OK, So Obama's A Liar

The new politics of hope and change sure looks a lot like the old politics of smear and distort. [Side by side video here.]

Here we go:

(CNN) — John McCain's campaign is crying foul over what it characterizes as repeated distortions from Barack Obama, saying on Friday the Illinois senator is "recklessly dishonest."

The most recent dustup comes after Obama criticized McCain earlier Friday for comments the Arizona senator made in an interview on Bloomberg Television.

"John McCain went on television and said that there has been quote "great progress economically over the last seven and a half years," Obama told a Pennsylvania crowd. "John McCain thinks our economy has made great progress under George W. Bush. Now, how could somebody who has been traveling across this country, somebody who came to Erie, PA, say we've made great progress?”

The McCain campaign immediately took issue with the comment, noting the Arizona senator also said he knows families are facing "tremendous economic challenges."

“American families are hurting and Barack Obama is being recklessly dishonest," McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds said. "It is clear that Barack Obama is intentionally twisting John McCain’s words completely out of context. Obama is guilty of deliberately distorting John McCain’s comments for pure political gain, which is exactly what Senator Obama was complaining about just yesterday."

Let's interject a bit of reality so that the reality based side can see for themselves just what some of them are foisting on us.  Here is the McCain interview in question, my excerpt:

MR. COOK: I'm going to ask you a version of the Ronald Reagan question. You think if Americans were asked, are you better off today than you were before George Bush took office more than seven years ago, what answer would they give?

SEN. MCCAIN: Certainly, in this time, we are in very challenging times. We all recognize that. Families are sitting around the kitchen table this evening and figuring out whether they're going to be able to keep their home or not. They're figuring out whether they're - why it is that suddenly and recently someone in their family or their neighbor has lost their job. There's no doubt that we are in enormous difficulties.

I think if you look at the overall record and millions of jobs have been created, et cetera, et cetera, you could make an argument that there's been great progress economically over that period of time. But that's no comfort. That's no comfort to families now that are facing these tremendous economic challenges.

But let me just add, Peter, the fundamentals of America's economy are strong. We're the greatest exporter, the greatest importer, the greatest innovator, the greatest producer, still the greatest economic engine in the world. And, by the way, exports and free trade are a key element in economic recovery. But these are tough times, tough times, and nobody knows that more than American families including in small towns of Pennsylvania. They haven't lost their fundamental religious beliefs, their respect for the Constitution, their right to bear arms. They are still - keep America as a beacon of hope and freedom throughout the world.

For Obama to extract one sentence and argue that McCain is out of touch is shameless.

And by way of comparison, here is McCain when asked about Jeremiah (God DAMN America) Wright:

SEN. MCCAIN: Well, in the case of Reverend Wright, I have expressed in the past that I am sure that Senator Obama does not share the extremist statements that Reverend Wright made.

And he moved on the the "cling to their guns and religion and racism" controversy, which he does think is legitmate.

Obama is a liar and a punk - should make for an interesting race.  The Times has more fawning coverage.

THINGS TO DO:  If we are allowed to extract just one sentence and claim it is the candidate's view, I bet we can have fun with Barry.  Any takers?

Comments

[LibraryLady]

There's a Youtube video!

http://www.redstate.com/stories/elections/2008/obama_the_liar_pinocchiobama_does_it_again

[centralcal]

Thanks for the link, LibraryLady - Obama again looks the lying fool!

[Thomas Collins]

Although I view B_O as the weakest major party candidate in all the POTUS elections I have followed (I have followed them since '64), the fawning MSM coverage TM cites could push B_O over the top. Evan Thomas may have been exaggerating when he said MSM adds 15 points to the Dems' total, but it might only take a few points in key states to provide the US with its first leftist POTUS. Makes me long for the days of Dem moderates such as George McGovern! :-))

[Charlie (Colorado)]

[S]aying ... the Illinois senator is "recklessly dishonest."

Well, duh.

[ParseThis]

One sentence repeated many times. It's only recently that his handlers have told him that you might be a condescending jackass when you say things like this:

A lot of this is psychological. A lot of it’s psychological. Because I agree the fundamentals of our economy is still strong.

That's right. It's all in your heads, you silly rubes!

[Sue]

ParseThis,

So, I read the comments at the site you linked. I get the idea they think their candidate has a plan to fix the economy. What exactly is that plan? Higher taxes?

[GMax]

Supporter of THE Condenscending Jackass in the race declares another candidate the same. Project much?

[MayBee]

I've been reading Obama's speeches to see if he ever contradicts himself. I must say, I have yet to see one line that is positive about the past 20 years in America.

[Sue]

Maybee,

Not even last year when his income was over $4 million?

[Danube of Thought]

The Obama campaign for the presidency is over--he is certain to lose, and to lose badly. I hear no serious dissent from this obvious fact even from his most ardent supporters, who know full well what is coming. And he complains a lot--brother, does he ever complain. I suppose the lack of a father may account for his failure to understand one of life's most important rules: Real Men Don't Complain.

Watching the next six-plus months unfold will be hugely entertaining, but it is already established that he's a lightweight and a pussy, and is not at all good on his feet when he doesn't know what's coming and there's no teleprompter.

Toast.

[MarkO]

Meow.

[Enlightened]

ParseThis - As Obama, you also know absolutely nothing about our economy and why we are where we are at.

Study up Rube. Bernanke and Paulson are idiots that do not know what steps to take to stabilize inflation and their panic is spreading to the masses by dumbshits like the LAT that ask stupid questions like is a Depression over the horizon. These two idiots continue to make the worst possible decisions about our economy, and continue to allow the dollar to weaken. Mass hysteria about the housing market - trumpeted by our tabloid news services has morons like you salivating about a hoped-for depression. Go on - get your man Obama to promise to raise some taxes. It oughta do the trick.

[Enlightened]

Oh yeah - They know Obama is gonna get his ass whipped.....they are already on the hunt for dirt on McCain. The dirtier the better. Moving right back into their 6th grade playbooks.

[capitano]

I get the idea they think their candidate has a plan to fix the economy. What exactly is that plan? Higher taxes?

Nah, the taxes are just to steal rich people's money in the name of fairness. He'll fix the economy by talking to dictators and championing more government programs.

Here's another link to Obama's big lie -- a side by side video of Obama and McCain. What a uniter!

[Jnb]

The mass mystery was the hitler everyone likes me speaking thing. Maybe the mortgages were the trade..............

Then there was depression.

[MayBee]

Sue- ha!

I still think Obama should propose the Federal Book Contract for All Americans program. It is apparently a more honorable way to make lots of money than by being a CEO or a Wall Street person, and outsourcing would be difficult. The publishers don't seem to mind paying people that won't actually make them money, either.

[pagar]

"think their candidate has a plan to fix the economy. What exactly is that plan?"

What ever George Soros tells his puppet.

[Thomas Collins]

"You're likeable enough, Hillary."

That's my favorite B_O whopper of a lie. When he gave her the "Hawaiian good luck sign" at the last debate, he at least was being honest about his feelings!

[centralcal]

Fear. It is all about fear. Fear of what the first 45-50 minutes reveal in the debate. Fear of what the second half of the debate reveals. So the left loonies create a scene, hoping to distract. Two of their candidates favorite words - hope - and - distract!

His associations and his policies (first half and second half) show him to be UNQUALIFIED to be a Senator, much less President.

[SteveMG]

I'm starting not to like this guy.

Not a single shred of evidence that he's been able to transcend politics or race or any other factor and bring people together.

A 100% liberal voting record, associations with hard left figures; nope, sorry, that's not indicative of someone who wishes to overcome tribal politics.

[Ann]

"Fear of what the first 45-50 minutes reveal in the debate. "

How about 52 seconds?

IN 52 SECS WHY BARACK OBAMA CANNOT WIN A GENERAL ELECTION

I think this might be why Hamas' Ahmed Yousef endorsed Obama this week.

[ParseThis]

Bernanke and Paulson are idiots that do not know what steps to take to stabilize inflation and ... continue to make the worst possible decisions about our economy, and continue to allow the dollar to weaken.

McCain economic adviser: "The best course of action is to let the Fed handle it."

Mass hysteria about the housing market - trumpeted by our tabloid news services has morons like you salivating about a hoped-for depression.

Right. More cheerleading, please. And pass the baton.

[Enlightened]

Hahahhhhhahhahhaha - Keep trying. You must be on the newly appointed Get Dirt On McCain team. Bravo - Howeird Deaniac must be so proud.

Try again.

[Enlightened]

Bwaahahhahah - Think Progress? Keep trying.

Nothing like perfectly illustrating what I said - trumpeting by tabloid press.

Go back to Think Progress - trying some thinking next time.

[SaveFarris]

I think the early clubhouse leader is from his world-famous anti-war speech in 2002. Say hello to the 5th paragraph:

---"[Saddam Hussein Obama]'s a bad guy. The world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him."

[Danube of Thought]

One of the very most delightful things about the coming tragic meltdown of the Boy Messiah is going to be how his diehards will dredge up this or that tidbit of his policy position on such-and-such, and contrast it with McCain's. None of them will have a clue about the larger picture, which is that people simply aren't going to elect Obama. This great land is filled nearly to bursting at this moment with dullards who don't yet know this. Watching them learn it as time goes by will give rise to great mirth, gloating and merriment here.

Oh, this is gonna be a good one!

[RRsafety]

Obama says that white males are "mediocre".

http://www.slate.com/id/2186944/

[RR safety]

Obama attacks own grandmother, claims she hated minorities of any group.

"My grandmother harbors ANY racial animosity"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/20/obama-grandmother-was-a-_n_92587.html

[MayBee]

SaveFarris-
From the same speech:
" I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a US occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences."

That could be 100 years!

[Ann]

I don't want to make you blush D(oT), but catching up on the threads, I have to add my adoration for you, too. I love your continued optimism and your soaring heart each day. :)

By the way, can Jimmy Carter run for a second term? He would solve the Super Duper dilemma, since neither one of these clowns can win in the general.

Think about It, he's won the Nobel Peace Prize, and it would let the Dems shed their pretense for being pro-American. He loves Hamas terrorists and put flowers on Arafat's grave.

The only downside is they can't call McCain old! LOL

[ben]

We have had some moderately intelligent trolls...ParseThis, alas, was born at low tide in the gene pool...

Obamamessiah proposes raising the capital gains tax, in effect penalizing 100 million people with investments or that own a home or a farm. This will decrease tax revenues in the long run, as has happened in the past. It will discourage investment, which impacts on jobs (construction, industry, services). He wants to curtail free trade, in effect raising the price of goods consumers pay for.
There is nothing new in Obamamessiah's economic plan that Mondale, Dukakis, Clinton, Clinton, Gore and Kerry didn't already propose.

[Enlightened]

Well, I did hear a rumor that arugula, when taken in large doses, effectively heightens 'splodeyhead syndrome, resulting in total Messiah Clarity. I think I read it on Think Progress.

[centralcal]

Interesting article by Harris/Vandehei at Politico about the media's infatuation with Obama.

"Many journalists are not merely observers but participants in the Obama phenomenon."

[Enlightened]

Another good article in the Politico vein -

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/wehner/3456

[Enlightened]

Fixed link I think

http://www.
commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/
wehner/3456

[Ann]

Cent,

I read that and immediately thought of "Operation Chaos". I don't think you can give RUSH all the credit because the Dems really have themselves to blame for their pathethic primary rules, but you have to give him some credit for this glorious turn of events where the media and Dems are going after each other.

How did you say it?: OH, Happy Day?!!! Ditto! Ditto!! Delightful!!!!

[Ann]

Enlightened Link

[Jane]

OT while I catch up: I was in Barnes & Noble this evening. They had a book about how the media is skewed in the favor of McCain (I forget the unmemorable title). The author was "media matters".

[Enlightened]

Tks - I'm a newbie at the HTML carp...

[narciso]

Remember that reference to that McClatchy story that referenced that supposed NDU study that called "Iraq a fiasco". You're
not going to believe this:href smallwarsjournal.com/blog/2008/04/pentagon-study-current-events/> they left some details out. I know you're as surprised as I am.

No, you may gather I'm a little bitter, at this time of year. Religion doesn't have much to do with it, although I'm a Catholic
and I did grow up in Jersey, and went to the the Poconos, many moons ago.

Gas and Milk at nearly $4.00 a gallon, the
bottom falling out of the real estate market, because the great sage Greensapn, didn't notice raising rates for 18 monthes can shatter a sub prime dependent market. The ironic thing, is that this shouldn't have been a new realization of the likely consequences. The reduction of tax deductability on interest, precipitated the
S&L crisis; a similar price and rate spike in the late 90s, popped the tech bubble
He was saving all his brainpower for that hefty memoir, and planning his second honeymoon with Andrea Mitchell. It's not like we paid his sala...actually we do, at
last count.

Meanwhile, the Democrats are at least nomimally in control of the House and Senate, and have done nothing to fix the problem. I understand I may be wrong, but at least two of the remaining presidential candidates, are actually Senators in the Majority. Meaning they could actually work for their f!@#@$%#$^&* paycheck. Actually, nothing would be an improvement, over their current posture. Thy've put their foot down, on drilling anywhere off the US coast (what do we care, we take the bus!)They've subpoenaed arch criminals Barry Bonds and Mark MacGuire,(I feel much safer, don't you) and they seem to be accepting the claims of Walter Mittyesque Mrs. Simpson as the next Donald Segretti. Oh yes, they're adamant that terrorist get 3 squares, Al Jazeera on their cable box, and make it impossible for us to listen to their conversation, track their financial transactions, or find out anything
else that might inform us, about what they might be plotting. Our esteemed governor is not only letting felons vote, plugging us whole hog into the ethanol/global warming scam. So I guess, I'm a little bit bitter.

[Ann]

Enlightened, All I can remember is the GOP debates where all the questions were about religion and how they went after Mitt Romney, IMO unfairly.

Someone should go back and compare the questions. It would be "enlightening". :)

[centralcal]

Enlightened, I had read that Wehner piece in Commentary earlier today. It was also mentioned on one of the Fox news shows this evening - can't remember which one.

Well, Ann, I cannot credit Rush for the media infatuation with Obama. They always get emotionally wrapped up in their candidates. How well I remember Judy Woodruff (CNN) openly bawling on camera on the night the election was called for Bush over Kerry.

Remember too, how they reacted after their candidate lost -- all the inside stories (ala Newsweek) slamming Kerry. When the veil falls from their eyes, they turn "bitter" and angry!

[ParseThis]

The candidates who are dead serious about politics, even wonkish, get abused by the press for it. Mr. McCain the ironist gets heaps of affection. In this race, though, it has forced some press contortions. While John McCain 2000 was praised for being the same straight talker off the bus as he was on it, John McCain 2008 is praised precisely because he isn’t the same man. Off the bus he plays to the rubes (us) by reciting the conservative catechism; on the bus he plays to the press by giving the impression that his talk is all just a ploy to capture the Republican nomination.

Yet the reporters, so quick in general to jump on hypocrisy, seem to find his insincerity a virtue. When an old sobersides like Mitt Romney flip-flops, he is called a panderer. When Mr. McCain suddenly supports the tax cuts he once excoriated, or embraces the religious right, or emphasizes border security over a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, we are told by his press acolytes that he doesn’t really mean it, that his liberal cosmology will ultimately best his conservative rhetoric. “Discount his repositioning a bit,” Jacob Weisberg, the editor of Slate, wrote two years ago, “and McCain looks like the same unconventional character who emerged during the Clinton years.” The article was subtitled “Psst ... He’s Not Really a Conservative.”

This suggests that love is blind. It also suggests that seducing the press with ironic detachment, the press’s soft spot, may be the best political strategy of all — one that Mr. McCain may walk on water right into the White House.

[Danube of Thought]

Bless you, Ann--and thank you so very much. But optimism is easy here; this one's going to be a blowout.

I think I should add that in the Stones flick today lo and behold, the acutul Arugula woman appears. Not only that, she's damn good! (I really had no idea who she was, except that I recognize her name.) They did a duet of "Live With Me," and your narrator was doing lewd pelvic thrusts in the mercifully dark aisle all the while.

[Tom Maguire]

It also suggests that seducing the press with ironic detachment, the press’s soft spot, may be the best political strategy of all

I can't listen to Obamacons whine about the press coverage of their guy when Obama himself is afraid to go back and talk to reporters.

Is this complicated? McCain talks to reporters and they like him; Obama won't talk to him, and they still like him, but not as much as they might.

It's all right - one more thing for Dems to whine about after they lose.

[Danube of Thought]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but does Parse This appear to be whining and complaining? Does he think this is the avenue leading to respect and success? Does Parse This know how sharply the electorate detects, and forcefully rejects, whining and complaining in all their forms?

Parse This, tell us on this very date, as we approach the end of Paul Revere Day of 2008, do you actually believe that Barack Obama will be elected President of the United States? A simple yes or no will do...

[MarkJ]

"Well, I did hear a rumor that arugula, when taken in large doses, effectively heightens 'splodeyhead syndrome, resulting in total Messiah Clarity. I think I read it on Think Progress."

Arugula? I thought that was the name of a sodomizing, deviant Roman emperor. Oh wait, that was CALIGULA.

*Sigh* Given Obama's apparent knowledge of history, I'm sure it's all the same to him.

[Porchlight]

DoT, so you would recommend the Stones film? I am skeered of IMAX theatres, they're just so damn freaky. Also I'm not sure I want to see a recent Stones performance. Or Jack White in any proximity to musicians I like.

I enjoyed the Scorsese Dylan film, but it became predictable in spots and I thought the flashbacks were hokey. Maybe this one is a bit more straightforward.

[Ann]

Funny, Cent, I didn't turn on the T.V. or a radio the day of that election because I knew it would be an all out rout for Kerry. I new when Kerry came a hunting here in Ohio he was never going to carry the state. Remember "Can I get ah hunting license here?" Yeah, well I saved my sanity, and woke to "OH, Happy Day!!
Sorry, I missed the Judy Woodruff bawling on camera thing though.

You will appreciate my other election story for 2000. I watched every Florida Supreme Court ruling until I thought my head would explode from the recounts. So, again, the day of the U.S. Supreme Court Ruling I went shoppping all day. I was in line at a bakery when the news came over the bread line that Mr. Bush had won. There was a lady infront of me that dropped all her pruchases and stormed out of the store. I, on the other hand, was dancing in the aisle offering free cookies to everyone that I had not yet paid for. LOL

[Rick Ballard]

Parse - if you're under the impression that you're posting on a McCain fanboy site, you may want to do a modicum of research.

The choices are:

1. Weathervane "centrist" with occasional outbursts of very low intensity conservatism.

2. Very hard left socialist

3. Hard left socialist

Which one leaves a conservative standing closer to where they want to be in 2012? (Extra points for those who take judicial appointments into consideration.)

Free clothes pins to every conservative heading towards the voting booth!

If BHO is the candidate and is down by more than 7 on election day then a "none of the above" might make sense for a conservative in a very red or very blue state.