Bob Kerrey Calls Obama a Delusional Liar; Media Mum

Newsbusters ^ | March 29, 2014 | P.J. Gladnick

[Nachum]

Imagine if a former Republican presidential candidate and U.S. senator had called a current Republican president a delusional liar whose programs are wasteful. Would the mainstream media not be all over the story? Such a person would be interviewed at length by Wolf Blitzer on CNN as well as made the rounds of the morning talk shows and the Sunday news programs as well. The media buzz would be red hot on this topic for days extending into weeks.

Well, there is such a person but because he is a Democrat saying these things about President Obama, we can expect him to become an MSM nonperson. Such seems to already be the fate of former presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Bob Kerrey. It is no surprise that his extended criticisms of Obama appeared in in a Daily Mail article in Britain, not in America where the shunning seems to have already begun. Here is what Kerrey has to say about Obama which you most likely won't see in any major liberal news outlet in America:

The Nebraskan straight-talker told MailOnline in an exclusive interview that Obama isn't up to the job of bringing liberals and conservatives to the table to rescue America's slowly choking entitlement programs.

And Obama, he said Wednesday in his Manhattan office, knew full well he was lying when he promised that the Affordable Care Act would allow Americans to keep insurance plans they liked.

'He had to know he was misleading the audience,' Kerrey said quietly, recalling the newly minted president's countless promises as Congress and the public debated his signature health insurance overhaul.

[sand88]

The left has had it with both Clintons and Affirmative Action Communists for two decades.

They may be sick of the Clintons (time will tell) but I know of very few RATs that are sick of Affirmative Action. As long as the freebies keep flowing there is no stopping the left.

Most of the leftists I know believe that the State is always looking out for the little guy.

[Amagi]

Bob Kerry also had this to say about his fellow Democrat, Slick Willie: “[Bill] Clinton’s an unusually good liar.”

[pallis]

People ought not believe in the good of government, but in the limits of government. Limits keep necessary government from following its natural evil course.

[Starboard]

“government is a force for good.”

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But ONLY when Democrats are in charge. /sarc

And not coincidentally, they just happen to constitute most of the government employees and positions of authority in the bureaucracy. They own the government and in turn are sustained by it. If they lose political control, they lose control over their comfortable livelihood and all their associated generous benefits.

In the final analysis, it's always about the money. As long as they're running the show, they are the beneficiaries of government largesse. They don't want Republicans coming in an messing up their cozy arrangement and interfering with all those big government programs that justify their jobs.

[pallis]

“...it’s always about the money.”

I agree that it is about money. The business of the left is government. Unfortunately, a lot of elitists Republicans who control the GOPe are no different. The big difference government holds between the two, including voters who divide up along party lines, is the role government plays in the leftist psyche. To many, not just our Democrats, but all leftists throughout the history of the left, government replaces, or supersedes family, God, church, community..., and to do so it must be(come) omnipotent and omniscient. Government must control our economy, our education, healthcare, our environment, religion, our diets, entertainment, privacy and thoughts, our Democracy and our elections....

When a fruitcake like Michael Moore says he would have been better off had a totalitarian government like Cuba controlled every aspect of his life, we mere humans are appalled, but to the leftest mind Moore was expressing a common longing for the comfort of more God in his life.

[Starboard]

Agree with your points. Government is like a religion to lefties. They worship at the altar of big government.

What they don’t understand is that government is run by people who want to stay in power and will do anything to remain there. This has been true throughout history. Power corrupts absolutely and destorys individual liberty.