Smoke and Mirrors

There are a lot of metaphors that can be used to illustrate the rocky and less than stellar first seventy days of the Obama administration. But none less apropos than the use of smoke and mirrors as the best metaphor to describe the Obama administration.

Particularly when you look at his reversals and complete abandonment of campaign commitments on taxing anyone other than the evil rich. I listened to Glenn beck on his radio program today as he zeroed in on one of the most obvious and glaring lies told to the people by the messianic one.

Dover, N.H., on Sept. 12. "I can make a firm pledge," he said in Dover, N.H., on Sept. 12. "Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."

He repeatedly vowed "you will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime."

Well that was certainly then and this is certainly now. And you don't even have to stretch your imagination to see the obvious lie that was told by Barack Obama on September 12 in Dover (and many times afterward) and how that lie has now impacted the poor and the lower echelon of American society with his implementation of the largest tobacco tax increase in history.

The brunt and the burden of this oppressive tax will be without question shouldered not by the evil rich, but by the lower classes and the working classes and the classes that Barack Obama knows to be affected by such direct legislation and taxation. Including blacks and Hispanics who disproportionately smoke far more than the supposed rich, evil, white and otherwise.

Yet will we see the mainstream media launching investigative reports on this direct attack on the poorer American people by Americas first black president to lie to them? Will we see the White House press corps going after the president on his own read my lips moment? Hell no. He will get another pass and in the mean time, he and his buddy Tim Geithner will continue going after free market capitalism, while lying to Americans more and more each day. While they further erode the economy ad the freedoms of this nation.

There are definitely more than a few elements of smoke and mirrors being deployed by this administration. And no one is paying attention to the smoke or remembering the old adage. "where there is smoke there is fire."

And has anyone other than me noticed yet? The messianic one and his "crew" don't seem to cast shadows or project reflections in mirrors. I wonder what's up with that?