Clinton or Obama: Who Can Tell a Bigger Lie?
Clinton or Obama: Who Can Tell a Bigger Lie?
One would swear that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were deliberately trying to see who could tell the bigger lies and who could tell more of them.
We have already covered Hillary Clinton’s lies about Bosnia, her exaggerations about her so-called experience and her determination to consider such outrageous lies, just a “minor blip“.
Barack Obama is now catching up in the fairy tale category with Hillary.
First there was the Rezko lies, with Obama saying his association with Antoin “Tony” Rezko, who is currently facing federal charges of attempted extortion, money laundering, and fraud, wasn’t a close association.
That was proven to be a lie very publicly. Obama also lied about the amount of money he received from Tony Rezko… again, proven to be a lie because it was far more than what Obama admitted to.
Then Obama admitted to having poor judgment regarding Rezko.
Obama’s next set of lies were in relation to some harsh comments he made regarding NAFTA, and it was revealed later that Obama’s campaign had secretly told Canada officials not to take the political positioning too seriously.
Once again, Barack Obama denied that his campaign spoke to the Canadian officials, but oooops, a memo was later circulated showing that Obama’s senior economic adviser, Austan Goolsbee, did indeed meet with them and did assure them not to pay attention to Obama’s rhetoric about NAFTA.
Jeremiah Wright has been Barack Obama’s pastor for the better part of 20 years and recently videos of some of Wright’s sermons made headlines and were shown from one end of the globe to another. His more infamous sermon where he says “God Damn America” as well as many other racial, Anti-American comments, can be found at YouTube or on WUA’s previous piece here.
Immediately after those videos hit the airwaves, blogs, media and video sites, Barack Obama wrote a long piece for Huffington Post, denying that he had ever heard Wright’s rhetoric.
Obama:
The statements that Rev. Wright made that are the cause of this controversy were not statements I personally heard him preach while I sat in the pews of Trinity or heard him utter in private conversation.When these statements first came to my attention, it was at the beginning of my presidential campaign. I made it clear at the time that I strongly condemned his comments…
Now lets look at the words Barack Obama said in his speech to try to counter the questions his long association with Wright brought up.
I have already condemned, in unequivocal terms, the statements of Reverend Wright that have caused such controversy. For some, nagging questions remain. Did I know him to be an occasionally fierce critic of American domestic and foreign policy? Of course. Did I ever hear him make remarks that could be considered controversial while I sat in church? Yes. Did I strongly disagree with many of his political views? Absolutely – just as I’m sure many of you have heard remarks from your pastors, priests, or rabbis with which you strongly disagreed.
I think those two statements, made within 4 days of each other, make a valid point of a direct lie told, yet again, by Barack Obama.
Then Hillary Clinton, in an obvious attempt to distract from her recently public lies about her Bosnia experience (see above)says about Jeremiah Wright, “He would not have been my pastor. You don’t choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend.”
Which brings us to Barack Obama today in the news. He spoke about Jeremiah Wright on ABC’s The View and he said, “Had the reverend not retired, and had he not acknowledged that what he had said had deeply offended people and were inappropriate and mischaracterized what I believe is the greatness of this country, for all its flaws, then I wouldn’t have felt comfortable staying at the church.”
After almost 20 years of listening to what Jeremiah Wright was preaching, Obama would have left the church?
Was Wright on the edge of retirement for 20 years? Or would Obama have left only because those controversial words from the pastor came to light publicly?
That isn’t the lie though, at least not the big one for today… the lie is that Jeremiah Wright never “acknowledged that what he had said had deeply offended people and were inappropriate.”
When did Wright apologize? When did Wright admit his words were inappropriate? Where is the news coverage?
It all comes down to something Wright himself admitted to, reported by the New York Times:
Mr. Wright, who has long prided himself on criticizing the establishment, said he knew that he may not play well in Mr. Obama’s audition for the ultimate establishment job.
“If Barack gets past the primary, he might have to publicly distance himself from me,” Mr. Wright said with a shrug. “I said it to Barack personally, and he said yeah, that might have to happen.”
Had Obama not been running for the presidency, he would have probably still been sitting in that church, listening to Jeremiah Wright, and the only reason he s distancing himself now, or trying to, is because of his desire to become president.
The kicker here for me though, after laying out lie after lie from Barack Obama, is the audacity ohe shows when he says, “You know, I’m a pretty tough – I’m skinny but I’m tough. (Laughter.) I think that the way to handle attacks, wherever they’re coming from – and, you know, there’ve been some tough punches thrown in this Democratic primary; it’s not like, you know, I’ve been just kinda takin’ a cakewalk through this primary – the way I like to handle attacks is to answer honestly, swiftly, forcefully and truthfully. I think the truth is a powerful weapon.”
That about made me spew my drink all over the keyboard.
Back to the original question…. which Democratic presidential candidate lies more and who does it better, Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama?
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Barack Obama is clearly the winner in THIS contest. His lies are more than embellishments and exaggerations that Hillary has been caught in and which I think most of us are guilty of from time to time. His lies establish a lifelong pattern of behavior that he is attempting to cover up, cross out and erase in order to apply for this position. It is up to the average American to hold him accountable. Obviously the MSM is not going to do it, at least not until they are forced to.
Also, something that has been nagging at me for some time, is the racism question…I think most white people were incorporating black people into our mainstream society, albeit in some cases slowly…but Barack Obama has set that back by decades. Everyone, black and white, should remember that it was the African tribespeople that originally sold their neighbors and enemies to the slave traders. The slavers bought them and paid for them, but they did not generally go in and capture them and steal them away. Of course I am not saying that that made it right…of course it did not. But another VERY IMPORTANT angle is this: Compare the lives of the average African still in Africa to the lives of those who are here in the United States here and now. I am not so sure that those people who were enslaved, if they could have seen ahead 200 years and compared both those ways of life, would not have felt that the sacrifice they paid was well worth it so that their great grandchildren, etc., would have the opportunities that they have today. Africans here in the USA today have very little room for gripe certainly no more than the average female trying to go up the corporate ladder. And they are not African Americans, they are Americans first. If they consider themselves Africans first, then they need to consider whether they would rather go to Africa to live. I have Irish and English roots (and everyone is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day) and while I would love to visit those countries, I consider myself a citizen of the U.S. of A. I am also part native American and have dual citizenship, but I am also an American first
Wake up America, blacks and whites, Barack Obama represents something far more insidious than just a pathological liar; if he is by chance elected, it will be because he has some very powerful forces supporting him and we are not going to like the “change” he brings about. Clinton and McCain may represent politics as usual, but the devil I know is far superior to the devil I don’t know.