When James
Comey last testifed before the Senate I was struck by the former FBI Director’s
unapologetic use of the word “liar” when referring to President Trump in an
open hearing. It’s not that Donald Trump
doesn’t lie. Far from it,
unfortunately. It’s just
that for the eight years prior to Trump’s election it was considered a no-no to
use the word “liar” when referring to the POTUS in this type of public
forum. In fact, when Rep. Joe Wilson
rightfully shouted “liar” while Barack Obama was lying in his State of the
Union address to congress in 2009 it sparked disbelief and spitting outrage
among the media elites. Former POTUS
Jimmy Carter as well as talking heads at MSNBC, the Daily Kos, the NYT and the
Huffington Post, among others, angrily denounced Wilson as “racist,” even
though Rep. Wilson was correct: Obama
was indeed lying. But that was then and
this is now, or as I am quickly learning, that was them and this is us. The standards for what is considered
acceptable behavior are rapidly changing, but don’t get too used to them. They’ll change back if and when a Democrat is
POTUS again.
During the
Obama presidency much of the American public and nearly all of the “mainstream”
media (MSM) played a game of see no evil, hear no evil when it came to Obama’s rampant
dishonesty. A frustrated Rep. Wilson no
doubt felt compelled to defy the usual State of the Union etiquette because the
MSM, by and large, certainly wouldn’t call Obama out for his lies and the rest
of us were not allowed to according to rules of political correctness
established by, coincidentally, the MSM.
Fast forward to today, however, and we are supposed to believe that
Donald Trump is so uniquely and dangerously dishonest that the rules must be
changed and the censorship – oops I mean civility – that was then the standard must now be temporarily forsaken for the good
of the nation. Will the good sheeple of
the United States of America, dumbed down by years of media manipulation, go
along with this? If so, I have a
question:
What is a
lie?
When Barack
Obama was accidently caught on camera leaning in to surreptitiously tell
Russian President Dmitri Medvedev that he would have “more flexibility” to
negotiate the issue of missile defense after his election, would you say this
was the act of an honest or dishonest man?
When a
person’s actions often don’t match their words, what does this say about their
honesty?
From The
Hill: “Obama's speech proves
hypocrisy of Democrat's anti-Wall Street rhetoric”
From the CNN
opinion page: “Obama administration was
hypocritical on UN's Israeli settlements vote”
From Breitbart: “Obama’s Pathetic Hypocrisy on Trade”
From the New York Post
opinion page: “Obama’s ‘safe space’
hypocrisy”
From Mother
Jones: “Obama Is a Climate
Hypocrite. His Trip to Alaska Proves It.”
From MichelleMalkin.com: “Hypocrisy legacy, part XXIV: Obama was for
gerrymandering before he was against it”
From Politico: “Spare Me Your Hypocritical Journalism
Lecture, Mr. President”
From National
Review: “Scarborough Dings Obama on
Private-School Hypocrisy”
A serial
hypocrite is a liar, plain and simple.
And then
there’s Obama’s notorious straw-man dishonesty:
Obama: “There
seems to be a set of folks who -- I don't doubt their sincerity -- who just
believe that we should do nothing [about the economic meltdown].”
Obama: "…a
philosophy that says every problem can be solved if only government would step
out of the way; that if government were just dismantled, divvied up into tax
breaks, and handed out to the wealthiest among us, it would somehow benefit us
all. Such knee-jerk disdain for government -- this constant rejection of any
common endeavor -- cannot rebuild our levees or our roads or our bridges."
Obama: “In
recent days, there have been misguided criticisms of this plan that echo the
failed theories that helped lead us into this crisis — the notion that tax cuts
alone will solve all our problems… … that we can meet our enormous tests with
half-steps and piecemeal measures…… that we can ignore fundamental challenges
such as energy independence and the high cost of health care and still expect
our economy and our country to thrive.”
Obama: “Listen,
here’s what I say. I say our challenges are too big to ignore.”
Obama: “Either
the issue of Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon is resolved diplomatically through
a negotiation, or it’s resolved through force, through war.”
Obama: “But
U.S. military action cannot be the only, or even primary, component of our
leadership in every instance. Just because we have the best hammer does not
mean that every problem is a nail.”
Obama: “Nobody thinks that Bush and McCain have a
real answer to the challenges we face. So what they’re going to try to do is
make you scared of me. You know, he’s
not patriotic enough, he’s got a funny name, you know, he doesn’t look like all
those other presidents on the dollar bills."
According to
Obama Republicans suggested we do nothing
about the economic meltdown except dismantle the government and divide the
spoils among the rich; Republicans said we should ignore our energy and
healthcare, and all other problems; the only options in Iran were the Obama
deal or going to war; Republicans want to use the military to solve every problem; and other candidates attacked
Obama’s name and race to scare away voters. The abundance of posts on Obama’s proclivity
for straw-man arguments proves that it’s not just a figment of this writer’s
imagination:
From The
Daily Caller: “Former CIA Director
Blasts Obama For ‘Straw Man’ Arguments In Fight Against Islamic Terrorism”
From National
Review: “How to Ignore Obama’s Straw
Men and Override the Terrible Iran Deal
From PowerLine: “BARACK OBAMA AND THE HALL OF FAME OF STRAW
MEN”
My apologies
if you don’t find this particular set of sources persuasive but since the MSM
rarely reports the hypocrisy or fallaciousness of Democrats we have to
rely largely on conservative sources to see what the facts actually are. And then of course there were plain,
old-fashioned lies. These were some of
the headlines we saw during Barack’s presidency:
That last
one documented Obama’s lies with respect to:
- ·
The
real loss of jobs in the American steel industry
- ·
His
changing position on using executive authority on immigration
- ·
Calling
ISIS a “JV team”
- ·
The
number of young Americans not covered by health insurance
- ·
The
number of people newly insured due to Medicaid expansion
- ·
The
number of jobs estimated to be created by the Keystone pipeline
- ·
His
claim of doubling the distance American cars will go on a gallon of gas
- ·
Keeping
Congress fully informed of his efforts to create a legal framework on
counterterrorism
- ·
Mitt
Romney’s comments on an Arizona law, and on numerous other topics
- ·
Obamacare
being the reason for slowing insurance premium increases
- ·
George
W. Bush and the recession being responsible for 90% of the increase in the
deficit (after Obama was in office for four years)
- ·
“Fast and Furious” starting under the Bush
administration
- ·
Excluding
lobbyists from policymaking jobs in his administration
- ·
Getting
the vast majority of his campaign money from small donors
- ·
An
Illinois man dying because he was denied treatment by his insurance company
- ·
Health
insurance companies making record profits just prior to passing Obamacare
- ·
What
percentage of our oil the U.S. imports
- ·
A
wide range of comments that he falsely attributed to John McCain
- ·
Saying
that he won’t wear flag pins
And please
don’t get me started on the Oscar-worthy acting performances we were treated to
throughout the Obama years, wherein the Liar-in-Chief would get angry, cry or hoarsely
plead with us right on cue. The MSM, who
somehow missed so much of the lies, straw men and hypocrisies that riddled the
Obama presidency, were deeply impressed by Obama’s acting:
CNN: “Barack Obama's emotional evolution on gun
control”
“The Mr. Cool in the Oval Office
rarely shows emotion. But on one issue
-- guns -- President Barack Obama lets the public mask slip, revealing the ire
boiling within. Before the cameras,
moved by the massacres of innocents that have punctuated his presidency, Obama
has wept, his voice has cracked, he's visibly shaken with frustration, he's
lashed out at lawmakers he sees as cowards and even led a congregation in ‘Amazing
Grace.’”
The
L.A. Times: “Obama delivers
emotional final speech to the nation: 'Yes, we did. Yes, we can.'"
“President Obama reprised his message
of hope and change Tuesday as an antidote to an unstable world…”
“For Obama, who is often criticized
for his overly clinical approach to heated issues, his tone -- sad and mad in
relatively equal measure -- was remarkable.”
It’s true,
Donald Trump lies. That is in part why
he wasn’t my choice for the Republican nominee.
But Trump’s lies pale in comparison to the calculated, holistic approach
to lying that we saw for eight long years under Barack Obama. Obama was so good and so practiced at lying
that nearly every sentence could be steeped in dishonesty and still not trigger
the Left’s increasingly high bar for technically lying. Furthermore, weren’t
these the same people who wanted Hillary-Pants-on-Fire-Clinton to be POTUS? So when James Comey and America’s hysterical Left
profess such concern and righteous indignation over Trump or complain about his
obscene,
parasitic presidency, color me completely unmoved. They were the enablers to much, much worse.
~CW
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