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The Next President Will Be a Liar
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ll…Regardless of whether the next president is a Republican or Democrat, whether it's Barack Obama or Mitt Romney or any other of the Republican frontrunners, one thing is guaranteed: he will lie.
He will lie to the American people, he will make promises he knows he has no intention of keeping. He will say whatever it takes to get elected.
It is absolutely certain that he will lie to us. Every president has; you can look back and see that everyone who has been elected president in your lifetime has willfully and intentionally lied to the American people.
It's actually not a big shock -- in fact, if you're reading this, you know this to be true and you have come to accept it. We're not surprised when the leader of the Free World turns out to be a liar and a con man. In fact, unfortunately, I'm afraid we've come to expect it.
The American people know that they're being lied to. Recent surveys show public approval of Congress is at a record low. We're used to it -- our political leaders lying to us has become the status quo. If it happens to be someone from your political party, you'll probably even make excuses for him or her. You'll rationalize and justify why he or she lied to us.
President Obama has broken dozens of campaign promises. In fact, I'm not aware of a promise he has kept, quite frankly.
I remember seeing him on television every day for two years when he was campaigning for president, promising to adopt a windfall profits tax on the oil and gas industry if he were elected. That was a lie.
In February of 2008, Obama promised to end the diversion of federal small business contracts to corporate giants. He hasn't done that. The latest information released by his information shows that of the top 100 federal small business contractors, 60 were large businesses.
In 2008, he promised to close Guantanamo Bay by January 2010. That hasn't happened.
The pull-out of Iraq -- that's another lie. We haven't pulled out of Iraq; we reduced the troops but we haven't pulled out. When we pulled out of Vietnam; we left, we were gone.
To try to use the term pull-out about Iraq is another lie. We've cut the number of troops dramatically, but we haven't pulled out. We still have one of the largest U.S. embassies in the world in Baghdad. There's still thousands of troops, billions in equipment, thousands of private contractors.
- we know. says so right in the article. "The American people know that they're being lied to" but thanks for telling us.johnny_wobble
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- however if you assertively incentivize emerging processes that might be truezaq
- mind you that comes from your beloved 'Huffington Post'********