...this is what you get, when candidates for the President of the United States go on late night talk shows, SNL, and can say anything they want in a debate without being questioned by the moderator...
Why Obama Won't Embrace the Declaration of Independence BY Jeffrey H. Anderson
"... In a 29-page overview of the respect (or lack thereof) for rights shown in America and throughout American history, the administration couldn’t find space for a single meaningful reference to the document that lays out and informs our fundamental conceptions of rights more than any other: the Declaration of Independence. This omission offers further compelling evidence to support an increasingly obvious truth: President Obama doesn’t take seriously the ideals of the American revolutionary period. Or, to state it more exactly, he takes very seriously the project of overcoming or supplanting those ideals...
...It offers self-aggrandizing statements — “Thirty years ago, the idea of having an African-American president would not have seemed possible; today it is our reality” (Did the thought of a black President really seem impossible in 1980?) — false and peculiar statements — “Our recent health care reform bill also lowers costs and offers greater choices for women, and ends insurance company discrimination against them” — and utterly confused statements: “The recession in the United States was fueled largely by a housing crisis, which coincided with some discriminatory lending practices.”
Really, the housing crisis 'coincided' with discriminatory lending practices? More realistically: The Congress of the United States bullied banks into lending money to people who could not afford to pay it back. This was HUGE in changing the face of mortgage lending in America. It coincided with discriminatory lending practices, which were ALREADY illegal in America, and were never in numbers great enough to "fuel" a recession in the United States. The word COINCIDED was chosen specifically. Don't we all know now that the "fix" to discriminatory lending practices was what led to "housing crisis"? It doesn't matter. You tell a lie enough, it becomes the truth...
...just ask BP.
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