<sigh> I know, major newsflash, right? Ditto that the 'stache has published his White House memoir. Although it is newsworthy that it took him this long to get it out to retailers. Some authors don't take any time at all.
And then there's the fact that this is, effectively, sedition against the Regime. Does Axe think himself exempt from being "disappeared"? I guess we'll find out:
One of the president’s closest advisers just revealed something incredible about President Barack Obama.
In his new book, Believer: My Forty Years in Politics, political strategist David Axelrod revealed that Obama lied to the public about a key issue in order to get elected.
In the book, he states that Obama blatantly lied about his beliefs on gay marriage, and that the candidate knowingly misled the American people to reach the presidency.
Axelrod claims that Obama supported gay marriage when he was running for president. Instead of being honest about his stance, however, the candidate covered up his views and publicly claimed to oppose gay marriage in favor of civil unions....
“Opposition to gay marriage was particularly strong in the black church, and as he ran for higher office, he grudgingly accepted the counsel of more pragmatic folks like me, and modified his position to support civil unions rather than marriage, which he would term a ‘sacred union,’” revealed Axelrod, according to Opposing Views.
In other words: Barack Obama lied to black Americans about a core belief in order to gain black votes.
Which he almost certainly would have won anyway. Having wallowed naked in 95% of the black vote in the last two elections anyway, I suspect that O could have undergone plastic surgery to make himself look like a black version of Adolph Hitler and he'd have lost none of those ballots. Which suggests to me that the deception wasn't about political tactics but was because that is simply the nature of the men in question.
The decision to repeatedly lie supposedly made Obama uncomfortable … but not enough to stop. “I’m just not very good at bullshitting,” Obama said, according to Axelrod.
Yet that’s exactly what he continued to do for years.
Because it worked for him. Why? Not because O was wrong about his abundant lack of talent for prevarication, but because his skin color covered any multitude of sins deemed necessary to get him to, and then keep him in, perpetuitous power. Indeed he was also "bullshitting" about not being comfortable with promiscuous lying, as the fact of his ubiquitous deceptions on and about pretty much everything else over most of the past decade has amply illustrated. Other than perhaps in the sense that pretending not to support rape and murder of the institution of marriage was preventing him from being "the president he always wanted to be".
No wonder he claims to feel so "liberated" these days.
And that's no lie.
It'll probably be in the 'stache's literary sequel.
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