The whole thing is a hit piece. Looks like something out of an anti-Obama propaganda factory. They can make up that stuff faster than it can be refuted. An obvious clue to the source of this thing is that they didn't even scratch the surface of all the lies we heard from LBJ, Nixon, Pappy Bush, Dubya and Bill Clinton. That would have diluted the impact of the propaganda piece.
I'm a sucker for a lost cause, so I'll take a stab at refuting some of these things. The ODS [Obama Derangement Syndrome] assertions are labeled as ODS. Replies are labeled FACT:
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ODS: I am focused like a laser on creating jobs.
FACT: He really did try. The Republican thugs blocked most of his initiatives. High speed rail is one. There were others.
ODS: The IRS is not targeting anyone.
FACT: The wingnuts made that assertion. Press picked it up and made a big thing of it. When the dust had settled, turns out that the IRS was not targeting "conservative" groups.
ODS: It was a spontaneous riot about a movie.
FACT: They're talking about Benghazi here. Benghazi was a black ops event. Obvious in that it was done on September 11. Did Obama actually say that it was about a movie? If so, it was an attempt at damage control. The Benghazi affair was executed by rogue elements in the CIA whose mission was to discredit Obama and, best case scenario, lead to his impeachment. There are some things a president just can't talk about openly. Rogue elements loyal to Bush can't be acknowledged publically. Those who are sympathetic to those rogue elements, and that includes the press and the wing nuts, get to have face time on national TV and polish their image as they denounce Obama.
ODS: I will put an end to the type of politics that "breeds division, conflict and cynicism".
FACT: An ambitious program and a wonderful idea. Unfortunately, he didn't realize when he made that statement that arrest and imprisonment of the wing nuts in congress is the only way that could ever happen. The idea does have a certain appeal.
ODS: You didn't build that!
FACT: Anything that anyone builds is not done alone. Want to build a house or a web site or a cattle farm? You have to utilize what other people have done. What you do with that pile of lumber is limited by your creativity. But you didn't harvest the timber, transport it to the sawmill, or bring it to Home Depot for sale. Nor did you build the chain saw that cut down the tree or build the truck that hauled it to the sawmill. You didn't mine and process the iron that made the saw that cut the tree. You didn't generate the electricity that powered your electric saw.
Get the point?
ODS: We got back every dime we used to rescue the banks and auto companies, with interest.
FACT: I read just the other day that the government got back all the money and then some.
ODS: Obama Care will be good for America.
FACT: There are people, thousands of them, who did not have insurance before Obamacare and now they do. The ODS people have a problem with that, obviously.
ODS: You can keep your family doctor.
FACT: It was gonna be that way, but the Obamacare that came out of congress was deeply influenced by Big Pharma and the ODS wing nuts in congress.
ODS: Premiums will be lowered by $2500.
FACT: So by how much were they lowered?
ODS: I knew nothing about "Fast and Furious" gunrunning to Mexican drug cartels.
FACT: He may not have known! There was a story came out about all that years ago. Fast and Furious is ancient history now, but the wing nuts don't have anything new so they keep beating on the same drum. What they don't realize is that such scandals - even the manufactured ones such as this is - have a shelf life. Maximum is 18 months. After that, it's ho hum. Some of them don't last near that long. Truth is that the Arizona gun laws are so lax that it is easy to buy weapons and do whatever you want with them. Do some research on this.
There was an ODS story making the rounds back in those days about an officer - Border Patrol? - who was slain and a fast and furious gun was left at the scene. That is an obvious plant!
ODS: I knew nothing about IRS targeting conservative groups.
FACT: When the truth came out, the story was barely mentioned. The self-styled conservative groups like to make such assertions. NRA does the same thing. Keeps member contributions coming.
ODS: I knew nothing about what happened in Benghazi.
FACT: It's the propaganda machine repeating the same assertion from a different angle. See what I wrote about the movie.
ODS: If elected I will end the war in Iraq and Afghanistan within the 1st 9 months of my term.
FACT: Wars did end. Troops came home. The ODS wing nuts got a problem with that?
ODS: I will close Guantanamo within the first 6 months of my term.
FACT: Could have been done if he'd have locked up the Republicans as I suggested above. He did try. Still trying.
ODS: I will bridge the gap between black and white and between America and other countries.
FACT: There are forces out there who do not want the gap to be bridged. My guess is that he's learned a lot about those forces in the last six years.
