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Obama and the Trust Factor
American Thinker ^ | 9-25-09 | Kyle-Anne Shiver

Posted on 09/24/2009 10:30:28 PM PDT by smoothsailing


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September 25, 2009

Obama and the Trust Factor

By Kyle-Anne Shiver

For the scant few media folks still scratching their heads in puzzled frustration over the massive displays of public discontent with Barack Obama's presidency, this one's for you. No, the discontent is not about his race, his smoking or whether he wears a helmet while riding his bike. It's not about his wife's biceps or her shorts or her fake eyelashes. It's not even about the President's vainglorious love of the cameras.


No, no, no.  It's the trust factor, honey.

When a man campaigns for the presidency as an anti-ideological moderate, a lover of bi-partisan reconciliation, and vows to regain America's foothold on the world's respect, and then after becoming president, shoots down real bi-partisan input with a petulant, "I won," governs high-handedly from the farthest-left corner of American politics, all the while playing cozy-up with America's self-proclaimed enemies and arrogantly dissing our heretofore friends, then the citizens quite naturally feel they've been sucker-punched in the gut. And being sucker-punched in the gut tends to bring out the rudeness in even the most civil people.

On the pinnacle issue of the president's domestic agenda, healthcare reform, candidate Obama promised a completely open C-SPAN debate but instead has given Americans backroom deals and the same speech, recycled and spit out more than a hundred different ways. And the more Obama fights back against the so-called "smears," the more professional analysts jump into the verbal fray, calling him out on his own misinformation, falsehoods and crumbling credibility.

If universal healthcare proves to be the president's Waterloo, as suggested by John Boehner (R-OH), the mushrooming ACORN scandal may yet be his Watergate. ACORN is the group that gave Barack Obama his teeth-cutting, political activist creds with their Project Vote drive in 1992.  That was just the start of a blossoming, quite-close relationship between the President and ACORN.

As John Fund enumerated in the Wall Street Journal this week, Barack Obama also was a trainer for ACORN's Chicago conferences and became their lawyer in 1995, working to coerce Illinois to fully implement the federal Motor Voter Law, which was then "exploited by ACORN employees in an effort to flood voter rolls with fake names."

Barack Obama, in December 2007, announced to great community-organizer fanfare that the ACORN folks would be right beside him to "shape his agenda" for transforming America. President Obama seems to have lots of ‘splainin' to do on his ties to ACORN. What he knew, when he knew it, stuff like that.

In the realm of foreign policy, it appears that the only folks on the planet who can really trust our president are dictators, despot-wannabes and the ex-KGB honcho in Russia. It's downright worrisome when one recalls how Obama parried a 2008 question by CBS News as to whether he ever had any doubts about his foreign-policy experience. Rather than give a credible answer, the utterly-inexperienced Obama replied with the unequivocal, gallingly audacious, godlike, "NEVER."

Ousted Honduran dictator-wannabe, Zelaya, has received strident, meddling support from President Obama while the Iranian protesters risking life and limb for more freedom have gotten the cold shoulder. Poland and the Czech Republic got a big finger poke in the eye on missile defense, while Obama reaped the praises of the Russian Bear. Castro joined the cheers-to-Barack chorus Wednesday when Obama made his kumbayah-to-the-world speech at the UN. Iran is continuing her nuke plan and getting gasoline from Chavez, while Israel is having her face shoved in the mud. Obama's foreign policy is the most transparent thing about his administration.

President Obama never doubts himself or, apparently, our enemies. He saves all his doubts for the American people and our former friends around the globe. What's not to like? All the while, we dissenters are the ones who are in the President's eyes, "rude."     
Oh, ye President of Thin-beyond-Thin Skin, a single, constrained shout-out of "You lie" and a few snarky posters don't even come close to the traditional incivility of the peculiar American bent.

Tar and feathers. Now, that's rude.

Burning in effigy. Now, that's real disdain .

Women in pink lingerie, with red-paint soaked hands shouting "war criminal" in your face. Now, that's uncivil.

So, again for establishment-media ninnies, when a man masquerades as an America-loving moderate to get elected and then behaves in opposite fashion, striking one loathsome thrust after another at America's gut, the resulting massive dissent isn't about the color of his skin, his little irksome habit of self-glorification or his proclivity for condescending academy-speak.

It's the trust factor, honey. Or, it's his faulty moral compass, dear. Or, it's his dishonesty, stupid. Or, it's his utter lack of integrity, idiot. Or, it's his weak character, imbecile. Or, it's his love for America-hating despots, moron.

Feel free to pick the one that makes a nice, warm, cuddly fit with your own civility preference. A disingenuous political scoundrel by any other name is the same. And civility - or lack of it -- doesn't change a thing.

Copyright 2009 Creators Syndicate.  

[Appears by special arrangememnt with Creators Syndicate.]


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1 posted on 09/24/2009 10:30:28 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

BTTT !!!!!!!!!!!!


2 posted on 09/24/2009 10:36:26 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: smoothsailing
BANG!

There it is. Suck on it, Libtards.

;-/

3 posted on 09/24/2009 10:39:31 PM PDT by Gargantua (Sarah Palin: The only Republican to take on Zer0bonehead and WIN!)
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To: smoothsailing

Oh no she di’Int! Why I do believe Ms. Kyle just kicked Zero’s half-whitey @ss!!!


4 posted on 09/24/2009 10:54:11 PM PDT by XenaLee
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To: smoothsailing

Since I’m white I must be diplomatic when speaking of our illustrious comrade Barack...

I really can’t stand his lying, his disingenuousness, his pandering to despots and crooks, his Faustian arrangement with his Big Daddy George Soros, his obvious disdain of white people and anyone wealthy, and with those who work and earn an honest living, I’ll just say this: “I DETEST EVERYTHING HE BELIEVES IN. BUT PLEASE NOTE I’M ONLY DETESTING THE WHITE PART OF HIM.”


5 posted on 09/24/2009 10:55:44 PM PDT by Humidston (IT'S COMING...I SMELL IT.)
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To: smoothsailing
Barack Obama, in December 2007, announced to great community-organizer fanfare that the ACORN folks would be right beside him to "shape his agenda" for transforming America. President Obama seems to have lots of ‘splainin' to do on his ties to ACORN. What he knew, when he knew it, stuff like that.

Yep, and this ties in with his famous video where asked about his nefarious associations and he listed several people with whom he's not had one iota of contact since the election....instead he's right back to the Wm. Ayres / Weather Underground associations that were the impetus of the question in the first place. These men (and the Radke Brothers) are tied to his Stimulus plan (that was no stimulus except to payback unions, donors and wannabe political projects) and other money scheming, taxpayer using socialist agenda. The tie-ins are inciminating for certain.

6 posted on 09/24/2009 11:02:52 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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To: smoothsailing

This ACORN thing is going to Disappear, Did you hear who is doing the Internal Investigation at ACORN ? Does the Name John Podesta ring a Bell?
If that is allowed to stand it is over folks we dont have a chance


7 posted on 09/25/2009 3:19:25 AM PDT by ballplayer
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To: smoothsailing

Well done. Yes, she cooked his 4$$ well done.


8 posted on 09/25/2009 3:22:32 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault
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To: smoothsailing

Trust?
I’d sooner trust a scorpion not to sting.


9 posted on 09/25/2009 4:29:05 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Obama, you stop lying; we'll stop callin' you a LIAR.)
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To: smoothsailing

This gal just became a must read. Man she kicked him in the pills!


10 posted on 09/25/2009 5:04:58 AM PDT by CalvaryJohn (What is keeping that damned asteroid?)
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To: ballplayer

Trust? You jest sir! There is no trust after ACORN and the Czars. All we can trust is that Obama will mess things up more.


11 posted on 09/25/2009 6:37:04 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: smoothsailing
< i>It's the trust factor, honey. Or, it's his faulty moral compass, dear. Or, it's his dishonesty, stupid. Or, it's his utter lack of integrity, idiot. Or, it's his weak character, imbecile. Or, it's his love for America-hating despots, moron.

The fact He has never been vetted and all of his background records are either sealed, scrubbed or hidden adds greatly to the lack of trust in this man and his administration.

12 posted on 09/25/2009 7:09:35 PM PDT by opentalk
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