Budget FlimFlam: Spend More & Report Cuts

Much of the media’s “information” about the federal budget is deception made possible by the arcane budgeting process in Congress.  President Obama didn’t invent the process.  But he’s an enthusiastic practitioner of the deception. When the President delivered his 2012 budget to Congress the media shouted “$1.1 trillion in cuts!”  Did this mean the government [...]

Obama’s Disingenuous Medicare Pledge

Part of President Obama’s joint session of Congress speech was intended to calm the legitimate fears of Medicare beneficiaries that his so-called “reform” would be funded by curtailing their medical services: More than four decades ago, this nation stood up for the principle that after a lifetime of hard work, our seniors should not be [...]

International Socialists Help Sell ObamaCare

We’ve heard it often from President Obama and his supporters.  The World Health Organization (WHO), a division of the United Nations, ranks America’s health care #37 in the world. And, we’re told,  all the countries that rank higher have so-called “universal health care” managed and paid for by government. ObamaCare supporters hope we’ll assume this [...]

Obama’s Serial Tax Cut Deceptions (1)

The Obama campaign keeps chanting that their candidate will cut taxes for 95% of us while John McCain proposes tax cuts only for the super wealthy.  As is usually the case when politicians discuss federal taxes, there’s a gap between rhetoric and truth.  To help our readers fully understand Obama’s deception we’re providing a brief [...]

Another Petty Deception From Obama

In this report last May we exposed deliberately deceptive editing of a video of John McCain’s answer to a voter’s question.  The Democratic National Comittee and The Obama campaign intended to make McCain appear to have said something he did not say. In The Big Speech In The Stadium last week Barack Obama once again [...]

Disingenuous Obama Talks Like a Politician

Part II In the previous post below we examined Senator Obama’s use of distractions to avoid direct answers to direct questions from Fox News Interviewer, Chris Wallace. In this post are some examples of how Obama talks like a politician, with cynical, politically motivated deceptions. Mr. Wallace challenged Obama to demonstrate that he really is [...]