President Obama Dogged by Credibility Gap

From Real Clear Politics via H/T at Instapundit:

Well, when you say you’re at war with ISIS, but you only sound angry at Republicans, people notice. Two days before the San Bernardino mass murders, I was a guest on a call-in show on Wisconsin Public Radio. It’s an arm of NPR, so the callers were, let’s just say, decidedly left of center. One mentioned “the Koch brothers” in tones one might reserve for “Nazi Party.” A second caller alluded casually to the “discredited and doctored” Planned Parenthood tapes; a third mumbled something about deporting “white Christians.”

The most sensible-sounding interlocutor was a self-described conservative who says he accepts the fact of global warming—and human responsibility for it—but has trouble accepting anything at face value proposed by Barack Obama in the way of a solution. Why? Because Obama has a credibility gap with this man, who cited the president’s assurances while lobbying for the Affordable Care Act that Americans who already had health insurance could keep their plans and their doctors. The caller also mentioned the administration’s spurious assertions about the 2012 killing of four Americans in Benghazi.
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Many Americans, not all of them Republicans, can’t understand Obama’s reluctance to use the word “Islamic” in connection with these attacks—even though “Islamic” is in ISIS’s title. A clue to his stubbornness is that the president won’t even say “ISIS.” He insists of calling the group “ISIL,” which was an early transliteration of the Arabic name for the group, but which it has since dropped. Obama pronounces this acronym “Issel,” as though it’s less likely to give offense that way.

This was a long winded way of saying, no one trust the Dear Leader because he always lies.