christopher Andersen. The show was CNN’s "American Morning", and the host was a young woman named Kiran Chetry.
An establishment journalist with credentials of the first order, Andersen was there to plug his...book...Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage. Despite Andersen’s credentials and his apolitical background, the interview almost did not take place.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Obama being tentative?
No modern day president can even hold a candle to what Obama has accomplished in just 6 years.
I’ll name two;
War on coal, he promised to destroy the coal industry. His EPA has just announced they are closing a lot of coal plants; enough plants will close that the equivalent of all of the homes west of the Mississippi will be left without electricity. Can you name one president who comes close to doing that? You can’t.
Our health insurance and care system, I don’t even have to outline that. Even the Clintons couldn’t begin to do what he has already done in that sector.
OMG!!! What would he have done had he not been so tentative?
So, it’s the Birthers’ fault?...................
This is what hahppened in Madison last week when a bunch of “greenies” showed up with an ugly, inflatable “coal” plant that they could rail against in their demonstration:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3214050/posts
Everybody s still laughing about it. Idjits!
Why would those accusations make him tentative unless there was some truth to them ? Was he afraid he might slip up ?
He wasn’t sure the forgeries would pass muster. Iow, he wondered if the ‘that’s racist’ meme would be sufficient to keep at least one honest journalist from asking obvious questions. He didn’t yet realize how in the satchel the entire MSM was.
What a load of crap.
"My Muslim Faith..."
Do you mean they weren’t? She left suddenly, didn’t she.
Great and engaging article. Thanks for posting.
Leon’s a few years late to the party. He should have been shouting this from the rooftops 8-9 years ago.
Some timidity, eh ?
Panetta is going to run. And if he doesn’t get the nomination, he’ll be on the ticket.
There is not but one reason for that, Mr. Panetta.
For ten points, can you guess what it is?
No Leon..he's an affirmative action created and supported imbecile. THAT'S why.
obumpa
Obama has always been afake. His books were fake.
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