Failed former President Barack Hussein Obama has jumped back into the political fray. And one thing we can always count on, are bitter, petty speeches, smug lectures, and lies. The Spy in Chief gave his big return speech in Illinois, where he received an “ethics in government” award – ha ha ha. Obama’s speech was doomed out of the gate, as he opted to speak on “threats to the U.S. democracy” and then never once brought up efforts from his administration to SPY on a a private American citizen. It all just went downhill from there, and Obama’s “fact check” score is a big fat “PANTS ON FIRE!” Breitbart President Barack Obama returned to the political fray on Friday morning, delivering a speech at the University of Illinois, which gave him an award for “ethics in government.” Leaving aside, for now, the question of whether Obama deserved an ethics award, all should agree that the University of Illinois had no business giving one. That corrupt institution hoped to use Obama’s speech to rewrite history — as did Obama, who portrayed a false and fanciful portrait of America, then and now. The entire speech was based on a false conceit. CBS News said Obama was “speaking out against threats to U.S. democracy.” He did not talk about the efforts by his administration to spy on the opposition during the last presidential campaign, or how his officials unmasked U.S. citizens in intelligence reports and leaked their names. Nor did Obama talk about how his former intelligence chief has gone amok, accusing President Donald Trump of “treason.” The “threat” is supposedly Trump himself. On one point, Obama was correct: he dinged “people inside the White House who secretly aren’t following the president’s orders.” That is not an appropriate check on power, Obama said. “That’s not how our democracy is supposed to work.” The answer, he said, was to vote for Democrats to take over Congress. Of course he would say that — though as Obama himself showed, it is not a fully effective check on power when the president threatens Congress with his “pen” and his “phone.” The rest of Obama’s speech was full of misleading claims. It’s Obama’s economy: The most important claim Obama made, departing from his prepared text, was that he deserves credit for the “economic miracle” Trump and Republicans are touting. “When you hear how great the economy’s doing right now, let’s just remember when this recovery started,” he said, to applause. As for Friday’s strong employment numbers: “Those job numbers are the same as they were in 2015 and 2016.” The kernel of truth inside Obama’s claim is that the pace of job creation has been the same over the past several years. What he leaves out is that the economy is doing much better by several other measures as well, including the pace of growth, the rise in household income, and the increase in opportunities at the lower end of the spectrum. Obama once mocked Trump’s promise to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S.: “What magic wand do you have?” Trump has performed that magic. Moreover, when Obama takes credit for the economic recovery, he ignores the fact that it was the slowest recovery in the post-war era, largely due to his policies. The recovery began in earnest when Republicans took over the House in 2010, and put an end to any prospect of more massive stimulus bills, or more heavy regulations like Obamacare. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ◆ Latest news videos: ****** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ★ CONNECT WITH US ★ ◆ Google : ****** ◆ Email: ****** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Videos can use content-based copyright law contains reasonable use Fair Use (******