Hope Fades, Leaving Low Expectations for Obama Admin
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LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
Sherman Frederick
Posted date May 25, 2014 - 12:01am
Excerpt:
Here’s the bad news for those who held high hopes for Barack Obama’s presidency: If it hasn’t happened by now, it ain’t gonna happen.
The worst news is reserved for those no longer clinging to the “hope and change” bandwagon: There’s still 30 months left to endure the most pretentiously inept (and some might add “devious”) administration in America’s modern history.
Of course, the first four years of the Age of Obama were nothing to write home about — in a good way, I mean. Now with “The One’s” second term well on its way to being wasted even more spectacularly than the first term, it is safe to predict that the dwindling Obama Nation is in for more disappointments.
The horrible miscalculations regarding the initial joke by this president to close Guantanamo Bay “first thing,” and this administration’s overarching failure to turn around the economy and get the middle class back to work are self-evident and go without much need for backup.
It’s current events that will nag supporters of the president going forward. Let’s review.
1. The lie that broke the dam of silence for many Obama critics arrived when it became clear that under Obamacare, people were not able to keep their health plans or their doctors.
Obama promised we could. “Period,” he said. He sold it that way, as did Democrat bigwigs Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer and Harry Reid.
They all knowingly told an untruth, and it was subsequently labeled the “Lie of the Year.”
2. Then came the revelation that the Obama administration failed to divulge to Congress all the documents pertaining to the death of the U.S. ambassador to Libya in Benghazi.
A subsequent, unrelated Freedom of Information Act request produced a document that showed the White House spinning CIA intelligence to essentially deceive the American public.
What other documents remain hidden or covered up? No one can tell, but this document is damning enough to give Obamatrons heartburn for a good long while. It puts a pinch of Nixon into the Obama soup.
3. Now comes the news from former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner that the Obama White House asked him in no uncertain terms to lie to the American people about Social Security.
Grab the bromide, Obamatrons.
In his new book, Geithner says:
*snip*
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