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Posted on 09/18/2009 9:11:45 AM PDT by traumer
By Charles Krauthammer Friday, September 18, 2009
You lie? No. Barack Obama doesn't lie. He's too subtle for that. He . . . well, you judge.
Herewith three examples within a single speech -- the now-famous Obama-Wilson "you lie" address to Congress on health care -- of Obama's relationship with truth.
(1) "I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits -- either now or in the future," he solemnly pledged. "I will not sign it if it adds one dime to the deficit, now or in the future. Period."
Wonderful. The president seems serious, veto-ready, determined to hold the line. Until, notes Harvard economist Greg Mankiw, you get to Obama's very next sentence: "And to prove that I'm serious, there will be a provision in this plan that requires us to come forward with more spending cuts if the savings we promised don't materialize."
This apparent strengthening of the pledge brilliantly and deceptively undermines it. What Obama suggests is that his plan will require mandatory spending cuts if the current rosy projections prove false. But there's absolutely nothing automatic about such cuts. Every Congress is sovereign. Nothing enacted today will force a future Congress or a future president to make any cuts in any spending, mandatory or not.
Just look at the supposedly automatic Medicare cuts contained in the Sustainable Growth Rate formula enacted to constrain out-of-control Medicare spending. Every year since 2003, Congress has waived the cuts.
Mankiw puts the Obama bait-and-switch in plain language. "Translation: I promise to fix the problem. And if I do not fix the problem now, I will fix it later, or some future president will, after I am long gone. I promise he will. Absolutely, positively, I am committed to that future president
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Of course we now find out why Obama could promise that illegals would not be covered under health care reform. Obama plans to make all illegals, legal. So Obama did not lie. He was just deceiving the American People.
Does He Lie?,daily.
The charming scoundrel [Clinton] can get away with endless deception; the righteous redeemer [Marxist Obama] cannot.
Nice piece, but I fail to see why any of the three examples do not constitute a "lie" (and malignant, premeditated, imperious lies, at that).
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He’s pathological. Pity his poor kids. God help us all.
The word lie has been grosely distorted in meaning. GW may have been “wrong” about WMDs but he believed it based on evidence he had. Whether he, UK, France, Germany, Israel and the UN believed it or not, we can debate if he should have known better. But a lie supposes the orator knows what he is saying to be false.
Does BO really believe national healthcare will not add to the deficit? Does he believe illegal aliens will not be covered under this plan? Those are the questions that would answer the question about whether or not he is lying.
Unfortunately, it is likely only a matter of opinion about what we think he really believes. Is he ignorant and misguided or is you fraudulent? Neither is good. We should all agree, at least, he is wrong.
.....I mean, “is he fraudulent?”
Sorry
Does a fat baby fart?
Does a fat baby fart?
He lies... chuckie is a beltway wimp... et tu chucky?
LLS
Facts are not a matter of opinion.
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