Posted on 10/19/2014 11:28:27 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
As a nervous nation watches the Obama administration’s response to the Ebola crisis, many Americans have concluded that the country’s top health officials seem more concerned with stopping the spread of panic than stopping the spread of the virus. But Americans’ fear is only growing, and one reason is that too few people believe what the president of the United States says anymore.
A recent poll asked Americans this question: “How often does Barack Obama lie to the country on important matters?” Not about sex. Not about whether he really likes baseball. Not whether he still cadges an occasional cigarette when Michelle isn’t looking. But whether he dissembles on important matters. The dismaying answers: 37 percent said “most of the time,” another 24 percent said “some of the time” and 20 percent said “only now and then.”
Fifteen percent—and God bless them for their loyalty—answered “never.” Perhaps they missed it when the president said that if they liked their health plan under Obamacare they could keep it. Maybe they missed the administration’s repeated claims that the fatal attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was a spontaneous reaction to an Internet video. Maybe they really believe that the IRS targeting of conservatives was, as the president put it, dreamed up by “two Dilberts in Cincinnati.”
But enough people did hear those statements, and found them wanting, that the president’s credibility has taken a hit at the precise time when a medical crisis confronts the country, and when placing trust in the men and women running this government is a life and death question.
I’m reminded of another president—Obama’s predecessor, in fact—whose ability to lead was impaired during his last two years in office by voters’ lack of trust.
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Just saying.
Washington would send him back to Kenya.
No live Ebola would ever reached the U.S. They would have been dumped on the blue shelf!!!
Even seeing the face of God would never change Obama's stone cold heart.
George Washington would ask us all to pray to God and seek HIs Face.
Let us pray for a new George Washington and a new Congress filled Christian men of virtue and valor.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Thanks for the ping!
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