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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. force, in [...]

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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 me [...]

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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 simply didn’t [...]

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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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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 thing [...]

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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 bit [...]

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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 an [...]

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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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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 as [...]

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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 [...]

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In the old days — pre-internet — politicians were able to get away with a lot of lies.  This wasn’t because they lied better than they do now.  It was because it was more difficult to suss out the truth and, even if one was successful in doing so, it was very challenging, if the [...]

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