He will not be harmed by his
“misspeaking,” but his fellow liberals will. Conservatives keep blaring, “Obama lied!” over
the president’s serial untruths about the Affordable Care Act. Even liberal
pundits now talk of the president’s “misspeaking,” or even of his “misleading”
statements and only so-so corrections.
But so what?
Obama is an iconic figure who will survive even the
latest scandal of flatly misleading the American people, just as he was not
harmed much by being less than honest about Benghazi, the AP monitoring, and
the IRS and NSA scandals.
Obama has proved disingenuous, without suffering many
consequences, for much of his tenure — raising taxes when he said he would not;
vastly increasing the national debt when he said he would cut the deficit in
half by the end of his first term; promising lower unemployment when in fact he
has presided over a jobless rate of 7 percent or more for every month of his
administration; bragging about new gas and oil production, which actually came
on private land despite, not because of, his efforts; claiming credit for reducing
a deficit that fell only because of the sequestration that he fought, and only
because his previous deficits were so staggering that they were not sustainable…..To Read More…
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