Barack Obama is a Liar

American Thinker

Calling  someone a liar is a serious accusation. This is why, aside from the unwritten  contract allowing for mutual prevarication, politicians are so reluctant to do  it. And not just anyone is a liar. Legend has it that our first president said,  “I cannot tell a lie,” but, being only human, G.W. no doubt could and certainly  did, at some point. A liar, however, is someone who lives and breathes  the lie; someone who specializes in the art of artifice; someone to whom lying  is his first recourse, not his last. Such a man is Barack  Obama.

In  four years, Obama has gone from “change you can believe in” to a man you simply  cannot believe. And it’s not just Benghazi-gate, although that’s a good place to  start. With the recently revealed  emails  showing that the White House was told a mere two hours after the attack that it  was a terrorist act, no reasonable person  can still conclude that the Obama administration was honest in its aftermath.  And the claim that the violence was sparked by some anti-Islamic film wasn’t  just a lie – it was a liar’s lie.

It  was dumb.

It  was obvious that it would eventually blow up in the administration’s face and  make Benghazi into the scandal it has now become. But such things are only  obvious to the intellect; at issue here are instincts.

Of  course, since the Obama administration had failed to provide requested security  for our Libyan diplomats despite previous attacks on their consulate and the  approach of 9/11’s anniversary, the president had a vested political interest in  suppressing the truth. This made the Benghazi-gate lie one of callousness and  convenience, not malice. But then there is the matter of Hampton University in  Virginia.

The  speech Obama gave there on June 5, 2007 received a bit of attention recently  before being dismissed as “old news.” But perhaps nothing reveals the  president’s character better.

Appearing  before a mostly black audience and speaking Ebonics-style (despite never having  lived in a black community), Obama accused the federal government of showing  cruel indifference to the primarily black victims of Hurricane Katrina. The  evidence, he claimed, involved something called the Stafford Act, which requires  a locality receiving federal disaster relief to provide 10 percent as much money as Washington does. And as Obama worked  the crowd, he said:

When  9/11 happened in New York City, they waived the Stafford Act. …And that was  the right thing to do. When Hurricane Andrew struck in Florida, people said,  ‘Look at this devastation; we don’t expect you to come up with your own money.  Here, here’s the money to rebuild…because you’re part of the American family.’  What’s happening down in New Orleans?! Where’s your dollar?! Where’s your  Stafford Act money?! Makes no sense. …Tells me that somehow the [black] people  down in New Orleans they don’t care about as  much.

This  is Racial Grievance 101, the main course offering of a community organizer  (agitator?). And it’s no small matter, as stoking the fires of racial and ethnic  hatred has cost scores of millions of lives throughout history. Yet, isn’t there  something to be said about raising awareness of injustice? Well, now for the  rest of the story.

Barely  two weeks before Obama gave the Hampton U. speech, the US Senate had in fact  waived the Stafford Act for New Orleans. Moreover, that city ended up receiving  more aid than Florida and NYC combined. But that’s not all. As Thomas  Sowell wrote:

Unlike  Jeremiah Wright’s church, the U.S. Senate keeps a record of who was there on a  given day. The Congressional Record for May 24, 2007 shows Senator Barack Obama  present that day and voting on the bill that waived the Stafford Act  requirement. Moreover, he was one of just 14 Senators who voted against –  repeat, AGAINST – the legislation which included the  waiver.

Absolutely  mind boggling. Obama votes against the bill that includes the waiver designed to  help people about whom he purports to care. Yet the bill passes despite his  resistance. Obama nonetheless appears before a black audience not two weeks  later and claims that the waiver for aid was never granted. Even more damnably,  he clearly implies that this is due to white “racism.”

Then  there is the most ironic chapter in the Obama Annals of Artifice. It’s common to  dismiss those who question the president’s origins as cranks and con men, but,  as American Thinker pointed out,  Obama was “the original birther.”

This  refers to the revelation in May of this year that Obama’s former literary  agency, Acton & Dystel, printed a promotional  booklet  in 1991 that touted Obama as having been “born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia  and Hawaii.” Note that this was a polished volume created at great expense by a  professional outfit, and there is only one source from which its agents could  have gotten the notion that Obama was born in Kenya: Obama  himself.

Thus,  it’s hard to escape the conclusion that  the president has lied about his birthplace – either when claiming more recently  that he was born in Hawaii or, far more likely, when claiming in 1991 that he  wasn’t. And it’s easy to understand why he would’ve claimed the latter. By the  ’90s, having exotic origins could truly enhance your cachet and hence your  marketability. And this little twist on truth was small potatoes for a guy  willing to disgorge lies designed to foment racial unrest.

This  brings us to the presidential debates. It’s fine to fact-check, to reveal that  Obama really did  lie  about the decline in oil production on federal lands, tax breaks for shipping  jobs overseas, middle-class tax cuts, Egyptians’ newfound love for  America,  and a Status of Forces agreement. But at some point it’s a bit like trying to  itemize the libations of a guy who has crashed both your cars, squanders the family funds on booze, staggers home in  the wee hours, and is a continual embarrassment around the neighbors. You no  longer need to prove that certain individual drinks were imbibed; it’s painfully  clear that the individual is a drinker.

While  hard-core partisans will remain in denial on our drunk-on-power president, good  people, who generally have a desire to be polite, should realize that politeness  becomes vice when it obscures truth. And if we don’t wish to descend into  dishonesty ourselves – the intellectual variety – we need to acknowledge that  the truth about Barack Obama is that he simply cannot tell it.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/10/barack_obama_is_a_liar.html#ixzz2AMyt0fAN

4 thoughts on “Barack Obama is a Liar

  1. Would it or could it be that obama may do as the woman in tonights articles! Light himself affire and blame it on the Whites, Republicans, or rich!? Oh please let it be so!

  2. American Thinker! Correct me if in error and this is somewhat trivial, but obama the liar never was a Senator! He was a Congressional Representative! in the House not the Senate!

  3. My last post on this article is addressed to Selwyn Duke! Writer of this article!

  4. As far as I am concerned, that word is not only accurate but not enough or strong enough to describe him.

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