Character counts, yes? The Obama we know? Romney?

By Scott W. Winchell – A common fact eludes seemingly everyone when it comes to comparing candidates experience for the job of President when it comes to the media.

In 2008, Sarah Palin was hammered for “only” being a Governor for two and a half years and being a small town mayor, even though she was only the VP candidate. Today Obama challenges Romney on the same front, saying he only knows how to make wealthy people wealthier and does not know the common people and their work woes.

Chris Matthews - MSNBC

What experience does Obama have that makes him a better ‘job creator’? Certainly not being the existing President, because that is one huge failure. Certainly not as a ‘community organizer’. Romney, love him, hate him, or be ambivalent; the fact is, he is more well-known than Obama was in 2008, and has vast experience Obama can only dream of ever having. But that doesn’t matter to the ‘Lame Stream Media’.

The opinion piece below dissects Chris Matthews’ comments that Romney is an unknown, and Obama should be re-elected because we know him. Isn’t it strange though, that in 2008, nobody really knew Obama, and he had less experience and qualifications than did Sarah Palin. In fact, nobody in the main stream media did any vetting of Obama, and if not for the citizen journalists like the Andrew Breitbart group, few would be vetting him today.

Obama is still an unknown, yet his lap dogs in the press are so confident about this man, despite daily revelations that raise more and more questions. We still do not have answers to very important questions about Obama, but we know all about Ann Romney’s love for expensive horses and the sport of Dressage. We also now know about Mitt Romney’s supposed bully days from 45 plus years ago.

What we do know about Obama though, just gets swept away idly. Now the latest revelation, the promotional bio Obama’s book agent put out in 1991. The promotional flyer says Obama was born in Kenya, and the “fact checking error was not corrected” for over 16 years.

Yet, Matthews questions Romney’s background, while this little factoid gets swept aside. Just like Obama’s self-avowed bullying, underage drinking, drug use, and extremely questionable mentors, alliances, associations, and business deals – just swept aside.

Does anyone know who Obama really is? Things we definitely know now – Obama is deceitful and almost always less than truthful, yet we should re-elect him because we know him. Only at MSNBC does that make sense.

Obama’s Bio Grows Even Sketchier

Investor’s.com Editorial

The Obama Record: The discovery of the president’s false book bio claiming Kenyan birth fits an increasingly disturbing pattern. We’ve long described Obama as radical, but he’s also deceitful.

The mix of these two traits in the Oval Office is toxic. But the Washington media are anything but alarmed, still believing as they do the mythical savior figure they created in 2008.

The other night, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews argued on his “Hardball” show that Americans would be wise to re-elect Obama because he’s “the candidate we know.” He claimed he’s a trusted brand who “is who he seems to be.”

He went on to describe the president as “a fairly pragmatic progressive” and “tough defender of the country.” Therefore, he argued, he’s the safer choice vs. GOP foe Mitt Romney, whom Matthews warns is an unknown commodity — “Brand X” — who could turn out to be a nutty puppet of the “radical right.”

Of course, Obama isn’t at all who he seems to be. And judging from Obama’s sinking poll numbers, this is becoming more apparent to the electorate — thanks in part to the new media’s revetting of Obama after the old media’s half-hearted attempt in 2008.

Voters who don’t watch MSNBC are starting to see that the president’s public persona is merely a hologram created by media shills like Matthews, who define his identity and ideology and redefine it when facts disrupt the carefully constructed narrative.

The latest fly in the ointment for Team Obama is a promotional bio Obama’s book agent put out in 1991. The old copy, dug up last week by Breitbart.com, says he was “born in Kenya.” Asked about the mistaken birthplace, the agent claimed it “was nothing more than a fact-checking error.”

But that’s not just any error. Getting a job title wrong is one thing. But screwing up a client’s place of birth is a major — and bizarre — boo-boo.

More than likely, Obama supplied the error as fact, since the agency requires clients to submit their bio information. Adding to suspicions, Obama failed to correct it. For 16 years. He allowed his agent to continue to publish the error — despite several updates to his bio posted online — until 2007, when Obama ran for the White House and abruptly switched agents. Only then was the bio corrected.

Why would Obama fictionalize his life story? For answers, let’s go back to 1991. At the time he got his book deal, Obama was graduating from Harvard Law School, which required strong grades for entry. Yet by all accounts, Obama had weak grades. Did he juice his application — a la his Harvard law pal, Elizabeth “Cherokee Liz” Warren — to hedge his bet in case his minority status wasn’t exotic enough to overcome his grades?

Northwestern University professor John McKnight said a desperate Obama approached him for a letter of recommendation to Harvard, because he couldn’t get any of his undergrad professors to pen one due to underwhelming academics. McKnight was one of Obama’s radical Alinsky trainers and a key mentor, but not one of his professors.

The embellished bio makes the circumstances surrounding Obama’s Harvard admission curiouser. And all the more reason to demand this president do what every other modern president has done, including Democrat candidates John Kerry and Al Gore, and turn over his academic records for public review.

At bottom, this is an issue of trust.

The notion that his author’s bio, which played up high the phony foreign-born status, was simply a typo is about as credible as Obama claiming he never heard his radically anti-American preacher say anything unpatriotic while sitting in his pews for over two decades. Or that he hardly knew his Hyde Park neighbor Bill Ayers, the unrepentant terrorist who launched his political career from his living room. And who sat with him on the board of a few radical organizations. And who claims to have actually written the very memoir Obama and his agent began promoting in 1991.

Just who is this man sitting in the people’s house? Increasingly, he appears devious and dishonest.

Character matters.

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