I may have missed it, but I'm a little shocked that no one far as I've noticed, either on the right or left, has pointed out the obvious: Obama lied about his health care act because he believed media bias would allow him to get away with it, just as it has allowed him to get away with so much other garbage spewing ever since his days as a community organizer - and that this deception was always part of the strategy. Indeed, as I've said before, I believe the central idea or given guiding Obama's politics is his faith in the media and the liberal elite to do and say whatever the hell he wants them to do or say - I think this corruption is key to everything he does. Which is why I say Obama isn't the real problem here - you're going to get bad and incompetent leaders in a democracy as a matter of course - no, the real problem here is that the fail safe, the backstop to this inevitable bad leadership has to be the media, the press fully and with objective credibility exercising their first amendment rights and holding the powers that be accountable. That's the whole point of the first amendment: free speech mitigates the abuse of power. Under Obama, the media and press have essentially abandoned their first amendment rights and that necessarily leads to corruption because it enables, it encourages bad ideas, bad governance, bad behavior. Obama didn't wake up one morning and magically decide to lie in order to push an agenda forward - he learned to do this a long time ago because no doubt fairly early on in his political rise he figured out he could get the media and the liberal elite to do whatever the hell he wanted them to do - which is why I've always maintained that Obama is less skilled politician, more superb con man - story I've often told is how after watching his acclaimed speech at the 2004 convention first thing I did was turn to friends and say 'that is the best liar I have ever heard'. If you're only figuring out now that the real truth about the man is the excellence of the lies he tells, then you really haven't been paying attention.
