He doesn’t tolerate dishonor – from NRO’s The Corner:
The Israeli-Egyptian blockade of Gaza, and the effort of “humanitarians” to break it, put me in mind of the Karine A. Do you remember that episode, in 2002? The Karine A was the freighter bearing a big ol’ arsenal of rockets and such for the PLO. Israel seized the freighter and displayed the goods: Busted, the PLO were.
I was talking to an Arab journalist once, who said he loved President George W. Bush. “Why?” I asked. He said, “Because Arafat told him one little lie, and he divorced him! Arafat told him that he had nothing to do with the Karine A, and then Bush found out it was a lie. And he washed his hands of him, forevermore: froze him out. Everyone knows that Arafat lies. Everyone expects Arafat to lie. Everyone tolerates Arafat’s lies. But not Bush!”…
While our liberal friends insist that President Bush lied all the time, the fact remains that I don’t have an incident where he told a lie. Said things he could have phrased a lot better? Yep. Said things which should not have been said? Sure. Made mistakes? Without a doubt. But he never got up there on the podium and said something which was a deliberate attempt to mislead the American people. President Bush is a man who tells the truth – and thus couldn’t stand a man who told a lie.
What have we got now? A President who lies with wild abandon – just as we had under Bill Clinton. It’d be hard to find something that President Obama has told the truth about – he even tells rather stupid lies, like the one where he said that the Gulf Spill is the first and last thing he thinks about every day…presumptively between rounds of golf and parties at the White House.
And we’re paying the price for this – and one of the prices is the renewed danger of war in the Middle East between Israel and the Moslems. Give corrupt, hate-filled fanatics the impression you’re weak, and they will attack – and Obama’s serial untruths about what has happened in the Middle East and about the history of Islam is a ringing bell to all Islamists, signaling the time to attack.
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