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Tweet You know that old joke, the one that goes “How can you tell when a politician is lying?  His lips are moving.”  That’s Obama. I think Obama’s skilled lying arises from the fact that he is a borderline personality, whether malignant narcissist or sociopath.  These specific border personalities lie better than ordinary people because [...]

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Tweet Here’s what didn’t happen in Benghazi on September 11, 2012:  Despite advanced warning of the attack, and despite urgent, detail rich phone calls from the CIA/former Navy SEAL operatives under attack, and despite real time video feeds of events unfolding on the ground,* no one came to help.  No one came to help the [...]

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Tweet With the election drawing near, the pace of political posting on Facebook is rapidly picking up.  I found two interest things just the other day. The first thing a friend put up is “The Worst Lies Paul Ryan Told.”  What quickly becomes apparent is that, well, Paul Ryan didn’t really tell lies.  His facts [...]

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Tweet William Galston, who writes for The New Republic (i.e., he’s a Leftist), is not sanguine about Obama’s standing in the presidential race.  Without getting into the why of Obama’s decision to run a staggeringly vindictive campaign (which would force him to acknowledge that Americans dislike both what Obama has and has not done), he [...]

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Tweet I had some brilliant teachers when I was at law school in Texas.  Elizabeth Warren was not among their number.  While she knew her stuff, her disjointed, elliptical communication style made her one of the poorer teachers I’ve had during my 20 years as student (from kindergarten through my J.D.).  I’ve always said that [...]

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Tweet In 1965, the United States Supreme Court decided Griswold v. Connecticut, the first case to enunciate a “right to privacy” under the U.S.  Constitution.  Before Griswold, notion of a right to privacy had only existed as a common law doctrine, applicable to ones fellow citizens.  This was the first time, however, that the United [...]

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Tweet These two posts have entirely different content, but both are distinguished by Leftist lies, whether the Leftist is spouting the lies to others or (and I’m being generous in my interpretation here) only telling them to herself: A Harvard Fairy Tale About Romney and Obama How Soon They Forget

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Tweet Gateway Pundit explains just how badly the blog “Jumping in Pools” can burn you.  It’s all of a piece with the fake Chamber of Commerce press conference.  Once Leftists and puckish anarchists make truth impossible to find, people will give up on looking.

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Tweet Obama lies.  He does not merely prevaricate, waffle, beg the question, evade, mince words or engage in any other delicate dodge around the truth.  When it comes to the health care bill he is trying to sell American, he and out and lies.  He tries to sell us big, fat, juicy, completely false representations [...]

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Tweet “You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.” — Abraham Lincoln Obama lies, and lies, and lies again. Sometimes he lies directly, and sometimes he lies by having his [...]

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Tweet Obama’s lying again, which is always fascinating, because his lies fall into the “who are you going to believe — me or your lying eyes?” category.  That is, it’s not as if he has a guilty little secret, and is lying.  Nor is it a simple he said/she said scenary, in which you know [...]

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Tweet Back in May 2008 2007, I examined the way in which Obama tells lies: Obama is also a fairly compulsive liar, something that highlights myriad other problems.  That is, whenever he’s caught in a problematic situation (ah, those friends of his), rather than making a clean breast of it, or a good defense, he [...]

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Tweet I didn’t post it last week, but in an email I sent to a group of political bloggers discussing Obama’s debate performance last week, I noted that, when Obama attacked McCain for allowing people to yell “kill” Obama, Obama probably already knew that this myth had been debunked.  Color me prescient (and I’m quoting [...]

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Tweet I don’t know whether this Churchill story is true.  I first read it about 30 years ago in a book printed about 50 years ago.  It doesn’t sound like the man, but it’s a good story anyway for my purposes. Churchill was asked to give a speech to a trade organization.  He asked his [...]

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Tweet Mike Devx was right, and I was too generous.  Obama was not phrasing things infelicitously or making Freudian slips when he made the lipstick/pig speech.  He has now admitted that he intended to refer to Palin when he used the phrase “lipstick,” something he denied right up until he got onto Letterman, when he [...]

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Tweet Karl Rove has written a tidy little summary of Obama’s dizzying changes on Iraq:* Throughout 2006 and early 2007, Mr. Obama pledged to remove all U.S. troops, even voting to immediately cut off funds for the troops while they were in combat. Then, in July 2007, he started talking about leaving a residual U.S. [...]

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Tweet I don’t need to tell you that Obama’s lies are catching up with him.  What I wanted to point out is that others are catching up to the unique nature of Obama’s lies, something I blogged about here and here.  My example is Ed Morrissey, who says neatly in one paragraph what it took [...]

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Tweet This sounds dreadful — until you read this, and discover that it’s not dreadful, it’s profoundly dishonest.  And it’s the dishonesty that’s the true horror. Have past elections been characterized by such terrible dishonesty?  I wonder if these lies, damn lies and statistics were always out there tainting the flow of information, and we [...]

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Tweet I’ve been hitting on Obama about his lying for months now. The latest example is his reneging on his repeatedly stated promise to use federal financing for the election. Here are a slew of links discussing this most recent lie. First, the lie itself. Truth be told, he’s good, but narcissists always are (think [...]

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Tweet I’ve blogged at length about Obama’s approach to lies.  Unlike Hillary, who just works herself into a frenzy of denial, Obama has an incremental approach.  He just keeps leaking out pieces of the truth.  By the time he’s fully exposed himself as a liar, the compliant, short-memoried media has long forgotten what the whole [...]

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Tweet I’m beginning to think that incrementalism is one of the most dangerous things out there, whether it’s the way Obama leaks out the truth about his big lies or the way in which the jihadists keep asking for little things from us — no pigs, no dogs, no occupied territories.  As to that latter [...]

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Tweet In two preceding post, I’ve talked about the studied incrementalism of Obama’s lies (here and here). Obama is now taking a page out of the Hillary play book on lying and simply denying, outright, easily ascertainable truths. UPDATE:  And yet another blatant Obama lie — although this one may be because Obama, who claims [...]

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Tweet In response to an earlier post I did about Obama’s habit of lying about easily verifiable events, beliefs and associations in his past, echeccone made the statement, one we’ve often heard, that “every politician lies.” There’s a kind of sweeping truth to that statement, but its very broadness hides the fact that not all [...]

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Tweet With Obama as the almost-certain Democratic candidacy, the conservative punditry is very depressed. John Podhoretz summarizes it best, although he is by no means a lone voice: It is important for conservatives and Republicans, who have comforted themselves with the thought that Obama cannot possibly win because no one as far to the Left [...]

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Tweet You know the childhood chant: “Liar, liar, pants on fire.” News Views has created a breathtaking list of 68 lies Obama has stated, ranging from the ridiculous to the significant. Here are just the first few to whet your appetite for more: 1.) Selma Got Me Born – LIAR, your parents felt safe enough [...]

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