"Obama's opponents will say anything to destroy him, just as Bill Clinton’s opponents said with utter sincerity that he and his wife were responsible for dozens of deaths, including that of Vince Foster."

Liberal activists are disgusted by what they see: A refusal by the White House to embrace a public option on health insurance, an unwillingness to fight for the “card check” bill, a financial services reform bill that went easy on big banks, abandonment of “cap and trade,” and a war in Afghanistan that drags on and on. A socialist president? Puh-leeze.

But the biggest lies may involve the economy. The drumbeat of doom and gloom has been incessant from talk radio – high deficits will lead to hyper-inflation and soaring interest rates (the exact opposite has happened), and the economy will head off a cliff.

If you keep repeating, every day, that the economy is in free-fall, people eventually will believe it. Never mind that GDP grew by 5% in the fourth quarter of last year; the doomsayers kept predicting an economic collapse – and sure enough, like a self-fulfilling prophecy, public confidence began to collapse by spring.

Is Obama a Muslim? Is he a socialist? Is the economy headed off a cliff? No to all three – but his opponents will say anything to destroy him, just as Bill Clinton’s opponents said with utter sincerity that he and his wife were responsible for dozens of deaths, including that of Vince Foster.