June, 2019, Part 4, Political Class Insanity: Obama's Historical Lies and a Brand New Whopper Of A Lie

It is another month which means it is again time to review the latest political class insanity from Washington and around the world. Political class insanity takes many forms including the wasting of taxpayer wealth, criminal fraud within government programs, inane and stupid political quotes and actions, the inability to create and implement effective and efficient government programs, stupid and ill performing economic policies and strategies, and other forms of insanity that continue to evolve and surprise and shock us.

Let’s get started:

Countless times over the years we have reviewed the hundreds, if not thousands, of times, that Obama lied to the country. His favorite categories of lies included the following: 

• Obama promised that if you like your current doctor, you can keep your current doctor under the Obama Care legislation. False: millions of Americans lost access to their current doctors because of Obama Care.
• Obama promised that if you like your current insurance company and policy, you can keep your current insurance company and policy under the Obama Care legislation. False: probably upwards of seven million Americans lost access to their current and likely preferred insurance policies.
• Obama promised that if you like your current hospital, you can keep your access to that hospital under Obama Care. False: under Obama Care, many hospitals changed or restricted the types of insurance customers they would accept, shutting many, many Americans out of their preferred hospitals.
• Obama promised that under Obama Care, an American family could see upwards of a $2,500 reduction in their annual health insurance premiums. False: under Obama Care the vast majority, if not all, insurance policies saw huge, double digit percentage increases in the annual cost of their premiums.
• Obama promised that Obama Care would not add a single dime to the national debt. False: according to a Congressional Budget Office estimate, Obama Care in the first ten years was estimated to add almost $2 trillion to the national debt.
• Obama promised that Obama Care would “bend the cost” curve of healthcare downwards. False: if anything, the cost of healthcare accelerated upwards under Obama Care.
• Obama promised that signing up for an Obama Care policy would be as simple as signing onto Amazon to buy a product: False: the online Obama Care process was shoddy, slow, and exposed millions of Americans to identity theft because of poor security protocols, something that never happens on Amazon.
• Obama said the Benghazi attack on the U.S. consulate was caused by an obscure YouTube video. False: the attack, which left four Americans dead, was a planned and ruthless terrorist attack which had nothing to do with some YouTube video.
• Obama promised to go through the Federal budget line by line to weed out excessive government spending and reduce the annual Federal deficit by 50% by the end of his first term. False: under Obama, government spending exploded, resulting in four consecutive years of trillion dollar deficits, and the nearly doubling of the Federal government debt during his term.
• Obama promised that all Obama Care debates and negotiations in Congress would be broadcast on C-SPAN, False: those broadcasts never happened.
• Obama promised that all legislation sent to him to be signed would be posted on the Web for at least five days before he would sign it. False: pending legislation never appeared on the Net.
• Obama promised that lobbyists would be excluded from high ranking positions in his administration. False: powerful lobbyists ended up in high level positions in his administration almost immediately after taking office.

Let’s stop there, you get the idea, this man lied to the country about everything from Obama Care to budgeting to the Iranian nuclear arms deal to who knows what else. A fuller listed of his lies can be found at a previous post of ours:

https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/search?q=end+of+an+error+%2B+lies

We bring his past history of pathological lying up today because apparently he is still out there throwing around erroneous information and realities. His latest excursion into lying happened outside of the country:

• According to a May 31, 2019 article by Ryan Cleckner on the Federalist website, Obama recently gave a speech down in Brazil at a “digital innovation” event.
• For whatever reason, he took the opportunity to talk about, and lie about current U.S. gun laws.
• Specifically: “Our gun laws in the United States don’t make much sense. Anybody can buy any weapon, any time, without much, if any, regulation. They can buy [guns] over the internet, they can buy machine guns.”
• Mr. Cleckner found at significant and numerous lies in this Obama statement.
• Obama said “anybody can buy any weapon” which is not true since there are at least three major Federal government restrictions on who can buy a weapon that does not include the many, many state and local restrictions on who can buy a weapon.
• According to Federal rules, no one under the age of 21 can purchase a handgun from a dealer and no one under 18 years old can buy a rifle or shotgun.
• According to Federal rules, felons, those convicted of domestic violence crimes, drug addicts, illegal immigrants, fugitives, or veterans with dishonorable discharges can buy a weapon in this country.
• And finally, Federal rules prohibit non-U.S. citizens from buying a weapon in this country.
• State and local gun rules pile on additional restrictions on who can buy a weapon.
• Obama also claimed that any weapon can be easily purchased in this country.
• But since 1986, generally no civilian can purchase a machine gun.
• The National Firearms Act of 1934 regulates and prevents other types of weapon purchases.
• States pile on other equipment restrictions since, for example, Connecticut prohibits the sale of AR-15 style rifles and California prohibits the sale of the most handgun models.
• Obama claimed that in this country you can purchase a weapon at any time.
• But this is not true since when buying a gun from a licensed gun dealer, a background check must be done through the National Criminal Background Check System which operates only during certain hours of the day.
• A purchase cannot be made outside of the hours of that the background checks computer systems are working.
• For example, the Federal background system is only up for 17 hours a day.
• In addition, some states require that a background also be done according to their state’s own standards.
• In addition, if a person is outside of his home state, he is not allowed to purchase a handgun, disproving Obama’s assertion that anyone at any time can buy a weapon in this country.
• Some guns, such as short barreled rifles, must get clearance from ATF before completing the purchase, a clearance process that can take up to 10 months. 
• Again disproving Obama’s asserting that anyone can buy any weapon at any time with little regulations.
• Obama claimed that weapons can be purchased with very little regulations which we have already proven to be false since certain categories of people have been regulated out of the weapon market, the Federal government requires background checks, the ATF is involved in some purchases before they are approved, and the states and local government have a whole other set of regulations.
• Obama implies that guns in this country can easily be purchased over the Internet, i.e. a gun can be purchased online and sent directly to the purchaser’s home without any regulations.
• This is not true since if someone tries to purchase a weapon on the Net, that weapon is not shipped to the customer directly; it is first shipped to a local Federally registered firearms dealer who does the necessary regulatory and background check processes before the customer gets the weapon. 
• And possibly the biggest lie of all, anyone can purchase “any weapon,” a blatant lie.
• First of all, no ordinary citizen can buy a machine gun [there is a very narrow, highly, highly regulated exception to this statement but it is not worth going into since most ordinary citizens have no chance of ever legally getting their hands on a machine gun.]
• And just to be clear, Obama implied that any weapon can be bought at any time, not that any gun can be bought at any time.
• Civilians are not allowed to buy machine guns, hand grenades, rocket launchers, land mines, flame throwers, etc., weapons that are not legal but which Obama says can be easily bought in this country.

Obviously, his penchant for lying and skewing the truth has not ebbed since he left office. As always, you have to wonder if he actually believes these lies that he has been spouting over the years and thus, lives in a whole different reality from the rest of us. Or he thinks we are too stupid to think for ourselves to examine the truth and reality of a situation and are too enthralled with his words to not trust him. 

His denial of reality may be one of the reasons why he was one of the worst Presidents ever, with no significant positive accomplishments to speak of, either economically, diplomatically, or domestically. Obama Care was a total failure, the Iranian deal was a failure, the Paris Climate Agreement was a failure, he almost doubled the national debt, our public schools are no better than when he took office, our infrastructure is still crumbling, he allowed Russia to be a major international player and pest again, Medicare is eight years closer to fiscal insolvency, as is Medicaid and Social Security, etc. 

In any case, it is a sad commentary that someone of such a lying and dishonest nature actually was President for eight years. And worse, millions of people never questioned his lack of integrity and penchant of lying about everything.

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