Almost without fail the media, and commentators generally, have praised Obama for his rhetoric - and no less than for his so-called Cairo speech earlier this month.
In what some might describe as a less than charitable assessment of what Obama has been saying, but then actually "doing" John R. MacArthur, a monthly contributor, and publisher of Harper’s Magazine, writing in The Providence Journal "Obama a Very Smooth Liar" says:
"It isn't quite fair to call Barack Obama a liar. During the campaign he carefully avoided committing to much of anything important that he might have to take back later. For now, I won’t quibble with The St. Petersburg Times’s Obamameter, which so far has the president keeping 30 promises and breaking only six.
And yet, broadly speaking, Obama has been lying on a pretty impressive scale. You just have to get past his grandiloquent rhetoric — usually empty of substance — to get a handle on it."
MacArthur goes on to provide what he describes as a short list of what he is talking about - which you can read here.
In what some might describe as a less than charitable assessment of what Obama has been saying, but then actually "doing" John R. MacArthur, a monthly contributor, and publisher of Harper’s Magazine, writing in The Providence Journal "Obama a Very Smooth Liar" says:
"It isn't quite fair to call Barack Obama a liar. During the campaign he carefully avoided committing to much of anything important that he might have to take back later. For now, I won’t quibble with The St. Petersburg Times’s Obamameter, which so far has the president keeping 30 promises and breaking only six.
And yet, broadly speaking, Obama has been lying on a pretty impressive scale. You just have to get past his grandiloquent rhetoric — usually empty of substance — to get a handle on it."
MacArthur goes on to provide what he describes as a short list of what he is talking about - which you can read here.
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