Barack Obama Is 'The Big Lie'Derek Hunter
Aug 05, 2023
One of the luckiest things in my life has been my good fortune to meet and become friendly or even real friends with some of the most interesting people in politics. Growing up in Detroit, I never would have guessed I’d get to know Tucker Carlson, Christopher Hitchens, David Limbaugh, etc. – so many people, I could write a column just name-dropping. It’s weird to me still, having politically grown up watching these people on television and learning from them. To become friends with Andrew Breitbart before he was famous, and experiencing the circus the media created around him, of which he was the master, as he grew in stature was an incredible thing to witness.
“Joe the Plumber” is another such person. But this isn’t about Joe, or any of the other people I’ve been blessed to know, even though Joe plays an important part, this is about Barack Obama. I didn’t “get to know” Obama, but I can claim to have had a few cigarettes with him back in the day when we both smoked.
I was a press secretary in the US Senate in 2006, and I smoked. I’d step outside for a cigarette from time to time and then Senator Obama, also a smoker, would come walking from the Capitol having a smoke and would finish it with us other smokers. Like you would with anyone, I would just shoot the breeze with him. It didn’t happen often, Senators have busy schedules. But he’d walk outside from the Capitol to the office buildings sometimes rather than use the tunnels for the same reason I did – because you wanted to have a smoke or two.
He was perfectly nice and engaging, which isn’t really an accomplishment because you have to try to be a jerk when you’re just standing around with one or two other people having a smoke. But I can’t say I know the man because I don’t.
When he ran for president in 2008, he just “came across” someone else just going about their business – the aforementioned Joe the Plumber.
All Joe did was ask a basic question about taxes. In his answer, Barack Obama used the “spread the wealth around” line that exposed his true radical leanings. That terrified David Axelrod and the Obama guard in the media, which set out to destroy Joe.
In the next 48 hours we learned more about Joe – did you know his name was really Samuel, not Joe? Joe is his middle name – then we still know about Obama. Joe’s taxes were illegally leaked by the state of Ohio, for example, yet we have not ever, and likely will never see Obama’s college transcripts or know how a man, who by his own claims, was an average high school student who spent a lot of time smoking weed managed to get into three of the most prestigious institutions of higher learning on the planet. Not because there aren’t answers to that question, but because the people with the job of asking are steadfastly refused to.
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Source:
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2023/08/05/sunday-n2626675
