The socialist policies of Barack Obama are as clear as anything could be and yet the President thinks the American people are stupid enough to believe his claims to be just another humble, non-partisan, centrist.Never mind his radical pro-abortion and pro-homosexual policies. Disregard his decadent and loony appointments. Forget the government takeover of industries and the health care system. Shrug off the President's apology tours and his indifference to America's military security. And pay no attention whatever to his raising taxes on lower-income Americans, his monstrously inept $862 billion stimulus, his bullying and secretive ways, and his administration's support of ACORN and the New Black Panthers.
No, President Obama thinks that, with the mainstream media behind him, he can play these unprecedented leftist games and still spin his rep as a neutral, fair-minded Mr. Fix-It.
Of course, it's a ridiculous attempt. He's gone way too far. Though the MSM certainly has his back, through constant exposure, a grating arrogance, a dramatic disdain for facts, and one grand scheme after another for reconstructing America along the lines of Saul Alinsky and Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama has overexposed his front.
And that's why his approval rating has tanked.
But, desperate though he is to change public perception, Barack Obama is a more committed ideologue than any we have ever had occupy the Oval Office. He's not going to change policies. He won't even slow down. He will just keep trying to lie his way back into America's good graces.
Here's just one of the latest examples of Obama's nervy "deconstruction."
On March 30th, the President told a fellow traveler (Matt Lauer) that the health care reform bill had “a lot of ideas in terms of the exchange, just being able to pool and improve the purchasing power of individuals in the insurance market, that originated from the Heritage Foundation.”
That was news indeed to Heritage Center for Health Policy Studies director Robert Moffit. In fact, here's his response printed in today's Washington Post:
"The Obama health-care law “builds” on the Heritage health reform model only in the sense that, say, a double-quarter-pounder with cheese “builds” on the idea of a garden salad. Both have lettuce and tomato and may be called food, but the similarities end there." (Read the whole op/ed here.)
But Conn Carroll reminds us in this Morning Bell entry that...
This is not the first time the Obama administration has falsely claimed Heritage Foundation support for its policies. During the 2008 campaign, then-candidate Obama ran a multimillion-dollar television ad falsely claiming that we supported his tax plan. We did not. Then just last month, an Obama Treasury official falsely suggested to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that we supported the administration’s financial reform plan. We do not.
We understand that the President is frustrated by the fact that the American people soundly reject his push to turn our country into a European social welfare state. But he only undermines his own credibility when he tries to use our good conservative name as cover to support his wildly unpopular policy positions.
