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ayers and obama confirm that obama lied

By American Girl in Italy on November 14, 2008 at 9:45 PM in Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., William Ayers

(bumped up by NoQuarter)

It seems pointless to point out the obvious, especially when the majority of the country apparently doesn’t care if their Presidential Candidate lies to them, but I must follow up, anyway.

“In a new afterword to his memoir, 1960s radical William Ayers describes himself as a “family friend” of President-elect Barack Obama and writes that the campaign controversy over their relationship was an effort by Obama’s political enemies to “deepen a dishonest narrative” about the candidate.”

Ayers summarized his relationship with Obama: “[W]e had served together on the board of a foundation, knew one another as neighbors and family friends, held an initial fund-raiser at my house, where I’d made a small donation to his earliest political campaign.”

Obama had dismissed Ayers as “a guy who lives in my neighborhood” and “somebody who worked on education issues in Chicago that I know.”

Also, Obama, during the final debate with John McCain, said flat out, when McCain said that Ayers kicked off his political career in his living room, that it was a lie. But yet, Ayers states quite clearly that he held an “initial fundraiser at his house, where I’d made a small donation to his earliest political campaign.”

So, what about that is untrue, according to Obama? As I see it, Obama lied repeatedly to the American people about their relationship. From the very first debate to the very last.

Now that Obama is the President Elect, Ayers feels free to discuss his relationship with Obama, and has now confirmed what many of us have been saying for months, Obama and Ayers are friends, and Ayers kicked off Obama’s political career in his living room.

This matters to me, because I find it interesting that someone who wants to be President of the United States, feels so comfortable *palling around with domestic terrorists*. I certainly wouldn’t be friends with a guy who bombed the Pentagon, or Capital, or family homes.

What is the difference between Timothy McVeigh and the Weather Underground? McVeigh bombed as revenge against what he considered to be a tyrannical federal government. Isn’t that the same excuse the Weather Underground used?

Ayers, listens to Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. speak at Northwestern University during an event hosted by Northwestern’s Black Student Alliance.

Which brings me to another Obama lie. I know, you don’t care, but I do.

When the Reverend Wright tapes surfaced, Obama lied and said that he never heard those inflammatory remarks. When people questioned him, how he could attend a church and NEVER hear those kinds of remarks, he then came out and admitted that he heard a few of those controversial remarks. Then he gave his famous *race speech* and started a massive backtracking of how often he actually attended the church. But, as most of us knew, he used to claim that he attended Church every Sunday at 11am. And now, an old interview has revealed as much.

“President-elect Barack Obama said in 2004 – while he was a state legislator running for a U.S. Senate seat – that he attended services at Trinity United Church of Christ every week.

This is in contrast to what Obama, as a presidential candidate, said this year after controversial anti-American remarks by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright surfaced. Obama then told news outlets that he did not attend the church frequently and was not aware of Wright’s comments.

The comments from Obama about his church attendance appeared in the transcript of an interview posted Tuesday on the religious news Web site Beliefnet.com. The interview was conducted on March 27, 2004 by Chicago Sun-Times religion writer Cathleen Falsani for a story on Obama’s faith, but the interview was not released in its entirety until now.

“One of the churches that I became involved in was Trinity United Church of Christ,” Obama said in the interview. “And the pastor there, Jeremiah Wright, became a good friend. So I joined that church and committed myself to Christ in that church.”

Obama began attending the church in 1988 and formally joined Trinity in 1992. Falsani asked, “Do you still attend Trinity?”

Obama answered, “Yep. Every week. 11 o’clock service. Ever been there? Good service.
I actually wrote a book called ‘Dreams from My Father,’ it’s kind of a meditation on race. There’s a whole chapter on the church in that, and my first visits to Trinity.”

That is in direct contradiction to what he has said throughout this campaign year.

After the controversy over Wright and Trinity United erupted, Obama gave an interview to the Fox News Channel that aired on March 17. One of the questions that reporter Major Garrett asked was, “As a member in good standing, were you a regular attendee of Sunday services?”

Obama answered: “You know, I won’t say that I was a perfect attendee. I was regular in spurts, because there was times when, for example, our child had just been born, our first child. And so we didn’t go as regularly then.”

In a July 21, 2008 Newsweek article, Obama explained that he stopped going to church as often after he and wife Michelle had children.

“As young marrieds, Barack and Michelle (who also didn’t go to church regularly as a child) went to church fairly often—two or three times a month. But after their first child, Malia, was born, they found making the effort more difficult. ‘I don’t know if you’ve had the experience of taking young, squirming children to church, but it’s not easy,’ he says.

“‘Trinity was always packed, and so you had to get there early. And if you went to the morning service, you were looking at—it just was difficult. So that would cut back on our involvement.’”

So, Obama stated in 2004, that he attended Church every Sunday and we are supposed to believe that he *never* heard any of those inflammatory comments? Or, as he admitted later, that he heard a few of them?

I don’t know if Obama agrees that the US government created AIDs to kill off African Americans, and I don’t know if he thinks we are the US of KKKA, and I don’t know if he thinks that our chickens came home to roost on 9/11. But I do know that I wouldn’t have stayed and listened to those comments, for 20 years. And I do know that I would not feel comfortable staying in a church that preaches hate.

Maybe it’s like Congressman Nadler said, Obama didn’t have the political courage to walk out of Wright’s church? But as a woman on the tape asked, will he have the political courage about other tough issues?

Another such issue is the issue of his Aunt. Again, Obama has lied. He said he didn’t know she was here illegally, but then we found out that was a big fat lie. He said that his aunt should be deported, because we are a nation of laws, and he is a believer in obeying the law. But then we find out that he is for obeying the law, as long as it is not involving him…

“According to my sources, the Bush administration issued a 72-hour cease-and-desist order to all fugitive apprehension teams to spare Obama embarrassment over his Kenyan half-aunt, Zeituni Onyango. The Associated Press had reported on Nov. 1 that Onyango was a deportation evader – one of an estimated 700,000 illegal alien absconders who have ignored orders from immigration judges to leave the country. The wire report mentioned that the Department of Homeland Security distributed “an unusual nationwide directive within Immigrations and Customs Enforcement requiring any deportations prior to Tuesday’s election to be approved at least at the level of ICE regional directors.”

But the politicized order was even worse than the AP reported. The deportation process wasn’t simply slowed down for public relations reasons and fear of a media backlash. The process was completely frozen.”

I am not sure where my focus will be moving forward. I don’t intend to be an anti-obama bash fest. I want our country to do well, and I hope he is successful. But I am not going to ignore his flaws, either.

These are three stories I have been writing about, and feel it necessary to follow up. I thought Obama was a liar then, and I still do. And that, to me, is a major blow against his judgment and character.

I will play it by ear moving forward, but will most likely focus on Women’s issues, and sexism, and the progress of our new President, as well as current relevant topics that spark my interest. I am in a *recovery period* for now, so bare with me. :O)