I can’t imagine anyone being more unqualified for the job Barak Obama now holds. If all his liberal antics, inane narcissistic behaviors, and partisan herd building were to magically go away he still wouldn’t be deserving of steering the nation that leads the free world. Apart from his inexperience in leadership and management the conduct most unsuitable for him as President is his noticeable inclination to contest the truth.
No one wants to call him a liar, but what other expression is acceptable? What about fraud, fake, pretender, impostor, hypocrite, or phony? According to Snopes.com the first 100 days he was in office the President perpetrated no less than fifty “untruths.” Now after more than ten months he persists in deviating from the record. His most recent uncorroborated statement came in Tuesday night’s address to the nation concerning more troops for Afghanistan.
While shamelessly taking another jab at the previous administration this president obliquely proclaimed “Commanders in Afghanistan repeatedly asked for support to deal with the reemergence of the Taliban, but these reinforcements did not arrive.” This straight-faced pretension drew the ire of former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, heretofore publicly silent, who said, “The President’s assertion does a disservice to the truth and in particular to the thousands of men and women in uniform who have fought, served, and sacrificed in Afghanistan.”
The former Secretary asked Congress to review the claim to “determine exactly what requests were made, who made them, and where and why in the chain of command they were denied.” Although Obama dithers with regards to decisions, apologizes for the acceptable, and bows before the undeserved, he seems to be quite experienced in duplicity. Rumsfeld, said the claim was a “bald misstatement” that cannot go unanswered. Perhaps he meant bald-faced lie.
No one wants to call him a liar, but what other expression is acceptable? What about fraud, fake, pretender, impostor, hypocrite, or phony? According to Snopes.com the first 100 days he was in office the President perpetrated no less than fifty “untruths.” Now after more than ten months he persists in deviating from the record. His most recent uncorroborated statement came in Tuesday night’s address to the nation concerning more troops for Afghanistan.
While shamelessly taking another jab at the previous administration this president obliquely proclaimed “Commanders in Afghanistan repeatedly asked for support to deal with the reemergence of the Taliban, but these reinforcements did not arrive.” This straight-faced pretension drew the ire of former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, heretofore publicly silent, who said, “The President’s assertion does a disservice to the truth and in particular to the thousands of men and women in uniform who have fought, served, and sacrificed in Afghanistan.”
The former Secretary asked Congress to review the claim to “determine exactly what requests were made, who made them, and where and why in the chain of command they were denied.” Although Obama dithers with regards to decisions, apologizes for the acceptable, and bows before the undeserved, he seems to be quite experienced in duplicity. Rumsfeld, said the claim was a “bald misstatement” that cannot go unanswered. Perhaps he meant bald-faced lie.
