YOU HAVE TO LISTEN CAREFULLY!

Words have specific meanings. The words uttered by President Obama need to be carefully evaluated in order to determine what he really means by those words. For example, he recently announced the expansion of offshore oil and gas exploration in selected areas off the coasts of the United States. Many people felt it was "about time" that offshore drilling was allowed. Actually, he only promised "new exploration", not actual drilling.

The policies announced by the President will actually decrease and delay future US oil production! The President actually cancelled 4 leases off the Alaska coast that were planned to begin producing oil within the next 2 years. He delayed a planned lease off Virginia until at least 2012, and placed some areas of our coastlines off limits for at least 7 years. There is absolutely no guarantee that any new drilling will ever occur. Secretary Ken Salazar's Interior Dept. still has full discretion to never allow a single drop of oil to be harvested from these waters.

President Obama's goal is not to create private sector jobs for Americans and new revenues for financially strapped states. His real goal was expressed by the President's Energy Secretary, Steven Chu, (another radical) when he said "Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels of Europe". Gas in Europe is about $8 per gallon!

The President is very good at using his words to imply one thing, while actually meaning something totally different. He is an orator who uses words to distort and deceive, so that his true intentions are masked and hidden. You must listen very carefully to what he says and then evaluate his words by his actions. The words often mean something different to him than they do to you!

(Source: Heritage Foundation)