It seems like everyone but Harry Reid has finally figured it out. When President Obama said, “if you like your health insurance you can keep your insurance” it was a lie. The truth was something like, “if I like your health insurance you can keep your health insurance…and I don’t like your health insurance if it doesn’t cover stuff you will never use, and things like birth control, abortion pills, and various other ‘needs’ associated with immoral living that you could have avoided by exercising a little self control.”
It
certainly isn’t his first lie or his latest. Even his official White House bio continues
to lie, as it begins, "His story is the American story—values from the
heartland, a middle-class upbringing in a strong family..." Unless you
redefine a word or two or five—heartland, values, middle class, strong, and
family—that whole sentence is a lie or really bad joke.
Before
he became President he gave us some whoppers. Recall his audacious
denial of his radical position on abortion. In response to Senator McCain’s
"Sen. Obama, as a member of
the Illinois state Senate, voted in the Judiciary Committee against a law that
would provide immediate medical attention to a child born in a failed abortion.
He voted against that."
The Audacious One replied:
"If it sounds
incredible that I would vote to withhold lifesaving treatment from an infant,
that's because it's not true."
In
essence, “nobody could do something so bad, so that proves I didn’t!” Alas, even the AP told the truth about that Big
Lie: “As a state senator, Obama opposed three legislative efforts, in 2001,
2002 and 2003, to give legal protections to any aborted fetus that showed signs
of life.”
But
that was about abortion rights, so the only Tea Party types cared.
[Yawn] So the “you can keep your
insurance” lie may be his biggest, boldest, most obvious and most offensive to
the most people. Seems that about the only person who still believes him, despite
millions of insurance cancellations against the will of the insured, is Sen.
Harry Reid: "What he said was true. If you want to keep the insurance you
have you can keep it. The problem is, we did not put the bill into effect that
way."
I
found fascinating a bit of history*** from not so many years ago and not so far
away, when another famous liberal leader said that in order to fundamentally
transform a country a leader’s lies must be so "colossal" that the
public would be confident that no national leaders "could have the
impudence to distort the truth so infamously." In his book, with more
context, he wrote:
"In
the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad
masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of
their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the
primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big
lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little
matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would
never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not
believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so
infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought
clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to
think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie
always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact
which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire
together in the art of lying."*
His
“press secretary”—justifying the right of leaders to lie in order to accomplish
a greater good, perhaps fundamentally transform the nation—affirmed "the
principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. ... It is
the absolute right of the state to supervise the formation of public
opinion."**
That
elected national leader* also wrote about his political party: "The party
... must not become a servant of the masses, but their master." In
justification of the ends of the state trumping individual liberty, he continued,
"The unity of a nation's spirit and will are worth far more than the
freedom of the spirit and will of an individual; and that the higher interests
involved in the life of the whole must here set the limits and lay down the
duties of the interests of the individual."
Echoed
the press secretary: "To be a socialist, is to submit the I to the thou;
socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole."
Obama
doesn’t always lie. Sometimes he says
the bold truth, and counts on the public to interpret it wishfully. For instance, his 2008 victory night
declaration, "At this defining moment, change has come to America,"
which reaffirmed this infamous claim from a week earlier: "We are five
days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America."
Such
transformative agenda has advanced far, in part because his propaganda—including
his Big Lies—worked when needed to get the votes required to pass Obamacare.
Trust him? Yeah, I trust him…to be true to his agenda: state control,
centralized power, control of the masses by the privileged elite like himself.
*
Adolf Hitler’s 1925 autobiography, Mein Kampf
**
Hitler's Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels
***Much of this content is thanks
to Mark Alexander of the Patriot Post, and we recommend that you subscribe to
his essays. See http://patriotpost.us/alexander/22209
