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 ...
This is true but it didn’t happen overnight. When you have army of brainwashers who have a captive audience for days, months, and years on end, one ought not to be surprised that we have bred a generation of Obamots.
I am of course referring to the public education system and the liberal elites in this nation’s colleges and universities whose existential credo is PC, diversity, multi-culturalism, and rampant secularism.
This system produces an electorate tailor-made for Obama. When the media now joins in and deliberately ignores his track records and sings his praises, why, the result we have is obvious and its not unsurprising to find the phenomenon you describe.
Agree. And if they find Osama, Obama will be hailed as the New Savior and they’ll amend the constitution to give him four terms!
Yep. by then he’ll be king ,I;m dead serious too. We better revolt or kiss the USA good bye.
>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.<
Sounds like our local newspaper’s blog. They turn every thread into a race war.
Nixon threw the democratic process in the scrapheap to ensure reelection in that very dark period. I was in Washington between combat tours just before Watergate, and it was an incredibly dark period in our national life.
And, IMO, Nixon's actions were felonious in the extreme. He was most fortunate that he was not indicted. And, a number of honorable men took the bullet for this very sadly defective man in the days leading up to Nixon's final demise.
Yes and what Nixon did was peanuts compared to what 0bummer is doing. When nearly everything you say and do is a falsehood what would you expect the end result to be?
I don’t believe that he can even spell the word let alone speak it.
“What’s the difference between God and Mr. Obama ? “
God does not think he is 0bama.
>In our zeal to nail the Muslim miscreant to the wall, I would caution you to study your Watergate years very, very carefully.
Actually it is something that I’m starting to do. It was, however, before I was born so I can only get third- and second-hand reports.
>I was in Washington between combat tours just before Watergate, and it was an incredibly dark period in our national life.
Just before Watergate was an incredibly dark period? Interesting.
>And, IMO, Nixon’s actions were felonious in the extreme.
The cover-up, certainly. Though I am still unconvinced that he was the one who ordered/planned Watergate.
Ping for later
I have been ringing this warning bell for years...but...conservatives are deaf or profoundly apathetic. So, here it is again:
Marxism is our nation's most serious threat. Schools are the Marxists' most important weapon.!!!!
Conservatives ( and that includes talk show hosts like Rush, Hannity, and OReilly) dither about the details of political and economic policy. In the meantime the Marxists have thoroughly infiltrated **every** institution that influences and educates our young, and are quietly gnawing away at the very foundation of our freedom.
The Marxists understand that if they can control the minds of our youth they will win elections in just one generation. The term for this process of destroying the minds of our nation's children is called "demoralization"!
Listen to what the former KGB spy, Yuri Bezmenov, has to say about "demoralization":http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x32cxf_yuri-bezmenov
Yet, even today, there are conservatives, ( even FREEPERS!) who insist on sending their children into the government indoctrination camps, and stanchly defend their child's government school as being different.
Conservatives have consistently failed to set up tuition-free alternatives, and even support Marxist colleges and universities with they endowments and donations.
Yes! I am exasperated!
Well stated and perhaps are poor example on my part
See my tag line.
Well said!!!
Bump!
Yup! Unfortunately they have been successful.
That is exactly true.
I think that is the main reason that we need to post blogs, do e-mails etc.
I am hopeful that eventually I will stop hearing that I am
“a racist” “someone who can’t get over the fact that we lost”
“a rush follower” “a birther” “tea bagger”
etc. etc etc.
One thing that the article never touches in and should is that Obama has used race in this to further his own gains.
he has played the “black” card every chance he ever got.
Any excerpts I have seen from his books or listened to are always about his being black, white people this white people that, always a division.
The man is a racist pure and simple and uses reverse racism in the most insidious ways.
All and all, he is a deplorable human being and so are those who align themselves with him, (MSM) minus the sheeple who are just too stupid to accept the facts that they were hoodwinked.
You know I remember watergate ... (god in heaven I am getting old)and it was bad.
But here is a point that is important. Watergate was basically about trying to get the goods on election briefings and such to play games with voters.
I read Liddy’s book after the fact many years ago and remember that it was all about getting the goods on democrats so that republicans could win elections.
The bottom line in the whole affair was that Republicans as a whole took a hit and got bad rapped in general.
But in comparison, what Obama has done with campaign fraud, between his outright lies, attacks on other candidates, setting up his “questions” in open forums and mostly his ACORN abuses and dealings with the Unions he makes Nixon look like a girl scout.
So what will be the turning point? What will tip the whole thing so it just boils over?
Short of a congressional mob going after him I see nothing that can stop him. Even at that if it is all republicans he will just claim that they are picking on him and walk away scott clean.
The FBI is not going to do anything against him, no career agent will even touch him at this point. The justice Department has been locked down by him. He has become untouchable. So you can forget about them doing anything against him, it would be career suicide.
The Obama and Cohorts methodical destruction of the American Republic is another matter entirely.
I am very pessimistic relative to the long-term viability of our nation — being a great believer in Huntington's thesis — as well as the writings of Bernard Lewis and Daniel Pipes.
Accordingly, as Mrs Pope and I move well into our 8th decade, we remember well the sacrifices made in former years by our family (10 Naval Aviators — including 2 Blue Angels) — the deaths in the line of duty of two — including the former husband of Mrs. Pope.
So, we will watch the political scenario play out — and actively participate in support of our beloved country — including participation in the National Tea Party, Washington, D.C., in September.
However, I am tragically saddened by the lack of interest by the large segment of our citizenry in their own survival. And, in the final analysis, we reap what we sow. I will not live to see our cultural and political eclipse, but it is not too far in the distance.
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