The Audacity Of Deceit Continues

Unbelievable! That's the only way I can describe the State of the Union Address last week, but first I have to admit that I didn't watch the live broadcast. I read the transcript instead because I never watch these speeches, even when they're given by presidents I voted for. They're far too long and always interrupted by members of Congress standing up and clapping - up and down, up and down - yawn.

It was much easier to read President Obama's speech than to watch him at the podium with Vice President Biden and Speaker Nancy Pelosi nodding like bobbleheads and grinning at his every word. I did get to see portions of the broadcast and came away with a feeling of wonderment: Is he serious? Does the president think we're all as dumb as those members of Congress that stood to applaud his barefaced untruths?

Who wrote his speech? Was it at all possible that Mr. Obama didn't have time to review all the inaccuracies in the State of the Union message? If he did, then I have a hard time agreeing with those who believe we now have the smartest president ever in office. I'll leave it to others to dissect point by point what was wrong with the 68-minute speech and instead cover the three issues that stood out for their blatant evidence of deceit or something very close to it.

Supreme Insult

"Last week, the Supreme Court reversed a century of law to open the floodgates for special interests - including foreign corporations - to spend without limit in our elections. Well, I don't think American elections should be bankrolled by America's most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities. They should be decided by the American people, and that's why I'm urging Democrats and Republicans to pass a bill that helps to right this wrong."

The Supreme Court justices were sitting right in front of Mr. Obama when he uttered those words and Justice Alito could not help but mouth the words, "That's not true."

The Democrat peons in Congress stood and clapped heartily at this stupefying statement and the mainstream media sycophants dubbed it "Alito's Joe Wilson moment," referring to the Republican congressman's shout out of "You Lie" to Mr. Obama last year. If Justice Alito had actually said those words, he would have been dead on because Mr. Obama either deliberately lied or did not bother to read the decision he decided to blast.

Strange, I was under the impression that Obama was a senior lecturer in constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School.

The Supreme Court did not reverse a century-old law. It was addressing the constitutionality of the McCain/Feingold campaign-finance law and found it unconstitutional and against the First Amendment. The laws forbidding international donations to U.S. political campaigns are still intact.

Too bad we can't check how well Mr. Obama did in his law courses because last July he signed executive order 13489 that gives him the right to review and possibly reject all requests for the records of past and incumbent presidents. Now why was that such a priority to him?

Stimulus Jobs

"Because of the steps we took, there are about two million Americans working right now who would otherwise be unemployed. 200,000 work in construction and clean energy. 300,000 are teachers and other education workers. Tens of thousands are cops, firefighters, correctional officers, and first responders. And we are on track to add another one and a half million jobs to this total by the end of the year.

"The plan that has made all of this possible, from the tax cuts to the jobs, is the Recovery Act. That's right - the Recovery Act, also known as the Stimulus Bill. Economists on the left and the right say that this bill has helped saved jobs and avert disaster."

Even the mainstream media has reported that the stimulus plan is a bust. Unemployment is still at 10% and 3.1 million people have lost their jobs this year since the $787 billion stimulus package, so where are these jobs that were supposed to be created? It's disingenuous for him to say that 2 million people are still employed as proof that his plan worked. Raise your hand if you saw any of that money that was delivered to phony addresses and nonexistent zip codes. Now Congress is debating another stimulus? Stop the world: I want to get off!

Lobbyists

"That's what I came to Washington to do. That's why - for the first time in history - my Administration posts our White House visitors online. And that's why we've excluded lobbyists from policy-making jobs or seats on federal boards and commissions.

"But we can't stop there. It's time to require lobbyists to disclose each contact they make on behalf of a client with my Administration or Congress. And it's time to put strict limits on the contributions that lobbyists give to candidates for federal office."

These words are just hilarious, as if we haven't noticed the multitude of former lobbyists that he's hired for his administration. In January 2009, he signed an executive order barring lobbyists who became members of the administration from working on matters they lobbied for in the previous 2 years. But he waived the rule for Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk, and also allows Jocelyn Frye and Cecilia Munoz to work on issues for which they lobbied. So basically, Mr. Obama's policy is to ban lobbying by hiring lobbyists to work for him.

During the 2008 campaign, Brad O'Leary's book, "The Audacity of Deceit," was printed and I received a copy from his publisher but didn't read it at the time. I've since had a chance to do so and see in it the blueprint for the Obama presidency that should have been a clear warning to voters.

In his book, Mr. O'Leary warned: "President Obama, controlled by the far Left wing of the Democrat Party, with a veto-proof Congress and an activist judiciary, could reduce the value of the dollar, ... reduce our exports ... and implement tax and regulatory policies that would strangle our economy."

He asked, "Will you allow Obama's soaring rhetoric to turn off your mind, stifle your dissent and cause you to accept extreme, misguided remedies to our nation's challenges?"

We didn't listen in 2008 but come November we have an opportunity to let the president know that our eyes are wide open now.

Alicia Colon lives in New York City and can be reached at aliciav.colon@gmail.com and at www.aliciacolon.com