The Nigh Seen Creeder

Back in 1994, I worked for a guy named Steve Wilson who was running for U.S. Senate. Dr. Wilson was an econ prof and author, and he was the only true-blue Supply-Sider in the "six-pack" primary race to unseat Sen. Jim Sasser. That's why I supported him. (More 'bout "Wilson '94" can be found here.)

Dr. Wilson's best media was a radio ad featuring Paul Shanklin, Rush Limbaugh's resident voice satirist, if you will. In the ad, Senator Jim Sasser called President Bill Clinton. To satiate Tennessee's growing conservative electorate, Clinton told Sasser to "smile and tell some really big ones!"

I thought about that long ago political ad when I heard President B. Hussein Obama say this on ABC this past Sunday:

"I didn’t even know that ACORN was getting a whole lot of federal money."

Obama's laughable comment, of course, comes on the heels of 1) the Census Bureau's severing ties with ACORN; 2) videos showing ACORN officials giving advice on how to dodge taxes AND run a whorehouse; and 3) votes in the U.S. House and Senate cutting ACORN off from the federal teat.

Obama's ties to ACORN are well known -- he was once their fuckin' lawyer, for crying out loud! For him to suggest (he was a U.S. Senator who voted for bills dealing with ACORN funding, after all) that he didn't know ACORN didn't get "a whole lot of federal money" ... well, he's telling a tall tale (as my Granny Ruby used to say).

"Smile and tell some really big ones."

You know, when Clinton was lying, he had the whole lip-biting/thumb-thrusting/indignant-staring thing going on in his favor. When Obama lies, he's about as smooth - and persuasive - as the drunk uncle who swears, with lots of "uhs" and "ahs," that his next bottle will be his last.