“We expect politicians to lie, but an Obama speech is more
than a few lies. It’s an absence of truth.”
The President’s Address of Lies
By Daniel Greenfield
A
speech made up of shameless lies, crazy lies and evil lies.
Obama’s
previous State of the Union address claimed last year would
be a “breakthrough year.” In this year’s State of the Union
address he announced that he would turn the page.
Turning
the page on last year’s grandiose and dishonest claims is
what Obama does with each new address. Each year terrorism
has been permanently defeated and the economy has recovered;
Al Qaeda is on the run, unemployed dentists from
Poughkeepsie are learning to install solar panels and
illegal aliens from Los Angeles are teaching sex ed to
kindergarteners.
And
then next year he comes out to announce once again that the
country has recovered from the crisis that he had already
announced that it had recovered from last year.
And
everyone applauds.
What
exactly is Obama turning the page on? Two lost wars and the
lowest employed population since 1977… under his predecessor
Jimmy Carter?
When
everything on the last page looks so bad, then it’s time to
turn the page, offer up a minor variation on the same
promises about infrastructure, income inequality and
education, before going back to a busy schedule of playing
golf, visiting foreign countries on pseudo-vacations and
ruling unilaterally without regard for the other two
branches of government that don’t control the military.
There
are the false claims of victory in the War on Terror. Obama
claims credit for the withdrawal from Afghanistan without
accepting responsibility for the defeat. There is no mention
of Yemen and Libya, which showed up in his 2013 address, now
that both countries have been overrun by terrorists.
Turning
the page means not having to read any bad news.
Having
dragged the United States into two new wars, one in Libya
and one in Syria, Obama sneeringly denounces Republicans and
more serious Democrats who want to drag the country “into
costly conflicts that strain our military and set back our
standing.” By that he means imposing new sanctions on Iran’s
nuclear program, instead of letting a terrorist state have a
nuclear bomb.
In
fact it’s Obama, not Republicans, who brought the United
States into a proxy war with Iran in Syria while at the same
time allowing it to go nuclear in the single greatest act of
strategic insanity in history.
Instead
Obama urges that we use “all elements of our power to defeat
new threats and protect our planet.” Like inviting James
Taylor to play in Paris. The terrorists must have been
terrified.
Obama
is already claiming credit for beating ISIS, even though
ISIS has actually doubled the land it controls since his
airstrikes began. But that just means ISIS won’t be
mentioned in the 2016 address.
The
page will once again have been turned.
Obama
also claims to have beaten Putin. There’s only one minor
problem with that. In the real world, Russia still controls
Crimea. While in the unreal world, Obama controls CNN.
After
years of pitting Americans against each other and after
overtly endorsing the racist #BlackLivesMatter protests
which culminated in the murder of two police officers and
the racist harassment of gay bars and random white people
eating brunch, Obama warns against allowing “ourselves to be
sorted into factions and turned against one another.”
That
is followed by equally false and misleading claims of an
economic recovery. While Obama claims to have created jobs
for Americans, in fact net job growth went to immigrants in
mostly low-wage jobs. And the vast majority of the new jobs
were part-time jobs.
Workers
need to get two or three of those jobs that Obama is touting
just to make ends meet.
Obama
lies about putting Americans back to work while presiding
over an economy in which immigrants have taken low-paying
part-time jobs while Americans dropped out of the workforce.
But
having just unilaterally and illegally passed amnesty, to
take away even more jobs from Americans, Obama warns that
bills “refighting past battles on immigration” will be
vetoed.
This
particular past was very recent, but when you’re turning the
page on how you screwed Americans only a few months ago,
then it’s suddenly the very distant past.
Somewhere
between the Cold War and ObamaCare.
Obama
insists on taking credit for an energy revolution that he
battled every step of the way and continues to fight with
his Keystone veto threat. Instead of admitting that fracking
and cheap Saudi oil made the difference, he went on touting
his solar and wind boondoggles that have cost a fortune.
The
only thing solar power and wind turbines have done (besides
killing eagles and providing kickbacks to Democratic donors)
was make energy more expensive for middle class and working
class families.
With
a national debt over 18 trillion dollars, which increased
more under him than every president combined, and a nearly 4
trillion dollar budget request, Obama describes the entire
ugly mess, from ObamaCare to his frenzied spending spree on
failed Green Energy wrecks, as “middle-class economics.”
Even a snake oil salesman would have winced at selling
ramming up health care costs for the working middle class as
“middle-class economics.” “Screw the middle class” economics
would be more accurate.
That’s
why Obama lost the middle class. It’s why the man who took
away the health insurance plans of millions is vowing to
veto any effort to bring back middle class health insurance
to “protect them” from being able to choose their own
doctors.
But
turning the page means never having to take responsibility
for the things you did or the lies you told.
Every
State of the Union address, Obama drags out the same claim
about the gender pay gap, which even the liberal media fact
checked to death, only for him to resurrect it again next
time around.
Obama’s
claim that he will lower the cost of community college to
zero has already been fact checked to death, but still gets
shamelessly put forward. The one thing that we have learned
about Obama is that unlike George, he will not only tell a
lie, but he will keep on smugly telling it without any trace
of shame.
That
shamelessness is the sum of Obama’s brilliance.
Having
taxed prosthetics for ObamaCare while threatening any effort
to remove his tax, he talks up “creating revolutionary
prosthetics, so that a veteran who gave his arms for his
country can play catch with his kid.”
Aside
from making it harder to develop and buy those revolutionary
prosthetics, Obama cut health care for veterans and let the
VA assign them to oblivion for even routine lifesaving
medical exams.
Having
destroyed the space program, he speaks of “pushing out into
the Solar System not just to visit, but to stay” when even
visiting the space station requires relying on faulty
Russian Soyuz vehicles.
Never
mind “pushing out into the solar system.”
When
Scott Kelly, whom he mentions by name, goes for his
year-long stay in space, he’ll be traveling in a Soyuz
vehicle.
An
Obama speech is composed of constant lies. Connoisseurs can
distinguish different types of lies.
There
are the crazy lies, such as when Obama claims that
setting aside his worthless Global Warming pact with China
will “endanger the health of our children.” And then there
are the shameless lies such as his claim that
propping up the Castro dictatorship is “standing up for
democratic values.”
Is
there anything less democratic than propping up a
dictatorship?
Finally
there are the genuinely evil lies, such as Obama
condemning anti-Semitism and explaining how his commitment
to gay rights makes us safer right before he discusses his
determination to release some of the world’s most dangerous
Islamic terrorists from Guantanamo Bay.
And
yet all of Obama’s lies are in their own way evil. We expect
politicians to lie, but an Obama speech is more than a few
lies. It’s an absence of truth.
Obama
not only lies about the economy or the war, he lies about
his policies, he lies about his motives, he lies about what
he did and what he said, and he goes on lying about what he
intends to do. He lies boldly and he lies by omission. He
lies gleefully. Even when he calls for bipartisanship and
decency, he perverts those impulses by lying about his
refusal to compromise or show any decency to Americans.
What
Obama has delivered is not an address, but a black hole of
lies in which each lie clusters next to a dozen more until
it is impossible to see the light.
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