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I can't remember a time when trust in government was as low as it is today. Obama now has a reputation as a liar, with the great lies of Obamacare ("If you like your doctor...) forever his legacy. The Secret Service, once a revered agency, looks like Keystone Kops. And now with epidemics imported from abroad threatening our health (not just Ebola but Enterovirus), the public has every reason to be distrustful of those offering advice and reassurances.
http://americanthinker.com/blog/2014/10/obama_proven_wrong_wrong_wrong_about_ebola_in_just_2_weeks.html
October 3, 2014
Obama proven wrong, wrong, wrong about Ebola in just 2 weeks
By Thomas Lifson
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Obama and his allies will do this because they can get away with it. The media have enabled Obama’s mean-spirited mendacity from his breakout appearance at the 2004 Democratic Convention to today, and they show no sign of mending their ways. In the process, they have helped Obama create what Marc Thiessen charitably described in the Washington Post as “a fundamentally dishonest presidency.”
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He and his enablers have proven themselves capable of lying on every subject of significance, and on none more boldly than those involving race and illegal immigration, like the issue of Ebola.
Obama’s distinctive upbringing had much to do with making him the fabulator he became. Too many of those who have studied the president have gone awry by trusting Obama’s own accounts of that upbringing in his memoir Dreams from My Father. In fact, the parent who shaped him was not his father, but his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham.
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Even a supportive Obama biographer like David Remnick called Dreams a "mixture of verifiable fact, recollection, recreation, invention, and artful shaping."
Equally friendly biographer David Maraniss agreed. “The character creations and rearrangements of the book are not merely a matter of style, devices of compression, but are also substantive,” wrote Maraniss. "We didn't understand why his politically calculating chameleon nature was never discussed," an aide to Hillary Clinton told Remnick. "We were said to be the chameleons, but he changed his life depending on who he was talking to."
Obama’s early influences like his Communist mentor in Hawaii, Frank Marshall Davis, and his Marxist professors and friends at Occidental College did not encourage truth-telling. Although leftists are not uniquely guilty of lying, they are uniquely guilty of lying as a conscious strategy. “If there is no God,” concluded Jean-Paul Sartre in his famous paraphrase of Dostoevsky’s Ivan Karamazov, “everything is permitted.”
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On his first day in office, he told his assembled staff, “Let me say it as simply as I can. Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.”
This two-headed promise has been violated more wantonly than a goat at a Taliban bachelor party.
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So saying, Wilson spoke to what he saw as the very essence of the man: Sinatra sings, Astaire dances, Obama lies.
http://americanthinker.com/2014/10/why_we_cannot_trust_the_white_house_on_ebola.html
October 3, 2014
Why We Cannot Trust the White House on Ebola
By Jack Cashill
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