When I found out that the Associated Press had eleven reporters furiously fact-checking Sarah Palin's new book, illustrating that Palin Derangement Syndrome has not yet subsided (and did you hear the over-the-top Palin attacks by MSNBC and CNN last night ?), I thought maybe we should examine some statements made by a more important person, namely (in Michael Buffer's boxing announcer voice)….the Leader Of The Free World, the Teleprompter In Chief, the Apologist To The World, the Fence-Sittter General, The Preeeeeeee-sident Of The United Staaates…Barack Husseeeeeeeeeeeeein Obama !
Let's look at some of his statements, since the press rarely does.
Obama: "I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."
King: Except for your cigarette taxes, health care fines, health care reform taxes, cap-and-trade taxes, etc, etc.
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Obama: "I don't take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House."
King: Whatever, Barry. You had lobbyists on your campaign, your transition team, and you have them in your White House. (link)
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Obama: "I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office."
King: Yes, and now you're doubling it again, so shut up.
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Obama: "I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby."
King: I'll let Obama rebut himself on this one (he rebuts himself a LOT).
Obama: "No one is pro-abortion."
King: You are, Mr. President. You didn't even vote against partial birth abortions.
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Obama: "It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
King: Keep your bigoted sentiments to yourself, sir.
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Obama: "John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded."
King: I guess so, if you consider it "hard work" to make your name by trashing your own troops in Vietnam and then marrying two different rich heiresses, as John Kerry did.
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Obama: "My administration is the only thing between you [CEO's] and the pitchforks."
King: Um, was that a threat ? Stay classy, President Thug.
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Obama: "Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go."
King: I wonder what would have happened had Sarah Palin made this statement ??? Can you say 'media feeding frenzy' ? But with Obama, it's more like media blackout.
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Obama: "People of Berlin – people of the world – this is our moment. This is our time."
King: Diagnosis – narcissist. Delusions of grandeur. Pretty creepy.
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Obama: "The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable."
King: And all that misogynistic 'b*tches,' 'ho's,' 'back that a** up,' and "n-word' stuff is very insightful as well.
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Obama: "There's not a liberal America and a conservative America – there's the United States of America."
King: Then why do you spend so much time excluding and trashing conservative America ?
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Obama: "We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times… and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen."
King: Dictators R' Us. Other countries are supposed to tell us what we can drive, eat, and how we can heat our homes ? Nope. Don't think so. I'm not going to check with Belgium and Japan before I have a cheeseburger.
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Obama: "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."
King: Yeah, and we can have them wear, oh, I don't know, how about Brownshirts!!! With all due respect, screw you, Mr. President. Dictators R' Us, Part Two.
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Obama: "We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely."
King: LOL. Most of your stimulus spending was nothing but earmarks. You've set a new record for earmarks, even though you called them something else. Dishonesty on steroids.
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Obama: "I'm proud of the fact that I stood up early and unequivocally in opposition to Bush's foreign policy (and was the only U.S. Senate candidate in Illinois to do so). That opposition hasn't changed."
King: Then why are the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan/Pakistan still going on ?
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Obama: "I reject that notion [that forcing people to purchase health insurance or fining them is a tax increase]. Telling people to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase."
King: Do the fines come out of people's pockets and flow to the government coffers ? Yes, they do. That's a tax increase, President Pinocchio, no matter what you want to call it in Spinville.
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Obama: [debating Hillary] "Senator Clinton has a different approach. She believes that we have to force people who don’t have health insurance to buy it."
King: And so do you. At least Hillary was honest about it. How do you get that Pinocchio nose through the door, Mr. President ?
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Obama: "Now, many of these plans will cost money, which is why I’ve laid out how I’ll pay for every dime – by closing corporate loopholes and tax havens that don’t help America grow."
King: What a comedian. This one didn't pass the laugh test to begin with, and Obama has abandoned the idea.
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Obama: “And insurance companies will be required to cover, with no extra charge, routine checkups and preventive care … That makes sense, it saves money, and it saves lives.”
King: It makes sense and might save lives, but study after study indicates that preventive care will increase medical costs, not decrease them. It really only requires simple logic to make the determination. More care means more costs, and the overwhelming majority of preventive medicine DOESN'T uncover some dire illness. The overwhelming majority of people are healthy.
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Obama: "And one more misunderstanding I want to clear up – under our plan, no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions, and federal conscience laws will remain in place.”
King: I already dealt with this one in a recent post, but until the Stupak Amendment, it was obvious that federal funds, in the form of insurance subsidies, would have funded abortions under ObamaCare.
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Obama: "They [I assume he means honest people] argue that these private companies can’t fairly compete with the government. And they’d be right if taxpayers were subsidizing this public insurance option. But they won’t be. I have insisted that like any private insurance company, the public insurance option would have to be self-sufficient and rely on the premiums it collects.”
King: Same phony argument by Obama as with abortion. Because the public option insurance would be subsidized by the taxpayers for low income persons, just as private insurance would be, Obama actually refuted his own point here. The taxpayers would be subsidizing the public option.
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Obama: "“Reducing the waste and inefficiency in Medicare and Medicaid will pay for most of this [health care reform] plan.”
King: Now, that is some funny stuff. What's the name of that Michael McDonald song ???? Oh yeah, What A Fool Believes. Maybe Obama should get a side gig at the Laugh Factory. Nothing less than the entire history of our federal government tells us this can't possibly be true.
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Obama: "I want to campaign the same way I govern, which is to respond directly and forcefully with the truth."
King: Ta da ! Hi-larious. You're killing me, Barry. Can you do any Jack Nicholson impressions ?
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I can go on with these examples all day, but this post is running long, so I'll give President Pinocchio a break and stop embarassing him with the facts (for now).
One final quote, however.
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Obama: "If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost."
King: Well then, it looks like all is lost, because I sure don't trust someone like Obama who lies to me all the time.
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{ 20 comments… read them below or add one }
For a woman that is a "joke", according to the left, they sure have devoted an awful lot of resources in their attempts to demarginalize her? Based on their anxiety levels, it appears that she is the wooden stake for these vampires. If she would have had 5 abortions and favored pant suits……………the libs would have loved her.
King,
Not sure how you keep up with all the Obama gaffs, but don't expect the media to join your crusade anytime soon. The last of their credibility flew out the window last fall and the sheep seem to be their only captive audience. Future elections will be much more pleasurable with CNN, MSNBC, PBS, and others that have neutralized themselves from being relevant.
The lies will continue to flow while he is reassured by a majority of media incapable of calling his bluff. They're all in the same boat together…………………….and watching it sink will be our vengeance. They tied Bush to the war and economy and now society will easily connect the dots and tie the media to the Obama administration. They are inseparable.
You'll never keep up… everyday presents an opportunity for contradictions. If you haven't seen it, here's the latest:
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/16902
The key is when President Obama says "Someone like KSM". Guess it doesn't apply to the actual KSM…
Looks like a self-victimizing wingnut party today on King's blog.
I don't know what happened to wingers during Bush…..but it may just be incurable.
We were without a president from 2001-2009…and I guess, wingers forgot, or never really knew, what a true American leader was. That's too bad, because now, when we have a legitimate leader who takes his responsibilities seriously, ….and is curious and intelligent…wingers not only can't recognize those leadership qualities for what they are, but also call this leader a liar because they don't agree with his policies.
It's really quite amazing.
Your leader doesn't even agree with his own policies. What you call curious and intelligent can be better characterized as misleading and narcissistic.
BTW – please explain how 57 states, with "one more to go", is intelligent.
Rev, I believe we should give Obama a chance and I feel the press is detreoying him as they did Bush and Cheney, however Obama is a huge waffler on policy and a waffler on principles. He is an exellent sales person however his product never seems to be what was promised.
Rev: That's too bad, because now, when we have a legitimate leader who takes his responsibilities seriously, ….and is curious and intelligent…wingers not only can't recognize those leadership qualities for what they are, but also call this leader a liar because they don't agree with his policies.
?????? Rev,
I'm at a total loss for words and such spin I would only expect from MSNBC. Even in my days of staunch support for the GOP, common-sense always preceded partisanship. It is possible for a president to come along under the radar, get elected, and totally flop on his face……………….regardless of a Harvard education and regardless of party affiliation. And then there are some who totally outrule any possibility of such happening. Gotta get out of deep left field Rev……………..your view of the game is obscured. Couple of tea parties and you may snap out of it.
Come on you are sort of stretching the truth here on Obama and ignoring lie after lie Palin has said. The woman can't get ANY facts straight. She is a habitual liar .
His health care plan hasn't even been approved yet and you are already claiming YOU know how we will pay for it. To the best of my knowledge Obama hasn't raised anyone's taxes.
And if you don't understand how any one can NOT be for abortion but be pro choice that is your problem. One can be against smoking but at the same time Not want to ban cigarettes for others who want to smoke cant they ? Do you smoke King ? If you dont must mean you want to Ban cigarettes altogether then right or you are a liar ? YOur thinking
dd20,
Great example of Obama's deception. Nothing the man says can really be believed. It changes from day to day, from audience to audience. He is the consummate politician who will literally say anything to further himself. That "full military trial" for KSM is exactly what I think should happen. Why doesn't anyone in the lamestream media ever call him on this stuff ? What I wrote is only the tip of the iceberg. I could write my entire blog just on his deceptions and inconsistencies.
Andrea says,
"His health care plan hasn't even been approved yet and you are already claiming YOU know how we will pay for it. To the best of my knowledge Obama hasn't raised anyone's taxes."
If you don't think Obama is going to raise taxes, then you just haven't been paying attention. All his major initiatives contain huge tax increases, and he raised taxes on cigarettes within days of taking office.
"And if you don't understand how any one can NOT be for abortion but be pro choice that is your problem."
I do understand that, because I am one of those people. But never in his career has Obama voted to restrict any kind of abortion. He didn't even vote for the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, for god's sake. You'd also never hear me say I don't want my daughter punished with a baby, which is what I quoted. I'd try to talk my daughter into having the baby.
And though the Rev's words are content-free and not worth responding to, I'll just say this…
His response didn't have anything to do with anything. It ignored my entire post. Every time he does that, it means he doesn't have a response.
Alex,
I've been listening to one media nitwit after another calling Palin divisive for the last few days. I'm still trying to figure out what they are talking about. Is someone divisive now merely because they have their own opinion about things, one that differs from the Democratic establishment that the media represents ? It seems so. For the life of me, I can't see why they are so afraid of Palin. She's not that scary, but they bend over backwards to try to marginalize her. I exclude Oprah from that judgement. Oprah was respectful toward Palin.
King: For the life of me, I can't see why they are so afraid of Palin.
She's "real" and doesn't walk on politically-correct eggshells. Most Americans can liken themselves to a Sarah, long before that of a Pelosi. She's also willing to take on the establishment, rather than fall in line…………….a threat to corrupt republicans and democrats alike.
For all her limitations Palin has a gift for cutting off Obama at the knees. When she points out he never drafted important legislation but has written two autobiographies, for instance, she is not only pointing out Obama's fraudulent character, she is pointing out the gullibility of Obama's lemmings, a group that fancies itself as some sort of intellectual elite. No one likes to be unmasked in such a way–it threatens their sense of identity, even–and that is why they hate and fear her so.
Why don't I ever see Rev Red comment about our BIC? I guess old Rev doesn't understand that the man he calls our President is thought of all over the world as our Bower in Chief. I hope he never gets a chance to bow to Castro, because I fear he will do just that.
King, you just put too many of the gaffes of the BIC into that one post, and ,as you said, you didn't scratch the surface. In 10 months he has managed so many more of those things than Bush did in 96 months, so maybe that is the reason Rev has to keep bringing up the no President from 2001 to 2009.
At least with Bush, agree or disagree with his policies, you knew what those policies were. Obamarama contradicts himself so much that I find it hard to believe that anyone knows what he stands for.
Don't get me wrong, Bush said a lot of dumb things. I've been known to laugh at a few of his gaffes, but he never spoke out of both sides of his mouth like some other presidents I'm aware of. I hate saying it, but I think we would've been better off with Hillary Clinton. Same policies, but at least she represents herself accurately.
Alex,
It sounds to me like you are saying the lamestream media and the corrupt politicians in both parties detest Palin because she will call them out for what they are. Excellent point. These would be the same people who refer to non-coastal America as "flyover country."
Tory,
I voted for Hillary in the 2008 Democratic primary. I'd like to say I did it because I knew Obama was a liar, but I didn't fully know it then. I voted for Hillary because Obama didn't have any significant experience in anything relevant, had never run anything, had a thin resume, a less than stellar legislative record, and seemed like nothing but a public relations man who learned his talking points well. Style over substance. He hasn't changed my opinion, and now he's added dishonesty to the rest of his traits.
roy,
Are you sure Obama was bowing to the Japanese emperor ? I'm surprised Press Secretary Robert Gibbs hasn't explained yet that Obama was merely looking for a dropped contact lens.
I think it would have been more appropriate for Obama to bow to the Chinese. We need them to keep buying our debt. He could have groveled even.