One Lie after another !
Let me count the ways!
read below & you will see
This is not a man who has told the
truth to the American people.
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1.) Selma Got Me Born - LIAR, your parents felt safe enough to have
you in 1961 - Selma had no effect on your birth, as Selma was in
1965.
2.) Father Was A Goat Herder - LIAR, he was a privileged, well
educated youth, who went on to work with the Kenyan Government.
3.) Father Was A Proud Freedom Fighter - L IAR, he was part of one
of the most corrupt and violent governments Kenya has ever had.
4.) My Family Has Strong Ties To African Freedom - LIAR, your cousin
Raila Odinga has created mass violence in attempting to overturn a
legitimate election in 2007, in Kenya. It is the first widespread
violence in decades.
5.) My Grandmother Has Always Been A Christian - LIAR, she does her
daily Salat prayers at 5am according to her own interviews.
According to the New York Times: "I am a strong believer of the
Islamic faith," Ms. Obama, 85, said in a recent interview in Kenya.'
Not to mention, Christianity wouldn't allow her to have been one of
14 wives to 1 man.
6.) My Name is African Swahili - LIAR, your name is Arabic and
'Baraka' (from which Barack came) means 'blessed' in that language.
Hussein is also Arabic and so is Obama.
7.) I Never Practiced Islam - LIAR, you practiced it daily at
school, where you were registered as a Muslim and kept that faith
for 31 years,until your wife made you change, so you could run for
office.
8.) My School In Indonesia Was Christian - LIAR, you were registered
as Muslim there and got in trouble in Koranic Studies for making
faces (check your own book).
9.) I Was Fluent In Indonesian - LIAR, not one teacher says you
could speak the language.
10.) Because I Lived In Indonesia, I Have More Foreign Experience -
LIAR, you were there from the ages of 6 to 10, and couldn't even
spea k the language. What did you learn, how to study the Koran and
watch cartoons.
11.) I Am Stronger On Foreign Affairs - LIAR, except for Africa
(surprise) and the Middle East (bigger surprise), you have never
been anywhere else on the planet and thus have NO experience with
our closest allies. You seek to disarm America while our avowed
enemy, Iran, will not subject itself to a nuclear ban. Top Hamas
politica l adviser Ahmed Yousef said the Hamas terrorist group
'supports Obama's foreign policy vision'.
12.) I Blame My Early Drug Use On Ethnic Confusion - LIAR, you were
quite content in high school to be Barry Obama, no mention of Kenya
and no mention of struggle to identify - your classmates said you
were just fine.
13.) An Ebony Article Moved Me To Run For Office - LIAR, Ebony has
yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn't, and
never did, exist.
14.) A Life Magazine Article Changed My Outlook On Life - LIAR, Life
has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn't,
and never did, exist.
15.) I Won't Run On A National Ticket In '08 - LIAR, here you are,
despite saying, live on TV, that you would not have enough
experience by then, and you are all about having experience first.
16.) Present Votes Are Common In Illinois - LIAR, they are common
for YOU, but not many others have 130 NO VOTES.
17.) Oops, I Misvoted - LIAR, only when caught by church groups and
Democrats, did you beg to change your misvote.
18.) I Was A Professor Of Law - LIAR, you were a senior lecturer ON
LEAVE.
19.) I Was A Constitutional Lawyer - LIAR, you were a senior
lecturer ON LEAVE.
20.) Without Me, There Would Be No Ethics Bill - LIAR, you didn't
write it,introduce it, change it, or create it.
21.) The Ethics Bill Was Hard To Pass - LIAR, it took just 14 days
from start to finish.
22.) I Wrote
A Tough Nuclear Bill - LIAR, your bill was rejected by your own
party for its pandering and lack of all regulation - mainly because
of your Nuclear Donor, Exelon, from which David Axelrod came.
23.) I Have Released My State Records - LIAR, as of March, 2008,
state bills you sponsored or voted for have yet to be released,
exposing all the special interests pork hidden within.
24.) I Took On The Asbestos Altgeld Gardens Mess - LIAR, you were
part of a large group of people who remedied Altgeld Gardens. You
failed to mention anyone else but yourself, in your books.
25.) My Economics Bill Will Help America - LIAR, your 111 economic
policies were just combined into a proposal which lost 99-0, and
even YOU voted against your own bill.
26.) I Have Been A Bold Leader In Illinois - LIAR, even your own
supporters claim to have not seen BOLD action on your part.
27.) I Passed 26 Of My Own Bills In One Year - LIAR, they were not
YOUR bills, but rather handed to you, after their creation by a
fellow Senator, to assist you in a future bid for higher office.
28.) No One Contacted Canada About NAFTA - LIAR, the Candian
Government issued the names and a memo of the conversation your
campaign had with them.
29.) I Am Tough On Terrorism - LIAR, you missed the Iran Resolution
vote on terrorism and your good friend Ali Abunimah supports the
destruction of Israel. You state you will open friendly
communication with the Leader of Iran who is attempting to develop
nuclear weapons to destroy us, but refuse to speak to FOX news. You
are against provisions of the Patriot act which would all
wiretapping of the phones of suspected terrorists in the USA.
30.) I Am Not Acting As President Yet - LIAR, after the NAFTA Memo,
a dead terrorist in the FARC, in Colombia, was found with a letter
stating how you and he were working together on getting FARC
recognized officially.
31.) I Didn't Run Ads In Florida - LIAR, you allowed national ads to
run 8-12 times per day for two weeks - and you still lost.
32.) I Won Michigan - LIAR, no you didn't.
33.) I won Nevada - LIAR, no you did not.
34.) I Want All Votes To Count - LIAR, you said let the delegates
decide.
35.) I Want Americans To Decide - LIAR, you prefer caucuses that
limit the vote, confuse the voters, force a public vote, and only
operate during small windows of time.
36.) I passed 900 Bills in the State Senate - LIAR, you passed 26,
most of which you didn't write yourself.
37.) My Campaign Was Extorted By A Friend - LIAR, that friend is
threatening to sue if you do not stop saying this. Obama has stopped
saying this.
38.) I Believe In Fairness, Not Tactics - LIAR, you used tactics to
eliminate Alice Palmer from running against you.
39.) I Don't Take PAC Money - LIAR, you take loads of it.
40.) I don't Have Lobbysists - LIAR, you have over 47 lobbyists, and
counting.
41.) My Campaign Had Nothing To Do With The 1984 Ad - LIAR, your own
campaign worker made the ad on his Apple in one afternoon.
42.) My Campaign Never Took Over MySpace - LIAR, Tom, who started
MySpace issued a warning about this advertising to MySpace clients.
43.) I Inspire People With My Words - LIAR, you inspire people with
other people's words.
44.) I Have Passed Bills In The U.S. Senate - LIAR, you have passed
A BILL in the U.S. Senate - for Africa, which shows YOUR priorities.
45.) I Have Always Been Against Iraq - LIAR, you weren't in office
to vote against it AND you have voted to fund it every single time,
unlike Kucinich, who seems to be out gutting you Obama. You also
seem to be stepping back from your departure date - AGAIN.
46.) I Have Always Supported Universal Health Care - LIAR, your plan
leaves us all to pay the 15,000,000 who don't have to buy it.
47.) I Only Found Out About My Investment Conflicts Via Mail - LIAR,
both companies you site as having sent you letters about this
conflict have no record of any such letter ever being created or
sent.
48.) I Am As Patriotic As Anyone - LIAR, you won't wear a flag pin
and you don't put your hand over your heart during the Anthem. There
is a Cuban Flag with Che Guevara Displayed at Barack Obama Campaign
Office which you allow to be displayed. You voted against making
english the official language of the United States. You voted to
give illegal aliens social security benefits, which would bankrupt
the social security system for Americans legally paying into it.
49.) My Wife Didn't Mean What She Said About Pride In Country -
LIAR, your wife's words follow lock-step in the vain of Rev. Wright
and Louis Farrahkan, in relation to their contempt and hatred of
America.
50.) Wal-Mart Is A Company I Wouldn't Support - LIAR, your wife has
received nearly a quarter of a million dollars through Treehouse,
which is connected to Wal-Mart.
Origins:
Selma Got Me Born - LIAR, your parents felt safe enough to have you
in 1961 - Selma had no effect on your birth, as Selma was in 1965.
This criticism is based on an overly-literal interpretation of
Barack Obama's 2007 speech in Selma, Alabama, which we covered in a
separate article.
Father Was A Goat Herder - LIAR, he was a privileged, well educated
youth, who went on to work with the Kenyan Government.
These attributes are not mutually exclusive: Barack Obama's
(biological) father was all of these things at different times in
his life, as Obama described in his book, Dreams from My Father:
[My father] was as African, I would learn, a Kenyan of the Luo
tribe, born on the shores of Lake Victoria in a place called Alego.
The village was poor, but his father — my other grandfather, Hussein
Onyango Obama — had been a prominent farmer, an elder of the tribe,
a medicine man with healing powers. My father grew up herding his
father's goats and attending the local school, set up by the British
colonial administration, where he had shown great promise. He
eventually won a scholarship to study in Nairobi; and then, on the
eve of Kenyan independence, he had been selected by Kenyan leaders
and American sponsors to attend a university in the United States.
Father Was A Proud Freedom Fighter - LIAR, he was part of one of the
most corrupt and violent governments Kenya has ever had.
We are unaware of Barack Obama's ever having claimed his father was
a "proud freedom fighter." Obama has written (and spoken) at length
about his father's returning to Africa from America to work for the
Kenyan government, with that country's political turmoil eventually
leaving him a "bitter drunk" and "a defeated, lonely bureaucrat."
My Family Has Strong Ties To African Freedom - LIAR, your cousin
Raila Odinga has created mass violence in attempting to overturn a
legitimate election in 2007, in Kenya. It is the first widespread
violence in decades.
As we discussed in a separate article, Kenyan politician Raila
Odinga has recently claimed to be Barack Obama's cousin, but there
is no substantive evidence documenting his claim, and the two men
share no meaningful familial connection.
My Grandmother Has Always Been A Christian - LIAR, she does her
daily Salat prayers at 5am according to her own interviews.
According to the New York Times: "I am a strong believer of the
Islamic faith," Ms. Obama, 85, said in a recent interview in Kenya.'
Not to mention, Christianity wouldn't allow her to have been one of
14 wives to 1 man.
The author has apparently confused Obama's grandmothers. In the
instance cited above, Obama was speaking of his maternal
grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, not his paternal grandmother. (In 2007
Obama described his maternal grandparents as "nonpracticing Baptists
and Methodists.")
My Name is African Swahili - LIAR, your name is Arabic and 'Baraka'
(from which Barack came) means 'blessed' in that language. Hussein
is also Arabic and so is Obama.
Many Swahili words and names are of Arabic origin (just as many
English words originated with other languages). "Barack" is a
Swahili name that entered the language via historical trade and
cultural ties with Arabia.
I Never Practiced Islam - LIAR, you practiced it daily at school,
where you were registered as a Muslim and kept that faith for 31
years, until your wife made you change, so you could run for office.
The topic is already covered in our separate article about the
(false) claims that Barack Obama is a Muslim.
My School In Indonesia Was Christian - LIAR, you were registered as
Muslim there and got in trouble in Koranic Studies for making faces
(check your own book).
Barack Obama attended more than one school in Indonesia, one of
which was a public school that included Islamic religious
instruction among its curriculum, and one of which was a private
Catholic school.
I Was Fluent In Indonesian - LIAR, not one teacher says you could
speak the language.
We are unaware of Barack Obama's ever having claimed he was "fluent"
in any Indonesian language (beyond the level of competence that
could reasonably be expected of the non-native child speaker he was
at the time he lived in that country). He did acquire (and
apparently still has) a passable command of Bahasa, as Time magazine
noted in a 2007 article:
When prominent Indonesians visit the U.S., the first person they
want to meet is Obama, says Parnohadiningrat Sudjadnan, the
Indonesian ambassador to the U.S. "Back home people think of him as
one of us, or at least one who understands us," he says, adding that
they are delighted to find that Obama speaks passable Bahasa, the
language spoken in Indonesia and Malaysia.
Because I Lived In Indonesia, I Have More Foreign Experience - LIAR,
you were there from the ages of 6 to 10, and couldn't even speak the
language.
We have not found any citation for Obama's having claimed that his
childhood in Indonesia qualified him as having "more foreign
experience" (what the comparative "more" refers to also isn't
clear). Barack Obama did live in Indonesia for four years as a
child, and he could in fact speak the local language passably well.
Whether his time in that country provided him more "foreign
experience" is argumentative, but people other than Obama himself
have suggested that it might:
Some would argue that his childhood experiences, as well as his
mixed heritage (his father was Kenyan, his mother from Kansas),
gives him a better inner compass on foreign policy than most
Americans. They cite the pioneering work of Ruth Hill Useem, the
late sociologist of Michigan State University, who spent her career
studying what she called Third Culture Kids — the millions of U.S.
children (an estimated 20 million since the advent of mass air
travel) who have been carted abroad by their missionary, diplomatic,
corporate or military parents. These frequent-flier kids don't spend
enough time in their adopted countries to become fully bicultural,
but they take pieces and add it to their home values and traditions
— creating millions of "Third Cultures." Studies have shows that
kids who have spent time abroad are more likely to go to college, to
relate to one another despite the influences of vastly differing
cultures, and to latch on to one aspect of their culture — in
Obama's case African Americanism.
I Am Stronger On Foreign Affairs - LIAR, except for Africa
(surprise) and the Middle East (bigger surprise), you have never
been anywhere else on the planet and thus have NO experience with
our closest allies.
Barack Obama has lived in, traveled to, or otherwise spent time in
countries in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, including Russia,
Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Israel, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, the Palestinian
Territories, Afghanistan Chad, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, and South
Africa, as well as serving as a member of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee. Whether his experiences make him "stronger on
foreign affairs" is argumentative, but again, people other than
Obama have suggested that it might:
"Living abroad does give you a wider view of the world," says
Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Adviser under Jimmy
Carter, and a Polish-American who spent four years as a child living
in Germany with his diplomat father. Obama is "a person with genuine
sensitivity of world affairs," says Brzenzinski, who is supporting
Obama. "It's not the conventional mouthing of culture
sensitivities." Brzezinski points to Obama's greater willingness to
meet leaders of hostile nations and his early resistance to the war
in Iraq as examples of his superior intuition on foreign policy.
I Blame My Early Drug Use On Ethnic Confusion - LIAR, you were quite
content in high school to be Barry Obama, no mention of Kenya and no
mention of struggle to identify - your classmates said you were just
fine.
Obama wrote at length in his two books about his experiences growing
up as the child of mixed-race parents and the issues that
accompanied that status, and he noted in his first book, Dreams From
My Father that before entering politics he had used marijuana and
cocaine. His drug use, he wrote, was "... something that could push
questions of who I was out of my mind, something that could flatten
out the landscape of my heart, blur the edges of my memory" and said
in a 2006 interview that his drug use was "... reflective of the
struggles and confusion of a teenage boy. Teenage boys are
frequently confused."
An Ebony Article Moved Me To Run For Office - LIAR, Ebony has yet to
find the article you mention in your book. It doesn't, and never
did, exist.
We could not find an instance in either of Barack Obama's books (or
elsewhere) where he claimed that his decision to run for public
office was influenced by an article in Ebony magazine.
A Life Magazine Article Changed My Outlook On Life - LIAR, Life has
yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn't, and
never did, exist.
In Dreams from My Father, Barack Obama writes of a childhood
experience occurring on a day when his mother dropped him off at a
library on her way to work, and he began thumbing through issues of
LIFE magazine:
Eventually I came across a photograph of an older man in dark
glasses and a raincoat walking down an empty road. I couldn't guess
what this picture was about; there seemed nothing unusual about the
subject. On the next page was another photograph, this one a
close-up of the same man's hands. They had a strange, unnatural
pallor, as if blood had been drawn from the flesh. Turning back to
the first picture, I now saw that the man's crinkly hair, his heavy
lips and broad fleshy nose, all had this same uneven, ghostly hue.
He must be terrible sick, I thought. A radiation victim, maybem or
an albino — I had seen one of those on the street a few days before,
and my mother had explained about such things. Except when I read
the words that went with the picture, that wasn't it at all. The man
had received a chemical treatment, the article explained, to lighten
his complexion. He had paid for it with his own money. He expressed
some regret about trying to pass himself off as a white man, was
sorry about how badly things had turned out. But the results were
irreversible. There were thousands of people like him, black men and
women back in America who'd undergone the same treatment in response
to advertisements that promised happiness as a white person.
I felt my face and neck get hot. My stomach knotted; the type began
to blur on the page. Did my mother know about this? What about her
boss — why was he so calm, reading through his reports a few feet
down the hall? I had a desperate urge to jump out of my seat, to
show them what I had learned, to demand some explanation or
assurance. But something held me back. As in a dream, I had no voice
for my newfound fear. By the time my mother came to take me home, my
face wore a smile and the magazines were back in their proper place.
The room, the air, was quiet as before.
As far as we know, no one has yet found any matching article in the
pages of LIFE magazine. However, that does necessarily not mean
Barack Obama saw no such article; it may simply mean that, writing
decades after the fact, he misremembered the title of the magazine
he was viewing.
I Won't Run On A National Ticket In '08 - LIAR, here you are,
despite saying, live on TV, that you would not have enough
experience by then, and you are all about having experience first.
In 2004, just after winning election to the U.S. Senate, Barack
Obama said during a press conference, in response to a question
about his possibly running for national office, that:
I am a believer in knowing what you're doing when you apply for a
job, and I think that if I were to seriously consider running on a
national ticket I would essentially have to start now, before having
served a day in the Senate. Now, there are some people who might be
comfortable doing that, but I'm not one of them.
Present Votes Are Common In Illinois - LIAR, they are common for
YOU, but not many others have 130 NO VOTES.
A legislative "present" vote (which essentially counts as a "No"
vote but does not go on record as such) is, as the New York Times
observed, "not unusual in Illinois," a tactic often used in concert
with other party members and leaders:
An examination of Illinois records shows at least 36 times when Mr.
Obama was either the only state senator to vote present or was part
of a group of six or fewer to vote that way.
In more than 50 votes, he seemed to be acting in concert with other
Democrats as part of a strategy.
In other cases, Mr. Obama's present votes stood out among widespread
support as he tried to use them to register legal and other
objections to parts of the bills.
In Illinois, political experts say voting present is a relatively
common way for lawmakers to express disapproval of a measure. It can
at times help avoid running the risks of voting no, they add.
Oops, I Misvoted - LIAR, only when caught by church groups and
Democrats, did you beg to change your misvote.
We're unsure what supposed "misvote" this line references.
I Was A Professor Of Law - LIAR, you were a senior lecturer ON
LEAVE.
Barack Obama was indeed a professor at the University of Chicago's
Law School, a fact verified by that institution itself:
The Law School has received many media requests about Barack Obama,
especially about his status as "Senior Lecturer."
From 1992 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004, Barack
Obama served as a professor in the Law School. He was a Lecturer
from 1992 to 1996. He was a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004,
during which time he taught three courses per year. Senior Lecturers
are considered to be members of the Law School faculty and are
regarded as professors, although not full-time or tenure-track. The
title of Senior Lecturer is distinct from the title of Lecturer,
which signifies adjunct status. Like Obama, each of the Law School's
Senior Lecturers has high-demand careers in politics or public
service, which prevent full-time teaching. Several times during his
12 years as a professor in the Law School, Obama was invited to join
the faculty in a full-time tenure-track position, but he declined.
I Was A Constitutional Lawyer - LIAR, you were a senior lecturer ON
LEAVE.
Between 1993 and 2002, Barack Obama worked as a civil rights lawyer
with the Chicago law firm of Miner, Barnhill & Galland.
Without Me, There Would Be No Ethics Bill - LIAR, you didn't write
it, introduce it, change it, or create it.
It's unclear what ethics bill this statement references. Obama did
help pass a major ethics reform bill as an Illinois State Senator,
and 110th U.S. Congress passed the Legislative Transparency and
Accountability Act, which "closely mirrored and drew key provisions
from a bill (S. 230) that Senators Obama and Feingold introduced in
January 2007." We could find no reference to document Obama's
supposedly having said that neither of those bills would exist if
not for him.
The Ethics Bill Was Hard To Pass - LIAR, it took just 14 days from
start to finish.
Again, it's unclear which ethics bill this statement references, nor
could we find any reference to document Obama's supposedly having
said such a bill was "hard to pass.'
I Wrote A Tough Nuclear Bill - LIAR, your bill was rejected by your
own party for its pandering and lack of all regulation - mainly
because of your Nuclear Donor, Exelon, from which David Axelrod
came.
As the New York Times reported in February 2008:
When residents in Illinois voiced outrage two years ago upon
learning that the Exelon Corporation had not disclosed radioactive
leaks at one of its nuclear plants, the state’s freshman senator,
Barack Obama, took up their cause.
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 that
it was “the only nuclear legislation that I’ve passed.”
"I just did that last year," he said, to murmurs of approval.
A close look at the path his legislation took tells a very different
story. While he initially fought to advance his bill, even holding
up a presidential nomination to try to force a hearing on it, Mr.
Obama eventually rewrote it to reflect changes sought by Senate
Republicans, Exelon and nuclear regulators. The new bill removed
language mandating prompt reporting and simply offered guidance to
regulators, whom it charged with addressing the issue of unreported
leaks.
Those revisions propelled the bill through a crucial committee. But,
contrary to Mr. Obama’s comments in Iowa, it ultimately died amid
parliamentary wrangling in the full Senate.
I Have Released My State Records - LIAR, as of March, 2008, state
bills you sponsored or voted for have yet to be released, exposing
all the special interests pork hidden within.
We couldn't find a reference for Barack Obama's supposedly claiming
that he had "released" his state records, only that he said he
"didn't have the resources available to maintain those kinds of
records" and that they might not exist. Politico.com noted in
October 2008 that:
Obama's Senate files became an issue after he pressed Hillary Rodham
Clinton during their nomination battle to release the schedules from
her eight years as first lady.
When her campaign demanded Obama release his state Senate files, he
told reporters he did not "maintain a file of eight years of work in
the state Senate because I didn't have the resources available to
maintain those kinds of records." The records "could have been
thrown out. I haven't been in the state Senate now for quite some
time," he said.
His campaign later said that "files pertinent to ongoing casework"
were passed to his successor, but Obama didn't save correspondence
with the general public, state associations or lobbyists, or memos
on legislation and correspondence with Illinois state agencies. Some
of the records that have surfaced have done little to dampen the
demand for a more complete accounting.
I Took On The Asbestos Altgeld Gardens Mess - LIAR, you were part of
a large group of people who remedied Altgeld Gardens. You failed to
mention anyone else but yourself, in your books.
In Barack Obama's book Dreams from My Father, beginning at the start
of Chapter 9, he writes in detail about the efforts of community
organizers to push a grassroots campaign advocating the removal of
asbestos from the Altgeld Gardens housing project in Chicago.
Although in his book Obama emphasizes his own role in the effort,
many other people who took part in are indeed mentioned as well.
My Economics Bill Will Help America - LIAR, your 111 economic
policies were just combined into a proposal which lost 99-0, and
even YOU voted against your own bill.
It is unclear to us what bill or statement is supposedly being
referenced here.
I Have Been A Bold Leader In Illinois - LIAR, even your own
supporters claim to have not seen BOLD action on your part.
We couldn't find a reference for Barack Obama's having described
himself as a "bold leader in Illinois," but certainly some of his
supporters have claimed that of him (just as some of his critics
have claimed the opposite).
I Passed 26 Of My Own Bills In One Year - LIAR, they were not YOUR
bills, but rather handed to you, after their creation by a fellow
Senator, to assist you in a future bid for higher office.
Barack Obama did pass 26 bills in his final year as an Illinois
state senator. We could not find any reference to his claiming that
all of them were "my own" bills, but he certainly received a boost
in passing them from Illinois Senate President (and fellow Democrat)
Emil Jones, who "helped Obama learn the ways of the state
legislature and gave Obama the chance to work on the ethics
legislation and death penalty reforms that Obama now boasts about in
his presidential campaign":
Emil Jones Jr. helped Obama master the intricacies of the
Legislature. When Democrats took control of the state Senate, Jones,
though he risked offending colleagues who had toiled futilely on key
issues under Republican rule, tapped Obama to take the lead on
high-profile legislative initiatives that he now boasts about in his
presidential campaign.
And when Obama wanted a promotion to the U.S. Senate, Jones provided
critical support that gave the little-known legislator legitimacy,
keeping him from being instantly trampled by the front-runners.
No One Contacted Canada About NAFTA - LIAR, the Candian Government
issued the names and a memo of the conversation your campaign had
with them.
As FactCheck.org noted in March 2008 about the 'NAFTA-Gate'
controversy:
It's now clear that a Canadian news report that started this flap
wasn't accurate. No evidence has surfaced to show that any Obama
"staffer" telephoned the Canadian ambassador in Washington, and all
concerned deny that any such conversation took place. But it is
equally clear that Obama's senior economic adviser did visit
Canada's consulate in Chicago on Feb. 8, and that NAFTA was one of
the several topics discussed.
Exactly what was said is not so clear, however. The memo says
Obama's anti-NAFTA stance was described as just "political
maneuvering," but the adviser says he said no such thing. The
campaign says the adviser wasn't authorized to convey any message
from the candidate anyway. No audio recording or verbatim transcript
of the disputed conversation is available, and there’s no reason to
expect that any exists.
I Am Tough On Terrorism - LIAR, you missed the Iran Resolution vote
on terrorism.
In September 2007, the U.S. Senate voted on a resolution to
designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist
organization:
Charged with defending the system put in place after Iran's 1979
Islamic Revolution, the Guards answer to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
and are revered by many for their defense of the country during the
1980s war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
The legislative move to classify Shiite Muslim-dominated Iran's
elite Revolutionary Guard force as terrorist would be first such
move against a foreign government entity and would freeze any of its
assets under U.S. jurisdiction.
It would also allow the U.S. Treasury Department to move against
firms subject to U.S. law that do business with the Guard, which
have vast commercial interests at home and abroad.
Senator Obama was on the campaign trail at the time and did not
return to Washington for the vote.
I Am Not Acting As President Yet - LIAR, after the NAFTA Memo, a
dead terrorist in the FARC, in Colombia, was found with a letter
stating how you and he were working together on getting FARC
recognized officially.
On March 1, a Columbian Army strike on a FARC (Revolutionary Armed
Forces of Colombia) rebel camp in Columbia killed 24 people,
including Raul Reyes, the FARC's foreign minister. Files in a laptop
computer seized from the wreckage of the rebel camp included
references to U.S. diplomatic overtures which the Associated Press
described as "scintillating, if vague":
In a Dec. 11 message to the secretariat, [Ivan] Marquez writes: "If
you are in agreement, I can receive Jim and Tucker to hear the
proposal of the gringos."
Writing two days before his death, Reyes tells his comrades that
"the gringos," working through Ecuador's government, are interested
"in talking to us on various issues."
"They say the new president of their country will be (Barack)
Obama," he writes, saying Obama rejects both the Bush
administration's free trade agreement with Colombia and the current
military aid program.
Exactly who the referenced "gringos" were and whether they had any
substantive connection to Barack Obama is unknown.
I Didn't Run Ads In Florida - LIAR, you allowed national ads to run
8-12 times per day for two weeks - and you still lost.
In August 2007, major Democratic candidates signed a pledge to not
campaign in Florida because that state had moved its primary
election up to 29 January 2008, one week earlier than the Democratic
national rules allowed. In January 2008, the Obama campaign launched
national television advertisements on CNN and MSNBC that were also
shown in Florida. Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton maintainted
that they had asked CNN and MSNBC to pull Florida from the ad buy,
but those networks said they could not.
I Won Michigan - LIAR, no you didn't.
Senator Obama didn't seriously claim to have "won" Michigan; during
an 8 March 2008 Today Show interview he misspoke and inadvertently
mentioned Michigan among a list of states which he had won. In
accordance with the agreement mentioned in the previous entry,
Barack Obama's name didn't even appear on the Michigan ballot.
I won Nevada - LIAR, no you did not.
Senator Obama didn't claim to have "won" Nevada (a state that holds
caucuses rather than direct-election primaries); he noted,
correctly, that although Senator Hillary Clinton tallied more
overall votes at the Nevada caucuses, he actually picked up more
national delegates from that state:
Mitt Romney took Nevada's Republican caucuses, while Democrats
debated whether their party had rendered a split decision. New York
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton won the vote count among those at the
caucuses, but Illinois Sen. Barack Obama claimed a slight advantage
in national convention delegates on the strength of his showing in
rural areas.
Obama said in a statement released by his campaign that he came from
25 points behind and nearly beat Clinton today because he did well
across all of Nevada — "including rural areas where Democrats have
traditionally struggled."
Obama's campaign said his performance in rural areas of the state
helped him win a total of 13 national convention delegates, versus
12 for Clinton.
I Want Americans To Decide - LIAR, you prefer caucuses that limit
the vote, confuse the voters, force a public vote, and only operate
during small windows of time.
Senator Obama has no influence or power over the holding of caucuses
rather than primary elections; that choice is made by each state
individually, and candidates have to abide by whatever is decided.
I passed 900 Bills in the State Senate - LIAR, you passed 26, most
of which you didn't write yourself.
We could not find any reference to document Barack Obama's having
claimed he passied "900 bills in the [Illinois] state senate."
My Campaign Was Extorted By A Friend - LIAR, that friend is
threatening to sue if you do not stop saying this. Obama has stopped
saying this.
We are unsure what "extortion" claim this statement supposedly
references.
I Believe In Fairness, Not Tactics - LIAR, you used tactics to
eliminate Alice Palmer from running against you.
In April 2007, the Chicago Tribune wrote of Barack Obama's first
campaign for public office:
The day after New Year's 1996, operatives for Barack Obama filed
into a barren hearing room of the Chicago Board of Election
Commissioners.
There they began the tedious process of challenging hundreds of
signatures on the nominating petitions of state Sen. Alice Palmer,
the longtime progressive activist from the city's South Side. And
they kept challenging petitions until every one of Obama's four
Democratic primary rivals was forced off the ballot.
Fresh from his work as a civil rights lawyer and head of a voter
registration project that expanded access to the ballot box, Obama
launched his first campaign for the Illinois Senate saying he wanted
to empower disenfranchised citizens.
But in that initial bid for political office, Obama quickly mastered
the bare-knuckled arts of Chicago electoral politics. His
overwhelming legal onslaught signaled his impatience to gain office,
even if that meant elbowing aside an elder stateswoman like Palmer.
I Don't Take PAC Money - LIAR, you take loads of it.
Senator Obama didn't say that has never accepted money from
political action committees. (He used PAC money in his previous U.S.
Senate and Illinois state Senate races.) He pledged that he would
not accept PAC money for his 2008 presidential bid, a pledge that he
has upheld.
I don't Have Lobbysists - LIAR, you have over 47 lobbyists, and
counting.
As Politico.com noted in May 2008:
In his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, Obama is
refusing donations from federally registered lobbyists and excluding
them from his official campaign staff. (They can still be advisers
and volunteers, and their spouses' checks are certainly welcome.)
The Wall Street Journal observed in November 2008 that:
Democratic lobbyists are wondering about their future in an Obama
administration. Although Sen. Obama has taken a tough line toward
registered lobbyists, he has allowed himself some maneuvering room.
Like Sen. McCain, Sen. Obama has banned lobbyists from working on
his campaign until after they quit their lobbying jobs.
Senator Obama also said that his administration would not employ
federally registered lobbyists, although (as the New York Times
noted) he has allowed himself some "wiggle room" in that regard:
Turning to campaign promises in which he pledged sweeping ethics
restrictions, President-elect Barack Obama will bar lobbyists from
helping to pay the costs of his transition to power or working for
it in any area in which they have represented clients in the last
year, his transition team said.
The new rules do seem to leave some wiggle room. Aides to Mr. Obama,
who declared during the campaign that lobbyists would not "find a
job in my White House," said the guidelines allowed for lobbyists to
work on the transition in areas where they have not done any
lobbying.
Further, the rules apply to lobbyists who must register with the
federal government; many people who work for lobbying firms or in
other areas of the influence business in Washington do not have to
register, because they do not personally lobby federal officials on
specific issues.
My Campaign Had Nothing To Do With The 1984 Ad - LIAR, your own
campaign worker made the ad on his Apple in one afternoon.
A widely-circulated spoof of Apple Computer's famous 1984 television
advertisement for their (then-new) Macintosh computer was not
created by an Obama campaign worker. It was, as explained in a
statement issued by the managing director of Blue State Digital (a
firm contracted to provide technology services to the Obama
Campaign), created without authorization by an employee of that
company:
Statement from Thomas Gensemer, Managing Director, Blue State
Digital
On Wednesday afternoon, March the 21st, an employee at our firm,
Phillip de Vellis, received a call from Arianna Huffington of "The
Huffington Post" regarding the "1984" video currently circulating
online. Initially, de Vellis refused to respond to her requests. He
has since acknowledged to Blue State Digital that he was the creator
of the video.
Pursuant to company policy regarding outside political work or
commentary on behalf of our clients or otherwise, Mr. de Vellis has
been terminated from Blue State Digital effective immediately.
Blue State Digital is under contract with the Obama Campaign for
technology pursuits including software development and hosting.
Additionally, one of our founding partners is on leave from the
company to work directly for the campaign at headquarters.
However, Blue State Digital is not currently engaged in any
relationship with the Obama Campaign for creative or non-technical
services.
Mr. de Vellis created this video on his own time. It was done
without the knowledge of management, and was in no way tied to his
work at the firm or our formal engagement [on technology pursuits]
with the Obama campaign.
I have spoken with David Plouffe, Sen. Obama's campaign manager, to
inform him of this action and am appreciative of his understanding
and ongoing support of our work.
I Have Always Been Against Iraq - LIAR, you weren't in office to
vote against it AND you have voted to fund it every single time,
unlike Kucinich, who seems to be out gutting you Obama. You also
seem to be stepping back from your departure date - AGAIN.
Senator Obama expressed opposition to the war in Iraq well before he
gained a seat in the U.S. Senate in 2004. (The vote that authorized
U.S. military action in Iraq was held in 2002.) He has since voted
in the Senate to authorize funding for that war, for reasons he
defended in a February 2008 Democratic debate:
The two Democrats exchanged pointed words over each other's records
on the war in Iraq, which contrast sharply even as economic and
domestic concerns become dominant in the race. Clinton voted in 2002
to authorize the invasion, which Obama opposed from the start. After
Obama again touted a high-profile antiwar speech he gave in Chicago
before the war, Clinton pointed out that he, like her, had
subsequently voted for war funding, and that their records on Iraq
were similar since he came to the Senate in 2005.
"When it wasn't just a speech, but it was actually action, where is
the difference?" she said. "Where is the comparison that would in
some way give a real credibility to the speech that he gave against
the war?"
Obama shot back: "Once we had driven the bus into the ditch, there
were only so many ways we could get out."
I Am As Patriotic As Anyone - LIAR, you won't wear a flag pin and
you don't put your hand over your heart during the Anthem. There is
a Cuban Flag with Che Guevara Displayed at Barack Obama Campaign
Office which you allow to be displayed. You voted against making
english the official language of the United States. You voted to
give illegal aliens social security benefits, which would bankrupt
the social security system for Americans legally paying into it.
These items are covered here in separate articles about the national
anthem, Che Guevara, and Social Security.