More Obama Untruths Uncovered
by TexasDarlin, Sun Mar 30, 2008 at 09:33:44 AM EDT
FINALLY, media coverage about Obama's lies trickles in. Yesterday Slate reported that the first Rev. Wright sermon which Obama attended contained racist rhetoric, and the Washington Post reports today that Obama lied about his father's link to the Kennedy family.
Slate, in a blog called "White Man's Greed," challenges head-on Obama's assertion that he only recently became aware of Rev. Wright's racist views:
On his radio show yesterday, Hugh Hewitt played excerpts of Barack Obama reading from his autobiography, Dreams of My Father. In one, Obama remembers a sermon by Rev. Jeremiah Wright:"...It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks' greed runs a world in need... That's the world! On which hope sits."
'And so it went, a meditation on a fallen world. While the boys next to me doodled on their church bulletin, Reverend Wright spoke of Sharpesville and Hiroshima, the callousness of policy makers in the White House and in the State House. ... [E.A.]'(emphasis added)
Mickey Kaus of Slate comments:
Keep in mind: a) Obama isn't disapproving of this sermon. In the book he weeps at the end of it; b) Demonstrating that at least some blaming of "white greed" for the world's sins--which Obama now criticizes-- isn't an exceptional topic for Rev. Wright in a few wacky sermons ("the five dumbest things") that Obama may or may not have missed. It's at the quotidian core of the Afrocentric philosophy that Obama says drew him to the church; c) Indeed, in his big March 18th race speech Obama reads the passage from his book that describes his emotional reaction to this very sermon (his "first service at Trinity")--how it made "the story of a people" seem "black and more than black." d) This is also the sermon that gave Obama the title of his next book, The Audacity of Hope. e) The "profound mistake" of this sermon is not that Wright "spoke as if our society was static"--Obama's analysis on Feb. 18th. The problem is that "white folks' greed" is not the main cause of a "world in need." (emphasis added)
The Washington Post, in an article today called "Obama Overstates Kennedys' Role in Helping His Father," catches Obama in an outright fib:
Addressing civil rights activists in Selma, Ala., a year ago, Sen. Barack Obama traced his "very existence" to the generosity of the Kennedy family, which he said paid for his Kenyan father to travel to America on a student scholarship and thus meet his Kansan mother.Contrary to Obama's claims in speeches in January at American University and in Selma last year, the Kennedy family did not provide the funding for a September 1959 airlift of 81 Kenyan students to the United States that included Obama's father. According to historical records and interviews with participants, the Kennedys were first approached for support for the program nearly a year later, in July 1960. The family responded with a $100,000 donation, most of which went to pay for a second airlift in September 1960.
Obama spokesman Bill Burton acknowledged yesterday that the senator from Illinois had erred in crediting the Kennedy family with a role in his father's arrival in the United States.
Obama's factual "errors" are being exposed, and starting to stack up. While Hillary Clinton is villified for her misstatement about Bosnia, Obama's pinnochios receive a group shrug from the MSM. Even Obama found it appropriate to chime in with his disapproval of the Bosnia error when he stated that it was an illustration of Hillary's problems with truthfulness. How hypocritical! The lopsided coverage of these two candidates has become a serious embarrasment for the American media. Imagine what outside observers must think; afterall, we are supposed to have the fairest, most balanced, most objective media in the world, right?
Mydd diarists have reported other Obama lies here, here, here, and here
Also, see more "errors" debunked here:
http://facts.hillaryhub.com/
Tags: campaign tricks, Democratic nomination, Election 08, Hillary Clinton, lies, obama, truth (all tags)
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