Does Barack Obama Ever Stop Lying?
By Sister ToldjahAdd another one to the list:
Sen. Barack Obama, the leading Democratic candidate for his party's nomination, is very fond of telling receptive audiences the story about how last May he walked right into the automotive lion's den of Detroit and told those industrialists they were going to have to shape up, change the way they do things and start making more fuel-efficient vehicles to protect our environment.
"And I have to say," the straight-talking Obama tells his chuckling followers, "that when I delivered that speech, the room got really quiet. [Laughter] Nobody clapped."
Well, in honor of Obama's return campaign visit back to Michigan this week, someone -- perhaps Republicans, perhaps someone closer to home politically -- assembled videotape of Obama's oft-told tale and spliced it side by side with videotape of that actual Detroit speech.
You'll never guess what. The room wasn't quiet at all. Obama, in fact, got a loud round of applause. And at the end of his address the camera's view of him at the podium is partially blocked because the audience of local businesspeople and automotive executives was rising to give him a standing ovation.
You can view the video at that same link (I'm having trouble pulling it up here). Obama made similar remarks at the campaign stop he made here in Charlotte a couple of weeks ago.
Ed nails it:
This seems rather modest in comparison to the Tuzla Dash, however. In that instance, Hillary tried to fake physical courage of the kind shown by our troops in battle, a theft of honor that is particularly despicable. Afterwards, she compounded the error by dragging out witnesses to testify to her version of events and call everyone else liars. When clear evidence showed that she did not run to shelter but strolled across the tarmac to a welcoming ceremony -- with her teenage daughter! -- Hillary never apologized for her double-down, attributing the lie to "sleep deprivation" even though she had told the story for months.
Obama's ovation hardly rises to that level of egregiousness. He could argue that it took a little courage to talk about mileage mandates in Detroit, but he was talking to an audience of supporters, not car-manufacturer executives. Obama also was couching the mandates as an exchange for some hefty corporate welfare, actually closer to a de facto tradeoff for government-run health care. That's not exactly a Profile in Courage, and it's not surprising that he got a standing ovation rather than chirping crickets.
This isn't any different than Obama's BS claim that it "took courage" to give an anti-Iraq war speech in October of 2002 ... especially when you consider the fact that not only did he give it in front of an anti-war group, but contrary to his claim that he was in a contentious Senate race at the time of speech, in reality he didn't even enter the race until January 2003. And his latest lie isn't much different from the one he told about his family's alleged Kennedy connections, also.
I could go on and on. This so-called "agent of change" is a proven serial exaggerator and liar, and yet he's still being given a pass by his many fawning admirers in the MSM.
Oh, and get this: Later this afternoon or evening, we'll all get the chance to read about Obama's "official" response to Bush's remarks in a campaign speech he'll be giving in South Dakota. Isn't this a trip? Every time the heat gets a little too hot for the The Man Who Loves To Hear Himself Talk, he has to give a big speech as though what he says should be the final word on the subject. He did it with his phoney Philadelphia speech on race, which he directly contradicted a month later, and he'll be making this speech in an effort to get us all to "move on" from this latest "distraction."
Will he be contradicting himself over this one in a couple of months, too? I'm breathless with anticipation.