Barack’s Hypocrisy on Iraq, Energy and the Politics of Personal Destruction

Barack’s Hypocrasy on Iraq, Energy and the Politics of Personal Destruction

Barack H. O. promised America a new kind of politics. He said that he had the “judgment to lead” us to a “new page” and a “new chapter” in the way politicians conduct their affairs and speak to the American People. He promised us a New Kind Of Politics that would give us hope to unify blacks and whites and Democrats and Republicans. His promises seem to be woefully short on substance, but still plenty lofty on thematic rhetoric.

Consider Barack’s repeated charge that “John McCain wants to continue a war in Iraq perhaps as long as 100 years.” The non-partisan Factcheck.org says Obama’s claim that McCain wants 100 years of war in Iraq is a “twisted” and “serious distortion of what McCain actually said to a town-hall meeting in New Hampshire back on Jan. 3.”

The non-partisan Politifact.Com calls Barack’s attacks on “100 Years” comment “false.” “Obama twisted McCain’s words in the Cleveland debate. He said, ‘We are bogged down in a war that John McCain now suggests might go on for another 100 years.’ As we explain above, McCain was referring to a peacetime presence, not the war. So we find Obama’s statement false.”

Columbia Journalism Review’s Zachary Roth said that, “[L]ately, Barack Obama in particular has stepped up his attacks on McCain’s ‘100 years’ notion. But in doing so, Obama is seriously misleading voters — if not outright lying to them — about exactly what McCain said.”

Slate’s Christopher Beam said that, “In context, McCain’s statements seem clear: He doesn’t want the war to continue for 100 years. But he’s willing to keep a few brigades there as long as they’re not getting killed. … [F]or Obama and others [the DNC] to paint McCain’s stance as a war without end doesn’t quite hold up.”

Gen. Tony Mcpeak, Barack’s military adviser, said in an interview with the Oregonian in 2003 that, “We’ll be there [in Iraq] a century, hopefully. If it works right.”

“We’ve been in Europe now since 1945. We’ve been in Japan since 1945, been in Korea since 1950,” said McPeak. “We haven’t had a Middle East occupation force, so this is a start of that. This is the way great powers operate; it’s the way Rome operated.”

Also, what was ostensibly supposed to be a confidential paper written by Barack adviser, Colin Kahl, and obtained by The New York Sun, recommends that between 60,000 and 80,000 troops be kept in Iraq as long as late 2010.

According to Barack’s own website, all combat brigades will be out of Iraq within 16 months.

And on the day after his speech at the Democratic convention, Barack told a group of reporters at a lunch sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor in Boston that the U.S. had an “absolute obligation” to remain in Iraq.

“The failure of the Iraqi state would be a disaster,” he said, according to an audiotape of the session. “It would dishonor the 900-plus men and women who have already died. . . It would be a betrayal of the promise that we made to the Iraqi people, and it would be hugely destabilizing from a national security perspective.”

Then there’s Obama’s attack against John McCain on energy policy, saying McCain will be a “third Bush term.” But FACTS are stubborn things, and the RECORD show, however, that John McCain actually voted AGAINST the 2005 energy bill, while Barack actually supported
it. Gee, I guess that would be proof that McCain would be turning a new page, while Barack would be akin to a “third Bush term.”

And what about his commercials about the subject of energy policy?

“I don’t take money from oil companies or Washington lobbyists and I won’t let them block change anymore,” he says in an ad.

Well, it is true that Barack doesn’t take money directly from oil companies. But that’s because he can’t. Corporations have been prohibited from contributing directly to federal candidates since 1907.

Barack has, however, received more than $213,000 dollars from employees of oil and gas companies. Employees of Exxon Mobil, which Barack actually names in his ad, gave $30,000 to him.

Barack was also caught saying on the campaign trail that while in the US Senate, he passed legislation requiring prompt reporting by nuclear energy companies of even small leaks. But the bill, in fact, was never passed.

What about Barack’s claim that he would oppose the politics of personal destruction?

DNC Chairman Howard Dean called McCain “a blatant opportunist.”

Dean said this of the character of war hero John McCain: “While we honor McCain’s military service, the fact is Americans want a
real leader who offers real solutions, not a blatant opportunist who
doesn’t understand the economy and is promising to keep our troops in Iraq for 100 years.”

The Republican National Committee demanded an apology from Dean,
while demanding that Barack and Hillary also denounce the remarks. Barack and Hillary have yet to denounce the personal, ad-homonym demagogic remarks against a great American hero, John McCain.

What about public financing?

Barack earlier pledged to accept public financing for the fall
campaign if the Republican nominee did. Now he says he would negotiate with McCain in deciding whether to accept the money and
spending limits of the federal matching funds system.

Elisabeth Bumiller of the New York Times wrote that, “Mr. Obama was the candidate who proposed the [public funding] pledge in the first place, in February 2007, a time when he was not raising the
prodigious sums he is now.”

And in a response to a 2007 questionnaire, Barack said he in fact would
accept public funding in the general election.

Here is the question: “If you are nominated for President in 2008 and your major opponents agree to forgo private funding in the general election campaign, will you participate in the presidential public financing system?” Obama’s reply: “Yes. I have been a long-time advocate for public financing of campaigns combined with free television and radio time as a way to reduce the influence of moneyed special interests.”

Any hypocrisy on subprime lending by Barack?

Barack, during a Pennsylvania town-hall meeting, said McCain offered
“four more years of the same George W. Bush policies that have gotten us into the pickle that we’re in right now.” He said McCain’s response to the housing crisis “amounts to little more than standing on the
sidelines and watching millions of Americans lose their homes.”

But Penny Pritzker, Barack Obama’s National Finance Chair, served as Chairwoman of the Board for Superior Bank when it first began engaging in subprime lending way back in 1993. The bank collapsed in 2001 due to its business strategy of relying on subprime loans.

“Superior Was Effectively Facilitating Very Sleazy Lending,” Said Washington, D.C., Banking Consultant, Bert Ely, who testified before Congress about Superior’s failure.

How about Barack and being honest about trade policy?

Recently, Clinton accused Barack of misleading voters about his views on trade. A memo by a Canadian official described a meeting with Barack’s top economic policy adviser, Austan Goolsbee, which took place in the Canadian consulate in Chicago last month in which NAFTA was discussed. It said that Barack’s’ public pledge to force a renegotiation of NAFTA was “more about political positioning.”

Then there was Barack’s claim that his parents fell in love because of the 1965 civil rights march in Selma, Alabama. Problem is, he was born in 1961.

Barack also claimed that he could trace his “very existence” to the Kennedy family, saying they paid for his Kenyan father’s travel to America on a scholarship. But the Kennedy family actually began funding those kinds of trips a year after Mr Obama’s father arrived in the US.

Barack told Larry King on CNN when asked about an anti-Hillary Rodham Clinton YouTube ad, which was a doctored version of a spot created for Apple computers: “We don’t have the technical capacity to create something like that.”

But in fact the creator of it was a political operative who worked for a firm overseeing the technical side of Obama’s Web site, who made it at home on a Mac.

Barack, in his memoir, Dreams of My Father, wrote of a story about a black man trying to bleach his skin white that he said had influenced him. He later said it might have been in Ebony magazine. But, no such article could be found in Life or Ebony.

The following is rewritten from an excellent post from freedom’s enemies in a post called, ‘Barack Obama’s Lies.’:

Barack Obama said in 2003 to the AFL/CIO: “I happen to be a proponent of single-payer universal healthcare coverage. That’s what I’d like to see.”

But in January, 2008, Obama claimed in a nationally televised debate: “I never said that we should try to go ahead and get single-payer.”

In Barack’s famous DNC Convention speech, he said, “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.”

But Kezia, Obama Sr.’s first wife, said that 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.

“Obama’s father sent my mother and father 14 cows (not a small amount in that country) for my dowry,” Kezia said.

In a video that has since been scrubbed, Barack says, “I think I’ve been very clear….there’s a presidential election in four years. I’m not running for president in four years.”

During a meeting with reporters at his Illinois campaign headquarters after his election to the U.S. Senate, he was asked whether he would run for president or vice president before his term ends in 2011. “I’ve never worked in Washington,” he said. “I can unequivocally say I will not be running for national office in four years, and my entire focus is making sure that I’m the best possible senator on behalf of the people of Illinois.”

And on “Meet the Press, January 22nd, he told Tim Russert; “I will serve out my full six-year term. You know, Tim, if you get asked enough, sooner or later you get weary and you start looking for new ways of saying things. But my thinking has not changed.”

Russert: “So you will not run for president or vice president in 2008?”

Obama: “I will not.”

Then there was the claim by Barack that he had been conceived by his parents, Barack Obama Sr. and Ann Dunham, because they had been inspired by the “Bloody Sunday” voting rights demonstration.

“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”

Barack was born in 1961, and the Selma march occurred in 1965.

There was, the Obama campaign releasing a statement on Jan. 24, 2007, stating, “To be clear, Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim, and is a committed Christian who attends the United Church of Christ in Chicago.”

On March 14th, the Obama campaign offered this statement to correct their previous statement: “Obama has never been a practicing Muslim.” The statement added that as a child, Obama had spent time in the neighborhood’s Islamic center.

In 2007, Barack 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, responded, “No carmaker gets 45 mpg; ours is closer to 30 mpg.”

Several months ago, Barack told the Sun-Times his “best estimate” was that indicted businessman, Tony Rezko, had raised “between $50,000 and $60,000″ during Obama’s political career.

However, Barack has collected at least $250,000 from Rezko.

Barack even claimed this: “My grandfather taught me how to say the Pledge of Allegiance when I was 2.”

Last fall during a nationally televised presidential debate, Barack raised his hand to declare that he opposed decriminalizing marijua.

But Barack told an audience during a debate at Northwestern University in 2004: “I think we need to rethink and decriminalize our marijuana laws.”

In 2007, Barack said, “I’m not running because I’m trying to fulfill some long-held plan.”

But Barack’s teacher in 1970, Iis Darmawan, 63, said, “He wrote an essay titled, ‘I Want To Become President.”

In 1992, Craig Robinson, Barack’s brother-in-law, 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.’”

Barack mentions studying the Quran in his autobiography, “Dreams From My Father,” He was enrolled in two Jakarta schools as a Muslim. His teacher, Tine Hahiyary, said she remembered he had studied “mengaji” (recitation of the Quran). Barack’s classmate, Rony Amiris, said, “Barry was previously quite religious in Islam.” Emirsyah Satar, another classmate of Barack’s, was quoted as saying, “He (Obama) was often in the prayer room wearing a ’sarong.’”

On his campaign website: “Barack has never been a Muslim or practiced any other faith besides Christianity.”

But, Barack’s father, grandfather, stepfather, and his African relatives are Muslims. And just what was he for 27 years before his conversion?

Barack said on MSNBC, “Had I heard them in church I would have expressed that concern directly to Rev. Wright.”

But in his now famous race speech, Barack said he in fact “of course” did hear some of them. - From the web site, freedom’s enemies, from a post called, ‘Barack Obama’s Lies.’

I guess Barack Obama is just a big hypocrate. A fraud who just can’t stick to facts. He seems to make things up and also twists and distorts John McCain’s positions and words to fool the American People. So, whatever happened to Obama’s “new kind of politics?’ Whatever happened to telling the truth to the American People? I guess he must have thrown those promises, along with his integrity and his grandmother, under the bus.

But, don’t worry, he still holds fast to his racist ex-preacher, Jeremiah Wright, and his racist church, Trinity Church of Christ, which posts pro-Hamas articles, and gave racist, anti-semite Louis Farrakhan the Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Trumpeter Award, whom they said was a man that “truly epitomized greatness.”

Read here about Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean attacking John McCain in a statement calling him a “blatant opportunist.”

Read here about a ‘Journal-Standard LETTER: Obama soaked up hatred.’

Go McCain-Romney 2008!