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Lies of August 16, non exhaustive [guest post by motionview]

Lies of Aug 16, non-exhaustive.

I’ve got a number of members of my Cabinet who are here. All of them do outstanding work day in, day out. So I couldn’t be prouder of them. First of all, this guy you should be a little familiar with because he used to be the governor of this great state — Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack. (Applause.) Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar. (Applause.) Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood. (Applause.) Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan. (Applause.) And the Small Business Administrator Karen Mills. (Applause.)

This is a lie. Tom Vilsack is administering Pigford. Have you ever thought about farming? Here’s your $50,000 (unless, well, you know). Ken Salazar administered the destruction of the Gulf oil and gas business and is helping the statists lock up every actually usable energy source he can. Ray LaHood administered (well, ‘shoveled out the door‘) the biggest chunk of the failed stimulus. They’re here to write Iowa checks with our money. (Possible reason not a lie but an unintended accidental truth- the worse the better, and for that this Brain Trust is outstanding.)

We’ve got small business owners here. We have farmers. We have ranchers, public servants, clean energy entrepreneurs and community organizations from all across rural America. And I’m here because I want to hear from you, and my Cabinet wants to hear from you.

This is a lie. Barack Obama is here campaigning on our dime. The Won does not need to hear from the likes of you. He is here repackaging funds Congress has already appropriated, gushing money towards his allies and potential voters. Note the shout-out to rural community organizations. As if an Iowa farmer needs ACORN to learn how to tax-farm.

But we could do even more if Congress is willing to get in the game. There are bipartisan ideas -– common-sense ideas –- that have traditionally been supported by Democrats and Republicans that will put more money in your pockets, that will put our people to work, that will allow us to deal with the legacy of debt that hangs over our economy.

Some of these are so artfully crafted that it’s dififcult to separate and delineate all of the individual lies. Because it is also somewhat innocuous sounding, this is the kind of lie that will be repeated endlessly as the campaign goes on, until it is no longer even heard by the MBM, but is deeply internalized. There is

  • an accidental unintended truth : we could do even more if Congress is willing to get in the game : get back to wheeling & dealing
  • a false bipartisan appeal: There are bipartisan ideas : hostage-takers, terrorists, etc.
  • a theft : common-sense : Isn’t someone running as a common-sense conservative?
  • an oblique shot at the TEA party :traditionally been supported by Democrats and Republicans: but not those extremists who want to stop the gravy train
  • a reverse bribe: will put more money in your pockets: pretty blatant
  • another accidental unintended truth : that will put our people to work: in DC. And didn’t he say something about community organizations earlier?
  • And finally, the legacy of debt? Legacy? Really? He does have some balls. It might be where he keeps his stash.

We’ve got a lot of work to do, and the only way it will get done is if Democrats and Republicans put country ahead of party and put the next generation ahead of the next election. And that’s what I’m fighting for.

This is a lie. Everything this President has ever done has always put the immediate needs of his political allies over anything else. The president has borrowed and spent, and has proposed borrowing and spending into the future, cumulatively tens of trillions of dollars. That money is taken from our children and grandchildren to be given away by his government today. How is this not a blatant, spit-in-your-eye lie? Obama is not fighting for our children; he is fighting to transform America. Into something more like a solid B+ kind of country.

20 Replies to “Lies of August 16, non exhaustive [guest post by motionview]”

  1. happyfeet says:

    the legacy of debt that hangs over our economy…

    hangs over our economy like a what, bumble? Just say it you fucking racist.

  2. Stephanie says:

    the legacy of debt that hangs over our economy…

    hangs over our economy like a what, bumble? Just say it you fucking racist.

    A black cloud?

  3. happyfeet says:

    there it is

  4. serr8d says:

    Hey, they already nailed Perry for that, so you can’t claim (or offer) a denouncement.

  5. Stephanie says:

    Looks like Obama took the bait.

    Perry’s campaign did not back away from his comments. Campaign spokesman Mark Miner said the Texas governor was expressing frustration with the economic situation and “out of control spending” in Washington.

    “Most Americans would agree that printing and spending more money is not the answer to the economic issues facing the country,” Miner said.

    But his tone could turn off independent voters whose support will be needed to defeat Obama in the 2012 general election.

    “When you say those things in the Lone Star State (Texas), you look colorful. When you say these things on a national stage … it’s going to come back and get you,” said Ford O’Connell, an advisor on Republican John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign.

    “You’ve got to be more like James Bond and less like Rambo,” he said.

    Democrats have seized on the latest remarks by Perry, who caused a stir in 2009 when he said Texas might need to secede from the United States, to make their case that he is a loose-talking cowboy likely to act too hastily under pressure if he were to win the White House.

    At a campaign event on Monday, Perry was asked if Obama loved the country, and replied, “You need to ask him.”

    Asked whether Perry’s remarks were disrespectful, Obama said he would “cut him some slack” as a new candidate.

    “Everybody who runs for president, it probably takes them a little bit of time before they start realizing that this isn’t like running for governor or running for senator or running for Congress, and you’ve got to be a little more careful about what you say,” Obama said on CNN’s “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.”

  6. Stephanie says:

    I bolded that just for HF. No wonder McCain got his ass handed to him by that other cowboy.

  7. Stephanie says:

    BTW, HF, you forgot the “Whomp!” before the ‘there it is.’

    You may now denounce me properly.

  8. happyfeet says:

    I do indeed denounce your simile it was… beyond the pale

  9. pdbuttons says:

    elvis didn’t die with his pants around his ankles
    and his face in a toilet bowl
    he lives in my dvr-doing the clambake

  10. serr8d says:

    Looks like the fleebagger incumbents get to stay in office.

    Wisconsin is nearly as strange as California, it seems.

  11. happyfeet says:

    Santorum’s google problem is showing again

    Using some of the strongest words yet for Texas Gov. Rick Perry, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum blasted his fellow GOP presidential candidate Tuesday.

    click for to read!

    motherfucker bears false witness like a fucking champ

  12. geoffb says:

    “Everybody who runs for president, it probably takes them a little bit of time before they start realizing that this isn’t like running for governor or running for senator or running for Congress, and you’ve got to be a little more careful about what you say,” Obama said

    This was his opening monologue, right?

  13. Squid says:

    But his tone could turn off independent voters whose support will be needed to defeat Obama in the 2012 general election.

    Uh huh. Because Americans just can’t stand a guy who gets upset when his country is being hollowed out right in front of his nose. Americans just can’t stand a guy who calls a lie a lie. Americans just can’t stand a guy who pushes back when pushed.

    Just look at what happened to Christie. Americans hate him so much that I think I heard somebody call him “fatso.” No way any politician can recover from that sort of thing. Perry better tread carefully!

  14. geoffb says:

    I make no apologies for being reasonable,” Obama declared as he stood in front of a cheery red barn, surrounded by bales of hay.

    Hey, like many, I never apologize for things I’ve never done either.

  15. Matt says:

    “I no reasonable,” Obama declared

    Fixed that for him.

  16. Squid says:

    Nice link, geoff. I think it speaks volumes that Obama’s plan is to tackle this leadership crisis right after he gets back from Martha’s Vineyard. Talk about ceding the initiative and the high ground in one swell foop! As a funny man once said: “I can’t believe I’m losing to this guy.”

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