Obama and Polls: Liar-in-Chief

Actually, I am being too harsh on Obama. How can I call a man a liar when he condemns HIMSELF as a person out of touch with the Amreican people, as well as condemning others. More than 50% of the American people, in many polls, don'g ant the debt ceiling raised AT ALL. About 75% want a Balanced Budget Amendment t the United States Constitution (in almost every poll) Obama, in his Riday press conference, essentially condemned politicians who do not listen to the American people, as reflected in the polls. Ther is just no duobt Obama has condemned himself, and I have not even gottne to ObamaCare, where Obama consistently refused to pay any attention to the polls, saying: "We are here to do what is right, and not what is popular." But Obama never listens to himself. Thus, even hough Obama said in his Satruday radio address that he is willing to do the unpopular thing, in his Friday press conference he bascially warned Republicans that they had better pay attention to the POLLS on raising taxes. The man has no shame. Liar-in-Chief. And he LIED abut the polls--evil things that they are.


Hacker Boy (hacking into this disgracefu blog in the interest of truth, while refusing to make any comment about whether I have ever worked for News Corp or Rupert Murdoch): "Skip, Skip, Skip. You just never quit. Yu know that Obama did not condemn himself. The only poll Obama quoted in that press conference was the poll sayng that more than 70% of the American people favor raising taxes on the rich as a part of any balanced approach to deficit reductioin."


Skip: "Glad to se you here makig my point, Hacker Boy. Obama was DISHONEST, as usual, in the press conference. He cited polls contradicted by other polls, ang ignored every polll he did not like (such as the one on a Balanced Budget Amendment). But Obama was clearly in his role as Lira-in-Chief. And he gets away with it because no one will call him on it. Nope. Foc News (boycott Fox) will not really call him on it. They will cite contrary polls on taxes, but they will NOT tak about the dishoensty of Obama citing an alleged poll on taxes and ignoring polls which do not agree with him (includng on raising the debt ceiling itself, where Fox, by the way, does not want to make too much of a pont of it because Fox is desperate--establishment people that they generally are--to have the debt ceiling raised). "


Let us go to the "polls" on raising taxes, since Hacker Boy brought it up. Fox--although most of Fox outside of the openly "right wing" people like Hannity are unwilling to really attack Obama the way CNN is attacking Michele Bachmann--reported contradicotry polls this morning on the debt ceiling and raising taxes. Rasmussen, for example (a respected pollster, if regarded as a "conservative" pollster by the left--says that 55% of the people do NOT favor ANY increase in taxes as part of a deficit reduction deal. Gallup reported that 50% of the people said that any deficit deal should be "ostly or entirely spending cuts". IN the Gallup poll, only 32% favored a fully "balanced" approach of equal raised taxes and spending cuts. Meanwhile, Obama--sociopathic liar that he is, chooses the poll that he likes, while saying-almost in the same breath--that politicians should not govern by polls. The main is a piece of work.


Yes, I CAN explain the polls (did you really think I could not). Polls are EVIL things. They are mere ESTIMATES of public sentiment based on a SMALL sample (usually a sample of about 1,000 people being used to estimate the opnion of 250-300 MILLION people). Polls have always been an EVIL thing, becaue it is a LIE that a poll really sets forth the "opinion" of the people And it is a LIE that politicians should pay attention to polls in terms of policy. Obama is right on this, except he says the opposite thing each day, or sometimes each minute. If we are to GOVERN by polls, then we should set up a central computer to constantly direct policy according to plls. Yes, the HYPOCITES in the mainstream media now merely USE SELECTGED PLLS, like politicians do, as a PROPAGANDA DEVICE. That is truely and evil thing. And the way every poll is reported is a LIE. First contradictory polls are usually ignored. Second, the poll is reported as a definitive picture of public opinion at the time, when it is nothing but a FALLIBE estimate (as revealed by contradictory polls, and the NEGLECTED automatic, expected error in every poll--with the real possible error being almost 100% in any poll by chance alone, before you even get to smpaling errors and liars in the poll).


"Issue" polls are especailly bad. EVERYONE knows that the way you ask an "issue" queston determines the answer (a good part of the time). Yet, the LIARS in the mainstream media still report these polls as if they mean something. Nope. I do NOT believve polls which support my osition any more than I belive polls that oppose my position. And it is an EVIL thing--I DARE you to do it--to say that I sshould CHANGE my position, or that any politician should change his position, based on a poll. Take the Balanced Budget Amendment, for example. I favor a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constritution, so long as it has TEETH (spending cap as a percentage of GDP and no easy "out" for Congress). But the polls saying that more than 70% of the people favor a Balanced Budget Amendment are pretty much MEANINGLESS, other than to indicate that people like the IDEA of a balanced budget, so long as they don't have to face the HARD CHOICES neceassary to get there.


Let us go to the President. Say you ask this question: "Do you favor a balanced approach to deficit reductioni, with both spending cuts and cutting tax loopholes?" What do you think the answer is going to be, just by the way the question is asked? If you don't see, then I can't help you You are beyond help. Or say you put the question this way: "Do you faovr the rich sharing the sacrifice of the rest of us in any deficit reduction package, by giving up some of their tax breaks". Again, you KNOW how the public will answer that question No, it does not ahve to be that obvious, although it often is essentially that obvious. Say the questin is put this way: "Do you favor tax increases on the rich as being some part ("however small" being implied) of a deficit reduction plan?" Again, the answer is suggested by the question, although not quite so obviously as my first examples. Let us be honet here: There is NO way to ask this question, or almost any "issue" queton", FAIRLY. It cannot be done. That is what makes "issue" questons, and the reporting of them, especailly EVIL things. They are merely intended to accompsih one of tow things: Produce partisan propaganda or be used by LAZY media people to substitute for real reporting on all sides of an issue so that people understand the issue (their "opinion" otherwise having even less meaning, and poills on that opinion don't have hardly any meaning in the first place).


Do you favor John McCain or Barack Obama for President? Simple question, right? Yet--at the end of the 2008 Persidenttial campaign, as well as throughout the campaign--polls were all over the ma. Nope. It is ABSURD to sugget that a poll was "right" just because it got it "right" that Obama wuld win the election. Some polls havd Obama winnng by 14%. Obma won by about 7%. Those polls were WRONG--absrudly wrong. And the variance from poll to poll---establishing that polls are worthless--is IGNORED by a media who do not know how to "report" except with pollls. And what about the variance from day-to-day, week-to-week, , month-to-month, etc.? As with the weely and monthly employment numbers but even more so, polls are WRITTEN IN SAND. They blow away the next day. How can those kind of eephermal numbers mean ANYTHING? They don't. In fact, a better description is probably this: Polls are written in WATER. They disappear as soon as they are taken. At most, they give a fallible ESTIMATE of sentiment in a frozen moment of time that is gone before the poll is even published.


As a bonus, I have given you yet another lecture on the efils of polls. But that should not obscure the fact that Obama was in full "Liar-in-Chief" mode in his Friday press conference. You can't say opposite things in the same press conference and your next day radio addreess and not have the description fit you. Obama does it all of the time. He picks out SELECTED polls, and then says that politicians should pay no attention to polls. Well, actuallly he has said that BEFORE, AND AFTER he says that a leader like himself should pay not attention to polls.


The man is a piece of work. Liar-in-Chief.


By the way, what do you think would be the result of the poll that Obama cited if people were told the TRUTH about what Obama wants in a deficit reduction deal (and which BETRAYNG REPUBLICANS may well give him): The truth that any tax increases in any deficit reduction deal will be REAL, even if "springing" into existence in the future, like ObamaCare--while any spending "cuts" will NOT BE REAL.? Ask THAT question, and see what answer you get!!!


P.S. No proofreading or spell checking (bad eyesight).