Vincent J. Curtis
26 Oct 2016
Barack Obama enjoys the highest favourability ratings he has
had in years. That is probably because
he is no longer the focus of attention, and people fall back upon the abstract
ideal of a black man as president rather than the ugly, partisan reality that
is Barack Obama.
The few news anchors that have covered Hillary’s email
scandal from the beginning had looks of consternation on their faces last night
as it gradually dawned on them that Barack Obama can be a stone-cold liar when
he wants to be. On March 8, 2015, after
news broke that Hillary ran a private server for her State Department emails,
CBS correspondent Bill Plante asked Obama when he first learned about Hillary’s
server. Obama replied, “the same as everybody else learned it, through news
reports.” He repeated the lie later in
October, 2015, in an interview for CBS News program 60 Minutes.
It must be pretty embarrassing to the president of the
United States, with the world’s greatest intelligence agencies at his
fingertips, to find out from investigative news reporters that his own
Secretary of State had been running a secret server on him.
But, turns out, he wasn’t embarrassed to find out. He knew, because he had exchanged emails with
Hillary through her private email address.
Never mind the excuses of Obama being too busy to find out the details
of clintonemail.com - he was responsible.
He is the The Man. Hillary worked
for Him. And He never asked. He is surrounded by requirements for Federal
recordkeeping, and he never wondered how Hillary’s system was going to comply
with Federal recordkeeping. This is egg
on his face - he let an underling get away with this.
Hillary’s campaign became afraid of a vengeful Barack Obama,
a president angry at being embarrassed by the revelation of her secret server. They moved rapidly to minimize the damage to
him and them. Podesta immediately moved
to have Obama’s 22 Top Secret emails to Hillary withheld from release on the
basis of “executive privilege.” If these
weren’t withheld, it would have been immediately apparent that Obama and
Hillary exchanged Top Secret information through her unsecured server. Bad for her, and bad for his reputation also.
Obama was and is surprisingly relaxed about Hillary’s
private system. Presidential spokesman, Josh
Earnest said in response to the discovery Obama lied to Bill Plante, ““The point that the president was
making is not that he didn’t know Secretary Clinton’s email address — he did —
but he was not aware of the details of how that email address and server had
been set up, or how Secretary Clinton and her team were planning to comply with
the Federal Records Act,” Mr. Earnest said on March 9, 2015. Obama relied on “Hillary doing the right
thing.”
Relying on Hillary doing the
right thing? Boy, is that stupid or
what?
“When he did know? Is he incensed
about the deception by Mrs. Clinton?”
Nobody asked Earnest. Typical. (“Is the president pissed at Mrs.
Clinton? What’s that useless toad going
to do about it? No wonder RT media is
not welcome at the Whitehouse!)
More recently, Mr. Earnest
commented, “I recognize that some of the president’s critics have attempted to
construct some type of conspiracy about the communication between the president
and the secretary of state, but they’ve failed to put forward a conspiracy that
withstands any scrutiny.” This
concoction of Earnest’s is what doesn’t stand scrutiny.
Why is Obama so relaxed about
Hillary’s deceiving him? Because he
really did know, and didn’t care
until it came back to bite him. Both
Obama and Hillary had an interest in keeping as much of this a mystery as
possible, and so they cooperated with each other, to each other’s mutual
benefit. This isn’t a conspiracy; it’s
fact. That is why Obama put the kibosh
on prosecuting Hillary, because he would have been defense witness #1.
Neera Tanden, President of the American Center for Progress,
and a campaign adviser, raised holy hell with John Podesta on the day news of
the secret server erupted. She blamed
Cheryl Mills for the fiasco, but ultimately reached the conclusion that Hillary
thought she could “get away with it.”
Her moral analysis went no further than that:
In an email to Podesta dated Jan 17, 2016, Tanden said
Hillary’s political instincts were “suboptimal.”
Obama’s stone-cold lies are
nothing new. They belong to the same
pile of rubbish as “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor; and if
you like your plan, you can keep your plan.” And “Everybody’s going to save $2500.00
per family on their health insurance.”
And the “red-line” in Syria.
Americans have grown used to
lying and stonewalling from the president and the Whitehouse. Americans haven’t rebelled against the abuse
of truthful discourse because it would be racist to do so, and besides Obama
was a progressive. Hillary is a woman
and something of a progressive, and she is as determined and frequent a liar as
Obama and husband Bill. It would be
sexist to rebel against her abuse just as it was racist to rebel against
Obama’s abuse of truthful discourse.
Trump’s political rise is in
no small measure a reaction against political correctness. A political correctness that forbids
animosity to a Liar-in-Chief on the grounds that it is racist to speak the
truth. And it will be sexist to speak
the truth about another congenital liar in the Oval Office.
Will the imminent collapse of
Obamacare shake the American electorate enough that they will escape the bonds
of political correctness on Election Day?
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