Obama and the L-Word

Reason ^ | March 9, 2010 | Matt Welch

[XHogPilot]

Obama and the L-word The president’s habit of telling untruths

Here’s how predictable the president’s slippery relationship with the truth has become: Hours before the State of the Union address, Washington Examiner reporter Timothy P. Carney posted a “pre-emptive fact check” that, among other things, prebutted any presidential claim to have “stopped the revolving door between government and corporate lobbying.” As it happened, that night Barack Obama made an even bolder (read: less truthful) claim: that “we’ve excluded lobbyists from policymaking jobs.”

In fact, more than 40 former lobbyists work in the administration, including such policy makers as Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn (who was lobbying for Raytheon as recently as 2008), Office of the First Lady Director of Policy and Projects Jocelyn Frye (National Partnership for Women and Families), White House Director of Intergovernmental Affairs Cecilia Muñoz (National Council of La Raza), and Treasury Secretary Chief of Staff Mark Patterson (Goldman Sachs).

When Carney confronted a White House spokeswoman with the falsehood, she conceded nothing. “As the President said,” she wrote, “we have turned away lobbyists for many, many positions.” Just not all of them.

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When a politician cannot fathom opposition to his policies except as the manifestation of wicked manipulation by bad guys, remediable only by more thorough “explanations” from the good guys, it indicates an unseemly paternalism. And if he cannot take the hint that Bush-Obama bailout-and-spend economics are deeply and increasingly unpopular, that indicates something immovable about his core economic ideology. With those two factors as backdrop, it’s hard to say which would be worse: if the president didn’t really believe what he said, or if he did.

[XHogPilot]

Unfortunately my excerpt does no justice to a good article calling out the liar-in-chief.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

“Lenin”

[freekitty]

We really are going to be doing some heavy duty industrial cleaning with our politicians.

[rfp1234]

Loser
Liar
Liberal
Leftist
Lunatic
Limp-wristed
Linguini-spined

[bigbob]

Liar or Loser?

[mlocher]

"When it says Lobby, Lobby, Lobby,

On the label, label, label

We will tell you, tell you, tell you,

Another fable, fable, fable....

[Steely Tom]

Mr. Obama got where he is by being "clean and articulate" and spewing a steady stream of clean articulate BS at the limp-wristed the white pseudo-intellectuals who currently serve as the gatekeepers in much of our society.

They elevated him to the pinnicle of power. It's been showtime since January 2009.

[ThunderSleeps]

With obama the only L word you need to remember is LIAR!

Remember, if his lips are moving, he's almost certainly lying.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Bummer, you fib!

[bigbob]

While all those L words fit, I think “LUNKHEAD” belongs at the top of the list.

[ConservaTexan]

Joe didn't say it first, but so far he's said it best.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Obama’s dishonesty, by contrast, seems to spring from a different place. As a man who has spent most of his career wowing people with his words and very little of it converting those words into deeds, he has an activist’s gap between rhetoric and reality

Which is it I wonder.

Headline?

Aging radicals, followers lack experience; full of zeal for change
Obama's Activist Administration
1960s Marxist campus radicals, adherents want "social justice" for America. "Bring it all down, man."

..or

Entertainment News?

Hilarious new comedy troupe makes Monty Python's Flying Circus look positively dour..

Obama Jivethon's Lying Circus' hilarious wild comic parody of an American administration, "Bring it all down, man."

[B-Cause]

We really are going to be doing some heavy duty industrial cleaning with our politicians.

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The lady with the sign has the right idea!

[eyedigress]

Everyone of them are on the damn chopping block. I will talk with my (R)incumbents in Tennessee and tell them they better get hold of this the next round or they are out. If Queen Nancy can pass legislation on me, a new order is in the offing.

[TigersEye]

Obama and the L-Word

Liar, lunatic, leftist, louse, loser, leach, lounge lizard (heh, got a double L there), lazy, lackadaisical, laggard, lame, ...

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

That’s good! Adding thread and your jingle to ...

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[mlocher]

Aw shucks! Thanks.