Senator Obama claims he’s had it right all along about Iraq, thus we need trust his judgment. His “judgment”, when it comes to truth-telling, continues to be suspect…
So the Kennedys decided ‘we’re going to do an airlift. We’re going to go to Africa and start bringing young Africans over to this country and give them scholarships to study so they can learn what a wonderful country America is.’ This young man named Barack Obama got one of those tickets and came over to this country. He met this woman whose great-great-great-great-grandfather had owned slaves…. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born.
– Barack Obama, during a speech commemorating the 42nd anniversary of the Selma civil rights march
But what would a Democrat presidential candidate speech be without the justified need for fact checking?
According to the Washington Post,
Contrary to Obama’s claims in speeches in January at American University and in Selma last year, the Kennedy family did not provide the funding for a September 1959 airlift of 81 Kenyan students to the United States that included Obama’s father. According to historical records and interviews with participants, the Kennedys were first approached for support for the program nearly a year later, in July 1960. The family responded with a $100,000 donation, most of which went to pay for a second airlift in September 1960.
Obama’s Selma speech offers a very confused chronology of both the Kenya student program and the civil rights movement. Relating the story of how his parents met, Obama said: “There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Junior was born. So don’t tell me I don’t have a claim on Selma, Alabama.”
After bloggers pointed out that the Selma bridge protest occurred four years after Obama’s birth, a spokesman explained that the senator was referring to the civil rights movement in general, rather than any one event.
Why do these people repeatedly have to lie about THEMSELVES? Is their self-esteem so low that they have to prove just how much better they are, compared to “ordinary people”, as Barack consistently refers to us as?
Hillary Clinton says her mother named her after Sir Edmund Hillary, who it turns out didn’t gain his fame as the first to conquer Mount Everest until she was six and named. Bill Clinton claimed to know of black churches that burned in Hope, Arkansas during his youth, while a state historian responded by reminding us that no black churches burned in the whole state during that time.
When the left lies defending themselves from conservatives, it’s expected they circle-the-wagons. But when liberals lie to liberals, they act all shocked….
Hillary and the “sniper fire”, Obama not being in the pews during Reverend Wright’s fiery speeches (but later admitting he was), and it never seems to end. Now either these people are totally arrogant, pathological liars, or both. Unfortunately until there is a serious drop in polling data after one of these delivered whoppers, and Democrats stop spinning the embellished, these “stories” will continue to freely flow out of their mouths.
And they want to be president. Scary stuff, huh?
When Barack says he would have never taken the United States into Iraq in the first place, and Hillary says she wouldn’t have either had she’d known then what she knows now, it makes you wonder what the real truth behind their political proclamations are…?
They make those mistakes because they are told what to say by ‘focus groups’ and ‘campaign managers’. Politicians lead a sheltered life with their supporters and ‘yes men’.They have no personal knowledge on any subject and the gaffes they make are evidence of their ignorance.
you can fool some people all of the time and all of the people some of time
Mr. Parks, once again, I salute you for this insightful article. Quite a few years ago, some fellow suggested that we judge people by the “content of their character”. I think he was right then and never more so than this election cycle. As a white and happily married father who also happens to be an expat Mississippian, I would like to see us elect a black president. It would show the world, and ourselves, that we can overcome a sordid past and give full recognition to the fact that “people are people”. Herman Cain, Michael Steele, J.C, Watts and a host of capable and well-qualified others come to mind. Bringing this about from the “right side” will be difficult, as you know, but wouldn’t it be great? Keep shooting straight. Some of us are getting your message.
Mr Parks, thank you.