Posted on 06/12/2009 8:25:20 PM PDT by Steelfish
June 12, 2009
President Obama’s war on the truth.
By Victor Davis Hanson
In the first six months of the Obama administration, we have witnessed an assault on the truth of a magnitude not seen since the Nixon Watergate years.
The prevarication is ironic given the Obama campaign’s accusations that the Bush years were not transparent and that Hillary Clinton, like her husband, was a chronic fabricator.
Remember Obama’s own assertions that he was a “student of history” and that “words mean something. You can’t just make stuff up.”
Yet Obama’s war against veracity is multifaceted.
Trotskyization. Sometimes the past is simply airbrushed away. Barack Obama has a disturbing habit of contradicting his past declarations as if spoken words did not mean much at all.
The problem is not just that once-memorable statements about everything from NAFTA to public campaign financing were contradicted by his subsequent actions.
Rather, these pronouncements simply were ignored to the point of making it seem they were never really uttered at all.
(Excerpt) Read more at article.nationalreview.com ...
He lies constantly.
It’s disgusting.
Remember this line...
the real crisis in our brave new relativist world will be that those who demonstrate that he is untruthful will themselves be accused of lying.
Hey...He still thinks it’s like it was at college....
But he’ll graduate soon....
He is a slick version of a Chicago machine politician and acts accordingly.
Milhouse has virtually an entire profession, i.e., journalism, aiding and abetting him in his war on the truth.
This 0 will make Nixon look like an angel and Carter, ...well inspirational. 0 will go down in history as a empty joke. History always has the last word
The real villains here are those in the MSM - Obama’s followers are too stupid and too blind to see his lies and contradictions, and the press will never point them out.
Hell, under those conditions, I’d lie my ass off too.
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"
The MSM is Obama!
Liberal revisionist historians will fix it, same as always.
Future history text books will explain how Bush "stole" the 2000 election..........If they aren't already doing it.
Show us the real birth certificate obama! I believe you are illegally holding office and committing fraud on a scale never before seen.
The key line in the article. The general public does not follow things closely enough to see the lies. If they are not pointed out on TV or in the papers, they will never realize what happened.
Actually, I think Nixon gets a lot of bad-rap he doesn’t deserve; like president Bush... I mean imagine how Nixon’s presidency would have been recorded if, instead of covering-up Watergate, he’d come out and apologized for [and dealt with] the actions of his subordinates.
There’s also a good probability Nixon didn’t order the Watergate incident, as G Gordon Liddy’s refusal to say so could indicate.
There are some Obama supporters where I live who post on the local newspaper’s blog. Most of them are unbelievasbly ignorant of history and are unable to comprehend what they read. Pointing out an error in historical fact and directing them to a source of documentation is meaningless because they just ignore it.
They will not document anything that they say. If pressed, they will begin to personally attack anyone who disagrees with them and asks for documentation of one of their outlandish claims.
I think it was Ann Coulter who first described liberalism as a mental disorder. I am convinced that some of these people are in fact mentally impaired.
Barack Obama knows his supporters. He knows how limited and how ill they are, so he feels completely comfortable spewing contradictory positions from one day to the next. He knows that he won’t loose those demented followers.
How many of them work for ACORN committing voter fraud? How many of them are there across the country? Obama is probably a little crazy himself, so we are in for rough sledding in the near run. Hopefully some of the died in the wool Democrats who voted for him have recognized their mistake.
The only question now is how much damage he can do to the country before he self destructs. Will there be an America after Barack Obama?
It is a primo characteristic of a complete narcissist.
He’ll be in for 8 years too..just watch
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