Actions not Words

This opinion piece in the Washington Times is accurate in talking about Obama's "brazen" statements of making himself a "blank slate" that others can project their opinions onto.

In other words, by deliberate vagueness, Obama is attempting to be all things to all people. I think Tony Blankley is right in that interpretation since Obama said it himself in his autobiography, "The Audacity of Hope".

President Obama is a beguiling but confounding figure. As he has said of himself: "I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views.” (”The Audacity of Hope.”) It is indeed audacious that he should proclaim this consciously disingenuous attribute. And, as one reads his inaugural address, it is hard not to conclude that it was shrewdly crafted to perpetuate such confusion.

Run-of-the-mill politicians try to hide their duplicity. Only the most gifted of that profession brag that they intend to confound and confuse the public. Such an effort is beyond ingenious - it is brazenly ingenuous.

I also think Mr. Blankley is wrong to only call out Obama on this. The best and only way to judge someone is to compare their words and their actions and see if they match up. But we, the People, weren't allowed to do that because the Press voluntarily suppressed that information.

The Press, too in love with Obama and their own sense of power, did not ask any hard questions. The Press did not do any real investigations (did journalist ever try to find the drug dealer that sold Obama the cocaine he specifically mentioned doing in his autobiography?). How many people know that Obama has smoked pot, snorted cocaine, and only quit smoking cigarettes while running for president?

The Press did not push for traditional items to be released - like college transcripts. Obama was editor of the Harvard Law Review but wrote nothing (?!) and none of his graduate thesis have been made available to the public.

The Press actively suppressed stories about Obama's known associates (ACORN, Ayers, assorted felons, the LA Times Video debacle), voting record (or lack thereof), and unsportsman-like behavior (scrubbing opponents off ballots via registration technicalities).

The Press did not think the American public deserved to know Obama's positions on subjects such as abortion (would allow abortion up to the due date), Infanticide (opposes offering medical comfort to babies born alive after botched abortions), taxes (was never forced to defend shifting statements), and healthcare (was never pressed to explain plans) to name a few.

Thanks to an infatuated Press, we have a president who is a complete cipher when you compare his words and his actions because he has so few actions to examine. No real voting record, no legal writings, no proposed legislation, no nothing.

At first glance.

However when you look deeper to what little there is - his autobiographies, his state senate voting record, his associations with ACORN, his connections to such unsavory folk as William Ayers and Rezko, his tiny stint as a US Senator - the hypocrisy is there. His words of hope and change clash with his actions of status quo and backscratching.

When a person's words and his actions do not mesh, then that person is a hypocrite at best and a liar at worst. Time will tell. Obama's goal was always the presidency. Now that he's reached it, perhaps his words and his actions will begin to line up. I hope so for the good of the country.