— Mark Twain...
Obama is the essence, he lives by it, he banks on it, that the statement to be true... or was that Winston Churchill's quote?
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on" - Winston Churchill.
It’s an old adage, likely because it reflects human nature so well.
It was around before Mark twain said it, I can’t say that I’m surprised that Churchill said it too.