It’s tough to tell, sometimes, when someone is lying to you. In fact, most can’t tell the difference in truth or lie. A better way to judege between opposing tales is to consider the source. If someone has lied before, they’ll most likely lie again. The opposite is also true. If you have found someone whose word has always been solid, it is, usually, a sign of character and honesty.

When opposing stories are of a very complicated topic, such as the proposed healthcare reform bill released in August, to discern that which is factual requires a good deal of reading and thought, and most people will end up siding with whomever they feel most attached to instead.

Take for instance the claim that illegal immigrants will not be covered under the bill. The Republican representitives almost to a person will argue all day, even call the president a liar because of what they’ve read in the bill. Yet the president vehemently denies that illegals will be covered. But, anyone reading the bill objectively will see that both are, to some extent, correct in their claims.

But, on page 762, line 1 says ‘‘(A) provides services to beneficiaries under this title without discrimination on the ground of race, color, national origin, creed, source of payment, status as a beneficiary under this title, or any other ground unrelated to such beneficiary’s need for the services or the availability of the needed services in the hospital;" You need to, again, back up one page to 761 to learn that that statement above is just one requirement for a hospital to be certified under the bill. The entire, undivided sentence is, "No hospital may be defined or deemed as a disproportionate share hospital, or as an essential access hospital (for purposes of subsection (f)(6)(A)(iv), under a State plan under this title or subsection (b) of this section (including any waiver under section 1115) unless the hospital provides services to beneficiaries under this title without discrimination on the ground of race, color, national origin, creed, source of payment, status as a beneficiary under this title, or any other ground unrelated to such beneficiary’s need for the services or the availability of the needed services in the hospital;"

Any hospital not defined as an essential care hospital will not be paid for essential care services. So, to be a real hospital, you can not turn away anyone, even illegal aliens. But, illegals are not eligible to become a covered member of the plan. So, they will remain in the status they are in today. To get treatment, they must use the emergrncy room.

They are not "covered" by the plan as that is defined as being enrolled. Obama is right, they are not "covered". But, they will continue to be treated, free of charge, in the emergency room and can not be turned away. Obama’s critics are also right, the illegals will receive healthcare, free, under the terms of this bill.

Who, then, is more honest in their claim? It is the one who is using the exact phraseology of the bill to promote an idea that is not a part of the bill. The people do not want illegals treated in their tax paid hospitals anymore than is needed to save their lives. To that, the president says, "Illegal immigrants will not be covered under this bill." Great, they will be turned away for all but life threatening reasons. Right? "Uhhhh, that’s not what I uhhhh… let me make it perfectly clear, again."

And he’s lied to us before, by ommision and commission. We should know by now. The same kind of "rigg-a-ma-roll" can be shown with regards to the so-called "death panels". This topic has nothing to do with the End of Life Counciling, though, it has everything to do with the Comparitive Efficiency Studies and the requirement in the bill to lower healthcare costs.

The true nature and effect of this bill will not be known until the Secretary of Health and Human Services creates the studies, rules, and guidelines that the Secretary is tasked, by the bill, to create. The Comparitive Effectiveness Study is mandated to provide a set of guidelines for treatments that are more effective (read cost effective) than others. This set of guidelines will be the rules that the "death panels" will go by to determine who will receive what treatment, based upon their ability to contribute to society, not on how dire their need for the treatment is.

So, Obama is correct when he says there will be no death panels pulling the plug on Grandma because those exact terms are never used. But, they are there, in effect. So, the opposition is telling the truth about the intent of the bill.

"I never heard Reverend Wright preach a sermon like that. He always preached about Jesus Christ and loving your neighbor."

"I never worked for ACORN, was never their attorney, never trained their crews, and have not been associated with them in any way."

Oh, the list is WAY too long to type out. But, I think you see my point. He’s lied everyday, everyway, since being coronated. He can not be trusted to do the right thing, only the "Wright" thing.

Obama learned early in his life that dedication is dependant on and, in fact, semi-synonomous with the idea of dependability. If dedication is total and sincere, dependability will become a self imposed, defining character trait. Devotion and dedication demand a dependable approach. That is not to say the approach is set in stone or written in law, but it does define a policy of, once defined, being effectively predictable of future decisions and procedures. Dedication is the result of setting a goal that is inspired and chosen due to an inherent desire and self confident attitude. Dependability is a tactic chosen due to dedication to the goal and the realization that any sacrifice is worth the result.

We conservatives will do ourselves a big service to believe my claims regarding Obama’s character. To do so enables a truer, more easily accepted knowledge of everything we know and will ever learn about him. In fact, this insight into his motivational resources enables his critics with an almost supernatural ability to predict, with near perfection, his future choices and decisions, and his public speaking topics.

You might say, "Glenn, you still sound like an Obama convert". And I would say that I would choose first to die. You might be confused because we have all come to know Obama as a talented liar, a consistant policy jumper, and being undeserving, if not incapable, of being credited with traits of dependability or dedication, these usually being thought of as signs of an ethical and selfless character.

But, consider the possibility that his goals and motivations to those ends are not what he professes. Let’s assume, for the purpose of this essay, that his goal is not the office of president, but rather the attainment of worldwide authority and power, if not supreme emperor of the universe (not at all silly when you consider his ego). The motivations for that goal self evident. When we rethink our vision of Obama in that vein, we are able to perceive the dedication he has to that goal. And if we are able to convince ourselves that he is dedicated to an unspoken agenda of influnce on a global scale via a socialist system, we can then have faith and be confident in his dependability to act in the ways that have been successful and to persist in his methods and practices.

Obama has, from the beginning of his career in politics, adopted a very well defined, deeply engrained system and set of rules that he has dutifully studied and faithfully set to memory to the point of becoming second nature. He has chosen the radical road to socialism as created and taught by Saul Alinsky, the father of community organization as a profession. He has followed, with a religious devotion, the insistance by Alinsky that success is no less than the power over all who will believe your lies, and that that power is the only worthwhile pursuit for the elitist who believes himself to be a messiah.

Obama is dedicated and dependable, and now that we know that, he is also more vulnerable. Let’s decide to exploit, in every possible way, that chink in his majesty’s armor. After all, we are conservatives and are, therefore, always right. Well, almost always.

Glenn Flowers

• No valid birth certificate has been provided by Obama.
• Obama traveled abroad at age twenty with an Indonesian passport which requires Indonesian citizenship. Dual citizenship is not legal in the US.
• A federal law suit citing over 20 allegations is pending seeking his disqualification from becoming president.

Obama claims he is a Christian and has never been a Muslim.

• In Audacity of Hope Obama states that he doesn’t really hold any profound religious belief but that he joined the church for street creds.
• Obama’s environment from birth to his move to Hawaii at age ten WAS Muslim. His instruction, family life, allegiance, and pride was in and of being Muslim. He once stated that the Islamic evening call to prayer was the most beautiful sound he’s ever heard and if necessary he would side with the Muslims.
• Obama has never been baptized as a Christian. To do so would brand him as an apostate in the world of Islam.
• Obama does not believe in the Christian doctrine of Jesus as the only means for salvation, as taught in the Bible. He has professed the belief that there are many avenues for achieving spiritual atonement. Even his church of two decades does not teach biblical Christanity.

Obama claims to love America and to be proud of being an American

• Obama has studied and believes in the teachings and beliefs of F. M. Davis, Karl Marx, Saul Alinsky, Bill Ayres, Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farakhan, and Vladimir Lenin.
• Obama refuses to pay tribute to the American flag or the National Anthem. He calls a flag lapel pin "that pin".
• Obama’s typical public address is a few minutes of thanks and greetings followed by a laundry list of what is wrong with America, how it treats its people badly, and how he, alone, can bring about the change needed and establish economic justice for all. This is classic Alinkyism "rubbing raw their feeling of dissent".
• Obama has toured the world apologizing for the evil America has wrought on the world and promising to make America a global citizen. More Alinskyisms.
• Obama has changed his politics as needed to maintain his poll ratings. This is in strict adherence to the Alinsky tactic of obtaining power in any way possible, regardless of the means. The end justifies whatever is necessary because without power you can do nothing to bring about socialism, Alinsky’s ultimate goal.
• His own campaign boldly states that de-regulation of industry and a capitalistic market are failed, antiquated policies. Obama believes that major, sweeping reform of American society, including the elimination of the middle class through redistribution of wealth (economic justice) is what America needs, and that is the change he believes in and is working for.

To understand who and what Obama is and what his vision for America entails one need only list his known associates, his self proclaimed influences, his reversals of policies during the campaign, his public anti-American behavior, his wife’s public statements and her reversals of demeanor, his use of euphamisms straight from Alinsky’s writings, and his promises made and then broken to not run for president and be the best senator he can for Illinois.

Barack Obama is a dangerous, anti-American socialist who means to dismantle American society as we know it and reform it into a Marxist dictatorship. He will do anything, say anything, and change colors like a chameleon to get the power necessary to do so. To him, the end justifies the means. If you add all this up, Obama’s words and actions become logical and revealing. He wants to bring America down. That is the change we should ALL believe he believes in.

Tonight at the Democratic National Convention, Michelle "my belle" Obama proved to the world she is capable and, actually, very talented at reading script and doing so with such convincing effect. A convincing and talented performer at least and a potential Oscar nominee, if not an outright winner.

In all reality, is there anyone who believes that she was sincere in all of what she said? Oh, she was sincere about her children and husband. But it was three fourths of the way into her speech before she finally mentioned America. She said she loved America, but lost no time making it clear that America was not living up to its potential, and that Barack was determined to change America and make it what it should be. If it is, as she claims to believe, the greatest nation on Earth, and offers, as she has said, the greatest opportunities for achieveing your dreams, why oh why does she believe that it is in such dire need for change? She feels that America needs to be what it has never succeeded in being. Never has America been what it could have been? America has never lived up to its promise? Is there anyone who believes America is as big a failure as Michelle does?

There is no guessing needed, no doubt about how the Obamas believe America should be changed. Universal healthcare whether you want it or not, equal prosperity for all whether they earn it or not, freedom from want and need, and a world class education for all. Is there anyone who believes those benefits are the responsibility of the government or the taxpayers?

Increasing the capital gains tax, not for revenue, but for fairness. Increasing taxation of the evil, rich capitalists who oppress the working class and cheat them out of a fair wage to line their own pockets. Is there anyone who does not know who signs their paycheck?

Obama considered it a lack of experience, a sign of not being fit to be president when McCain said he had no plan for solving the current mortgage scandal. Barack laughed and thought it a severe gaffe on McCain’s part. Is there anyone who feels McCain, or any president, should plan on fixing the mortgage fiasco?

The view of America is exactly opposite when seen from Obama’s view as it is when seen through the simplicity and perfection of the Constitution and the eyes of We, the People, the majority of Americans. Is there anyone who believes we need to change America into what Obama wants?

I thought not.

Glenn Flowers