Our President From Another Planet

American Thinker

I'll confess, I didn't watch Barack Obama's address to the nation on Tuesday night.

Not that I wasn't interested, but I always prefer to read the transcript of a speech, rather than risk being distracted by the speaker's histrionics. So that's exactly what I did, at least the version provided to the Washington Post by the White House.

My preference for reading the transcript, especially when the speech was delivered by Barack Obama, is that unless each sentence, each phrase, occasionally each word is examined, it leaves Obama what is graciously referred to as "wiggle room", allowing him to say, with a straight face, "I never said that" in the same way he said "I didn't draw a red line."

After getting past his "My fellow Americans..." preamble, he claims "we know the Assad regime was responsible" without referring to any evidence that he may or may not possess. He states:

"When dictators commit atrocities, they depend upon the world to look the other way until those horrifying pictures fade from memory."

Keep in mind other contentions that have been made by this president without any evidence to support them, such as "It won't add one dime to the deficit" and the ever popular "If you like your doctor, you can keep him".

If any president in our history has been more dependent on hoping that atrocities "fade from memory", it is this one. Scandals such as Fast and Furious and Benghazi, the NSA's massive collection of the communications of Americans and the purposeful intimidation of conservative citizens by the Internal Revenue Service are all handled by this administration in the same way -- stonewall, delay, drag feet and wait for something else to distract the gullible public and the Congress. Hey, have you seen my new puppy?

Does this behavior, then, make Obama a dictator?

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