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Many Americans look at the pathological lies of presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton

and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, and we wonder quietly how we reach this point.

Two words, Barack Obama.

On Thursday, the New York Times ran a puff piece on White House National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes.

He was the man in charge of selling the terrible Iran nuclear deal to the public and the Congress,

Rhodes, whom the Times characterizes as a, quote, aspiring novelist who ended up running Barack Obama's foreign policy.

He apparently brags openly about manipulating the press to lie for the administration.

He spins fiction for the left.

The Times notes, quote, his lack of conventional real-world experience of the kind that normally

precedes responsibility for the fate of nations, like military or diplomatic service or even

a master's degree in international relations, rather than creative creative writing is still startling.

But why should it be?

Creative fiction is the name of the game in the Obama administration.

As the Times states, quote, when I asked John Favreau, Obama's lead speechwriter in the 2008

campaign and a close friend of Ben Rhodes, whether he or Rhodes or the president had ever thought

of their individual

speeches and bits of policymaking as part of some larger restructuring of the American

narrative, he replied, quote, we saw that as our entire job. Entire job, not telling the truth,

not crafting decent policy for the United States, writing lies for the left. And Ben Rhodes has

help.

The Times reports that Rhodes and his lackeys have, quote,

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