Obama's Lies - Reagan's Truths - America's Future

President Obama had no fact checker to confront him at last Thursday's Townhall on guns, except CNN's gentlemanly Anderson Cooper, who, bless him, tried but was stingingly attacked by Obama each time. ~~~~~ There were two lies from Obama that showed his over-arching arrogance. The first was "We're not writing a new law, only Congress can do that." That outright lie about his sense of his executive reach as President denied a fact that all Americans know and three federal courts are now litigating -- Obama has 'written laws' by using executive orders on immigration, the environment, Iran sanctions and guns, despite the constitutional grant of law-writing to Congress alone. The second of his arrogant lies was about drugs and it showed his defiance in the face of America's rejection of Obamacare and its disgust with his "you can keep your doctor" lie about Obamacare. Obama was defending his gun control executive order by arrogantly referring to drugs : "If I propose to take unsafe drugs off the market, some people will say I'm trying to control the entire drug industry or take people's drugs away..." That is exactly what a majority of Americans believe about Obamacare. ~~~~~ There was also the lie about China that made clear how condescending Obama is toward the American people -- assuming they did not know enough to complete his statement. He said : "About the same time as the Newtown shooting, a man with a knife attacked and wounded the same number of kids in China...but they all survived because he didn't have a gun." Every American knows why that Chinese man used a knife -- he lives in a totalitarian marxist state in which he has no personal rights, no constitution to protect him, and so no recourse when the State seizes his firearms in order to keep him in a condition of political slavery. ~~~~~ There were many more lies told by Obama Thursday about his intention to seize Americans' guns by tearing up the Second Amendment : "If we can get a strong background check system...it will at least be a little more difficult and more expensive to get a gun...then fewer people get them...and we have fewer guns." / "There's nothing we propose that makes it harder for you to purchase a firearm...if you need one." / "There's no other consumer product...we don't try to make safer." (Firearms are a constitutional right totally unlike seatbelts or toys.) ~~~~~ As Senator Marco Rubio said after the Townhall : “The Second Amendment is not some law we passed. It is in the Constitution....a constitutionally protected right. And that means if you’re going to do anything that touches upon it or infringes upon it, you have to pass a very high bar. And they’re not passing that high bar....They are obsessed with gun control....here’s the truth: If the Left had their way -- they’ll never admit this because they don’t have the votes...they don’t have the public support -- but if they could confiscate guns, they would. If they could ban people from buying guns, they would.” ~~~~~ Obama also said something that infuriated me : "The United States was born suspicious of some distant authority." That is the single most despicable and demeaning description of the American Revolution ever uttered. And it proves just how non-American Barack Obama really is. ~~~~~ So, dear readers, as we hope for a 'smidgeon' of truth in Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday, let us consider the American truth in President Reagan's farewell address to the nation on January 11, 1989 : "I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn't spring full bloom from my brow, they came from the heart of a great nation -- from our experience, our wisdom, and our belief in the principles that have guided us for two centuries. They called it the ‘Reagan Revolution.' Well, I'll accept that, but for me it always seemed more like the great rediscovery, a rediscovery of our values and our common sense." Amen, Sir.