Obama Campaign Lying. Again.
April 7th, 2008 at 03:14pm Matt DiBari
The Campaign of New Hope is lying yet again.
Barack Obama desperately wants to become President of the United States. But because his record in the Illinois State Senate and the United States Senate is as embarrassingly thin as it is radically liberal, he was smart enough to know that the American public would not vote on him based on record.
So Barack Obama created the myth of a “New Kind of Politics.” For almost a full year, Barack Obama talked as little policy as he could, preferring to yell words and phrases like ‘Hope,’ ‘Change’ and ‘Yes We Can!’ all the while promising to end the old-style politics, including partisan bickering, double talk and dirty tricks.
Since then, Barack Obama has lied about just about everything he can, no matter how big or small.
Perhaps the worst of Obama’s lies, and something we have covered repeatedly on this blog, is his insistence that John McCain wants a one hundred year war in Iraq. McCain supporters have been crying foul for months now, but the fact checkers and mainstream press have finally started calling him out on it.
The Obama Campaign needed to respond, so they did what they do best,
David Axelrod went onto “Morning Joe” today to respond to accusations such as “rank falsehood” on Obama’s part.
“Senator Obama hasn’t said that Senator McCain said we would be at war for 100 years.
Somewhere along the line the Campaign of New Politics has become a forty year old Simon and Garfunkle concert.
Lie-la-Lie, Lie-la-Lie-Lie…..
UPDATE: According to Red State Obama himself is continuing this line of deception. From his appearance on Today.
MEREDITH VIEIRA: “Senator, both you and Senator Clinton have said Senator McCain favors 100 more years of war in Iraq. On Sunday in The New York Times, Frank Rich wrote, ‘really, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton should be ashamed of themselves for libeling John McCain.’ That in fact he never said he wanted a 100 more years of war, he just felt American troops should be a long-term presence, the way they are in Japan and South Korea. So are you willing to admit that you’ve distorted his statements?”
SEN. OBAMA: “No. That’s not accurate, Meredith. We can pull up the quotes on Youtube. What John McCain was saying was, that he was happy to have a potential long-term occupation in Iraq. Happy may be overstating it — he is willing to have a long-term occupation of Iraq, as long as 100 years, in fact he said 10,000 years, however long it took.” (Barack Obama, NBC’s “Today,” 4/8/08)
Can we pull up the quotes on Youtube? YES WE CAN!
I always wanted to say that.
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6 Comments
1. Geoff | April 7th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
We’re beginning to see the man behind the curtain.
2. SD | April 7th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
i have been amazed at the swooning over obama, yet unable to understand it.
i hope the media will wake up someday soon and start showing his weaknesses, and there are many.
“he gives good message” simply is not good enough. we need a person with experience. that person is senator mccain.
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4. liberalHope | April 7th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
ha ha ha. Yes - this on the day where McCain gives us a lecture on how great things are going in Iraq only to be interupted by a story of the Green zone being shelled and more people dying. Thats the real liar..
5. winnowhead | April 7th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Umm, McCain said 100 years referring to making the US troop presence in Iraq effectively permanent with the establishment of military bases, a la South Korea and Japan.
Sorry, he said it, and as you guys on this site of fond of saying, “words have consequences.” Welcome to politics.
6. Matt DiBari | April 8th, 2008 at 1:15 am
And you consider a troop presence in Iraq “sending our troops into another 100 years of war in Iraq?”