Obama Is Not a “Flip Flopper” - He Is, Flat Out, a Liar

Of course, in reProgressive double-speak, that’s called nuance.
Obama the Un-America

The ad begins with the announcer telling us that Obama “worked his way through college and Harvard Law.” Actually, Obama took out loans to get himself through college, as we heard in a 60-second ad his campaign began running last month. We don’t know how much assistance his family provided.

But “worked his way” through college and law school? The only back-up the campaign provided for this claim was a quote from Obama’s book “Dreams from My Father” having to do with a construction job he had one summer while he was in college, and an article mentioning his job as a summer associate one year at a big Chicago law firm. We asked campaign spokesman Tommy Vietor if Obama held jobs during the school year, or other summer jobs, but he said only, “He had the two jobs I told you about.” Unless Obama had a good bit more employment than his spokesman was able to describe for us, it’s a real stretch to claim he “worked his way” through school.
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The ad claims Obama “passed a law to move people from welfare to work, slashed the rolls by 80 percent.” That’s going too far. First, the law in question wasn’t dreamed up out of thin air by its sponsors. It was the follow-up to the welfare reform act, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, that President Clinton signed on Aug. 26, 1996. That law gave states the ability to design their own welfare programs as long as they met certain federal requirements, including limits on how long recipients could get benefits. The bill that Obama cosponsored was Illinois’ version.

And far from having “passed” the bill single-handedly, Obama was among five Senate sponsors of the measure, as we said previously. It was passed by both chambers of the Illinois Legislature and signed into law by the governor.
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4 Responses to “Obama Is Not a “Flip Flopper” - He Is, Flat Out, a Liar”

ligneus1 July 5th, 2008 at 1:10 pm

“Flat out a liar”. I like it. Yep, call a spade a spade. Oops!

And the trouble with liars is that you can never know when they’re telling the truth. This is the problem with a Muslim upbringing, it’s OK to lie, no moral ambiguity there, all is excused to advance the cause. Not quite the right sort of chap to follow in the footsteps of George Washington, but then since he wasn’t brought up to be an American he wouldn’t know about that. There’s a good reason that the foreign born aren’t allowed to run for Pres. and he’s about as foreign born as you can get without being legally so.

zee July 5th, 2008 at 3:04 pm

This is the problem with a Muslim upbringing, it’s OK to lie, no moral ambiguity there, all is excused to advance the cause.

I think that is why muslims aren’t giving him a harder time for “ignoring” them. They recognize taqiyyah when they see it. Check out the two videos I posted on Obama’s Kenyan family. Al Jazeera describes them as muslim a few times

billy July 6th, 2008 at 11:33 am

i guess he passed a law that enabled him to ignore his student loan repayments too. does it really matter when the work was done?– if this is the best that you can do to call him an outright liar- then you don’t have much– and the strange thing about lying is– drumroll please– everybody does it– including you!

ligneus1 July 6th, 2008 at 11:57 am

billy - and the strange thing about lying is– drumroll please– everybody does it– including you!

Well you just speak for yourself old buddy. I pity you the circles you move in if that’s the prevailing ethic. Thing is Obama’s either lying or he’s stupid, has to be one or the other, take your pick, either way he’s not fit to be POTUS.

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