Tavern on the Green and our delusional leaders ~ By Barry Farber

Commentary from WorldNetDaily

By Barry Farber Posted: January 06, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern © 2010 The big guy at the bar looked down upon the little guy at the bar and roared, "Are you calling me a liar?" "Oh, no sir," replied the little guy, "I'm just telling you what a liar I am if you're telling the truth!" OK. I'm not calling those who run our government Nazis. I'm merely telling you how closely my feelings resemble those of a friend who was a POW of the Germans and subject to exclusively Nazi information from shortly after D-Day until he miraculously escaped. Hang on tight because this next line may throw you. He was captured by the Germans in France and sent to a POW camp in England. That's right. How many of you can unpuzzle that? A little-known fact of World War II was that Germany occupied English territory. The Channel Islands, including Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney and Sark, fell to the Nazis along with France in 1940, and it was on Alderney that they constructed the only Nazi concentration camps on British soil. The Germans provided their British and American prisoners with a daily newsletter pretending to offer news from the fighting fronts. Every day's newsletter told of another "great German victory," which was disconcerting to our men until they caught on that every "great German victory" took place farther east than the one before! The Allies were advancing. The Germans were retreating. But that didn't affect German bragging about all their "great victories." Where am I headed with this? Our leaders (maybe "cheerleaders" would be more accurate) keep issuing self-serving and self-praising statements along the lines of, "The recession is ending"; "Economic recovery is now upon us"; "It was dicey for a while, but, man, did we ever pull this thing off!" Meanwhile, New York's Tavern on the Green just went belly-up! READ FULL STORY >