[Carry_Okie]

Surely someone as intelligent as our president can see through all the hooey he feels obliged to peddle, but being a master politician, i.e., a Wonderful Wizard, entails certain sacrifices, beginning with one's own dignity. After all, the president's slightly exaggerated version of events, to quote a character in a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, is "merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative."

As long as they are in power they don't care what the results are, as long as they lead to more power.

[cripplecreek]

Surely someone as intelligent as our president can see through all the hooey he feels obliged to peddle

Just this morning the media has been breathlessly reporting that Obama is bailing out Detroit pension funds. Unfortunately the facts aren't so simple. In reality, we're going to spend some $350 million on infrastructure in Detroit and Obama is trying to force Rick Snyder to take $100 million of that infrastructure money and give it to the unions.

Utterly and completely typical Obama. Manipulate perception.