The task of following the lies is daunting so I thought I'd just jot down every lie or flip flop that only the President made since he began to run for office

2009 the year of the lie - 2010 the year of reckoning

By Rev. Michael Bresciani
Sunday, January 3, 2010

Those who think truth is a relative mix of situation ethics, existentialist mind wresting and just doing what feels good, usually don’t bother with questions about what is true.

Those who seek only the truth stand in shock when they discover how few people care about the truth altogether. This is what we call a sad truth.

Trying to keep up on current events is hard enough but trying to keep up with the latest fabulous falsehoods, fickle phantasms, feints, fibs, fabrications and flip flops of the far left, Dem’s and liberals who now follow the President in metered step is completely exhausting.

The task of following the lies is daunting so I thought I’d just jot down every lie or flip flop that only the President made since he began to run for office. I couldn’t keep up with that either. To my surprise I found a few websites that were already engaged in cataloging those lies. One site has a list of over 150 specific lies the President has told in slightly less than two years.

Unfortunately one or two little websites on the backwaters of that vast informational ocean we call the internet doesn’t draw very much attention from anyone. With only one TV news agency that still endeavors to tell the truth (Fox) and the other half dozen major outlets doing most of their reporting from the hip pocket of the President most of America it could be said, is walking in the dark.

Even more disturbing is the fact that many of them prefer to take the walk down liar’s lane rather than cutting through the barrage of rhetoric, exaggeration, hyperbole, deviance and political baloney. Who wants to cut through a thick jungle if there’s a nice clean paved road to the same destination? The trouble with that easier PC road is that it doesn’t always lead to the place a person or a nation wants to be.

Americans who are dedicated to the truth find themselves frantically swimming back to the lighthouse each time another politician, educator, news anchor or mindless minion wrecks yet another ship in this grand old fleet called the United States of America.

If we named our years like the Chinese then 2009 might be called ‘the year of the lie.’ Those sick of witnessing national shipwrecks have already begun to name 2010 the ‘year of reckoning.’

Perhaps it is what caused actor Ben Stein to say recently that he thought President Obama is unconsciously wrecking America all the while he believes he’s doing what is good for us all. Perhaps it is the same unconscious drive that brought over a million people to the inauguration of the President in Washington DC, even though not one of them was actually formally invited.

The only way to gather a million people anywhere is to give something away. There is never an empty seat in the audience of the Price is Right or the nightly broadcast of Wheel of Fortune or the venues where Oprah gave away cars to some of those in the audience. The promise made on the day of the Obama inauguration was that ‘change’ was about to begin. In order to give change a chance, something had to be given away, to the astonishment of those now carefully following Obama’s antics, appointments and approbations it seems he is prepared to give the whole country away.

It is said that people who don’t want to face the apparent truth simply deny what they see. That may work fine for the simple follower but leaders are straddled with the task of creating an alternate truth for the remaining folks who still want the real answer and for the record itself. Here is where a leader creates a truth to substitute for real events in real time. Sounds like double speak, so let’s see if we can find one prime example.

After the attempt to blow up a Detroit bound flight on Christmas Eve the suspected terrorist was taken to hospital and security agencies scrambled to piece together what went wrong. With access to the reports of every major intelligence agency, several days on the beaches of Hawaii to collect his thoughts and an entire nation waiting in the wings for a chance to hear the assessment of the events and what could be known of the suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, here’s what we got. Mr. Obama labeled him as an “isolated extremistâ€