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Pre-Existing Prevarication

By David Catron on 7.18.11 @ 6:08AM

Obama finally surpasses even Bill Clinton on phony childhood anecdotes.

During his 1996 reelection campaign, President Bill Clinton famously recounted "vivid and painful memories of black churches being burned in my own state when I was a child." It was a moving story, and it helped shore up his sagging support among minority voters. It was also a lie. As the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and a variety of other publications pointed out at the time, no such atrocities had occurred in Arkansas during Slick Willie's formative years. Until recently, Clinton's church-burning whopper appeared to be the most egregious modern example of crass and cynical prevarication by a presidential candidate. It has, however, now been supplanted by President Obama's oft-repeated tale about his mother's fictional struggle with her health insurance company while she was battling cancer.

Throughout his 2008 presidential bid, Obama attributed his passion for health care reform to painful memories of his mother's battle with a health insurance company that allegedly tried to avoid paying her medical bills on the pretext that her disease predated her coverage. He used her image in a campaign ad as far back as September of 2007, and he often told the tale during his primary battle with Hillary Clinton. In a New Hampshire debate he phrased it thus: "When I think about health care, I think about my mother, who, when she was dying of cancer, had to read an insurance form because she had just gotten a new job and they were trying to figure out whether or not this was going to be treated as a preexisting condition and whether or not they would pay her medical bills."

Like Bill Clinton's anecdote about charred black churches, the story of Obama's mother was moving. And, like Clinton's tale, it was a work of fiction. Questions were raised about the accuracy of this tale as soon as Obama began peddling it, but the "news" media ignored them and he continued to repeat it even after he had been elected President. He included it, for example, in a 2009 speech to the AMA: "I will never forget watching my own mother… worrying about whether her insurer would claim her illness was a preexisting condition." And, during the height of the ObamaCare debate, he told the attendees of a town hall meeting, "I will never forget my own mother, as she fought cancer in her final months, having to worry about whether her insurance would refuse to pay for her treatment."

Now, the President's veracity concerning his mother's dealings with her health insurance company has once again been questioned in a new biography of Ann Dunham. Author Janny Scott writes, in A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother, that there was never any attempt by Ann Dunham's health insurance company to deny payment for her medical bills. Scott is a former reporter for that notorious hive of wingnuts and Tea Partiers, the New York Times, and her book makes it clear that Obama's mother had health insurance through her job and that it covered her medical treatment: "[T]he hospital billed her insurance company directly, leaving Ann to pay only the deductible and any uncovered expenses, which, she said, came to several hundred dollars a month."

Like all truly effective lies, however, there is a tiny kernel of truth to Obama's story. Even the best health insurance policies, such as those enjoyed by members of labor unions that supported the President during his campaign, include deductibles -- a cost-sharing mechanism designed to bring down monthly premiums and prevent over-utilization of health services. In 1995, when Obama's mother was hospitalized, this feature was typical of a well designed health insurance plan. Instead of turning to her son, who by that time had the resources to help her, Dunham apparently tried to defray her deductible as well as her living expenses by obtaining payment through a separate disability policy. That claim was indeed denied because her condition was already well-documented before that policy had gone into effect.

Twelve years after these unhappy events, Ann Dunham's son needed a useful campaign narrative that would support his plan to impose government-run health care on an unwilling electorate. Thus, Obama deliberately rearranged the facts of his mother's "battle" with the insurance company to make it appear that the evil minions of the health care industrial complex had foully mistreated his poor widowed mother when she was dying of cancer. This allowed him to tell audience after audience that the struggle for universal health care was, for him, an intensely "personal" crusade and to claim that he would never rest until such wrongs had been righted. Like most pathological liars, he probably began to believe the tale himself after telling it several hundred times.

Nonetheless, it was indeed a lie. Not that this matters a whit to Obama's allies in the mainstream media. They continue to ignore or brush off this tawdry tale. The very people who accused George W. Bush of "lying us into war" because he made a poor verb choice in a United Nations speech tell us that Obama's egregious whopper about his mother only matters to desperate conservatives trying to bring down the President. The reaction of Salon is typical: "The RedState/TownHall crowd is feasting on this Obama 'lie.' And why wouldn't they? If Bill Clinton was an all-you-can-eat buffet of half-truths and scandals, Saint Barack of Chicago has been nothing but thin gruel all the way." In reality, of course, precisely the reverse is true. The man rarely opens his mouth without telling some stretcher.

Throughout the ObamaCare debate, he consistently lied about his ultimate intentions, the cost and the contents of the legislation. And since its passage, he has told whopper after whopper about the benefits of PPACA. In fact, his predilection for prevarication has been one of the reasons it has been so difficult for the GOP to put together deals with the White House on Medicare reform, the debt limit and a variety of other serious issues. No one with any sense believes anything he says. How can one trust a man who deliberately and repeatedly lied about the death of his own mother for cheap political gain? "Saint Barack of Chicago" is so profoundly dishonest that even a grifter like Bill Clinton seems trustworthy in comparison.

About the Author

David Catron is a health care revenue cycle expert who has spent more than twenty years working for and consulting with hospitals and medical practices. He has an MBA from the University of Georgia and blogs at Health Care BS.

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Ken (Old Texican)| 7.18.11 @ 6:55AM

David,
thanks for clearing that up. (smile)

masly| 7.18.11 @ 12:19PM

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Occam's Tool| 7.18.11 @ 2:25PM

Yup, Obama can't handle several hundred dollars a month for mom. Taught family responsibility by Dad.

Alan Brooks| 7.18.11 @ 11:13PM

Nixon was more of a liar than Clinton and Bush-- even Andrew Johnson didn't have to resign as Nixon did.
If LBJ hadn't been such a total f- up himself, Nixon would seem worse.

RN in Houston| 7.19.11 @ 5:26PM

Nixon was railroaded out of office by a left-wing media monopoly. He was an altar boy compared to Johnson, Clinton, and Obama. I don't recall any blatant lies by Nixon as in the case of C & O. Most of Nixon's "lies" were media allegations.

Blacky| 7.21.11 @ 1:17AM

Some facts about the hero of "Dreams of My Father"...He was a Muslim who had a wife in Kenya at the time he "married" a white communist woman...Therefore the marriage was void and any offspring were illegitimate...
He was kicked out of Harvard and sent back to Kenya because of his incessant skirt-chasing of white females...He abandoned his son, the future
president, and "married" several other women before dying a drunk. Facts...look it up.

Timothy L. Pennell| 7.18.11 @ 7:20AM

We have a LIE in the White House. He's not just a LIAR. He's a LIE. That's why he needs a VAULT, in Hawaii, to seal his life's story away.
Raised in Indonesia til the age of 11. All those years in Muslim Schools. All those years going to Muslim Mosques. All those years kneeling on his Prayer Rug, praying to Allah. Yet, he says he's a Christian.
His School Records are still LOCKED AWAY. Who seals their School Records? Who seals their College Loan Paperwork? Their Entrance Exam? Their Medical Records? Their Transcripts and their Thesis?
"He's the smartest guy that ever lived."
Is he? Nobody knows.
"He never heard Jeremiah Wright say all those things."
Really? In 20 YEARS in the pews?
He never knew what Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn were all about?
Does he know that his Science Czar - Bill Holdren - wishes, very much, that we would put STERIENTS in to the Drinking Water?
Does he know that his Medical czar - Ezekiel Emanuel - wishes that we could implement the Chinese ONE CHILD Plan?
Does he know that his FCC Chairman admires the way that Hugo Chavez shut down the Opposition on Venezuela's Airwaves, to ensure the success of "His beautiful Revolution"?
Is Obama out to fulfill "The Dreams From My Father"? The MARXIST/MUSLIM who abandoned his Wife and Child (Typical Black Man) HATED this Country and it's European/Israeli Allies, and DIED DRUNK, in a Kenyan Gutter?
Did he really go after our ALLY - Honduras - after they Constitutionally, threw out Hugo Chavez wannabe - Zelaya - for trying to stage a Putsch, after he was DENIED a referendum on eliminating that Nation's Presidential Term Limits? Did he really go after them to "SEND A MESSAGE" to Hugo Chavez, and the other FAR LEFT MARXIST REGIMES, in South America, that "They could WORK with him"?
That's what Wiki-Leaks says happened.
How is it that, a guy who's been FOCUSED LIKE A LASER BEAM on JOBS, for so many years, can be so inept at creating any? Doesn't he WANT us to have jobs?
How can a President of the United States LAUGH at the fact that his "Shovel Ready Jobs, weren't so Shovel ready, after all"?We're hurting, out here. He's yucking it up.
He tells us all that we've got to "Share in the Sacrifice, even as HIS FAMILY takes one Exotic Vacation, after another. Even as he GOLFS, while we wonder how to pay our bills. Even as HE gets ready for a LAVISH, Star Studded, nothing but the best, BIRTHDAY PARTY. Even as he jets off, once again, to FUND RAISE for more MILLION$ for his Re-Election, while every Economic Indicator in this Country, CRASHES.
He's not just a LIE. He's the BIG LIE. And he will bring this Country down.
SIC SEMPER TYRANNUS!
HARTE ARBEIT WIRD EUCH FREI MACHEN.
It's one or the other.

PAUL| 7.18.11 @ 7:55AM

Timothy,

As usual you are dead on. The muslim socialist lies because that is all he knows. He has no idea who he is, because of having no father and being stuck between 2 racial worlds. He is a congenital liar, it is what he does.

MOS was 71331| 7.18.11 @ 9:08AM

Well said, Tim!

brennan| 7.18.11 @ 10:44AM

"MARXIST/MUSLIM who abandoned his Wife and Child (Typical Black Man)"

I'm sorry Tim, but you lost all credibility with that statement, a black man is a human like you and I, which is privy to the same faults and temptations. What makes your skin, with less pigmant then a black man, any better to raise and care for a family? Last I checked the divorce rate was over 50% for EVERYONE.

Ned| 7.18.11 @ 11:35AM

true on the divorce rate, but that ignores the 70% fatherless birth rate among blacks...

not defending Tim's statement, just saying...

Ken (Old Texican)| 7.18.11 @ 12:20PM

Brennan,
sorry, but sadly Tim simply reflected the reality of many black folks not even TRYING setting up stable families. .....screw and run for way too many.
ie: LOTS of abortions...and worse... I can never forget Elvis' song "In the Ghetto".

Occam's Tool| 7.18.11 @ 2:30PM

Actually, Brennan, it is worse for Black families, as it tends to be worse for lower socioeconomic classes, and a larger percentage of their families reside there.

I don't blame it on Black skin, I blame it on Liberal Culture and the Consequences thereof. Richer households who are Liberal speaking live Conservative. For example, Obama---one marriage, two children by that woman. No hint of infidelity, certainly no children by other women.

Liberalism has cruelly, cruelly damaged Black America.

Delta Zelda| 7.18.11 @ 7:41PM

LBJ and the Dems destroyed the family with their Great Society: We will help you but you can't have a man in the house. Thus the entitled class was created. While a much greater percentage of the black community lives off the earnings of others, a percentage of whites also lives off the earners. In the black community, education is "Uncle Tom", and a man who has 3, 4 or 5 women (mostly teens) pregnant simultaneously, is The Man. They, like Obama's father, take no responsibility for their offspring. We earners pay the cost of the pregnancy, delivery, WIC, food stamps, subsidized housing, telephones, and only God knows what else. Is there an abandonment gene?

Timothy L. Pennell| 7.18.11 @ 5:31PM

I'm sorry that you're either TOO STUPID, or TOO IGNORANT, to recognize a play on words when you see one. OBAMA said that his Grandmother - who raised him to adulthood - was "A TYPICAL WHITE PERSON", because she feared a Black Man, who was always threatening her.
YOU sound like a PUNK.
And, last time I CHECKED, 85% of all Black Children were born to SINGLE PARENT HOUSEHOLDS. NO FATHERS.
So, stick it up your *SS!

Margie| 7.18.11 @ 12:05PM

Does he know.. did he know?

"Will two walk together except they are
agreed?" Amos 3:3.

If he didn't know then, he knows now. He's an "adult", and is living the Dream of His Father.

Occam's Tool| 7.18.11 @ 2:27PM

Timothy,

Beautiful and appreciated. As usual. He yucks it up even more on increasing gas prices.

Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 7.18.11 @ 7:28AM

Barry Sortero, Frank Marshall Davis, hidden college papers, Jeremiah Wright, it all adds up to a stranger in our midst.

In the meantime here's another huge blooper:

No one in mainstream media seems inclined to mention Barack Obama’s horrifying mistake last Thursday when, speaking at Fort Drum, he said that SFC Jared Monti was “the first person who I was able to award the Medal of Honor to who actually came back and wasn’t receiving it posthumously.” Alas, he was mistaken. He awarded the Medal of Honor to Jared Monti posthumously in 2009 and awarded the Medal of Honor in person to SSG Sal Giunta in person in 2011. Obama later apologized for this mistake, but it’s really dismaying that a president who spoke movingly and even eloquently in awarding the Medal of Honor made a mistake of this magnitude.

“It shouldn’t take a teleprompter for the C-in-C to get it right,” writes military blogger Black Five. It’s interesting that mainstream media journalists who are so eager to zing Michele Bachmann for getting John Wayne’s birthplace wrong, have not been interested in asking whether this was a mistake Obama made in ad libbing or whether the White House speechwriters and fact-checkers fell down on the job. You might think that their chief motive is to make Obama look good and to suppress facts that make him look bad.

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/.....z1SSIMUm5x

Tina B| 7.18.11 @ 7:34AM

What a powerful post, so many facts all together in that list. Maranatha, Lord.

Please translate the the second quote, German is it?

Timothy L. Pennell| 7.18.11 @ 7:59AM

It's what was over the GATE at Auschwitz.
It, roughly, translates in to "Hard Work Will Set You Free".

Al Adab| 7.18.11 @ 7:40PM

"Arbeit macht Frei"

brennan| 7.18.11 @ 10:47AM

HA! What facts did this article put forward? I so wanted some FACTS to be able to have some more talking points against this clown, but this article was just another blah blah blah lets cry about a black president. Lets grow up and wake up to the modern world we live in. People look different, they have different ideas. Does not mean they have malicious intent.

This article did nothing to prove Barack wrong. Just more right wing whining.

Ken (Old Texican)| 7.18.11 @ 12:22PM

Brennan,
thank you. We were needing our Soros troll presence. It is a shame you are so ignorant.

Dai Alanye| 7.18.11 @ 12:26PM

It's quite obvious "brennan" is a racist, with his/her continual concern with the supposed racism of others.

Occam's Tool| 7.18.11 @ 3:00PM

Dear Brennan:

You have a choice of where you start your political career. Do you start it with a neighborhood meeting in a house in which live two well known traitors and terrorists (Ayers and Dohrn), or do you prefer a more salutory meeting ground, like, say, the Public Library? Or a Crack House?

You are Barack Obama. You choose to accept help from two known terrorists.

You can attend any church you wish. Do you choose an evangelical Baptists Church with a mainstream Pastor or its equivalent, or do you choose a Christian Pastor who is wildly antisemitic and adores Loouis Farrakhan?

You are Barack Obama. You choose to worship with an antisemitic Lunatic and have him Baptise your children.

You get elected President. Do you become the first President to nominate openly self-proclaiming Communists to significant positions of power, or do you hold off on that?

You are Barack Obama. You love Commies in office.

Can you remember which Medal of Honor Winners you have given the award to are alive, and which are dead? There's only one live one. And you said you liked him. (Try pronouncing Corpman correctly, too.)

Answer: You are Barack Obama, and in all the 57 States, you can't remember the one live guy you gave the MOH to.

beebop| 7.18.11 @ 6:20PM

You know something? I don't give a good damn about his color -- though it is more than amusing that the nation's first BIRACIAL president prefers to "cling" to his father's ancestry though there is virtually no evidence that those folks played any meaningful role in his upbringing ... the audacity is that he can actually look into a teleprompter and read that bullsh!t.

Pecos Pete| 7.18.11 @ 7:43AM

US Rep. Joe Wilson said it best, and publicly: "You lie!"

Willis| 7.18.11 @ 9:03AM

And I say it like this, "He's a lying wad of racoon snot."

Con Chef (NB)| 7.18.11 @ 8:09AM

Somewhere (wherever it is that hard core communists go when they die), Ms. Dunham is smiling down at little Barry. If she were alive, she'd kiss him for lying about this incident in order to advance "the cause of social justice" or some such bullshat. What a scumbag, begotten by scumbags. And people VOTED for this imbecile. All I can do is just shake my head...

Anthony| 7.18.11 @ 3:44PM

....." Look Damien..... it's all for you"!!!!

Timothy L. Pennell| 7.19.11 @ 6:30AM

WOW. I wish I had said that.
"And I saw the BEAST rise from the Sea. And he was given a MOUTH to speak Haughty and Blasphemous words. And he was allowed to exercise authority for forty two months." Revelation 13-5.
"Look Damien.....it's all for you."
When I look at Obama, I am thinking: "The Omen". I am thinking: "The Boys From Brazil". Look at HIS ENTIRE LIFE!
The idea that THIS GUY, this little Muslim Boy, raised in Indonesia, and Born to an Atheist Mother, and a Muslim Father, and attended a HATE CHURCH for 20 YEARS, is the President of the only Country, on the face of the Earth, capable of keeping PURE EVIL at bey?
You can't make it up.

USSAlabama| 7.18.11 @ 8:16AM

Read the detailed story of this last week on American Thinker. Glad to see it appear here as well.

michigander_sandusky| 7.18.11 @ 8:35AM

The truly sad fact is that Obama doesn't care about the truth. But, he will someday! "But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death." (Rev. 21:8)

JimH| 7.18.11 @ 8:43AM

Or as the Irish say, he values it so much that he is economical in it's use.

Mimi| 7.18.11 @ 9:01AM

A grave error was made in Nov. 2008. The Democrats that are still DUMB only choose, POWER over GOOD of the NATION.
It is KNOWN well what will be done in 2012.....Worry not , and try to support containment in the damage that continues until we "RIGHT" this abomination!

Louis Jenkins| 7.18.11 @ 9:08AM

What a bunch of bull crap. Everyone worth his salt knows that Obama has locked his life's story away so there will be no truth seeing the light of day. Obama is then free to paint his life as he sees fit. You, though my friends, have your life available for the autocracy to see, down to the very penny that you made last week. No privacy, no secrets, nothing that isn't available to hampstring you as needed. Feel secure with a man like that at the helm? Obama=lies and falsehoods.

Bob Grant| 7.18.11 @ 11:27AM

Blame the media. They are the real guilty party.

Norman Conquest| 7.18.11 @ 9:29AM

The latest lie from this purple-lipped fraud is that he will have his 50th birthday next week. Actually, it's in three weeks, August 4. At least that's what his birth certificate says. As Sir Walter Scott wrote: "Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive."

brennan| 7.18.11 @ 10:49AM

wowwww how many people read this website do no like black people. I think I should take my human loving white a$$ to a website where people act like people. And not like trash.

He is human, humans make mistakes

Norman Conquest| 7.18.11 @ 11:27AM

They do indeed make mistakes. Your very existence is proof positive of that!

Drunken Sailor| 7.18.11 @ 2:40PM

So take your human loving white (do I care what color it is?) A$$ to another website already.

And it's not a mistake when it is done on purpose, my trollish friend.

Occam's Tool| 7.18.11 @ 3:03PM

Dear Brennan,

I had the pleasure, and the privilege, of working with the first Black Graduate of University of Southern Alabama's School of Medicine. He was one of the finest physicians I have ever met. Obama is not worthy of cleaning his jockstraps.

beebop| 7.18.11 @ 6:23PM

Brennan .... if this was bush you'd say he had alzheimer's .... he has used up his full lifetime of "mistakes" in less than 4 years. We as a nation will right our biggest mistake in 2012

doolittle| 7.19.11 @ 12:13AM

I could be wrong, but wasn't that quote from Shakeskpeare?

Whitey O'Carr Kennedy Dukakis| 7.18.11 @ 9:39AM

Guess what you left out? Recall that it was recorded that Hillary Clinton said on record that she was seriously considering having another child at the time. Yep. that was to highlight the age difference between her and Elizabeth Dole.

cowgirl| 7.18.11 @ 9:48AM

Obama, The Tea Party, The Republicans, The Democrats etc are not in charge. There is a plan, a master plan, devised by Someone greater than myself and everyone else. He and His justice and goodness will prevail.

Doctor Right| 7.18.11 @ 10:02AM

Everything about Obama is a lie.

He's an utterly unaccomplished poseur who's been propped-up by white guilt and political correctness his entire life. Everywhere he went, everyone he met told him he was brilliant. special, gifted, etc, based more on their own desires that he be that way than it was on any form of reality as we know it.

The end-result is the preening narcissist who, deep-down inside knows that he's an empty suit, but will attack anyone who criticizes either him or his ideology.

And on what is that ideology based? Socialism? Marxism? Anti-Colonialism?

Actually, it's a smattering of all 3, plus a large dose of the 800 lb gorilla-in-the-room that any psychologists worth his or her degree probably identified long ago:

Obama's is motivated by a desire to please his Daddy...The same Daddy who abandoned him as a child.

It's a volatile mix...And not a good one to have in the Oval Office.

brennan| 7.18.11 @ 10:50AM

you make me laugh

Doctor Right| 7.18.11 @ 11:05AM

Why, exactly? Care to elaborate?

USSAlabama| 7.18.11 @ 11:15AM

Troll, DR.

Al Adab| 7.18.11 @ 11:17AM

Truth is a defense. Everything about Obama IS a lie. The man is a total artificial construct.

Vlady| 7.18.11 @ 11:45AM

He's probably Catholic, too.

Dai Alanye| 7.18.11 @ 12:31PM

Please shut up about Catholics, Vlady. It's not funny, and makes you look like a fool.

Occam's Tool| 7.18.11 @ 3:05PM

Dai,

Vlady's comment was designed to draw out our favorite Knight of Columbus and Protector of all things Benedict, so that he could do his delightful all Cap rant. I doubt it was an actual anti-Catholic slam. Don't worry, Vlady, he will froth soon enough. 3, 2, 1...

RCV| 7.18.11 @ 4:35PM

Unfortunately, Ocaam, the anti-Catholic slurs here are far too prevalent to be dismissed as a joke.

RCV| 7.18.11 @ 5:11PM

...and I find them as humorous as I do the anti-semitic and racist remarks.

Ken (Old Texican)| 7.18.11 @ 9:52PM

Hey RCV,
you ole' communist SOB!
I have made it my goal to KEEP_ your children out of the "nomenklatura".

They are going to be "proletarians"!
Eat that!

RCV| 7.19.11 @ 11:39AM

Hey Ken,
you ole' right-wing blowhard!
I have made it my goal to ignore your rantings.

Eat that!

RCV| 7.20.11 @ 7:26PM

...and Ken, you ought to lay off the bottle in the evening - it shows in your postings.

Doctor Right| 7.18.11 @ 1:47PM

Nope. He's a Muslim.

Norman Conquest| 7.18.11 @ 10:33AM

Some people have the vocabulary to sum up things in a way you can understand them. This quote came from the Czech Republic. Someone over there has it figured out. We have a lot of work to do.
“The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president.”
“The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America . Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince.

The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.”

brennan| 7.18.11 @ 10:51AM

Good comment, good quotes. the sheeple need to wake up!

WilliamInWien| 7.18.11 @ 10:43AM

The more information that comes to light about both of BHO's parents and his guardians, the easier it is to understand him. It would appear that one of the dreams of BHO senior was to marry as many women as possible at the same time and produce children. A dream he fairly well accomplished.

Anthony| 7.18.11 @ 10:57AM

Of course Democrats lie, why not, who's going to set the record straight?
The entire Democrat party has been built on deceit, lies and propaganda, because the supposed stalwarths in the LSM have failed miserably in holding them to the truth.
All we need to know about media corruption and how their complicity has helped destroy America, is to re-hear that famous reparte between Tom Brokaw and the PBS guy, (whose name escapes me), as they both agree how little they know about Obama, about his politics, his friends, his ideas, and his entire life, yet they rushed pell mell into supporting him nonetheless, despite their lack of due diligence, that is supposed to be the media's function.
They did it because the knew who and what Obozo was and were part of the deceit!!!

Mimi| 7.18.11 @ 5:56PM

PBS guy....Charlie Rose

Anthony| 7.18.11 @ 7:09PM

Thanks Mimi, It came to me an hour after I blogged. Old age ain't fun. But I knew somebody at TAS would save me.

Bob Grant| 7.18.11 @ 11:24AM

Stanley didn't do us any favors by spawning the son of satan.

Oldefarte| 7.18.11 @ 11:34AM

David's excellent piece points out the essential fact about many of these saintly, god-like politicians within the Democratic Party. They simply LIE [or fabricate the TRUTH for all of you disbelievers]. Name any famous Democrat and instantaneously the word BULLEXCREMENT pops up. Why do they do so? Simple, they wish to manipulate people-voters' perception of them in order to get elected. They wish to create this majical perception in voters' minds of their greatness or goodness, which again is BS. Democrats are all about using the governmental funding [paid for by taxpayers] to give welfare benefits to indigent-constituents in order to get their votes in return, so they LIE!!!!!!!!!!

Steve A| 7.18.11 @ 11:42AM

Obama lied. How is this even news anymore?

Who Knows?| 7.18.11 @ 11:59AM

Go to powerlineblog.com and read some quotes from a new book, "Left Turn", that proves how the MSM is not only biased, but actually IN CHARGE of our political system.

When a well-researched book like this one is allowed to reach the light of day (and is ACCEPTED by the elites in our uber-liberal Academia, as the authors report), maybe a real change in awareness of enough voters is happening.

In any case, for me, the best statistic they provide from projecting based on their conclusions, is that instead of the last election going to Obama, IF the media were only FAIR, McCain would have won, 56% to 43%!

The obvious bias by MSM CHANGES, at the margin, the votes of those always malleable citizens, enough to result in tainted---nay, STOLEN!---elections!

Boss Tweed!!!

Indeed!

Con Chef (NB)| 7.18.11 @ 12:02PM

Sadly, race baiter like "Brennan" are just too simple minded to understand that some of us here don't like this putz in the White House because his policies SUCK! His upbringing was one of perpetual immersion in hatred of all things America. I don't give a good damn if he was the color of Elmo from Seasame Street, the man's a menace & he & his cabal are destroying this nation. Hey "Brennan," I wipe my arse with your tired, played out race card. Go pitch your fart in a gale to those who're buying it. Like on the Flushington Post & the Daily Krap.

Pecos Pete| 7.18.11 @ 12:34PM

Well said! A BIG ditto.

MikeBee| 7.18.11 @ 12:37PM

Mr. Catron,
Looks like this use of his mother is only one of those "implicit" lies. Actually, looking at your above quotes, Barry is saying that his mother was "worried" about losing coverage, not that she actually lost coverage. He is using his mother's worry (who doesn't worry?) to demand changes in healthcare coverage for Americans. His argument seems to follow this logic, if one can call it that: no one should have to worry; therefore, we must change healthcare fundamentally for Americans, so that they don't have to worry.

Jack London| 7.18.11 @ 1:28PM

Quite so. Just because you have insurance in this county does not mean anything will be covered without question – as we know, there are all sorts of ceilings, exclusions and denials. People shouldn't have to worry about paying bills when they're least able to cope – no one should be bankrupted by medical bills and many are, despite the insurance they thought would pay.

Oldefarte| 7.18.11 @ 2:06PM

Insurance pays what it's insurance company is legally obligated to pay as defined in the respective insurance contract, no more no less. IT'S THE CONTRACT, STUPID [human worry and suffering has nothing to do with it]!!!!!!

Occam's Tool| 7.18.11 @ 3:07PM

And just because you have NHS will not get you access to badly needed care in a timely fashion, Jack. Wait time for "elective" MRI (non-emergent) in New Zealand---approx 6 months. If your hubby is a Senior Medical Consultant---1 month.

Steve A| 7.18.11 @ 1:55PM

Jack, Assuming that all of you state above is true, what part, if any of it, does Obamacare fix??

Oldefarte| 7.18.11 @ 2:09PM

Why, it fixes everything, since the president/Democrats told us so, right? After all, they would not PREVARICATE, now would they??????????????????

Ron| 7.18.11 @ 3:08PM

Ah, NerObama...Lies fall from his lips like the leaves from the fall trees...

Al Adab| 7.18.11 @ 4:30PM

Given the ever more evident mental health symptons, we had better start reading up on the 25th amendment.

Drunken Sailor| 7.18.11 @ 7:21PM

Al,
The stress does seem to be making him short tempered and cranky doesn't it?

Al Adab| 7.18.11 @ 7:37PM

Sailor,
Do you think it might help if we sent him a sample of Lynchburgs finest?

Drunken Sailor| 7.18.11 @ 7:42PM

Don't think Michelle would let him sip it. But I suggest we all enjoy a glass while we watch the show of him having a meltdown.

Al Adab| 7.18.11 @ 7:49PM

According to the current tabloid the couple are leading separate lives under a hidden separation. Who knows what to believe anymore?

Tom in Michigan| 7.18.11 @ 4:36PM

OK. That should be enough. Anybody out there who still thinks Obama is anything but a crude and crass political opportunist of the very lowest kind after he used his OWN MOTHER'S struggle with cancer to gain mere political points. I must disagree with the Mr. Catron; that is surely the lowest lie - even lower than Clinton's abuse of the tragedy that befell blacks when their churches were burned. After all; blacks are quite willing victims of Democrat parasitism. Obama's mother is gone and cannot defend herself but, I wonder if she'd be proud of her son's lies.

Con Chef (NB)| 7.18.11 @ 4:56PM

Tom:

See my post above. I'll bet she's smiling on him from wherever it is hard-core commies go when they leave this Earth.

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."...Oscar Wilde

DaveS| 7.18.11 @ 6:21PM

Al Gore did the same. There is a disease among Democrats seeking higher office. Republicans don't do it: the MSM has trained them to not even try!

Al Adab| 7.18.11 @ 7:45PM

Remember Kerry and the "there I was in Cambodia" nonsense?

DaveS| 7.18.11 @ 6:20PM

The primary electorate knew about his whoppers - but they knew more about the Hillary whoppers: 1) sniper fire in Bosnia at the airport, 2) Chelsea near ground zero on 9/11, etc. They all tell these lies when they don't have to - in order to curry sympathy. Poor Barrack, poor Bill, poor Hillary: poor us! Emmett has recounted these fully.

Eddie York| 7.18.11 @ 6:24PM

Obama seems to have a problem with his credibility concerning his life prior to Chicago Politics.

His credibility flaws is brought upon himself, he owns it 100%. His credibility has nothing to do with his race....rather it is rooted entirely in his own volunteered words he chooses while tugging at the Heartstrings of American Voters....exploiting his Mother's name and his Grandfather's name with proven falsehood.

Obama has a highly questionable past and resume' of his own to answer for....but it stretches far beyond his own identity and engulfs his Mother and Grandfather with the same suspicions.

We must question our elected officials when details do not add up and appear to be blasphemous. When it is learned after they are elected that their campaign speeches were blatant lies, they should be held accountable because they received their votes based entirley upon lies they volunteered as truth from their Podiums and Teleprompters.

If Obama were a Company Car he would be declared defective while still under Warranty. He is truly an Evil person with grave character flaws.

Bob Grant| 7.18.11 @ 7:38PM

"We must question our elected officials when details do not add up and appear to be blasphemous. When it is learned after they are elected that their campaign speeches were blatant lies, they should be held accountable because they received their votes based entirley upon lies they volunteered as truth from their Podiums and Teleprompters."....

...The problem is the media. Back when this country was great, journalists would have dug into every crevice of his history because they respected the profession. Today you go into journalism for advocacy reasons, or if you are an attractive leggy blond a news anchor. Journalists today are lazy and worthless and quickening the pace of their industry's demise. Which is fine by me.
As Michael Savage puts it, and so well: "The Fourth Estate Has Become the Fifth Column"

Al Adab| 7.18.11 @ 7:47PM

Where are the ex-girlfriends or the school teachers or college classmates who remember him? What exactly is the deal with the SSN? Do we have any clue when he came back from Indonesia? Who is this man?

Bob Grant| 7.18.11 @ 10:23PM

Beside our worst collective nightmare?...I have no idea.

JeffT| 7.18.11 @ 7:06PM

So you're saying he's a liar? Wow, that's a shock.

PCP Smoker| 7.18.11 @ 9:52PM

I'm glad his scumbag mother got hers before dying. May she rot in hell for what she brought the world. And fuck those of you who disagree.

Bob Grant| 7.18.11 @ 10:27PM

Have a little problem with Stanley spawning the son of satan? ....I feel ya.

POST American| 7.18.11 @ 9:59PM

Harvard/Princeton 'innie', son of Globalist-CIA
linked Ann Dunham, former aide to Rockefeller
front op Henry Kissinger, and almost betting by his facial expressions, also linked to the grand daddy of RED China sellout ---Averill Harriman.

Can someone say "FULL spectrum dominance
at the service of 'the agenda' ".

-----------------THANKS---------------------

Ken (Old Texican)| 7.18.11 @ 10:00PM

2012!
Vote for Elmer Fudd!

mike w| 7.18.11 @ 10:40PM

No love for Obama here but the "Bush lied" sentence was pointless in this post. Butt Munch George lied us into war with Iraq in a whole of other places than the UN speech.

Don't forget. George W. Bush is why we have this buffoon now.

CKAinRedStateUSA| 7.18.11 @ 10:53PM

In part, yes.

But don't forget the millions in shady campaign contributions from domestic and foreign sources.

Or those from Mickey Mouse and others like him.

Or that the pimpstream media (o.k.a., the mainstream media) were fully in the tank for BHO.

Or that . . .

CKAinRedStateUSA| 7.18.11 @ 10:51PM

Obama prevaricates about something else? Forsooth!

This guy Obama, or whatever his real name and nationality might really be, makes self-declared-liar Casey Anthony seem like a truth-teller.

And as someone posted earlier, it's not that we have a liar--though I'd add pathological--as president, but that we have a lie as president.

But hasn't that been the modus operandi of the Democrat/progressive/liberal/leftist Party for a very long time--especially their presidential wannabes plus Clinton and now Obama?

Shane| 7.19.11 @ 12:57AM

The divorce rate is not 50% for EVERYONE. The rate is 50% because the same people get divorced over and over by and large. Majority of marriages do not end in divorce.
And the problem is not black men or muslims; no, it's Liberalism. Correct that; problem solved.

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Jim Woods| 7.19.11 @ 8:18AM

Sounds like the health care company adversely impacted by Obama's defamation should sue him personally for the future cost of insuring those with pre-existing conditions.

michael| 7.20.11 @ 9:24PM

The level of discourse in the comments on this article is abysmally low. No wonder the media enjoy characterizing "conservatives" as lowbrows. Poliliticans lie. Get over it.