{"id":2718,"date":"2014-06-07T23:48:44","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T06:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=2718"},"modified":"2014-06-07T23:48:44","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T06:48:44","slug":"the-man-who-never-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=2718","title":{"rendered":"THE MAN WHO NEVER WAS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During World War II British intelligence ran operation Mincemeat to trick Germany into thinking the U.S. was going to invade Greece instead of Sicily.\u00a0 They planted false papers on a cadaver, named him Major William Martin, and arranged for the body to be \u201cdiscovered.\u201d\u00a0 Incredibly the German commanders bought this hook, line and sinker and diverted troops to Greece.\u00a0 At the time Winston Churchill was stunned that the German high command bought this, because it was really obvious that the Allies were going to invade Sicily.<\/p>\n<p>At least Major Martin \u201clooked\u201d like the real thing. \u00a0Barack Obama never even looked like a leader.\u00a0 He gave one speech, almost certainly written by someone else and liberals fell in love.\u00a0 He \u201clooked\u201d like a leader and that was all that was required.\u00a0\u00a0 Obama had a paper thin resume and there wasn\u2019t even any paper to back it up.\u00a0 \u00a0Now, six years later, the man who had zero accomplishments prior to running for President has zero accomplishments as President.\u00a0 Why would anyone have expected something different? \u00a0What about Barack Obama\u2019s personal history would cause one to expect something else?<\/p>\n<p>Germany paid a high price for believing that Major William Martin was the real deal.\u00a0 I fear this country will pay an even higher price for believing in the Obama myth.\u00a0 In the meantime at least some people in the main stream media seem to be catching on.\u00a0 They are beginning to question whether Obama is as sharp as they assumed.\u00a0 As for me, as for me, I remain astonished that so many people believed and still believe in the man who never was.<\/p>\n<p>TDM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During World War II British intelligence ran operation Mincemeat to trick Germany into thinking the U.S. was going to invade Greece instead of Sicily.\u00a0 They planted false papers on a cadaver, named him Major William Martin, and arranged for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=2718\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-headlines"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>THE MAN WHO NEVER WAS! 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