"Manipulated language"?

Manipulated language. I don't think you're being honest with yourself, possibly because you have such a habit of trying to give the benefit of the doubt or trying to see both sides. Where this president is concerned, I have given up giving him the benefit of the doubt. When he says "We have run out of places to drill" and actually means something else, like, "We leftists don't want anyone profiting off a site that would grieve the greens to see getting drilled in," then I'm pretty sure he can be credited with knowing what he means to say, and deliberately saying something else. I believe he generally has been told how to couch his language in terms the public enjoys, terms like "spread the wealth around" or "they called me unpatriotic", that have already established their popularity.

What I'm trying to say is that Mr. Obama knows what he's saying is untrue, which makes him a liar, not a "manipulator of language".

When he called Jeremiah Wright "my mentor" he expected to be given oodles of credit for having such an ardent seeker of Social Justice as his spiritual and political guide. He was astonished that America loathed the things Jeremiah Wright believed. So he disavowed all connection with the man. Thus the mentor-disciple relationship turned overnight into, "Gosh, I never heard those things when I listened from the pew," a flat-out statement of untruth. Mr. Obama was lying.