(Actually the Plain Truth did Here:Nixon/Obama
First Published in The Plain Truth in the Fall of 2009! Yes, we are ahead of our time!
There have been a lot of comparisons of Obama to Roosevelt or Reagan
or Kennedy but I am beginning to think he is more like Nixon. Yes, that
Nixon…)
The Star-Ledger, the largest newspaper in New Jersey,
endorsed President Barack Obama for re-election last October. A little more than a year later, the paper’s editorial board has drawn parallels with Obama and Richard Nixon.
AP
Specifically, the newspaper cited his
widely disputed statements on Obamacare, the National Security Agency’s
spying on foreign allies, and on dealing with Syria’s chemical weapons,
and asked, “What’s the public to believe?”
In the editorial,
which carried the headline, “Obama’s Growing Credibility Gap,” the
board wrote: “It’s more than not just an old wives’ tale that a
politician is only as good as his word. It’s mostly true.”
“(A politician) can lose an election —
even more than one, as Richard Nixon proved — and still win the voters
favor,” the editorial said of the president who left office in disgrace
after the the Watergate scandal. “But he’s in real trouble if the paying
public stops believing what he says, as Nixon also discovered. That’s
why President Obama’s real problem is not so much the botched rollout of
the Affordable Care Act, but the growing sense he doesn’t tell the
whole truth, or doesn’t know it. Either can be fatal for leader.”
The editorial referred to Obama’s
tortured explanation for having “sworn on a stack of speeches that
everyone who’s happy with his or her current health insurance can keep
it under Obamacare.”
The Star-Ledger did not directly accuse Obama of lying, but assumed he either didn’t know or decided to “fudge” the truth.
