Obama: "Slick Talker"

Editorial-Manchester Union-Leader, New Hampshire.

President Obama comes to Nashua today to try to sell New Hampshire on his sudden, post-Scott Brown commitment to job creation, deficit reduction and spending restraint. He can speechify all he wants, but the people aren't buying it, and for good reason. The President is plainly and obviously not telling the truth.
He said his health care reform would let us keep our current health care plans. It didn't.
He said (at a stop in Dover a year and a half ago) that no one earning less than $250,000 a year would see "any" tax increase. He then raised cigarette taxes and pushed a new energy tax and a tax on health benefits, among others.
He said he would oppose pork spending. Then he looked the other way as pork projects reached record numbers.
He said he'd cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term. The budget he released yesterday raises it to its highest level in history.
He promised to air health care negotiations on C-SPAN. Then, in the words of The Associated Press, "the White House made multibillion-dollar deals with hospitals and pharmaceutical companies in private."
The President thinks his words can fool us, but his actions are louder, and they tell us one thing very clearly: His slick talk is just that -- talk.