In politics you have little to trade with other than your word and your ability to bring others along with you. You can be the smartest guy in the room but if no one wants to follow where you want to lead than you are, politically speaking, a failure. But if your word cannot be trusted even by people on your own side, specially by people on your own side, then you are utterly done for, washed up and a cipher. The disintegration of Barack Obama’s presidency continues.

It of course does not matter that I and others like me do not trust the American president. That distrust goes back to virtually the day I first learned anything about him. But it has taken a while for the American electorate in general to even begin to have an inkling of just how dangerous to their own future health and welfare having elected Obama as president has been. And it has been the lies he told to get his most important single piece of legislation through Congress that is doing him in. With his friends in the media, there is no reason to be certain that this will remain a problem into the longer term but it is a problem for now.

A quite remarkable assessment has been offered by Marc Thiessen who was a speech writer in the GWB White House. The article is titled quietly enough, A dishonest presidency but it truly brings home just how much damage Obama has brought upon himself.

It’s not easy to get a lie into a presidential speech. Every draft address is circulated to the White House senior staff and key Cabinet officials in something called the ‘staffing process.’ Every line is reviewed by dozens of senior officials, who offer comments and factual corrections. During this process, it turns out, some of Obama’s policy advisers objected to the ‘you can keep your plan’ pledge, pointing out that it was untrue. But it stayed in the speech. That does not happen by accident. It requires a willful intent to deceive.

A willful intent to deceive is a lie. You cannot trust Obama on anything. He is a flimflam man, con artist, a flake and two-bit hustler. You may think such lies are common in politics but they are in fact quite rare. Gillard never overcame her false promise that there would never be a carbon tax under a government she led just as George Bush Snr never outlived, “read my lips, no new taxes”.

But what does Obama care? His constituency is made up of the lofo voters, the one’s who are made dependent on the state and for whom nothing matters but the free stuff that must continue to flow.