All things are the same, except for the differences - more Obama lies

More Obama Lies the Media Will Ignore, at Stop the ACLU

In a speech to a Selma, Alabama crowd meant to pump up his civil-rights movement authenticity and his Kennedy Camelot image, Barack Obama claimed that the Kennedy administration paid for his Kenyan father to travel to America on a student scholarship and therefore was responsible for his "very existence". However, the first march on Selma took place on March 7, 1965. Obama would have been about three and half years old at that time. For some reason the media never did the math on this. There were more lies as well: The Washtington Post Fact Checker delves deeper.

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 spokesman Bill Burton acknowledged yesterday that the senator from Illinois had erred in crediting the Kennedy family with a role in his father’s arrival in the United States. He said the Kennedy involvement in the Kenya student program apparently “started 48 years ago, not 49 years ago as Obama has mistakenly suggested in the past.”

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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.

NewsBusters has a link to the video of Obama's speech.

All of the above brings us back to "The Audacity of Rhetoric", By Thomas Sowell,
The Washington Times, March 30, 2008, where he says, "It is painful to watch defenders of Barack Obama tying themselves into knots trying to evade the obvious."

Some are saying that Senator Obama cannot be held responsible for what his pastor, Jeremiah Wright, said. In their version of events, Barack Obama just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time — and a bunch of mean-spirited people are trying to make something out of it.

It makes a good story, but it won’t stand up under scrutiny.

Barack Obama’s own account of his life shows that he consciously sought out people on the far left fringe. [snip]

Obama didn’t just happen to encounter Jeremiah Wright, who just happened to say some way out things. Jeremiah Wright is in the same mold as the kinds of people Barack Obama began seeking out in college — members of the left, anti-American counter-culture.

In Shelby Steele’s brilliantly insightful book about Barack Obama — “A Bound Man” — it is painfully clear that Obama was one of those people seeking a racial identity that he had never really experienced in growing up in a white world. He was trying to become a convert to blackness, as it were — and, like many converts, he went overboard. [snip]

Since all things are the same, except for the differences, and
different except for the similarities, it is always possible to make things look similar verbally, however different they are in the real world.

Go read it all, you really MUST. Also at Townhall. Interesting comments at FreeRepublic.

Also see: L.A. Times Article on Obama-Wright Controversy Downplays the Most Damning Details

Other reading:
Debbie Schlussel: "Islamic Outreach" Run Amok: Entire U.S. Attorney's Office Recused From Hanooti Iraqi Spy Case

Comments

[Debbie]

KAK, it does look that way. They all seem to say whatever they think might get them elected.

MK, that's good, they can all claim they "mispoke", like that's going to make any difference. A lie is a lie, no matter who says it.

Aurora: I think that is the way with many voters. They pick a candidate and blindly follow him/her no matter what.

Euro Yank: I hope you feel better now, getting that off your chest. I always love an intelligent debate from the other side.

[KAK]

It does matter what he says or does Aurora, They(politicians) are all liars to some degree,their biggest fault is they try to tell each of us what we want to hear, none can be worse than Bush. Unfortunately for us we Americans have to decipher who the least prone to lie is, that is the state of our presidential politics. Obama has my support and largely because I know he is the lesser liar(sad but true). Obama represents a HOPE for change, Republican Candidates represent same old same old. Republican = Millionaire or Suck ass Sucker!

[EuroYank]

I see you are a typical Republican dumb ass!

[Aurora]

Debbie, the followers of this man are so desperate. IT doesn't matter what he says or does, they will try to talk themselves in circles to excuse him. It's absolutely insane. No rational thought at all!

[MK]

So can Obama say that he 'misspoke'. When will liberals ever get it, telling lies will only end up biting you in the ass one day. But then again their ideology won't be able to make it around the block without dishonesty and lies.