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Thursday, January 28, 2010

Obama has a very low opinion of the intelligence of the American people!

Last night the president made one more of his incorrect statements. Did he think it was true or was he lying? If the first, he is incompetent; if the second, he's a liar. And here it is.

"We've excluded lobbyists from policy-making jobs or seats on federal boards and commissions."

Is that right, Mr. President?

RedState.com provides this list of your lobbyist appointments, which I presume was put together over a year ago since it mentions some current appointees as "nominees":

-- William Lynn in the Pentagon as Deputy Defense Secretary. Mr. Lynn was a lobbyist for Defense Contractor Ratheon.

--Eric Holder, attorney general nominee, was registered to lobby until 2004 on behalf of clients including Global Crossing, a bankrupt telecommunications firm [now confirmed].

--Tom Vilsack, secretary of agriculture nominee, was registered to lobby as recently as last year on behalf of the National Education Association.
William Lynn, deputy defense secretary nominee, was registered to lobby as recently as last year for defense contractor Raytheon, where he was a top executive.

--William Corr, deputy health and human services secretary nominee, was registered to lobby until last year for the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, a non-profit that pushes to limit tobacco use.
David Hayes, deputy interior secretary nominee, was registered to lobby until 2006 for clients, including the regional utility San Diego Gas & Electric.

--Mark Patterson, chief of staff to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, was registered to lobby as recently as last year for financial giant Goldman Sachs.

--Ron Klain, chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden, was registered to lobby until 2005 for clients, including the Coalition for Asbestos Resolution, U.S. Airways, Airborne Express and drug-maker ImClone.

--Mona Sutphen, deputy White House chief of staff, was registered to lobby for clients, including Angliss International in 2003.

--Melody Barnes, domestic policy council director, lobbied in 2003 and 2004 for liberal advocacy groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the American Constitution Society and the Center for Reproductive Rights.

--Cecilia Munoz, White House director of intergovernmental affairs, was a lobbyist as recently as last year for the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic advocacy group.

--Patrick Gaspard, White House political affairs director, was a lobbyist for the Service Employees International Union.

--Michael Strautmanis, chief of staff to the president's assistant for intergovernmental relations, lobbied for the American Association of Justice from 2001 until 2005.

Are none of these men and women in "policy-making" jobs? Certainly the Deputy Defense Secretary and the Attorney General make policy and "Domestic Policy Director" certainly sounds like a policy job.

Obama thinks his charisma will prevent everyone from checking out what he says, but, as Reagan quipped, trust, but verify. And when you do that you catch this president in a lot of lies. Like the old joke says. How do you know he's lying? His lips are moving!

Ask Samuel Alito who couldn't hide his surprise at the attack on the Supreme Court with more Obama untruths about their recent decision. Lies just come to this man as easily as reading the teleprompter. No wonder Joe Wilson called out "liar" during Obama's address to the joint houses of Congress. I couldn't help blurting it out myself watching the speech last night. And can someone please explain why he always has his nose in the air? It was the first thing he did when he got to the podium.




5 comments:

  1. Why does he hold his nose in the air? Well, maybe it's the only way he can read the Messianic Teleprompter.

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  2. My hubby likes the guy, says he's a great talker...And to that I say, yes, he is a great talker. Unfortunately he can't get past the "they did this" and "Now I have to fix it" and "the Repubs won't work with me". I am all for cutting the budget and cleaning up waste in our national budget. Yes, Bush made many mistakes, but I never once heard him blame "others" on the national stage.

    I couldn't even watch 20 minutes of the speech....There is something about him I don't trust - and I always follow my gut instinct. In fact, when I haven't (teens/early 20s), I made some of the biggest mistakes of my life.

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  3. THANK GOD there are people like you MaryAnn who can take the time to check these things out and make them public. That's what Obama is counting on; that most of us are too busy to check up everything he says. I believe, no, I know, that that is one of his tactics: to produce an overload of information so that it is more difficult to check up on everything. Just look at the healthcare bill or how TARP was spent: the truth (or lies) is hidden in mounds of rhetoric.

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  4. Thanks, Rob. Little did Al Gore realize when he invented the internet that he was a creating a way for little folks to challenge the headlock by the national liberal media who can always be counted on to cover up the lies of folks like Obama. No doubt in their back rooms they are trying to figure out how to fix it.

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  5. "great talker" or "smooth talker"? To me Barack Obama is the master of platitudinous speech. Every time I hear him talk he has some high sounding purpose to expound but when he gets down to details it's always government taking and doing for people what they should do for themselves.

    Government is the problem not the answer. We were founded as a nation because the founders saw government, especially centralized government far away (read Great Britain) as the source of tyranny. Substituting Washington for Great Britain is not what they had in mind. Obama is just another would be tyrant, an empty suit, and a talker for hire. The question I have is who is running him?

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