Obama’s Legacy of Deception

When the President, his Vice President, his Secretary of State and others deliberately lie to American citizens about the tragic killing of an American ambassador and three of his staff, the nation has reached a point where decisions need to be made on Election Day.

What disturbs me the most is the utter disdain for the truth that has marked the presidency of Barack Obama. It has been nearly four years of repeated lies about the steps that were taken to respond to the financial crisis; the so-called “stimulus” which wasted billions, and the literal explosion of entitlement programs.

The administration literally seized control of General Motors and Chrysler, which were then in the normal process of bankruptcy, claiming to save the jobs of auto workers. What they really did was bypass the legitimate creditors and investors. They arbitrarily discontinued GM’s relationship with hundreds of auto dealerships, adding their employees to the unemployment lines. They then insisted that GM invest millions in the creation of an electric car that cost $47,000 to purchase and ended up buying them for government use with taxpayer’s money.

Obamacare, more than 2,700 pages in length and incorporating more than twenty new taxes, was passed by a Democrat-controlled Congress with little evidence that any of those who voted for it had even read it.

Under Obama, the foreign policy of this nation has  seriously weakened its position in the world and, combined with cuts to defense spending, put its ability to protect the homeland and project power abroad at risk. The administration failed to negotiate an agreement with Iraq that would permit U.S. troops to remain in place,  leaving Iraq vulnerable to al Qaeda. Setting a date for withdrawal from Afghanistan has only emboldened the Taliban. Obama’s foreign policy has been an abject failure.

The so-called Arab Spring has mutated, not into the establishment of democratic institutions in nations like Egypt or Libya, but an opportunity for the Muslim Brotherhood to ascend to positions of power in opposition to America’s interests in the Middle East and Northern Africa.

We now know that President Obama skipped some sixty percent of the daily CIA briefings and this no doubt led to his ignorance of the impending tragedy in Libya, but the fault also  lies  with the State Department that ignored the slain ambassador’s pleas for increased security for the embassy and consulate. This is a president who has been absent without leave as the Islamic jihad began to heat up across the face of the globe.

The hostility of President Obama’s administration to the vital energy sector of our nation has denied access to oil extraction on vast acreage of federal lands. It has denied permits for offshore drilling. It has mercilessly attacked the coal industry, responsible for nearly fifty percent of all electricity generation in the nation. Plants for electricity have closed down under the pressure of costly EPA regulations. Only the natural gas sector has grown, thanks to the technology of fracking, but both oil and gas is being extracted mostly on private land.

The economy, which could have recovered in much the same way it did during the Kennedy and Reagan administrations, has limped along while 23 million Americans remain out of work or have stopped looking for jobs. There are 47 million Americans on food stamps, utilizing eighty percent of the budget of the Department of Agriculture. There are millions who have seen the value of their homes decrease and others have faced foreclosure.

The Federal Reserve has pumped Trillions in fiat money into the banking system, and it hasn’t done a thing except to raise the specter of rampant inflation. The Labor Department was just caught rigging the data on new jobs to get it below 8 percent in a record-setting 43 months.

Barack Obama, a man whose personal life history is mostly a concoction of lies, whose personal records have been hidden from public examination, and who stunned viewers of his first debate with Mitt Romney by appearing so unprepared and so willing to repeat past lies, has been at the heart of a disastrous presidency.

Americans, no matter what their political affiliation, who are now saddled with $16 trillion in national debt, nearly six trillion of which was imposed in just the last four years, have a common interest to defeat Barack Obama. It’s high time for a big change, folks.