President Oposite Redux

I wrote a blog post six years ago after I had come to the realization that the best way to understand Barack Obama was to convert everything he said to the OPPOSITE of what he says he was going to do.

He ran on a message of "hope and change" but we got exactly the opposite. Here are a few of the examples I cited from Obama's first term. Nothing much changed in the next four years either.

He was going to bring us together.  He has worked primarily at creating divisions with endless class warfare rhetoric.

We heard how the United States of America would be respected like never before.  Our enemies have gotten angrier and we have angered some of our closest allies.

We heard how we would extend health care to millions and at the same time the tens of millions who liked their health care could keep it and premiums would be reduced by $2,500 per family as a result of healthcare reform.  A 2,300 page health care reform bill was passed on a strict party line vote that will increase our deficit by $1 trillion over the next 10 years, cut Medicare by $716 billion, force religious organizations to violate the most basic tenets of their faith and turn over many medical decisions to a government bureaucracy.  Health care premiums have not decreased by $2,500=they have increased by $2,500 over the last four years.

We heard how green jobs would be created by the millions to spur a economic revival the likes of what we had not seen in decades. Solyndra and many other "green" companies were given billions of dollars by the federal government and many went bankrupt without providing anything of value in jobs or economic growth.  At the same time, a project that would have increased our energy security and created thousands of jobs, the Keystone pipeline, was rejected.

We heard how we would lift more people out of poverty with a helping hand that would benefit the entire country at the same time. More people are on food stamps, Medicaid and disability than at any time in history.

Mr. Opposite (thankfully no longer President Opposite) is at it again.

Obama was at Rice University in Houston last week for a talk and he took time to take credit for the United States now being the world's largest oil producer.

Go here to see the video clip.

Bear in mind that this is also right after he extolled the virtues of the Paris Climate Accords which would have committed the United States to massive reductions in the use of fossil fuels. Those commitments are also now responsible for Paris burning with massive riots over increased fuel taxes.

Talk about President Opposite. That statement is counter to everything he said about fossil fuels for over a decade.

When Obama was President he did everything he could to demean and diminish all fossil fuels.

He blocked the Keystone Pipeline. He refused to support any drilling on ANWR and worked to constrain and restrict drilling on any federal lands. He supported regulations to hamper oil drilling.

And now he claims credit for the shale oil revolution?

That takes a lot of chutzpah.

General Motors was also in the news last week due to its announcement that it was closing plants in Canada and the United States including the plant that makes the plugin electric Chevy Volt that also has a combustion engine backup for longer trips.

Some may also remember this President Opposite moment when Obama stated he would buy a Chevy Volt after he left office.

To date, I have not heard any reports that Obama ever purchased a Volt. If he still wants one he better hurry because GM is discontinuing production of the Volt with the closing of these plants.

That statement from GM is also confusing as they stated they are going to discontinue the plug-in electric hybrid Volt in order to focus on electric cars? If a buyer did not buy the plug-in Volt (with gasoline engine backup) what leads them to believe that they can get someone to buy a fully electric car? If that is the case, why don't they start by just deleting the gasoline engine in the Volt? GM also seems to be talking out of opposite sides of its mouth.

The media likes to take President Trump to task for what they call his "lies" and "liberties with the truth".

I can guarantee you that Donald Trump has nothing on Barack Obama in that regard. However, the media has absolutely no interest in telling the truth about President Opposite.