Obama’s Three Cover-Ups by Dick Morris (excerpts)

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By Dick Morris on February 6, 2013

Published on TheHill.com on February 5, 2013

Barack Obama won re-election by perpetrating three frauds.

1.) He sold the American people on the idea that we were in the midst of a slow recovery. Given time, he assured us, we would grow our way out of the recession and all would be fine. Nonsense. We now learn — three months after the balloting — that we were entering a recession even as the president spoke. The fourth quarter of 2012 showed a negative growth rate of 0.1 percent, the first contraction in three years. Far from standing on the verge of prosperity, we were tumbling into a new recession. . . . . . . . . . .  Not since Woodrow Wilson was narrowly reelected in 1916 on the slogan “he kept us out of war” only to declare war six months after Election Day have we been as clearly misled on the key issue of a presidential election.

2.) The administration’s efforts to characterize the Benghazi attack as the effect of a peaceful demonstration over a movie that got out of hand were not debunked until weeks after the attack. In the interim, Obama sold us on the notion that he had killed al Qaeda when he slew Osama bin Laden. The attack, on the anniversary of 9/11, was obviously a pre-meditated terrorist assault that killed our ambassador.

If Tony Blair was discredited for “sexing up” a memo about the ability of Saddam Hussein to launch a WMD attack on the United Kingdom, Obama should be held accountable for his overt lie of linking the film to the attack so as imply a cause/effect relationship.

3.) The third cover-up is only gradually becoming apparent — the impact of ObamaCare. Now, after the election is over, the IRS informs us that the minimum health insurance premium for a policy that will meet federal specifications is $20,000 for a family of five. Using Obama’s standard definition of a “hardship” as a premium that exceeds 9 percent of a person’s income, that would mean . . . . . . . . . . .  (Go to DickMorris.com for the entire article)