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Honesty is not only the best policy — it is the only policy with which we can reliably achieve lasting success.

In the Depression, the government delivered us straight facts. It's a jolt today to hear Obama say to Ford Motor Company, "I gave billions to Chrysler and General Motors, and that will help Ford greatly."

Oh yeah, Barack?!

Our president today dissimulates truths. Often Obama pronouncements are a slap in the face to listeners who discover that his first words are falsehoods, and ergo, everything afterwards is embroidery.

In fiscal matters, Obama juggles figures with one hand behind his back. He tells us "things are looking up!" Obama uses our money to buy politically helpful recipients. Despite efforts at camouflage, the unemployment situation reveals itself as ever worse.

Shockingly, Americans attempting to vote have recently been menaced in the very act that symbolizes our national character. In future elections, will Obama tolerate such intolerables?

An Obama trick is to take money from a first party and give it to a second, and then proclaim that the second party has miraculously been "revived" by him.

Obama has no business experience, although his main job is to get American business out of its slump. What do we expect — should we blithely ask a hospital visitor to step inside the operating room and perform an appendectomy?

Health care

Majority opinion seems to take a back seat nowadays. Obama's health care plan was installed over strong popular opposition. Now, the California decision regarding the definition of marriage — after being voted on by 7 million people — has been overruled by a single judge. O, Democracy! Fair is thy name.

A story

A friend sent the following story:

Charley, a new "retiree-greeter" at Wal-Mart, just couldn't seem to get to work on time.

Every day he was five or 10 minutes late. But he was a good worker, really tidy, clean-shaven, sharp minded and a real credit to the company who obviously demonstrates their "older person-friendly" policies.

One day the boss called him into the office for a talk.

"Charley, I have to tell you, I like your work ethic, you do a bang up job, but your being late so often is quite bothersome."

"Yes, I know boss. I am working on it."

"You're a team player — that's what I like to hear. It's odd though — your coming in late.

I know you're retired from the Armed Forces. What did they say if you came in late there?"

"They said, 'Good morning, Admiral, can I get you coffee, sir?'"