Obama Lies About His Childhood
By Larry Johnson on August 17, 2008 at 12:40 AM in Barack Obama, Current Affairs
Doesn’t Barry Soetoro aka Barack Obama understand how this videotape thing works? Here he is telling Rick Warren that he was “raised by a single mother.” Friends, that is complete and utter bullshit! When he was four years old he had an Indonesian muslim and wealthy oil executive as a step-dad. Here’s the Wikipedia quote:
After her divorce, Dunham married Lolo Soetoro, and the family moved to Soetoro’s home country of Indonesia in 1967, where Obama attended local schools in Jakarta until he was ten years old. He then returned to Honolulu to live with his maternal grandparents while attending Punahou School from the fifth grade in 1971 until his graduation from high school in 1979
Please explain how you are raised by a “single mom” who is married to a wealthy Indonesian oil executive and you live with the dude for six years? Will anyone in the media call him on this horse-shit?
UPDATE: Here’s the video of Barack claiming he was “raised by a single mom.” NO, NO, and NO.
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Larry
I have another opinion on this. If you asked MY DAUGHTER she would say she was raised by her mother. (maybe not the single part) But she would say it was me as she can’t STAND her father as he pretty much abandoned her as well and even though I married again she never considered her step-father as raising her. (we only stayed married 5 yrs)
I guess “being raised” requires a certain amount of TIME IN GRADE so to speak?
jmo
My kds have been raised by their mother also. Even when I was married, I took complete responsibility for the family. I worked (my husband was getting his business started), I paid all the bills. I did all the housework, I spent every minute I was not working with my children. My husband didn’t help at all.
After eight years of marriage I divorced and my kids have pretty much never seen their father again.I did not remarry. My mom has occassionally helped me by getting the kids to games and whatnot, but I have been there for my kids every day of their lives. So, my kids were raised by their single mom. Had I stayed married, we might not have survived, but if we did, my kids would not say they were raised by their single mom, they would say they were raised by their mom alone . There is a difference.
Obama’s mom was not single while she raised him. She was married. When she got divorced, she sent Barack home for her parents to raise. Obama is lying.
Michelle uses the same lie when she tries to address the “elite” label on him.
I raised my children alone, not only was I divorced from their father, he went overseas to work so he wouldn’t have to do anything to help. THAT’s what a single mother is. But, to an elitist like Obama (and Michelle), his life must have felt like a terrible, terrible struggle compared to the rich kids he attended private school with.
“But it wasn’t a race thing,” he said. “Barry’s biggest struggles then were missing his parents. His biggest struggles were his feelings of abandonment. The idea that his biggest struggle was race is [bull].”
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-070325obama-youth-story,0,639652,full.story
Obama’s grandmother was a bank vice-president. I kind of think she did okay. Probably made a lot more than I did. He doesn’t have a clue about what poverty is. He needs to take a walk around the neighborhoods he supposedly represented in Chicago. He might get a clue.
I am tired of hearing him whine about how bad he suffered because he was raised by a “single mom”. My kids are damned lucky I took them and ran and they have never resented not have their father around. They know they were better off, and I never said a word about him. By all accounts Obama’s dad makes my ex look like a saint.
My kids had more love and attention than any two parent household I’ve seen lately. I never missed a ballgame, teacher conference, concert or any other important function. We ate supper together every night, they were in 4H and every sport they wanted to participate in. Three kids all playing baseball in the summer can be a real nerve wracking experience. As soon as they got big enough we started chore lists and took turns, giving us more time for fishing and camping. They are strong and independent. In fact my kids are much more self-reliant than most of their friends.
I am not the exception. I know many single parents who are as good as or better parents than a lot of couples. One parent can do a good job raising children, it takes dedication and work. I am goddamned tired of this whole attitude that single parents are “less” or somehow cheating our kids. We are usually single for a good reason.
He says this to make people think he was underprivileged as a kid, which is far from the truth. His mother was a college grad, then PhD. His grandmother was a VP of the largest bank in Hawaii and he went to the most elite private school in the state.
Yes his mom was single when he was really young, but I do not buy that they were destitute and on food stamps. I cannot believe his grandparents would have allowed their only child and grandchild to live in poverty. This does not smell right.
Larry,
Respectfully, much of this information you have posted was produced originally at TexasDarlin’s blog.
In fact this story in particular was produced at her blog and posted here over two weeks ago–about Obama lying about his childhood.
Please do the respectful thing and acknowledge her work, and please put the blog back on your blog roll. Thank you.
Missed it….Please splain…..nowadkate….
Yes, right on Dr. What did happen to Texas Darlin on the blog role?
Yes, right on Dr. What did happen to Texas Darlin on the blog roll?
He’s having trouble remembering what’s fact and fiction in his version of his biography.
He never should have followed that rabbit down the hole.
You are correct…it has become a blur. What did me in was the question about the 3 most important people he would turn to for advice, MO was #1. Frightening.
Hmmm…..I thought in Barry’s Autobiofictional he stated that Mom got Food Stamps in Indonesia. So Maybe Mom was marries to Lelo and Barry was raised by another Mom named Anne Toot who lived next door on odd days say…Tues,Thurs, and Saturdays….in order to keep the food stamps and then Lelo had Barry over for lunch on even days and to go to Mosque….chuckle…
THIS IS ALL SO SILLY….SHEEESH!
I bet there are a lot of lies and fabrications in the books Obama wrote — this guy is full of it.
Oblowme is a lying sack of shit.
God only knows how many women have sacrificed for the ingrate.
We do know that his WHITE grandmother stepped-in when Oblowme couldn’t get along at 10 - and was thanked for it by his calling her a racist.
Oblowme’s grandmother raises a mixed race kid and he labels her a racist.
Oblowme POS - not POTUS!
I don’t even think he knows the difference between fact and fiction. He lies so much he thinks the lies are the truth. But he does have so many different lies I imagine he does have trouble keeping track…
Hmmm…a common flaw with autobiofictionals…chuckle…Barry will have to chinafy the net when he becomes POTUS if he wants to get the autobiofictional
nofactos to be accepted as more real than real…MSMNewsPorn have already been Chinafyed….Anything is possible….sheeesh!
What do you expect, he thinks his mom and dad meet in Selma and a year later, barack jr. was born. O-fraudulent is a con artist…his initials for Barry Soetoro even says so–BS.
I honestly believe he has Narcissistic Personality Disorder. The lying, double talk and spin are all trademark. He’s in his own reality.
Yes and Obama did mention how his early drug years were selfish and all about him. The thing most of us see is that he is still that same selfish kid.
I have a different theory as to why he lies. Here is a sight to go to read about “Taqiyah”. It is very chilling and it fits Obama.
The word “Taqiyya” literally means: “Concealing, precaution, guarding.” It is employed in disguising one’s beliefs, intentions, convictions, ideas, feelings, opinions or strategies. In practical terms it is manifested as dissimulation, lying, deceiving, vexing and confounding with the intention of deflecting attention, foiling or pre-emptive blocking. It is currently employed in fending off and neutralising any criticism of Islam or Muslims.
http://www.islam-watch.org/Warner/Taqiyya-Islamic-Principle-Lying-for-Allah.htm
Listening to this guy is just as bad as sitting through a Bush press conference…and he’s not even the official nominee yet. Gawd. November is going to be a long ways off.
Sorry, I totally respect what this site is about, but it’s pretty low comparing anyone to Obama. Bush is 1000x more authentic and at least says what he means.
Morgan said:
“Sorry, I totally respect what this site is about, but it’s pretty low comparing anyone to Obama. Bush is 1000x more authentic and at least says what he means.”
So I say: “Nice snark…I think.”
I know, even if BushCo can’t pronounce it sometimes.
the drug companies are probably making a mint off the anti-depressants these days.
also don’t forget Nexium, Prilosec and Zantac!
Nevermind the Zantac, I need Xanax at the thought of President Barky Obambi Soretoes.
The spin has worked for him before, so naturally he’s used it in the here and now. Only more and more people are not buying it. The lies, the inconsistencies, the flim-flam with the facts.
Bye-bye, Barack. You and Axelrod can go back to Chicago now. Rest up. November is not going to be pretty.
If anyone has this saddleback forum on dvr you should look at Obie’s eyes when asked about being a Christian. The eyes…creeped me out. He does not like talking Jesus. I’m telling you. It’s at about 18 minutes into it.
Yes and he seldom looked at the audience when talking about his christianity. Just like he stays away from the soldiers, he can’t look them in the eyes.
He’s a panderer and a coward.
OK I will check this out. It sounds similar to that ad he did stressing the white half of his family and his “Kansas values”. At the end when he talks about how he’s proud to be an American, he can’t help himself, a shadow of hard contempt crosses his eyes.
Perhaps in addition to a 24-7 teleprompter Axel of Evil will also provide SoeBama a pair of round-the-clock sunglasses.
Obama is playing the Americans for fools. His blatant lies about his past, his trouble deciding against the war, and so forth. We have his own books and words on the former and I wonder if somewhere someone might come up with a real recording of his “original” anti-war speech and not his ever-so-helpful recreation?
He gave a smooth performance last night. Too smooth. It is time for Obama to come face-to-face with reality. Words are more than just words and Americans will sooner or later demand the truth.
To be a successful con man you first have to convince yourself. Once you believe your own lies you can successfully sell them to others.
That’s very true.
He doesn’t make the sale, does he?
THAT’s the thing, right there. Obama can’t close the deal, he can’t convince the consumer to BUY. He doesn’t believe in his own product, and it shows.
Now, John Edwards–he tended to OVERSELL the product, like a smarmy “high pressure” salesman–and he made me a bit “uneasy” as to his sincerity–but I’ll admit I “forgave” him his smarmyness, and cut him some slack, solely and simply because his wife’s public persona was so authentic and warm. I figured, “Hey, if she married him, and she seems like such a swell gal, he must be sincere and all right.”
Boy oh boy, I should have stuck with my first instinct! A bullshitter! And a cheatin’ bullshitter, to boot!
Hey Matthew, do you know you can’t go to your site. Causes an explorer error and closes the browser? Regarding your post…. take a look at the book “People of the Lie” or the “Sociopath next door”. OB is classic. I’d love someone with better writing skill than I to do a piece on the comparison. Tks for all you do…….
Can you or someone with IE6 or IE7 recheck my web site. I’ve removed what I think was the problem but I am in NYC today using a Mac so I cannot be sure. If you do and find it working or not working, please email me directly at matthew@theindependentview.com rather than post here in this thread.
Thank you!
Matthew
Not working for me. vista IE7
wow, not a great start for the guy who was going to make mincemeat of the old dude.
this election isn’t even supposed to be close right?
Make that the old, white, wrinkly dude according to Paris, that bastion of political wisdom. Go Grampa!
Can someone explain to me how BO’s mom divorced his dad……If it is true that BO’s dad was still married to a woman in Kenya (that he never divorced) then BO’s mom & dad were never legally married, right? Am I missing some facts here?
Obama Sr had a tribal marriage that wasn’t recognized by the British colonial government so technically he was single when he met Ann Dunham. However, no marriage certificate has yet been found that proves they were married either.
Please explain how you are raised by a “single mom” who is married to a wealthy Indonesian oil executive and you live with the dude for six years?
soeBOBO is Muslim. Under Muslim law LOLO soeBOBO could have had four wives, but only had one wife. Which means instead of having up to four mothers, Barry soeBOBO had only a single mother.
Larry:
But you know what he’ll say that his father was not around between birth and age 4 –or whenever his mom married his step father–……
Yes, I know….
By the way, Michelle said the same thing recently on a TV interview as
explaining why BO could not be ” an elitist” ….
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Vote2008/story?id=5529046
Obama didn’t just live for several years with the wealthy step father, he then immediately went to live with BOTH of his upper middle class maternal grandparents who basically raised him. WHERE, EXACTLY, DOES THE POOR SINGLE MOM ENTER IN HERE? Yeah…WHEN WILL ANYONE IN THE MEDIA FINALLY TELL THIS GUY, “Excuse hour highness - but your epidermis is showing - the jig is up.”
Wait what about the even bigger lie. Its still all about him.
Nothing has changed.
Yes. Of all the things to report as his moral failing…we could have told him that! Nothing changed there.
DON’T EXPECT THE MEDIA TO TELL YOU WHAT YOU ALREADY KNOW ABOUT OBAMA.THEY ARE NOT GOING TO.SOME OF THEM SOLD THEMSELVES TO PRAISE HIM,TO MAKE HIM LOOK LIKE A SAINT.FORGET ABOUT THE MEDIA AND LET’S SPREAD THE NEWS OURSELVES
Well Sen. Obama stole a line from Rev. Rick warren book. “…. I realized that it is not about me…” The good Rev. laughed and said I like that, he did not get it that the joke was on him
Well it is nothing new, go figure, there is nothing original about him, it is anything he can copy, it is all words.
America wake up!
Q: How many narcissists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Only one. He holds the lightbulb and the world revolves around him.
Speaking of baldfaced lying, I am still waiting for the promised “whitey” tape. Where is it, Larry? Or don’t your lies stink?
Go to bed
Larry didn’t lie.
The smears at ‘fight the smears’ call Larry a liar but the ‘fight the smears’ site and you are the liars.
Larry said he would have NEWS at 0900, and he did.
ob’s site is smearing Larry and his trolls here keep repeating the lie that Larry ever said he had it or controlled it. Time Magazine heard about the tape a month before Larry ever mentioned it.
Don’t shoot the messenger if you don’t like the msg.
Half the democratic party will soon assume the position under the fleet of buses. Wes Clark and Charlie Rangel have emerged from under this mess of a new “little tent” (non-pragmatic not all inclusive) party led by authoritarian far left nut-jobs.
Those of us that have been run over will have a hell of a party under Axelrod’s bus axels.
The rest of them will be bowing and confessing their sins as they watch the sycophant army try in vain to support a puppet for president.
This must stop. As OUR Donna Brazile says “Stop the hate!” Stop the lies too.
btw, isn’t it sinful the way barky lied to the pastor?
tsk tsk, shame on him. McCain and I are at polar ends on some issues, but that he is a solid rock in a storm of confusion gives me comfort.
also btw - a long time friend from California who I haven’t spoken with this year, sent me an email yesterday to tell me she would be at the Saddleback event. I sent her back a brief letter with my take on this year, my support for Hill and distrust of ob and willingness to vote Mac. She sent me back a letter saying we were still soul sisters and she agreed with me completely. I was a liberal NY’er my whole life and she has been a longtime liberal Californian. And here we were both sure the one thing we couldn’t do is vote Dem this year for the first time ever.
That SHE isn’t voting for ob vindicated my feelings.
Left and Right coast liberals against ob, he is in DEEP doo-doo.
A friend of mine, former dem, Indy (after Kerry) was all for Obama when we spoke last spring. She is an AA professional woman, accordingly very excited at the prospect of a black president.
She just e-mailed me telling me how disgusted she is with his performance so far.
As is made perfectly clear by the part of the timeline you conveniently don’t quote, he lived with his separated/divorced mother for about 4 years, between the time “when he was two” (i.e., about 1963) to 1967 when she remarried. He then lived with his mother and stepfather for about 4 years before going to stay with his grandparents, and then moving on to college.
In other words, he was “raised by a single mother” for 4 years of his life, roughly equal in time to the period he spent with his mother and stepfather. He didn’t say he’d spent his entire childhood in that situation - he writes extensively in his books about his relationships with his biological father and his grandparents. But if you want to claim he was raised by his stepfather (he actually spent most of his formative years with his grandparents), it’s at least equally true he was raised by a single mother, having spent about the same amount of time in both environments.
You don’t even get the basic facts right from the text you yourself quoted: he didn’t live with his stepfather when he was four years old - his mother only married him four years after she separated from his biological father (when he was six years old), which in turn was only four years before he went to his grandparents’. That means he also didn’t “live with the dude for 6 years”, but only 4, the same length of time he had previously lived with his single mother.
Your reading comprehension is faulty, your facts are incorrect, and your comparison is lame, given that the experience you say doesn’t count is equal in time to the experience you say is definitive.
Don’t you know how this Wikipedia thing works?
He said, “raised by a single mother”……raised means until grown up. So you’re saying that as a 6 year old he was raised? Or grown up?
The guy with two first names, and all Obamabots, spend most of their waking hours grasping at straws.
Everytime I hear him say that he was raised by a single mother- I automatically think of his grandmother and wonder “why is he dissing his grandfather”??? I know his Tutu was the backbone of the family and the primary (only?) breadwinner, but he always had a father figure in the home. Why does he dismiss his grandfather so readily?
As long as you want accuracy, let’s be honest, we don’t know when his mother lived/married or separated from Barack Obama, Sr. and the current Barack Obama has not enlightened us.
We still don’t know how a teenager got from Hawaii to Washington state in possession of a two or three week old infant; or why her parents (or someone) would pay for an expensive flight (unless she had the baby on a boat) to Washington state to visit high school friends. Anyone who has been to Hawaii knows what a long uncomfortable flight that would be for someone who has just given birth. And he hasn’t even reached his first birthday yet!
One glaring problem with any timeline is that dates aren’t consistent and there are usually two (or more) years to choose from. First, there are two different years for his mother’s marriage to her second husband, and two different years and locations for his sister’s birth (Hawaii and Indonesia) which clouds the issue of when he returned to his grandparent’s home in Hawaii.
The only consistent dates in little Barry’s life is that faked birth certificate and that Indonesian school enrollment form! No verifiable paper trail exists. He can say he was born in Kansas and grew up on a farm just as easily as he can say he was born in Hawaii and was raised by a “single mom”. And the reality is that his sister was the child raised by a single mom after Mrs. Soertoro’s divorce from husband #2; which makes it seem that he has borrowed significantly more from his sister’s life than her birth certificate.
The number’s game may be relevant but you are demanding proof from the wrong people. Barry Soertoro/Barack Obama is the one you should be question about his constantly shifting timeline.
The only explanation that a teenage mother with a 2-week old baby would go to Washington is…that the baby is not yet born and she will give birth to Obamarama in British Columbia, Canada!
Where is that birth certificate. Ask B.C. friends. Obamarama’s half-sister Maya Soetoro-Ng is married to a CHINESE-CANADIAN with roots in B.C., Canada….the mystery should be solved quickly…need Sherlock Holmes on this case. But a Dr. Watson with a psychology degree would be a great assist….
Obama born in B.C. Canada…check records…
She’s Coming Baaaaa-aack!!!
Just when you thought Hillary Clinton was either bound and gagged in Barack Obama’s political crawlspace or onboard the Messiah’s bandwagon, signs that the Clinton political blowtorch is lighting up and ready to burn the house down in Denver are beginning to surface. Here are ten signs of a possible floor fight:
1. No Deal: Days before the mainstream media picked up on a video of Hillary at a rally expressing her desire to be placed on the ballot for “healing purposes”, PUMA website Just Say No Deal already had it on the front page. Coincidence? Leak? Never underestimate the power of the Clintons. Previous stories had been circulating that Hillary did not want her name on the ballot. This video corrected the error.
2. Michigan: In a state Obama cannot afford to lose, much has been written these past few days concerning the ties between jailed Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and Rev. Jeremiah Wright. The timing is curious. Kilpatrick’s arrest has already been covered, but for the first time, a connection to Obama is mentioned. Apparently, some footage exists of Kilpatrick introducing Wright at a NAACP function. Racial tensions in Michigan are among the worst in the country right now and the only reason the mayor has yet to be removed from office is best explained through the words of a Detroit councilwoman: “We don’t want a white governor removing our black mayor.” How utterly post-racial. Would the Republicans stoop to use such footage against Obama this fall? Would Hillary? You’d better believe it.
3. Colorado: Recent articles have been hinting at a possible GOP plan of attack in the coming weeks: Affirmative Action to be exact. In another state the Obama campaign is hoping to capture this fall, a civil rights initiative is being placed on the ballot that would basically put an end to preferential treatment to minorities. McCain supports it (just as he supports the initiative on the Arizona ballot) while Obama is firmly against it. Prohibition against discrimination? Why, that’s racist! No conspiracy theories here, but Obama should have fun explaining to the folks in Colorado exactly why equality is such a “divisive” issue. More Hillary ammunition just now getting some MSM coverage. She’s jotting this down in her notebook now.
4. The Leaked Hillary Memos: Just as Obama is gathering national attention for stalling in the polls in the year of the Democrats, the Clinton campaign seems to have misplaced about 200 memos calling Obama unelectable “except against Attila the Hun”, and it just so happens that Andrew Sullivan of Atlantic Monthly has found them. Lucky for the campaign, the memos didn’t fall into the wrong hands… like the New York Times.
5. “I Am Not a Racist”: John McCain may have cracked open the door when he accused the Obama campaign of playing the Race Card every five minutes against any and all opposition, but Bill Clinton kicked it through the wall by verifying that he too was a victim. Doesn’t exactly sound like a party loyalist to me. Still bitter? Try pissed.
6. Howard Wolfson: Hillary’s faithful attack dog comes out of the woodwork with this quote in reference to the mainstream media suppressing the Edwards scandal: “I believe we would have won Iowa, and Clinton today would therefore have been the nominee,” former Clinton Communications Director Howard Wolfson told ABCNews. Now what was the point of making that comment? Has his final paycheck not cleared? Or is he still on the payroll? Hmm.
7. Edwards Scandal/MSM Backlash: This may not be directly damaging to Obama, but with voters slowly beginning to realize that the mainstream media has been withholding damaging evidence against preferred Democratic candidates, one might suspect that there are untapped stories about Obama as well. Considering that Raila Odinga and ethnic cleansing in Kenya has yet to be brought to national attention, their suspicions would be correct. Surely, both Hillary and McCain are aware of this by now.
8. Primetime Convention Speeches: Bill and Hillary have landed two of the hottest primetime spots of the convention. Now, I may be stretching a bit here, but didn’t Bill just accuse Obama of playing the Race Card on him? Why do I doubt either of the Clintons will be able to deliver anything remotely close to an ass-kissing session? Everytime either one of them speaks, I look for smoke signals in the background or for their eyes blinking a Morse code message to the PUMAs. Call me a conspiracy nut, but you might want to make some popcorn for this convention.
9. Foreign Conflict: It has been widely noted that any international crisis will inevitably help John McCain. We now have two: Iran and Georgia. So while the McCain campaign is hitting hard on the fact that Barack Obama is nothing more than an empty-headed celebrity, world crises are brewing. Could Hillary Clinton help save the Democrats? Delegates might be wondering that right about now.
10. Old Jewish Women: Three strikes! Those are three major thorns in Obama’s side. Put them all together and you have one fierce PUMA. My favorite person in this category is a lady I chat with several times a week at a local coffee shop. Her name is Miss Criss. Criss had a vision that Hillary Clinton would take the Oath of Office. “In 2013?” I ask. “No, in 2009.” she still insists. Miss Criss swears up and down that Hillary Clinton will be the next President of the United States. And who am I to doubt her? She reads palms and cures pain with the heat of her fingertips, too.
One thing is for certain: win or lose, come August 26th, Hillary Clinton will be ready to pounce. All the signs are there.
Cali–GREAT essay!
Cali….. you da bomb! That was great!
One correction: the video with Hillary talking about the nomination was by a SF-PUMA (personally), and she released it immediately to Riverdaughter & JSND.
Not sure about the PUMA’s name actually: SIMOFISH-PUMA? Something like that.
“Everytime either one of them speaks, I look for smoke signals in the background or for their eyes blinking a Morse code message to the PUMAs.”
Callgirl: I will be looking for the smoke signals! Ha, ha, ha…love the image.
We must remember to remind Chris Matthews of what he said after New Hampshire: “I’ll never underestimate Hillary Clinton again.” Oh think of the joy of being able to rub his sexist nose in his own blather.
PUMA Power / We’ll Never Make A Deal With Obama
BTW, out of curiosity I just made my first (and only) visit to the Dailykos. Holy Politburo, Batman! Those kids are dull as dishwater…about the same grey matter as Huff and Puff.
Hey, you have been to the wrong Obama ralleys. If he is speaking to a black audience, then he does have a father from Kenya (fist-bump, “mind-you-bro’-I’m-a-brother”).
The “single mom, teenage mom” story-line is only for white audiences.
BTW, notice that his stepfather is never ever mentioned?
Yes, I have noticed that his rhetoric and style changes depending on the audience.
Good point about his stepfather. Considering the man legally adopted him one would think he’d be worth a mention.
I guess not.
I think “old man” McCain is smarter than he’s given credit for.
Notice he let Obama’s “I voted against the Iraq war” slide.
That could be another ad. McCain will point out, entirely truthfully, that Obama couldn’t have voted against the Iraq war. Obama wasn’t in the Senate at the time.
Talk about an ad that shows Obama re-writing history. The implication will be clear. What other history has Obama decided to ‘re-write’?
He wasn’t there to hear it–he was in the “Cone of Silence.”
They were interviewed separately.
I’m sure that McCain was thrilled once he saw Obama’s performance, though.
Great analogy…Omama as a tornado…
His spin is off the Fujita scale…
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Well what is new with this confused, blackmailed, controlled, compromised puppet. Barry THE LIAR Soetoro. Some morals!
The candidacy of Obama was one big social experiment by the DNC. The experiment has failed.
I recall at one point Obama also claimed that he and his mother were on food stamps. Obviously another misttement. Does anyone know if there’s a way to prove this?
McCain was great last night! Obama just gave more of the same old bull.
Yes, I already proved it and posted the information when he first said his single mother had raised him on foodstamps.
A Pilot program was begun in 1961 in West Virgina and ended in 1964.
Ann Dunham could not have participated unless she was eligible for a different Hawaii program that allowed her to live with her parents and/or alien husband yet still receive some form of subsidies from the government of Hawaii.
The Food Stamp program that replaced the Pilot Program in August 1964 would have been available to her for a short period of time since she was supposedly married to her second alien husband in 1965 and if alien students were allowed to receive them she would have had to report his assets along with her’s.
Supposedly her middle class parents were raising her son by 1971, making her ineligible to received foodstamps on him. If she did receive foodstamps, it would be a case of foodstamp fraud…but again, no papertrail to prove or disprove it (even though verification of information was absolute) - just Barack Obama’s word, which by now doesn’t seem to be worth much.
the question is when does barry tell the truth.
Next debate or some reporter with a camera just ask him:
Where Were You Born
Which Hospital were you Born in
Did Lolo Soetoro adopt you
continuing:
When you returned from Indonesia did you legally change your name. Have you ever legally changed your name? Has anyone ever done a legal name change on your behalf?
Have you ever and do you still hold citizenship in another country?
When you come back from Indonessia wasn’t your grandmother the Vice President of the Bank of Hawaii
Have you ever and do you still have more than one passport.
Why did your father come to Hawaii when you were 10?
Did you live in Seattle soon after you were born and for how long?
SOME ONE JUST GET HIS REAL HISTORY
No reporters will ask him any of the questions an average person would want to know at this point. Most reporters know they will lose their job in the backlash if BO doesn’t win.
This am on Meet the BO Fan Club ,Gregory tried to rehabilitate BO as best he could, with his surgical nurse Andrea Mitchell trying to clean up the blood.
Is there anything Obama does not lie about? If Obama were Pinocchio he would be sniffing moon dust by now.
Larry,
I have a neighbor, a police officer no less, who simply cannot tell the truth.
I have often wondered if he lies in court.
He is a jovial guy, and I really like him, but he tells the most outrageous lies, not to dodge his wife or stay out of trouble, he just lies!
What ever the subject, he was there first, did the most, was the best, and is the richest.
His in-laws bought his house for one! HA!
I noticed that Grandma, who he labeled as a typical white person to excuse Rev Wright’s racism was elevated to a wise person last night. The older female vote this spin is targeted to “were not born yesterday” and do not like Grandma being used.
His “gut wrenching” Iraq decision was only a way to get his anti war talking points in as he had no power at the time to affect the troops. His wrenching gut was only worried if his stance would hinder Obama becoming a US Senator.
His campaign contributors like “Doodad” and the boys in Gaza must be very disappointed today.
Another lie: his grandmother was a bank executive, and the school he attended from 5th grade-graduation is extremely high end. I had two friends in college who graduated from Punahou, and it’s top of the line. Someone should go and take some pictures of the school for an ad with a voice over: “Raised by a single mother on food stamps? How did he go to school here?”
Thus saeth Jake Tapper at Political Punch. http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/08/mccains-war-sto.html
The Obama fan are sure not happy this morning all they seem to be talking about is that McCain had the questions before time, or that he may have been listening to them that is why he was able to answer so fast and precise.
I guess its hard for them to wake up and realize that the old guy cleaned Obama’s clock last night, I think some may have underestimated McCain thinking he is not up to debates or question time since Obama is this great speaker of words and always have the audience hanging on his every word.
No wonder Obama has been running from debating with McCain, Obama sure did not come off well last night, they can say what they want or cry foul all they want Obama got taken to school, and McCain sure proved why he should be President of this nation.
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… more about Saddleback: are there still people around who marvel why Glibama avoids debates with McCain? What’s Glibama good at is doing teleprompter shticks, head turning left-right at every 5 seconds (once I counted this, he offered 25 profiles in courage in three minutes!), arm raised, pointing towards a luminous future - Jesus of Rio composition, anyone?
Then, remember how poor he did when debating Hillary - after her campaign (too late!) decided that an aggressive style is the right weay to control Obama’s slipperyness.
barry’s step dad was his sugar imam………
Barack Obama did NOT experiment with drugs.
BARACK OBAMA USED AND ABUSED DRUGS AND ALCOHOL.
Down with Obama. Long with the United States of America!
Ashamed of his stepfather?
Ashamed of his stepfather’s religion?
Ashamed of his own true identity?
He should be ashamed of himself.
You know I am pretty damn sick that the email addresses i used to get email from hillary are now bombarded with crap spam from the dnc and obama campaign that i cannot seem to stop-
i wish someone would find a way to hack these emails, grab alllll the email addresses (most of which are probably real obamabots) and send them details, facts, like this info about his lies and his real upbringing-
these ppl truly have no clue how much he lies
The only way Barry had a single mom is if she had never married Obama Sr. in the first place. HMMMMM…
Larry, he has been pushing this “single mother” thing from the very beginning. Especially during the primaries when he needed African-Americans to push him over the edge in several states. HIs mother had a PhD and not to mention the financial means that his mother and Soetoro had to be ABLE to fugging GET to Indonesia!!! There isn’t a single mother in the ghetto able to afford to get to Indonesia! We are watching one of the greatest con games ever. I was ecstatic that he at least admitted himself that his grandmother was a bank VP. I’m sure many an Obamazoid gasped in disbelief, but the information has been out there for months and months now. He was no poor destitute kid.
Anybody who watched the debate, unless mentally unhinged, would have to admit that John McCain, won the debate, If you will recall, that in each and every debate with Hillary Clinton she eat Obama’s lunch. Just imagine, this is a person who wants to sit down, with out pre- condition, with the heads of states that want to destroy the USA, and negotiate. If that does not scare the hell out of you, nothing will.
Poor Barack…it must have been tough being Barry:
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSJAK1873520080323?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=10003
it also says:
how is it such a shock? your dad was a goat herder in a tribe in Africa - , and your single mom on food stamps struggled so hard. this must mean that living with single mom in hawaii wasn’t as rough as you make it out to be.
oh, and mom gave her money freely? what money? her food stamps?
then he leaves there in 71 and goes back to hawaii to live with his vp pres of bank grandma to a private school.
poor poor barry.
He said he realized it wasn’t all about Me. He lied listen to the whole debate, it is “all” about him.
Unless you want Obama to be President, you need to focus on the ACORN organization and LaRaza. Acorn was busted in the last election for registering thousands of illegal voters and yet they continue their illegal activities. Maybe some attorney should look in to the RICO laws for organized crime. LaRaza with its stated purpose of returning the western U.S. to Mexico is involved with the same activities. That is not bad enough but Congress just forced President Bush into signing the housing bill. Most people don’t know that there were earmarks for millions of dollars for these two organiztions. Now we are paying them to screw us over. Now (according to AOL) the State of Ohio has made sure that Obama can use his normal back room tactics to ensure the electoral vote for Ohio by passing a law that allows for near instant registration to vote. Register one day, vote the next. He intends to haul in as many college students as he can at the last moment. This gives him a potential 600,000 vote edge that the Republicans can’t stop unless they act now. Contact anybody you know in the GOP and push them to act to stop the Ohio travesty and stop ACORN and LaRaza
BOO-HOO OBAMA YOUR GRANDMOTHER WAS vp of the lasrgest bank as well.
Never Obama
Conveention won’t help Obama in ueing Hilalry so he thinks we will fall in line.Oh no we will not we will vote McCain if it’s not Hillary..So take your tricks as well as Donna Braziles trick in thinking Hillary’s speech will help unity.no it won’t
Obama claims to be raised by his “single mom”?
Aside from cherry-picking his “facts”, this is nothing more than a slight-of-hand trick. The FULL fact is he was also raised by his Indonesian step dad, who’s obviously NOT white–this is the cherry-picking part. For those who are dumb, i.e. obamabots, cherry-picking is a form of LYING.
A slight-of-hand trick is here too since if one is not aware of the deliberate cherry-picking, then Barry is really saying he is WHITE. “WHITE AMERICA, LISTEN UP! I’M WHTIE. VOTE FOR ME, I’M ENTITLED!” (To borrow that race-baiting Father Flegger’s slander of Hillary.)
From poker or shell games, a slight-of-hand trick is done so fast that even if you’re closely watching a con man’s hands (in this case, listening to Obama’s words) the entire time, you still can’t see that he’s just pulled a fast one. Obama has excellent control of his language and words–particularly for machiavellian purposes of pulling the wool over people’s eyes.
Barack O’Bullshit always seems to go out of his way to forget to mention his dark skinned Kenyan relatives, particularly his father, even though one of his best selling memoirs was supposedly inspired by. He also goes out of his way NOT to mention his dark skinned Indonesian relatives, including his half-Indonesian sister.
He’s not just “talking white” as Nader correctly sees, nor just “talking down to blacks” as Jesse Jackson also correctly asserts, but he’s marketing himself as a WHITE guy.
On stage and in commercials, he constantly surrounds himself with folksy white folk. During primaries, it was white women. (NOTE: The corporate media was deliberately helping Obama with the white women’s vote by constantly portraying him the way he wanted to be portrayed in the pimaries wherein he was constantly introduced, hugged and kissed by white women. Now, the corporate media is helping McCain by increasingly showing Obama surrounded by blacks doing that “terrorist fist bump”. This was the plan all along.)
It was truly ironic that during the Pennsylvania Primary on MSNBC (probably Olbermann or on Hardball) a pundit citing a “scholar” said that Obama was being turned black by the Clinton campaign and the media. BULLSHIT. On the contrary, Obama turned Hillary and Bill into a pair of white-robed-wearing, noose-wielding, cross-burning Klansmen, effectively stealing the once loyal and adoring black vote from her. Since Hillary had no way of getting the black vote back for the primaries, she naturally had to make up the deficit by increasing all other demographics, notably amongst hispanics and whites. (Asians and probably Native Americans too also overwhelmingly supported Hillary–something the corporate media always tried to downplay as they were greedily helping Obama race-bait both Clintons, destroying the Clinton brand.)
Truth is Obama was playing the race/victim card to get both the black vote and liberal white vote. That is, to white liberals and African Americans, he was posing as the black Chicago community activist–who was naturally the victim of white racists, i.e Hillary, Bill, Geraldine Ferraro, Ed Rendell, etc. This component of his strategy was done by surrogates.
But to the working class whites, he was constantly portraying himself as the hardworking (not too black but underneath indeed truly) white guy from Kansas with a white “single mom” and white grandparents and white supporters. This component of his strategy, he did himself on stage and in TV ads which were conspicuously filled almost exclusively with LILY WHITE PEOPLE.
Obama loves to play good cop/bad cop. When asked is is Hillary or McCain playing the race-card, he always says no. But behind the scenes, it is THE CENTRAL PART of his strategy.
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Another such example of his incessant use of slight-of-hand tricks was his so-called “great race speech” vis-a-vis Jeremiah Wright. This speech was nothing more than THE GREAT RACE-BAIT speech.
The point about Jeremiah Wright was simply that Wright is a racist doucebag–and should have been condemned immediately, rather than defended. But some how, Obama pulled a “Don’t Mess With Texas!” He falsely and deliberately equated the condemnation of Wright and leaving Trinity Church to abandoning the black community or to throwing his “typical white” grandmother under the bus. BULLSHIT! NO ONE IS SUGGESTING THAT OBAMA ABANDON THE BLACK COMMUNITY, or disregard the deepest of family ties. EVERYONE ONLY WANTED HIM TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT AND THAT WAS SIMPLY TO CONDEMN RACIST BIGOTS like Wright.
With total moral clarity, Obama threw Don Imus under the bus–which was the right thing to do, when that scandal broke. Yet when it came to Wright, he defended Wright. All that initial garbage about “I condemn the words but not the man…” , was nothing more than an OUTRIGHT DEFENSE OF WRIGHT. THIS IS CLEARLY EVIDENCED BY THE FACT THAT ABOUT 6 WEEKS LATER, HE OUTRIGHT CONDEMNED WRIGHT AND ABOUT 2 WEEKS AFTER THAT, HE LEFT TRINITY CHURCH. W.r.t race, Wright was still saying the same hateful garbage, and Trinity was still the same church. The only thing that changed was that Wright was now openly calling Obama a typical pandering politician with no firm beliefs and who was just out to get votes–from whites.
Question: Why is it when he defends Wright, he dubiously links Wright and Trinity to the black community in general, in an inseparable way? Poor Barry, he can’t condemn Wright, b’coz that means he would be condemning all of black America, i.e. “DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS! And certainly, DON’T MESS WITH BLACKS!” But when he flat out condemn’s Wright as someone who “exploits the divisions of the past” (i.e. Wright’s a race-baiter), then suddenly there is now NO connection with the black community at large? And naturally Barack O’Bullshit’s throwing of Wright and Trinity under the bus is therefore now NOT an abandoning the black community. WTF?!?
Recall that in 2000, Bush pulled his “Don’t mess with Texas!” line, i.e. slight-of-hand scam, when Gore was trashing Bush’s policies in Texas. “Don’t mess with Texas!” brazenly implied that Gore was trashing not Bush’s policies, but Texas and Texans themselves!!!!
Thus, when Obama brazenly equated both Wright and Trinity to the black community in general, he was saying: “White people of America, listen up! To condemn Wright and Trinity is RACIST!” Nevermind that both Wright and Trinity are without question racist to begin with. THIS IS PURE AND UNADULTERATED RACE-BAITING OF THE MOST MACHIAVELLIAN KIND.
If that is not grotesque enough, then also keep in mind so much of the mythical Obama legend which not only willfully ignorant African Americans but naive Starbucks-latte-drinking white liberals so deeply cherish, comes directly from this GREAT RACE-BAIT SPEECH. Naturally, the bots still see that dubious and self-serving speech as “the great race speech”. Naturally, they also think “typical white person” doesn’t violate Dr. King’s wisdom: “Judge a man by the content of his character, rather than then color of his skin.”
Another one of my favorite Obama slight of hand tricks was his “I wan’t to bring change… I don’t take money from oil companies!” The implication here is that everyone else does, i.e all those corrupt white politicians do, and in particular, Hillary does. The problem? As Bill Clinton pointed out, nobody does. It’s been illegal to take money from oil companies for 100 years. “I don’t take money from oil companies is is a loaded claim–as brazen as it is dubious. If the subtext is race, then Obama is saying that only I, the black man, will not take money from oil companies, unlike those corrupt whites, unlike Hillary–only I can bring change to Washington.
Once again, Obama plays the race card in a very subtle way that flies right under-the-radar for those who don’t pay attention. Because the subtext of the primary process is also gender, he was actually also gender baiting, since he was running ads with this loaded claim when only He and Hillary were both in the race.
Again, Obama is quite the slippery bullshit artist.
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Besides cherry-picking (or telling half-truths) and slight-of-hands tricks, Obama also incessantly engages in other forms of lying such as flip-flopping and bait-n-switch, non-sequitur logic and so on.
The best liars include elements of truth in their lies. Similarly, the best flip-floppers leave wiggle room. Lies which don’t include elements of truth are easily picked out thereby easily exposing the liar. This is why the best liars include elements of truth. Duh!
Now, when it comes to flip-flopping, wiggle room (or the “fine print”, if you will) is the key successfully pulling the wool over people’s eyes: For if and when people accuse you of flip-flopping, you can always condescendingly say, “Hey, you weren’t listening. I did say that we should always listen to the commanders on the ground in Iraq, did I not?” Or you can also condescendingly say: “My position of public financing has always been consistent since I’ve always maintained that the most corrupting influence in campaigns is from oil companies and lobbyists.” [Paraphrasing both times.]
I think Aldoph Reed put it best when he commented on Obama’s incessant lying, which also applies to his incessant flip-flopping and incessant lying about never flip-flopping: “Obama’s style of being all things to all people threatens to melt under the inescapable spotlight of a national campaign against a Republican. It’s like what brings on the downfall of really successful con artists: They get themselves onto a stage that’s SO BIG that they can’t hide their contradictions anymore, and everyone finds out about the different stories they’ve told different people.”
Source: http://www.progressive.org/mag_reed0508
Wow!
Did you hear Rev. Rick’s MOCKING OBAMA’S SELFISHNESS ON-AIR WITH APPLAUSE from the congegants?!
Obablabla was going on and on uh and uh and uh about Himself and Himself and said:
“Well, uh uh I realized when I was growing up that this isn’t about ME”! — at which point the Rev. Rick stopped him…”it isn’t about You!”
and the audience started applauding!
What a humiliation for Oblama! PERFECT COMEBACK BY REV. RICK!
God bless Rick!
Wow!
Did you hear Rev. Rick’s MOCKING OBAMA’S SELFISHNESS ON-AIR WITH APPLAUSE from the congegants?!
Obablabla was going on and on uh and uh and uh about Himself and Himself and said:
“Well, uh uh I realized when I was growing up that this isn’t about ME”! — at which point the Rev. Rick stopped him…”it isn’t about You!”
and the audience started applauding!
What a humiliation for Oblama! PERFECT COMEBACK BY REV. RICK!
God bless Rick!
He will fit right in DC
Obama and Michelle Obama are both frauds. Those kids will be taught to do the same. We have nothing but the same Washington insiders in D.C. Obama will say, do, and write anything to make himself look good. People in America will regret voting for him. Overseas countries are already making fun of him. He is not going to be able to solve America’s problem. Hell, he cannot solve his own issues. America is already in a recession. Once he takes the helms we will go into a deeper recession. I guess ignorant is as ignorant does. America’s problems will be solved, by American people becoming responsible, involved, and moral, concerned, and ethical.