Obama rep: We're not supporting American values

  This excerpt is from the SOTU speech last night. I confess I was already asleep in my chair, mouth open and dreaming of an island in the sun but here it is:

Or we can restore an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules. What's at stake are not Democratic values or Republican values, but American values. We have to reclaim them.

  Now read this, which the newly appointed US ambassador to Russia said publicly:

The new U.S. ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, said that in dealing with the former Soviet Union, he and the Obama administration would be advocating “universal values” and “not American values.” [SNIP] 

“And we -- as President Obama has said many, many times -- we’re not going to get into the business of dictating that path,” McFaul said. “We’re just going to support what we like to call ‘universal values’ – not American values, not Western values, universal values.” 

  Okay, so is it just me, or do these statements seem contradictory?
  As always with these weasels, you have to actually observe what they do and not just what they say.
  Lying is a way of life.