By MacPundit

The Face of Deceit

The audacity of mendacity

It’s not hyperbole. It’s not Internet trash talk. It’s simple, old-fashioned fact: We cannot believe President Obama. This is a given for those of us who have paid attention for the past 5 years. Your fearless seeker of truth, your devoted blogger—yours truly—has been reporting on Mr. Obama’s astonishingly persistent record of mendacious behavior for what seems like an eternity. It seems that long because until now at least half of the country has had little to no interest in the notion that their president is a remarkably dishonest man. Some even describe him as a remarkably accomplished liar, which of course is to say the same thing but with a refreshingly common voice. Fearless honesty comes to mind.

Maybe, just maybe, things are beginning to change. Maybe Mr. Obama’s deceit is becoming ever-so-slightly visible to some of the media hacks who until now have been functionally blind to it. It is a big maybe, though. You see, Mr. Obama has a super human ability to get away with things that most of us mere mortals (with a conscience) would not want any part of. If Bill Clinton is “Slick Willy” and John Gotti was “The Teflon Don”, what’s left for Mr. Obama? Slick Willy headed the list of the most dishonest presidents until Barack Obama showed up and took the lead running away. Obama is the absolutely unchallenged champ. It’s a blowout. So what do we call him? “Barry The Dodge?”

Sequestration

If you are among the half of the country who are still unaware of our president’s history of deceit, you will find ample factual evidence of it on this website. Meanwhile, his most recent and, perhaps, his most ill-deployed attempt to mislead and manage the American people is about his and his administration’s handling of “Sequestration” and what it has revealed about him and his political machine.

Mr. Obama’s first most flagrant public lie about Sequestration occurred in the third debate of the 2012 Presidential Campaign. Let’s watch:

The Washington Post (not overly friendly to Republicans) gave our fearless leader 4 Pinocchios on that one. Why? Because a) The Obama White House did propose it—not Congress as the President claimed. And b) It did happen, contrary to what the President predicted.

Now I must confess to an active sense of skepticism about almost anything Barack Obama says. How could I not? There is nothing equivocal about the facts. Barack Obama has a very long history of deceptive behavior. But if you have any doubts, spend some time here to get informed. You do want to be informed. Right?

By MacPundit

Well documented false statements made by our Great Leader

These Obama false statements have been documented by PolitiFact. Some may already be listed elsewhere on this site simply because there are so many and our Great Leader shows no signs of slowing down. It is hard to keep up. (These range from 2008 to recent.)

Obama false statements compiled by PolitiFact.

1. “We have doubled the distance our cars will go on a gallon of gas.” False (Where, exactly, did you here that one, Mr. President?)
2. “Throughout, we have kept Congress fully informed of our efforts” to create a legal framework on counter-terrorism. False (You forgot to tell the Members of Congress.)
3. “If the House of Representatives fails to extend the middle-class tax cuts, 400,000 middle-class Rhode Island families will see their federal income taxes increase.” False (Someone should tell him the difference between households and families.)
4. Says Mitt Romney “called the Arizona law a model for the nation.” False (One more widely spread “misquote.”
5. “Under Gov. Romney’s definition … Donald Trump is a small business.” False (Pure fabrication. There never was any such Romney definition.)
6. Because of Obamacare, “over the last two years, health care premiums have gone up — it’s true — but they’ve gone up slower than any time in the last 50 years.” False (It had nothing to do with Obamacare and you know it, Mr. President. Or you should know it.)
7. “Over the last four years, the deficit has gone up, but 90 percent of that is as a consequence of” President George W. Bush’s policies and the recession. False (You continue to lie about George W. Bush. Shame on you.) See Obama’s Biggest Lie.
8. “Fast and Furious” began under the Bush administration. False (It was created in 2009 and guess what? You were president.)
9. Mitt Romney “says the Arizona immigration law should be a model for the nation.” False (You just can’t help it, can you?)
10. Says Mitt Romney would deny gay people the right to adopt children. False (Romney’s words say otherwise.)
11. “The only time government employment has gone down during a recession has been under me.” False (It actually went down lower during a recession Reagan inherited from Carter. But then you often take credit for things you never did.)
12. “Under the Romney/Ryan budget, interest rates on federal student loans would be allowed to double.” False (You either never read the Romney/Ryan budget or you are simply lying again.)
13. If the Supreme Court throws out the federal health care law, it “would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress.” False (It was passed by a slim majority in a corrupt process. Also, it is not unprecedented for the Supreme Court to overturn a law passed by Congress.)
14. “For the first time since 1990, American manufacturers are creating new jobs.” False (Not true. Please stop making stuff up.)
15. “Preventive care … saves money, for families, for businesses, for government, for everybody.” False (Wrong in 2009, and wrong today)
16. “Thirty million Americans, including a lot of people in Florida, are going to be able to get healthcare next year because of that law.” False (Only in your dreams can it be true.)
17. “I made a bunch of these promises during the campaign. … We’ve got about 60 percent done in three years.” False (See Obama Broken Promises.)
18. Under President Barack Obama, the United States has “doubled our exports.” False (Not even close to the truth.)
19. The president’s proposed budget “will help reduce the deficit by $400 billion over the next decade to the lowest level since Dwight Eisenhower was president.” False (Whew! He has no shame.)
20. Under the White House’s budget proposal, “we will not be adding more to the national debt” by the middle of the decade. False (He forgot to tell you about the growing interest on the debt. It is huge!)
21. Twelve judges have thrown out legal challenges to the health care law because they rejected “the notion that the health care law was unconstitutional.” False (The truth? Two to two on judges’ decisions on constitutionality. Big difference.)
22. “I didn’t raise taxes once.” False (Of course you did. If we had a few real journalists, you couldn’t keep getting away with all these lies.)
23. When President Franklin D. Roosevelt started Social Security, “it only affected widows and orphans,” and when Medicare began, “it was a small program.” False (An itsy-bitsy grain of truth here. But the lie is in the intent and he lied once again.)
24. The Bush administration had been “giving (auto companies) billions of dollars and just asking nothing in return.” False (Call in the shrinks. Our president cannot stop lying.)
25. “The vast majority of the money I got was from small donors all across the country.” False (Big donors bankrolled much of Obama’s campaign.)
26. “We’ve excluded lobbyists from policy-making jobs.” False (Except for the ones in policy-making jobs.)
27. When Obama was interviewed by American reporters in Asia, “Not one of them asked me about Asia. Not one of them asked me about the economy.” False (Except for the ones that asked you.)
28. Insurers delayed an Illinois man’s treatment, “and he died because of it.” False (Hmm, I guess you forgot to tell the man to die, Mr. President, because the insurer’s decision was reversed and man lived three more years.)
29. Health reform will “give every American the same opportunity” to buy health insurance the way members of Congress do. False (I realize that none of you phonies have read the bill but couldn’t you just for once stop lying? You are really setting a bad example for our children. You know, the same children who you have burdened with massive debt.)
30. Preventive care “saves money.” False (Covering preventive care for everyone is a net cost.)
31. (No earmarks in spending bill) False (They are even there in your dreams.)
32. “If we went back to the obesity rates that existed back in the 1980s, the Medicare system over several years could save as much as a trillion dollars.” False (Wrong, wrong, wrong … and still wrong!)
33. “I have not said that I was a single-payer supporter.” False (Oh yes you did and it’s on YouTube.)
34. Stimulus tax cuts “began showing up in paychecks of 4.8 million Indiana households about three months ago.” False (How come the 4.8 million Indiana households didn’t notice?)
35. Health insurance companies are “making record profits, right now.” False (They’re making profits like they should, but not record profits like you would have us believe.)
36. “We import more oil today than ever before.” False (He said this on July 6, 2009 when oil imports were actually down.)
37. “There is no disagreement that we need action by our government, a recovery plan that will help to jump-start the economy.” False (There is a lot of disagreement. At least half the country want the government to get out of the way so the private sector can rebuild our economy.)
38. “Senator McCain would pay for part of his (health care) plan by making drastic cuts in Medicare — $882-billion worth.” False (Which one of your lackeys told you that, Mr. President? McCain never said it. Later, Obama and the Democrats actually did cut over $500 billion out of Medicare. Phony is as phony does.)
39. “The centerpiece of Senator McCain’s education policy is to increase the voucher program in D.C. by 2,000 slots.” False (Do you have a secret “Tzar of Lies” or what? Or do you make the lies up all by yourself? It’s scary and the media should call you on it.)
40. Under John McCain’s health care plan, people get a $5,000 tax credit to buy a $12,000 health care policy, and “that’s a loss for you.” False (A major distortion on McCain’s policy.)
41. John McCain accused Barack Obama “of letting infants die.” False (Obama ad is wrong about McCain abortion charge. However the truth is that Senator Obama voted multiple times to defeat a bill that would have saved the lives of babies born alive in botched abortions.)
42. “Oil companies …currently have 68-million acres that they’re not using.” False (Unused does not mean they are being ignored.)
43. McCain “has opposed stem cell research.” False (Obama ad is misleading and it distorts McCain’s stem cell position.)
44. “But if my opponent had his way, the millions of Floridians who rely on it would’ve had their Social Security tied up in the stock market this week.” False (Where did you get that idea, Mr. Obama? It wasn’t from John McCain.)
45. “The fact is that although we have had a president who is opposed to abortion over the last eight years, abortions have not gone down.” False (I know you Liberals hate real facts, but the fact is, they went down under George W. Bush.)
46. Oil companies “haven’t touched” 68 million acres where they already have rights to drill. False (68 million acres isn’t going untouched. You keep on making this stuff up and I’ll do my best to expose you.)
47. Fully inflating tires is “a step that every expert says would absolutely reduce our oil consumption by 3 to 4 percent.” False (Not on this planet but there are millions of suckers who believe whatever you say, and that is why you just keep making this stuff up. I was taught to call it lying. How about you?)
48. John McCain refuses to support a new bipartisan energy bill “because it would take away tax breaks from oil companies like Exxon Mobil.” False (McCain has not commented on the bill at all.)
49. The U.S. government spends less on energy innovation “than the pet food industry invests in its own products.” False (Pure baloney! What we should spend research money on is how stop our leaders from lying to us.)
50. “Our National Guard, as we saw in the Midwest flooding, can’t function as effectively as it could. I was talking to National Guard representatives. Fifteen of their 17 helicopters in this region were overseas during the flooding.” False (There was no shortage of helicopters for floods. I really wish you would resign. It is truly awful having such a grossly dishonest president of my country.)
51. “I think we came down here (to Florida) one time … but we weren’t actively fund-raising here.” False (Obama held fundraisers.)
52. “I have never said that I don’t wear flag pins or refuse to wear flag pins.” False (Obama contradicts his previously stated pin philosophy.)
53. “We are bogged down in a war that John McCain now suggests might go on for another 100 years.” False
54. “Hillary Clinton believed NAFTA was a ‘boon’ to our economy.” False (She never said it.)
55. “As has been noted by many observers, including Bill Clinton’s former secretary of labor, my plan does more than anybody to reduce costs.” False (Experts rate Dem plans about the same.)
56. “She said, you know, ‘I voted for it, but I hoped it wouldn’t pass.’ That was a quote on live TV.” False (That’s not the actual quote.)
57. Americans “have never paid more for gas at the pump.” False (He needs a fill-up on statistics.)
58. “I know that Hillary on occasion has said — just last year said this (NAFTA) was a boon to the economy.” False (There is no evidence she said that.)
59. “Gas prices have never been higher, and Exxon Mobil’s profits have never been higher.” False (He’s a year too late on this energy claim.)
60. “If we went back to the obesity rates that existed in 1980, that would save the Medicare system a trillion dollars.” False (He just makes it up.)
61. “John wasn’t this raging populist four years ago” when he ran for president. False (Edwards tagged ‘populist’ early on.)
62. “Right now, an employer has more of a chance of getting hit by lightning than be prosecuted for hiring an undocumented worker. That has to change.” False (Lightning strikes, but not like the feds.)
63. If African-Americans vote their percentage of the population in 2008, “Mississippi is suddenly a Democratic state.” False (By itself, black voter increase does not flip Mississippi & mdash; or the South.)

By MacPundit

Bye Bye Miss American Pie

The day the music died …

Twelve long days have passed since the re-election of Barack Obama. Since then I have started to write a new post about the election at least five separate times. I didn’t finish any of them and instead of finishing this one I have chosen to share someone else’s post with you. The author was able to say what I’ve been thinking and feeling better than I can right now. Billy, an old boyhood friend of mine and retired Air Force career man, sent the post to me. It is from a blog entitled Casual Sundays With Mr. Curry.

Gobsmacked

Well, It’s official; I don’t know anything.

I thought for sure that given such a clear choice, Americans would vote for love of country over revenge.

I was wrong.

I thought, that just as every presidential election in my lifetime, the bad economy would be hung around the incumbent’s neck, sinking him.

I was wrong.

I thought that even those few Americans who were fortunate enough to still be fully employed (not counting those leeching off the public system) would be cognizant of how much pain their neighbors were in and elect someone who would at least try to make improvements.

I was wrong.

I thought that now that FINALLY some of the disturbing truths about our first black president had come to light, voters would reject a man so dangerously at odds with the American experience.

I was wrong.

I thought the 2010 elections and the Tea Party meant something.

I thought the enthusiasm on display at Romney/Ryan events, contrasted with the lack of same at Obama/Biden events meant something.

I thought Americans would never sell their liberty for the sake of trinkets like cell phones or even big shiny lies like ‘free health care’.

I was wrong.

Never in a million years would I have supposed that America would support a president who left his (our) people to die at the hands of our enemies overseas without lifting a hand to help, then lie about what he watched in real time for over two weeks, then lie about the lie for another month.

I was wrong.

I thought Americans could tell a hawk from a handsaw.

I was wrong.

We were offered the clearest choice we’ve had since 1980, where we had malaise and a misery index on one hand and a shining city on a hill on the other. Back then, we chose the city on the hill. This time the choice was between a man who says 7.9% unemployment and $4.00 gas is the new normal and a guy whose entire career has been about fixing broken entities.

We chose to stay broken. And Broke.

Maybe I’m wrong about the ramifications of this choice. Maybe windmills will actually turn out to be a viable energy source. Maybe America diminished will be loved overseas. Maybe a nuclear Iran won’t be a threat. Maybe Israel is over reacting. Maybe western civilization was always over rated. Maybe life under sharia is fun. Maybe when the rest of the world realizes that we have no intention of ever paying back that $16,000,000,000,000.00 (and counting) that we’ve borrowed from them, they won’t devalue the dollar, causing hyper inflation here at home. Maybe China will just keep on giving us money and not demand our hearts, souls, national monuments and marriageable daughters as payment.

I’ve watched my candidate lose elections before but I’ve never felt the way I did last night when this one was called for Obama.

It wasn’t bitterness or sadness or even disappointment. It took me a while to figure out what it was. Then it hit me; it was horror.

Pure, unadulterated horror.

Not because of Obama, but because of what it says about us, the American people, that we chose this.

It shouldn’t have even been close. Faced with the choice between taking charge of our destiny and tackling our financial problems, we opted to get high and have sex. We re-elected a guy who doesn’t understand that a growing economy that creates more tax payers will bring in more revenue than higher taxes. A Commander in Chief who doesn’t know our military still uses bayonets. A man who wants to control the economy without even knowing the difference between bankruptcy and liquidation. It was one thing to elect an unknown quantity, buying his line of ‘Hope and Change’. It’s something else to deliberately choose his failed policies over someone who has actually achieved success in life. I never dreamed America would do that.

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, Hello Idiocracy!

Goodbye, recovery.

Goodbye, energy independence.

Goodbye, religious liberty.

Goodbye, liberty and justice for all.

Goodbye, American dream.

It profits a man nothing to lose his soul for the whole world but we threw ours away for cell phones and birth control pills.

In the twentieth century (the American Century), we stepped up to the plate three times and saved the rest of the world from fascism, nazism and communism. We were the cavalry, always riding to the rescue.

Now, we’ve gotten rid of our horses, spent all our money on windmills, alienated our allies, bowed to our enemies, cut ourselves off from our own natural resources thrown away our children’s birthright and spent their inheritance.

And we did it on purpose.

When the wolf is at the door (and he’s coming, yelling ‘Allahu Akbar’) we’re going to find out that there is no one out there to come to our rescue.

On the bright side, maybe it’ll all turn out great. After all, I don’t know anything.

By MacPundit

Four more years of Obama could destroy America beyond repair.

The fact that Election 2008 was a serious mistake is clear to all honestly informed observers. What is important is that we do not repeat it.

By now the same honestly informed observers at least suspect that President Obama is the most dishonest president in U.S. history. This website alone has documented more than 160 untruthful statements made by Mr. Obama. You can also find 80 solidly documented broken promises here, which may be a record. Add incompetence and radicalism to his dishonesty and we can easily see why his presidency has been such a disaster. But we elected the most unqualified candidate in U.S. history. So what did we expect?

The election of Barack Obama was a fluke.

I believe that honest historians will view the election of Barack Obama as an aberration, a fluke. They will describe a time in which many Americans—especially the youth and the ideologues—had become so politically ignorant, so socially shallow, or so politically rigid that they were unable to grasp the seriousness of a presidential election. Instead they were enticed by the notion of electing our first Black president and by the seductive rhetorical skills of Barack Obama. It was a popularity contest, an exercise in superficiality—a perfect environment for an accomplished demagogue.

Of course what is done is done and it will take many years to reverse the damage that has been inflicted upon us by Mr. Obama’s radicalism and mismanagement. As a result of the unprecedented amount of debt he has placed on us, we are now facing economic Armageddon. Our standing in the world has suffered as well. Simply put: We are no longer viewed as Great America. In fact, more than one world leader has referred to President Obama as being an amateur or naïve, among other unflattering descriptors.

No more mistakes please!

We simply cannot afford another four years of Barack Obama. If anyone reading this does not fully understand the seriousness of our current situation then please spend some time on this website. The facts are here. This is not a Republican or Democratic problem. It is a national problem and in five short days we absolutely must get it right. It is not an exaggeration to say that our nation is in deep trouble and we are running out of time.

A Time For Wisdom

Regardless of what Barack Obama tells us, the truth is that all things considered, we are far worse off than we were four years ago. And as someone correctly said, “To re-elect Barack Obama would be like the Titanic intentionally backing up to hit another iceburg.”