Amateur Liars Should Keep Quiet

Obama was lying the first time I heard him. He hasn’t stopped ever since. But to be a decently accomplished liar, one needs to remember previous statements that are contradictory. The ObamaCare issue has prompted a tsunami of lies coming out of the Left in general and Obama specifically. Blogger justoneminute has linked two of Obama’s statements from the New York Times to demonstrate the falseness:

This is now:

"On Saturday, he [Obama] added a personal story of his own, citing the death of his grandmother to push back against unsubstantiated claims that he wants to establish government “death panels” that would deny care to elderly patients."

President:
“I just lost my grandmother last year. I know what it’s like to watch somebody you love who’s aging deteriorate, and have to struggle with that,” Mr. Obama said. “So the notion that somehow I ran for public office, or members of Congress are in this so they can go around pulling the plug on grandma? I mean, when you start making arguments like that, that’s simply dishonest.”

That was then [waaay back in April]:

THE PRESIDENT: So that’s where I think you just get into some very difficult moral issues. But that’s also a huge driver of cost, right?
I mean, the chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80 percent of the total health care bill out here.

LEONHARDT: So how do you — how do we deal with it?

THE PRESIDENT: Well, I think that there is going to have to be a conversation that is guided by doctors, scientists, ethicists. And then there is going to have to be a very difficult democratic conversation that takes place. It is very difficult to imagine the country making those decisions just through the normal political channels. And that’s part of why you have to have some independent group that can give you guidance. It’s not determinative, but I think has to be able to give you some guidance. And that’s part of what I suspect you’ll see emerging out of the various health care conversations that are taking place on the Hill right now.

As justoneminute points out, if you listened to Obama the first time and remembered it, well, you are “simply dishonest”:

"It's Times-world - Obama can say whatever he wants and later say whatever else he wants, then denounce the people still grappling with the previous version.

Imagine my surprise."

Obama's undoing just might be his inability to stop talking coupled with his inability to lie with competence.