The Patriot Post - Exposing Obama's Socialist Dezinformatsia

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The Patriot Post - Exposing Obama's Socialist Dezinformatsia
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BO's BS
Exposing Obama's Socialist Dezinformatsia

By Mark Alexander

September 13, 2012

"The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind." --Thomas Jefferson (1790)

There's been a flood of BS from Barack Hussein Obama in the last week, and high ground is in short supply. H. L. Mencken had it right: "Democracy is a form of religion. It is the worship of jackals by jack asses."

Rather than try to capture all the piles of BO's socialist dezinformatsia1 in narrative form, allow me to depart from that format and just list the larger loads.

At the Demo Confab2 last week, the "We Make It Possible" theme asserting "Government is the only thing we all belong to" picked up where Obama's assertion "you didn't build that ... somebody else made that happen" left off.

We all "belong" to government? This should strike all freedom-loving Americans as being exactly backward.

For those of us who were counting, in his coronation speech, Obama, the consummate narcissist3, said "I" (not in reference but in credit to himself) 55 times and "we" (that's the socialist collective "we" not as in "We, the people...") 75 times. Moreover, in the 40-page Demo platform, Obama is cited on 38 pages more than 200 times. By way of comparison, the 2012 GOP platform makes reference to Mitt Romney once.

According to BO, "You didn't elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth. And the truth is, it will take more than a few years for us to solve challenges that have built up over decades."

The truth is, it will take Obama another term to complete his plan for fundamentally transforming the United States of America4."

Apparently this pledge from February 2009 missed the mark: "One nice thing about the situation I find myself in is that I will be held accountable. You know, I've got four years. And, you know, a year from now, I think people are gonna see that we're starting to make some progress. But there's still gonna be some pain out there. If I don't have this done in three years, then there's gonna be a one-term proposition."

So did this one a year later: "I'd rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president."

According to Team Obama, not only did you not build it, you didn't create it either. "Over the past, you know, 27 months we've created 4.5 million private-sector jobs," said Obama campaign spokesperson Stephanie Cutter.

While the 4.5 million jobs claim is patently false, most analysts have missed the real substance of the administration's message. "We created" is the flip side of "you didn't build that."

Who created those jobs?

Obama's plan to "solve the challenges" is shaped by his lifelong socialist indoctrination5, and he has based his re-election campaign on two foundational pillars: redistributive justice6 and class warfare7. His plan is not about building it; it's about redistributing it.

Of those pillars, the great prevaricator Bill Clinton observed: "Now [Obama] has laid the foundation for a new, modern, successful economy of shared prosperity. And if you will renew the president's contract, you will feel it. You will feel it. ... The old economy is not coming back. ... Are we better off than we were when [Obama] took office, with an economy in free fall...? The answer is yes."

The answer is, of course, unequivocally, "NO!" The audacity of that whopper reminds me of Adolf Hitler's dictum in his 1925 autobiography "Mein Kampf," in which he noted that the key to successful deception is to lie so big that the public would be confident that no national leader "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously."

Are we better off than we were when BO took office?

Certainly not if you're among the 23 million Americans now out of work after 43 straight months of 8-percent-plus unemployment. Of course, the real unemployment figure is much higher -- closer to 19 percent.

Arnold Ahlert aptly summed this one up: "No doubt many of the media outlets determined to get this president re-elected will tout the fact that the unemployment rate dropped from 8.3 percent to 8.1 percent, even as they bury the reason why: 368,000 Americans simply gave up looking for work. That exodus dropped the labor force participation rate to 63.5 percent, a 31-year low. For perspective's sake, if the number of people in the labor force had remained the same as last month, the unemployment rate would be 8.4 percent. If the labor force were as large as it was when Obama took office in 2009, the unemployment rate would be a staggering 11.2 percent. ... And when one gets past the 'official' unemployment rate and examines the BLS's U-6 number -- representing Americans who have been out of work for six months, along with those who are involuntarily part-time workers, due to cutbacks in their days or hours -- the under-employment rate has held steady for months at around 15 percent of the workforce. Add those who have given up looking for work and that number jumps to 19 percent."

Indeed, Obama so loved the poor that he created millions more. And make no mistake, his road "Forward" is a dead end8!

Are we better off than we were when BO took office?

Certainly not if you think the historic $16 trillion national debt (more than $50,000 for every American) is a problem. And need I remind you, while on-budget debt is $16 trillion, the off-budget unfunded liabilities deficit is $222 trillion -- and that's the real "Debt Bomb9" that will complete Obama's transformation of America.

Are we better off than we were when BO took office?

Not if we consider the fact that median household income has dropped to its lowest level since 1995. The median income adjusted for inflation in 2011 dropped to $50,054 -- 4.1 percent below household income in 2009 when Obama took office.

BO claimed, "By 2008 we had seen nearly a decade in which families struggled with costs that kept rising but paychecks that didn't." The truth is that "stagflation" (e.g. higher inflation, higher unemployment, and lower economic growth) has only gotten worse since Obama's election. During the Bush administration, average median income rose and inflation was low.