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Abortion
Lies
In 2001, Senator Barack Obama was the only member of the Illinois senate to speak against a bill that would have recognized premature abortion survivors as "persons."  The bill was in response to a Chicago-area hospital that was leaving such babies to die.  Obama voted "present" on the bill after denouncing it.  It passed the state Senate but died in a state house committee.

In 2003, a similar bill came before Obama’s health committee.  He voted against it.  But this time, the legislation was slightly different.  This latter version was identical to the federal Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, which by then had already passed the U.S. Senate unanimously (with a hearty endorsement even from abortion advocate Sen. Barbara Boxer) and had been signed into law by President Bush.

Sen. Obama is currently misleading people about what he voted against, specifically claiming that the bill he voted against in his committee lacked "neutrality" language on Roe v. Wade.  The bill did contain this language.  He even participated in the unanimous vote to put it in.

Obama’s work against the bill to protect premature babies represents one of two times in his political career, along with his speech against the Iraq war, that he really stuck out his neck for something that might hurt him politically.  Unlike his Iraq speech, Obama is deeply embarrassed about this one -- so embarrassed that he is offering a demonstrable falsehood in explanation for his actions.  Fortunately, the documents showing the truth are now available.

Details . . .
Abortion
Lies

   


Explosive Audio Found Obama arguing against BAIPA (02:14)


This audio documents Obama's evolving BAIPA lies.  In it, Obama coldly claims two doctors helping a baby born alive after a botched abortion would be a burden for the aborting mother when he is arguing against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act (BAIPA) at the Illinois state legislature April 2002.

Afghanistan For months now, Obama has been saying that the real war on terror is in Afghanistan and that he was going to send two additional brigades and increase the pressure on the Taliban.

Well, that was then -- this is now, February, 2009:

Obama has demanded that American defense chiefs review their strategy in Afghanistan before going ahead with a troop surge.

There is concern among senior Democrats that the military is preparing to send up to 30,000 extra troops without a coherent plan or exit strategy.

The Pentagon was set to announce the deployment of 17,000 extra soldiers and marines last week but Robert Gates, the defense secretary, postponed the decision after questions from Obama.

The president was concerned by a lack of strategy at his first meeting with Gates and the US joint chiefs of staff last month in "the tank," the secure conference room in the Pentagon.  He asked: "What’s the endgame?" and did not receive a convincing answer.

Larry Korb, a defense expert at the Center for American Progress, a Washington think tank, said: "Obama is exactly right.  Before he agrees to send 30,000 troops, he wants to know what the mission and the endgame is."

Leading Democrats fear Afghanistan could become Obama’s "Vietnam quagmire."
Ambition
Lie
Obama said, "I'm not running because I'm trying to fulfill some long-held plan."

Oh, really?

Iis Darmawan, 63, Obama's teacher in 1970, remembers him as an exceptionally tall and curly haired child who quickly picked up the local language and had sharp math skills. "He wrote an essay  titled, 'I Want To Become President,'" the teacher said.

In 1971, Obama's sister Maya, has also said, "There was always a joke between my mom and Barack that he would be the first black president."

In 1991, David B. Wilkins , the Kirkland and Ellis professor of law, said he advised Obama to become a Supreme Court Clerk.  "Obama recognized the honor in pursuing that post," Wilkins said, but quickly added that he wasn’t interested.

“He said that he wanted to write a book about his life and his father, go back to Chicago, get back into the community, and run for office there.  He knew exactly what he wanted and went about getting it done,” Wilkins said.

In 1992,
Obama's brother-in-law, Craig Robinson pulled him aside and asked about his plans.  "He said, 'I think I’d like to teach at some point in time, and maybe run for public office,'" recalls Robinson, who assumed Senator Obama meant he’d like to run for city alderman.  "He said no -- at some point he’d like to run for the U.S. Senate.  And then he said, 'Possibly even run for President at some point.'  And I was like, 'Okay, but don’t say that to my Aunt Gracie.'  I was protecting him from saying something that might embarrass him."

In 1993, Obama began teaching at the University of Chicago Law School, where he declined to pursue a tenure-track post, hoping to save time for politics.

The one thread, that remains consistent, throughout Obama's life, is his teacher's, mentor's and friend's recollection of Obama's single-minded pursuit of high political office.
Auto Lie Obama botched his facts in a speech criticizing the U.S. auto industry for "investing in bigger and faster cars while foreign competitors invested in more fuel-efficient technology."

Obama stated that "while our fuel standards haven't moved from 27.5 miles per gallon in two decades, both China and Japan have surpassed us, with Japanese cars now getting an average of 45 miles to the gallon."  But Toyota, which should know, has responded, "No carmaker gets 45 mpg; ours is closer to 30 mpg."

Well, we're glad to see Obama's shifting the blame from the consumer to the automakers.  That must explain why the Illinois Senator and Presidential candidate owns a HEMI-powered V8 Chrysler 300C

Obviously it's Chrysler's fault Obama bought a big 5.7-liter engine from them -- he just didn't have a choice.
Bin Laden
Lie
Barack Obama suggested last night that removing Osama bin Laden from the battlefield was no longer essential and that America’s security goals could be achieved merely by keeping al-Qaeda "on the run".

"My preference obviously would be to capture or kill him," he said.  "But if we  have so tightened the noose that he’s in a cave somewhere and can’t even communicate with his operatives then we will meet our goal of protecting America."

His comments, in a CBS interview, represent a significant watering down of the "dead or alive" policy pursued by President Bush since the terror attacks of September 11, 2001.  They also appear to contradict Obama’s own statements made in the election campaign.

As recently as October 7, in a presidential debate, Obama said: "We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al-Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority."

Obama must have a mouse in his pocket when he says, "But if we  have so tightened the noose..."  He is describing a situation that he had nothing to do with.  George Bush is the man who tightened that noose and Obama was against the president's actions the whole way.  Now he takes credit for it.  A frequent practice of Obama -- taking credit for the work of others.
Birth Lies Obama’s terror law speech was profoundly candid.  Over and over again, in words that were at times eloquent and at times simple, the president conceded the limitations of the executive branch’s ability to easily or quickly solve some of the very same legal issues that beguiled the Bush Administration for nearly eight years.

During the speech, Obama said, "I will never hide the truth because it is uncomfortable."

If that isn't the biggest pile of horse manure ever!

For more than two years, Obama has employed teams of lawyers in a dozen states to hide the truth surrounding his birth, college, travel and medical records.  Who does this guy think he's kidding?
Birth Lies

The Born Conspiracy

By Ron Polarik, Ph.D.


Dr. Polarik's final report is the culmination of over four months of intensive, empirical research, the sole purpose of which has been to determine if the images and photographs posted on the Internet are true reproductions of a genuine document purported to be Obama's original birth certificate.

In his report, Dr. Polarik, who holds a Ph.D. in Instructional Media and specializes in computer graphics with over 20 years experience with computers, printers and typewriters, provides conclusive and irrefutable evidence that the Certificate of Live Birth (COLB) image created and distributed by Obama's campaign to the Daily Kos, Annenberg's Factcheck, and the St. Petersburg Times, and Politifact, is, unquestionably, a false identification document.

Furthermore, there is conclusive and irrefutable evidence that the photos taken by Annenberg's Factcheck, in collusion with the Obama campaign, are themselves, false identification documents, having been made from the same false identification document image, as well as from additional false identification documents created for the same purpose; namely, to proffer these false identification documents as true reproductions of a genuine, Hawaii-issued and certified, "Certification of Live Birth" document, and thereby, intentionally deceive the American public into believing that Barack Hussein Obama is a natural-born citizen of the United States, and thereby, fully qualified to become their President.

Sadly, mainstream media have totally ignored this inconvenient truth and are not even been willing to even look at this birth certificate issue.  They are all still in-the-tank for Obama, but even more so now that he is in line to be President.  They all bought into the lies and fraudulent documents proffered up as evidence on Obama's qualifications.  They have been too quick to label as "trash" or "garbage" any legitimate questions asked about Obama's real birth certificate.  Even high-ranking governmental officials in the state of Hawaii where Obama was allegedly born, won't reveal what's on Obama's original birth certificate.  All they have said is that they have it.  They have not said (1) where Obama was born, (2) when Obama was born, or (3) even to whom Obama was born.

The answer to "What's on Barack Obama's real, original birth certificate" ranks right up there with some of the great mysteries of our time -- and that is really hard to swallow.  That a man, with a dubious background, has been elected to the highest office of the greatest superpower in the world without ever having to prove who he says he is!  That is not "nutty," that's just plain insane!

With all that said, and without further ado, I present to you my final and complete report on Barack Obama's bogus birth certificate, The Born Conspiracy.

Dr. Polariks' Final Report

WARNING:  This explosive report is BIG with many large images.  If you do not have high-speed Internet access, go get a cup of coffee when you click the link.

Birth Lies

Earth Frisk Blog says they have contacted every hospital in Honolulu and says there is no record of Obama's birth at any Hawaii hospital and no record for Obama's mother at any Hawaii hospital.

All of the following hospitals were called or visited from November 20 through December 2nd, 2008.  It was confirmed that OBAMA was not born in any hospital in Honolulu County!  NONE!

Hospital employees were bribed and some gave info for free.

Hospitals you can check yourself:
 

bullet The Queen’s Medical Center - Honolulu, Hawaii  -- Obama claims as his birth hospital -- Obama and Mom Never Here 
bullet Kapi’ olani Medical Center -- Obama’s sister claims Barack Obama born here -- Obama and Mom Never Here
bullet Honolulu Shriners Hospital  -- Never a patient -- Mom or Obama
bullet Straub Clinic & Hospital  -- Never a patient -- Mom or Obama
bullet Hawaii Health Systems Corporation -- Honolulu, Hawaii -- Never a patient -- Mom or Obama
bullet Cancer Institute of Maui -- Wailuku, Hawaii -- No Comment???
bullet Kuakini Hospital -- Honolulu, Hawaii -- Never a patient -- Mom or Obama
bullet Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific -- Honolulu, Hawaii -- Never a patient -- Mom or Obama
bullet St. Francis Healthcare System of Hawaii -- Hawaii -- Never a patient -- Mom or Obama
bullet Straub Heatlh -- Honolulu, Hawaii -- Never a patient -- Mom or Obama
bullet Tripler Medical Center -- Honolulu, Hawaii -- Never a patient -- Mom or Obama
bullet Wahiawa General Hospital -- Wahiawa, Hawaii -- Never a patient -- Mom or Obama
bullet Wilcox Memorial Hospital -- Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii -- Never a patient -- Mom or Obama


Earth Frisk Blog contends they were pretty detailed in their calls and visits thanks to dozens of native Hawaiian patriots.  To the College Republicans all over the Island kudos.  You can look at every hospital here and call or visit any of them.  Everyone has a family member working in a hospital.  Talk, pay and bribe.  You can file freedom of information acts, you can do everything and anything you wish.  Barack Obama was never born in a hospital in Hawaii as claimed.

Only his original, vault-copy birth certificate, that he has had sealed will have this info.  Will the Supreme Court force it open and thus preserve the Constitution of the United States?

Campaign
Lies

The Los Angeles Times reports that in an interview on ABC's "This Week," President-elect Obama acknowledged that not everything he promised to do during the campaign would be able to happen quickly. 

 

In particular, he said, he was unlikely to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center in the first 100 days of his presidency.  The Financial Times says the remarks "may prove disappointing to some of his supporters."

 

In a front-page story titled "Obama Signals His Reluctance To Look Into Bush Policies," the New York Times reports President-elect Obama "signaled in an interview broadcast Sunday that he was unlikely to authorize a broad inquiry into Bush administration programs like domestic eavesdropping or the treatment of terrorism suspects."  At the Central Intelligence Agency, "in particular, many officers flatly oppose any further review and may protest the prospect of a broad inquiry into their past conduct."

 

The Washington Times notes that "the most popular question on the Obama transition team's Web site is whether he will appoint a special prosecutor to investigate torture and warrantless wiretapping conducted by the Bush administration."  William Kristol writes in the New York Times, "Perhaps the president-elect was just being polite.  Or perhaps he just enjoys torturing (metaphorically!) some of his previously most ardent supporters who want Dick Cheney tried as a war criminal."

Campaign
Lies
In After only two months in office, President Obama may have fallen short on a number of his campaign promises.

1: Sunlight Before Signing -- "When there is a bill that ends up on my desk as the president, you the public will have five days to look online and find out what's in it before I sign it," he said.

2: Capital gains tax elimination -- Just weeks prior to the election, Obama advisers Austan Goolsbee and Jason Furman told the Wall Street Journal that Obama planned tax cuts that included "the elimination of capital gains taxes for small businesses and start-ups."

3: New American jobs tax credit -- During his transition, Obama's promised to provide a $3,000 refundable tax credit to existing businesses for every additional full-time U.S. employee hired in 2009 and 2010.

4: Hiatus on 401(k) penalties -- In October 2008, Obama released his "Rescue Plan for the Middle-Class" in which he promised to allow financially distressed Americans to withdraw up to $10,000 from their 401(k) accounts and retirement savings without having to pay penalties. They would only pay income taxes on the amount.

5: No jobs for lobbyists -- "I am in this race to tell the corporate lobbyists that their days of setting the agenda in Washington are over. I have done more than any other candidate in this race to take on lobbyists — and won. They have not funded my campaign, they will not run my White House, and they will not drown out the voices of the American people when I am president."

6: Earmark reform -- at the first presidential debate in Oxford, Miss., Obama declared, "[W]e need earmark reform. And when I'm president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely."

7: Bring troops home in 16 months -- Even as combat troops are brought home, Pentagon officials have said fresh units will continue deploying to Iraq.

8: Sign "Freedom of Choice Act" -- Obama expressed his support for the sweeping plan that would repeal all national and state regulations of abortion passed over the last 35 years.

9: $4,000 college credit -- Obama pledged to make college "affordable for all Americans" when he announced his American Opportunity Tax Credit.

No. 10: Transparency -- On the White House website, the Obama administration claims it will be "the most open and transparent in history.

Details here . . .
The
Candidacy
Lie
Obama filed his Federal Elections Commission (FEC) Form 2, Statement of Candidacy, on February 12, 2007.  It was stamped "Received" at the FEC Mail Center at 2:39 PM, that date.

 

The first entry, Item 1. (a) Name of Candidate (In Full), contains the entry "Barack Obama."  Item 7. identifies his Principal Campaign Committee (2008) as "Obama for America."  Obama's signature boldly appears under the statement, "I certify that I have examined this Statement and to the best of my knowledge and belief it is true, correct and complete."

On September 15, 2008, a second FEC Form 2 was filed, adding "Biden, Joseph R."  On this form, Obama certifies himself in entry 1. (a) Name of Candidate (In Full), as "Obama, Barack."  The complete 1. (a) entry is, "Obama, Barack/Biden, Joseph R."  This form is unsigned, containing the typewritten entry, "Obama, Barack/Biden, Joseph R." in the Signature block.

FEC Form 2 clearly states, "Note: Submission of false, erroneous or incomplete information may subject the person signing this Statement to penalties of 2 U. S. C. §437g."

This could be nothing, but one has to ask, why did Obama submit both statements with an improper name?  And, why is the statement adding Biden's name not signed?  After all, these are the foundation documents to Obama's candidacy.

Obama is an attorney, who is surrounded by attorneys.  One would think that these documents would have been scanned several times for errors and omissions prior to their submission.  And, why did Obama provide an improper name, not once, but twice -- or did he?

It may not matter, since Nancy Pelosi certifies that Obama's on the level?

Thanks RAS -- he's British and he doesn't understand this stuff.

Christian
Myth
Barack Obama announced last Thursday that he has begun a web site to fight 'rumors,'"  Andy Martin states.  "To be sure, some of what is said about Obama is exaggerated or untrue.  I refuse to publish a great deal of anti-Obama material that crosses my desk.  But much of what Obama characterizes as 'rumor' is true.  Obama has been lying about his family and his religious past his entire life.  This time he will not get away with his lies."

"Obama says in large print and underlines 'Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim, and is a committed Christian," Martin states.  "Two thirds of that claim are bald-faced lies.  The last third, about Obama's Christianity, has never been adequately documented.  Most people who are baptized have a Baptismal Certificate.  I call on Obama to release his Baptismal Certificate or record.  Many Americans do not believe that sitting in the pews, listening to Reverend Jeremiah Wright's racist jeremiads for two decades qualifies anyone to be a 'committed Christian.'"  Committed racist and America-hater, maybe.

I have corresponded with three Chicago-area journalists, inquiring about a baptism.  There is NO record, anywhere, of Barack Hussein Obama ever having been baptized.  He is only a Christian because he says so -- although I don't believe the Trinity UCC church is a Christian Church -- it is a Black African church and their website is very clear about that.  From the Trinity UCC website:

The vision statement of Trinity United Church of Christ is based upon the systematized liberation theology that started in 1969 with the publication of Dr. James Cone’s book, Black Power and Black Theology.

Black theology is one of the many theologies in the Americas that became popular during the liberation theology movement. They include Hispanic theology, Native American theology, Asian theology and Womanist theology.

That stuff isn't theology -- it's politics!.
Conception
Myth
As another example, consider Obama's stirring tale for the Selma audience about how he had been conceived by his parents, Barack Obama Sr. and Ann Dunham, because they had been inspired by the fervor following the "Bloody Sunday" voting rights demonstration that was commemorated March 4.  "There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama," he said, "because some folks are willing to march across a bridge.  So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born.  So don't tell me I don't have a claim on Selma, Alabama.  Don't tell me I'm not coming home to Selma, Alabama"

Obama was born in 1961, and the Selma march occurred four years later, in 1965.  The New York Times reported that when the senator was asked about the discrepancy later that day, he clarified: "I meant the whole civil rights movement."
Cyber
Lie
Hot Air reports that last week, Barack Obama announced the creation of a cyber security czar, giving his administration more czars than the Russian Empire, but that’s another issue altogether.  In order to convince Americans of the necessity of such a position, Obama gave us this dire scenario in his speech:

"In short, America’s economic prosperity in the 21st century will depend on cybersecurity."

"And this is also a matter of public safety and national security. We count on computer networks to deliver our oil and gas, our power and our water.  We rely on them for public transportation and air traffic control.  Yet we know that cyber intruders have probed our electrical grid and that in other countries cyber attacks have plunged entire cities into darkness."


Rob Rosenberger at Vmyths, a site dedicated to debunking urban legends about cyberspace, said, that he, and other experts, bashed this urban legend more than a year ago.  Now, Obama is spouting it as if it’s a fact.

Rosenberger says Obama has basically told a boogeyman story:

This report is an urban legend because no one knows any details whatsoever.  To be specific:

•  Who plunged entire cities into darkness with the click of a mouse?  No one knows.
•  When did these cyber-terrorists plunge entire cities into darkness with the click of a mouse?  No one knows.
•  Where are these cities that plunged into darkness with the click of a mouse?  No one knows.
•  Why did the cyber-terrorists plunge these cities into darkness with the click of a mouse?  No one knows.
•  How widespread were these cyber-terror blackouts?  No one knows.
•  Whose power grid Internet connection did the cyber-terrorists exploit?  No one knows.
•  How many victims perished in these cyber-attacks?  No one knows.
Draft
Registration
Lie

Debbie Schussle wants to know if President-elect Barack Hussein Obama committed a federal crime in September of this year?

 

Did he never actually register and, instead, did friends of his in the Chicago federal records center, which maintains the official copy of his alleged Selective Service registration commit the crime for him?

It's either one or the other, as indicated by the release of Barack Obama's official Selective Service registration for the draft. A friend of mine, who is a retired federal agent, spent almost a year trying to obtain this document through a Freedom of Information Act request, and, after much stonewalling, finally received it and released it to me.

But the release of Obama's draft registration and an accompanying document, posted below, raises more questions than it answers. And it shows many signs of fraud, not to mention putting the lie to Obama's claim that he registered for the draft in June 1979, before it was required by law.

Check out THIS documentation.

Draft
Questions
Sharp-eyed Lexie made this observation.  Obama's signatures are different on his allegedly  counterfeit Selective Service Registration and his Statement of Candidacy.  Imagine that?


Selective Service Registration

Candidacy Form


Since the Selective Service Registration form contains a forged signature, then Obama is in violation of the Selective Service Act.  Penalties for Failure to Register for the Draft:


•  Men who do not register could be prosecuted and, if convicted, fined up to $250,000 and/or serve up to five years in prison.  In addition, men who fail to register with Selective Service before turning age 26, even if not prosecuted, will become ineligible for:

•  Student Financial Aid -- including Pell Grants, College Work Study, Guaranteed Student/Plus Loans, and National Direct Student Loans.

•  U.S. Citizenship -- if the man first arrived in the U.S. before his 26th birthday.

•  Federal Job Training -- The Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) offers programs that can train young men for jobs in auto mechanics and other skills. This program is only open to those men who register with Selective Service.

•  Federal Jobs -- men born after December 31, 1959 must be registered to be eligible for jobs in the Executive Branch* of the Federal government and the U.S. Postal Service.


In addition, several states have added additional penalties for those who fail to register.

*  Last time I checked, the President is a member of the Executive Branch, and Obama was definitely born after 12/31/1959. If that isn't his signature, he's NOT ELIGIBLE!
 

Thanks to all of you who contributed samples of Obama's signature.  After viewing a dozen or so samples, this signature, posted at Wikipedia and the one on the Candidacy Form, appears to be the "real deal."

Several readers have made the observation that signatures change over time, and that is true.  However, the draft registration form above has been demonstrated to be counterfeit, so the question is, who prepared and signed this forgery, and how did they get it into the Selective Service Data Center?

Earmarks
Economy
Lies
The Caucus Blog of The New York Times says that Obama’s transition staff are claiming that his so-called economic recovery plan will be a "paperless plan." 

Forget the usual detailed documents, cost estimates and announcement fanfare that capital watchers expect for the unveiling of major initiatives.  Obama and his advisers suggested on Friday that he has provided the "framework" of a plan in recent public remarks; now Congress, coordinating with the Obama team, will flesh it out.

Obama and his advisers "wanted to set the broad outline and, very smartly, want Congress to sort of fill in some of the details," Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, said in an interview.  "It just makes sense.  There’s a lot of knowledge here on the Hill."

Obama admits his $800 billion dollar plan isn't a plan at all and is written on a whiteboard in dry erase markers.
Economy
Lies
On January 9th, 2009, Obama said, "There is no disagreement that we need action by our government, a recovery plan that will help to jumpstart the economy."

However, that statement is false.

Notwithstanding reports that all economists are now Keynesians and that we all support a big increase in the burden of government, we the undersigned do not believe that more government spending is a way to improve economic performance.  More government spending by Hoover and Roosevelt did not pull the United States economy out of the Great Depression in the 1930s.  More government spending did not solve Japan’s "lost decade" in the 1990s.  As such, it is a triumph of hope over experience to believe that more government spending will help the U.S. today.  To improve the economy, policymakers should focus on reforms that remove impediments to work, saving, investment and production.  Lower tax rates and a reduction in the burden of government are the best ways of using fiscal policy to boost growth.

Signed by 200 academic economists, including three Nobel prize-winners.
Energy Lies When reading this article, please keep in mind that Obama received the following presidential contributions -- Exelon employees $236,211 (Source: OpenSecrets -- The Center for Responsive Politics):  note, Exelon employees also gave over $270,000 to Obama's State Senate campaign, total over $500,000.

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 (2007) that it was, "the only nuclear legislation that I've passed.  I just did that last year," he said, to murmurs of approval.

But, contrary to Obama's comments in Iowa, the bill died amid parliamentary wrangling in the full Senate.

The history of the bill shows Obama navigating a home-state controversy that pitted two important constituencies against each other and tested his skills as a legislative infighter.  On one side were neighbors of several nuclear plants upset that low-level radioactive leaks had gone unreported for years; on the other was Exelon, the country's largest nuclear plant operator and one of Obama's largest sources of campaign money.

IN TRUTH, Mr. Obama told the Iowan's that he PASSED nuclear legislation, "just last year (2007)."

IN TRUTH, Mr. Obama LIED -- his nuclear legislation bill NEVER PASSED!

This was a KEY Issue that swayed the Iowa Caucus in his favor, as the folks of Iowa were facing similar issues regarding nuclear power plants, and they mistakenly were "hoodwinked and  boondoggled" by a slick Chicago politician, who was willing to tell them anything to get their votes, even lying about his legislative record.

Mr. Obama in his 3+ years in the US Senate has sponsored ONLY TWO pieces of legislation that have become law:

1.  A bill to promote democracy in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
 
2.  A bill to name a post office.
Energy Lies John at PowerLine notes that Barack Obama has seen which way the wind is blowing on gas prices, and today he changed his mind about offshore drilling:

"My interest is in making sure we've got the kind of comprehensive energy policy that can bring down gas prices," Obama said in an interview with The Palm Beach Post.

"If, in order to get that passed, we have to compromise in terms of a careful, well thought-out drilling strategy that was carefully circumscribed to avoid significant environmental damage -- I don't want to be so rigid that we can't get something done."

Obama left no doubt about the political calculation behind his flip-flop:

"The Republicans and the oil companies have been really beating the drums on drilling," Obama said in the Post interview.  "And so we don't want gridlock.  We want to get something done."
As I've said before, there is no philosophical or political principle that Obama cares much about, other than the desirability of his own ascension to the Presidency.  So we can look forward to more such shifts between now and November.

That'll just give Obama more oil to tax.
Environmental
Hypocrisy
Here’s an environmental impact story you’re not likely to see in the mainstream media.  Neither NBC’s chief environmental affair correspondent Anne Thompson, nor ABC correspondent Bill Blakemore nor CBS "60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley -- all of whom have been eager over the years to expose so-called crimes against the environment -- have rushed to report on the massive carbon footprint of the Obama inauguration.

But a comprehensive new study by The Institute for Liberty (IFL) took an in-depth look at each component of the Jan. 20 inauguration in Washington, D.C., and estimated that 575 million pounds of carbon dioxide will be emitted in the atmosphere for the inauguration -- which is roughly equal to what the average American household would produce in 57,598 years.

Speaking with the Business & Media Institute, IFL President Andrew Langer noted the hypocrisy of the event having so large an environmental impact, especially in light of the strong stands promoting the case for manmade global warming of many of Obama’s cabinet picks.
The Fantasy
Lie
Would somebody please inform this egomaniac that there ain't no such thing as the "Office of the President Elect."



Especially when he is not yet the president elect.  That won't happen until after the Electoral College convenes on December 15th and the Electors vote.  The results are then presented to a joint session of Congress on January 6, 2009.  Objections may be presented and heard.  Then  Congress certifies the votes.  Only then would Obama be the "president elect. 

Since Obama resigned his seat in the US Senate, he is, at this time, an unemployed  private citizen, with no power and no authority -- just arrogance. 

And, there's that damned seal again.  I fully expect Obama to have a military uniform (with 6 stars, of course) that he can wear when he's acting in the role of Commander-in-Chief (what an absolutely repulsive thought).

Farrakhan
Lie
In Levittown, Penn., today, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, was asked about his church’s magazine giving an award to Rev. Louis Farrakhan.  "This was done by a magazine that was connected to the church," Obama explained.  "I would have never done it.  It was primary focused on the rehabilitation work that they do for ex-offenders in Chicago.  That doesn’t excuse it, that just explains it."

The first time Obama said this, I could believe he was misinformed [update: indeed, the first time he said this, he only said he "assumed" this was the reason].  The second time, perhaps that he was caught off guard and didn’t have his story straight.  Now, I can only conclude that he is intentionally choosing to blatantly lie about this, hoping that no one will notice and call him on it.

Let’s recall the facts: The magazine explicitly explained in the video it prepared for the banquet at which Farrakhan was honored that it was honoring Farrakhan for his purported dedication to "truth, education, and leadership."  [Surprise, surprise, the video seems to have been pulled from YouTube.]  Obama's spiritual mentor Rev. Wright, meanwhile praised Farrakhan in the magazine for his "astounding and eye-opening" analysis of the "racial ills of this nation," a "perspective" that is "helpful and honest."  I even got hold of the interview the magazine did with Farrakhan.  No mention was made in any of these sources of "rehabilitation work for ex-offenders."
Flippin'
And
Floppin'
The flip -- On Wednesday, June 4th, Obama, appearing in front of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, said Jerusalem should be Israel's undivided capital, saying, "Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided."

The flop -- Well, on Thursday, the 5th, Palestinian leaders reacted with anger and dismay to this statement, so Obama immediately flip-flopped on his support for Israel's stance on Jerusalem, saying Palestinians and Israelis had to negotiate the future of the holy city.

The flip -- Yesterday, June 18th, Obama said he would want to bring Osama ben Laden to justice "in a way that allows the entire world to understand the murderous acts that he's engaged in and not to make him into a martyr."

The flop -- Today, Obama implied that he would kill bin Laden without a trial, saying, "First of all, I think there is an executive order out on Osama bin Laden's head.  And if I'm president, and we have the opportunity to capture him, we may not be able to capture him alive."

Of course, there is no known Presidential Executive Order "out on Osama bin Laden's head."

If Obama is unwilling to say kill Osama bin Laden, he cannot hide behind an Executive Order that does not exist, mumbo jumbo about how he never threatens, or the need for diplomacy.

And, watch Obama flip-flop his way around free trade and the FISA bill.  He makes John Kerry look like the Rock of Gibraltar.

 


Obama has no position on anything he'll flip-flop all day long -- hell, he even makes stuff up as he goes along.  This guy will say absolutely anything he thinks people want to hear.

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Is it just one more flip-flop, or one more lie?  Either way, it is more proof that Obama's word isn't worth squat, and he and the truth are complete strangers.

When the Obamamessiah campaign started 17 months ago, Obama said he'd pursue public financing "aggressively."  He committed to it in a written questionnaire.  He even said, repeatedly, that he would meet personally with Senator John McCain to discuss a deal.

On February 8th, 2007, MSNBC reported that, ""Senator Obama has long been a proponent of public financing of campaigns and we are asking the FEC to take a step that could preserve the public financing option for the party's nominees," said Obama spokesman Bill Burton.

Yesterday, Obama abandoned his pledges to accept public financing for his presidential campaign.

This flip-flop, or lie, makes Obama the first presidential candidate to opt out of the current system since it was put in place after the Watergate scandal and a complete hypocrite.



Don't tell me words don't matter.  (00:48)


This is obviously "change we can believe in."

Obama is proving that he will say and do anything that will get him elected to office -- he makes the Clintons look positively trustworthy by comparison.

Here's a question to ponder -- how many of Obama's contributions, pouring in to his website, are coming in from outside of the country, in violation of the law?

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After using the radical left for his entire political career, Barack Obama is clumsily flip-flopping his way toward something resembling a "center."  His latest policy double-backflip caused so much rage among the Obamalytes that he’s now trying to reassure them his plan to surrender hasn’t changed one bit

Obama has also flip-flopped on unwarranted wiretapping, Israel, free trade, gun control, the death penalty, faith based programs, welfare reform, abortion, the Patriot Act, campaign finance, and the Cuban embargo.

Your Assignment: Compile Obama’s Flip-Flops.

Obama is bamboozling, hoodwinking, and doing the okie dokie all the way to the White House.
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From Patterico's Pontifications

Your Assignment: Compile Obama’s Flip-Flops

[This post will remain bumped to the top through Monday. New posts will appear below. -- Patterico]

I want you to help me compile a full list of Obama’s flip-flops.

Leave a comment fully documenting one or more flip-flops.  Links are critical.  For maximum usefulness, I would like to see the following for each flip-flop:

1) Obama’s original quote, with a link.

2) His later flip-flopping quote, also with a link.

Here’s an example of what I’m looking for:

Flip: Obama says the health exception for late-term abortions has to be a serious physical issue:

I have repeatedly said that I think it’s entirely appropriate for states to restrict or even prohibit late-term abortions as long as there is a strict, well-defined exception for the health of the mother.  Now, I don’t think that 'mental distress' qualifies as the health of the mother.  I think it has to be a serious physical issue that arises in pregnancy, where there are real, significant problems to the mother carrying that child to term.

Flop: the health exception can include non-physical issues like mental diseases:

My only point is that in an area like partial birth abortion having a mental, having a health exception can be defined rigorously . . . It can be defined through physical health.  It can be defined by serious clinical mental health diseases.

Video proof of a flip-flop is even better.  Link that if you have it.  I know there are videos like that out there.  I want to know about all of them.

Maximum participation, people!  If you do this well, I can bring it all together in a single, massive post that documents all of Obama’s flip-flops.  In that post, I’ll credit each person who first documents a particular flip-flop to my satisfaction.

Now start documenting!

The last time I looked, there were 279 responses -- check 'em out.
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Three weeks ago, Barack Obama said that he would not make Osama bin Laden into a martyr if he was captured.  Today, Barack Obama suddenly thinks the death penalty would be just fine for OBL.  In a CNN interview, Obama said about Osama bin Laden, "If he was captured alive, then we would make a decision to bring the full weight of not only US justice but world justice down on him.  And, uh, I think that I’ve said this before, that I am not a cheerleader for the death penalty … I think it has to be reserved for only the most heinous crimes, but I certainly think that plotting and engineering the death of 3,000 Americans justifies such an approach."

This is what he said on June 18th:

“What would be important would be for us to do it in a way that allows the entire world to understand the murderous acts that he’s engaged in and not to make him into a martyr, and to assure that the United States government is abiding by basic conventions that would strengthen our hand in the broader battle against terrorism."
Food Stamps
Lie
Following Obama's recent dumb comment about small town Americans clinging to guns and religion, he defended himself by claiming that the notion of elitist is absurd because of his poor upbringing.  He said that his mother was on food stamps, so how could he be an elitist in his upbringing?

Here is the Time article written by Joe Klein in 2006, long before Obama decided to run for president.  Back then, he was seen as the rising star within Democratic Party, and he didn't worry about critics breathing down his neck.

Here is the key excerpt from the article:

"For example, I was going to a fancy prep school, and my mother was on food stamps while she was getting her Ph.D."

That is what Obama said.  He went to a fancy private school that today costs $15,000 per -- and his mother was studying for a Ph.D.

What Obama doesn't tell you is that he was in Punahou School in the 70's and mom studied for her Ph. D. in the early 90's.  Here is the Wikipedia entry:

In 1992 she earned a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Hawai'i with a dissertation titled Peasant blacksmithing in Indonesia: Surviving and Thriving Against All Odds.

That was thirteen years after Obama graduated from his "fancy prep school."

Obama consciously conflated these two events to produce a defense he knows to be untrue.
Ghost Writers
In The Sky
Evidence continues to mount that Barack Obama had substantial help from Bill Ayers in the creation of his 1995 book, Dreams From My Father, a book that Time Magazine has called "the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician."  The evidence falls into five general categories, here summarized.

The discovery of new matching nautical metaphors from both Ayers and Obama that almost assuredly came from the same source: Ayers, a former merchant seaman.

The discovery of a Bill Ayers' essay on memoir writing, whose postmodern themes and phrases are echoed throughout Dreams.

A newly discovered book chapter from 1990 that shows clearly and painfully the limits of Obama's prose style the year he received a contract to write Dreams.

The revelation by radical Islamicist Rashid Khalidi that Ayers made his "dining room table" available for neighborhood writers who needed help.

A refined timeline that shows Ayers had the means, the motive and the time to help Obama when he needed it most.

Jack Cashill lays it all out in great detail . . .
Ghost Writers
In The Sky
Jack Cashill contends that this essay, published by the radical Students Agaianst Militarism (SAM), represents the single best example of Obama’s native writing skills yet unearthed.

Cashill says it should put an end to the charade that Barack Obama wrote his 1995 memoir "Dreams From My Father" unaided, but it probably won’t.  The literary left has committed itself to Obama’s genius.

"He wrote it himself," esteemed British author Jonathan Raban wrote of Obama’s Dreams just last week in The Wall Street Journal.  "Every sentence has its own graceful cadence.  He could just as easily have been a novelist as a politician."

In "Breaking The War Mentality" every sentence clunks.  Obama not only makes scores of basic grammatical errors -- these, with practice, he might have learned to correct -- but he also fails to turn one lively or concise or even interesting phrase in the entire essay.

Here are some samples
Gitmo Lies President-elect Barack Obama vowed on the campaign trail to shut down the terrorist detention center at Guantanamo Bay. But he never said what he would do with the prisoners there.

What to do with the 250 alleged foreign terrorists at the Cuba prison is the real question facing Obama, experts say.

Terrorism experts and two recent analyses of unclassified information on the prison population indicate the men who remain there are either committed, highly skilled al-Qaeda operatives too dangerous to ever free, or Islamists whose native countries would do little to prevent them from rejoining the jihad.

"The words sounds simple, but it's wrapped in some very complex issues," Air Force Col. Mo Davis, former chief prosecutor at Guantanamo, said of shutting down the prison. "Saying it is a lot easier than doing it."

More . . .
Gitmo Lies In a wide-ranging 70-minute interview with Washington Post reporters and editors, Obama pledged quick action on the Middle East once he takes office, promised to support voting rights for D.C. residents, and said he will consider it a failure if he has not closed the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by the end of his first term in office.

What?  During the campaign, Obama often demanded the immediate closure of Gitmo and promised just that repeatedly.  It didn’t make much of a splash during the general election, as John McCain made the same pledge.  In fact, his transition team suggested that Obama would issue an executive order in the first days of his administration to get the ball rolling on that task.

And now?  Now Obama has decided to set the expectation that it might take as long as four years to figure out how to fulfill his campaign promise.  This stunning nugget that dropped into the Post’s lap was recognized as so newsworthy that the Post failed to even ask about the four-year shift in the timeline even once.  Gitmo only gets one more mention in the 34-paragraph story -- in paragraph 28.  And in that paragraph, the Post tells readers that Obama is "confident" that he can make his new self-imposed deadline of whenever.

This tends to prove the notion that the throbbingly warm reception Obama received this week in the Post’s office was no fluke.
Gitmo
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The No.2 Republican in the Senate took President Obama to task Sunday for claiming Guantanamo Bay created more terrorists than it ever detained by serving as a recruiting tool for Al Qaeda.

Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., called the charge "palpably false" and said the White House has not provided any evidence to back up the claim.

"He meant to say that 770 people or more became terrorists because we have a prison at Guantanamo?" Kyl said on "FOX News Sunday."

"9/11 hijackers didn't do their deeds because of Gitmo.  The people who ... blew up the (U.S.S.) Cole or the Kolbar Towers or the first World Trade Center didn't say, 'There's Gitmo down there,' because it didn't exist.  And even after that I don't think you saw guys sitting around in some coffee shop in Saudi Arabia, saying, 'You know, those Americans have this prison called Gitmo, I think I'll become a terrorist,'" he said.  "I mean, it's palpably false to suggest that the existence of Gitmo created terrorism, and yet the president gets away with that."

"We haven't done anything wrong there," Kyl said.  "We haven't lost our values and Dick Cheney's exactly right in what he said in his speech."

"Whether it's closed or not, we have to have a plan in place that outlines how we deal with the people who are incarcerated there," he told "FOX News Sunday."

Related:  One in 7 who leave Guantanamo involved in terrorism.

Goatherd
Myth

In Obama's famous DNC Convention speech, Obama says, "My father was a foreign student, born and raised in a small village in Kenya.  He grew up herding goats, went to school in a tin-roof shack.  His father -- my grandfather -- was a cook, a domestic servant to the British."

Kezia, Obama Sr.'s first wife tells a story that puts Obama's account to lie.


Kezia said: In 1955 Obama Sr. was 18 and working in an office in Nairobi, when he took Kezia from her family at the age of 16.  Her father was furious.

"He did not like Obama.  My father and brothers came to Nairobi to bring me back.  They said I had to go back to school.

"When I wouldn't, they said they would never speak to me again.

"Barack was also worried about what his father would think because I was so young, but he gave us his approval.  Obama's father (often described as poor) sent my mother and father 14 cows for my dowry.

 

Just how can a cook, a domestic servant to the British, provide a dowry of 14 cattle for Senior's first wife?  Also, Obama's father had been working in a Nairobi office since the age 16, not herding goats.

As an aside, can you imagine if a Republican was running for president and it came out that his father had bought his first wife for 14 cows???!!!Just wow!!

Gun Lies Both the McCain and Clinton campaigns are accusing Obama of giving a misleading answer to Charlie Gibson about whether his handwriting was on a questionnaire that reported him as favoring a complete ban on handguns.  The Obama campaign has said that a staffer "mischaracterized" the senator's views while filling up answers to the questionnaire without Obama's input.  You can see the questionnaire here.  Obama's handwriting is on the first page, but tonight he said flatly, "no, my writing was not on that particular questionnaire."

There were, in fact, two versions of the questionnaire, filed under Obama's name in 1996 when he was running for the Illinois State Senate.  One version has Obama's handwriting on it, one does not.  Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor subsequently told Politico that the senator scribbled a few notes on the first page of the questionnaire, but did not read the response to the question about banning handguns, on a subsequent page.

Either way, it seems a rather lame explanation.
Gun Lies Another Obama statement reaches its expiration date, this one on guns.

The Heller decision came down today from the Supreme Court, striking down the Washington, D.C. gun ban.

With the Supreme Court ruling, the Obama campaign is disavowing what it calls an "inartful" statement -- Obamese for lie -- to the Chicago Tribune last year, and are blaming an "unnamed aide" characterized Obama as believing that the D. C. ban was constitutional.

"That statement was obviously an inartful attempt to explain the Senator’s consistent position," Obama spokesman Bill Burton tells ABC News.

Obama took a question about the constitutionality of the gun ban from WJLA's Leon Harris during the Potomac Primary, and didn't dispute the characterization that he believes the ban is constitutional.

Here's the exchange:

LH: "One other issue that is of great importance to the people of the district here, is gun control.  You said in Idaho here, recently, that "I have no intention of taking away folks’ guns."  But you support the D.C. handgun ban, and you’ve said that it’s constitutional.  How do you reconcile those two positions?"

BO: "Because I think we have two conflicting traditions in this country.  I think it’s important for us to recognize that we’ve got a tradition of handgun ownership and gun ownership generally.  And a lot of people -- law-abiding citizens use if for hunting, for sportsmanship, and for protecting their families."

"We also have a violence on the streets that is the result of illegal handgun usage.  And so I think there is nothing wrong with a community saying we are going to take those illegal handguns off the streets, we are going to trace more effectively, how these guns are ending up on the streets, to unscrupulous gun dealers, who often times are selling to straw purchasers.  And cracking down on the various loopholes that exist in terms of background checks for children, the mentally ill.  Those are all approaches that I think the average gun owner would actually support.  The problem is, that we’ve got a position, often times by the NRA that says any regulation whatsoever is the camel’s nose under the tent.  And that, I think, is not where the American people are at.  We can have reasonable, thoughtful gun control measure that I think respect the Second Amendment and people’s traditions."

"When Obama says, "we are going to take those illegal handguns off the streets," I wonder if it ever occurred to him to "take the damned criminals off the streets?"


Also, how can Obama claim "I have always believed that the Second Amendment protects the right of individuals to bear arms" when, as a director of the Joyce Foundation, he steered $15 million to the self-described "most aggressive group in the gun control movement?"  That group published a book entitled, "Every Handgun is Aimed at You: The Case for Banning Handguns."

And, remember, on April 3rd, in the run-up to a Democratic presidential debate scheduled on the one-year anniversary of the Virginia Tech shootings, Obama said:

"I am not in favor of concealed weapons," Obama told the Pittsburgh Tribune. "I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations."

Barack Obama’s record is clear on guns.  He not only supported gun bans, but he supported prosecuting acts of self-defense.

Obama is about as anti-gun as you would expect from a Chicago politician. He voted for assault weapons bans, voted to limit the number of handguns a person could buy, voted against lawsuit protections for gun manufacturers, supported a national ban on concealed carry, and worst of all voted against a bill protecting homeowners from being sued by burglars they shoot in their own homes.

Gun Lies Obama's presidential campaign slogan, "the audacity of hope," should have instead been "the audacity of deceit."  After months of telling the American people that he supports the Second Amendment, and only hours after being declared the president-elect, the Obama transition team website announced an agenda taken straight from the anti-gun lobby -- four initiatives designed to ban guns and drive law-abiding firearm manufacturers and dealers out of business.
Gun
Lies
CIFTA is the proposed Organization of American States treaty on firearms trafficking, known by its Spanish initials as CIFTA.  Obama is working to get the CIFTA treaty through the Senate.  This push is a result of his recent trip to Mexico and and his claimed attempt to halt to flow of guns into Mexico.
 


The problem is that Obama is using faulty statistics to push this treaty and infringe upon the right of the American People to keep and bear arms.

Obama says that 90% of the guns recovered in Mexico from drug cartels come from the United States.  This isn't true.  The fact is, nobody really knows.  Yes, lots of guns seized in Mexico come from the United States.  No question.  But that's indicative of a whole other sort of problem.  The fact that drug runners can get guns doesn't mean that America should end-run the Second Amendment.  That's just poor logic.


Another point is Obama's faulty logic -- that 33 nations in the Western Hemisphere have signed on to this treaty, so it must be good.  This is an incorrect conclusion -- those nations do not have a Second Amendment to the Constitution.

Beyond that, since when did the United States of America follow the examples of Venezuela, Chile, Nicaragua, and yes, Mexico?  It is the United States that should be setting the example here -- not the other way around.  This is just an encore performance from Obama's "Hate America Tour, 2009."


Obama has no clue how to help Mexico but sees an opportunity to help his agenda.  It is obvious that Obama's teams at the Justice Department and the State Department are exploiting the violence in Mexico to justify more restrictions on gun ownership by Americans.  Obama's hostility to the Second Amendment has been clear for years.  This may be yet another example of Rahm Emanuel's maxim: "Never let a good crisis go to waste."

In an article written by Rep. Tom Tancredo on April 30th, Tancredo asks the question, "Why the Lies About Guns Going to Mexico? "


The Mexican Ambassador to the United States, Auturo Sarukhan, appeared on a CBS news program recently and repeated a lie we have heard for many months about the violence in Mexico.  The ambassador says Americans are to blame for the violence wrecked on his country by the Mexican drug cartels because "most of the guns confiscated by Mexican police can be traced back to the United States.  That is not true, but the way that claim has been accepted by American politicians and the mainstream media raises suspicions about a hidden agenda.

ATFE's Fake Number:

We can almost forgive the Mexican ambassador for being confused when the United States agency responsible for enforcing our gun laws, the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATFE), has made so many contradictory statements on the matter.  ATFE Assistant Director William Hoover told Congress last year that 90% of the weapons seized in Mexico crime scenes can be traced to gun sales in the US.

The problem is that 90% number isn't true.  Yet, that hasn't kept it from being picked up and used by members of Congress, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and, of course, Mexican officials like Ambassador Sarukhan who are eager to blame the US for Mexico's problems.

Real Weapons Source:

The 90% number reported by Hoover came from a small group of weapons turned over to the U.S. for tracing, but they were by no means all of the weapons seized by Mexican authorities.  A spokesman for the ATFE, Matt Allen, has now "clarified" the number and admitted that only 17% of the weapons found at crime scenes in Mexico have been traced to the U.S.  Ironically, while Mexican officials have freely used the 90% number from the ATFE, they have not themselves made such a charge based on their own numbers.  The truth is, they know better.

We can easily understand Mexico's reasons for preferring the 90% number to the more accurate 17%.  Mexico does not want to openly discuss the many other sources of advanced weapons being used by the drug cartels.  Thousands of advanced weapons and tons of military equipment are stolen from its own military and state police.  Weapons are smuggled across its southern borders from Guatemala and by boats landing on its 8,000 miles of coastline, weapons that often originate in Venezuela, Colombia, and Nicaragua, or from purchases in Eastern Europe.  But it is easier for a Mexican politician to blame the U.S. than to explain his own government's failure to police its borders, its ports of entry and its military installations.

Did the Mexican ambassador mention that over 100,000 soldiers have deserted the Mexican army in the past seven years and that many of them took their weapons with them and joined the cartels?

Continue reading here . . .

Update:  Ron Polarik, PhD, observes that whether it's drug cartels, the Army, or the local Politsia, Mexico gets the vast majority of its guns from countries other than the United States.


Care to bet which country supplies the most arms to Latin America?  (HINT: Not the US. Not even close)


Percentage of Supplier Deliveries Value by Region, 2000-2007 -- Source:  U. S. Government

 

Supplier Asia Asia Near East Near East Latin America Latin America Africa Africa
  2000-2003 2004-2007 2000-2003 2004-2007 2000-2003 2004-2007 2000-2003 2004-2007
United States 33.44% 32.83% 63.46% 62.67% 2.75% 4.00% 0.35% 0.49%
Russia 85.16% 69.19% 10.97% 16.76% 0.65% 10.81% 3.23% 3.24%
France 10.53% 19.51% 85.96% 74.39% 1.75% 4.88% 1.75% 1.22%
United Kingdom 4.00% 6.32% 96.00% 84.21% 0.00% 2.11% 0.00% 7.37%
China 55.17% 56.10% 31.03% 21.95% 0.00% 2.44% 13.79% 19.51%
Germany 64.71% 39.13% 23.53% 13.04% 0.00% 0.00% 11.76% 47.83%
Italy 20.00% 20.00% 20.00% 0.00% 40.00% 20.00% 20.00% 60.00%
All Other European 18.92% 28.26% 58.11% 34.78% 9.46% 26.09% 13.51% 10.87%
All Others 73.03% 61.22% 14.61% 18.37% 4.49% 14.29% 7.87% 6.12%

 

I received the following information via email and awaiting a source/link:

Since the Constitution says that US treaties are ABOVE the Constitution, Obama can use CIFTA and other treaties to get a bare majority of the Senators to repeal the 2nd Amendment, without going through the arduous process of getting the agreement of 2/3rds of each house of Congress and 3/4ths of the sates; if CIFTA is passed by 51% of the Senate, is the de facto law of the land and presto, our gun rights are GONE.

The Supreme Court has already ruled in a case in California (where a gasoline additive was leaking into the groundwater) that the citizens had no right to sue under the Constitution, because this case involved NAFTA (I don't recall the specific facts, I think it's because the additive was made in Canada).

Gun Lies The "liar, liar pants on fire" argument usually isn't the most effective.  But when it comes to guns, Obama is lying through his teeth.

On Thursday, while on a visit to Mexico, Obama continued his Blame America First tour.  "This war is being waged with guns purchased not here but in the United States," he said, referring to the drug wars that are tearing apart our neighbor to the south.  "More than 90 percent of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States, many from gun shops that lay in our shared border."

It is completely untrue that 90 percent of guns recovered in Mexico are from America.  The Mexican government separates guns it confiscates that were made in the United States and sends them here to be traced. U.S. weapons are easy to identify because of clear markings.

Of the ones sent here to be traced, 90 percent turn out to be from America, but most guns recovered in Mexico are not sent here so are not included in the count.  Fox News reported that 17 percent is a more accurate number.

The New York Times, CNN and numerous networks continue to repeat the 90 percent figure with no reporting to back it up.  The hysteria is used to create the notion that a major problem exists with American guns -- and Obama is anxious to step in to solve that problem with a $400 million program to stop U.S. guns from going to Mexico.  That initiative would include clampdowns on U.S. gun shops.

It is ridiculous for Mr. Obama to blame Mexico's lawlessness on Americans as if the longstanding corruption of Mexican elected officials, judges and law-enforcement officers has nothing to do with it.
Hamas
Lie
Early yesterday, the London-based Al-Hayat newspaper published an interview with Hamas political adviser Ahmed Yousef in which he said that a secret meeting was held in Gaza on November 4th, with members of the Obama campaign.

"We are maintaining contact with them," Yousef said.  "We first made contact on the Internet and then met with some of them here in the Gaza Strip.  They advised us not to reveal this information lest it influence the elections or become manipulated by McCain's campaign."

With the campaign over, he added, Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh would be sending a letter of congratulations to Obama.

Yousef also said that he personally had friendly relations with a few of Obama's advisers whom he had met when he lived in the US.

Obama stressed throughout the campaign that he would not meet with members of Hamas so long as it didn't accept the international community's three demands -- that it halt violence against Israel, recognize Israel and accept previous agreements between the Palestinians and Israel.

One of Obama's Middle East policy advisers, Robert Malley, resigned during the Democratic candidate's campaign once it became known that he had met with Hamas