VDH..  

Long time readers know that I am a huge fan of Victor Davis Hanson. This Stanford via the Central Valley boy has insight to matters that are always of note. The Works & Days site is a cornacopia of articles and information.  His latest on the foibles of president Zero is good.  Really good.

 Amid all the charges and countercharges in Washington over the government shutdown, there is at least one common theme: Barack Obama’s various charges always lead to a dead end. They are chaos, and chaos is hard to understand, much less refute.

He points out that what old Zero says is, more often than not, good old homestyle BS.  

In short, whenever the president prefaces a sweeping statement with one of his many emphatics — “make no mistake about it,” “I’m not making this up,” “in point of fact,” “let me be perfectly clear” — we know that the reverse is always true. For Obama, how something is said matters far more than what is said.

Read the whole thing.