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He lies. Hollywood mogul David Geffen said during the 2008 campaign,

Everybody in politics lies. But the[Clintons] do it with such ease, it's troubling.

Geffen, who previously supported Bill Clinton, switched allegiance to Barack. Barack is a far more brazen liar than either of the Clintons.

It’s not a tax

On Sunday, 9/20/09, Obama went on five TV talk shows to push his vaguely defined health care plan. ABC’s George Stephanopolous pointed out the contradiction between Obama’s promising that no one who earned than than $250,000 would pay one dime more in taxes and the tax/fines on people who do not buy health insurance in the various Democrat health care proposals. See the video here.

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Obama said to Stephanopolous that the requirement to pay $3,800 if you do not buy health insurance was “absolutely” not a tax increase. The various Democrat health bills all call it a “tax.” Stephanopolous read the Merriam-Webster dictionary of a tax which clearly matched the Democrat proposed law.

Here are some other fact checkers that say it’s a tax.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090921/pl_politico/27384
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iO0ET9fSB07VdMXAhllfBPvKNYyAD9ARU4HG4

Obama lies then fact checkers promptly produce the evidence that he’s a liar

Indeed, this has now become a standard pattern. Obama tells yet another brazen lie. Within hours, a zillion fact checkers including major media, blogs, and YouTube teenagers present the hard evidence that he lied. (The teenager I just linked to complains about the total lack of logic in Obama’s argument with Stephanopolous. See my article on intellectually-dishonest debate tactics for details on that sort of analysis.)

Yet Obama continues to lie. His supporters say he’s “brilliant.” No, he’s not. From observing him on TV, I estimate his SAT scores were about 80th percentile on math and about 65th percentile on verbal. He’s welcome to release them to prove me wrong. The fact that he refuses sure as heck means he did not score 99th percentile. I did on the GRE and the LSAT and I believe on the ATGSB (now GMAT). And I’m not brilliant.

What his continued lying in spite of the fact that he knows he will be shown to be a liar within hours means is that Obama thinks he’s brilliant. More importantly, it means he thinks he a whole lot smarter than the rest of us. These obvious lies insult our intelligence.

He’s nuts.

Now, knowing that Obama will lie, his interviewers are starting to marshal the evidence—like Stephanopolous’ dictionary—in advance. I predict that the elapsed time between future Obama lies and the evidence that he lied will be reduced to seconds. Indeed, the interviewers themselves may hit him with the evidence instantly now that everyone knows what a predictable, ridiculous liar he is.

Henceforth, whenever Obama is scheduled to speak. bloggers and other media who did not get the interview will have their fingers poised over their keyboards with Google on the screen waiting to pounce on the lies that inevitably come out of Obama’s mouth.

Profoundly immoral dishonest man

Apparently, Barack Obama believes the ends justifies the means. In other words, he is a profoundly immoral, dishonest man. His attitude is “my professed good intentions trump the facts.” Actually, it’s more like that actual President Richard Nixon line from the Frost-Nixon interview.

When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.

Or in Obama’s case,

When Obama says it, that means it’s true, regardless of any facts that prove it’s not.

A lousy liar

Politicians are generally extremely skilled liars. That’s what they do. It’s how they get elected. The presidency is a Most Brazen Liar Contest. But there are limits.

During the 2008 campaign, Hillary said she landed in some Eastern European country with Chelsea under sniper fire. When that was proven to be a lie, she corrected the record and made jokes about it, in one case, that she was late to an interview because she was “pinned down by sniper fire.”

Dose Obama do that when he’s caught? Hell, no! His approach is like that of the three-year old who’s caught with his hand in the cookie jar and swears he was putting the cookie back in the jar.

He’s a sociopath

I think the guy’s got a loose screw. No doubt his political advisors are ever so gently telling him he has to cut back on the lying. But in spite of his brilliance, he is unable to comprehend that he is self-destructing—even when his most trusted advisors tell him.

Here are the first five indicators from the Web site Profile of a Sociopath:

• Glibness and Superficial Charm

• Manipulative and Conning
They never recognize the rights of others and see their self-serving behaviors as permissible. They appear to be charming, yet are covertly hostile and domineering, seeing their victim as merely an instrument to be used. They may dominate and humiliate their victims.

• Grandiose Sense of Self
Feels entitled to certain things as "their right."

• Pathological Lying
Has no problem lying coolly and easily and it is almost impossible for them to be truthful on a consistent basis. Can create, and get caught up in, a complex belief about their own powers and abilities. Extremely convincing and even able to pass lie detector tests.

• Lack of Remorse, Shame or Guilt
A deep seated rage, which is split off and repressed, is at their core. Does not see others around them as people, but only as targets and opportunities. Instead of friends, they have victims and accomplices who end up as victims. The end always justifies the means and they let nothing stand in their way.

Here is another set of identifying indicators from that same Profile of a Sociopath Web site, this time of the Malignant Personality by Caroline Konrad:

(1) They are habitual liars. They seem incapable of either knowing or telling the truth about anything.

(2) They are egotistical to the point of narcissism. They really believe they are set apart from the rest of humanity by some special grace.

(3) They scapegoat; they are incapable of either having the insight or willingness to accept responsibility for anything they do. Whatever the problem, it is always someone else's fault.

(4) They are remorselessly vindictive when thwarted or exposed.

Konrad says people with malignant personality are “mentally ill and extremely dangerous!”

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No bully pulpit for this guy

President Theodore Roosevelt said the White House was a “bully pulpit.” Back then, the word “bully” meant really great. With his gift for reading teleprompters, you would think that the White House would be an even more bully pulpit for this president. But he has thrown that all away with his inability tell the truth or admit that he did not.

I said he was doomed to failure during the election (e.g., see my article http://www.johntreed.com/affirmativeaction.html) in part because he was promising more than anyone could deliver. Now, the reasons for his failure are more clear. He is incapable of speaking the truth and therefore will become the butt of nationwide and international ridicule—yet we and the world are stuck with him until 2012. If we survive until then, that is he does not start World War III or destroy the economy completely, I expect the Democrats will then be running away from him as hard as they can—unsuccessfully.