Famous Presidential Lies

Written by: To The Point  News

LBJ:

  • We were attacked (in the Gulf of Tonkin )

Nixon:

  • I am not a crook

GHW Bush:

  • Read my lips – No New Taxes

Clinton:

  • I did not have sex with that woman…      Miss Lewinski

GW Bush:

  • Iraq has weapons of mass destruction

Obama:

  • I will have the most transparent administration in history.
  • The stimulus will fund shovel-ready jobs.
  • I am focused like a laser on creating jobs.
  • The IRS is not targeting anyone.
  • It was a spontaneous riot about a movie.
  • I will put an end to the type of politics that “breeds division, conflict and cynicism”.
  • You didn’t build that!
  • I will restore trust in Government.
  • The Cambridge cops acted stupidly.
  • The public will have 5 days to look at every bill that lands on my desk
  • It’s not my red line – it is the world’s red line.
  • Whistle blowers will be protected in my administration.
  • We got back every dime we used to rescue the banks and auto companies, with interest.
  • I am not spying on American citizens.
  • Obama Care will be good for America .
  • You can keep your family doctor.
  • Premiums will be lowered by $2500.
  • If you like it, you can keep your current healthcare plan.
  • It’s just like shopping at Amazon.
  • I knew nothing about “Fast and Furious” gunrunning to Mexican drug cartels.
  • I knew nothing about IRS targeting conservative groups.
  • I knew nothing about what happened in Benghazi .
  • I have never known my uncle from Kenya who is in the country illegally and that was arrested and told to leave the country over 20 years ago.
  • And, I have never lived with that uncle.  He finally admitted (12-05-2013) that he DID know his uncle and that he DID live with him.

And the biggest one of all:

  • “I, Barrack Hussein Obama, pledge to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America .”

I believe we have a winner!

h/t Jim D

      
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daveburton
10 years ago

Technically, President GHW Bush’s “lie” wasn’t really a lie, it was a broken promise. (The difference is the element of premeditation.)

Also, President GW Bush didn’t lie at all:
http://www.mooregop.org/WMDs_the_rest_of_the_story.html

“If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction program.”
-- President Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998

“He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983.”
-- Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security Adviser, Feb, 18, 1998

“Iraq’s search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.”
-- Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002

“We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction.”
-- Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA), Sept. 27, 2002

“Assertions that the Bush administration strong-armed intelligence analysts in 2002 and 2003, or misled the nation in making its nuclear case for war, challenge logic. During and after Clinton’s presidency, the intelligence community repeatedly warned the White House that Iraq was one cache of fissile material and one year short of wielding a nuclear bomb. If the White House manipulated or exaggerated that intelligence before the war in order to paint a more-menacing portrait of Saddam Hussein, it’s difficult to imagine why. For five years, the official and oft-delivered alarms from the U.S. intelligence community had been menacing enough.”
-- Chicago Tribune, Nov. 30, 2005

daveburton
10 years ago
Reply to  daveburton

I wrote, “Technically, President GHW Bush’s “lie” wasn’t really a lie, it was a broken promise. (The difference is the element of premeditation.)”

Remember that the Democrats blackmailed Bush 41 into breaking that “no new taxes” promise. After Iraq invaded Kuwait, the Democrats held the Gulf War effort hostage to blackmail President Bush into breaking his tax pledge.

Then, after they succeeded, they & their press allies crucified him over it.

James murray
James murray
10 years ago

Nuclear material was found in Iraq after the war and was transported to Canada to be store and taken care of. It was kept in northern Iraq until it taken out of country. It wasn’t released to the press due the fact that the US And British needed trace it back to where it came from. No there wasn’t any WMD but there was material to was gone to be used to make a one.

Dan
Dan
10 years ago

Iraq DID have WMD’s….nerve gas. Which Hussein openly used on his own subjects.
GWBush was NOT lying.

daveburton
10 years ago
Reply to  DRenegade

They didn’t use nerve gas at Waco.

daveburton
10 years ago
Reply to  DRenegade

Wrong. Smoke inhalation is deadly, but tear gas does not “turn into cyanide gas,” and tear gas is not a WMD.

daveburton
10 years ago
Reply to  DRenegade

You’re talking about negligible trace amounts. The dose makes the poison. “Deadly” gasses are only dangerous in sufficient quantity. Breathe too much of almost anything, and it will kill you.

E.g., hydrogen chloride gas, when it comes into contact with moisture, turns into hydrochloric acid, which sounds nasty, and is — in sufficient quantity. But it’s also the acid that your stomach uses to help you digest food. I once got a good whiff of hydrogen chloride gas. It was very unpleasant, and I coughed a lot. But I suffered no lasting effects.

Carbon monoxide is produced in large quantities by any fire which burns organic material without a surplus of oxygen, which basically means any fire outside of a controlled burner.

When you burn buildings, with or without tear gas, you get lots of noxious fumes. The large amounts of paints, varnishes, glues, wiring insulation, other plastics, textiles, etc. in a modern burning building produce far more dangerous fumes than you could possibly get from the minute traces of byproducts of burning negligible amounts tear gas residue. Here’s a relevant link:
http://www.marineinsight.com/misc/marine-safety/hazards-related-to-electric-cable-insulation-in-case-of-fire/

The Clinton/Reno Waco massacre was a hideous crime, but it did not involve the use of “nerve gas,” or “cyanide gas,” or any other WMDs. When you burn buildings with people in them, people die. WMDs are not necessary. Nobody died from poison gas or any other WMD at Waco.

ulTRAX
9 years ago

This list was stolen from http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/5672/85/ without attribution.

Does the owner of this site have no shame!!!!

The intent of the list was to dishonestly sweep Bush’s lies under the table, and hype Obama’s.

Let’s pretend Bush never made 232 false claims about Iraq…

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/23/bush.iraq/