It’s nothing new for a president to lie to us, but Obama’s style is unique. By Victor Davis Hanson- National Review Online

"When the president speaks now, few listen. He realizes that and so, like Richard Nixon, must add emphatics as a substitute for honesty. But by now we know ad nauseam all the banal intensifiers — “make no mistake about it,” “I am not kidding,” “in point of fact,” and “let me be perfectly clear.”