Jack Cashill > Quotes

“For Obama, ignorance was never an excuse. Ignorance was a strategy.”
― Jack Cashill, You Lie!: The Evasions, Omissions, Fabrications, Frauds, and Outright Falsehoods of Barack Obama – An Investigative Analysis from Memoir to Obamacare

“Although leftists are not uniquely guilty of lying, they are uniquely guilty of lying as a conscious strategy.”
― Jack Cashill, You Lie!: The Evasions, Omissions, Fabrications, Frauds, and Outright Falsehoods of Barack Obama – An Investigative Analysis from Memoir to Obamacare

“Like pornography, postmodernism is hard to define but easy to spot.”
― Jack Cashill, You Lie!: The Evasions, Omissions, Fabrications, Frauds, and Outright Falsehoods of Barack Obama – An Investigative Analysis from Memoir to Obamacare

“Even a supportive Obama biographer like David Remnick called Dreams a “mixture of verifiable fact, recollection, re-creation, invention, and artful shaping.”
― Jack Cashill, You Lie!: The Evasions, Omissions, Fabrications, Frauds, and Outright Falsehoods of Barack Obama – An Investigative Analysis from Memoir to Obamacare

“If this new breed of activist urged Obama to hammer away at the Constitution, old-school civil libertarians lamented its demolition. The longtime Village Voice columnist Nat Hentoff had fought many a battle for civil liberties and had scars enough to speak his mind. “Apparently he doesn’t give one damn about the separation of powers.” said Hentoff of Obama after the president’s “pen and phone” remarks. “Never before in our history has a president done these things.”
― Jack Cashill, You Lie!: The Evasions, Omissions, Fabrications, Frauds, and Outright Falsehoods of Barack Obama – An Investigative Analysis from Memoir to Obamacare

“From Obama’s perspective, truth was what he said it was. The reason he despised Fox News, the nation’s highest-rated cable news channel, was that Fox alone among the news networks evaluated the validity of the White House narrative. In fact, on more than a few occasions, Benghazi included, Fox’s reporting showed the administration’s account of events to be pure hogwash. That rankled, and a wounded Obama struck back.”
― Jack Cashill, You Lie!: The Evasions, Omissions, Fabrications, Frauds, and Outright Falsehoods of Barack Obama – An Investigative Analysis from Memoir to Obamacare

“Edgar Allan Poe called it “the imp of the perverse,” that willful, self-destructive voice within that impels us to do things or say things that cause our undoing.”
― Jack Cashill, You Lie!: The Evasions, Omissions, Fabrications, Frauds, and Outright Falsehoods of Barack Obama – An Investigative Analysis from Memoir to Obamacare

“as a planned result of the separation of powers, the president must persuade Congress of the rightness of his choices, and that is the way it should be.”
― Jack Cashill, You Lie!: The Evasions, Omissions, Fabrications, Frauds, and Outright Falsehoods of Barack Obama – An Investigative Analysis from Memoir to Obamacare

“Obama is the classic turtle on a fence post. The faithful may believe he climbed up that post, but Obama knows otherwise”
― Jack Cashill, You Lie!: The Evasions, Omissions, Fabrications, Frauds, and Outright Falsehoods of Barack Obama – An Investigative Analysis from Memoir to Obamacare

“As has been seen, Obama clearly lied about transparency. As shall be seen, he lied just as spectacularly about the rule of law.”
― Jack Cashill, You Lie!: The Evasions, Omissions, Fabrications, Frauds, and Outright Falsehoods of Barack Obama – An Investigative Analysis from Memoir to Obamacare

“In fact, Bush’s tax cuts increased the amount of revenue collected by more than 30 percent from his first year as president to his last, just as Reagan’s and Kennedy’s tax cuts increased federal revenue after they were passed. As economist Thomas Sowell argued, “Obama knew then that tax rates and tax revenues do not automatically move in the same direction. In other words, he is lying when he talks as if tax rates and tax revenues move together.”
― Jack Cashill, You Lie!: The Evasions, Omissions, Fabrications, Frauds, and Outright Falsehoods of Barack Obama – An Investigative Analysis from Memoir to Obamacare

“As Vladimir Lenin once reportedly said, “A lie told often enough becomes the truth.” Although Obama did not drink deeply at this well, he drank deeply enough to be intoxicated with its spirit.”
― Jack Cashill, You Lie!: The Evasions, Omissions, Fabrications, Frauds, and Outright Falsehoods of Barack Obama – An Investigative Analysis from Memoir to Obamacare

“He made so many promises,” said the deeply disappointed Obama acolyte Barbara Walters five years into the presidency. “We thought that he was going to be . . . the next messiah.” The messiah he was clearly not. He was not even an honest man. Lamented Walters, “People feel very disappointed because they expected more.”
― Jack Cashill, You Lie!: The Evasions, Omissions, Fabrications, Frauds, and Outright Falsehoods of Barack Obama – An Investigative Analysis from Memoir to Obamacare

“Obama has subjected America to what Marc Thiessen described in the Washington Post as “a fundamentally dishonest presidency.”
― Jack Cashill, You Lie!: The Evasions, Omissions, Fabrications, Frauds, and Outright Falsehoods of Barack Obama – An Investigative Analysis from Memoir to Obamacare

“One great deception, however, underscored the entire Bergdahl Kabuki. It was the same one that underscored Obama’s role as commander in chief: he had to pretend that he cared. When Obama told the press in Brussels, “We have a basic principle: We do not leave anybody wearing the American uniform behind,” it was for him just another talking point. When Rice spoke about America’s “sacred obligation” to its soldiers, it was again just so much talk. Obama, in particular, saw nothing “sacred” about America’s past or about its presence in the world. Indeed, if he felt any obligation at all to Americans in harm’s way, he would not have spent the evening of September 11, 2012, plotting campaign strategy.”
― Jack Cashill, You Lie!: The Evasions, Omissions, Fabrications, Frauds, and Outright Falsehoods of Barack Obama – An Investigative Analysis from Memoir to Obamacare

“the left had been finessing labels for years: racial preferences to affirmative action to diversity; abortion rights to pro-choice to reproductive rights; global warming to climate change; gay marriage to marriage equality; liberal to progressive.”
― Jack Cashill, You Lie!: The Evasions, Omissions, Fabrications, Frauds, and Outright Falsehoods of Barack Obama – An Investigative Analysis from Memoir to Obamacare

“Lest he provide a target for his critics, Obama avoided all variations of the word “mandate” in his 2009 speech. Under his plan, no one would be “forced” or “mandated” to get health insurance; people would merely be “required.”
― Jack Cashill, You Lie!: The Evasions, Omissions, Fabrications, Frauds, and Outright Falsehoods of Barack Obama – An Investigative Analysis from Memoir to Obamacare

“The problem was that by 2014 no one was quite sure what those challenges were. Indeed, the earth had not warmed in sixteen years, and this had inspired the savvier environmentalists, Obama among them, to at least shift the branding of the seeming crisis from “global warming” to “climate change.”
― Jack Cashill, You Lie!: The Evasions, Omissions, Fabrications, Frauds, and Outright Falsehoods of Barack Obama – An Investigative Analysis from Memoir to Obamacare

“a quote by David Schippers, a Democrat and the chief investigative counsel for the House Judiciary Committee. Said Schippers for the ages: “The president, then, has lied under oath in a civil deposition, lied under oath in a criminal grand jury. He lied to the people. He lied to his Cabinet. He lied to his top aides. And now he’s lied under oath to the Congress of the United States. There’s no one left to lie to.”
― Jack Cashill, You Lie!: The Evasions, Omissions, Fabrications, Frauds, and Outright Falsehoods of Barack Obama – An Investigative Analysis from Memoir to Obamacare

“To defend the indefensible, George Orwell once observed, political figures employ language that consists largely of “euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.”
― Jack Cashill, You Lie!: The Evasions, Omissions, Fabrications, Frauds, and Outright Falsehoods of Barack Obama – An Investigative Analysis from Memoir to Obamacare

“Jonathan Turley was even more blunt in his assessment: “Barack Obama is really the president Richard Nixon always wanted to be.”
― Jack Cashill, You Lie!: The Evasions, Omissions, Fabrications, Frauds, and Outright Falsehoods of Barack Obama – An Investigative Analysis from Memoir to Obamacare

“In the three years after Obamacare was signed into law in 2010, the costs did not go down $2,500 per family as promised. They went up $2,581 a family. Yes, inflation would have pushed the costs of insurance coverage up regardless of Obamacare, but not that much, nor that quickly.”
― Jack Cashill, You Lie!: The Evasions, Omissions, Fabrications, Frauds, and Outright Falsehoods of Barack Obama – An Investigative Analysis from Memoir to Obamacare

“In the month of his inauguration, 63 percent of African Americans held a favorable view of race relations in America. By July 2013, that figure had fallen to 38 percent. Among whites, the proportion had declined from 79 percent to 52 percent. Obama, alas, has failed in the one area in which even the opposition hoped he would succeed: bridging the racial divide.”
― Jack Cashill, You Lie!: The Evasions, Omissions, Fabrications, Frauds, and Outright Falsehoods of Barack Obama – An Investigative Analysis from Memoir to Obamacare

“Although immersed in leftism since childhood, he never left the shallow end of the pool. He proved so adept at breaking promises because he did not care deeply enough to keep them. What mattered more was that he be seen striking the right pose, finding the right groove, spinning the right narrative.”
― Jack Cashill, You Lie!: The Evasions, Omissions, Fabrications, Frauds, and Outright Falsehoods of Barack Obama – An Investigative Analysis from Memoir to Obamacare

“To be accepted by the public, transformative legislation—Social Security, the Civil Rights Act, Medicare—needed at least some level of bipartisan congressional support.”
― Jack Cashill, You Lie!: The Evasions, Omissions, Fabrications, Frauds, and Outright Falsehoods of Barack Obama – An Investigative Analysis from Memoir to Obamacare

“In October 2013, Caroline Glick, managing editor of the Jerusalem Post, spoke as bluntly as an Israeli editor can about an American president: “US President Barack Obama views lies as legitimate political tools. He uses lies strategically to accomplish through mendacity what he could never achieve through honest means.”
― Jack Cashill, You Lie!: The Evasions, Omissions, Fabrications, Frauds, and Outright Falsehoods of Barack Obama – An Investigative Analysis from Memoir to Obamacare

“The Clinton era was a turning point in the history of journalism.”
― Jack Cashill, You Lie!: The Evasions, Omissions, Fabrications, Frauds, and Outright Falsehoods of Barack Obama – An Investigative Analysis from Memoir to Obamacare

“Reagan never worried about whether jobs were shovel-ready. He understood that the work of creating jobs was not the government’s, let alone his, but that of the nation’s employers. They would create the jobs that made economic sense, even if only burly men could do them.”
― Jack Cashill, You Lie!: The Evasions, Omissions, Fabrications, Frauds, and Outright Falsehoods of Barack Obama – An Investigative Analysis from Memoir to Obamacare

“Life is the great civil rights issue of our day”
― Jack Cashill