Hey Obama, We’ve Lost Our Patience With Your Lying Administration
Renowned author and psychiatrist M. Scott Peck, in his book “People of the Lie,” describes evil personalities as those distinguished by:
(a) consistent destructive, scapegoating behavior, which my often be quite subtle. (b) Excessive, albeit usually covert, intolerance to criticism and other forms of narcissistic injury. (c) Pronounced concern with a public image and self-image of respectability, contributing to a stability of life-style but also to pretentiousness and denial of hateful feelings or vengeful motives. (d) Intellectual deviousness, with an increased likelihood of a mild schizophrenic like disturbance of thinking at times of stress.
Peck also makes the point that a sign of evil personalities is not dishonesty. We all have moments where we choose to be dishonest, but serial dishonesty is a different thing.
This weekend, while reading coverage of the now infamous Ben Rhodes interview with the New York Times, I was reminded of Peck’s book. Is this really where we are right now? Have we lost so much of our national innocence that Ben Rhodes, the deputy national security adviser for strategic communications for President Obama, willingly grants an interview to a major American newspaper and proudly declares, that they manipulated the American public to sell the Iran nuclear deal?
Compounding this gross display of deception and hubris, Rhodes said of the press, “The average reporter we talk to is 27-years-old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns. That’s a sea change. They literally know nothing…” Thus, he appeared to blame media ignorance for his deception.
How many times are we going to be lied to by the Obama administration, and the president himself, before we stop pussyfooting around and call them what they are: liars? I fully understand that name-calling and ad-hominem attacks are gauche in the DC-insider political circles. But this is not name-calling for name-calling sake, or unnecessary ad-hominem; it’s simply the truth.
How else would one refer to a president and an administration that says things to the American people, recorded on tape for all of us to review, which turn out later to be patently false? Why the need to be delicate with a president who has never shown any such feelings for his political opposition? He is a liar and many in his administration are too. There, I said it, and you should too, because we will never be able to repair the dramatic loss in confidence in government under the Obama administration until we recognize that openly lying to and serially deceiving the American people is evil and unacceptable in a civil society.
And for our liberal friends, desperate to defend this failed presidential administration, who believe that the Ben Rhodes interview was an anomaly, I ask you to carefully remove your ideological blinders for a moment and consider the facts. Regardless of your position on immigration, Obamacare, or the Iran deal, it’s now painfully obvious that the Obama administration lied—yes, lied—about all three.
President Obama told us about immigration policy, “And I cannot ignore those laws any more than I could ignore … any of the other laws that are on the books.” And then President Obama turned around and ignored immigration law by implementing executive immigration amnesty through DACA and DAPA.
President Obama told us repeatedly about Obamacare, “If you like your healthcare plan, you will keep your plan.” He then signed the Obamacare legislation which cost millions of Americans the healthcare plans they were promised they could keep.
Some liberals may say in response, “It’s no big deal, most politicians lie.” Yes, you are correct. But does that mean that they have to slap us all in the face by openly celebrating it in the New York Times? And does it mean that they should be given a free pass for lying repeatedly?
Conservatives and libertarians prefer a smaller, leaner, and more efficient government precisely because of the tendency for politicians of all stripes to lie. A small government enables the lies of politicians to have the smallest possible impact on our lives and enables us to track their lies easily. A growing government monolith like the one we are living with now enables a sprawling government to hide its old lies under a bed of new lies and lie about the lies by calling their political opposition liars. Sound familiar?
Lying about major policy initiatives that will deeply impact the lives of nearly every American citizen is wrong. It is evil and we shouldn’t dance around that word anymore. I’m tired of having to dance around language to avoid telling the truth about Barack Obama while he compares Republicans to Iranian terrorists. Now go back and read Peck’s definition of an evil personality and see if you come to the same conclusions I have about this administration. (For more from the author of “Hey Obama, We’ve Lost Our Patience With Your Lying Administration” please click HERE)
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