By Douglas V. Gibbs
What do honest politicians, vampires and unicorns all have in common?
They don't exist.
The most famous George Washington quote begins, "I cannot tell a lie." Honesty in politics is a big deal with voters, and when a politician's actions do not meet their words, it turns voters off. Granted, the old jokes about the liars club being overrun by politicians and lawyers is nothing new, but once, just once, we'd like to not be lied to.
President Richard Nixon ran into trouble when he lied to the American people about Watergate. George Herbert Walker Bush lost reelection because he lied about "No New Taxes." The Lewinski Scandal that Bill Clinton was nearly impeached for was not so much about his drawer-dropping antics in the Oval Office as it was about the fact that he lied about his maneuvers with interns under oath. George W. Bush received the wrath of his opponents, and the media, when it was believed he lied about the presence of Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq. Lies by the President are not tolerated, or at least they didn't used to be. This administration, once again, has blood on its hands.
Then we come to the presidency of Barack Hussein Obama, the biggest liar of them all.
In 2008, during the presidential campaign, Obama claimed to be a tax-cutter, yet within weeks of taking office, he raised the tobacco tax, and then raised seven other taxes. Barack Obama claimed to have no lobbyists, and that his would be a transparent presidency. . . including claims that bills on his desk would be available to the people for review, saying that the health care debate would be on C-Span, and the health care bill was put together behind closed doors and without an invitation to the republicans.
Obama promised to eliminate earmarks, that there would be no more wiretapping of American Citizens, that he would close Guanatnamo Bay in a year (and it is still open), that he would cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term, that he was against a mandate to purchase health care, that the federal government would operate on a "pay as you go" mentality, and that federal dollars would not be used for abortion.
They were all lies.
Obama said that his father served in World War II, which was not true; that he has an uncle who was one of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps, even though the Americans weren't a part of liberating Auschwitz; he wasn't aware that his pastor, Jeremiah Wright, was a radical; swore that radical terrorist Bill Ayers was nothing more than just a guy in the neighborhood, when he was in reality a close friend; claimed we have run out of places to drill for oil, when in reality America's oil potential is incredibly promising; he denied Obamacare is a new tax; lied to keep his czars; has claimed to have done more for Israel's security than any previous President; promised to walk the picket line with union folks if ever their collective bargaining was denied; and he claimed his budget would cut the deficit by $4 trillion in ten years.
All of it, lies.
The media has let him skate, covering up for him, and doing what they can to hide the fact that President Obama is a pathological liar.
The people have also seemed not to notice, or at least the people that aren't very informed.
The lies about Fast and Furious haven't seemed to bother them, his lies about ACORN have had little impact on his popularity, his lie about operating in a sensible cost-effective way went right over their heads, lying about raising the minimum wage was forgotten by his hard left faithful, his lie about same-sex marriage has hurt him a little, his promises regarding saving families from their mortgages being foreclosed upon failed dramatically, every thing he has said about the unemployment rate has been filled with lies, the lies about saving families money on gasoline are obvious, he lied about you being able to keep your doctor and health plan and people are beginning to realize that one, he got caught lying that there were no boots on the ground in Libya, he said that he wouldn't rest until the BP Oil Spill stopped and that was a lie, his lies about the Financial Reform Bill reached epic proportions, and the big lie about inheriting everything from Bush has grown tiresome.
The biggest lie of all, however, has finally dented liberal democrat support for the Obama administration. Benghazi was the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back. On 9/11 the Middle East exploded with attacks against U.S. Embassies and consulates. The timing was obvious, it was all about the day Islam attacked the United States on American soil back in 2001. The Obama administration had been working their plan of appeasement, figuring if they were nice enough to the Muslims, the Islamic nations would somehow become peaceful towards the United States. They couldn't admit, after the death of Osama bin Ladin, that al-Qaeda was still as strong as ever, and that the Islamists were still waging Jihad against the United States. Piggy-backing on Susan Rice's claims, the administration claimed the riots around the world by Muslims were about a video, a video hardly viewed up to that point, and not viewed by any Middle Eastern location until the Obama administration made the Islamic World aware of the film when they began to blame the Innocence of Muslims. For the first time since the 9/11 attacks security was not beefed up at embassy locations in the Middle East (though, Barbados got extra security), and in fact decreased security. Murdered Ambassador Stevens in Benghazi asked for more security, well aware of the dangers the Obama administration refused to recognize. The State Department is calling the attack against the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi a terrorist attack, indicating there was no protest. Libya's government has said the same. They are admitting that the security was inadequate. Yet, the administration continues to lie, and try to cover up the truth. Benghazi was a pre-planned terror attack, and the Obama administration refuses to tell the truth about it. Hillary Clinton even told the lie while standing next to the casket holding the ambassador's dead body. They keep blaming the film, and now they are blaming each other, and they keep claiming they knew nothing about any request for more security. Biden even lied about the whole thing in his debate with Paul Ryan. The scandal is being called worse than Watergate - at least in Watergate, nobody died.
The Americans don't like to be lied to, especially when Americans die. Even the Celebrity in Chief is being held accountable for this one.
Government lies, but as we approach Election Day 2012, it is proving to be true that the worst liar of them all is Barack Obama, and his liberal left Democrat Party team.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
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