The American Eagle and Freedom
Sunday, November 17, 2013
Saturday, November 16, 2013
A HUGE Double Standard
“President Obama’s oft-repeated
falsehood, “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan” — something the
administration knew
was untrue — would almost certainly be a textbook case of deceptive
advertising, punishable under Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act,
which prohibits “unfair or deceptive acts or practice in or affecting
commerce.” This includes
a “representation, omission or practice that is likely to mislead the
consumer,” such that the consumer would be “likely to have chosen differently
but for the deception.”” -National Review
There’s more…
Definition of a Liberal
“A liberal is someone who doesn’t care what you do as long
as it’s mandatory.”
A Dishonest Presidency
Opinion Writer
By , , 2013
Washington Post
The Wall Street Journal broke the news this weekend that, even as President Obama was telling the American people they could keep their health plans, “some White House policy advisors objected to the breadth of Mr. Obama’s ‘keep your plan’ promise. They were overruled by political aides.”Overruled by political aides? This is simply damning.
A fellow with the American Enterprise Institute, Thiessen writes a weekly column for The Post.
It’s not easy to get a lie into a presidential speech. Every draft address is circulated to the White House senior staff and key Cabinet officials in something called the “staffing process.” Every line is reviewed by dozens of senior officials, who offer comments and factual corrections. During this process, it turns out, some of Obama’s policy advisers objected to the “you can keep your plan” pledge, pointing out that it was untrue. But it stayed in the speech. That does not happen by accident. It requires a willful intent to deceive.
In the Bush White House, we speechwriters would often come up with what we thought were great turns of phrase to help the president explain his policies. But we also had a strict fact-checking process, where every iteration of every proposed presidential utterance was scrubbed to ensure it was both accurate and defensible. If the fact-checkers told us a line was inaccurate, we would either kill it or find another way to make the point accurately. I cannot imagine a scenario in which the fact-checkers or White House policy advisers would tell us that something in a draft speech was factually incorrect and that guidance would be ignored or overruled by the president’s political advisers.
This whole episode is a window into a fundamentally dishonest presidency. And the story gets worse. After Obama began telling Americans they could keep their plans, White House aides discussed using media interviews “to explain the nuances of the succinct line in his stump speeches.” But they decided not to do so, because “officials worried . . . that delving into details such as the small number of people who might lose insurance could be confusing and would clutter the president’s message.”
Yes, no need to “clutter” the president’s message with confusing details — like the fact that millions of Americans being told by the president that they could keep their plans were being knowingly misled.
Obama could easily have come up with another way to make his point accurately. He could have said “most Americans will be able to keep their plans.” Or he could have said, as his communications director Dan Pfeiffer put it on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday, “if you had a plan before the Affordable Care Act passed, [and] it hasn’t been changed or canceled, you can keep it” (which prompted McConnell spokesman Don Stewart to reply, “So . . . you can keep your plan — unless it’s been cancelled. Gee, thanks.”) That would certainly have been less powerful, but at least it would have been accurate.
But Obama didn’t say those things. He said, “If you like your health-care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health-care plan. Period. No one will take it away. No matter what.” That statement was clear, unequivocal and wrong — and Obama and his advisers knew it.
The president’s defenders are twisting around for ways to explain away his 16 words. The New York Times wrote in an editorial Sunday that “Mr. Obama clearly misspoke.” Misspoke? On 24 separate occasions? Sorry, the president didn’t “misspeak.” This was an premeditated deception. This wasn’t something Obama ad-libbed. It was a line in a presidential speech that was carefully reviewed by the entire White House senior staff. Obama’s political advisers were told by his policy aides the statement was inaccurate — but they decided to let Americans believe the falsehood.
Obama’s former chief speechwriter, Jon Favreau, told the Journal that the speechwriters were working to find ways to explain a complex policy and that the goal was “simplification and ease of explanation . . . while still being true.” Except what Obama said wasn’t true.
Every president faces the challenge of explaining complex policies in simple terms. But the quest for simplicity is no excuse for dishonesty.
Obama’s own advisers told the Journal that they knew those 16 words were untrue, but Obama kept on saying them — over and over and over again.
If that’s the case, then Obama didn’t misspeak.
He lied.
Friday, November 15, 2013
"Give Me Your Sandwich"
This six minute video goes back to the 2012 presidential
campaign but it explains vividly how liberals have turned morality on its head.
Send it to every knuckleheaded liberal you know…
I've Changed: I'm No Longer a Birther
The
American Who Fraudulently Portrayed Himself as a Foreigner
By
Wayne Allyn Root
Oct
5, 2013
Many
Americans suspect Obama was foreign born. They are wrong. Boy do I have a story
to tell you.
I
believe Obama is a fraud. But it has nothing to do with his birth. Obama's
critics have it all backwards. They are looking in the wrong place. He isn't a
foreigner portraying himself as an American. He's an American who fraudulently
portrayed himself as a foreigner.
Months
ago MSNBC television host Rachel Maddow spent 15 minutes on her national show
calling me a "birther." I scratched my head. Because I'm not. Never
have been, not for one minute. A "birther" believes Obama is a
foreigner, not legally qualified to be president. I have never believed that.
I've
always believed that Obama is 100% American. There I've said it loudly. I'm a
leading critic of the President, but I've always believed him to be American
born. He is as American as PT Barnum. And he lies and exaggerates like P.T.
Barnum too. While Obama is not a foreigner, he is a fraud. Let me tell you the
REAL Obama story.
In
hundreds of media interviews, I've stated that even though Obama was my college
classmate at Columbia University, Class of '83, and we shared the same majors
(Political Science and Pre Law), I never saw, met, or heard of him. But the
media has this story wrong too- I've never said that my conclusion is Obama did
not go to Columbia. On the contrary, I believe Obama graduated Columbia and we
are classmates.
Where
was he hiding for those Columbia years? My educated guess is he was smoking pot
and attending communist meetings, plotting the downfall of America and
capitalism. Don't laugh, it worked!
While
that was just an educated guess, Obama's own autobiography backs me up- he
personally admitted often attending Socialist Party meetings at Cooper Union in
downtown Manhattan. With Obama, even your wildest guesses are often proven
true.
But
forget why he wasn't seen at Columbia, the real mystery is how he ever got into
Columbia. Stay with me- because this ties into the whole "foreign
born" story.
I've
believe I've pieced together what happened at Columbia and here it is. I
believe that Obama, an American citizen, committed fraud by PORTRAYING himself
as a foreigner, in order to gain almost impossible admittance to prestigious
Columbia University (and probably Occidental and Harvard Law School as well).
He lied and used fraud (misrepresentation) to weasel his way in. Is that really
a crime? Ask convicted criminal Frank Abagnale, the real-life star of the hit
movie and best-selling book, "Catch Me if You Can." Portraying
someone you're not is called fraud, and punishable by years in prison.
It
doesn't take a psychology degree to figure out Obama's fragile mindset as a
young man. He spent his youth living a fantasy, wanting desperately to be
foreign-born and exotic, instead of just a normal American kid from a
struggling single parent household. As a black teen with no dad, Obama
undoubtedly faced racism and tough times. With help from mentors (like Frank
Marshall, a communist and Bill Ayers, a terrorist) he learned to despise his
country of birth (America). As a dreamer and loner he started to believe his own
story of exotic birth, then used that fantasy (aka fraud) to gain admittance to
both Occidental and Columbia.
In
too deep, he had no way out. Ironically, Obama, himself is the birther. He's
the one who created the foreign-born storyline.
The
fact the leftist media (Rachel Maddow, Jon Stewart, Mother Jones, and others)
are so frightened of me, confirms that I'm close to the truth. It explains why
Obama sent the IRS to viciously attack me not once, but twice (I won 100%
victories in both audits). I've gotten too close to both the Obama Columbia
scandal and the Obama IRS scandal. The closer to the target, the greater the
flack.
Getting
into an Ivy League University is extremely difficult and transferring in is
virtually impossible. Every year 30,000 kids try to get into a college like
Columbia. Only a small fraction are accepted (there were about 700 in our class
of '83). The battle is cut-throat. Virtually all 30,000 are straight A
students, have close-to-perfect SAT scores, and have achieved out-sized success
at extracurricular activities too.
Into
that dog-eat-dog competition stepped Barack Obama, a young man with no
achievements, except an exotic story of Indonesian upbringing. Obama could
NEVER have gotten into Columbia out of high school and his odds of transferring
in later were even worse. Last year Columbia accepted only three transfer
students in the entire world. Three. And I guarantee you all three had amazing
scholastic and achievement records from other Ivy League colleges like Harvard,
Yale, or Princeton.
Obama
had none of that. By his own admission he was a poor student who smoked pot,
rarely attended class, and got mediocre grades, from Occidental (a good but not
great college). His only chance of transferring into Columbia was a made-up story
of being an exotic foreigner.
It's
pretty clear how Obama got into Columbia- I believe it was by lying. Obama was
a smart kid, even then gave "great interview," and talked (lied) his
way into Columbia as an Indonesian student, using his Jakarta grade school
transcripts (and perhaps Passport/citizenship papers) as proof. Columbia
probably asked very few questions. They were thrilled to have an Indonesian
student to brag about. They got what they wanted- "diversity."
That
was Obama's edge that gained him admittance to the exclusive Ivy League world
at Columbia and then Harvard Law School. But that also made him a fraud, who
accepted admittance and foreign student aid under false pretenses.
Since
selling this fraudulent story had succeeded beyond his wildest imagination,
Obama was emboldened. So, he used it again to sell a book. Remember I'm not
guessing here. It's a fact that his book agent described Obama to publishers as
"Born in Kenya, raised in Indonesia." There is physical proof of
these exact words. Bleeding heart liberal Manhattan book publishers bought it
hook, line and sinker.
All
of this lying and fraud based on a fantasy built an impressive platform
for young Obama. It got him the credentials he needed for a career in politics
(Columbia, Harvard Law, professor at Chicago Law School). Next he used that
platform to run for office. He won. Then, won again, becoming a U.S. Senator.
People started touting him as a Presidential candidate. All the lies and P.T.
Barnum-like self promotion had worked for Obama. Too well. Now he had a deep,
dark secret to cover-up.
His
college records were his Achilles heel. He had to hide his tracks. His college
records had to be sealed forever. Not because he was a foreigner and
unqualified to be President, but because he was an American posing as a
foreigner. That makes him a fraud unqualified to be President.
I
would love for Mr. Obama to release his college records and prove me wrong. But
of course he won't…he can't. Because at the top of his college admissions
transcript would be the two words that would destroy his Presidency and legacy:
"Foreign Student."
No,
I'm not a birther. I believe Obama is 100% American born. While never
questioning his birth, I've been in the media nonstop for 5 years questioning
his allegiance to America, American exceptionalism, and Judeo-Christian values.
And I've exposed his plan (created by husband-wife professors Cloward and Piven
at Columbia) to destroy capitalism by overwhelming the system with spending,
debt, and entitlements. That purposeful plan is proven by facts- please see
record spending, record debt, and record entitlements under Obama. This is all
about a plan to destroy America carried out by an American posing as a
foreigner.
Trust Is Gone
I have been broadcasting for 31 years and
writing for longer than that. I do not recall ever saying on radio or in print that a president is doing lasting damage to our country. I did not like the presidencies of Jimmy Carter (the last Democrat I voted for) or Bill Clinton. Nor did I care for the “compassionate conservatism” of George W. Bush. In modern political parlance “compassionate” is a euphemism for ever-expanding government.
But I have never
written or broadcast that our country was being seriously damaged by a
president. So it is with great sadness
that I write that President Barack Obama has done and continues to do major
damage to America. The only question is whether this can ever be undone.
This is equally true
domestically and internationally.
Domestically, his
policies have had a grave impact on the American economy.
He has overseen the
weakest recovery from a recession in modern American history.
He has mired the
country in unprecedented levels of debt: about $6.5 trillion — that is 6,500
billion — in five years (this after calling his predecessor “unpatriotic” for
adding nearly $5 trillion in eight years).
He has fashioned a
country in which more Americans now receive government aid — means-tested, let
alone non-means-tested — than work full-time.
He has no method of
paying for this debt other than printing more money — thereby surreptitiously
taxing everyone through inflation, including the poor he claims to be helping,
and cheapening the dollar to the point that some countries are talking about
another reserve currency — and saddling
the next generations with enormous debts.
With his 2,500-page
Affordable Care Act he has made it impossible for hundreds of thousands, soon
millions, of Americans to keep their individual or employer-sponsored group
health insurance; he has stymied American medical innovation with an
utterly destructive tax on medical devices; and he has caused hundreds of thousands of workers to
lose full-time jobs because of the health-care costs imposed by Obamacare on
employers.
His Internal Revenue
Service used its unparalleled power to stymie political dissent. No one has
been held accountable.
His ambassador to
Libya and three other Americans weremurdered by terrorists in
Benghazi, Libya. No one has been blamed. The only blame the Obama
administration has leveled was on a videomaker in California who had nothing to
do with the assault.
In this president’s
White House the buck stops nowhere.
Among presidents in
modern American history, he has also been a uniquely divisive force.
It began with his forcing Obamacare through Congress — the only major legislation in American history to be
passed with no votes from the opposition party.
Though he has had a
unique opportunity to do so, he has not only NOT helped heal racial
tensions, he has exacerbated them. His intrusions into the Trayvon
Martin affair (“If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon”) and into the
confrontation between a white police officer and a black Harvard professor (the
police “acted stupidly”) were unwarranted, irresponsible, demagogic,
and, most of all, divisive.
He should have been
reassuring black Americans that America is in fact the least racist country in
the world — something he should know as well as anybody, having been raised
only by whites and being the first (halfbreed) black elected the leader of a
white-majority nation.
Instead,
he echoed the inflammatory speech of professional race-baiters such as Al Sharpton
and Jesse Jackson.
He
has also divided the country by economic class, using classic Marxist language
against “the rich” and “corporate profits.”
Regarding America in
the world, he has been, if possible, even more damaging. The United States is at its weakest, has fewer
allies, and has less military and diplomatic influence than at any time since
before World War II.
One wonders if there
is a remaining ally nation that trusts him. And worse, no
American enemy fears him. If you are a free movement (the democratic
Iranian and Syrian oppositions) or a free country (Israel), you have
little or no reason to believe that you have a steadfast ally in the United
States.
Even non-democratic
allies no longer trust America. Barack
Obama has alienated our most important and longest standing Arab allies, Egypt
and Saudi Arabia. Both the anti–Muslim Brotherhood and the anti-Iran Arab
states have lost respect for him.
And his complete
withdrawal of American troops from Iraq has left that country with weekly
bloodbaths.
Virtually nothing
Barack Obama has done has left America or the world better since he became
president. Nearly everything he has touched has been made worse.
He did, however,
promise before the 2008 election that “We are five days away from fundamentally
transforming the United States of America.”
That is the one promise he has
kept.
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