MY Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

They’re not lies, just Exaggerations

• Posted by Chris on July 26th, 2008 filed in 2008 election, Barack Obama, General, Politics    

Remember when Algore was caught in all those lies in the 2000 election? “I invented the internet” “My dogs prescription cost 25 dollars and my mom pays 300 dollars for the same thing” “I drank a lot of tea and was out of the room” etc, etc. Remember when he was confronted? What was his excuse? “Sometimes, I get some details wrong.” His campaign had a memo leaked that told him his tendency to exaggerate would get him in trouble. So, what will Obama’s lies be called? Here are some for you. They are gutsy as heck too. They are so easily verified he’s hoping no one would notice or call him on it. The MSM won’t but we will.

We’ve already covered the “I will take public financing”. He signed a sheet saying he would take it. He then turned it down, becoming the first nominee of either party to do so since it started. I can’t blame him, he’s made a lot more than he would have received from the government, but still, it’s a lie. Some will call it a flip-flop, but when you sign something and you purposefully don’t deliver, it’s a breach and a lie.

A couple more brazen ones happened in March ‘08 and April ‘06. In March, congress was in the middle of the housing market bailout attempts. In one try, Chris Dodd and Barney Frank put together a bill that would have the FHA back loans for lenders to allow them to “help” homeowners nearing or in foreclosure. A few days after Dodd and Frank have the press conference, Obama steps up to a mic and says “At this moment, we must come together and act to address the housing crisis that set this downturn in motion and continues to eat away at the public’s confidence in the market. We should pass the legislation I put forward with my colleague Chris Dodd to create …” What’s that? He had nothing to do with the bill, yet he gives himself top billing with Dodd and leaves out Barney Frank. Needless to say, Dodd and Frank were not overly pleased.

In April 2006, the Senate committee and the president had just finished the final touches of the Amnesty Immigration bill. Obama catches them in the hall and asks if he can go with them. No big deal. Happens all the time. However, when they got to the mic, he takes it and thanks the team for the bill. Lindsey, Sam, Mel, Ken, *MYSELF*, and so on. Now that’s ballsy. They sat in the meetings for days haggling this thing and here comes Obama, trying to leach credit.

You can read about both of those events here.

Now those last 2 were covered by the Washington Post. Ok, but here’s one more. Have you seen this one in any papers? Only Fred Barnes on Fox News called him on it. He was in Israel trying to sound tough against the Iranians and let fly this one:

“Now, in terms of knowing my commitments, you don’t have to just look at my words, you can look at my deeds. Just this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, which is my committee, a bill to call for divestment from Iran, as a way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don’t obtain a nuclear weapon.”

One problem. He’s not on that committee. He never voted for that bill in the committee. It hasn’t come before the senate yet. There’s no way he voted on it. No possible way. It’s a flat out, bold faced lie. He keeps trying to take the fruit of everyone’s work. Basically he’s trying to welfare himself a senate record.

Speaking of welfare (don’t you love that transition), thank you to Don, here is the Obama commercial where he takes credit for welfare reform he opposed:

Add that he says his dad was part of Kennedy’s airlift program from Kenya (he wasn’t) and you get a liar. A liar who is very much at ease telling verifiable whoppers. The media will ignore all this, we won’t. Pass it along. November is approaching and the more people see this, the more they will wake from their Obamacoma and get back to reality.