Obama's Politics of Deception: Concealed Views and Broken Promises from Obamacare to the Iran Deal Should Make Voters Reject Obama-backed Democrats
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The Gist
The author says Obama has always won support by hiding his real views behind soothing words and making promises that turned out to be false, on healthcare and on Iran. He argues Obama is doing it again by claiming his Iran deal worked and the current war is lost. The author concludes that voters should distrust Obama and the Democrats he backs, and should vote them out.
Conclusion
Obama systematically deceives the public, and voters should not trust his current claims about Iran or support the Democratic candidates he endorses; the party should be routed in the upcoming midterm.
Premises
- Obama has described himself as a 'blank screen' onto which people project their views, and he has deliberately concealed his unpopular views under likeable rhetoric.
- His signature domestic policy, Obamacare, was sold with specific promises (premiums down $2,500, you can keep your provider) that proved false; PolitiFact documented 37 unqualified instances of the provider promise, which undercuts his later 'if it hasn't changed' defense.
- The Iran deal was sold through deception: Obama personally assured Alan Dershowitz that Iran would not develop a nuclear weapon, and that promise is being broken. He also admitted in 2015 that breakout time would shrink to nearly zero after year 13-15.
- Obama's current claims that the deal kept Iran from the bomb and that the war against Iran is unnecessary and lost are contradicted by facts, such as Iran's depleted military and a Wall Street Journal report that more oil is passing through the Strait of Hormuz than before the war.
- Obama has a pattern of evading moral responsibility, as with his early mentors (Ayers, Farrakhan, Wright), where he deflected with a lecture on racism instead of honest reckoning.
- Obama still dominates the Democratic Party, which the author says has been captured by extremists, so even moderate-sounding Democrats will not restrain it if they win power.
Assumptions
- Obama's failed promises and false statements were knowing lies rather than errors, optimism, or changed circumstances.
- Obama's 'blank screen' remark is an admission of deliberate concealment rather than a comment on how voters perceive him.
- Obama's motive for his current claims is to protect his reputation, and he wants the worst outcome in Iran to be true.
- Obama's past dishonesty is a reliable guide to the credibility of the candidates he endorses and of the Democratic Party as a whole.
- The Iran deal's expiration and Iran's alleged violations show the deal failed, and the current military situation shows Iran is losing.
- Democratic centrists are powerless or complicit, and only an electoral rout will change that.