Politics is mainly propaganda, Sawzaw. Most politicians just say whatever they think will sound good at the time, please their supporters, damage their political opponents, and make them look like they understand the situation brilliantly.

;-)

In so doing, they tell many lies, and they also lie by omission. They avoid telling the full truth about what's really going on, because people would have a fit if they did that! Hell, there'd be a revolution!

Why be surprised by any of that stuff Obama said? He IS a politician! Like Bush, McCain, and virtually all the rest of them he lies, evades, exaggerates one thing, downplays another, lies by omission, grandstands, pontificates, and dispenses propaganda. He sugarcoats a turd and calls it "candy".

It's all about getting the public to go along with some immoral effort the government is engaged in, like a war of aggression in foreign lands or like transferring the American public's wealth and their children's future into the greedy hands of a bunch of bankers and corporate CEOs.

The reason you take such particular glee in noticing Obama when he does it is simple: You never liked or supported him or his party in the first place! ;-D   You relate to him the same way as most of your erstwhile opponents here relate to Bush. He's your favorite daily political punching bag.

(And, yes, you all have plenty of reason to be angry with both Obama AND Bush....but your partisan mentality sends you haring off after the abuses of one party while paying little attention to the abuses of the other. You act as if you were blind in one eye.)