In February, former President Barack Obama was asked by liberal/left podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen "are aliens real?' He replied "They're real but I haven't seen them and they're not being kept in Area 51. There's no underground facility. Unless there's this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the President of the United States."
After the inevitable controversy arose, Obama wrote on Instagram
I was trying to stick with the spirit of the speed round but since it's gotten attention, let me claify. Statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there's life out there. But the distances between solar systems ae so great that the chances we've been visited by aliens is low and I saw no evidence during my presidency that extratrrestrials have made contact with us. Really!
This was in the spirit of President Clinton. Asked to explain his answer as to whether there is something "going on" between Monica Lewinsky and himself, explained "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is."
And so it was that Barack Obama stated "I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us." This doesn't go to the question of whether there are extraterrestrial craft which have visited our solar system, only that the President was shown no evidence of "contact with us." Even if such beings have made contact with any human beings- less likely than visitation by craft to earth's atmosphere- it is unlikely that such evidence would have, or even could have, been made available.
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Then in May, Obama (at 1:02) told Stephen Colbert
If there were aliens or alien spaceships or anything under the control of the United States government that we knew about seing, photographs, what have you, I promise you, some guy guarding the installation would have taken a selfie with one of the aliens and sent it to his girlfriend to impress her.
Obama was not lying. There is no alien spaceship under the control of the United States government. No one has said that such a "spaceship" is under the control of the United States government. That is the point of what apparently are extraordinary phenomena.
Dean Baker says TALE- Trump always lies about everything. He's also a blabbermouth. And in the following statement by President Trump is embedded a lie. More obviously, the fellow who stole top secret and other classified documents from the USA government and stored them in a bathroom in his Florida resort has made something clear. On February 19, Trump responded to Obama's initial remarks by telling Fox News
He's not supposed to be doing that. I don't know if they're real or not. I can tell you he gave classified information. He's not supposed to be doing that. He made a big mistake. he took it out of classified information.
The beauty of that statement lies in Trump both being true to his nature and revealing valuable information. We know that the President is lying when he contends "I don't know if they're real or not" because elsewhere in the statement he comments a) "he's not supposed to be doing that"; b) "he gave classified information"; c) "he's not supposed to be doing that": and d) "he took it out of classfied information".
He's like the man or woman who has information others don't, knows he (or she) should not reveal it, yet wants everyone know that he is privy to the information. Ultimately, he'll be able to say that he knew it all the time. Yet, he gets to slam Obama, whom he envies and hates, for leaking (unspecified) things contrary to law or regulation. By not conceding that extraterrestials are real ("I don't now if they're real or not"), he can still release government files at his own pace. It's a win-win, maybe a win-win-win for him.
The cat has been let out of the bag about the existence of those aliens not from Latin or South America, the Middle East, or elsewhere in our universe. And as a girlfriend of Jerry Seinfeld in Seinfeld famously bragged of her breasts, "they're real and they're spectacular"
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