Obama: Contradiction in Truth

When President Obama promised to remake America I was automatically on my guard. America is by no means perfect but it definitely doesn't need to be remade. After his first few months in office there's not even a scant slice of American life this President hasn't remade in someway. All this change at such a rapid pace is dizzying and confusing. That's the way Obama is being successful. He and his comrades in the White House have at least one announcement a day. Sometimes more. This is by design.

Things are happening at such a fast pace that most people can't tell what is really going on. The current media love affair with this President is actually making the problem worse. The Press simply will not tell the truth. They spout Democratic talking points ad nauseum. The main stream press is acting as a buffer against any criticism of Obama. They attack anyone that questions any of Obama's actions. They have and will report or publish the truth when it fits the Obama template. They will print or report a half truth with full authority to further their cause and they will lie for this President.

During the Presidential campaign Candidate Obama made a gaffe in a speech:

"I have visited 57 States now and I still have 1 or 2 to go. My staff wouldn't let me go to Alaska Or Hawaii."

The words had barely left his lips and the media went into overdrive to explain how impossible Obama's schedule was and how tired he was. It could have been an amusing anecdote but the media had to protect their man.

He has talked like a Moderate and has preformed as something very different. Almost all of his "change" has been 180 degrees from from what he promised it would be but he's still very popular with the American people according to the polls. However, when he talks to his supporters about specific things that affect specific people negatively then he can run into some trouble.

Case in point; the Washington D.C. school system has a program called school the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, a vouchers program, since 2007. Most of the families involved in the voucher program have children whose test scores have risen half a grade higher than students not in the program in rest of D.C.'s Public schools. A plea to save the voucher program published in the Washington Post began:

Better schools. Higher scores. And satisfied parents. That's the record of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program. It is helping us keep our promise to leave no child behind in America. If Congress is thinking of breaking this promise, the nation deserves to know the story.
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Congress was poised to cut off funding for the voucher program because Obama wanted to kill the program. It was a successful George W. Bush, No Child Left Behind program and Democrats had to wreck any successful Republican ideas. After the Parents in the District fought back, Obama (surprise, surprise) offered a compromise. The 1,700 kids (K-12), enrolled in the program, will be allowed to finish their education but the program will still end leaving thousands of Children behind because of his arbitrary dislike of anything Republican. This is becoming a perverse habit of the President. Promise one thing then deliver another.

He has a distinct habit of letting his cronies in his Administration and Congress offer ideas or programs that aren't popular. News of the programs are met with anger and frustration by the public. Then Obama rides in on his trusty steed and appears to save the day. These are excerpts of a previous article on my blog: 10 Rules for a Radical President

We should have known, when candidate Obama reversed his promise to take public financing if McCain did and then blindsiding McCain by pulling out of that verbal challenge, that Obama couldn't keep his word. It is a definite trend in his Presidency. The old bait and switch.

In a decision that I hadn't heard of before researching this article, "Obama Signs Law Banning Federal Embryo Research Two Days After Signing Executive Order to OK It". Now I'm thrilled about this turn of events but I bet his supporters don't like it much.

This is from an article on this blog on January 28th called the The Pelosi Gambit

On the Sunday news show This Week with George Stephanopolis, Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, uttered the now infamous statements about contraception being a stimulus to the economy, which led to the Drudge Report News Flash: "DRUDGE FLASH 2009© Pelosi says: Birth Control Will Help Economy". http://www.drudgereport.com/flashpbc.htm

How did this particular subject come up? There weren't many details available on the actual content of the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan". It would have been interesting to have been a "fifth party" to to the daily conference calls* between long time friends, Rahm Emanuel, JamesCarville, Paul Begala and George Stephanopolis, before George's show on Sunday, Jan 24th. I'm sure Nancy was probably in the loop too. Her comments set off a firestorm of conservative blow back over the "family planning" issue, just as the Administration knew it would.

On Monday January 26th, President Obama rode into the fray on his white horse to save the day! He withdrew the funding request. This was probably orchestrated to change public opinion about the bailout...and the Religious Right swooned... http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/148769293.html

Where is the truth? It lies somewhere deep inside the murkiness of big time liberal politics. Keeping the public weary and confused is Obama's goal. Say one thing, reverse the thing, then do what you set out to do in the first place, all the while, blaming someone else. This gives Obama cover. On March 13th...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The American economy is in turmoil but the Obama administration sent a $50 million check yesterday to the United Nations Population Fund. That's the pro-abortion group that has been accused of supporting and working in concert with Chinese family planning officials. continue reading

and then the Pièce de résistance The President's most recent betrayal of the left. On (4/23/2009) the headline was: Defense Department To Release Prisoner Abuse Photos By May 28 In Response To ACLU Lawsuit. It became on Wed May 13, 2009 Obama Reneges on Torture Photo Release
I don't believe the final chapter has been written on the torture photos yet. Some Judge somewhere or some Bureaucrat somewhere will release the Photos. Obama will once again get what he wants without seeming to want what he gets.