Listening to a Liar (Thomas Sowell)

Townhall.com ^ | September 8, 2009 | Thomas Sowell

[jazusamo]

Correct, he doesn’t know how any of the proposed bills will affect us and he definitely lies.

[Texas Songwriter]

Mr. Obama.....we do not believe you or any in your administration or the mainstream media. You can no longer expect us to be fooled by you cadence of speech, manner of gesticulation, or your striking a Musoliniesque pose with the perfect prism of light striking your face.

We simply do not believe you. That is something you will never be able to retrieve.

[jazusamo]

Welcome to the Sowell ping list, you’re on.

[Lancey Howard]

If the urgency to pass the medical care legislation was to deal with a problem immediately, then why postpone the date when the legislation goes into effect for years-- more specifically, until the year after the next Presidential election?

If this is such an urgently needed program, why wait for years to put it into effect? And if the public is going to benefit from this, why not let them experience those benefits before the next Presidential election?

These are obvious, basic questions that the Democrat "mainstream" reporters - - the only "journalists" who have direct access to Gibbs, Ubama, and the White House - - will never ask. Why do you suppose that is?

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

He tried to rush Congress into passing a massive government takeover of the nation's medical care before the August recess-- for a program that would not take effect until 2013!

Pretty much says it all.

[FormerACLUmember]

I swear, Hillary would have been an improvement over Obama.

[jazusamo]

IMO the enemedia is going to regret the day they’ve supported this fraud unconditionally.

[GeronL]

Thomas Sowell rocks

[dsc]

“Whatever Obama is, he is not stupid.”

Well, he’s not very bright, either.

Everything he has was handed him because he (a) has negro blood, (b) can speak English without sounding like an American negro, and (c) is a leftard.

[OldNavyVet]

This is huge if Sowell is right ...

Where does it say implementation doesn’t happen soon?

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

That is a brilliant conclusion why socialized medicine is not to implemented until 2013. I didn’t tie it to Obama’s expected 2nd term (which will never happen).

Sowell has a brilliant mint. Now I understand.

Good article. Thanks.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

You mean a mosque, don’t you?

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

I like Sowell and think he is brilliant. Therefore, I must be racist. /sarc

[beaversmom]

What Barack Obama says Wednesday night is not nearly as important as what he has been doing-- and how he has been doing it.--Thomas Sowell

Thanks for the post and ping jazusamo.

I said the very same thing tonight to my husband regarding the talk to the children on Tuesday. It was in reference to this post he received on his Facebook page:

Ok, I might lose friends & alienate some people, but I have to vent--Why is America so afraid of a positive msg to our students in schoools? Does it really matter who is giving the positive msg? Would America be "afraid" of the msg if... it was anyone else giving the msg? If you're so worried, read the speech on the White House's website. Dont' make your kids miss out on an important msg from our ELECTED Leader!!

It always shocks me when I encounter such a true believer--either in person or through Facebook or some such. I know they exist, but it's still a shock.

[Canedawg]

1. I don’t believe them! 2. I don’t trust them!

Well, here's a reality check for you. They don't trust US, they never did. Therefore they have no compunction about lying to our collective faces while they conceal their true agenda. For communists, the ends justify the means.

[aquila48]

You may be right that they don’t trust us - but they don’t need to or care to. They only want to control us, and to do that, trusting us is irrelevant.

[Canedawg]

Their way to gain control is to decive Americans by not explaining their true agenda. Look at that demon Ayers, he hated America enough to blow up government buildings. They HATE the establishment, they always did, and they will lie to those who they perceive to be their foe (sp?) in order to gain control.

I believe nothing that comes out of the WH; I only keep tabs on their bullshit so I’ll know what propaganda they are spreading to the sheeple.

[Aria]

You know, I totally agree with you.....I don’t believe them and I don’t trust them.

I sent numerous letters to my congress people (I’m stuck with rats) and I thought their answers ran the spectrum from laughable to basically telling me that they knew best (so shut up already).

They are no longer public servants.

[Southbound]

I’ve used this as a tagline for a long time, but it sure fits and it’s from a Democrat — THE Democrat at one time:

“A liar in public life is a lot more dangerous than a full-paid-up communist, and I don;t care who he is.” - Harry
S. Truman

Truman had his baggage, as all politicians do, but he hit the nail on the head with that one.

[SupplySider]

Wisdom! ... So why don’t most black people revere this man and his so clear wise commentary?

I think the understandable and commendable outrage and rebellion of black Americans to slavery and Jim Crow and the widespread racism in the fifties and sixties was heartlessly exploited by white leftists. They established "revolution", Marxism, as the paradigm for black strength and progress.

Rice, Thomas, and Sowell are supposedly "sell-outs" to the resistence, lackeys of the white power structure, when in reality the Van Joneses and Barack Obamas are doing the bidding of the white leftist establishment. It's a tragic irony.