The Great Orator Lies Through His Teleprompter

Maybe Wilson was right when he yelled "YOU LIE" at the President.  Here are some excerpts from the State of the Union:

Our most urgent task upon taking office was to shore up the same banks that helped cause this crisis. It was not easy to do. And if there’s one thing that has unified Democrats and Republicans, it’s that we all hated the bank bailout. I hated it. You hated it. It was about as popular as a root canal.

Then why, oh great one, were you all for it while you were a Senator?  It wasn't because it was "necessary" to save the Union, it was because it was necessary to grab power from the public sector.

And we haven’t raised income taxes by a single dime on a single person. Not a single dime.

Bovine excrement.  They weren't raised effective 2009 or 2010 - they go into effect for 2011.

Now here's one regarding "saving" America from another Depression:

The plan that has made all of this possible, from the tax cuts to the jobs, is the Recovery Act. That’s right – the Recovery Act, also known as the Stimulus Bill. Economists on the left and the right say that this bill has helped saved jobs and avert disaster.

Really?  He makes it sound like all economists agree with that statement.  To be honest we will not know until years after the fact.  If it turns out to have worked anything like FDR's New Deal, then it will likely be shown that it actually worsened the recession.

Here's one that gets most uninformed Democrats excited:

At the beginning of the last decade, America had a budget surplus of over $200 billion.

We hear it all the time that Clinton had a $236 Billion surplus when he left office, and some even think that "surplus" means zero debt.  That's a lie in itself.  The facts support that there was NEVER a surplus under the Clinton Administration.  All you have to do to find this is check out the U.S. Treasury website.

Starting in 2011, we are prepared to freeze government spending for three years. Spending related to our national security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security will not be affected. But all other discretionary government programs will. Like any cash-strapped family, we will work within a budget to invest in what we need and sacrifice what we don’t. And if I have to enforce this discipline by veto, I will.

Like that will really happen... especially with the socialized healthcare he is promoting.  After all, he said that he would ban all earmarks... and then he signed the spendulus.

...we’ve excluded lobbyists from policy-making jobs or seats on federal boards and commissions.

Again.... YOU LIE!   As early as May 2009, 30 out of his 267 administration officials were lobbyists including William Corr (Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, now Health and Human Services), Chuck Hurley (Mothers Against Drunk Driving, now National Highway Transportation Safety Board), William Lynn (Raytheon, now Deputy Secretary of Defense), and Mark Patterson (Goldman Sachs, now Treasury chief of staff).

Of course, most of the rest of his address was nothing more than filler designed so that most people would hear everything they wanted to hear.