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Anonymous asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 1 decade ago

Why does Obama make a habit of telling Americans untruths?

From the article:

The president, who promised in both word and style to usher in a “new era” of Washington “responsibility,” routinely says things that aren’t true and supports initiatives that break campaign promises. When called on it, he mostly keeps digging. And when obliged to explain why American voters are turning so sharply away from his party and his policies, Obama pins the blame not on his own deviations from verity but on his failure to “explain” things “more clearly to the American people.”

http://reason.com/archives/2010/03/09/obama-and-th...

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    He went to Rev Wrights church for 20 years, hung out with Tony Rezko the crook in PRISON NOW. Hung out with Bill Bomber Ayers and DOHRN the Charles Manson praiser! Van Jones the Commie! He went to a College that had Ahamadinajad as a guest speaker. He had all weirdo freako friends his entire life.

    His Czars are FREAKS!

    A Mirror Reflects a mans face but who he really is , is shown by the friends he chooses.

  • Oh, I'm afraid it has gone beyond 'habit' and 'untruths'. Obama's administration has entered the realm of genuine lies and obsession. The man's bee President for over a year and I recall only 2 or 3 times when he has said anything even remotely truthful. And we know that they were honest because they got him in trouble. Obama cannot tell the truth. The truth about his agenda, his values and his initiatives would destroy his Presidency.

    Consider that during his speech to the joint session of congress on health care, he has been fact checked to have told over 20 gross exaggerations and lies. When Joe Wilson called him out, the press made a bigger deal of Joe's 'bad manners' than they did of the fact that the President of the United States was, in fact, LYING!

    http://article.nationalreview.com/408087/you-misle...

  • Ken
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    President Obama hasn't lied at all. He's been blocked in his efforts by a single-minded Republican party who actively want the president to fail, not caring what happens to the country.

    Perhaps the president tells the truth too much and I agree that he's made mistakes. However, this administration is head and shoulders above the previous one in honesty, integrity and competence. After the grand lie that took this nation to war in Iraq, I don't understand how you can attack President Obama.

    He's doing okay.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    i'm no longer a Bush supporter and that i tell people to circulate away the rustic while they do no longer trust me on themes like the subversion of our bill of Rights in the path of the advocacy of "clever layout" being taught in lecture rooms, the tacit help of torture (waterboarding and abu ghraib), kidnapping (rendition), the subversion of our genuine to privateness (warrantless wiretapping). So...i do no longer understand that that stuff is largely the province of Bush supporters. fairly, i think of a brilliant variety of the fascists in Conservative outfits might desire to be expatriated to a pair different united states of america...with out meals, water or technical counsel....perhaps we ought to easily deliver them to antarctica and enable the main useful of them stay to tell the story by way of devouring the weakest of them. the two way, they are traitors to the yank political test and don't deserve the impressive to respire the same air as loose females and adult men persons.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Old habits are hard to break and in my opinion 0bama has been lying to voters since he first ran for public office

    Source(s): May God Bless you and keep our country safe from the pr0gressive axis of evil;0bama,Pel0si,& Reid
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    He thinks all of are uninformed as the emotional voters that voted for him......so he can get away with it. Oh, and there is that little thing called the race card..... he can hide behind that if you disagree with him.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fiBzAIBlHE

    http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=BE50977CA7...

    edit.. thumbs down? LOL there is an "emotional" response from one of those uninformed emotional voters. Poor misguided parasites

  • Because he can't afford to tell the truth! Not even about his own birth certificate, apparently. So any other lies are not really surprising.

  • Mrs. C
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Because he cannot accomplish his agenda by telling the truth. Neither could other Marxist.

  • 1 decade ago

    Survival instincts in overdrive.

  • 1 decade ago

    Constitutional doesn't explain it.

    Lawyer- does though.

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