Accusations that Barack Obama routinely lies about his plans, projects and beliefs have arisen ever since his presidential campaign was launched, with WND columnist Jack Cashill once presenting a top 10 list of “Obama’s lies.”

The falsehoods include his famous line that the IRS, caught targeting conservatives and Christians because of their beliefs, had “not even a smidgeon of corruption.” And there was the Obamacare promise: “If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor.”

Oh yes, Obama added to the end of that one: “Period.”

He also boasted of having the “rule of law” as a touchstone for his presidency. And, in Cashill’s opinion, the most egregious was Obama’s sworn inauguration statement that he would “faithfully execute the office of president of the United States” and would “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution.”

But now an insider, longtime Obama adviser David Axelrod, has revealed in a book that Obama has supported same-sex marriage for years, and his endorsement of man-woman marriage, his later waffling on the issue and then his “evolution” to a position of supporting “gay weddings” was a long series of lies.

Axelrod explains in his “Believer: My Forty Years in Politics” that he was one of the advisers who told Obama he needed to provide a show of opposition to same-sex marriage to win election in 2008, the London Daily Mail reported.

“That duplicity reached its apex during a 2008 appearance at Pastor Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church, a wellspring of American evangelical Christian thought,” the report said.

There, Obama stated: “I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman. Now for me as a Christian – for me – for me as a Christian, it is also a sacred union. God’s in the mix.”

Critics saw the implications: Obama lied to America from the beginning, he maintained his lie throughout two elections and two terms and he used “Christianity” as a tool in support of that lie — all in pursuit of a policy that contradicts biblical standards.

Then, Axelrod explained, Obama gradually changed his public statements to what his personal beliefs were all along, that homosexuals have a right to marry.

In fact, Axelrod wrote that Obama told him, “I’m just not very good at bulls——-.”

The Daily Mail, however, noted even that is a “claim that Republicans would dispute.”

Obama responded to Axelrod’s claims, CNN said, by claiming the writer got his story wrong.

But in his statement, he actually confirmed that his multiple statements were, if not actual lies, misleading. He noted he had to work around “religious sensitivities.”

Explained Obama: “I think David is mixing up my personal feelings with my position on the issue. I always felt that same-sex couples should be able to enjoy the same rights, legally, as anybody else, and so it was frustrating to me not to, I think, be able to square that with what were a whole bunch of religious sensitivities out there.”

Axelrod had explained it this way: “Obama never felt comfortable with his compromise and, no doubt, compromised position. He routinely stumbled over the question when it came up in debates or interviews, ‘I’m just not very good at bulls——-,’ he said with a sigh after one such awkward exchange.”

While running for the Illinois Senate in the late 1990s, Obama responded to a questionnaire that he favored legalizing homosexual marriage and “would fight” any prohibitions.

But he changed his public stance, according to Axelrod, because of the advice that black churches, whose votes he desperately needed, held the opposite view.

Eventually, Obama’s strategy was outed by Vice President Joe Biden, who said on a Sunday talk show that his boss was “absolutely comfortable” with “gay marriage.”

Now Obama is wholeheartedly supporting same-sex marriage, going so far as to suggest that the U.S. Supreme Court will mandate it nationwide as early as this summer.

It’s already in 37 states, mostly because of the activism of federal judges who have overruled the will of voters.

The Daily Mail described Obama’s conflicting statements as “duplicity,” explaining that two days before his election he said he was not in favor of “gay marriage,” but within months said his perspective was evolving.

“Gay marriage was a particularly nagging issue. For as long as we had been working together, Obama had felt a tug between his personal views and the politics of gay marriage,” wrote Axelrod in his book. “Opposition to gay marriage was particularly strong in the black church, and as he ran for higher office, he grudgingly accepted the counsel of more pragmatic folks like me, and modified his position to support civil unions rather than marriage, which he would term a ‘sacred union.’”

WND’s reporting on Obama’s lies has been extensive, including one called the “Big Lie” that says America’s unemployment rates are declining.

John Williams, purveyor of the popular website ShadowStats.com and a well-known critic of politically manipulated government economic statistics, has documented the government’s misleading reporting. Recently, Gallup Chairman and CEO Jim Clifton wrote a blistering op-ed attacking the government’s “extremely misleading” unemployment statistics.

“There’s no other way to say this,” wrote Clifton. “The official unemployment rate, which cruelly overlooks the suffering of the long-term and often permanently unemployed as well as the depressingly underemployed, amounts to a Big Lie.”

Williams believes actual unemployment is 23 percent, pointing out the Bureau of Labor Statistics excludes from the labor force anyone who is “so hopelessly out of work that you’ve stopped looking over the past four weeks.”

Noting the Gallup chief’s surprising public rebuke, Williams says Main Street is not fooled by hype from the government.

“Main Street U.S.A. was not looking at a fully recovered and booming economy in the third quarter 2014, as of the November 4, 2014 election,” Williams wrote. “The exit-poll economic rating was consistent with an outright quarter-to-quarter contraction in real third-quarter GDP activity, a quarter that had ended on September 30th, more than one month before the election.”

Williams noted that in the famous 1997 movie comedy “Liar Liar,” actor Jim Carrey plays a lawyer who magically is forced to tell the truth for 24 hours.

“Let’s imagine that such a wish forced President Obama to do the same, not for 24 hours, but only during his State of the Union address.”

Columnist Dennis Prager conjectures a candid Obama would have said: “While I salute the courage of all the Americans who served [in Iraq and Afghanistan], my withdrawal [of troops] has rendered their sacrifices meaningless. I made it possible for the Islamic State to rise, to control Mosul and other areas of Iraq, and enabled Iran, the most dangerous country in the world, to fill the void we left.”

And, Prager wrote, Obama would have commented on the economy: “I know that in every country in the world only a few do spectacularly well. And as long as some human beings have more ability, work harder and/or have more luck than others, that will always be the case. So why did I ask this pointless question? Because it foments class anger.”

Further, Obama would have said: “In my six years as president, it is we Democrats who have sorted Americans into factions – blacks against whites, women against men and the poor and middle class against those who are richer – more than at any time in American history. How else can a Democrat win an election? If blacks don’t resent whites, women don’t think they are being suppressed by male sexism, and the 99 percent don’t resent the one percent, Democrats will never win an election.”

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