How about the Truth?

I want to ask you each a question, but I want you to answer twice; first, I want you to think about the actual correct answer, then I want you to think about the answer that president Obama would give. Everyone ready? Here is the question:

Since he became president, has Barack Obama made any mistakes?

That is not a hard question, to say the least. The actual answer is surely a big YES! There is the failed stimulus, the enormous spending binge and huge deficits that have not managed to help the economy, the silence on Syria, the late change in position that prevented an agreement on cutting spending and raising taxes when the debt ceiling was increased, and, of course, passing Obamacare despite enormous opposition from the public. That list hardly scratches the surface, but you get the idea.

Now let's try to answer the same question as if we were Obama. Now the answer is a loud NO! The economy? It is all Bush's fault. Okay, if not all Bush's fault, the poor performance is due to the tsunami, the problems of the EU, and maybe sun spots. Everything that Obama did worked -- at least in his mind. The federal deficit and spending binge? Again, it is all Bush's fault. Indeed, Obama told us last week that he did not raise spending all that much. Of course, to get to that point, he had to attribute close to 1.4 trillion dollars of spending that he authorized to Bush, (but who really cares about the actual facts). The budget? Obama has struggled to cut the deficit according to him. Why remember that Obama's budgets for the last two years had huge increases in spending and that they were unanimously rejected by Congress. That's right, the Democrats voted against the Obama budget proposals; not a single senator or representative support them. How about the green energy funding? Again, according to Obama, these efforts worked. After all, what could be better than giving a campaign bundler half a billion dollars to invest in Solyndra, a company that failed within a week after the federal money ran out? How about the other $35 billion that was pumped out to these "investments" that have not worked. About half are already out of business. The rest look like they will soon follow.

How can it be that Obama keeps telling us that he did everything right? Nothing is ever his fault. Think about it. How many times have you heard that obstructionism by the GOP prevented some economic move that would have had the economy roaring along by now. This moves all seem to be tax increases for the wealthy, but just remember how many times Obama said the GOP blocked them. Obama never once explains why for the first two years of his presidency when he had overwhelming majorities in Congress he never raised those taxes. Obama had campaigned on the idea of raising taxes on the wealthy. He had two years to accomplish this. So what did he do? Well, those huge Democrat majorities in the House and Senate voted before the end of their terms to extend the tax rates unchanged for another two years. Obama and his party gave the wealthy a huge tax present with this action, but now he blames the GOP when they did not have enough members to get anything through congress at the time.

Obama just never admits doing anything wrong. Oh, he has no problem saying that the USA did something wrong before he was president. Remember the grand apology world tour of 2009. But Obama can do not wrong.

It is a terribly dangerous thing for the president of the United States to be unable to determine reality. He needs to understand when he makes mistakes. That is why he also needs to get out of the oval office.