Krauthammer: Obama can lie with such surety, cold-bloodedness that I almost admire him.  Last night [12/5/2012] on Special Report online Krauthammer responded to Obama speaking out of both sides of his mouth on the charitable giving deduction (2009 vs yesterday), saying that he almost admired the level of assurance and cold-bloodedness that Obama has when he completely contradicts something he's said earlier.

"The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention.  It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over."

— Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf, Chapter 6.    

Putting Family First and 'First Family' last.  If Obama wanted credence for his astroturfed bold role as tough guy, decisive thinker, he should never have let himself be photographed in the White House Situation Room, aiming to look casual but casting himself forever as a wuss.

Was the White House Bin Laden Photo Photoshopped?  While the details of the president's schedule are definitely a matter of personal security in real time, more than a year later, the right of the Legislature to exercise its checks-and-balances duties is paramount.  If Obama was on the golf course when he should have been in the Situation Room, and he lied to us about his whereabouts, the American people have a right to know.

Obama's Deficit Lies Exposed in Three Easy to Read Charts.  Throughout his first term and during the recent campaign Barack Obama blamed the Bush tax cuts for the trillion dollar deficits.  It was a lie.  He knew it was a lie.  The media knew it was a lie.  They let him get away with it anyway.  The truth is federal revenues went up after passing the Bush tax cuts and the deficit went down.

Sen. Sessions to EPA: Show Me Evidence for Obama's Global Warming Agitprop.  Today [12/4/2012], Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) directed a letter to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson asking for clarification on President Obama's recent statement that "the temperature around the globe is increasing faster than was predicted even 10 years ago."  That position has been used by the administration to push the possibility of vastly increased regulation of carbon emissions.

Spender in Chief.  Obama's plan for a fiscal cliff compromise reflects his hostility to spending cuts.  Instead, he wants to raise taxes by $1.6 trillion.  That's a nonstarter.  He wants another stimulus of $50 billion.  It's already DOA on Capitol Hill.  Worse, he's back with the most fraudulent spending cut of all, $800 billion in reduced funding for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan a few years from now when they're no longer being fought.

Secretaries of State Criticize Michelle Obama for Voter Suppression Claims.  Seven Secretaries of State have released a statement criticizing First Lady Michelle Obama for her false claim that Republicans engaged in voter suppression in the November election:  "Unfortunately the First Lady's comments continue the baseless attacks that have been made upon those leaders who are simply taking reasonable steps to protect the security and integrity of elections.  This past election speaks for itself.  In Arizona, a state that has a photo ID requirement, Hispanic voter turnout was the highest in the state's history. [... "]

GM is alive and taxpayers got ripped off.  Even by the standards of Washington, spending about $31 billion worth of taxpayer dollars to get yourself re-elected is a pretty audacious act.  Yet that is exactly what President Obama did with the GM bailout.  "Osama bin Laden is dead and GM is alive" was his campaign's mantra.  And lest anyone think that using TARP funds to keep the auto company alive was an act of charity, Obama said as recently as October:  "We got back every dime."  Now that the election is over, he doesn't need to keep up that pretense any more.

With Election Over, Americans Find They Were Duped By Democrats And Obama.  How often in recent weeks have we learned that what we heard on the campaign trail from the Obama camp, and which were echoed by a cowed and subservient press, were either distortions or outright lies — enough to keep a majority of us fooled, and help win a second term for the incumbent?  Now, we're finding the reality to be something different.

Obama: 'I Cut Spending by Over a Trillion Dollars in 2011'.  Appearing on NBCs "Meet the Press" on Sunday, President Barack Obama said that he cut spending by more than $1 trillion in 2011.  However, the White House Office of Management and Budget says that federal spending increased by $147 billion from fiscal 2010 to fiscal 2011.

Networks Ignore Obama's Lie About Mom's Cancer.  This level of dishonesty from the national networks is not merely disgraceful, it's dangerous.  Without a free and HONEST press, the Republic can't survive.

Obama on Meet the Press: "I'm not driven by some ideological agenda.".  President Obama turned up on NBC's "Meet the Press" for the first time since the passage of ObamaCare, and gave exactly the performance that every veteran Obama-watcher would have expected:  a bitter, intransigent partisan claiming to be the only non-partisan, non-ideological participant in the "fiscal cliff" drama.

Sandy Victim: Obama is a 'Straight Out Liar'.  Another of Hurricane Sandy's victims expressed his disgust with the president this afternoon:  "He's a phony, he's a liar.  Straight out liar. [..."]

Obama says Washington 'doesn't have a spending problem.' Really?  On the face of it, such a statement is completely ridiculous — and a bit scary.

Obama to Boehner: 'We Don't Have a Spending Problem'.  In an interview with Stephen Moore of the Wall Street Journal, newly re-elected House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) opened up about President Obama's utter unwillingness to cut a single dollar from federal spending.  In a stunning admission, Obama reportedly told Boehner, "We don't have a spending problem."

Yes, Obama, There Is A Spending Problem.  Apparently, President Obama never got around to reading the final report of his own deficit commission.  How else to explain his belief that federal spending isn't the cause of the nation's debt crisis?

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Out-of-control spending is this country's biggest problem, and it is the problem most aggravated by Barack H. Obama.  His denial indicates that either he is trying to dismantle capitalism once and for all, or he is incompetent, or he is a compulsive liar, or he's just not too bright.  Thanks again, Obama voters!

White House is wrong: First Amendment doesn't protect Piers Morgan from deportation.  White House press secretary Jay Carney issued a factually incorrect response Wednesday [1/9/2013] to the White House petition to deport British-born CNN host Piers Morgan, wrongly claiming that Morgan, who has launched repeated televised attacks on the Second Amendment, is protected from deportation by the First Amendment.

Meet The 'Bullies': Breitbat Editor Exposes Obama's Army of Thugs In New Book.  President Obama and his leftist allies like to claim they're anti-bullying.  They stand up for the little guy.  They stand up to the powerful.  They protect victims.  They're liars. [...] When the DHS wasn't busy running StopBullying.gov, they were busy bullying religious employers into violating their consciences by forcing them to cover contraception for employees.  And who headed up the It Gets Better Project?  Dan Savage, the thug who screamed at Christian teenagers who had the temerity to walk out on one of his anti-Biblical screeds.  Obama isn't against bullying.  Neither is the left more broadly.

Our Mean-Spirited President Gives a Press Conference and Talks About Guns.  Obama's comments on the debt ceiling were breathtakingly dishonest [...] Obama said, at least three or four times, that this year is different:  he refuses to negotiate with the Republicans because they insist on "getting 100 percent of what they want."  But wait!  The fact that Republicans are willing to negotiate means that they aren't insisting on getting 100%, while, conversely, the fact that Obama refuses to negotiate means that he is the one holding out for 100%.  Presumably most people are smart enough to understand this.

WH: Obama Is Committed to the Second Amendment.  One day ahead of President Barack Obama's announcement of sweeping gun control measures, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said the president is committed to the Second Amendment.  "First of all, the president of the United States believes that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual's right to bear arms," Carney told reporters.  "He has been explicit about this."

Obama Lies And Bullies Republicans On Debt Ceiling.  "I'm a pretty friendly guy," President Obama said after suggesting Republicans plan to contaminate food, crash planes and let terrorists build nuclear bombs.

Obama's Debt Claims Debunked, Line by Line.  Should we raise the national debt limit to accommodate more trillion-dollar deficits?  In Washington, it's taken for granted that we should and will.  But a lot of fiscal conservatives have got the crazy idea in their heads that any debt increase should be accompanied by something we haven't seen in years:  a budget.  An actual plan to balance the budget and stop accumulating debt.

They're Coming to Take Our Guns Away, Ha-Haaa!  [Scroll down]  Obama, Biden, and the rest of the political left are using similar language and characterizations in their description of gun owners.  Theirs is a coordinated effort to paint American gun owners as crazed, government-hating lunatics, whose guns, used for sport, recreation, and defense are somehow a great danger to our society, potential Adam Lanzas or Jared Loughners.

Gun Control and the Obama Way.  For Mr. Obama, it's never about honest differences over policies.  His political opponents have to be painted as morally obtuse, cruel and motivated by the basest considerations. [...] Mr. Obama's political libel is so common that people have come to accept it.  And journalists who jump on back-benchers from the GOP for their incivility never call out Obama on his ugly little game.

'A Decade of War Is Now Ending'.  Someone needs to inform the jihadists.  On a day when we are still counting the bodies — including the American bodies — from the deadly terror attack in Algeria, this statement from President Obama's inaugural address was particularly jarring.

The Peaceful Transfer of Mobocracy.  The disturbing hollowness of Obama's inauguration derives from this more subtle form of revolution.  All the usual trappings of tradition were on display but at the service of a revolutionary ideology antithetical to them.  Obama swore to uphold the Constitution, by which he meant his lawless reading of it.  He invoked God-given rights, by which he meant man-made ones.

Not a 'nation of takers,' Mr. President? Check the numbers.  It is official:  America is *not* a nation of takers.  How do we know?  Because the president of the United States just said so.  President Obama used the occasion of his second inaugural address to take on the question of moral hazard emanating from our burgeoning entitlement state.  In his estimate, there is no such risk — or at least none worth mentioning.

Obama's Not a "Liberal" — He's a Communist.  Let's get the terminology right.  The fact of the matter is, the entire Democrat party today is Communist/Marxist/Socialist/Collectivist/Statist.  There are no more conservative or moderate Democrats.  They all support the big government collectivist agenda — and they're all willing to lie, cheat and steal in order to maintain it. [...] Communists are liars.  Obama will lie right to our faces and not feel a second of shame because the ends justify the means.

Obama highjacking the American Revolution.  [Scroll down]  Our "union," Obama went on, was "founded on the principles of liberty and equality."  Nice prose — and transparent nonsense.  How could the American Union have been founded on the principle of equality, when "equality" is not mentioned in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights or the Federalist papers?  How could equality be a founding principle of a nation, six of whose 13 original states had legalized slavery, and five of whose first seven presidents owned slaves all their lives?  What Obama preached in his inaugural was not historical truth but progressive propaganda, an Orwellian rewrite of American history.

Carney: "Our Borders Now Are More Secure Than They Have Ever Been In History".  ["]When it comes to border security, I think anyone who looks at this honestly will note the tremendous strides we have made in the past four years in protecting our borders.  In fact, they have never been better enforced than they are now.["]

White House: GOP responsible for contracting economy.  White House press secretary Jay Carney laid the blame for a surprise economic contraction squarely at the feet of congressional Republicans Wednesday [1/30/2013], saying economic threats during the "fiscal cliff" negotiations had prevented important defense spending.  "Our economy is facing a major headwinds, and that's Republicans in Congress," Carney said.

Obama: 'I Often Search Scripture to Figure Out How I Can Be a Better Man as Well as Better President'.  "Sometimes I search scripture to determine how best to balance life as a president and as a husband and as a father.  I often search for scripture to figure out how I can be a better man as well as a better president," Obama said.

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Notice he did not say "The Bible", he said "scripture", by which he probably refers to the Koran.  If he were a Christian, he would almost certainly have referred to "The Bible" by its name, rather than avoiding any mention of it.

The president is lying about Benghazi.  President Obama's disregard for the truth has made Bill Clinton seem like a novice.  His statements are always riddled with inconsistency.  Many could easily have been dissected with a curious media, but that hasn't happen.  Very few people can lie as well.

State Of The Union Shtick: Obama's 5 Unintentionally Comical Lines.  "It is not a bigger government we need, but a smarter government."  That's rich coming from the guy who jacked up spending to record levels.  According to the Congressional Budget Office, the federal government is now on track to consume an average of 22.1% of GDP over the next decade.  That's bigger than all but eight of the 60 post-World War II years before Obama took office. [...] Then there was this:  "As long as countries like China keep going all in on clean energy, so must we."  All in?  Sixteen of the world's top 20 most polluted cities are in China.

Obama attempting to redefine the word "citizen".  Throw out your Merriam-Webster's Dictionary, folks.  President Barack Obama is now redefining words.  During Tuesday night's State of the Union address, the POTUS expressed his belief that U.S. citizenship is only partly about one's legal status.  "We are citizens," the President said.  "It's a word that doesn't just describe our nationality or legal status.  It describes the way we're made."

Rubio's Thirstiness Trumps Obama's Untruthfulness.  Why does a re-elected chief executive, dubiously claiming a mandate from the people, insult the intelligence of millions of Americans struggling to stay afloat in a contracting economy during the worst economic recovery on record with ludicrous contentions like this:  "After years of grueling recession, our businesses have created over 6 million new jobs"?  Why does he present an electorate that just returned him to power with the wild claim that "already, the Affordable Care Act is helping to slow the growth of health care costs"?

State of the Union blues.  No matter what your political persuasion, even if you're the biggest Obama supporter in the world, you have to wince when he says things that are obviously untrue.  I copied the transcript of his speech into Microsoft Word and started highlighting the lies, but that was an exercise in futility.  Almost everything was highlighted. He lies obsessively. [...] Then I tried limiting myself to outrageous, interesting lies, but that's not really much of a limit with this guy.  For example, he started by talking about the economy and his very first sentence on the subject boasted about creating six million new jobs.  Six million!  Just a few months ago he was running for re-election claiming four million, which was up from three million, which itself was a figment of his overactive imagination.

Rand Paul on Obama's Claim That He Cut $2 Trillion From Deficit: "In What Universe?"  On "Capital Download, This Week with Susan Page," Kentucky Senator Rand Paul discussed the role of the Tea Party, his view on immigration and his interest in a presidential campaign.  When asked about Barack Obama's claim to have "reduced the deficit by $2 Trillion," Paul answers, "In what universe?"

Napolitano at immigration hearing: US borders have 'never been stronger'.  Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano insisted Wednesday [2/13/2013] that U.S. borders have "never been stronger" during a Senate hearing on immigration reform.  Facing calls from the GOP to crack down on the flow of illegal border crossers, Napolitano said Congress should pass a comprehensive immigration overhaul that strengthens security while also addressing the factors that entice people into the country.

Obama calls al-Qaida 'shadow of former self'.  President Barack Obama says al-Qaida is a "shadow of its former self," and does not pose the kind of threat to America that requires tens of thousands of U.S. troops to fight abroad.

No, Mr President, the war against al-Qaeda is far from won.  There are times, such as last night's State of the Union address, when I think President Barack Obama has taken leave of reality.  How he can claim, when half the Arab world is being overrun by Islamist militants, that al-Qaeda is now a shadow of its former self is beyond comprehension.

Long voting lines might not be as widespread as Obama says.  Voters in five states reported waiting more than 20 minutes.  Six states notched an average of less than five minutes.  Los Angeles County voters waited only three-and-a-half minutes, and Vermont voters were the luckiest.  They reported only a two-minute wait.

Obama Unveils His Economy-Killing Cap-And-Tax Plan.  A nonexistent crisis is a terrible thing to waste, and in justifying his proposal for a cap-and-tax scheme, President Obama claimed in his State Of The Union that "the 12 hottest years on record have all come in the last 15."  He was lying.  The fact is, according to new data released quietly last October by Britain's Met Office, the world's natural post-Ice Age warming trend stopped about 16 years ago.  From the beginning of 1997 until August 2012, there was no discernible rise in aggregate global temperatures.

Confidential, expensive USDA sensitivity training: 'The Pilgrims were illegal aliens'.  Footage of the United States Department of Agriculture's compulsory "Cultural Sensitivity Training" program reveals USDA employees being instructed to refer to the Pilgrims as "illegal aliens" and minorities as "emerging majorities" — at "a huge expense" to taxpayers.  The video clips were made public Thursday evening by the conservative government accountability group Judicial Watch, which obtained them through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request made on May 18, 2012.

Obama insists he runs the most transparent administration in history.  During a "fireside hangout" on Google+ this afternoon [2/14/2013], President Obama responded to a questioner who said she was disappointed in the gap between Obama's campaign promises for transparency and the reality of the last four years.  "It feels a lot less transparent than I think we all hoped it would be," she said.  Obama said firmly, "This is the most transparent administration in history, and I can document that is the case."

Oh, really?  What about all this?

No, America's roads and bridges are not crumbling.  Among President Obama's most persistent demands for new spending is the perennial call for large-scale "infrastructure" spending.  To hear Obama tell it, the United States of 2013 is a "Road Warrior" wasteland filled with disintegrating roads and bridges, desperately awaiting billions of dollars in government spending.  In the past, he has amusingly set up photo ops near bridges that wouldn't be affected by his plans to plump for "infrastructure," selecting them because they looked good on camera, or straddled key congressional districts.  He's currently agitating for $40 billion in "urgent upgrades."  It is considered extremely rude to ask him what happened to the countless billions he appropriated for "infrastructure" in his trillion-dollar 2009 stimulus plan.

If the leader of the free world can lie with such impunity we are doomed.  It really doesn't matter where he himself was deliberately lying or whether he was merely lending the gravitas of his office to the deliberate lies of others.  The point is that the President of the USA has access to any number of fact checkers and advisers and if he stands up and addresses the nation with a farrago of complete untruths then the buck stops with him.  This dissembling and mendacity becomes all the more culpable when it forms the basis of major public policy decisions which will have a serious impact on people's lives in the US and beyond.

The Overwhelming Judgment of Science Rejects Obama's Global Warming Claims.  President Barack Obama in his second inauguration address called for new action to "respond to the threat of climate change."  Taking advantage of the bully pulpit and a huge national audience, Obama mustered his best possible arguments in a brief case for why addressing global warming is supposedly necessary.  Unfortunately for global warming alarmists, Obama's case was exceptionally flimsy.  Then again, Obama did not have much to work with, as the overall case for global warming alarmism is exceptionally flimsy.

Simpson-Bowles Exposes Obama's Phony Deficit Claims.  Liberals are howling about the latest Simpson-Bowles deficit plan because, they say, it's too right wing.  It's hardly that.  But the plan does expose how fatuous President Obama's claims about the deficit have been.

Government by Freakout.  It is always cliffs, ceilings and looming catastrophes with Barack Obama.  It is always government by freakout.  That's what's happening now with the daily sequester warnings.  Seven hundred thousand children will be dropped from Head Start.  Six hundred thousand women and children will be dropped from aid programs.  Meat won't be inspected.  Seven thousand TSA workers will be laid off, customs workers too, and air traffic controllers.  Lines at airports will be impossible.

Obama Caught In Bald-Faced Lie On Sequester.  Greta Van Susteren played a montage of political statements on the sequester.  From the video, it is clear that the sequester cuts were a product of the White House.  It is also clear that Obama continues to get away with a bald-faced lie that the idea was something Congress proposed.  [Video clip]

Woodward: Obama repeatedly lied about responsibility for budget sequester cuts.  President Barack Obama and former White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew repeatedly lied last year by claiming congressional Republicans were responsible for the looming $85 billion cut in the federal budget through sequestration, according to The Washington Post editor Bob Woodward.  Based on interviews with two senior White House aides who were directly involved in budget planning, Woodward's report notes that Obama personally approved Lew's plan to propose the mandatory trigger to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in July 2011.

Obama: Marxist Revolutionary.  By now most people, even the "low-information voters," know that Obama is a habitual, unabashed liar.  What they need to grasp, however, is that his biggest and most dangerous lie is that he is out to help the Middle Class. [...] The Middle Class, aka We, the People, is his greatest, most hated enemy, and everything he has done since he usurped the office he occupies has been aimed at our destruction as a viable economic, social, and political entity.

Obama: Spending money is not our biggest problem.  Speaking to American governors this afternoon, President Obama insisted that spending money wasn't the federal government's biggest problem.  "Folks who think spending really is our biggest problem should be more concerned than anybody about improving our infrastructure right now," Obama said explaining that the nation's infrastructure was crumbling.

Is Obama telling the truth about sequestration?  Read President Barack Obama's state-by-state breakdown of the sequester and you get a dire message:  The sky is going to fall on March 1.  But a closer read of the detailed reports shows that some of the scariest stuff is going to happen in slow motion — if it happens at all.

Obama Administration Warns of Cuts at Non-Existent Agency.  The Obama administration has spent much of the past few weeks sounding the alarm about the impact of sequestration, but it appears it may have overreached, warning of cuts to a federal agency that no longer exists.

Obamaworld full of lies.  President Obama's transparent mendacity about his responsibility for the sequester is revealing. [...] Obama is a shameless liar for petty partisan purposes.  A shameless liar for petty partisan purposes is a man of bad character.  Obama's mendacity exposes him as a man of bad character, or so it would have been thought in ages past.  Obama's lies permeate his attacks on the Republican Party.  They are part and parcel of the permanent campaign.  The campaign is a parade of lies marshaled in a malevolent partisan cause.

Obama Caught Lying about Sequester.  Here is one thing that Obama should do to elevate America's public discourse:  Stop lying.

Teacher pink slips claim by Duncan not backed by evidence.  The descriptions of the post-sequester landscape that have been coming out of the Obama Administration have been alarming, specific — and, in at least some cases, hyped.

The 3 Stooges are running the country.  Obama is currently in his fifth year of campaigning and speechmaking, which is considerably easier than being president.  All it takes is a good writer, a teleprompter, a few lies and the ability to cry "wolf" every month or so.  The sequester was Obama's idea.  Some would have us believe it is not important whose plan it was, but that is simply untrue.  Sequester was supposed to be an opportunity for the president to play Chicken Little as he so often does by announcing that the sky is falling when it isn't.

WaPo Fact-Checker Blasts White House Sequester Scare Tactics.  The President of the United States is lying.  He's not lying about his personal life sex a la Bill Clinton; he's lying about policy.  And he's not just lying; he's brazenly lying, audaciously lying.  Obama and the media know the stakes in this battle are enormous.  If the GOP and sequester can't be blamed for our failed economy, Obama and his big government philosophy will be.  That simply can't be allowed to happen.

Media Turns Against Obama's Sequester Narrative.  If our economy crashes, Obama wants to blame sequester; he wants to argue that our economic woes are caused by a government that isn't big enough, and that he needs a Democrat-controlled House to correct that.  It's an audaciously dishonest plot, and it almost worked.  The monkeys in the wrench, though, have been little things called facts, a Republican Party refusing to blink, and one brave and honest reporter.

Obama has lost all credibility on sequestration.  This has not been a good week for President Obama's campaign to use $44 billion in automatic spending cuts as leverage to force Republicans to vote for higher taxes.  First, legendary journalist Bob Woodward dismantled the White House's account of how the sequester was created.  Now, Woodward is telling Politico that the White House responded by threatening him if he went forward with his claim.  Then Education Secretary Arne Duncan was caught in a baldfaced lie about the sequester causing teacher layoffs.

Obama Demagoguery Supplemented by a Touch of Cruelty.  [Scroll down]  So we have the president determined to administer as much pain as he can on Americans even as he excoriates Republicans for their "meat-cleaver approach" that will "eviscerate" key programs.  It is really quite remarkable, this concoction of willful deceptions, hyperbole, demagoguery, mismanagement, and deliberate harm.  And to think that a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, Barack Obama promised to put an end to cynicism.  Instead he has added massively to it.  The harm he is doing to our political culture is very nearly incalculable.

The Border Patrol vs Napolitano's lies about the Border & Sequestration.  This Administration's constant yammering about how secure the border is can only be characterized as a ploy, an outright lie, to fool the American people into accepting more amnesty and accepting that it is OK to cut our hours and reduce coverage on the border.  They want to try something that was a colossal failure in 1986 to fix things now.

Capitol official: Obama wrong about janitors.  The Superintendent of Capitol tried to assure staff on Friday [3/1/2013] that employees will not receive a cut in pay as a result of sequestration, despite President Barack Obama's claims to the contrary.  In a news conference earlier in the day, Obama warned that starting on Saturday "the folks who are cleaning the floors at the Capitol" and "the janitors, the security guards" would face a pay cut.

5 Reasons Barack Obama is a Creep.  [#5]  Obama's coverage by the press is like that movie, The Invention Of Lying, where the main character is the first person on the planet to ever figure out how to lie and everyone simply takes whatever he says at face value.  In this case, the part of "everyone" is played by the mainstream media which starts with the uncritical assumption that Obama is always right, good, and truthful, while the people who disagree with him are mean, partisan liars.

Barack Obama, the Spending Jihadist.  Mr. Obama's terroristic threats have been amply noted everywhere.  Planes will fall from the skies, starvation in the streets, teachers will be sent home.  What is truly astonishing here is not all of the reckless and dire predictions he has made.  Nor is it that already many of his predictions have proved to be demonstrably false. [...] What is truly astonishing and breathtaking here is that all of this doom and gloom Mr. Obama has predicted is precisely what he wants for this country.

Sequester Exaggerations Exposed By Egypt Foreign Aid.  What are we to make of the U.S. suddenly finding $250 million to spare for Egypt during a suppsedly devastating sequester?

Barack Obama's Defective Public Character.  The president has spoken in the harshest possible terms about an idea he and his White House originated and signed into law.  He has used apocalyptic language leading up to the sequestration — and then, as the sequestration cuts began, lectured us that "this is not going to be an apocalypse" as "some people have said."  And Mr. Obama has warned about the devastating nature of the cuts even as he has opposed efforts to make the cuts less devastating.

The president who cried 'Sequester!'  The sequester is only four days old and it has already done untold damage — not to teachers, air traffic controllers, or the military, mind you, but to President Obama's credibility.  Obama has been caught in one misstatement after another about the sequester — from lying to Americans about its origins to exaggerating its impact.

Two Airports Cited By Big Sis As Having Sequester-Related Delays Both Say She's Lying.  Did she really think nobody would check?

White House's false sequester claims prompt media pushback.  The White House's media management team will be in the public spotlight this week following a series of days in which it leveraged the media to distribute what turned out to be misleading or false information.  President Barack Obama told reporters that Capitol Hill workers were facing pay cuts as a result of the looming budget sequester.  Education Secretary Arne Duncan cited the same cause when he incorrectly claimed that a school district was already laying off teachers.  And White House spokesman Jay Carney understated by a factor of 10 the number of illegal immigrants administration officials released in a bid to lower the cost of housing inmates in immigration detention facilities.

Sperling Admits Obama Misled in Debate: The President Did Propose the Sequester.  White House economic adviser Gene Sperling admits that, yes, in fact, the sequestration was President Obama's plan.  [Video clip]

WaPo: Yep, White House is still lying about janitors.  This is so perfectly symbolic of the White House's strategy on sequestration, that I had to highlight it.  This is the second time the Washington Post fact-checker has awarded the administration Pinnocchios (four this time) in one week, for the same lie.  Which is to say, wow, this is a really big, fat lie.

Ex-Secret Service Agent: Obama 'Absolutely Not Telling the Truth' on White House Tours.  Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino told Breitbart News that President Barack Obama was lying when he blamed the cancellation of White House tours on his former agency.  "The president's absolutely not telling the truth when he said the Secret Service made that decision to cut [the White House] tours," Bongino said.  "That's the core of it:  he is not telling the truth."

Obama: I Didn't Cancel W.H. Tours, Secret Service and Congress to Blame.  President Obama says he's not the one who canceled the White House tours.  He made the comments in an interview with ABC News.

Reopen the White House doors to tourists.  The decision to drop White House tours always had a whiff of what's known as Washington Monument syndrome.  The ham-handed tactic is employed when government is faced with budget cuts and officials go after the services that are most visible and appreciated by the public.  It's a kind of bureaucratic hostage-taking, so the pushback that the Obama administration has encountered is a proper comeuppance.

Obama's PR Stunt.  Some eighteen hours before he was scheduled to meet with House Republicans on Capitol Hill Wednesday [3/13/2013], ostensibly in search of a "grand bargain" that would reform entitlements and reverse the trajectory of US debt, Barack Obama declared three times that the U.S. does not have a debt crisis and accused opponents of wanting to "gut Medicare, gut Social Security and gut Medicaid."

We can't wait for the crisis, Mr. President.  During a Wednesday [3/13/2013] interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos, Obama warned against adopting a "crisis mentality" when it comes to concerns about the mounting national debt.  With the debt currently approaching $17 trillion, Obama said, "we don't have an immediate crisis in terms of debt."

The "sequester" was supposed to make this impossible:
Since Sequester, 2,600 New Federal Jobs Opened.  Over a hundred jobs are at Homeland Security, which is letting criminal aliens go despite billions unspent from last fiscal year, with hundreds more jobs available at an Interior Department that warns of park closings.

Patriots Must Be Prepared to Answer Obama's Lies and Deceptions.  [Scroll down]  Along with confiscating as much wealth as he can get away with, Obama believes that the tax code should be about punishing achievers and controlling behavior.  Assisted by the media, Obama sells his perverted definition of "fairness" to low-info voters.  Anyway, Obama knows that the mainstream media usually acts as his personal public relations firm, eagerly selling his lies to the public.

Pro-Abort Biden on Election of Pope: 'Catholic Church Plays an Essential Role in My Life'.  After the election of Pope Francis I on Wednesday [3/13/2013], Vice President Joe Biden issued a statement talking about the importance of Catholicism to him personally and how much he is looking forward to working with the pope.  As vice president, Biden has advanced causes directly contrary to the teachings of the Catholic Church — favoring, for example, the legalized killing of children in the womb and legalized same-sex marriage.

Obama: Our Out-of-Control Debt Is 'Sustainable' for the Next Decade.  In an interview with former Bill Clinton apparatchik George Stephanopoulos aired on ABC Wednesday morning [3/13/2013], President Barack Obama shared his beliefs about where the nation stands financially.  The takeaway quotes from that sit-down concern Obama's unserious take on the size and grave nature of the federal government's annual deficits, which have exceeded $1 trillion during each of the past four fiscal years, and the national debt, which, at $16.71 trillion as of Tuesday, has increased by over $6 trillion since he took office less than 50 months ago.

Obama Wants to Invest in Infrastructure and Make it Impossible to Build Anything.  If you heard one theme that Obama has been on about at the beginning of both of his terms, it's infrastructure. [...] All the bridges, we were told, were seconds away from falling down.  The highways were full of potholes. [...] The infrastructure pitch sounds good to a lot of people.  But it's coupled with an environmentalist anti-infrastructure pitch.

Obama:  No Sense Of Responsibility, Traits Of A Habitual Liar.
The Lies That Enslave A Nation.  The Obama Administration knows how to do nothing better than lie.  They are past masters at the disingenuous.  They have been at it from day one.  Now they seem to just lie as a matter of course, and think nothing of it even when called on it in public.

China and U.S. Debt.  As the U.S. federal debt is steadily climbing closer to $17 trillion, President Obama and Congressional leadership are making statements that we "don't have an immediate crisis in terms of debt."  All the same, our bloated federal debt does pose a crisis.  Not only will it slow economic growth, threaten us with higher interest rates, and increase inflation; it also allows China to threaten our national security and status as a world power.

A Criminologist Questions the Bin Laden Episode.  Soon after the raid, successive Obama administration renditions of the event were sufficiently contradictory that even the leftist London Guardian was motivated to acknowledge the inconsistencies.  Was Bin Laden armed, or wasn't he?  Did he resist, or didn't he?  Did he use women as shields, or didn't he?  Was the compound luxurious, or not?  The Obama administration said different things at different times in regard to these issues, which the London Guardian (and almost every other MSM outlet) attributed to the "fog of war."

ObamaCare's Nasty Surprise: Surging Premiums For Many.  Last week, one of the world's leading consulting firms, Milliman, warned about sticker shock ahead for individuals and families buying health insurance.  How did the White House respond?  In its usual Orwellian fashion, it said, "Health care costs are falling, thanks to the reform law."  Falling is correct only if you're standing on your head.  President Obama repeatedly promised that insurance exchanges would save families up to $2,300 a year.  He couldn't possibly have believed it.  From day one, it was obvious the law would push up premiums.

Also posted under lies about Obamacare.

Liars! Illegal Immigration Surging While Obama Administration Claims it is Declining.  Via Fox Nation, newly released statistics show that illegal immigrant infiltration along the U.S.-Mexico border is increasing markedly despite recent statements to the contrary by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.

Despite DHS Claims, Stats Show Surge In Illegal Immigrant Border Traffic.  "I can tell you having worked that border for 20 years, it is more secure now than it has ever been.  Illegal apprehensions are at 40-year lows," [Janet] Napolitano told reporters this week in Houston.  But figures released Thursday by Customs and Border Protection to Fox News tell a different story.  Arrests are actually up 13 percent compared with the same time last year.  The number was 170,223 in 2012, and is 192,298 this year.

Obama: Unbalanced Budget 'Doesn't Spend Beyond Our Means'.  President Barack Obama said his budget — to be released Wednesday — would not spend beyond our means.  "It's a budget that doesn't spend beyond our means, and it's a budget that doesn't make harsh and unnecessary cuts that only serve to slow our economy," Obama said Saturday [4/6/2013] during his weekly address.

Obama's 'Lying Problem' about Firearms.  Almost from the moment he walked into the Oval Office, Barack Obama has had a serious lying problem when it comes to firearms.  The 44th president has a near pathological predilection for using defective, invalid, and flat-out dishonest statistics in his quest to restrict the 2nd Amendment rights of American citizens, [...]

Obama's tax, spend, borrow, and redistribute budget.  Here are the facts: According to Obama's own numbers, his budget would leave the American people with a $19.03 trillion debt burden by 2023.  And according to the Congressional Budget Office, under current law our debt is scheduled to reach $19.94 trillion by that same year, a difference of $900 billion.  So right off the bat, half of Obama's claimed debt reduction turns out to be pure fiction.

Obama's National-Security Fraud.  The Times Square non-attack is quite interesting.  The specter of it, projected in the immediate wake of the Marathon murders and maimings, is horrific ... so horrific that the government, in leaking this tidbit from its botched interrogation of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, knew that news media were certain to lead their broadcasts with it.  The press would never wonder why they, and thus we, were being told about it.  But why were they told?  Remember, the Times Square bombing not only never happened, it never came close to happening.

Eric Holder's Reckless Charge.  During a speech to the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Attorney General Eric Holder said that creating a "pathway to earned citizenship" was a "civil right." [...] Attorney General Holder's claim is more than simply silly; it is also pernicious.

30 Reasons To Dislike Barack Obama.  [#2]  He's a former (maybe, who really knows?) coke-snorting pothead who governs with all the care and due diligence you'd expect from a coke-snorting pothead.  [#3]  Barack Obama actually said, "The private sector is doing fine."  Given that the private sector has never at any point been doing fine since he became President, he'd have to be dumb, dishonest or delusional to say something like that.  [#4]  He is a bigger liar than Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter put together.

Benghazi Blood Splatter.  "We the people" have been lied to by the Obama Administration from the get-go regarding what transpired in Benghazi on September 11, 2012.  Why?  Why were we lied to, and why were Woods and Doherty, who fought bravely for several hours against overwhelming odds, abandoned by their country when the ways and means to come to their aid were available? Why — and who is responsible?

Corn: 'Carney Got Caught Saying Something That Wasn't Completely True'.  MSNBC contributor David Corn admitted that the reason White House Press Secretary Jay Carney's Benghazi press briefing was so tense was "he got caught saying something that wasn't completely true" Friday [5/10/2013] on MSNBC.  Despite Carney's untruth, Corn said that did not necessarily amount to lying.

It's Harvest Time in Washington.  From the onset, the Obama administration has woven a web of fabrications so thick it is hard to see where reality ends and make-believe begins.  Over time, Obama has woven that web tighter by installing a gang of Chicago allies, confidants, tongue-biters and tale-tellers as a "shadow government" answerable only to him.  There was safety in this tight-knit crew of like-minded associates, or so they thought, until recently when parts of Obama's web began to unravel.

Lou Dobbs Rips 'Nixonian' Obama For Lying 'Through His Teeth' About IRS.  Fox Business Network host Lou Dobbs stopped by Megyn Kelly's show on Monday afternoon [5/13/2013] to offer his reaction to President Obama's press conference — during which he responded to the IRS scandal involving the agency's targeting politically conservative groups.  Dobbs didn't take well to Obama's reaction and went after him for flat-out lying.  "What is outrageous is that the president of the United States this morning stands before the American people and lies through his teeth," Dobbs charged.  "That is what is outrageous."

The lies pile up and the president goes silent.  The week just ended may have been the worst week experienced by the Obama administration, and there are over 220 to choose from.  The congressional testimony by three whistle-blowers on the widening Benghazi scandal drew attention even from the mainstream media outlets, which had chosen to bury the story for months.  The president's press secretary, Jay Carney, in a performance worthy of a short career in this capacity, managed to double down on the falsehoods, continuing to avoid admitting even the obvious.

Just tell us the truth, Mr. President.  It's never comforting to have one's longstanding fears confirmed.  Yet, that's exactly what's happened over the last week as Americans have been presented with a stunning array of facts that diminish faith in our government.  Whether it's on foreign policy, taxes, or the health-care system our lives depend on, members of the Obama Administration are making it harder to trust them to perform the most very basic functions of public service.  We deserve better.  We deserve the truth.

Is Anyone Home in the White House?  One striking feature of the multiple scandals in which the Obama administration is now enmeshed is how little responsibility President Obama takes for any of them.  None, actually.  Not only that, he professes to be entirely in the dark, to know only what he reads in the newspapers, and to have no control over his own cabinet officers and their departments.

CBO: Obama Vastly Exaggerated Deficit Cuts In Budget.  When Obama put out his budget in mid-April he said that it "will reduce our deficits by nearly another $2 trillion," and "does so in a balanced and responsible way, a way that most Americans prefer."  But the CBO report finds that Obama's budget will cut 10-year deficits by just $1.1 trillion, with annual deficits starting to rise again after 2017.  And far from being balanced, the CBO found that his plan's tax hikes would outweigh spending cuts by nearly 6 to 1.

The Obama media blackout.  [Scroll down]  "I first learned about it from the same news reports that I think most people learned about this," the President claimed.  "I think it was on Friday."  Aren't there people who are supposed to brief the President on important events?  Do those people still have their jobs today?  If so, why? [...] [W]ouldn't a truly concerned President demand the resignation of the staffers who failed him so utterly that he had to learn about the worst scandal of his Presidency by watching TV or reading a newspaper?

Official in charge of corrupt IRS department promoted — to top ObamaCare enforcer.  If you haven't tuned President Empty Chair out completely, you may recall him making some absurdly tough noises about cleaning house at the IRS and firing some top officials.  It has now been confirmed by multiple sources, including ABC News, that one of those officials — Acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller — was due to leave in June anyway.  He's not being "fired" at all; he's leaving on schedule.  But Obama looked America right in the eye and lied through his teeth about demanding Miller's resignation.

Jay Carney: I dismiss the idea that these are scandals.  [Scroll down]  Carney asserted that in his opinion, the three scandals within the Obama administration were not scandals.  "I dismiss the premise, the idea that these are scandals," Carney said flatly, calling the controversy over Benghazi a "total concoction by Republicans," and the IRS scandal merely "inappropriate behavior" by the IRS.

The Lying King.  The Obama administration may be the first since World War Two to attempt a new and innovative policy best described as "trust me to lie to you."  If you were astute, then you wouldn't believe us.  If you were sophisticated you would make the default assumption that the Iran policy was for public consumption, since only rubes and simpletons could have possibly believed that the Obama administration was telling the truth.

Obama Can't Be Both A Mastermind And Out Of The Loop.  The president who claimed extraordinary powers to change Washington is now, we are to believe, unable to keep tabs on a "vast" federal government.  He can't be both a mastermind and out to lunch.  Which is it?

Connect dots to Obama.  The standard police warning about con men applies to politicians, as well:  When they tell you something that sounds too good to be true, it usually is.  So it goes with the White House claim that it knew nothing — nothing! — about the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service.  Of course the White House knew.  And we already have the first piece of evidence.

When It Rains, It Pours.  Even when he's been publicly corrected, Obama repeats mistruths.  At his press conference last week, the president spoke of the attack on the American facility in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012.  "The day after it happened, I acknowledged that this was an act of terrorism," Obama said.  Only he hadn't.  What Obama actually said in the Rose Garden on September 12 was:  "No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for."  It was a generic mention of terror, not directed at the Benghazi attack.

Obama lies about guns

Before Obama's "skeet shooting" photo release:

Obama: Newtown Shooter Gunned Down 20 Children With 'Fully Automatic Weapon'.  At a fundraiser last night [4/3/2013] in San Francisco, President Barack Obama said that the Newtown killer gunned down 20 children using a "fully automatic weapon."

Obama criticized for using dated, disputed gun stat to sell background checks.  During several speeches, Obama has said 40 percent of all gun purchases were made without a background check.  But that number is nearly two decades old and comes from a poll with a relatively tiny sample size.

White House: Obama 'Has a Strong Record of Support for 2nd Amendment Rights'.  Although President Barack Obama recently signed 23 executive orders regarding more gun control and is pushing Congress to pass more gun-restriction measures, the White House says the president has a "strong record on Second Amendment rights."  On Wednesday [1/30/2013], a reporter asked White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, "What is the president doing to convince members of his own party in the Senate that are against the measure [to re-ban assault weapons]?"  Carney responded that the president has been an advocate for the Second Amendment.

It is unfortunate that there are never any photographers around when Obama picks up a gun.
Surprise: Obama Goes Shooting 'All the Time,' He Claims.  It is odd that the president would make that claim only now, after several years of tough campaigning, where such a revelation would have earned him both interest and praise from the voters he once dismissed as "bitter."  It is unclear whether Obama meant to include himself in his response; he is not directly quoted as saying he personally went shooting, but that "we" — people staying at Camp David — did so.  He did not include or exclude himself specifically.

Barack Obama, Ammo Salesman.  It isn't just AR-15s that are flying off the shelves.  Shooters are also starting to experience a serious shortage of ammunition.  This is partly because President Obama is using up so much ammo.  He sprang a secret on us in an interview with New Republic, finally letting the cat out of the bag after all these years:  Obama says he goes skeet shooting at Camp David "all the time."  Really?  Who knew?  I thought he just played basketball, golfed and smoked cigarettes.

'Shotgunner' Obama 'hates' Camp David.  Did anyone else raise an eyebrow when President Obama over the weekend told The New Republic that he likes to shoot skeet at Camp David?  "Yes, in fact, up at Camp David, we do skeet shooting all the time," he told the magazine.  His comments seemed remarkable for two reasons:  His fondness for shotguns has never been revealed before.  But his disdain for Camp David has.

Obama: The skeet shooter among the pigeons.  Barack Obama is really just one of the guys.  He wants to take away Joe Sixpack's guns, but he wants everybody to know that he's a shooter and intends to keep his own shootin' iron.  Mr. Obama hunts pigeons, not deer or ducks or even pigeons with feathers, but clay pigeons.  He's quite a marksman in a sport that attracts even the country-club elites.  "Up at Camp David, we do skeet shooting all the time," he says.  "I have a profound respect for the traditions that trace back in this country for generations, and I think those who dismiss that out of hand make a big mistake."

Skeptical congresswoman challenges Obama to skeet shooting match.  Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, joined a chorus of skeptics who questioned President Barack Obama's recent comments about his hobby of skeet shooting, a sport where participants fire shotguns to break airborne clay disks.  "If he is a skeet shooter, why have we not heard of this?  Why have we not seen photos?  Why hasn't he referenced this at any point in time?" Blackburn said Monday [1/28/2013] on CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront."

Andrea Mitchell Claims Obama Said Only Guests Shot Skeet — But Even New Republic Editor Contradicts Her.  How big of an Obama lapdog is Andrea Mitchell?  Even bigger than ardent Obama fan Chris Hughes.  The Facebook co-founder, who bought the New Republic last year, recently scored an interview with President Obama that has been criticized for its generally soft questioning.  But during an appearance on Mitchell's MSNBC show today, even Hughes was more candid about the prez than Mitchell.

Carney 'not sure how often' Obama goes skeet shooting.  White House press secretary Jay Carney says he's not "sure how often" President Obama goes skeet shooting.  "I'm not sure how often he's done that," Carney said a day after The New Republic published an interview with Obama in which the president said he did skeet shooting at Camp David "all the time."

How Dare You Question the President's Love of Shooting.  CNN's Erin Burnett had the temerity to question whether or not President Obama actually shoots skeet.  ["]If there are truthers and birthers, should there now be a new term for those who are doubting President Obama's claim that he goes skeet shooting 'all the time'?["]

The White House's curious silence about Obama's claim of skeet shooting.  A number of readers have raised questions about the president's statement that he goes skeet shooting "all the time" while at Camp David.  In these suspicious times, they would like to see some evidence.  But the White House has been oddly silent about the matter.

Claim: Obama 'Uncomfortable' at Touted Skeet Shoot.  As soon as Obama's quote went public, critics expressed incredulity.  Fox News' Jana Winter went looking for any eyewitnesses that could corroborate Obama's claim.  Winter did find a source who admitted that Obama had once been skeet shooting at Camp David — with the caveat that the President couldn't get away from it fast enough.  Winter's eyewitness told her, "The only time he shot skeet was for President's Cup [a presidential Marine guards competition].  I was there.  He stayed for about five minutes, and couldn't leave fast enough."

After Obama's "skeet shooting" photo release:

White House releases photo of Obama shooting at Camp David.  The back-and-fourth about whether the president indeed shoots clay targets — or "pigeons" — started after The New Republic on Sunday release an interview with the president in which he was asked if he had ever fired a gun.  "Yes, in fact, up at Camp David, we do skeet shooting all the time," Obama said.

The Editor says...
One photo of one shot from one gun is not proof of "skeet shooting all the time".  Besides, wouldn't he be aiming a lot higher if he were actually shooting at skeet?  The photo's caption says he's shooting at "clay targets".

White House publishes photo of Obama shooting.  In response to skepticism of President Obama's statement that, "Up at Camp David, we do skeet shooting all the time," the White House has released a photo of the president firing a shotgun.

Here's the photo...
W.H. Releases Photo of Obama Shooting a Gun.  "This official White House photograph is being made available only for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph.  The photograph may not be manipulated in any way and may not be used in commercial or political materials, advertisements, emails, products, promotions that in any way suggests approval or endorsement of the President, the First Family, or the White House."

Seven Reasons Why it's a Photoshop:  First the weapon is nearly level to the ground.  Can't be skeet shooting, nor likely trap either.  Second, it is evident that the President has never shot a shotgun before as his stance is leaning slightly backward. [...] Seventh, I suppose it could happen, but in my fifty years of shooting a shotgun, skeet, trap, and hunting, including double barrel muzzle loading black powder shotguns, I have never once seen a smoke pattern like that.

O-Blam!-a backfire.  While the president's shooting skills were being mocked, his own gun-control allies privately fretted that Obama risked being ridiculed as a phony for suddenly trying to portray himself as a friend of sportsmen and hunters.  Or, conversely, that he was glorifying the use of guns.

WAPO: Obama Fibbed About Gun Background Checks.  Two weeks ago when President Obama annnounced his new executive actions on gun control surrounded by children and Vice President Joe Biden he said, "Studies estimate that nearly 40 percent of all gun sales are made by private sellers who are exempt from this requirement." [...] Turns out according to even the Washington Post, that number is far from accurate.

White House: Obama 'Has a Strong Record of Support for 2nd Amendment Rights'.  Although President Barack Obama recently signed 23 executive orders regarding more gun control and is pushing Congress to pass more gun-restriction measures, the White House says the president has a "strong record on Second Amendment rights."  On Wednesday [1/30/2013], a reporter asked White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, "What is the president doing to convince members of his own party in the Senate that are against the measure [to re-ban assault weapons]?"  Carney responded that the president has been an advocate for the Second Amendment.

OK, We've Seen The Picture.  I doubt the release of the photo will assure any of us that Obama really cares about gun rights, the Second Amendment, or anything else related to us bitter clingers.

Media Follows Obama's Orders to Mock Skeet-Gate Skeptics.  Obama is attempting to grab more power for The State and criminals by way of gun control laws that infringe on our Second Amendment civil rights.  In order to make his case, Obama is attempting to appear reasonable on the issue of guns, and one way he did this was to reassure Americans that he too is a sport shooter, and enjoys skeet shooting at Camp David.  Now, to those familiar with Obama's record of opposing guns at every turn and lying about almost everything, that struck us as odd.

Barack Obama, Gun Enthusiast.  As Hillary Clinton might say, who cares whether he shot skeet once in his life or sneaks away in the middle of the night to get his fix, what difference does it make?  Not much, really, except that it reveals again the dishonesty on which Obama likes to base his emotional appeals for controversial policies.  Emotionally, it makes a difference whether the person pushing for gun restrictions is an avid shooter or someone who doesn't know a magazine from a muzzle.

Carney Tries to Walk Back Obama's Boasting on Skeet Shooting.  Responding to the blowback from skeptics who doubted Obama was telling the unvarnished truth (Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) challenged Obama to a skeet shooting contest), the White House not only released a photo of Obama shooting skeet, but White House press secretary Jay Carney also tried to water down Obama's statement.

The Editor says...
I doubt if Obama could identify a skeet if you showed him a number of similar objects.

Barack Obama, Straight Shooter?  It's not impossible that one would fire at shoulder level, as Obama is doing in the photo, but it's unlikely.  We therefore surmise that the picture is the product of a photo shoot, not a skeet shoot.

NBC's Lauer Frets Over Obama Gun Photo.  During a panel discussion on Tuesday's NBC Today about the White House releasing a photo of President Obama skeet shooting to dispel doubt about his claim of doing it "all the time," co-host Matt Lauer worried about the precedent that had been set:  "So like releasing the birth certificate a year or so ago, this is the next step, that now the President always has to back up his words with proof?"

The Editor says...
Yes, Mr. Lauer.  A man who has made numerous public false statements (for examples, start at the top of this page) must be challenged every time he makes a claim, particularly when he makes an unbelievable boast about skeet shooting "all the time" at Camp David.

Top Ten Problems with that Skeet Shooting Picture.  [#3] The awkwardness of the President's stance leads one to believe he was insufficiently tutored.  Or he had no idea what he was doing.  And there were no handy-dandy experts around to correct his body language. [...] [#4] His shotgun is aimed straight ahead, where all skeet shooters we know of, including ourselves, follow the arc of the clay once the shooter yells "Pull!" Shooting straight is simply not doable, unless he is shooting at the person releasing the clay from its boot housing.

Obama's shotgun photo: Fake or for real?  Yesterday Obama was on the gun violence kick.  Today, it's immigration reform.  Both of which keep the public's mind off the sagging Obama economy.

Liar, liar, pants on fire.  I don't shoot skeet, but even I know the sport involves aiming up at the trajectory of the clay pigeon as it's lofted into the air.  My opinion?  The shot was phony, and only brain-wasted Obama believers take him at his word.  I could be crass and say it was a lie.  OK, I will.

Gun Control and the Constitution.  Could there be a better illustration of the cultural divide over firearms than the White House photograph of our skeet-shooting president?  Clay pigeons are launched into the air, but the president's smoking shotgun is level with the ground.  This is not a man who is comfortable around guns.  And that goes a long way toward explaining his gun-control agenda.

Let the mockery begin!

Word on the Skeet.  Dirty Barry, as he likes to be called when he's "packing heat," claims that he has profound respect for the tradition of hunting in our country (despite a tragic experience with a snipe hunt in Hawaii when he was high on weed and a little blow), and says that those who dismiss his gun-loving ways out of hand "make a big mistake."

BUSTED!: Lone Blogger Proves Obama 'Skeet Shooting' Picture Is A Fake.  [Links to numerous adaptations of the alleged skeet shooting picture.]

White House Warns: 'Don't Photoshop Obama Gun Pic!'.  OK Big Brother, I, Sad Hill, promise not to Photoshop® the publicly-owned image you released of Obama supposedly shooting skeet.

More photo manipulation examples.  at The Fine Report.  Warning:  Many of them are not as "family friendly" as this web site.

Obama: Shooting blanks at the pigeons.  Mr. Obama has been called a lot of names — secret Muslim, native Kenyan, socialist-in-waiting — but none can sting like being likened to Elmer Fudd, the great white hunter in the world of Bugs Bunny.  Hunters and shooters cherish the photograph of the president staring down the barrel of a Browning 12-gauge shotgun, aiming it not at the sky where clay pigeons fly but straight ahead, as if aiming at a beer can atop a hickory stump.

Despite what you may have heard, Barack Obama is not all that bright.

"My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government."

— Barack Obama    
Sources:  [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]    

Cover-up at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.  According to two well-vetted sources with intimate knowledge of the CIA operations and events in Benghazi, the resignation of CIA Director David Petraeus is directly related to the testimony he was expected to provide before a closed-door hearing next week before the Senate Intelligence Committee.  Sources close to the controversy, citing the need for anonymity due to their positions, stated that Barack Hussein Obama was aware of the CIA director's indiscretions "long before" the November 6, 2012 elections, and knew about the FBI's investigative findings weeks before the election, but "erected a firewall" to prevent any disclosure before November 6th.

Krauthammer: Obama "Not Trying To Fix Our Fiscal Issues And Problems; He's Trying To Destroy The Republicans".  ["]Why are Republicans allowing the entire debate to be about taxes and about the war among Republicans over holding the line on the Norquist pledge or not, when what Obama is proposing on raising the rates on the 2% is a triviality?  It will reduce the deficit from 1.10 trillion to 1.02 trillion, 8 cents on the dollar.  It is nothing.  It's lunch money, it's a rounding error.["]

Misleader-in-Chief.  Of all the Presidents in my lifetime, I don't recall a Commander in Chief that seems to purposely mislead.  Yet this President often orates with well crafted phrases that can only be explained as contrived to this purpose.  The circumstances are virtually always similar.  He speaks to a large crowd in which there is no chance for rebuttal or honest questioning.  The audience can be as large as a national television audience, as in the State of the Union.  The larger the audience, the better.

Obama is so invested in reducing gun violence that he hands the job off to Biden.  At Sunday's memorial service for the 26 innocent Newtown shooting victims, President Obama told a tearful crowd:  "In the coming weeks, I will use whatever power this office holds to engage my fellow citizens — from law enforcement to mental health professionals to parents and educators — in an effort aimed at preventing more tragedies like this."  Turns out "whatever power this office holds" is just the ability to tell Joe "BFD" Biden to come up with some ideas by late next month.

The Biden Gun Violence Task Force:
Three Reasons Gun Control Isn't Going to Happen.  In Washington, blue-ribbon task forces are reserved for issues where you want the appearance of taking action, without having to actually do anything.  There's a reason we've had so many task forces on government spending and the debt.  Politicians want to look like they are doing something on an issue.  By the time the task force completes its work, the national conversation will have moved on to a new issue.

Obama: the same man....  Friends, the man — Barack Obama — telling us that mass shootings are "unacceptable" is the same man who, as an Illinois senator, voted — by himself — to murder viable babies that the abortion doctor failed to kill...  He's the same man who called the Ft. Hood massacre by a Muslim radical "workplace violence," and told us not to "jump to conclusions".

Another Team Obama draft memo we're not supposed to worry about.  When President Obama's minions put their policy wishes on paper, we're told it's nothing.  Just "brainstorming."  Idle chatter.  No worries.  It's what they said about the BLM's land grab scheming.  And the DHS's amnesty-by-administrative fiat musings.  And it's no doubt what they'll say about the latest draft memo from ICE chief John Morton to his field agents.

Obama lists those to blame for the fiscal cliff and he's not one of them.  As five or six of you probably saw, President Obama made a rare appearance on a Sunday talk show yesterday to put his spin on the events or non-events.  He sounded pretty pessimistic. [...] What the president didn't have time to explain, apparently, is that he ran more than four years ago and spent about three-quarters of a billion dollars of other people's money on a campaign with the premise that he would unite the contentious capitol and move the nation forward into a new era beyond partisanship through hope and change.

Poll: Republican voters say Obama's hiding something.  More than a third of Americans — and 64 percent of Republicans — believe that President Barack Obama might be hiding something, according to a new poll Thursday [1/17/2013].  Thirty-six percent of the surveyed voters think the president is possibly "hiding important information about his background and early life," the Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind survey found.

The Children's Hour.  Thus far, the criticism surrounding the president's shameless exploitation of schoolchildren at the recent White House 23-Executive-"Actions" performance has focused largely on how wrong it was to use little kids as political props.  Even more reprehensible though is staged propaganda falsely promoted as unsolicited 'Letters to the President' written from the hearts of vulnerable children.  Therefore, based on the content, style, and an odd mix of childlike misspellings and decidedly unchildlike opinions featured in the letters, it's highly probable that four children were used as political pawns recruited to assist President Obama in "fundamentally transforming the United States of America."

More Calculated Deception.  The President did not present to the nation any agenda in his Inaugural Address.  There were only a few code words, with double, even multiple, meanings.  That is the fundamental innovation Obama has brought to our politics:  deniability.  His methodology is, as I have long exposed, Calculated Deception.

Obama Goes Nativist: 'The Border Crossed Them'.  Offering comments on behalf of outgoing Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar Wednesday [2/6/2013], President Obama suggested the Hispanic Cabinet member is more authentically American than New England's Pilgrims.  "His ancestors were here before the Mayflower set sail," Obama noted.

Obama couldn't care less about the Pope.  He is merely injecting himself into the big news story of the day.
Obama — Sued by Catholic Church for Attacking Religious Freedom — Boasts of His 'Work Together' With Pope.  President Barack Obama — whose administration is being sued by multiple Roman Catholic dioceses and organizations for violating their free exercise of religion — issued a statement today about retiring Pope Benedict XVI, boasting of his "work together" with the pontiff.

Barack Obama, extortionist in chief.  On Tuesday [2/19/2013], following another vacation and a round of golf with the disgraced Tiger Woods, President Obama appeared in the Eisenhower Executive Office building next to the White House.  Behind him on risers, looking like a church choir but without the robes, were his usual Greek chorus of potential victims should Republicans cut spending by a single dollar.  The president said the cuts from sequestration would be "brutal" if lawmakers allow "this meat cleaver approach to take place."  Sounds like a bloody horror movie, doesn't it?

Obama's Sequester Strategy Backfiring.  Barack Obama is overplaying his hand in the latest manufactured crisis of his presidency, Sequestration, and may be alienating his most important constituency of all, the media.

Obama, creator of the sequester crisis, decries crises created for political gain.  To hear President Obama talk about the so-called budget cuts known as sequestration, his two-year-old idea of those required slashes in federal spending didn't turn out to be such a good idea after all.  As usual with President Obama, however, the failure of his own plan is not his fault.

Obama Wants to Stop Blame Game, but Blames GOP for Sequester.  At a shipyard in Virginia, President Barack Obama pointed the finger at the GOP for the impasse over the automatic spending cuts set to hit on Friday — even as he insisted he's not interested in playing a "blame game."  Obama said he's not out for political advantage.  He said he told the nation's governors on Monday [2/25/2013] that he's run his last campaign.  "I'm not interested in spin, I'm not interested in playing a blame game.  At this point, all I'm interested in is solving problems," he said.  But Obama earlier said the GOP is at fault for refusing to compromise on the sequester.

Obama and the Sequester Scare.  Furloughed government employees, flight delays and criminals set free are among the dire consequences the president has predicted.  If the Washington Monument weren't already closed for repairs, no doubt it too would be shut down.

Spending kudzu.  Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has been front and center during the latter days of the sequestration showdown, which is good, because he literally wrote the book on government waste.  He produces a new edition of his "Wastebook" every year, chronicling the most absurd abuses of taxpayer money.  It is wise for Republicans to bring up these horror stories when Obama is racing around the country and insisting that a 2.3 percent reduction in the rate of government growth means we can't have firefighters or border security.

Turns out, those D.C. pols fighting over our money make much more than we do.  You may recall the "fiscal cliff" we were driving over not so long ago.  Now, there's "sequestration," which has to do with — read this carefully now — mandatory cuts of future increases in federal spending.  It's a tiny 2.3% of trillions of dollars, but Obama paints them as catastrophic.

Sequester fabrication revealed.  Never underestimate the White House's ability to mislead voters or the willingness of lefty pundits and mainstream media journalists (some overlap there) to be misled.

Apocalypse not.  In any budget crisis, the first thing politicians do is to inflict as much pain on the public as possible.  Cut cops; close parks, libraries and emergency rooms.  The idea is to make people suffer so they'll clamor for tax increases — and keep the pols' gravy train running smoothly.  Never before, however, have we seen the tactic taken to such extremes on a national level as President Obama is now [...]

Is Obama Losing His Media Allies Over The Sequester?  Obama's education secretary went on Sunday talk shows to suggest that 40,000 teachers would lose their jobs, and his transportation secretary claimed air travelers would suffer huge delays.  Obama's chief of staff called sequester fallout a "devastating list of horribles."  All that over a plan that trims just 5% from discretionary spending, leaves exploding entitlement programs untouched, and will produce an $845 billion deficit?  Even the media appear — incredibly — to be growing skeptical of the administration's horrifying predictions.

Obama's Sequester Math: $300 Billion In New Revenues Called 'Spending Cuts'.  When President Obama put out his "balanced" plan to avoid the automatic sequester cuts, no one noticed.  Which is probably just as well for Obama, given how embarrassingly unbalanced it is.

Obama wants even the smallest tax cut to be perceived as catastrophic.
Obamageddon.  The White House political calculus seems to be that if Americans see that cutting 2.3% of federal spending is possible without catastrophe, they might learn something from the experience.  They might even conclude that government doesn't need to be as large as it is, or that government should do some things well but not many others poorly.  They might even learn that governing is about choosing, as opposed to merely allowing the government to grow willy-nilly year after year to gather more clients who depend on government.

Top CDC Official Clueless on WH Vaccine Claims.  The Obama administration continues to stumble in its effort to dramatize the impact of sequestration.  During a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing Tuesday morning, Representative Andy Harris (R., Md.) challenged the White House over misleading claims about sequestration's impact on vaccines for children.

Obama playing both economic savior and Grim Reaper.  The White House typically trumpets each bit of positive economic news as proof that Obama is ushering in a wave of new jobs.  At the same time, the president has been traveling the country warning that doomsday is at hand, that $85 billion in federal spending cuts that kicked in March 1 are about to devastate the economy.

Obama Talks Sequester Doom Then Gives $250 Million to Egypt.  John Kerry said the U.S. is releasing $250 million of our money to the Egyptians two days after Barack Obama predicted doom over Sequester.  The media hasn't put this oddity together.  I guess it's over their heads.  Egypt's president promised to move ahead with negotiations with the International Monetary Fund over economic reforms in return for the money.  Apparently they are in dire straits.  I thought we were in dire straits because of the Republicans.  Didn't Obama just say that on Friday?

We can't cut 2 percent of government spending, but the Muslim Brotherhood gets $250 million.  But... but... I thought we were totally tapped out.  Cutting one single dollar from Obama's non-budgeted federal spending would mean pay cuts for hard-working janitors, who would go insane sitting in 90-minute takeoff queues at airports while attempting to fly home in shame, only to be killed by bacteria from un-inspected meat, but on the bright side their bodies would be incinerated in house fires that we can no longer afford firemen to extinguish, so at least the infection wouldn't spread.

National Security Trumps Smokey the Bear.  The rest of the country may not much care, but sequestration is here.  According to warnings by the Obama administration, failure to avert these automatic spending cuts will lead to planes falling from the skies, bridges collapsing, federal penitentiaries moving to a voluntary self-incarceration policy, and the Jersey Shore returning to the airwaves.  Nevermind that if these things actually mattered to the president he could have fought to prevent them.

Email tells feds to make sequester as painful as promised.  "This email confirms what many Americans have suspected:  The Obama administration is doing everything they can to make sure their worst predictions come true and to maximize the pain of the Sequester cuts for political gain," said Rep. Tim Griffin, Arkansas Republican.

Hume: Obama tack on sequester 'the most peculiar behavior I have ever seen by a president'.  [Scroll down]  "President Obama's behavior in this business about the automatic budget cuts — this itself is the most peculiar behavior I have ever seen by a president."  "A normal president would be trying to reassure the public that this, after all, is not a large sum of money compared to the budget overall," Hume continued.  "The president seems prepared to let the public suffer almost as much as possible, as long as he can blame somebody else.

White House Tells Agencies to Bring the Pain.  The Obama administration is urging federal officials not to exercise maximum flexibility in implementing automatic spending reductions in order to validate White House talking points, according to an e-mail sent Monday [3/4/2013].

Government by Temper Tantrum.  The government wants something.  It wants to spend $3,803,000,000,000.  It's been told that it may only spend $3,759,000,000,000.  (Please notice that nine zeroes are left unmolested.)  And so now the government is going to throw a tantrum.  It will hide its aircraft carrier, stop food-safety inspections, close the White House to tourists who flew in from hundreds or thousands of miles away.

Obama's LOL sequester cuts: White House tours, then 60,000 border security agents.  President Obama's sequester idea of forced budget cuts kicked in.  Mr. Spend Somemore doesn't like the idea any longer.  So, in true petulant Chicago style the first thing the Obama administration cut was White House tours.  These tours of the people's house that Obama and his mother-in-law occupy at taxpayer expense largely involve volunteer guides.  So, the savings don't equal the cost of one minute of one engine on Air Force One.

Government Advertises for Nearly 2,600 New Jobs Since Sequestration.  A search tonight [3/11/2013] of the USA Jobs federal employment website, filtered to positions in the United States and posted over the past 10 days, yielded 2,596 results.  This includes 107 positions at the Department of Homeland Security, which has claimed cutbacks have resulted in everything from a more taxing security line at airports to the need to free illegal immigrant detainees.

No Money for Air Traffic Control, But $500 million for Hamas.  Dear Leader says there's no money for airport control towers.  But that didn't stop him from writing a $500 million dollar check to the terrorists of Hamas.

Obama finds creative means to bypass Congress.  Move over executive orders.  President Obama has another tool to push policy absent congressional stamp — and it's far less known and controversial.  It's called executive action.  The beauty of the action is that it avoids Republican criticisms and conservative charges that Mr. Obama acts like a "monarch" when issuing executive orders, The Hill reports.  So while on paper, Mr. Obama may actually appear as if he's issuing fewer executive orders than many other presidents who have served two terms, the reality is he's still finding plenty of ways to bypass Congress.  He's just not calling those ways executive orders.

Obama is a joke, and the joke isn't funny.  Barack Obama allowed four Americans to be murdered in Benghazi, Libya.  His administration is still covering up the truth.  Seven Benghazi survivors are being kept from the public, while an innocent film-maker sits in jail.  Obama is his administration; their mistakes are his.  Nobody has been held accountable.  While Ambassador Stevens and a pair of Navy SEALs were being murdered by Islamists, Obama was going to bed early and partying in Las Vegas the next day.  Barack Obama allowed an American border guard to be murdered due to a "Fast and Furious" gunrunning operation that was created and botched by his administration. His Attorney General Eric Holder was asked who authorized the operation and still refuses to answer the question.

First Couple hosts celeb-filled concert amid sequestration.  President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle will host a star-studded roster of music legends April 9 for another glitzy installment in the "In Performance at the White House" concert series, according to a White House press released issued Tuesday. [...] Though the White House notably canceled all visitor tours in March, ostensibly due to sequestration, the First Couple's series of White House concerts — billed as "the nation's highest honor for popular song" — manages to survive.

The Editor says...
This event will be televised on PBS, largely at the taxpayers' expense.

By his own standards, Obama is 'self-delusional'.  I fully understand that missing a few baskets is a pretty trivial fault for the most powerful man in the world.  The problem for Obama is that he is such a phony with such highly manufactured image that his appeal is actually quite brittle, once you get definitive evidence that he isn't what he claims to be.

A Primer for Understanding Obama's Budget.  Congress can misrepresent the effects of any given piece of legislation in complex ways.  It does not do so by entering, say, $800 million when the correct number is $900 million.  Instead, Congress enacts certain tax and spending measures as "temporary" when it has no intention of allowing the provision to lapse; or it assumes legislative provisions in current law that would cut spending will be made, when Congress knows they never will.

The President's Gun Tirade and You.  President Obama's lecturing little temper tantrum at the White House Wednesday should cause you some alarm.  What are we to think when the most powerful man in the country spits venom all over the Rose Garden, accusing opponents he lost to in a fair fight on Capitol Hill of lying, craven capitulation to political imperatives, and worst of all, not caring about dead children.

Obama: Let's Not Rush to Judgment on Islamists' Motives.  Watch as Obama tries to argue away the roots and connection to radicalism of the terrorist brothers.  They aren't the white patriot terrorists the left would like, but he tries his best to make them domestic.

President Obama's Symbiotic Relationship With the Abortion Industry.  Obama declined to comment on Gosnell for the same reason the liberal media have consciously blacked out the story.  When Obama was asked, he didn't just beg off because "it's an active trial"; he offered up the obligatory disingenuous liberal talking point:  "I think President Clinton said it pretty well when he said abortion should be safe, legal and rare."  This formulation has always bothered me because it is fundamentally dishonest — and particularly so in Obama's case.  If an unborn baby is not a human life — an evil sophistry that has been responsible for millions of murders in this nation — then why in the world would it be important to make it rare?

Obama's Psychodramas.  Barack Obama has a habit of trying to energize his legislative agenda by stoking the fires of emotionally charged current events — and in ways usually illogical and incoherent.  The shooting of Representative Gabby Giffords and the horrible mass murders at Sandy Hook Elementary School were cited as reasons for rapid enactment of new gun-control laws — even though the proposed tougher registration rules would not have prevented either mayhem.

When He Talks Abortion, President Obama Pretends to Be a Libertarian.  It's no secret that Obama supports a woman's right to choose, in consultation with her doctor, whether getting an abortion is appropriate.  Contrary to his rhetoric, however, Obama doesn't believe that American women should alone be empowered to decide what's best for their health as a general matter.  However emphatically he proclaims the opposite, Obama verily believes that politicians like him ought to interfere in myriad decisions about personal medical care.  It is illegitimate for him to invoke the language of liberty to score points on this set of issues.

President Obama steals credit for energy success he opposed.  President Obama may be the first chief executive to take credit for the results of things he has opposed throughout his time in the Oval Office.  The latest example came last week, when the Department of the Interior announced it had approved 21 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico for energy resource exploration and development.

Carney: Benghazi Happened A Long Time Ago.  White House spokesman Jay Carney denied Benghazi whistleblowers have been denied access to testifying.

Benghazi isn't the only bloody disaster being covered up by the Obama administration.
The Camp Bastion Cover-Up.  Do you remember what happened last year on 9/14?  Where are the White House phone calls for the families who continue to grieve?  What is being done to prevent another fatal attack like the one on 9/14?  And why is the full truth being withheld from the American public?

The Biggest Threat Of Government Tyranny Says There Is None.  The president told college graduates over the weekend to dismiss those warning of government tyranny.  But he wouldn't have brought it up if he didn't feel the need to defend his administration's heavy hand.

In wake of scandal, Obama ousts IRS chief — who was planning to resign anyway.  President Obama insisted Thursday [5/16/2013] that he knew nothing about the internal investigation into the IRS' practice of singling out conservative groups for special scrutiny before it was made public, as he moved to name a new director for the embattled agency. [...] The president, though, did not say whether he was previously aware of the IRS' actions, which allegedly started as early as 2010, well before the inspector general's office began to investigate.

When it rains, it pours: Ten press conference take aways.  [#4] He wouldn't say that the White House had no previous knowledge of IRS wrongdoing.  Instead he said he didn't have any knowledge of the Inspector General's report before it was released.