Wednesday, January 27, 2010
*This* Is A Presidential State of the Union
Compare and contrast this optimistic, confident, teleprompter-free, substantive, philosophically sound and just plain true-blue American performance with what you saw tonight.
Delivered at very similar times in each respective President's first term, in similar economic conditions, Reagan ALREADY had remarkable improvement. Our current occupant has growing unemployment, looming inflation, metastasizing federal government regulations and a public that is growing weary of his empty rhetoric.
Gosh, I wish we had a real president again.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
LIAR
http://realclearpolitics.blogs.time.com/2010/01/05/obamas-c-span-problem/
The President made promises. Explicit promises. And yet, he never intended to keep his promises. He made those promises because he knew it would make people more likely to vote for him. And that once he was elected, the public wouldn't be able to make him perform on his promises. He wins.
Now, let me be perfectly clear. All politicians do this. They all say things that are a "stretch" of the truth. But for the LEFT in America to go on and on for YEARS about how Bush got it wrong about WMD in Iraq and then to ignore this, well, that demonstrates the oily hypocrisy of the LEFT like nothing else. Notice, that in all the LEFT's years of calling Bush a liar, they never addressed the KEY distinction that separates a lie from an error: knowing misrepresentation of a fact with intent to deceive. Everybody thought Iraq had WMD. The CIA, the NSA, Algore, Bill Clinton....even the French and the UN thought he had WMD.
Oh, and one last thing. I don't necessarily care if there are cameras in deliberation sessions. I can see a strong argument why they shouldn't be there. We do not live in a direct democracy, nor do I want to. I don't want politicians preening for the cameras more than they already do. So, I can see it both ways.
But the only conclusion one can draw about Obama's actions in this regard are that he's a liar and a hypocrite.
UPDATE: Seems I'm not alone in my assessment about our President's strained relations with veracity:
The President made promises. Explicit promises. And yet, he never intended to keep his promises. He made those promises because he knew it would make people more likely to vote for him. And that once he was elected, the public wouldn't be able to make him perform on his promises. He wins.
Now, let me be perfectly clear. All politicians do this. They all say things that are a "stretch" of the truth. But for the LEFT in America to go on and on for YEARS about how Bush got it wrong about WMD in Iraq and then to ignore this, well, that demonstrates the oily hypocrisy of the LEFT like nothing else. Notice, that in all the LEFT's years of calling Bush a liar, they never addressed the KEY distinction that separates a lie from an error: knowing misrepresentation of a fact with intent to deceive. Everybody thought Iraq had WMD. The CIA, the NSA, Algore, Bill Clinton....even the French and the UN thought he had WMD.
Oh, and one last thing. I don't necessarily care if there are cameras in deliberation sessions. I can see a strong argument why they shouldn't be there. We do not live in a direct democracy, nor do I want to. I don't want politicians preening for the cameras more than they already do. So, I can see it both ways.
But the only conclusion one can draw about Obama's actions in this regard are that he's a liar and a hypocrite.
UPDATE: Seems I'm not alone in my assessment about our President's strained relations with veracity:
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