How to Know When Obama is Lying

Unlike Bill Clinton, Barack Obama is rather methodical when he lies, and thus patterns have begun to emerge.

Whenever Obama says something like “failed policies of the past”, “discredited debates of the past”, or “we tried it their way” – he is selling us another whopper.

In fact, most of the time when Obama says that something is "failed" or "discredited" - it is not.

Likewise, when Obama says that his opponents are "on the wrong side of history", we can now be confident he is selling snake oil.

Whenever Obama says that something is “legitimate” or “Constitutional” – it is definitely not.

Whenever, Obama quotes anyone like Thomas Jefferson or Abraham Lincoln – he is lying about something.

Whenever Obama says that he has been “consistent”, or that his critics “haven’t been paying attention” – he is lying about getting caught lying. The DC gun ban was perhaps the earliest and most obvious example. Obama said that he supported the DC gun ban. Then when the Supreme Court overturned it a few months later, he said that he agreed, but instead of explaining his contradiction, Obama said that his position has always been "consistent" and that his critics "haven't been paying attention." Obama did not lie about changing his position. He lied about agreeing with the Supreme Court.

Some new patterns I anticipate in the near future are the use of “fair” and “illegal”. I expect to hear Obama refer to actions and words as illegal when they are in fact legal and Constitutional. Consider that Obama claims that his critics are dishonest and harmful, that he is not a fan of freedom of speech or of the press, that he advocates some rather vague laws to make speech more fair, and that he stretches the Constitution (and English) far beyond its actual meaning. It is then easy to imagine Obama claiming that under his new and vague fairness laws, some particularly effective criticism of him was illegal.

In the future you could look for these key words and phrases, or you could just note when Obama is not giving you any details. For example, what are the failed policies of the past, did they actually happen under Bush, were they actually crafted by Republicans, why does Obama say they failed, aren't they more or less the same policies that we had under Reagan, Bush Sr., and Clinton? Wasn't the mess with subprime loans, Fannie Mae, and credit default swaps created under Clinton and promoted primarily by Democrats? While it is true that almost everyone thinks of Bush and Republicans as failures, the new policies that are responsible were: staying in Iraq, high deficits, and the bailouts, and of course, media bias was also responsible. Now consider that Obama is not only staying in Iraq, but that he is also tripling the Bush deficits and bailouts. I guess we see why Obama is avoiding the details, and he can get away with this only because a biased media is giving him a free pass.