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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
governmentand 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.
Flippin'
And
Floppin'
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?
Flippin'
And
Floppin'
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.
[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.
Flippin'
And
Floppin'
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 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.
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."
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 Lies
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.
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."
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?
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
