Obama's Lies
 



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Abortion
Lies
In 2001, Senator Barack Obama was the only member of the Illinois senate to speak against a bill that would have recognized premature abortion survivors as "persons."  The bill was in response to a Chicago-area hospital that was leaving such babies to die.  Obama voted "present" on the bill after denouncing it.  It passed the state Senate but died in a state house committee.

In 2003, a similar bill came before Obama's health committee.  He voted against it.  But this time, the legislation was slightly different.  This latter version was identical to the federal Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, which by then had already passed the U.S. Senate unanimously (with a hearty endorsement even from abortion advocate Sen. Barbara Boxer) and had been signed into law by President Bush.

Sen. Obama is currently misleading people about what he voted against, specifically claiming that the bill he voted against in his committee lacked "neutrality" language on Roe v. Wade.  The bill did contain this language.  He even participated in the unanimous vote to put it in.

Obama's work against the bill to protect premature babies represents one of two times in his political career, along with his speech against the Iraq war, that he really stuck out his neck for something that might hurt him politically.  Unlike his Iraq speech, Obama is deeply embarrassed about this one -- so embarrassed that he is offering a demonstrable falsehood in explanation for his actions.  Fortunately, the documents showing the truth are now available.

Details . . .
Abortion
Lies

   


Explosive Audio Found Obama arguing against BAIPA (02:14)


This audio documents Obama's evolving BAIPA lies.  In it, Obama coldly claims two doctors helping a baby born alive after a botched abortion would be a burden for the aborting mother when he is arguing against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act (BAIPA) at the Illinois state legislature April 2002.

Afghanistan For months now, Obama has been saying that the real war on terror is in Afghanistan and that he was going to send two additional brigades and increase the pressure on the Taliban.

Well, that was then -- this is now, February, 2009:

Obama has demanded that American defense chiefs review their strategy in Afghanistan before going ahead with a troop surge.

There is concern among senior Democrats that the military is preparing to send up to 30,000 extra troops without a coherent plan or exit strategy.

The Pentagon was set to announce the deployment of 17,000 extra soldiers and marines last week but Robert Gates, the defense secretary, postponed the decision after questions from Obama.

The president was concerned by a lack of strategy at his first meeting with Gates and the US joint chiefs of staff last month in "the tank," the secure conference room in the Pentagon.  He asked: "What's the endgame?" and did not receive a convincing answer.

Larry Korb, a defense expert at the Center for American Progress, a Washington think tank, said: "Obama is exactly right.  Before he agrees to send 30,000 troops, he wants to know what the mission and the endgame is."

Leading Democrats fear Afghanistan could become Obama's "Vietnam quagmire."
Ambition
Lie
Obama said, "I'm not running because I'm trying to fulfill some long-held plan."

Oh, really?

Iis Darmawan, 63, Obama's teacher in 1970, remembers him as an exceptionally tall and curly haired child who quickly picked up the local language and had sharp math skills. "He wrote an essay  titled, 'I Want To Become President,'" the teacher said.

In 1971, Obama's sister Maya, has also said, "There was always a joke between my mom and Barack that he would be the first black president."

In 1991, David B. Wilkins , the Kirkland and Ellis professor of law, said he advised Obama to become a Supreme Court Clerk.  "Obama recognized the honor in pursuing that post," Wilkins said, but quickly added that he wasn't interested.

"He said that he wanted to write a book about his life and his father, go back to Chicago, get back into the community, and run for office there.  He knew exactly what he wanted and went about getting it done," Wilkins said.

In 1992,
Obama's brother-in-law, Craig Robinson pulled him aside and asked about his plans.  "He said, 'I think I’d like to teach at some point in time, and maybe run for public office,'" recalls Robinson, who assumed Senator Obama meant he'd like to run for city alderman.  "He said no -- at some point he'd like to run for the U.S. Senate.  And then he said, 'Possibly even run for President at some point.'  And I was like, 'Okay, but don't say that to my Aunt Gracie.'  I was protecting him from saying something that might embarrass him."

In 1993, Obama began teaching at the University of Chicago Law School, where he declined to pursue a tenure-track post, hoping to save time for politics.

The one thread, that remains consistent, throughout Obama's life, is his teacher's, mentor's and friend's recollection of Obama's single-minded pursuit of high political office.
Auto Lie Obama botched his facts in a speech criticizing the U.S. auto industry for "investing in bigger and faster cars while foreign competitors invested in more fuel-efficient technology."

Obama stated that "while our fuel standards haven't moved from 27.5 miles per gallon in two decades, both China and Japan have surpassed us, with Japanese cars now getting an average of 45 miles to the gallon."  But Toyota, which should know, has responded, "No carmaker gets 45 mpg; ours is closer to 30 mpg."

Well, we're glad to see Obama's shifting the blame from the consumer to the automakers.  That must explain why the Illinois Senator and Presidential candidate owns a HEMI-powered V8 Chrysler 300C

Obviously it's Chrysler's fault Obama bought a big 5.7-liter engine from them -- he just didn't have a choice.
Bin Laden
Lie
Barack Obama suggested last night that removing Osama bin Laden from the battlefield was no longer essential and that America's security goals could be achieved merely by keeping al-Qaeda "on the run".

"My preference obviously would be to capture or kill him," he said.  "But if we  have so tightened the noose that he's in a cave somewhere and can't even communicate with his operatives then we will meet our goal of protecting America."

His comments, in a CBS interview, represent a significant watering down of the "dead or alive" policy pursued by President Bush since the terror attacks of September 11, 2001.  They also appear to contradict Obama's own statements made in the election campaign.

As recently as October 7, in a presidential debate, Obama said: "We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al-Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority."

Obama must have a mouse in his pocket when he says, "But if we  have so tightened the noose..."  He is describing a situation that he had nothing to do with.  George Bush is the man who tightened that noose and Obama was against the president's actions the whole way.  Now he takes credit for it.  A frequent practice of Obama -- taking credit for the work of others.
Birth Lies Obama's terror law speech was profoundly candid.  Over and over again, in words that were at times eloquent and at times simple, the president conceded the limitations of the executive branch's ability to easily or quickly solve some of the very same legal issues that beguiled the Bush Administration for nearly eight years.

During the speech, Obama said, "I will never hide the truth because it is uncomfortable."

If that isn't the biggest pile of horse manure ever!

For more than two years, Obama has employed teams of lawyers in a dozen states to hide the truth surrounding his birth, college, travel and medical records.  Who does this guy think he's kidding?
Birth Lies

The Born Conspiracy

By Ron Polarik, Ph.D.


Dr. Polarik's final report is the culmination of over four months of intensive, empirical research, the sole purpose of which has been to determine if the images and photographs posted on the Internet are true reproductions of a genuine document purported to be Obama's original birth certificate.

In his report, Dr. Polarik, who holds a Ph.D. in Instructional Media and specializes in computer graphics with over 20 years experience with computers, printers and typewriters, provides conclusive and irrefutable evidence that the Certificate of Live Birth (COLB) image created and distributed by Obama's campaign to the Daily Kos, Annenberg's Factcheck, and the St. Petersburg Times, and Politifact, is, unquestionably, a false identification document.

Furthermore, there is conclusive and irrefutable evidence that the photos taken by Annenberg's Factcheck, in collusion with the Obama campaign, are themselves, false identification documents, having been made from the same false identification document image, as well as from additional false identification documents created for the same purpose; namely, to proffer these false identification documents as true reproductions of a genuine, Hawaii-issued and certified, "Certification of Live Birth" document, and thereby, intentionally deceive the American public into believing that Barack Hussein Obama is a natural-born citizen[NaturalBornCitizen.htm - MISSING] of the United States, and thereby, fully qualified to become their President.

Sadly, mainstream media have totally ignored this inconvenient truth and are not even been willing to even look at this birth certificate issue.  They are all still in-the-tank for Obama, but even more so now that he is in line to be President.  They all bought into the lies and fraudulent documents proffered up as evidence on Obama's qualifications.  They have been too quick to label as "trash" or "garbage" any legitimate questions asked about Obama's real birth certificate.  Even high-ranking governmental officials in the state of Hawaii where Obama was allegedly born, won't reveal what's on Obama's original birth certificate.  All they have said is that they have it.  They have not said (1) where Obama was born, (2) when Obama was born, or (3) even to whom Obama was born.

The answer to "What's on Barack Obama's real, original birth certificate" ranks right up there with some of the great mysteries of our time -- and that is really hard to swallow.  That a man, with a dubious background, has been elected to the highest office of the greatest superpower in the world without ever having to prove who he says he is!  That is not "nutty," that's just plain insane!

With all that said, and without further ado, I present to you my final and complete report on Barack Obama's bogus birth certificate, The Born Conspiracy.

Dr. Polariks' Final Report

WARNING:  This explosive report is BIG with many large images.  If you do not have high-speed Internet access, go get a cup of coffee when you click the link.

Birth Lies

Earth Frisk Blog says they have contacted every hospital in Honolulu and says there is no record of Obama's birth at any Hawaii hospital and no record for Obama's mother at any Hawaii hospital.

All of the following hospitals were called or visited from November 20 through December 2nd, 2008.  It was confirmed that OBAMA was not born in any hospital in Honolulu County!  NONE!

Hospital employees were bribed and some gave info for free.

Hospitals you can check yourself:
 

bullet The Queen's Medical Center - Honolulu, Hawaii  -- Obama claims as his birth hospital -- Obama and Mom Never Here 
bullet Kapiolani Medical Center -- Obama's sister claims Barack Obama born here -- Obama and Mom Never Here
bullet Honolulu Shriners Hospital  -- Never a patient -- Mom or Obama
bullet Straub Clinic & Hospital  -- Never a patient -- Mom or Obama
bullet Hawaii Health Systems Corporation -- Honolulu, Hawaii -- Never a patient -- Mom or Obama
bullet Cancer Institute of Maui -- Wailuku, Hawaii -- No Comment???
bullet Kuakini Hospital -- Honolulu, Hawaii -- Never a patient -- Mom or Obama
bullet Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific -- Honolulu, Hawaii -- Never a patient -- Mom or Obama
bullet St. Francis Healthcare System of Hawaii -- Hawaii -- Never a patient -- Mom or Obama
bullet Straub Heatlh -- Honolulu, Hawaii -- Never a patient -- Mom or Obama
bullet Tripler Medical Center -- Honolulu, Hawaii -- Never a patient -- Mom or Obama
bullet Wahiawa General Hospital -- Wahiawa, Hawaii -- Never a patient -- Mom or Obama
bullet Wilcox Memorial Hospital -- Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii -- Never a patient -- Mom or Obama


Earth Frisk Blog contends they were pretty detailed in their calls and visits thanks to dozens of native Hawaiian patriots.  To the College Republicans all over the Island kudos.  You can look at every hospital here and call or visit any of them.  Everyone has a family member working in a hospital.  Talk, pay and bribe.  You can file freedom of information acts, you can do everything and anything you wish.  Barack Obama was never born in a hospital in Hawaii as claimed.

Only his original, vault-copy birth certificate, that he has had sealed will have this info.  Will the Supreme Court force it open and thus preserve the Constitution of the United States?

Campaign
Lies

The Los Angeles Times reports that in an interview on ABC's "This Week," President-elect Obama acknowledged that not everything he promised to do during the campaign would be able to happen quickly. 

 

In particular, he said, he was unlikely to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center in the first 100 days of his presidency.  The Financial Times says the remarks "may prove disappointing to some of his supporters."

 

In a front-page story titled "Obama Signals His Reluctance To Look Into Bush Policies," the New York Times reports President-elect Obama "signaled in an interview broadcast Sunday that he was unlikely to authorize a broad inquiry into Bush administration programs like domestic eavesdropping or the treatment of terrorism suspects."  At the Central Intelligence Agency, "in particular, many officers flatly oppose any further review and may protest the prospect of a broad inquiry into their past conduct."

 

The Washington Times notes that "the most popular question on the Obama transition team's Web site is whether he will appoint a special prosecutor to investigate torture and warrantless wiretapping conducted by the Bush administration."  William Kristol writes in the New York Times, "Perhaps the president-elect was just being polite.  Or perhaps he just enjoys torturing (metaphorically!) some of his previously most ardent supporters who want Dick Cheney tried as a war criminal."

Campaign
Lies
In After only two months in office, President Obama may have fallen short on a number of his campaign promises.

1: Sunlight Before Signing -- "When there is a bill that ends up on my desk as the president, you the public will have five days to look online and find out what's in it before I sign it," he said.

2: Capital gains tax elimination -- Just weeks prior to the election, Obama advisers Austan Goolsbee and Jason Furman told the Wall Street Journal that Obama planned tax cuts that included "the elimination of capital gains taxes for small businesses and start-ups."

3: New American jobs tax credit -- During his transition, Obama's promised to provide a $3,000 refundable tax credit to existing businesses for every additional full-time U.S. employee hired in 2009 and 2010.

4: Hiatus on 401(k) penalties -- In October 2008, Obama released his "Rescue Plan for the Middle-Class" in which he promised to allow financially distressed Americans to withdraw up to $10,000 from their 401(k) accounts and retirement savings without having to pay penalties. They would only pay income taxes on the amount.

5: No jobs for lobbyists -- "I am in this race to tell the corporate lobbyists that their days of setting the agenda in Washington are over. I have done more than any other candidate in this race to take on lobbyists - and won. They have not funded my campaign, they will not run my White House, and they will not drown out the voices of the American people when I am president."

6: Earmark reform -- at the first presidential debate in Oxford, Miss., Obama declared, "[W]e need earmark reform. And when I'm president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely."

7: Bring troops home in 16 months -- Even as combat troops are brought home, Pentagon officials have said fresh units will continue deploying to Iraq.

8: Sign "Freedom of Choice Act" -- Obama expressed his support for the sweeping plan that would repeal all national and state regulations of abortion passed over the last 35 years.

9: $4,000 college credit -- Obama pledged to make college "affordable for all Americans" when he announced his American Opportunity Tax Credit.

No. 10: Transparency -- On the White House website, the Obama administration claims it will be "the most open and transparent in history.

Details here . . .
The
Candidacy
Lie
Obama filed his Federal Elections Commission (FEC) Form 2, Statement of Candidacy, on February 12, 2007.  It was stamped "Received" at the FEC Mail Center at 2:39 PM, that date.

 

The first entry, Item 1. (a) Name of Candidate (In Full), contains the entry "Barack Obama."  Item 7. identifies his Principal Campaign Committee (2008) as "Obama for America."  Obama's signature boldly appears under the statement, "I certify that I have examined this Statement and to the best of my knowledge and belief it is true, correct and complete."

On September 15, 2008, a second FEC Form 2 was filed, adding "Biden, Joseph R."  On this form, Obama certifies himself in entry 1. (a) Name of Candidate (In Full), as "Obama, Barack."  The complete 1. (a) entry is, "Obama, Barack/Biden, Joseph R."  This form is unsigned, containing the typewritten entry, "Obama, Barack/Biden, Joseph R." in the Signature block.

FEC Form 2 clearly states, "Note: Submission of false, erroneous or incomplete information may subject the person signing this Statement to penalties of 2 U. S. C. §437g."

This could be nothing, but one has to ask, why did Obama submit both statements with an improper name?  And, why is the statement adding Biden's name not signed?  After all, these are the foundation documents to Obama's candidacy.

Obama is an attorney, who is surrounded by attorneys.  One would think that these documents would have been scanned several times for errors and omissions prior to their submission.  And, why did Obama provide an improper name, not once, but twice -- or did he?

It may not matter, since Nancy Pelosi certifies that Obama's on the level?

Thanks RAS -- he's British and he doesn't understand this stuff.

Christian
Myth
Barack Obama announced last Thursday that he has begun a web site to fight 'rumors,'"  Andy Martin states.  "To be sure, some of what is said about Obama is exaggerated or untrue.  I refuse to publish a great deal of anti-Obama material that crosses my desk.  But much of what Obama characterizes as 'rumor' is true.  Obama has been lying about his family and his religious past his entire life.  This time he will not get away with his lies."

"Obama says in large print and underlines 'Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim, and is a committed Christian," Martin states.  "Two thirds of that claim are bald-faced lies.  The last third, about Obama's Christianity, has never been adequately documented.  Most people who are baptized have a Baptismal Certificate.  I call on Obama to release his Baptismal Certificate or record.  Many Americans do not believe that sitting in the pews, listening to Reverend Jeremiah Wright's racist jeremiads for two decades qualifies anyone to be a 'committed Christian.'"  Committed racist and America-hater, maybe.

I have corresponded with three Chicago-area journalists, inquiring about a baptism.  There is NO record, anywhere, of Barack Hussein Obama ever having been baptized.  He is only a Christian because he says so -- although I don't believe the Trinity UCC church is a Christian Church -- it is a Black African church and their website is very clear about that.  From the Trinity UCC website:

The vision statement of Trinity United Church of Christ is based upon the systematized liberation theology that started in 1969 with the publication of Dr. James Cone's book, Black Power and Black Theology.

Black theology is one of the many theologies in the Americas that became popular during the liberation theology movement. They include Hispanic theology, Native American theology, Asian theology and Womanist theology.

That stuff isn't theology -- it's politics!.
Conception
Myth
As another example, consider Obama's stirring tale for the Selma audience about how he had been conceived by his parents, Barack Obama Sr. and Ann Dunham, because they had been inspired by the fervor following the "Bloody Sunday" voting rights demonstration that was commemorated March 4.  "There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama," he said, "because some folks are willing to march across a bridge.  So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born.  So don't tell me I don't have a claim on Selma, Alabama.  Don't tell me I'm not coming home to Selma, Alabama"

Obama was born in 1961, and the Selma march occurred four years later, in 1965.  The New York Times reported that when the senator was asked about the discrepancy later that day, he clarified: "I meant the whole civil rights movement."
Cyber
Lie
Hot Air reports that last week, Barack Obama announced the creation of a cyber security czar, giving his administration more czars than the Russian Empire, but that's another issue altogether.  In order to convince Americans of the necessity of such a position, Obama gave us this dire scenario in his speech:

"In short, America's economic prosperity in the 21st century will depend on cybersecurity."

"And this is also a matter of public safety and national security. We count on computer networks to deliver our oil and gas, our power and our water.  We rely on them for public transportation and air traffic control.  Yet we know that cyber intruders have probed our electrical grid and that in other countries cyber attacks have plunged entire cities into darkness."


Rob Rosenberger at Vmyths, a site dedicated to debunking urban legends about cyberspace, said, that he, and other experts, bashed this urban legend more than a year ago.  Now, Obama is spouting it as if it's a fact.

Rosenberger says Obama has basically told a boogeyman story:

This report is an urban legend because no one knows any details whatsoever.  To be specific:

•  Who plunged entire cities into darkness with the click of a mouse?  No one knows.
•  When did these cyber-terrorists plunge entire cities into darkness with the click of a mouse?  No one knows.
•  Where are these cities that plunged into darkness with the click of a mouse?  No one knows.
•  Why did the cyber-terrorists plunge these cities into darkness with the click of a mouse?  No one knows.
•  How widespread were these cyber-terror blackouts?  No one knows.
•  Whose power grid Internet connection did the cyber-terrorists exploit?  No one knows.
•  How many victims perished in these cyber-attacks?  No one knows.
Draft
Registration
Lie

Debbie Schussle wants to know if President-elect Barack Hussein Obama committed a federal crime in September of this year?

 

Did he never actually register and, instead, did friends of his in the Chicago federal records center, which maintains the official copy of his alleged Selective Service registration commit the crime for him?

It's either one or the other, as indicated by the release of Barack Obama's official Selective Service registration for the draft. A friend of mine, who is a retired federal agent, spent almost a year trying to obtain this document through a Freedom of Information Act request, and, after much stonewalling, finally received it and released it to me.

But the release of Obama's draft registration and an accompanying document, posted below, raises more questions than it answers. And it shows many signs of fraud, not to mention putting the lie to Obama's claim that he registered for the draft in June 1979, before it was required by law.

Check out THIS documentation.

Draft
Questions
Sharp-eyed Lexie made this observation.  Obama's signatures are different on his allegedly  counterfeit Selective Service Registration and his Statement of Candidacy.  Imagine that?


Selective Service Registration

Candidacy Form


Since the Selective Service Registration form contains a forged signature, then Obama is in violation of the Selective Service Act.  Penalties for Failure to Register for the Draft:


•  Men who do not register could be prosecuted and, if convicted, fined up to $250,000 and/or serve up to five years in prison.  In addition, men who fail to register with Selective Service before turning age 26, even if not prosecuted, will become ineligible for:

•  Student Financial Aid -- including Pell Grants, College Work Study, Guaranteed Student/Plus Loans, and National Direct Student Loans.

•  U.S. Citizenship -- if the man first arrived in the U.S. before his 26th birthday.

•  Federal Job Training -- The Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) offers programs that can train young men for jobs in auto mechanics and other skills. This program is only open to those men who register with Selective Service.

•  Federal Jobs -- men born after December 31, 1959 must be registered to be eligible for jobs in the Executive Branch* of the Federal government and the U.S. Postal Service.


In addition, several states have added additional penalties for those who fail to register.

*  Last time I checked, the President is a member of the Executive Branch, and Obama was definitely born after 12/31/1959. If that isn't his signature, he's NOT ELIGIBLE!
 

Thanks to all of you who contributed samples of Obama's signature.  After viewing a dozen or so samples, this signature, posted at Wikipedia and the one on the Candidacy Form, appears to be the "real deal."

Several readers have made the observation that signatures change over time, and that is true.  However, the draft registration form above has been demonstrated to be counterfeit, so the question is, who prepared and signed this forgery, and how did they get it into the Selective Service Data Center?

Earmarks
Economy
Lies
The Caucus Blog of The New York Times says that Obama's transition staff are claiming that his so-called economic recovery plan will be a "paperless plan." 

Forget the usual detailed documents, cost estimates and announcement fanfare that capital watchers expect for the unveiling of major initiatives.  Obama and his advisers suggested on Friday that he has provided the "framework" of a plan in recent public remarks; now Congress, coordinating with the Obama team, will flesh it out.

Obama and his advisers "wanted to set the broad outline and, very smartly, want Congress to sort of fill in some of the details," Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, said in an interview.  "It just makes sense.  There's a lot of knowledge here on the Hill."

Obama admits his $800 billion dollar plan isn't a plan at all and is written on a whiteboard in dry erase markers.
Economy
Lies
On January 9th, 2009, Obama said, "There is no disagreement that we need action by our government, a recovery plan that will help to jumpstart the economy."

However, that statement is false.

Notwithstanding reports that all economists are now Keynesians and that we all support a big increase in the burden of government, we the undersigned do not believe that more government spending is a way to improve economic performance.  More government spending by Hoover and Roosevelt did not pull the United States economy out of the Great Depression in the 1930s.  More government spending did not solve Japan's "lost decade" in the 1990s.  As such, it is a triumph of hope over experience to believe that more government spending will help the U.S. today.  To improve the economy, policymakers should focus on reforms that remove impediments to work, saving, investment and production.  Lower tax rates and a reduction in the burden of government are the best ways of using fiscal policy to boost growth.

Signed by 200 academic economists, including three Nobel prize-winners.
Energy Lies When reading this article, please keep in mind that Obama received the following presidential contributions -- Exelon employees $236,211 (Source: OpenSecrets -- The Center for Responsive Politics):  note, Exelon employees also gave over $270,000 to Obama's State Senate campaign, total over $500,000.

Obama scolded Exelon and federal regulators for inaction and introduced a bill to require all plant owners to notify state and local authorities immediately of even small leaks.  He has boasted of it on the campaign trail, telling a crowd in Iowa in December (2007) that it was, "the only nuclear legislation that I've passed.  I just did that last year," he said, to murmurs of approval.

But, contrary to Obama's comments in Iowa, the bill died amid parliamentary wrangling in the full Senate.

The history of the bill shows Obama navigating a home-state controversy that pitted two important constituencies against each other and tested his skills as a legislative infighter.  On one side were neighbors of several nuclear plants upset that low-level radioactive leaks had gone unreported for years; on the other was Exelon, the country's largest nuclear plant operator and one of Obama's largest sources of campaign money.

IN TRUTH, Mr. Obama told the Iowan's that he PASSED nuclear legislation, "just last year (2007)."

IN TRUTH, Mr. Obama LIED -- his nuclear legislation bill NEVER PASSED!

This was a KEY Issue that swayed the Iowa Caucus in his favor, as the folks of Iowa were facing similar issues regarding nuclear power plants, and they mistakenly were "hoodwinked and  boondoggled" by a slick Chicago politician, who was willing to tell them anything to get their votes, even lying about his legislative record.

Mr. Obama in his 3+ years in the US Senate has sponsored ONLY TWO pieces of legislation that have become law:

1.  A bill to promote democracy in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
 
2.  A bill to name a post office.
Energy Lies John at PowerLine notes that Barack Obama has seen which way the wind is blowing on gas prices, and today he changed his mind about offshore drilling:

"My interest is in making sure we've got the kind of comprehensive energy policy that can bring down gas prices," Obama said in an interview with The Palm Beach Post.

"If, in order to get that passed, we have to compromise in terms of a careful, well thought-out drilling strategy that was carefully circumscribed to avoid significant environmental damage -- I don't want to be so rigid that we can't get something done."

Obama left no doubt about the political calculation behind his flip-flop:

"The Republicans and the oil companies have been really beating the drums on drilling," Obama said in the Post interview.  "And so we don't want gridlock.  We want to get something done."
As I've said before, there is no philosophical or political principle that Obama cares much about, other than the desirability of his own ascension to the Presidency.  So we can look forward to more such shifts between now and November.

That'll just give Obama more oil to tax.
Environmental
Hypocrisy
Here's an environmental impact story you're not likely to see in the mainstream media.  Neither NBC's chief environmental affair correspondent Anne Thompson, nor ABC correspondent Bill Blakemore nor CBS "60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley -- all of whom have been eager over the years to expose so-called crimes against the environment -- have rushed to report on the massive carbon footprint of the Obama inauguration.

But a comprehensive new study by The Institute for Liberty (IFL) took an in-depth look at each component of the Jan. 20 inauguration in Washington, D.C., and estimated that 575 million pounds of carbon dioxide will be emitted in the atmosphere for the inauguration -- which is roughly equal to what the average American household would produce in 57,598 years.

Speaking with the Business & Media Institute, IFL President Andrew Langer noted the hypocrisy of the event having so large an environmental impact, especially in light of the strong stands promoting the case for manmade global warming of many of Obama's cabinet picks.
The Fantasy
Lie
Would somebody please inform this egomaniac that there ain't no such thing as the "Office of the President Elect."



Especially when he is not yet the president elect.  That won't happen until after the Electoral College convenes on December 15th and the Electors vote.  The results are then presented to a joint session of Congress on January 6, 2009.  Objections may be presented and heard.  Then  Congress certifies the votes.  Only then would Obama be the "president elect. 

Since Obama resigned his seat in the US Senate, he is, at this time, an unemployed  private citizen, with no power and no authority -- just arrogance. 

And, there's that damned seal again.  I fully expect Obama to have a military uniform (with 6 stars, of course) that he can wear when he's acting in the role of Commander-in-Chief (what an absolutely repulsive thought).

Farrakhan
Lie
In Levittown, Penn., today, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, was asked about his church's magazine giving an award to Rev. Louis Farrakhan.  "This was done by a magazine that was connected to the church," Obama explained.  "I would have never done it.  It was primary focused on the rehabilitation work that they do for ex-offenders in Chicago.  That doesn't excuse it, that just explains it."

The first time Obama said this, I could believe he was misinformed [update: indeed, the first time he said this, he only said he "assumed" this was the reason].  The second time, perhaps that he was caught off guard and didn't have his story straight.  Now, I can only conclude that he is intentionally choosing to blatantly lie about this, hoping that no one will notice and call him on it.

Let's recall the facts: The magazine explicitly explained in the video it prepared for the banquet at which Farrakhan was honored that it was honoring Farrakhan for his purported dedication to "truth, education, and leadership."  [Surprise, surprise, the video seems to have been pulled from YouTube.]  Obama's spiritual mentor Rev. Wright, meanwhile praised Farrakhan in the magazine for his "astounding and eye-opening" analysis of the "racial ills of this nation," a "perspective" that is "helpful and honest."  I even got hold of the interview the magazine did with Farrakhan.  No mention was made in any of these sources of "rehabilitation work for ex-offenders."
Flippin'
And
Floppin'
The flip -- On Wednesday, June 4th, Obama, appearing in front of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, said Jerusalem should be Israel's undivided capital, saying, "Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided."

The flop -- Well, on Thursday, the 5th, Palestinian leaders reacted with anger and dismay to this statement, so Obama immediately flip-flopped on his support for Israel's stance on Jerusalem, saying Palestinians and Israelis had to negotiate the future of the holy city.

The flip -- Yesterday, June 18th, Obama said he would want to bring Osama ben Laden to justice "in a way that allows the entire world to understand the murderous acts that he's engaged in and not to make him into a martyr."

The flop -- Today, Obama implied that he would kill bin Laden without a trial, saying, "First of all, I think there is an executive order out on Osama bin Laden's head.  And if I'm president, and we have the opportunity to capture him, we may not be able to capture him alive."

Of course, there is no known Presidential Executive Order "out on Osama bin Laden's head."

If Obama is unwilling to say kill Osama bin Laden, he cannot hide behind an Executive Order that does not exist, mumbo jumbo about how he never threatens, or the need for diplomacy.

And, watch Obama flip-flop his way around free trade and the FISA bill.  He makes John Kerry look like the Rock of Gibraltar.

 


Obama has no position on anything he'll flip-flop all day long -- hell, he even makes stuff up as he goes along.  This guy will say absolutely anything he thinks people want to hear.

Flippin'
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Floppin'
Is it just one more flip-flop, or one more lie?  Either way, it is more proof that Obama's word isn't worth squat, and he and the truth are complete strangers.

When the Obamamessiah campaign started 17 months ago, Obama said he'd pursue public financing "aggressively."  He committed to it in a written questionnaire.  He even said, repeatedly, that he would meet personally with Senator John McCain to discuss a deal.

On February 8th, 2007, MSNBC reported that, ""Senator Obama has long been a proponent of public financing of campaigns and we are asking the FEC to take a step that could preserve the public financing option for the party's nominees," said Obama spokesman Bill Burton.

Yesterday, Obama abandoned his pledges to accept public financing for his presidential campaign.

This flip-flop, or lie, makes Obama the first presidential candidate to opt out of the current system since it was put in place after the Watergate scandal and a complete hypocrite.



Don't tell me words don't matter.  (00:48)


This is obviously "change we can believe in."

Obama is proving that he will say and do anything that will get him elected to office -- he makes the Clintons look positively trustworthy by comparison.

Here's a question to ponder -- how many of Obama's contributions, pouring in to his website, are coming in from outside of the country, in violation of the law?

Flippin'
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Floppin'
After using the radical left for his entire political career, Barack Obama is clumsily flip-flopping his way toward something resembling a "center."  His latest policy double-backflip caused so much rage among the Obamalytes that he's now trying to reassure them his plan to surrender hasn't changed one bit

Obama has also flip-flopped on unwarranted wiretapping, Israel, free trade, gun control, the death penalty, faith based programs, welfare reform, abortion, the Patriot Act, campaign finance, and the Cuban embargo.

Your Assignment: Compile Obama's Flip-Flops.

Obama is bamboozling, hoodwinking, and doing the okie dokie all the way to the White House.
Flippin'
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From Patterico's Pontifications

Your Assignment: Compile Obama's Flip-Flops

[This post will remain bumped to the top through Monday. New posts will appear below. -- Patterico]

I want you to help me compile a full list of Obama's flip-flops.

Leave a comment fully documenting one or more flip-flops.  Links are critical.  For maximum usefulness, I would like to see the following for each flip-flop:

1) Obama's original quote, with a link.

2) His later flip-flopping quote, also with a link.

Here's an example of what I'm looking for:

Flip: Obama says the health exception for late-term abortions has to be a serious physical issue:

I have repeatedly said that I think it's entirely appropriate for states to restrict or even prohibit late-term abortions as long as there is a strict, well-defined exception for the health of the mother.  Now, I don't think that 'mental distress' qualifies as the health of the mother.  I think it has to be a serious physical issue that arises in pregnancy, where there are real, significant problems to the mother carrying that child to term.

Flop: the health exception can include non-physical issues like mental diseases:

My only point is that in an area like partial birth abortion having a mental, having a health exception can be defined rigorously . . . It can be defined through physical health.  It can be defined by serious clinical mental health diseases.

Video proof of a flip-flop is even better.  Link that if you have it.  I know there are videos like that out there.  I want to know about all of them.

Maximum participation, people!  If you do this well, I can bring it all together in a single, massive post that documents all of Obama's flip-flops.  In that post, I'll credit each person who first documents a particular flip-flop to my satisfaction.

Now start documenting!

The last time I looked, there were 279 responses -- check 'em out.
Flippin'
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Three weeks ago, Barack Obama said that he would not make Osama bin Laden into a martyr if he was captured.  Today, Barack Obama suddenly thinks the death penalty would be just fine for OBL.  In a CNN interview, Obama said about Osama bin Laden, "If he was captured alive, then we would make a decision to bring the full weight of not only US justice but world justice down on him.  And, uh, I think that I've said this before, that I am not a cheerleader for the death penalty. I think it has to be reserved for only the most heinous crimes, but I certainly think that plotting and engineering the death of 3,000 Americans justifies such an approach."

This is what he said on June 18th:

“What would be important would be for us to do it in a way that allows the entire world to understand the murderous acts that he's engaged in and not to make him into a martyr, and to assure that the United States government is abiding by basic conventions that would strengthen our hand in the broader battle against terrorism."
Food Stamps
Lie
Following Obama's recent dumb comment about small town Americans clinging to guns and religion, he defended himself by claiming that the notion of elitist is absurd because of his poor upbringing.  He said that his mother was on food stamps, so how could he be an elitist in his upbringing?

Here is the Time article written by Joe Klein in 2006, long before Obama decided to run for president.  Back then, he was seen as the rising star within Democratic Party, and he didn't worry about critics breathing down his neck.

Here is the key excerpt from the article:

"For example, I was going to a fancy prep school, and my mother was on food stamps while she was getting her Ph.D."

That is what Obama said.  He went to a fancy private school that today costs $15,000 per -- and his mother was studying for a Ph.D.

What Obama doesn't tell you is that he was in Punahou School in the 70's and mom studied for her Ph. D. in the early 90's.  Here is the Wikipedia entry:

In 1992 she earned a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Hawai'i with a dissertation titled Peasant blacksmithing in Indonesia: Surviving and Thriving Against All Odds.

That was thirteen years after Obama graduated from his "fancy prep school."

Obama consciously conflated these two events to produce a defense he knows to be untrue.
Ghost Writers
In The Sky
Evidence continues to mount that Barack Obama had substantial help from Bill Ayers in the creation of his 1995 book, Dreams From My Father, a book that Time Magazine has called "the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician."  The evidence falls into five general categories, here summarized.

The discovery of new matching nautical metaphors from both Ayers and Obama that almost assuredly came from the same source: Ayers, a former merchant seaman.

The discovery of a Bill Ayers' essay on memoir writing, whose postmodern themes and phrases are echoed throughout Dreams.

A newly discovered book chapter from 1990 that shows clearly and painfully the limits of Obama's prose style the year he received a contract to write Dreams.

The revelation by radical Islamicist Rashid Khalidi that Ayers made his "dining room table" available for neighborhood writers who needed help.

A refined timeline that shows Ayers had the means, the motive and the time to help Obama when he needed it most.

Jack Cashill lays it all out in great detail . . .
Ghost Writers
In The Sky
Jack Cashill contends that this essay, published by the radical Students Agaianst Militarism (SAM), represents the single best example of Obama's native writing skills yet unearthed.

Cashill says it should put an end to the charade that Barack Obama wrote his 1995 memoir "Dreams From My Father" unaided, but it probably won't.  The literary left has committed itself to Obama's genius.

"He wrote it himself," esteemed British author Jonathan Raban wrote of Obama's Dreams just last week in The Wall Street Journal.  "Every sentence has its own graceful cadence.  He could just as easily have been a novelist as a politician."

In "Breaking The War Mentality" every sentence clunks.  Obama not only makes scores of basic grammatical errors -- these, with practice, he might have learned to correct -- but he also fails to turn one lively or concise or even interesting phrase in the entire essay.

Here are some samples
Gitmo Lies President-elect Barack Obama vowed on the campaign trail to shut down the terrorist detention center at Guantanamo Bay. But he never said what he would do with the prisoners there.

What to do with the 250 alleged foreign terrorists at the Cuba prison is the real question facing Obama, experts say.

Terrorism experts and two recent analyses of unclassified information on the prison population indicate the men who remain there are either committed, highly skilled al-Qaeda operatives too dangerous to ever free, or Islamists whose native countries would do little to prevent them from rejoining the jihad.

"The words sounds simple, but it's wrapped in some very complex issues," Air Force Col. Mo Davis, former chief prosecutor at Guantanamo, said of shutting down the prison. "Saying it is a lot easier than doing it."

More . . .
Gitmo Lies In a wide-ranging 70-minute interview with Washington Post reporters and editors, Obama pledged quick action on the Middle East once he takes office, promised to support voting rights for D.C. residents, and said he will consider it a failure if he has not closed the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by the end of his first term in office.

What?  During the campaign, Obama often demanded the immediate closure of Gitmo and promised just that repeatedly.  It didn't make much of a splash during the general election, as John McCain made the same pledge.  In fact, his transition team suggested that Obama would issue an executive order in the first days of his administration to get the ball rolling on that task.

And now?  Now Obama has decided to set the expectation that it might take as long as four years to figure out how to fulfill his campaign promise.  This stunning nugget that dropped into the Post's lap was recognized as so newsworthy that the Post failed to even ask about the four-year shift in the timeline even once.  Gitmo only gets one more mention in the 34-paragraph story -- in paragraph 28.  And in that paragraph, the Post tells readers that Obama is "confident" that he can make his new self-imposed deadline of whenever.

This tends to prove the notion that the throbbingly warm reception Obama received this week in the Post's office was no fluke.
Gitmo
Lies
The No.2 Republican in the Senate took President Obama to task Sunday for claiming Guantanamo Bay created more terrorists than it ever detained by serving as a recruiting tool for Al Qaeda.

Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., called the charge "palpably false" and said the White House has not provided any evidence to back up the claim.

"He meant to say that 770 people or more became terrorists because we have a prison at Guantanamo?" Kyl said on "FOX News Sunday."

"9/11 hijackers didn't do their deeds because of Gitmo.  The people who ... blew up the (U.S.S.) Cole or the Kolbar Towers or the first World Trade Center didn't say, 'There's Gitmo down there,' because it didn't exist.  And even after that I don't think you saw guys sitting around in some coffee shop in Saudi Arabia, saying, 'You know, those Americans have this prison called Gitmo, I think I'll become a terrorist,'" he said.  "I mean, it's palpably false to suggest that the existence of Gitmo created terrorism, and yet the president gets away with that."

"We haven't done anything wrong there," Kyl said.  "We haven't lost our values and Dick Cheney's exactly right in what he said in his speech."

"Whether it's closed or not, we have to have a plan in place that outlines how we deal with the people who are incarcerated there," he told "FOX News Sunday."

Related:  One in 7 who leave Guantanamo involved in terrorism.

Goatherd
Myth

In Obama's famous DNC Convention speech, Obama says, "My father was a foreign student, born and raised in a small village in Kenya.  He grew up herding goats, went to school in a tin-roof shack.  His father -- my grandfather -- was a cook, a domestic servant to the British."

Kezia, Obama Sr.'s first wife tells a story that puts Obama's account to lie.


Kezia said: In 1955 Obama Sr. was 18 and working in an office in Nairobi, when he took Kezia from her family at the age of 16.  Her father was furious.

"He did not like Obama.  My father and brothers came to Nairobi to bring me back.  They said I had to go back to school.

"When I wouldn't, they said they would never speak to me again.

"Barack was also worried about what his father would think because I was so young, but he gave us his approval.  Obama's father (often described as poor) sent my mother and father 14 cows for my dowry.

 

Just how can a cook, a domestic servant to the British, provide a dowry of 14 cattle for Senior's first wife?  Also, Obama's father had been working in a Nairobi office since the age 16, not herding goats.

As an aside, can you imagine if a Republican was running for president and it came out that his father had bought his first wife for 14 cows???!!!Just wow!!

Gun Lies Both the McCain and Clinton campaigns are accusing Obama of giving a misleading answer to Charlie Gibson about whether his handwriting was on a questionnaire that reported him as favoring a complete ban on handguns.  The Obama campaign has said that a staffer "mischaracterized" the senator's views while filling up answers to the questionnaire without Obama's input.  You can see the questionnaire here.  Obama's handwriting is on the first page, but tonight he said flatly, "no, my writing was not on that particular questionnaire."

There were, in fact, two versions of the questionnaire, filed under Obama's name in 1996 when he was running for the Illinois State Senate.  One version has Obama's handwriting on it, one does not.  Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor subsequently told Politico that the senator scribbled a few notes on the first page of the questionnaire, but did not read the response to the question about banning handguns, on a subsequent page.

Either way, it seems a rather lame explanation.
Gun Lies Another Obama statement reaches its expiration date, this one on guns.

The Heller decision came down today from the Supreme Court, striking down the Washington, D.C. gun ban.

With the Supreme Court ruling, the Obama campaign is disavowing what it calls an "inartful" statement -- Obamese for lie -- to the Chicago Tribune last year, and are blaming an "unnamed aide" characterized Obama as believing that the D. C. ban was constitutional.

"That statement was obviously an inartful attempt to explain the Senator's consistent position," Obama spokesman Bill Burton tells ABC News.

Obama took a question about the constitutionality of the gun ban from WJLA's Leon Harris during the Potomac Primary, and didn't dispute the characterization that he believes the ban is constitutional.

Here's the exchange:

LH: "One other issue that is of great importance to the people of the district here, is gun control.  You said in Idaho here, recently, that "I have no intention of taking away folks' guns."  But you support the D.C. handgun ban, and you've said that it's constitutional.  How do you reconcile those two positions?"

BO: "Because I think we have two conflicting traditions in this country.  I think it's important for us to recognize that we've got a tradition of handgun ownership and gun ownership generally.  And a lot of people -- law-abiding citizens use if for hunting, for sportsmanship, and for protecting their families."

"We also have a violence on the streets that is the result of illegal handgun usage.  And so I think there is nothing wrong with a community saying we are going to take those illegal handguns off the streets, we are going to trace more effectively, how these guns are ending up on the streets, to unscrupulous gun dealers, who often times are selling to straw purchasers.  And cracking down on the various loopholes that exist in terms of background checks for children, the mentally ill.  Those are all approaches that I think the average gun owner would actually support.  The problem is, that we've got a position, often times by the NRA that says any regulation whatsoever is the camel's nose under the tent.  And that, I think, is not where the American people are at.  We can have reasonable, thoughtful gun control measure that I think respect the Second Amendment and people's traditions."

"When Obama says, "we are going to take those illegal handguns off the streets," I wonder if it ever occurred to him to "take the damned criminals off the streets?"


Also, how can Obama claim "I have always believed that the Second Amendment protects the right of individuals to bear arms" when, as a director of the Joyce Foundation, he steered $15 million to the self-described "most aggressive group in the gun control movement?"  That group published a book entitled, "Every Handgun is Aimed at You: The Case for Banning Handguns."

And, remember, on April 3rd, in the run-up to a Democratic presidential debate scheduled on the one-year anniversary of the Virginia Tech shootings, Obama said:

"I am not in favor of concealed weapons," Obama told the Pittsburgh Tribune. "I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations."

Barack Obama's record is clear on guns.  He not only supported gun bans, but he supported prosecuting acts of self-defense.

Obama is about as anti-gun as you would expect from a Chicago politician. He voted for assault weapons bans, voted to limit the number of handguns a person could buy, voted against lawsuit protections for gun manufacturers, supported a national ban on concealed carry, and worst of all voted against a bill protecting homeowners from being sued by burglars they shoot in their own homes.

Gun Lies Obama's presidential campaign slogan, "the audacity of hope," should have instead been "the audacity of deceit."  After months of telling the American people that he supports the Second Amendment, and only hours after being declared the president-elect, the Obama transition team website announced an agenda taken straight from the anti-gun lobby -- four initiatives designed to ban guns and drive law-abiding firearm manufacturers and dealers out of business.
Gun
Lies
CIFTA is the proposed Organization of American States treaty on firearms trafficking, known by its Spanish initials as CIFTA.  Obama is working to get the CIFTA treaty through the Senate.  This push is a result of his recent trip to Mexico and and his claimed attempt to halt to flow of guns into Mexico.
 


The problem is that Obama is using faulty statistics to push this treaty and infringe upon the right of the American People to keep and bear arms.

Obama says that 90% of the guns recovered in Mexico from drug cartels come from the United States.  This isn't true.  The fact is, nobody really knows.  Yes, lots of guns seized in Mexico come from the United States.  No question.  But that's indicative of a whole other sort of problem.  The fact that drug runners can get guns doesn't mean that America should end-run the Second Amendment.  That's just poor logic.


Another point is Obama's faulty logic -- that 33 nations in the Western Hemisphere have signed on to this treaty, so it must be good.  This is an incorrect conclusion -- those nations do not have a Second Amendment to the Constitution.

Beyond that, since when did the United States of America follow the examples of Venezuela, Chile, Nicaragua, and yes, Mexico?  It is the United States that should be setting the example here -- not the other way around.  This is just an encore performance from Obama's "Hate America Tour, 2009."


Obama has no clue how to help Mexico but sees an opportunity to help his agenda.  It is obvious that Obama's teams at the Justice Department and the State Department are exploiting the violence in Mexico to justify more restrictions on gun ownership by Americans.  Obama's hostility to the Second Amendment has been clear for years.  This may be yet another example of Rahm Emanuel's maxim: "Never let a good crisis go to waste."

In an article written by Rep. Tom Tancredo on April 30th, Tancredo asks the question, "Why the Lies About Guns Going to Mexico? "


The Mexican Ambassador to the United States, Auturo Sarukhan, appeared on a CBS news program recently and repeated a lie we have heard for many months about the violence in Mexico.  The ambassador says Americans are to blame for the violence wrecked on his country by the Mexican drug cartels because "most of the guns confiscated by Mexican police can be traced back to the United States.  That is not true, but the way that claim has been accepted by American politicians and the mainstream media raises suspicions about a hidden agenda.

ATFE's Fake Number:

We can almost forgive the Mexican ambassador for being confused when the United States agency responsible for enforcing our gun laws, the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATFE), has made so many contradictory statements on the matter.  ATFE Assistant Director William Hoover told Congress last year that 90% of the weapons seized in Mexico crime scenes can be traced to gun sales in the US.

The problem is that 90% number isn't true.  Yet, that hasn't kept it from being picked up and used by members of Congress, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and, of course, Mexican officials like Ambassador Sarukhan who are eager to blame the US for Mexico's problems.

Real Weapons Source:

The 90% number reported by Hoover came from a small group of weapons turned over to the U.S. for tracing, but they were by no means all of the weapons seized by Mexican authorities.  A spokesman for the ATFE, Matt Allen, has now "clarified" the number and admitted that only 17% of the weapons found at crime scenes in Mexico have been traced to the U.S.  Ironically, while Mexican officials have freely used the 90% number from the ATFE, they have not themselves made such a charge based on their own numbers.  The truth is, they know better.

We can easily understand Mexico's reasons for preferring the 90% number to the more accurate 17%.  Mexico does not want to openly discuss the many other sources of advanced weapons being used by the drug cartels.  Thousands of advanced weapons and tons of military equipment are stolen from its own military and state police.  Weapons are smuggled across its southern borders from Guatemala and by boats landing on its 8,000 miles of coastline, weapons that often originate in Venezuela, Colombia, and Nicaragua, or from purchases in Eastern Europe.  But it is easier for a Mexican politician to blame the U.S. than to explain his own government's failure to police its borders, its ports of entry and its military installations.

Did the Mexican ambassador mention that over 100,000 soldiers have deserted the Mexican army in the past seven years and that many of them took their weapons with them and joined the cartels?

Continue reading here . . .

Update:  Ron Polarik, PhD, observes that whether it's drug cartels, the Army, or the local Politsia, Mexico gets the vast majority of its guns from countries other than the United States.


Care to bet which country supplies the most arms to Latin America?  (HINT: Not the US. Not even close)


Percentage of Supplier Deliveries Value by Region, 2000-2007 -- Source:  U. S. Government

 

Supplier Asia Asia Near East Near East Latin America Latin America Africa Africa
  2000-2003 2004-2007 2000-2003 2004-2007 2000-2003 2004-2007 2000-2003 2004-2007
United States 33.44% 32.83% 63.46% 62.67% 2.75% 4.00% 0.35% 0.49%
Russia 85.16% 69.19% 10.97% 16.76% 0.65% 10.81% 3.23% 3.24%
France 10.53% 19.51% 85.96% 74.39% 1.75% 4.88% 1.75% 1.22%
United Kingdom 4.00% 6.32% 96.00% 84.21% 0.00% 2.11% 0.00% 7.37%
China 55.17% 56.10% 31.03% 21.95% 0.00% 2.44% 13.79% 19.51%
Germany 64.71% 39.13% 23.53% 13.04% 0.00% 0.00% 11.76% 47.83%
Italy 20.00% 20.00% 20.00% 0.00% 40.00% 20.00% 20.00% 60.00%
All Other European 18.92% 28.26% 58.11% 34.78% 9.46% 26.09% 13.51% 10.87%
All Others 73.03% 61.22% 14.61% 18.37% 4.49% 14.29% 7.87% 6.12%

 

I received the following information via email and awaiting a source/link:

Since the Constitution says that US treaties are ABOVE the Constitution, Obama can use CIFTA and other treaties to get a bare majority of the Senators to repeal the 2nd Amendment, without going through the arduous process of getting the agreement of 2/3rds of each house of Congress and 3/4ths of the sates; if CIFTA is passed by 51% of the Senate, is the de facto law of the land and presto, our gun rights are GONE.

The Supreme Court has already ruled in a case in California (where a gasoline additive was leaking into the groundwater) that the citizens had no right to sue under the Constitution, because this case involved NAFTA (I don't recall the specific facts, I think it's because the additive was made in Canada).

Gun Lies The "liar, liar pants on fire" argument usually isn't the most effective.  But when it comes to guns, Obama is lying through his teeth.

On Thursday, while on a visit to Mexico, Obama continued his Blame America First tour.  "This war is being waged with guns purchased not here but in the United States," he said, referring to the drug wars that are tearing apart our neighbor to the south.  "More than 90 percent of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States, many from gun shops that lay in our shared border."

It is completely untrue that 90 percent of guns recovered in Mexico are from America.  The Mexican government separates guns it confiscates that were made in the United States and sends them here to be traced. U.S. weapons are easy to identify because of clear markings.

Of the ones sent here to be traced, 90 percent turn out to be from America, but most guns recovered in Mexico are not sent here so are not included in the count.  Fox News reported that 17 percent is a more accurate number.

The New York Times, CNN and numerous networks continue to repeat the 90 percent figure with no reporting to back it up.  The hysteria is used to create the notion that a major problem exists with American guns -- and Obama is anxious to step in to solve that problem with a $400 million program to stop U.S. guns from going to Mexico.  That initiative would include clampdowns on U.S. gun shops.

It is ridiculous for Mr. Obama to blame Mexico's lawlessness on Americans as if the longstanding corruption of Mexican elected officials, judges and law-enforcement officers has nothing to do with it.
Hamas
Lie
Early yesterday, the London-based Al-Hayat newspaper published an interview with Hamas political adviser Ahmed Yousef in which he said that a secret meeting was held in Gaza on November 4th, with members of the Obama campaign.

"We are maintaining contact with them," Yousef said.  "We first made contact on the Internet and then met with some of them here in the Gaza Strip.  They advised us not to reveal this information lest it influence the elections or become manipulated by McCain's campaign."

With the campaign over, he added, Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh would be sending a letter of congratulations to Obama.

Yousef also said that he personally had friendly relations with a few of Obama's advisers whom he had met when he lived in the US.

Obama stressed throughout the campaign that he would not meet with members of Hamas so long as it didn't accept the international community's three demands -- that it halt violence against Israel, recognize Israel and accept previous agreements between the Palestinians and Israel.

One of Obama's Middle East policy advisers, Robert Malley, resigned during the Democratic candidate's campaign once it became known that he had met with Hamas members in the course of his conflict resolution work with the International Crisis Group.
 
Surprise, surprise!  Now that the election is over, Malley, son of Simon Malley, a key figure in the Egyptian Communist Party and confidante of the late PLO leader Yasser Arafat, is back.

History will record that Barack Obama's first act of diplomacy as America's president-elect took place two days after his election victory, when he dispatched his senior foreign-policy adviser, Robert Malley, to meet with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, to outline for them the forthcoming administration's Mideast policy vis-a-vis those nations.

An aide to Malley reports, "The tenor of the messages was that the Obama administration would take into greater account Egyptian and Syrian interests" than has President Bush.[...]
Healthcare
Lies
The Hillary Clinton Campaign releases a video that proves that Obama lied about his position on "single-payer healthcare."

The video compares statements Obama made during the January 21st Democratic debate with those he made to an AFL-CIO conference in June 2003 while campaigning for the Senate.  Contradicting what Obama said at the debate, the old footage shows the senator saying, "I happen to be a proponent of single-payer universal healthcare coverage.  That's what I'd like to see."

At the debate, Obama stated: "I never said that we should try to go ahead and get single-payer (healthcare)."

Single-payer healthcare is an euphemism for socialized medicine.
Healthcare
Lies
Barack Obama in 2003, talking to the AFL/CIO:

"I happen to be a proponent of single-payer universal healthcare coverage.  That' what I'd like to see."

In January, 2008, Obama claimed in a nationally televised debate:

"I never said that we should try to go ahead and get single-payer."
Healthcare
Lies
Obama walked into the Oval Office with a veritable halo over his head.  In the eyes of his backers, he could say or do no wrong because he had evidently descended directly from heaven to return celestial order to our fallen world.  Oprah declared his tongue to be "dipped in the unvarnished truth."  Newsweek editor Evan Thomas averred that Obama "stands above the country and above the world as a sort of a God."

But when it comes to health care reform, with every passing day, Obama seems less God and more demagogue, uttering not transcendental truths, but bald-faced lies.  Here are the top five lies that His Awesomeness has told -- the first two for no reason other than to get elected and the next three to sell socialized medicine to a wary nation.

•  Lie One: No one will be compelled to buy coverage.
•  Lie Two: No new taxes on employer benefits.
•  Lie Three: Government can control rising health care costs better than the private sector.
•  Lie Four: A public plan won't be a Trojan horse for a single-payer monopoly.
•  Lie Five: Patients don't have to fear rationing.

Go here to read the details . . .
I Don't
Smoke Lie
Barack Obama says you won't catch him lighting up a cigarette in the smoke-free White House.

"There are times where I've fallen off the wagon," the president-elect said when asked in a broadcast interview whether he has kicked the habit.

"I've done a terrific job, under the circumstances, of making myself much healthier," he said.  "And I think that you will not see any violations of these rules in the White House," he said on Sunday's "Meet the Press" on NBC.

Obama told the magazine Men's Health in an interview for its November issue that he wished he had more time for staying fit and that he still occasionally smoked a cigarette.

Obama said in that interview that he had bummed a cigarette a couple of times during the campaign.  "But I figure, seeing as I'm running for president, I need to cut myself a little slack," he said.

Operative words -- "...you will not see any violations of these rules in the White House." -- not quite the same as "I won't smoke..."  If only Obama had as much personal character as his  personal arrogance.
I Don't
Take Money
Lie
Last week, Obama aired a television ad in Pennsylvania called "Nothing's Changed" that outlines his energy proposals while declaring, "I don't take money from oil companies or Washington lobbyists, and I won't let them block change anymore."

The Clinton campaign last week accused Obama of "false advertising."

"Senator Obama says he doesn't take campaign contributions from oil companies but the reality is that Exxon, Shell, and others are among his donors," Clinton spokesman Phil Singer said.

THE FACTS: True enough, Obama does not take money from oil companies.  No candidate does.  It is illegal for corporations to give money to politicians.  Corporations, however, do have political action committees that collect voluntary donations from employees and then donate them to candidates.  Obama doesn't take money from PACs.  He also doesn't take money from lobbyists.

But he does accept money from executives and other employees of oil companies and two of his fundraisers are oil company executives.  As of Feb. 29, Obama's presidential campaign had received nearly $214,000 from oil and gas industry employees and their families, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.  Clinton had received nearly $307,000 from industry workers and their families and Republican Sen. John McCain, the likely GOP presidential nominee, received nearly $394,000, according to the center's totals.

Two of Obama's fundraisers are Robert Cavnar, the chairman and chief executive of Houston-based Mission Resources Corp., and George Kaiser, the president and CEO of Tulsa-based Kaiser-Francis Oil Co.

In January and February alone, Obama received nearly $18,000 from Exxon Mobil workers, according to Federal Election Commission records.  Most of the donations were of $250 or less; the money came from workers ranging from executives to engineers to geologists to shift supervisors.  Overall, he has raised about $34,000 from Exxon Mobil workers since the beginning of his campaign.  Exxon Mobil employees have given Clinton about $16,000 since the beginning of last year.
I Don't
Take Money
Lie
April 14th -- Obama has pledged to end the influence of lobbyists, but that doesn't keep him from fundraising at the offices of one of the most notoriously corrupt lobbyists in years.

Newsday reported over the weekend that Obama took about $125,000 from Greenberg Traurig employees at their Miami offices last October.  The firm made headlines when its biggest lobbyist, Jack Abramoff, admitted to several counts of corruption and was sentenced to prison.
I Don't
Take Money
Lie
Barack Obama repeatedly attacks his opponents for taking lobbyists money or having lobbyists on their campaign staff.

What he doesn't tell you is that he has raised $264,492,301 from 358 bundlers and 14 lobbyist bundlers, himself.

Go here to see the detailed list.
I Don't
Take Money
Lie
Reader, "JCM," suggests reading this article (requires login), and please keep in mind that Obama received the following Presidential contributions -- Exelon employees $236,211 (Source: OpenSecrets, The Center for responsive Politics) :note, Exelon employees also gave over $270,000 to Obama's State Senate campaign, total over $500,000.

Mr. Obama scolded Exelon and federal regulators for inaction and introduced a bill to require all plant owners to notify state and local authorities immediately of even small leaks.  He has boasted of it on the campaign trail, telling a crowd in Iowa in December (30, 2007) that it was the only nuclear legislation that I've passed.

"I just did that last year," he said, to murmurs of approval.

But, contrary to Mr. Obama's comments in Iowa, it ultimately died amid parliamentary wrangling in the full Senate.

The history of the bill shows Mr. Obama navigating a home-state controversy that pitted two important constituencies against each other and tested his skills as a legislative infighter.  On one side were neighbors of several nuclear plants upset that low-level radioactive leaks had gone unreported for years; on the other was Exelon, the country's largest nuclear plant operator and one of Mr. Obama's largest sources of campaign money.


IN TRUTH, Mr. Obama told the Iowan's that he PASSED nuclear legislation, "just last year (2007)."

IN TRUTH, Mr. Obama LIED, LIED, LIED-his nuclear legislation bill NEVER PASSED!!!

This was a KEY Issue that swayed the Iowa Caucus in his favor, as the folks of Iowa were facing similar issues in regards to nuclear power plants, and they mistakenly were "hoodwinked and  boondoggled" by a slick Chicago politician, who was willing to tell them anything to get there votes, even lying about his legislative record.

Mr. Obama in his 3+ years in the US Senate has sponsored ONLY TWO pieces of legislation that have become law:

A bill to promote democracy in the Democratic Republic of Congo
A bill to name a post office
I Lied Lie Obama to delay repeal of US military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy.

Obama will not move for months, and perhaps not until 2010, to ask Congress to end the decades-old ban on open homosexuals in the ranks, two people who have advised the Obama transition team on this issue say.

Repealing the ban was an Obama campaign promise. (heh, heh! He lies to everybody.)

Obama provided a policy statement to the (deviously named ) Human Rights Campaign, the largest U.S. homosexual rights group, pledging to repeal the exclusion and to invite back service members discharged under the law.  He also said that he wants the Pentagon to school military people on how to treat gays.

Open acceptance would change the atmosphere entirely.  If fraternization is a problem now between men and women, imagine the conflicts with openly gay officers who no longer have to be reticent.
Immigration
Lies
Obama says that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the largest investigative arm of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), are terrorists.

Speaking in front of the racist National Council of La Raza, Obama said, "When communities are terrorized by ICE immigration raids, when nursing mothers are torn from their babies, when children come home from school to find their parents missing, when people are detained without access to legal counsel, when all that is happening, the system just isn't working, and we need to change it." (video)

BY the way, this comment beautifully illustrates the Alinsky facilitation method.  Obama agitates the crowd with emotional language and charges, and then provides the solution to these perceived wrongs -- himself.  It's what he does all the time and it is the secret to his success.
Immigration
Lies
The claim made by Obama that 46 million "Americans" lack health insurance is false because that number includes almost 10 million people who are not "Americans" but in fact citizens of foreign countries who happen to be present in the United States ILLEGALLY, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The claim was made repeatedly in a report published by the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) on June 2 and again in an op-ed published the same day by Christina Romer, the chair of CEA.

The claim that there are 46 million uninsured "Americans" has also been used by members of Congress and news organizations.

At a townhall meeting in Green Bay, Wis., last Thursday, President Obama twice referred to "46 million" people who lack health insurance, although in neither case did he describe those "46 million" as "Americans" -- in one instance referring to them as "46 million people who don't have health insurance" and in another instance as "46 million uninsured."

On June 2, the White House released "The Economic Case for Health Care Reform," a report by the president's Council of Economic Advisers.  In making the case for Obama's health-care reform plan, this report repeatedly asserted that there are 46 million uninsured "Americans."

Continue reading here . . .

Obama wants you to give up your insurance plan so he can insure criminals.  He wants those 10,000,000 voters too  -- Democratic Party control forever.

That's the reason that Rep. José Serrano [D NY] filed, in the current session of the U. S. Congresss, H.J.Res. 5.

Serrano's resolution is a Constitutional amendment to remove the limit on the number of terms one may serve as President.  It effectively would repeal the 22nd Amendment, which was approved by Congress in 1947 and ratified by the states in 1951.  Several Democratic Party members of Congress have introduced similar legislation.
Iran Lies But why tell one lie when you can tell more?

Earlier this year, three-fourths of the Senate voted in favor of the Kyl-Lieberman Amendment,  designating the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization.  Among those who voted for the resolution were Hillary Clinton, Richard Durbin, Harry Reid, and Chuck Schumer.

Obama voted against it, effectively standing with the IRGC.

Yesterday at the AIPAC conference, however, Obama expressly stated that the IRGC was a terrorist organization.  His campaign explained his opposition to the resolution naming the IRGC a terrorist entity by claiming that the resolution contained language about military action -- but Joe Lieberman, the bill's author, said bluntly, "It has none of that."

Obama's claim is
just another lie.
Iran Lies Don't call Barack Obama an appeaser -- call him what he is -- a liar.

In his speech Wednesday before the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee, Obama said the military option is "on the table" for dealing with Iran's nuclear program in stark contrast to his earlier statements.

During a debate last summer, he said he would be willing to meet with Iranian leaders and other American adversaries "without preconditions" during the first year of his presidency.

Now, he says, "[A]s president of the United States, I would be willing to lead tough and principled diplomacy with the appropriate Iranian leaders at a time and place of my choosing, if and only if it can advance the interest of the United States.  That is my position.  I want to be absolutely clear."

Yo, Obama, "...if and only if it can advance the interest of the United States," is a PRECONDITION.

Obama campaign officials, believing the electorate is stupid and knowing the press won't question Obama, insisted the presumptive Democratic nominee has not changed his position.
Iran Lies Barack Obama has returned to the no-preconditions policy for meeting with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, according to Obama foreign-policy adviser Anthony Lake.  Financial Times also discovered in its interview with Lake that Obama has reversed himself on Iraq, now saying that the withdrawal is off.  Obama also now embraces John McCain's call for a League of Democracies, despite his campaign's rejection of it earlier this week:

Obama and his advisers stress the Democratic candidate's readiness to sit down with Iranian leaders without conditions.

"Unless you assume that [Iranian negotiators] have IQ's less than those of eggplants, they are not likely to make major concessions for the privilege of speaking with us.  So the question is: what is your strategy for the talks?" Mr Lake said.

He stressed that Obama, even after withdrawing troops from Iraq over 16 months as he has promised, would maintain "a residual presence for clearly defined missions."  These would include military training, and "preparedness to go back in if there are specific acts of genocidal violence."

Mr. Lake was sympathetic to aspects of Mr McCain's idea of a League of Democracies, one of the centerpieces of the Republican's foreign policy plans.
Iraq
Flip Flops
The day after his speech at the Democratic convention catapulted him into the national spotlight, Barack Obama told a group of reporters in Boston that the United States had an "absolute obligation" to remain in Iraq long enough to make it a success.

"The failure of the Iraqi state would be a disaster," he said at a lunch sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor, according to an audiotape of the session.  "It would dishonor the 900-plus men and women who have already died. . . .  It would be a betrayal of the promise that we made to the Iraqi people, and it would be hugely destabilizing from a national security perspective."

 

In late winter, 2008, on the campaign trail, Obama says he wants to bring the troops home yesterday -- you decide -- was he lying then or is he lying now?

Iraq Lies

From Obama's official campaign website: (video)

"Obama will immediately begin to remove our troops from Iraq.  He will remove one to two combat brigades each month, and have all of our combat brigades out of Iraq within 16 months.  Obama will make it clear that we will not build any permanent bases in Iraq.  He will keep some troops in Iraq to protect our embassy and diplomats; if al Qaeda attempts to build a base within Iraq, he will keep troops in Iraq or elsewhere in the region to carry out targeted strikes on al Qaeda."

Yo, Obama, removing one to two combat brigades each month, and ... all of our combat brigades out of Iraq within 16 months, is a timetable.

Iraq Lies The last frontier of flip-flops approaches for Barack Obama, and even his surrogates can't seem to guess which way the wind blows on any given day.  In three different appearances over the last two days, David Axelrod, Susan Rice, and Claire McCaskill all offered competing visions of Obama's policy on Iraq. (videos)
Iraq Lies John Hinderaker makes some observations about "Obama's Dishonest Op-Ed" in yesterday's  New York Times on Iraq that presumably previews his "major speech" on the subject today. Even by Obama's standards, the piece is breathtakingly dishonest.

Obama admits that he opposed the surge, and the attendant change in strategy and tactics, that have brought us close to victory.  But he somehow manages to twist his being wrong about the surge -- the major foreign policy issue that has arisen during his time in Congress -- into vindication:

"But the same factors that led me to oppose the surge still hold true.  The strain on our military has grown, the situation in Afghanistan has deteriorated and we've spent nearly $200 billion more in Iraq than we had budgeted.  Iraq's leaders have failed to invest tens of billions of dollars in oil revenues in rebuilding their own country, and they have not reached the political accommodation that was the stated purpose of the surge."

Actually, however, Obama opposed the surge not because of those "factors" but because he thought it would fail.  He said, on January 10, 2007, on MSNBC:

"I am not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq is going to solve the sectarian violence there. In fact, I think it will do the reverse."

Read the rest here . . .
Iraq Lies Barack Obama's campaign scrubbed his campaign Web site over the weekend to remove criticism of the U.S. troop "surge" in Iraq, the Daily News has learned.

The presumed Democratic nominee replaced his Iraq issue web page, which had described the surge as a "problem" that had barely reduced violence.

"The surge is not working," Obama's old plan stated, citing a lack of Iraqi political cooperation but crediting Sunni sheiks -- not U.S. military muscle -- for quelling violence in Anbar Province.

The Daily News reported Sunday that insurgent attacks have fallen to the fewest since March 2004.

Obama's campaign posted a new Iraq plan Sunday night, which cites an "improved security situation" paid for with the blood of U.S. troops since the surge began in February 2007.

It praises G.I.s' "hard work, improved counterinsurgency tactics and enormous sacrifice."

Campaign aide Wendy Morigi said Obama is "not softening his criticism of the surge.  We regularly update the Web site to reflect changes in current events."

GOP rival John McCain zinged Obama as a flip-flopper.  "The major point here is that Sen. Obama refuses to acknowledge that he was wrong," said McCain, adding that Obama "refuses to acknowledge that it [the surge] is succeeding."
Iraq Lies While campaigning in public for a speedy withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, Obama has tried in private to persuade Iraqi leaders to delay an agreement on a draw-down of the American military presence.

According to Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, Obama made his demand for delay a key theme of his discussions with Iraqi leaders in Baghdad in July.

"He asked why we were not prepared to delay an agreement until after the U. S. elections and the formation of a new administration in Washington," Zebari said in an interview.

Obama insisted that Congress should be involved in negotiations on the status of US troops -- and that it was in the interests of both sides not to have an agreement negotiated by the Bush administration in its "state of weakness and political confusion."

"However, as an Iraqi, I prefer to have a security agreement that regulates the activities of foreign troops, rather than keeping the matter open."  Zebari says.

Though Obama claims the U. S. presence is "illegal," he suddenly remembered that Americans troops were in Iraq within the legal framework of a U. N. mandate.  His advice was that, rather than reach an accord with the "weakened Bush administration," Iraq should seek an extension of the U. N. mandate.

 

The amateur and the professional


While in Iraq, Obama also tried to persuade the U. S. commanders, including Gen. David Petraeus, to suggest a "realistic withdrawal date."  They declined.

Obama has made many contradictory statements with regard to Iraq.  His latest position is that U. S. combat troops should be out by 2010.  Yet his effort to delay an agreement would make that withdrawal deadline impossible to meet.

Iraq Lies The Power Line Blog notes that Obama's campaign is in trouble when even the Associated Press (AP) notices that it has become something of a joke.  Following up on the blogosphere, the AP noted today that Obama's web site has airbrushed his former opposition to the "surge" in Iraq.

An Obama spokeswoman explained that the changes in Obama's web site "were made to reflect current conditions."  Which is to say, Obama fought reality, and reality won.

• An updated Obama quote at the top of the page.  The previous quote stressed how Obama had the judgment to oppose the "rash war" from the start.  This was a popular message among Democratic voters and was meant to draw distinctions with primary rival Hillary Rodham Clinton, who initially supported the war.  The new quote focuses on how ending the war will make Americans safer (?)-- a message aimed at general election voters who are more likely to trust McCain on issues of national security, according to polling.

• A description of Obama's plan as "a responsible, phased withdrawal" that will be directed by military commanders (under the direction of the Obamamessiah, as he has stated) and done in consultation with the Iraqis.  Previously, the site had a sentence that has since been removed that flatly said, "Obama will immediately begin to remove our troops from Iraq."  Obama's spokeswoman said that his plan hasn't changed, (another Obama lie) but they wanted to expand the description.  "There's not an intent to shift language," (whoa Nelly, there's another whopper!) she said.

• A new sentence that says Obama "would reserve the right to intervene militarily, with our international partners, to suppress potential genocidal violence within Iraq." (Obama reserves the right to flip-flop!)

The AP closes with what appears to be an unprecedented outburst of sarcasm directed at  the Democrat:

Only one of his plan's subheads remains unchanged, the first one -- "Judgment You Can Trust."  That's a message the campaign wants Americans to embrace.

It's fair to say that Obama has now admitted that he was wrong about the most important national security issue that has arisen during his brief time in public life.
Iraq Lies More bamboozling, hoodwinking, and okie dokieing from the Obamamessiah (video -- 07:49)
 

A little long, but this important video demonstrates that Obama, leftist defeatist and political opportunist, will adopt any position on Iraq to suit the moment -- whatever the politics demand.

The New York Times, in a recent poll, asked, "Do you think Barack Obama says what he believes most of the time, or does he say what he thinks people want to hear?" -- fifty-one percent of respondents said Obama says "what he thinks people want to hear."

Fifty-Seven percent said Obama "has changed his position on important issues in order to get elected" -- something that 41% credited with lowering their opinion of Obama.

Iraq Lies Tom Brokaw asked the candidates what their "doctrine" would be "in situations where there's a humanitarian crisis, but it does not affect our national security," such as "the Congo, where 4.5 million people have died since 1998," or Rwanda or Somalia.

In such cases, answered Obama, "we have moral issues at stake."  Of course the United States must act to stop genocide, he said.  "When genocide is happening, when ethnic cleansing is happening . . . and we stand idly by, that diminishes us."

However, the AP reported on July 20, 2007, "Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Thursday the United States cannot use its military to solve humanitarian problems and that preventing a potential genocide in Iraq isn't a good enough reason to keep US forces there."

I just wonder what makes the Congo more deserving than Iraq?

I guess we can expect to see the 101st Airborne in the Congo in the near future.
Iraq Lies Avoiding any mention that his promise was made on March 16, 2003, almost six years ago, incoming White House senior adviser David Axelrod said this morning, that Obama will fulfill his campaign promise and begin on Wednesday the process of withdrawing America forces from Iraq within 16 months.

"He believes that that is a reasonable timetable.  We've moved a great distance from the time he started talking about that, and now we're in an area where everyone agrees that we should be on a path to withdrawing those troops.  And he is going to begin that process, as promised, on that day," Axelrod said in a "This Week" interview with George Stephanopoulos.

On Wednesday, Obama will call in his military commanders and ask them to come back with a plan for withdrawal, knowing full well that there are already several in place.

A military withdrawal usually occurs after a war is won -- Well done, Dubya.
I Will
Not Run
Lie
Responding to questions about his intent to serve out the six year senate term, Obama says, in this video, (link removed), that he will not run for the presidency in four years.

Notice:  The video has disappeared. Using WayBackMachine, I found two links -- both played empty videos -- a lot of stuff is being scrubbed from the web.

Here is what he said in the video:

"I think I've been very clear.  Ah-ah-mumble-mumble, there's a presidential election in four years.  I'm not running for president in four years."

Here is a backup story -- during a meeting with reporters at his Illinois campaign headquarters after his election to the U.S. Senate, he ridiculed as "a silly question" whether he would run for president or vice president before his term ends in 2011.  "I've never worked in Washington," he said. "I can unequivocally say I will not be running for national office in four years, and my entire focus is making sure that I'm the best possible senator on behalf of the people of Illinois."
I'm Still
Not Running
Lie
On "Meet the Press," Tim Russert and Obama had the following exchange:

Russert: "When we talked back in November of '04 after your election, I said, 'There's been enormous speculation about your political future.  Will you serve your six-year term as United States senator from Illinois?'"

Obama: "I will serve out my full six-year term.  You know, Tim, if you get asked enough, sooner or later you get weary and you start looking for new ways of saying things.  But my thinking has not changed."

Russert: "So you will not run for president or vice president in 2008?"

Obama: "I will not."
Jobs
Lie
In January, 2009, Obama raised the jobs forecast for his stimulus plan from 3 million to as many as 4 million on Saturday, upping the ante of his economic blueprint for the second time in three weeks, when Obama declared a goal of saving or creating 3 million jobs over two years.

The report, "The Job Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan," was prepared by Christina Romer, his incoming chairwoman of the Council of Economic Advisers, and Jared Bernstein, Vice President-elect Biden's chief economic adviser.

"The report confirms that our plan will likely save or create 3 to 4 million jobs," Obama said in his weekly radio and YouTube address.  "Ninety percent of these jobs will be created in the private sector.  The remaining 10 percent are mainly public sector jobs we save, like the teachers, police officers, firefighters and others who provide vital services in our communities."

Now, his new report estimates the dividend from his plan would be 3,675,000 by the end of 2010.  The president-elect also rebutted conservative claims that his plans would create new bureaucracies, saying 90 percent of the new jobs would be in the private sector, up from the "more than 80 percent" he claimed last weekend.

The breakdown is energy, 459,000 jobs; infrastructure, 377,000; health care, 244,000; education, 250,000; temporary programs to "protect the most vulnerable from the deep recession, including increases in food stamps and expansions of unemployment insurance," 549,000; state relief, 821,000; the "Making Work Pay" tax credit for the middle class, 505,000; and business tax incentives, 470,000.

During the campaign, Obama had promised 1 million new jobs over an unspecified time.  He bolstered that to saving or creating 2.5 million over two years in his radio address just before Thanksgiving.  Then for Sunday papers the weekend before Christmas, aides said he had raised the target to 3 million, based on bleak new forecasts from economists.
Judgment
Lie
Obama indicated that he could indeed disown his long standing Uncle Wright...even though just a few weeks ago he said he could never do that.
 

Even though it stretches credibility to think that after 20+ years and so much close history together...after all, it was Obama who called Wright his mentor and spiritual advisor...that Obama could not have really "known" the real Jeremiah Wright, let's take him at his word that he did not.
 

My questions then are simple.
 

If, after 20+ years of a close relationship where it was clear to everyone else who Jeremiah Wright was, if after that long you so terribly misjudged the man...then please tell me Mr. Obama, who else have you misjudged so completely?
 

Who on your campaign staff?  Who of your contributors?  Who amongst your other close associates and friends?
 

More telling yet, Mr. Obama, Who will you so wholly misjudge in the future?
 

What leaders of nations?  What members of your cabinet?  What Judges you nominate?
 

The list could go on and on -- AND, he STILL remains committed to the church.
 

In an interview that aired Friday on PBS's "Bill Moyers' Journal," Wright used similar terms to explain why Obama, who has been a member of his church for two decades, felt compelled to denounce some of Wright's statements.

"It went down very simply," Wright told Moyers.  "He's a politician, I'm a pastor.  We speak to different audiences.  And he (Obama) says what he has to say as a politician.  I say what I have to as a pastor.  Those are two different worlds."

"I do what I do.  He does what politicians do" -- and that's why Obama's words don't change anything and this item is archived in "Obama's Lies."

Kennedy
Myth
Obama went on to tell his audience that the Kennedys -- Jack and Bobby -- decided to do an airlift.  They would bring some young Africans over so that they could be educated and learn all about America.  His grandfather heard that call and sent his son, Barack Obama, Sr., to America.

The problem with that scenario is that, having been born in August 1961, the future senator was not conceived until sometime in November 1960.  So, if his African grandfather heard words that "sent a shout across oceans," inspiring him to send his goat-herder son to America, it was not Democrat Jack Kennedy he heard, or his brother Bobby, it was Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Actually, Senior was awarded an American sponsored scholarship in economics to the University of Hawaii at Manoa.  He was selected by a former Kenyan cabinet minister, the late Tom Mboya, who was earmarked as the successor to Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya's first prime minister.

The presumption was that Senior would return to Africa and use his "Western-honed skills in a new Kenya."
Kennedy
Myth
The Obama campaign has made political points over Hillary Clinton's dishonest comments about coming under "sniper fire" in Bosnia, but Obama also has some opportunistic lies for which to account.  The Washington Post calls it "overstating," but make no mistake; this is a flat-out lie: Obama Overstates Kennedys' Role in Helping His Father.

Addressing civil rights activists in Selma, Ala., a year ago, Sen. Barack Obama traced his "very existence" to the generosity of the Kennedy family, which he said paid for his Kenyan father to travel to America on a student scholarship and thus meet his Kansan mother.

The Camelot connection has become part of the mythology surrounding Obama's bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.  After Caroline Kennedy endorsed his candidacy in January, Newsweek commentator Jonathan Alter reported that she had been struck by the extraordinary way in which "history replays itself" and by how "two generations of two families -- separated by distance, culture and wealth -- can intersect in strange and wonderful ways."

It is a touching story -- but the key details are either untrue or grossly oversimplified.

Contrary to Obama's claims in speeches in January at American University and in Selma last year, the Kennedy family did not provide the funding for a September 1959 airlift of 81 Kenyan students to the United States that included Obama's father.  According to historical records and interviews with participants, the Kennedys were first approached for support for the program nearly a year later, in July 1960.  The family responded with a $100,000 donation, most of which went to pay for a second airlift in September 1960.

Obama spokesman Bill Burton acknowledged yesterday that the senator from Illinois had erred in crediting the Kennedy family with a role in his father's arrival in the United States.  He said the Kennedy involvement in the Kenya student program apparently "started 48 years ago, not 49 years ago as Obama has mistakenly suggested in the past."
Law School
Lie
Obama's new TV ad says he "worked his way" through college and law school.  His campaign says he had two summer jobs.

Obama's latest ad repeats an often-stated claim, saying he "worked his way through college and Harvard Law."  We know Obama took out loans to get himself through school.  But the campaign provided information on just two jobs Obama had in those years, and they were both in the summer.

The ad begins with the announcer telling us that Obama "worked his way through college and Harvard Law."  Actually, Obama took out loans to get himself through college, as we heard in a 60-second ad his campaign began running last month.  We don't know how much assistance his family provided.

But "worked his way" through college and law school?  The only back-up the campaign provided for this claim was a quote from Obama's book "Dreams from My Father" having to do with a construction job he had one summer while he was in college, and an article mentioning his job as a summer associate one year at a big Chicago law firm (where he first met Bernadine Dohrn, the terrorist).  We asked campaign spokesman Tommy Vietor if Obama held jobs during the school year, or other summer jobs, but he said only, "He had the two jobs I told you about." 

Unless Obama had a good bit more employment than his spokesman was able to describe for us, it's a real stretch to claim he "worked his way" through school.
Lighten Up
Myth
In his memoir, Obama writes of one of the watershed moments of his racial awareness -- time and again in remarkable detail.  It is a story about a Life magazine article that influenced him.  The report was about a black man who tried to bleach his skin white.  When Obama was told no such article could be found in Life, he says "it might have been Ebony."

He is 9 years old, living in Indonesia, where he and his mother moved with her new husband, Lolo Soetoro, a few years earlier.  One day while visiting his mother, who was working at the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Obama passed time by looking through several issues of Life magazine.  He came across an article that he later would describe as feeling like an "ambush attack."

The article included photos of a black man who had destroyed his skin with powerful chemical lighteners that promised to make him white.  Instead, the chemicals had peeled off much of his skin, leaving him sad and scarred, Obama recalled.

"I imagine other black children, then and now, undergoing similar moments of revelation," Obama wrote of the magazine photos in "Dreams."

Yet no such photo exists, according to historians at the magazine.  No such photos, no such article.  When asked about the discrepancy, Obama said in a recent interview, "It might have been an Ebony or it might have been ... who knows what it was?"  (At the request of the Tribune, archivists at Ebony searched their catalogue of past articles, none of which matched what Obama recalled.)

In fact, it is surprising, based on interviews with more than two dozen people who knew Obama during his nearly four years in Indonesia, that it would take a photograph in a magazine to make him conscious of the fact that some people might treat him differently in part because of the color of his skin.
Lobbyist
Lies
Obama say he doesn't take money from DC lobbyists and special interest PACS.  This is the type of double-talk "politics of the past" rhetoric Obama rails against.

While his claim is technically true, what he does do is take money from state lobbyists and other big money contributors who have substantial lobbyist machines in DC, like law firms and corporations.

In April 2007, the LA Times quoted the Campaign Finance Institute's Stephen Weissman as pointing out that the distinction Obama makes on lobbyist money is meaningless: "He gets an asterisk that says he is trying to be different.  But overall, the same wealthy interests are funding his campaign as are funding other candidates, whether or not they are lobbyists."

The Capital Eye reported that "[a]ccording to the Center for Responsive Politics, 14 of Obama's top 20 contributors employed lobbyists this year, spending a total of $16.2 million to influence the federal government in the first six months of 2007."

Obama's no stranger to being influenced by those campaign donations, either.
Lobbyist
Lies
NewsBusters reports how the leftists of the nutroots went gaga when Barack Obama claimed that he'd stand against taking money from lobbyists, and so did the media.  He was for a "new era" in politics.  He is for "change."  Isn't he special, the nutrooters and media sighed contentedly.

Well, apparently Obama's standard of a "new age" in politics doesn't carry too far into his campaign, because the Democratic National Convention (DNC) is being funded by ... you guessed it ... lobbyists.

As a New York Times report says, "Democrats Look to Lobbyist to Finance Convention," the man being tapped by the DNC to head the fundraising for their national convention is well connected lobbyist Steve Farber.

"Mr. Farber's vast contact list could prove crucial in raising the millions of dollars needed by the Denver host committee to showcase Senator Barack Obama and the Democratic Party in August in Denver."

Well, so much for getting the influence of lobbyists out of politics, eh Mr. Obama?
Lobbyist
Lies
Despite his solemn promise to the American people to keep lobbyists out of his administration, two more have slipped in.  The latest waivers were provided for Jocelyn Frye, director of policy and projects in the Office of First Lady, and Cecilia Munoz, director of intergovernmental affairs in the executive office of the president. 

Munoz was a senior vice president for the National Council of La Raza.  She was heavily involved in the immigration battles in Congress in recent years, and is now a principal liaison to the Hispanic community for the administration.

Not only has Obama flagrantly violated his pledge to keep lobbyists out of his administration but only a couple weeks after his inauguration he began doing this -- probably a record for repudiation of a campaign promise.  Even worse, he's hired an ethnocentric spokesperson for the non-citizen, pro-amnesty Hispanic special-interest factions.  La Raza ("The Race") is a group adamantly committed to an open-borders, pro-amnesty, and special privileges policy ('affirmative action') for Latinos.  The choice of Munoz clearly illustrates that amnesty will be the goal of the Obama administration.
Lyin' At
The Troops
Lie
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama knows that to win the vote of current and former military members and their families, he has to prove himself lie his ass off.

"Precisely because I have not served in uniform, I am somebody who strongly believes I have to earn the trust of men and women in uniform."

"I do not presume that from the day I am sworn in, every single service man or woman suddenly says, 'This guy knows what he is doing.'"  giggle!

"Earning trust means listening to advice from military people, including top uniformed leaders."  giggle!  giggle!
Money Lie During his 12 years in politics, Obama has received nearly three times more campaign cash from indicted businessman, Tony Rezko and his associates, than he has publicly acknowledged, the Chicago Sun-Times has found.

Seven months ago, Obama told the Sun-Times his "best estimate" was that Rezko raised "between $50,000 and $60,000" during Obama's political career.

However, Obama has collected at least $168,308 from Rezko and his circle.  Additionally, Obama also has taken in an unknown amount of money from people who attended fund-raising events hosted by Rezko since the mid-1990s.

Everything you ever wanted to know about Obama and Rezko.
Muslim
Lie
On January 24, 2007, the Obama campaign released a statement, saying, "To be clear, Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim, and is a committed Christian who attends the United Church of Christ in Chicago.

On March 14th, in a statement to The Times, the Obama campaign offered this statement to correct their previous statement, that appears to be a bold-faced lie:

"Obama has never been a practicing Muslim. The statement added that as a child, Obama had spent time in the neighborhood's Islamic center."

And, the original statement began, "To be clear ..."

So, in three months, Barrack's campaign has gone from describing the U.S. presidential hopeful as never having been a Muslim and never having been raised as a Muslim to now never having been a practicing Muslim.

What's with the semantics?  Statements from Obama's campaign appear to have evolved, to say the least.

In a small-town café in Pleasantville, Omaha, Obama was asked a question that typically only circulates on the Internet.
 

As he sat down to have a slice of pie with a small group of potential voters and an elderly woman asked him about being Muslim.
 

"I've always been a Christian," the Illinois Democrat responded. "I have never practiced [Islam]."

Note: The newspaper editors had to add the word, "Islam."

In his autobiography, "Dreams From My Father," Obama mentions studying the Quran.   He was enrolled in two Jakarta schools as a Muslim.  His teacher Tine Hahiyary said that she remembered that he had studied "mengaji" (recitation of the Quran)."  Classmate Rony Amiris described Obama as being a very devout Muslim, saying, "Barry was previously quite religious in Islam."  Another classmate, Emirsyah Satar, now the CEO of Garuda Indonesia, was quoted as saying, "He (Obama) was often in the prayer room wearing a 'sarong.'"  (See Obama's Education.)

Yet, on his official campaign website, Obama has posted this statement, "Barack has never been a Muslim or practiced any other faith besides Christianity."

Obama's grandfather was a Muslim.  Obama's father was a Muslim.  Obama's stepfather was a Muslim.  His African relatives are Muslims.  What was he for the 27 years before his alleged conversion if he wasn't a Muslim?
 

If Obama has always been a Christian, why was he enrolled in two Jakarta schools as a Muslim, and why did he study the Quran?  He even writes about his Quranic studies in "Dreams..."

 

And note his Clintonesque defense, "I have never practiced."

But that's not what Obama's sister says -- in an interview with the New York Times, published on April 30th, Maya Soetoro-Ng, Obama's younger half sister, told the Times, "My whole family was Muslim, and most of the people I knew were Muslim."  (Alternate link)

I assume Maya thinks of her brother, Obama, as a member of her family?

And, the Jerusalem Post reports that Barack Obama's half brother Malik said, if elected, his brother will be a good president for the Jewish people, despite his Muslim background.

 

This is Obama's biggest problem -- his dissimulation.

Saying, "I've always been a Christian," is a bold-faced lie.  Especially since he's never been baptized.

NAFTA Lie The Obama campaign told Canadian Television (CTV) that no message was passed to the Canadian government suggesting that Obama does not mean what he says about opting out of NAFTA if it is not renegotiated.

However, the Obama camp did not respond to repeated questions from CTV on reports that a conversation on this matter was held between Obama's senior economic adviser, Austan Goolsbee, and the Canadian Consulate General in Chicago.

Earlier Thursday, the Obama campaign insisted that no conversations have taken place with any of its senior ranks and representatives of the Canadian government on the NAFTA issue. On Thursday night, CTV spoke with Goolsbee, but he refused to say whether he had such a conversation with the Canadian government office in Chicago. He also said he has been told to direct any questions to the campaign headquarters.

CTV didn't stop there. They announced that their sources, at the highest levels of the Canadian government," reconfirmed the story to CTV and one of their primary sources provided a timeline of the discussion to CTV.
NAFTA Lie In an interview with Fortune to be featured in the magazine's upcoming issue, the presumptive Democratic nominee backed off his harshest attacks on the free trade agreement and indicated he didn't want to unilaterally reopen negotiations on NAFTA.

"Sometimes during campaigns the rhetoric gets overheated and amplified," he conceded, after I reminded him that he had called NAFTA "devastating" and "a big mistake," despite nonpartisan studies concluding that the trade zone has had a mild, positive effect on the U.S. economy.

Does that mean his rhetoric was overheated and amplified?  "Politicians are always guilty of that, and I don't exempt myself," he answered.

I suppose it's a positive step when Obama moves past his denials and admits he lied, but I wouldn't expect him to stop.
Natural Born
Citizen Lie
Upstream blog reports that the "We The People Foundation" will publicly challenge Obama, using Obama's hometown newspaper, the Chicago Tribune, to direct the State of Hawaii to provide access to his original, "vault copy," birth certificate.  The Foundation's full-page "Open Letter to Barack Obama" will appear in the Chicago Tribune next Monday and Wednesday.

"Under our Constitution, no one is eligible to assume the Office of the President unless he or she is a "natural born citizen," said Bob Schulz, Chairman of the Foundation.  "To date, Mr. Obama has refused all requests to release his original birth certificate or other documents that would definitively establish his citizenship status and thus his eligibility."

The Open Letter to Mr. Obama summarizes the evidence against Mr. Obama and the adverse consequences that would befall the Nation should he assume the Office of the President as a usurper.

"Should the state members of the Electoral College cast their votes for Mr. Obama in the face of such overwhelming evidence, and without verification of Mr. Obama's eligibility, they would be committing treason to the Constitution," said Schulz.

A copy of the Open Letter can be viewed here.  Check it out.  It's dynamite!

If we do not have the right to know if Obama is a natural born citizen, then you could argue that we do not have to know if he is 35 years old, or if he has lived in the USA for 14 years.  If so, anyone can run for President -- anyone -- from anywhere -- at any time.

And, the news blackout is finally lifted on Obama's refusal to defend charges he is not a "natural born citizen" -- the reporting news agency -- PRAVDA, the leading newspaper of the Soviet Union and an official organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party.
Natural Born
Liar

Natural Born Citizen Liar
 

Obama already caught lying about his contact with Blagojevich.  When asked what contact he'd had with the governor's office about his replacement in the Senate, President-elect Obama today said "I had no contact with the governor or his office and so we were not, I was not aware of what was happening."

On November 23, Obama senior adviser David Axelrod said on Fox News that Obama had indeed spoken with Gov. Blagojevich about his successor:

"I know he has talked to the governor and there are a whole range of names many of which have surfaced, and I think he has a fondness for a lot of them." (video)

Obama is caught lying so he throws his campaign strategist, Axelrod, who was Blagojevich's campaign manager, under the bus, lying by saying Axelrod "misspoke" -- LOL!

And, here's a second source backing up the allegation that Obama is lying through his teeth.  On Wednesday, November 05, 2008, KHQA, Channel 7, produced this report:


Now that Barack Obama will be moving to the White House, his seat in the U.S. Senate representing Illinois will have to be filled.

That's one of Obama's first priorities today.

He's meeting with Governor Rod Blagojevich this afternoon in Chicago to discuss it.

Illinois law states that the governor chooses that replacement.

There's already been speculation about his selection...from Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. of Chicago's south side who co-chaired Obama's presidential campaign, to recently-retired state senate president Emil Jones, to the governor himself.


And, a third source, after the meeting -- "Obama met with Governor Rod Blagojevich earlier this week to discuss it."

Update:  Oh, wait!
KHQA TV, after the two previous stories above, now says the meeting never happened?  I just love our "independent press" -- LOL!  KHQA feedback

And another source -- the venerable(?) Chicago Tribune:  "I just don't want to jinx him and I don't like the karma of me thinking that far ahead," Blagojevich said of Obama's prospects in Tuesday's election.  The governor added, "We have had some discussions about a process which we'll share ... if all goes well."

Everybody around this liar is a communist, terrorist, American-hater or a crook and the Obamalytes want us to believe this guy has terrific judgment.  If they're correct, then if follows Obama, himself, is one or more of the above.  You are known by your friends and associates, and Obama's are unbelievable.

100 Years
Lie
Obama distorts McCain’s "100 years in Iraq" comment again

Shocking!  Not that he'd distort it; that's politics.  What's shocking is the fact that the reporter presses him on it and clarifies what McCain meant (which Obama already knows, natch), backing him into the very stupid assertion that Maverick wants a Germany/Japan-type occupation of Iraq that's somehow going to cost us $150 billion a year for decades and decades and decades.  "It's seldom that you see such a dirty lie," said Krauthammer of this subject not long ago.  Prepare yourselves to see it again and again and again.

 

Exit question: He wants to know how Bush and McCain define victory.  How does he define it?

Patriotism
Lie
LAS CRUCES, N.M -- Despite not having served in the military himself, Barack Obama used his Memorial Day remarks to speak about his family's service.  "My grandfather marched in Patton's army, but I cannot know what it is to walk into battle like so many of you," he told a small group of veterans here. 

And speaking of his typical white grandmother, he said -- "My grandmother worked on a bomber assembly line, but I cannot know what it is for a family to sacrifice like so many of yours have."  

Obama also spoke about his typical white uncle, who was part of the American brigade that helped to liberate Auschwitz.  He said the family legend is that, upon returning from war, his uncle spent six months in an attic.

First lie! -- Wow!  Very dramatic! The problem is that Auschwitz of course is in Poland.  It was liberated by the Red Army on January 27th, 1945.  Poland, on most maps is usually placed to the east of Germany, although we may need to investigate the geography textbooks the Obamessiah used as a child.

The Allies were wrapping up the battle of the bulge in late January of 1945 -- the Rhine crossings were still well into the future when Auschwitz was liberated.

Either Obama's uncle served in the Red Army, or he's spinning Clintonesque lies about Auschwitz to sell his government programs. Hey, it's for a good cause - but it's not enough for him. It has to be personal. It has to be all about him.

Second lie! -- Obama has no uncles.  His mother Anna was an only child, and Obama Sr. had two sisters.

Oh, it's not a lie, his campaign says he made a mistake -- he just made another gaffe in the growing collection of documented Obama's gaffes -- it was his great-uncle and it was a sub-camp of Buchenwald, but who cares about these little details, right?

AGAIN? -- well, it turns out that he's
told this tale before, in 2002 -- except he identifies his typical white grandfather as the liberator.

"My grandfather signed up for a war the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed, fought in Patton's army.  He saw the dead and dying across the fields of Europe; he heard the stories of fellow troops who first entered Auschwitz and Treblinka.  He fought in the name of a larger freedom, part of that arsenal of democracy that triumphed over evil, and he did not fight in vain."

 

Third lie! -- Obama's grandfather enlisted on June 18, 1942.

Fourth lie!
-- In his autobiography, "Dreams of My Father," Obama states his grandfather never engaged in combat.  "Gramps returned from the war never having seen real combat, and the family moved to California, where he enrolled at Berkeley under the GI bill."  -- Berkeley??????

Patriotism
Lie
Responding to criticism of his disrespect of the flag of the United States during the National Anthem, Obama defended himself by saying "My grandfather taught me how to say the Pledge of Allegiance when I was 2."
 

He didn't even remember what he was doing on September 17th, when Obama, Hillary and Bill Richardson attended the Steak Fry of Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) in Indianola, IA.

How can he possibly remember what happened when he was two years old?  Do you know anyone that remembers events when they were two?

Patriotism
Lie
At a town hall meeting in Kokomo, IN, Obama, responding to a question, referred to the time last October, when a Cedar Rapids, Iowa, TV reporter asked him why he didn't wear a flag pin.

"Then I was asked about this in Iowa," Obama said.  "And somebody said 'Why don't you wear a flag pin?'  I said, well, sometimes I do, sometimes I don't.  I said, although I will say that sometimes I notice that they're people who wear flag pins but they don't always act patriotic.  And I was specifically referring to politicians, not individuals who wear flag pins, but politicians who you see wearing flag pins and then vote against funding for veterans, saying we can't afford it."

Obama then proceeds, in a magnificent example of hypocritical chutzpah, to call bloggers who accurately reported his words liars.

"So I make this comment.  Suddenly a bunch of these, you know, TV commentators and bloggers (say) 'Obama is disrespecting people who wear flag pins.'  Well, that's just not true. Also, another way of saying it is, it's a lie."

Obama's two radically different versions of his reasons for not wearing the pin are there for you to read. You decide who's telling the truth.
Patriotism
Lie
Obama traveled Monday to Independence, Missouri, to proclaim his patriotism in an appearance linked to the Fourth of July holiday.  He said: "I will never question the patriotism of others in this campaign, and I will not stand idly by when I hear others question mine."



The patriot, Obama, does the crotch salute during the National Anthem. (video)


Obama is a damned, sneaky bastard.  He knows he doesn't have to question the patriotism of others, meaning John McCain, of course, because he has a core group of surrogates that have been performing this nasty "artful" work for some time.

On July 8th, George McGovern argued that John McCain's war experience was not a qualification for the White House, saying, "But I don't recall ever saying that experience as a bomber pilot equipped me to be very strong on how to run a war, how to command the armed forces.  Of course, John McCain never said it was either.

In June, Wesley Clark dismissed the import of McCain's military background in the current race. "I don't think getting in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to become president," Clark sniffed.  The real issue, according to Clark, was that McCain was "untested and untried."  Again, John McCain never said it was.

But CNN's, John Roberts, pointed out the most glaring contradiction in Clark's theory of military experience: his enthusiastic endorsement of the treacherous John Kerry, whose strategic command experience was nowhere near McCain's.

Jim Webb didn't have any problem using his military service to run against George Allen, but now he says, "Let's get the politics out of the military, take care of our military people, or have our political arguments in other areas."

Rand Beers, a former Clinton White House aide, was appearing at the McCain University, a day-long symposia attacking Senator McCain hosted by John Podesta's Center for American Progress, and he, too, went after Senator McCain for his service with an equally outrageous statement.

Beers attacked Senator McCain, saying that he was isolated during the Vietnam years, causing him to miss all the social revolutions going on in the 1960s.  Yes, he was isolated.  He was in a prison cell in North Vietnam.  And he said because he was captured, his national security experience in that regard is sadly limited -- pretty outrageous comments.

In May, Tom Harkin told reporters on a conference call, "He (McCain) comes from a long line of just military people, so I think his whole worldview, his life view has been shaped from a military viewpoint, and he has a hard time thinking beyond that, and I think he's trapped in that. And I think that can be pretty dangerous."

On April 7th, Senator Jay Rockefeller, in an interview with The Charleston Gazette, said, "McCain was a fighter pilot, who dropped laser-guided missiles from 35,000 feet. He was long gone when they hit. What happened when they [the missiles] get to the ground? He doesn't know. You have to care about the lives of people. McCain never gets into those issues."

The Obama Campaign doesn't want the conversation to be about military experience, foreign relations or qualification to run our nations defense -- how convenient, since Obama has no experience with any of them.

Obama has less than zero military and defense experience, and his foreign relations experience is limited to being the chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee's 11-member Subcommittee on European Affairs.

The committee's jurisdiction includes the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which has been providing military support to Afghanistan since it assumed authority for the International Security Assistance Force mission in 2003.

As subcommittee chairman, Obama could have held hearings pertaining to the role of NATO in the war in Afghanistan, but he has not held a single hearing

He's far too busy bamboozling, hoodwinking, and okie doke'ing his way to the White House.

Patriotism
Lie
"I don't care what they say about me but I love this country too much to let them take over another election"

Barack Hussein Obama
The
Pot Lie
Last fall during a nationally televised presidential debate,  Obama hesitantly raised his hand and joined with most of his Democratic rivals to declare that he opposed decriminalizing marijuana. (first video).

But as a candidate for the U.S. Senate four years ago, Mr. Obama told Illinois college students that he supported eliminating criminal penalties for marijuana use or possession, according to a videotape of a little noticed debate that was obtained by The Washington Times.

"I think we need to rethink and decriminalize our marijuana laws," Mr. Obama told an audience during a debate at Northwestern University in 2004. "But I'm not somebody who believes in legalization of marijuana." (second video).

Asked about the two different answers, Mr. Obama's presidential campaign said he in fact has "always" supported decriminalizing marijuana as he answered in 2004, meaning the candidate mistakenly raised his hand during the presidential debate last fall.
Promises PolitiFact has compiled about 500 promises that Obama made during the campaign and is tracking their progress on their Obamameter.  They rate their status as "No Action," "In the Works" or "Stalled."  Once they find action is completed, they will rate them "Promise Kept," "Compromise" or "Promise Broken."
Puffery Obama, tells the crowd at fundraiser , "I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution."

For the record, Obama is a "Senior Lecturer (on leave of absence)" at the University of Chicago Law School.  He has taught Constitutional Law III: Equal Protection and Substantive Due Process, Current Issues in Racism & the Law, and Voting Rights & the Democratic Process.
Puffery The University of Chicago released a statement Thursday saying Sen. Barack Obama "served as a professor" in the law school -- but that is a title Obama, who taught courses there part-time, never held, a spokesman for the school confirmed on Friday.

"He did not hold the title of professor of law," said Marsha Ferziger Nagorsky, an assistant dean for communications and lecturer in law at the school.

Another university spokesman, Josh Schonwald, said the Obama campaign did not request that the statement be issued and that it was posted because reporters were calling the school with questions about Obama's status.

The university statement said, "From 1992 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004, Barack Obama served as a professor in the Law School."

The school probably did not mean to imply that Obama became a University of Chicago professor a year out of law school.  But the word "served" is key -- Nagorsky said Obama carried out, or served, a function of a professor -- teaching a core curriculum course -- while at the same time not holding down that rank.

At issue in a Clinton memo was Obama's claims -- most specifically on several direct mail pieces produced for his 2004 U.S. Senate race -- that said he was a law professor at the university.

Obama graduated from Harvard Law School in 1991.  He was a lecturer at the U. of C. law school between 1992 and 1996.  During that time, he was an attorney at the law firm of Miner, Barnhill & Galland.  In his first years of teaching, he had only one course.

He was promoted to senior lecturer in 1996, and his teaching load eventually increased to three courses a year, less than the load of a professor.

Obama won a state Senate seat in 1996.  He maintained his senior lecturer post from 1996 to 2004, when he took a leave to run for the U.S. Senate.

Nagorsky said there is a major distinction between a lecturer and senior lecturer, though neither is a full-time position.  She said the status of a senior lecturer is "similar" to the status of a professor and that Obama did teach core courses usually handled only by professors.  Obama's appointment was not part of an academic search process, and he did not have any scholarly research obligations.
Puffery One of the knocks on Barack Obama is that his résumé is, so to speak, paper-thin.  But that is not entirely accurate.  Obama, in fact, has held some major job titles which are noteworthy all by themselves: United States Senator, Lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, Harvard Law Review President-each of these titles puts him in rarefied company.  Tack on a few Illinois State Senate terms, and his resume actually appears solid.  Yet, in spite of these prestigious positions, Obama has increasingly resorted to making claims of accomplishment that are so patently inflated that even his cheerleaders at CNN and the New York Times are taking notice. Why?

It seems that Obama recognizes that while his résumé titles are impressive, his actual accomplishments are weak.  It's as if he were jockeying to be the next company CEO with little to show for his prior high-profile management positions.  So, he does what anyone else does who has spent years coasting on charisma without doing any heavy work: he pads his resume -- stretching the truth here, stealing credit there, and creating the illusion of achievement during his lackadaisical, undistinguished tenure in previous jobs.

A few examples . . .
Public
Financing
Lie
February -- As Sen. McCain has pointed out, Obama promised to use public funding in the general election if the Republican candidate would do so also.  Well, McCain has agreed to it, but now Obama wants to back out of the deal.  After all, when he made the promise, he didn't have a chance of raising more than the public's $85 million stipend.  But now that he can raise $300 million, well, what's a little untruth between the waited-for one and his people?  Yes, he can.
Public
Financing
Lie
Despite his previous pledge to enter into the public financing system should he be the Democratic presidential nominee, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has recently been reluctant to re-commit to entering the system.

This reluctance has coincided with his primary, caucus, and fundraising successes. For that reluctance, Obama has been hammered as hypocritical by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., not to mention impartial observers.

Tonight at a fundraiser in Washington, D.C., at the National Museum of Women in the Arts -- at a $2,300-per-person event for 200 people held before a $1,000-per-person reception for 350 people -- Obama previewed his argument to justify this possible future discarding of a principle.

"We have created a parallel public financing system where the American people decide if they want to support a campaign they can get on the Internet and finance it, and they will have as much access and influence over the course and direction of our campaign that has traditionally been reserved for the wealthy and the powerful," Obama said.

Do you buy it?
Public
Financing
Lie
Mark Shields didn't mince words on PBS about Barack Obama's decision to opt out of public financing.  Appearing as the progressive balance with David Brooks on Judy Woodruff's show, Shields ripped into Obama, calling him unprincipled and suggesting that his latest video message painted him as a "hostage" who couldn' pass a polygraph.
Public
Financing
Lies
Terrific set of videos documenting Obama's "all over the place" positions on public financing!!!

Talk about opponents who become masters at gaming this (broken) system.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/11212.html

Excellent "walk back" over last two years.  "Change you can('t) believe in."

 

This guy is way, way, way beyond flip-flop.  He'll just say anything, at anytime, to anybody.  He knows the media will jus ignore his mendacity.

Rezko Lie And on the same day, he admits to another whopper!

Obama now says Rezko played a bigger fundraising role.

Indicted Chicago businessman Antoin "Tony" Rezko was a more significant fundraiser for presidential candidate Barack Obama's earlier political campaigns than Obama has previously admitted.  Rezko raised as much as $250,000 for the first three offices Obama sought, the senator told the Tribune on Friday.

Obama also said for the first time that his private real estate transactions with Rezko involved repeated lapses of judgment.  The mistake, Obama said, was not simply that Rezko was under grand jury investigation at the time of their 2005 and 2006 dealings.  "The mistake was he had been a contributor and somebody involved in politics," he said.

And this from a guy who is running for office based upon his judgment.
Rezko Lie PROOF POSITIVE THAT REZKO AND OBAMA ARE BUSINESS PARTNERS.

Examine the Cook County land records:

The deed for the house that the Obama's purchased for $300k less than the asking price is from Frederic Wondisford and his wife, Sally Radovic, to the Obama's Northern Trust Company Land Trust #10209 (established as such for "confidentiality") is dated 15 June 2005 and is recorded 21 June 2005 as Document #0517233010.  Declared value is $1,650,000.00.

The deed for the vacant lot is from Wondisford/Radovic to Rita M. Rezko.  This deed is dated 15 June 2005 and recorded a day earlier, on 20 June 2005 as Document #0517133004. Declared value is $625,000.00.

Examination of the Cook County records very clearly indicates that Rita M. Rezko conveyed the entire lot to Obama's Northern Trust Company Land Trust #10209 on 11 January 2006 and recorded 16 February 2006 as Document #0604733162.  Declared value is $104,500.00.

VERY IMPORTANTLY, thorough and careful examination of all Cook County land records fails to locate a deed back to Rita M. Rezko from the Obama's Northern Trust Company Land Trust #10209.

There is a "wild deed" indicated from Rita M. Rezko to "5050 S. Greenwood LLC."  This is an Illinois limited liability corporation with the same address as Rezmar Corporation that is registered to the indicted Tony Rezko.  (This deed is considered "wild" because it is not supported by any ownership deed from the Obama's Land Trust.)

Furthermore, Tony Rezko's registered corporation, 5050 S. Greenwood LLC, then pledges the entire vacant lot in favor of a mortgage THAT IS STILL OPEN with Fifth Third Bank for the amount of $375,000.00.  This is Document #0703357023 recorded 2 February 2007.

THUS, THE ENTIRE VACANT LOT IS TITLED TO SEN. BARACK AND MICHELLE OBAMA (IN THEIR LAND TRUST FOR CONFIDENTIALITY) AND ALLOWED BY SENATOR BARACK AND MICHELLE OBAMA TO BE PLEDGED BY A TONY REZKO CORPORATION TO SECURE A LOAN.

This is contrary to what has been stated by Senator Obama; contrary to what has been stated by Senator Obama's campaign staff: and contrary to what has been reported.

It must be noted that a seemingly intelligent Harvard educated attorney does not make such unknowing errors as stated above.  The above is obvious intent not "oversight".
Secrecy
Lie
Despite a pledge to open government, the Obama administration has endorsed a Bush-era decision to keep secret key details of an FBI computer database that allows agents and analysts to search a billion documents with a wealth of personal information about Americans and foreigners.

Obama's Justice Department quietly told a federal court in Washington last week that it would not second-guess the previous administration's decisions to withhold some information about the bureau's Investigative Data Warehouse.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights advocacy group, had sued under the Freedom of Information Act to get records showing how the FBI protects the privacy of Americans whose personal information winds up in the vast database.

As a result, there is no public list of all the databases the FBI sucks into this computer warehouse; no information on how individuals can correct errors about them in this FBI database; and no public access to assessments the bureau did of the warehouse's impact on Americans' privacy.

"In light of all the fanfare at the highest levels of the administration about a new transparency policy, it's remarkable that not one word of additional material has been released as a result of that new policy," said David Sobel, the foundation's lawyer in the case.

More here . . .
Sgt. Schultz
Defense
Responding to the Rezko verdict: Guilty on four of first five counts; guilty on 16 of 24 counts involving mail/wire fraud, money laundering, and corrupt solicitation charges, Obama said, "This isn't the Tony Rezko I knew."



"I know nothing!


Obama has known Rezko since his Harvard days -- about the same time he began his close relationships with the Revs. Wright and Pfleger -- and he denies he knew who they are and what they do -- Obama is a bold-faced liar.

Shame
On Him
Lie

 
Presidential candidate Barack Obama  repudiated what he called "inflammatory and appalling remarks" made by his Chicago pastor.

Obama said he had not been present during the sermons in question.

Obama told MSNBC, "Had I heard them in church I would have expressed that concern directly to Rev. Wright."

Please note, he says that he would have expressed concern, not repudiate, the words

Yet, in this video, "the Rev" places Obama in the congregation, by saying, "There is a man here, who can take this country in a new direction" and he points at him.

In the next clip, during Wright's 2007 Christmas services, Wright rails, "Barack knows what it means to be a black man living in a country and a process that is controlled by rich white men, Hillary can never know that, Hillary ain't ever been called a nigger!"

While Wright rails, "Bill did us like he did Monica Lewinsky," Wright's successor, Otis Moss III, jumps into the picture frame, attempting to high-five "the Rev."

Barack was in Chicago for Christmas 2007 and Wright is addressing him from the pulpit.  Will Barack say me didn't attend Christmas services? 

When Obama said, "Had I heard them in church ..." Obama lied.  He listened to Wright's sermons for 20 years. 

These two men, Obama and Wright, are two peas in the same pod.


And, please notice the congregation in that video.  They are going nuts during Wright's preaching.  All of them believe this "evil white man" crap and eat it up.

The whole bunch of them are the worst kinds of hateful racists -- and remember, Wright's congregation is composed of successful, educated African-Americans.

Slander Obama accused his fellow American citizens of the indiscriminate murder of Iraqi civilians, saying, "And these private (Blackwater USA) contractors, they go out and they're spraying bullets and hitting civilians and that makes it more dangerous for our troops."

Obama lies with the same ease as the Clintons and proves that he will say anything to win the nomination and election.
The Staff
Did It Lie
Obama's Inability to Hire Good Help Rears Its Head Again.

Jake Tapper started covering Sen. Barack Obama's inability to hire good staffers in June 2007, when he blamed staffers for some opposition research trying to link Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, to outsourcing in India; for injecting some venom in the David Geffen/Hillary Clinton fight; and for missing an event with firefighters in New Hampshire.

In December, we noted again that Obama was blaming the answers on a 1996 questionnaire on a staffer; and was blaming his touring with "cured" ex-gay gospel singer Donnie McClurkin (which antagonized gays and lesbians) on bad vetting by his staff.

Those five buck-passing incidents were apparently not enough.

All-in-all, Tapper identifies 14 instances of Obama buck-passing.
The Staff
Did It Lie
"I know some say I've been too tough on folks about this responsibility stuff.  But I'm not going to stop talking about it.  Because I believe that in the end, it doesn't matter how much money we invest in our communities, or how many 10-point plans we propose, or how many government programs we launch -- none of it will make any difference if we don't seize more responsibility in our own lives."

This comment was made by a man who repeatedly assigns responsibility for his gaffes on members of his campaign staff -- Barack Hussein Obama.
Taxes Lie According to ABC, Obama "would raise taxes on the wealthy, people who make more than $250,000 a year, but cut them for most households."



 

The text on screen, however, stated an impossibility: "Cut taxes on most households (95%)."

That 95 percent is impossible since one-third of those who file with the IRS are "non-payers," people who end up paying no tax or get money back which exceeds their payments.  Obama plans to expand the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and create other credits.  For those for whom the credits surpass their tax obligation, those are not tax cuts, but spending hikes or federal giveaways akin to welfare.

Obama says he's against reparations, but he's for "free money."  This guy's all about redistribution of wealth.  What a surprise!

10,000
Dead

Lie

Obama, caught up in the fervor of a May 2007 campaign speech, drastically overstated the Kansas tornadoes death toll, saying 10,000 had died.

"In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died -- an entire town destroyed," the Democratic presidential candidate said in a speech to 500 people packed into a sweltering Richmond art studio for a fundraiser.

The death toll was 12.
Terrorism
Lie
Obama's comments about "legitimate causes" of terror groups and "root problems of causes and dangers" seems to echo little-noticed remarks the presidential candidate made eight days after 9/11 in which he said the attacks were carried out because of a lack of "empathy for others" suffering on the part of al-Qaeda, whose terrorist ideology "grows out of a climate of poverty and ignorance, helplessness and despair."

Obama went on to imply the Sept. 11 attacks were, in part, a result of U.S. policy, lecturing the American military to minimize civilian casualties in the Middle East and urging action opposing "bigotry or discrimination directed against neighbors and friends of Middle-Eastern descent."

"Even as I hope for some measure of peace and comfort to the bereaved families, I must also hope that we, as a nation, draw some measure of wisdom from this tragedy," Obama wrote in a piece about 9/11 published Sept. 19, 2001, in Chicago's Hyde Park Herald.

Obama may not be a Muslim, but he certainly is sympathetic.
Torture
Lies
Obama is preparing to prohibit the use of waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques by ordering the CIA to follow military rules for questioning prisoners, according to two U.S. officials familiar with drafts of the plans.  Still under debate is whether to allow exceptions in extraordinary cases.

The proposal Obama is considering would require all CIA interrogators to follow conduct outlined in the U.S. Army Field Manual, the officials said.  The plans would also have the effect of shutting down secret "black site" prisons around the world where the CIA has questioned terror suspects -- with all future interrogations taking place inside American military facilities.

However, Obama's changes may not be absolute.  His advisers are considering adding a classified loophole to the rules that could allow the CIA to use some interrogation methods not specifically authorized by the Pentagon, the officials said.  They said the intent is not to use that as an opening for possible use of waterboarding, an interrogation technique that simulates drowning.

In other words, Obama is retaining George Bush's policy of allowing "exceptions in extraordinary cases," but he is lying about it.  In 8 years, Bush authorized waterboarding 3 times, in extraordinary cases -- and he saved American lives.

If it was up to me, I would have Hannibal Lecter interrogate high-value terrorists
Torture
Lies
If you live in L.A. and didn't die in a terrorist attack, you may owe it to the CIA's use of the "enhanced interrogation techniques" that are currently under fire from Obama and his left-wing constituents.

In a compelling Op-Ed in Tuesday's Washington Post, Marc A. Thiessen disproves Barack Obama's hollow claim that such techniques "did not make us safer."  Rather than following the MSM lead and merely parroting the Obots talking points after the release of previously-classified memos this week, Thiessen actually examined the documents.

Thiessen concludes that Obama's contention is "patently falseThe proof is in the memos Obama made public -- in sections that have gone virtually unreported in the media."

"...that have gone virtually unreported in the media." No surprise there. The legacy media has proved to be singularly un-inquisitive when it comes to facts that get in the way of Obama talking points.

Thiessen specifically refers to a May, 2005 memo regarding two top al Qaeda operatives, Khalid Sheik Mohammed and Abu Zubaydah:

"the CIA believes 'the intelligence acquired from these interrogations has been a key reason why al Qaeda has failed to launch a spectacular attack in the West since 11 September 2001.' . . . In particular, the CIA believes that it would have been unable to obtain critical information from numerous detainees, including Khalid Sheik Mohammed (KSM) and Abu Zubaydah, without these enhanced techniques... Before the CIA used enhanced techniques ... KSM resisted giving any answers to questions about future attacks, simply noting, 'Soon you will find out.'"

But once the enhanced techniques were used, "interrogations have led to specific, actionable intelligence, as well as a general increase in the amount of intelligence regarding al Qaeda and its affiliates."

In other words, the techniques worked when previous interrogation methods had failed.

"as Abu Zubaydah himself explained with respect to enhanced techniques, 'brothers who are captured and interrogated are permitted by Allah to provide information when they believe they have reached the limit of their ability to withhold it in the face of psychological and physical hardship."

The CIA documents reveal specifically that the enhanced techniques:

"led to the discovery of a KSM plot, the 'Second Wave,' 'to use East Asian operatives to crash a hijacked airliner into' a building in Los Angeles... information obtained from KSM also led to the capture of Riduan bin Isomuddin, better known as Hambali, and the discovery of the Guraba Cell, a 17-member Jemmah Islamiyah cell tasked with executing the 'Second Wave.'"

Further, the memo states that KSM might never have been captured, and the information he revealed never learned, without enhanced interrogation techniques used against Zubaydah.

"...Zubaydah -- again, once enhanced techniques were employed -- furnished detailed information regarding al Qaeda's 'organizational structure, key operatives, and modus operandi' and identified KSM as the mastermind of the September 11 attacks."

The 'Second Wave' attack planned by KSM, thwarted by the use of enhanced interrogation techniques, would have hijacked a jetliner and crashed it into the Library Tower in Los Angeles, the tallest building on the West Coast.  Thiessen points out, "without enhanced interrogations, there could be a hole in the ground in Los Angeles to match the one in New York."

But the impact would have been far worse than the physical devastation to L.A and the resultant thousands of casualties.  The nation was reeling after 9/11, deadly anthrax was being delivered through the mail, the economy was in trouble.  A follow-up attack on the West Coast would have meant that, potentially, no one was safe.  The effect would have been devastating.

Even Obama's hand-picked CIA Director, has admitted that he might consent to enhanced interrogation techniques under a "ticking time bomb" scenario.  And that is exactly the scenario in which the techniques were used during the Bush administration.

Oh, and one more thing -- Congress, including some of its loudest Democratic critics, approved of these "enhanced interrogation techniques."
Torture
Lies
Britain Did Torture

 

During Obama's 100th-day presser, he said he had recently read an article about Winston Churchill during the London blitz.  "Churchill said, 'We don't torture,' when the entire British -- all of the British people were being subjected to unimaginable risk and threat," Obama said.  "And then the reason was that Churchill understood, you start taking short-cuts, over time, that corrodes what's -- what's best in a people.  It corrodes the character of a country."

The anecdote wasn't true.  Churchill may well have said that Britain did not torture, but British archives show clearly that captured Nazis were subjected to harsh treatment in order to extract information during World War II.  This morning, Michael Tomasky points to this 2005 story in the Guardian about a secret World War II detention center called the "London Cage":

The London Cage was used partly as a torture centre, inside which large numbers of German officers and soldiers were subjected to systematic ill-treatment.  In total 3,573 men passed through the Cage, and more than 1,000 were persuaded to give statements about war crimes.  The brutality did not end with the war, moreover: a number of German civilians joined the servicemen who were interrogated there up to 1948. . . .

Read the entire story here . . .
Town Hall
Meeting Lie


"One of my favorite tasks of being a senator is hosting town hall meetings." (00:50)


Obama knows he would have his head handed to him if he were to share the stage with John McCain.  Without his teleprompter and 4 X 5 cards, Obama is clueless -- check out the video below.


 
The affirmative action candidate on the hustings -- without the teleprompter  (00:40)

Uniter
Myth
An e-mail from a reader said that, while Hillary Clinton tells lies, Barack Obama is himself a lie.

That is becoming painfully apparent with each new revelation of how drastically his carefully crafted image this election year contrasts with what he has actually been saying and doing for many years.

Obama's election year image is that of a man who can bring the country together, overcoming differences of party or race, as well as solving our international problems by talking with Iran and other countries with which we are at odds, and performing other miscellaneous miracles as needed.

There is, of course, not a speck of evidence that Obama has ever transcended party differences in the United States Senate.  Voting records analyzed by the National Journal show him to be the furthest left of anyone in the Senate.  Nor has he sponsored any significant bipartisan legislation -- nor any other significant legislation, for that matter.

SObama is all talk -- glib talk, exciting talk, confident talk, but still just talk.
Vetted Lie Americans have been writing their elected officials, asking about Obama's vetting process.   Here are a couple of responses, from Connecticut and South Carolina.  Basically, both respondents admit that there was no vetting process and Obama's candidacy was just accepted.

The Chair of the South Carolina Democratic Party, Carol Fowler, unequivocally states that all of the Democratic candidates, which would include Obama, qualify for the office for which they are seeking. The key statement appears on page 2 of the document (.pdf).

The South Carolina Secretary of State, Mark Hammond, expressed the opinion that the vetting process for democratic presidential candidate Obama is the responsibility of the Democratic party.

The Connecticut Secretary of State, Susan Bysiewicz, uses the Hawaiian officials press conference as Connecticut's vetting process.  The problem is, this press conference occurred on November 1st, three months after Obama was declared as the nominee.

In her response (.pdf), Bysiewicz defends herself for certifying Obama was qualified to run for president based on her interpretation of what Hawaiian officials said via a press conference, and not a court of law or legitimate vetting process.  She claims Hawaiian officials verified that Obama was born in Hawaii, but the fact is they did not make any such claim, all Hawaiian officials stated was that they held his original birth certificate.

These officials are just confirming what every thoughtful person knows.  Obama was never, ever vetted.  He was just accepted as "eligible" because, as Joe Biden said, Obama was the first "African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.  I mean, that's a storybook, man." -- affirmative action's logical conclusion -- remember, the guy never did anything in his life that would qualify him for the office -- Obama's CV -- articulate, bright,  clean and a nice-looking -- oh, Lordy!
Vote Lie Barack Obama released his first general election ad on Friday, which seems aimed above all to answer some early concerns about his biography and experience.  It's a well made ad, but it also offers an example of the kind of brazen padding of the resume that Obama will inevitably need to engage in, and which will carry serious risks for him.

About 46 seconds into the ad, we are told that Obama passed laws that extended healthcare for wounded troops who'd been neglected, and in the usual manner of these political commercials we are given a little citation at the bottom.  The citation reads Public Law 110-181 1/28/08.  That law is the only federal legislation cited in the ad the other two items mentioned were from the Illinois legislature and referred to other issues raised in the ad.

Public Law 110-181 was the 2008 defense authorization bill.  It passed the Senate by 91 to 3 in January, with six Senators not voting.  Among those six absentees was Barack Obama.  So he cites a bill he didn't even vote for.  Did he contribute to it in some way that might be reasonably referred to as extending healthcare for wounded troops who'd been neglected?  It certainly doesn't seem that way, as even Obama supporters at the Daily Kos discovered when they tried to answer some of the bloggers who pointed to Obama's citation of the bill.  They found that Obama had tried to insert an amendment that had to do with screenings for service members returning from deployments, and one that would ease the discharge of service members found to have personality disorders, but neither amendment passed.  Another part of the bill, calling for inspector general reports about hospital facilities, had come from a different bill Obama had sponsored.

Even under the most generous reading imaginable could any of that count as passing legislation that extended health care for wounded troops?  The Chicago Tribune noted the problem on its blog last week but defended Obama by pointing out that John McCain didn't vote for the bill either.  That would be an interesting piece of information if John McCain had cited this bill as among his chief legislative accomplishments.

The Obama teams desire to pad the resume is understandable its awfully slim after all.  But this kind of dishonesty will catch up with them, or at least it should.
Welfare Lie


"Country I Love" TV Ad (01:02)
 

JCM directs us to this video, in which Obama says, "That's why I passed laws moving people from welfare to work(1), cut taxes for working families(2) and extended health care for wounded troops who'd been neglected(3)."

 
(1) State of Illinois, Public Act 90-0017, as HB0204 6 sponsors (of which Obama was one) and 16 co-sponsors.  

First, the law in question wasn't dreamed up out of thin air by its sponsors, is was to comply with the new Federal law that had already passed.  It was the follow-up to the FEDERAL welfare reform act, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, that President Clinton signed on Aug. 26, 1996.  That law gave states the ability to design their own welfare programs as long as they met certain federal requirements, including limits on how long recipients could get benefits. 

Second, Obama was against the 1996 federal legislation which precipitated the caseload reduction. "I am not a defender of the status quo with respect to welfare," Obama said on the floor of the Illinois state Senate on May 31, 1997.  "Having said that, I probably would not have supported the federal legislation, because I think it had some problems."  The bill that Obama cosponsored was Illinois' version.
 
(2) State of Illinois, Public Act 91-0700, as HB3939 7 sponsors and 41 co-sponsors (of which Obama was one).
 
(3)United States, H.R. 4986, which became public law 110-181

Fact: Obama did not sponsor/co-sponsor this law, and was "not present" when it passed, 91-3.
Who Sent
You?

The American People want to know


Obama has lived for almost 50 years without leaving any footprints -- none!  There is no Obama documentation -- no records -- no paper trail -- none -- this can't be an accident.
Original, vault copy birth certificate -- Not released -- Lawyers fees -- greater than $1,000,000 -- birth certificate -- $15.
Certification of Live Birth -- Released -- Counterfeit
Obama/Dunham marriage license -- Not released

Obama/Dunham divorce -- Released (by independent investigators)

Kindergarten records -- Records lost (this is a big one -- see here -- read two frames)
Soetoro/Dunham marriage license -- Not released
Soetoro adoption records -- Not released

Fransiskus Assisi School  School application -- Released (by independent investigators)
Punahou School records -- Not released
Soetoro/Dunham divorce -- Released (by independent investigators)

Selective Service Registration -- Released -- Counterfeit
Occidental College records -- Not released
Passport -- Not released and records scrubbed clean by Obama's terrorism and intelligence adviser.
Columbia College records -- Not released
Columbia thesis -- "Soviet Nuclear Disarmament" -- Not released
Harvard College records -- Not released
Harvard Law Review articles -- None

Illinois Bar Records -- Not released.
Baptism certificate -- None
Medical records -- Not released
Illinois State Senate records -- None
Illinois State Senate schedule -- Lost
Law practice client list -- Not released
University of Chicago scholarly articles -- None

Rev. Wright
Lies
Barack may not have heard Wright's rants, but did he read them?

In the Trinity United Church of Christ Bulletin, January 21, 2007, on pages 9 and 10, "The Pastor's Page," are these words:

"We have lost over 3,000 boys and girls in an illegal and unjust war, and the media is on a feeding frenzy about Barack Obama's church.  Where is the outrage about the 3,000 dead American military personnel and the 600,000 dead Iraqi civilians who are dead for no reason other than greed and ego?  What's goin' on?"

"I use his words today on the third Sunday of a New Year to keep before you the painful truth of who we are and where it is we are in this racist United States of America!  What's goin' on?"

"The reality, however, is that the entire war in Iraq and the larger "war on terror" have been based on lies, half-truths and distortions to serve the agenda of the United States imperialism.  Where is the public outcry? Where is the outrage?  What's goin' on?"

He may never have heard Wright actually say the U. S. was racist or some aspiring empire.  But he never read it in his bulletin?  Ever?

Will Obama deny he was in attendance at the controversial Chicago church when the pastor referred to "white arrogance" and "the United States of White America"  on July 22, 2007, accompanied by his Secret Service detail.

Wright laced into America's establishment, blaming the "white arrogance" of America's Caucasian majority for the woes of the world, especially the oppression suffered by blacks.  To underscore the point he refers to the country as the "United States of White America."  Many in the congregation, including Obama, nodded in apparent agreement as these statements were made.
Rev. Wright
Lies
In one of the biggest lies he ever told -- Obama says he "vehemently condemns" the words of his pastor and mentor, Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, an official member of Obama's campaign, as a member of Obama's African American Religious Leadership Committee.

 

What an absolute pile of crap!

 

Obama says he's never witnessed or heard these statement before.  (video)

 

Another load of crap!  Obama has!  Later, in a cover-his-ass speech, Obama even admits he heard "the REv's" despicable words.

 

Obama and his wife Michelle have been listening to this man for 20 years.

Obama is a bold-faced liar to now claim he had no idea the "the Rev" was such an anti-American, racist,  hate-monger!

OK, OK!  Maybe he didn't hear those words.  But what about Reverend White's words that appear in Obama's very own book, "Dreams of My Father."

"It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks' greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere  That's the world!  On which hope sits!"

Reverend Wright spoke of Sharpsville and Hiroshima, the callousness of policy makers in the White House and in the State House.

That was 13 years ago, in 1995.


Why hasn't Obama denounced "the Rev" at any time in the past 20 years?

The answer, of course, is because Obama wasn't running for national office before -- that's one reason.

 

Another?

Obama and Wright are of the same mind -- now and then!

The
Rank Dishonesty
Of
Obama
Hot Air reports that Jim Geraghty first wrote that all of Barack Obama's promises come with expiration dates, and broken promises from politicians are nothing new, of course.  However, one usually expects politicians --- especially those running on hope and change -- to either remain true to their professed core values and the issues that fueled the most passion on the campaign trail, or at least explain their change in the daylight.  Obama did neither, nor did he apologize to the man he besmirched endlessly on the campaign trail while adopting the policy that Obama most demonized as a candidate, George Bush.
 
This goes beyond the policy, which I think returns to a rational processing of illegal combatants in wartime. We don't release POWs until after the conclusion of hostilities, and we sure as hell shouldn't be releasing illegal combatants any earlier, incentivizing terrorists for operating outside the rules of war.  The fact that they joined an endless jihad against the US shouldn't get them any consideration for earlier release dates; when the radical Islamists either surrender or get destroyed, then we can see about releasing them.  Until then, they should stay locked up and away from the fight.

Obama has essentially endorsed the detention policies of George Bush without the courtesy of apologizing for slandering him over the last two and a half years.  Obama and his allies screeched endlessly about indefinite detentions, and not just in Gitmo, either.  They specifically railed against the holding of terrorists without access to civil courts in military detention facilities around the world, specifically Bagram, but in general as well.  Not even six months into his term of office, Obama realized that Bush had it right all along.

Did he even have the grace to admit that?  No.  Instead, the White House took the cowardly method of a late-Friday leak to let people know that Obama had adopted the Bush policy all over again.  Barack Obama just appeared at a press conference this last Tuesday to discuss Iran, energy policy, and ObamaCare, where he could have told the national press that he had changed his mind on indefinite detention.  Instead, he kept his mouth shut, and had his media staff whisper it into phones to a couple of White House favorites in the press.

It's a shameful performance, and the measure of the man in charge.

I guess Obama has finally conceded to Dick Cheney on national security, hasn't he?

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