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Friday, July 3, 2009

Barack Obama is a Big Fat Liar


Friday, July 3, 2009

Barack Obama is a Big Fat Liar


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'Barack Obama is a Big Fat Liar,' Illustrated [Guy Benson]

During President Obama's "townhall" event on healthcare reform earlier this week, the pesky subject of taxing employer-based benefits again reared its head. It's a policy proposal for which Obama savaged John McCain during the campaign. As Jim Geraghty reminds us in "Barack Obama is a Big Fat Liar," Team Obama spent $44 million on more than a dozen ads specifically denouncing McCain's supposedly reckless idea in the fall. But now the White House — desperate for revenue — seems to be changing its tune:

In early October [Obama] went even further, calling McCain’s plan “so radical, so out of touch with what you’re facing, and so out of line with our basic values.”

On Capitol Hill, however, Democrats have long liked the idea as a new form of tax revenue. Obama’s relentless denunciation of the proposal would seem to preclude his signing it into law, but “would seem to” is not “does.” Back in March, White House budget director Peter Orszag said taxing employer benefits was among several ideas that “most firmly should remain on the table,” and some congressional Democrats told the Washington Post that White House officials said Obama would accept such a tax “as long as he didn’t have to propose it himself.”

Finally, during Wednesday’s p.r. push for his health-care plan, Obama refused to rule out the proposal that he once said made John McCain unfit for office.

I went back and found a number of the ads Obama ran against McCain on this front. The impending expiration of this particular campaign promise is especially galling when one actually views the ads themselves — bearing in mind that the risky, out-of-touch, unaffordable, deal-breaking healthcare policies these ads ruthlessly targeted are now on the brink of being embraced by their one-time chief critic. Marvel:

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  1. NOTES FROM THE WILDSIDEJuly 10, 2009 at 4:34 PM

    RE: To characterize the President as a liar...is wrong. You fail to take...

    The POTUS in context of telling a lie, that he knows is a lie, is a liar.

    There is no intent to characterize his soul or beingness.

    The POTUS has slipped too far right of his promises to the point of lying about what he meant.

    Don't know why the right complains when the POTUS has become one of them: lies and all.

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