hy·poc·ri·sy/noun
- the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform.
synonyms: dissimulation, false virtue, posturing, affectation, speciousness, empty talk, insincerity, falseness, deceit, dishonesty, mendacity, pretense, duplicity, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, pietism, piousness, phoniness, fraud
Some from Liberal left may be upset with the example I have chosen.
But please, please, please watch the video below as President Obama explains, on multiple occasions, why an executive order like DACA is unconstitutional.
President Obama was a law professor that taught Constitutional Law. He explains, very eloquently and with perfect accuracy, what the appropriate role is for a President, and what the appropriate role is for Congress in writing new laws. The President is NOT ALLOWED to write new laws.
And then President Obama went and passed DACA using an Executive Order, which he knew was unconstitutional. He said so himself. You saw him say it in the video above.
The situation has gotten worse, now that Obama has re-inserted himself on the scene and is claiming it is cruel for Trump to have sent DACA to be re-worked in the Congress into a law using proper Constitutional process.
Obama said himself that DACA was a temporary measure that would have to be redone later. Obama said all that DACA could achieve was Deferred Action, until a new law was written using the correct constitutional process.
Let's practice using the synonyms we reviewed earlier, to summarize President Obama's position with respect to his unconstitutional DACA executive order.
Obama is a hypocrite.
Obama is insincere.
Obama is deceitful.
Obama is dishonest.
Obama is sanctimoniousness.
Obama is a phony.
Obama is a fraud.
All those points are provably true. But that is not really the bad news.
The really bad news is:
More than 50% of the American public were so gullible that they were conned by Obama's BS.
They actually thought they could keep their doctor, because Obama told them it was so (and he kept repeating that lie long after he knew he wasn't telling the truth)
Please upvote and resteem if you found this hypocrisy to be disgusting and nauseating (or for any other reason that you feel warrants an upvote or a resteem).
STEEM On!!
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I feel like the bad news is , we put so much trust into our leaders and believe everything they say, I guess we are very gullible.. we are promised one thing , then another thing happens . We are told this is what will happen now and then change , but nothing really happens . False promises , false everything ..
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Perhaps it shows the innate goodness and decency of the American public to expect their leaders wouldn't tell bald faced lies.
Or too many are too gullible is the other option.
STEEM On!!
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We are so blinded by currppt leaders , it's sad..
Full Steam ahead !
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I think the biggest thing about obama was that he knew what he was doing was illegal and unconstituional. He just didn't care. He knew that as a democrat and being recognized as a black (even though he was also half white genetically), he could get away with doing things that a white republican guy would be pilloried for. Hell, just look at how the media and the liberal howlers are going after President Trump for simply terminating obama's illegal order.
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Affirmative action by the liberal MSM. Obama was treated with kid gloves. His treatment from the press was much more deferential than MSM showed to either Bush or Trump.
MSM showed their true colors with the lying scandals of Williams and Rather
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2015/02/06/tom-brokaw-dan-rather-split-on-brian-williams-in-wake-lying-scandal.html
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More than 50% falling for that BS is still an improvment to 100 years ago. Seeing with all the tools they have at their disposal as well to influence people...
Those are a lot of good synonyms for a hypocrite xD
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Agreed that the tools available today allow a tech savvy politician to manipulate much of the voting public.
So there is space in the market for an app that can detect and call out political BS.
And it isn't PolitiFacts, which is as far left leaning in its opinions as any media outlet
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Gonna need some app with a built in lie detector for that to work xD
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I am not so much familiar with the US law system. This opend my eyes a bit. And if i understand correctly Trump is now douing what the justice system of the US should have done 5 years ago.
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The justice system can only act on cases that are brought to it. Uniformly agreed that if someone had brought a suit against DACA it would have been declared unconstitutional. But no one ever brought a suit, so no court case ever held. So the justice system could not act.
Trump is undoubtedly doing the right thing. By making the lawmakers in Congress write a law that addresses immigration. That is their role.
Congress has been falling down on their job for more than 8 years. They need a kick in the pants
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Ah i see, tnx for clarifying
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To be fair: he's just an average politician who goes against his principles when it's convenient. Look at same-sex marriage...
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Positions can change over time. People do evolve. I'm OK with evolving opinions. It might mean you are alive and thinking. Maybe.
BUT, I have no tolerance with people who tel outright bald-face lies, when they KNOW they are lying.
Obama did that regularly with the American people.
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what does that tell us about the MainStreamNewsMedia and the Republicans (in name only)?
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RINOs are getting tiresome. Unfortunately the districts have been so redrawn and redistricted, that even RINOs are hard to displace. It is possible. But it takes a great challenger and a lot of money.
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I'm not sure if it's possible except in VERY rare cases.
Like Ted Cruz.
I've about given up.
If you read about monkeysphere, dunbar's number, behavioral sinks, rat utopia, and the Iron Law of Bureaucracy you'll understand why. I'm not being pessimistic...just facing facts.
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Awesome post @davebrewer
Upvoted and resteemed
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That's the irony of the situation !!
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Another good one @davebrewer. Our government is in sad sad shape!! There is soo much BS goin on I got tired of even hearing about it. I had to step away from it for a long time. Keep up the good work. I enjoy checking out your posts.
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i kand of making a point here :)
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obama is a good leader.
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Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. If you view Obama as a good leader, I suspect you probably also like Chavez, Maduro, and that ilk.
In my opinion, Obama was a lying sack of excrement. He regularly lied to the American people. I don't believe in the Machurian candidate conspiracy, but for folks that do, there is little that Obama could have done that he didn't that would have been more harmful to the Republic than what Obama did.
By the end of his 8 year term we had the worst race relations we have had in 50+ years, and the worst economy if you measure by the number of people on Foodstamps.
Obama's legacy is he put more African Americans (and all other Americans) on to FoodStamps than any president before him.
Not much of a leader in my opinion.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/topoftheticket/la-na-tt-venezuela-democracy-20170801-story.html
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oblahblah also thought the Constitution interfered with "doing good"
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obama is quoted as saying that the US constitution is a "charter of negative liberties" - because it restricts the government. In other words, obama only cared about power given to the government monster, not the people! Disgusting that this turd was ever elected. But we all know why he was.
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"nagative liberties" is just a another made socialist word to sucker the gullible ;>
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The frightening thing to me is that you can see the true mindset of liberals by this comment by obama. The liberals view restraints upon the government as bad. I guess they would be happiest if the citizenry was in chains and had every move controlled by the government. Liberalism is is a mental disorder, and most of them are also communists. Scary combination.
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I distill and clarify the Left/Right divide as this;
ignore anything in the definition OTHER THAN the amount of government control required by the ideology.
The more statist, the farther to the left
the more libertarian or individualist, the farther to the right
Communism on the far left. pure anarchy on the far Right
lliberals/leftists worship State over all, including truth
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So glad he's not in office..
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It's not like the newest bozo is any better on that matter...
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Doesn't matter .... he's not a politician.. the "bozo" got elected because people are sick of politicians.. he doesn't claim to be a expert on a subject then do the exact opposite
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If you look at his twitter history, you'll know it's not true: he firmly opposed interventionism
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You should write Obama's legacy !
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Realistically which politician turned president ended up being sincere and lived up to their convictions. Ideas are great on paper. Applying them practically is an entirely different thing. @alanjan
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Thanks for reading and commenting. Convictions may be hard to live up to. We all face challenges.
I have no tolerance, any time, any place, any reason, for liars. If you know you are telling a bald-faced lie, better to shut the hell up than tell your lie.
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Excellent article @davebrewster.
I am surprised you didnt mention bombing other countries in 2016 when mentioning how Obama is so concerned about foreigners.
As for Obamacare, I will go you one further....Obama said it wasnt a tax yet the only reason it passed......was because it was a tax.
Thank you for posting this.
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