Did President Obama Lie to Americans?
February 18th, 2009 . by iVote
In speech after speech, candidate Barack Obama reassured the American people that he was going to be their change agent if elected.
He assured us that “politics as usual” would not be a part of his Presidential decision and policy making. He triumphantly declared in his acceptance speech that “Change has come to America!”
When he stepped forward to champion the so-called bailout plan, President Barack Obama told the American people “there are no earmarks in this package.”
Prime Timing the Obama Marketing Machine
Was he telling us the truth when he stated the following in his prime time address to the American people on February 9, 2009?
But when they start characterizing this as pork without acknowledging that there are no earmarks in this package; something, again, that was pretty rare over the last eight years; then you get a feeling that maybe we’re playing politics instead of actually trying to solve problems for the American people.
Has change come to America? We suppose that depends upon what that definition of change is (as in the definition of “is”). Has President Obama misled the American people with respect to the stimulus package? Bluntly asked, did he lie to us?
Is it really true that there is no special spending in the stimulus plan known to us as “pork” and to those in Washington as “earmarks?”
Catching a Whiff of the Stench of Rotting Pork
Prior to his prime time address, the President appeared in Elkhart, Indiana for a town hall meeting which was designed to float the deceptive trial balloon prior to going prime time. The pork message needed to be taste-tested first in Elkhart. If people swallowed it, the Obama crew would slap on an additional layer of BBQ sauce and serve it up prime time. In Elkhart the President served up the pork concept with this statement:
And, listen, I know that there are a lot of folks out there who’ve been saying, “Oh, this is pork, and this is money that’s going to be wasted,” and et cetera, et cetera. Understand, this bill does not have a single earmark in it, which is unprecedented for a bill of this size, does not have a single earmark in it.
We at iVoteAmerica know a good barbecqued pork rib when we smell one on the grill. Although it may be true that the special projects contained in the stimulus package are not classified as “earmarks” the common sense American public doesn’t draw a line between “pork” and “earmark.”
Hard working Americans don’t have time to spend each day refining what the meaning of “is” is.
Most Americans are not good at parsing the language in order to pull off a marketing ploy. We spend most of our time working, raising our families and trying to do what is right. However, we do know what a good batch of B.S. looks like when we see it and especially when we smell it. Rotten pork makes you sick no matter how you cook it on the gas grill.
There is another thing we Americans do. We tell our children that lying is wrong. We tell them that when we twist things in order to deceive others, it’s the same as lying. We teach our children that it is wrong to use words to make people believe something that isn’t true.
In Washington, words are used to push agendas through Congress. Words are used to paint mental images in the minds of Americans that sometime deceive them. In fact, in Washington, words are used to create public responses to political agendas that are often designed to exploit honest Americans.
Rotten pork is best swallowed after it has a heavy coating of Washington barbecque sauce applied to it. Think of it this way. Out of the full $800 billion in the stimulus package most Americans will be receiving $13 a week in tax reductions/rebates/refunds for a grand total of $754 annually. Never mind that Washington is strapping a huge debt on our individual and collective backs in exchange for chump change.
Have we traded our futures for $13 a week?
“Doublespeak” is in full operation… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublespeak for the late comers :>)
Eric Holder got it right when he said we are a “nation of cowards.” However, his topic was wrong. We have become a “nation of cowards” who won’t stand up to the federal government.
We are rolling over to the idea of the “nanny state.” I am finding it hard to believe that we are not in the streets, pitchforks in hand.
CNN just interviewed a young lady this morning (Feb 20, 2009) who said she and her husband are considering moving to China where they can “have a better life.” We bid her farewell as they join an oppressive social, communist state with an economy that will need to produce 25,000,000 each year just to stay even with the board.
It’s becoming increasingly obvious that many of us are in a state of dependency and ripe for facism and socialism, under the spell of Obama verbosity.
Have we completely lost our moorings as Americans? Have we lost our national spine? Have we sold out the future of our children and grandchildren for a government promise of prosperity? Yes, we are doing that…but it is not too late!