Obama Lies
The Obama lies and the facts that correct him. This is the theme of the a new web page launched by the McCain team.
Who's to say how effective it will be. The MSM will certainly ignore it and say that everything negative about Obama was "taken out of context". You can call it Ostrich Journalism.
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Mr. Obama has continually said that 95 percent of voters won't be affected by his tax plan. A closer look shows that he refers to 95 percent of people WHOSE BUSINESSES make over $250k.
Let me make sure I understand. That means about 95 percent of small BUSINESSES will be taxed to death by an Obama administration.
AND THE MEDIA HAVE BEEN LETTING HIM GET AWAY WITH THIS LIE.
Where are the Truth Police? Somebody better call them ... NOW!
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Written By John Barnhart of www.barnhartblog.com
One cannot write a series about Barack Obama without touching on the issue of religion. I still receive emails each week either defending his Christianity or attacking him as a Muslim.
One side says he is a Christian and that he is not now, nor has he ever been a Muslim; the other side says once a Muslim, always a Muslim.
To those on the right who are trying to equate all Muslim’s with the terrorists of radical Islam, shame on you, not all Muslims are radicals. To those on the left who are trying to gloss over and lie about Barack Obama’s past because they are fearful of the implications his being a Muslim many years ago might have, shame on you too.
For the record, Barack Obama is a Christian who believes in and practices a variation called Black Liberation Theology. It is a major break from the more traditional Church of Christ doctrine taught in 99% of the churches in his denomination, but it is indeed a version of Christian theology.
With that said, Barack Obama was at one time in his life a Muslim. As much as he or others want to try to distort, deny or ignore it, there are official documents which confirm it, his past teachers have confirmed it, his relatives have confirmed it, reporters have confirmed it and his own books confirm it.
While on the stump he stopped in at a local eatery in a town called Pleasantville where Obama was asked about his religious beliefs by an elderly voter, he responded "I've always been a Christian, I have never practiced Islam."
What bothers me is that he feels the necessity to lie about his previous status as a Muslim. I don't have a problem with him ever being a Muslim, I have a problem his decision to lie about it, his attempts to try and hide it, and the mainstream media refuses to press him as to why is he lying.
When reading or listening to his autobiography "Dreams from My Father” he clearly states that he studied the Quran. While in Jakarta, Indonesia he was enrolled in two different schools, the first one he attended was Islamic, the other was Catholic, but the records at both schools identify his religion as Islam.
Obama was born in 1961; in 1971 at the age of ten he was enrolled at Besuki Primary School under the name “Barry Soetoro” and his school records identify his religion as Islam, he was a student there for two years.
While there, Tine Hahiyary was one of his teachers and the Principal clearly remembers “Barry [Obama] practiced his Mengaji”, which is the recollection and recitation of the Quran in Arabic.
One of his classmates, Rony Amiris, specifically recalls that “Barry [Obama] was previously quite religious in Islam. His birth father, Barack Hussein Obama was a Muslim economist from Kenya. Before marrying Ann Dunham, Hussein Obama was married to a woman from Kenya who had seven children. All the relatives of Barry's father were very devout Muslims.”
Another classmate, Emirsyah Satar, said “Barry [Obama] was often found in the prayer room” and Barack Obama’s half sister Maya is quoted as saying that “when the family attended communal religious events at the Mosque he [Obama] would occasionally follow his father inside for Friday prayers.”
Nicholas Kristof is a well educated and well traveled New York Times Op-Ed writer and an author of several books about the ever changing economic conditions in Asia, specifically China and Japan. Mr. Kristof conducted an interview with Obama which appeared in the New York Times. During the interview Barack Obama said this “the morning call to prayer is one of the prettiest sounds on Earth." Kristof later remarked “Obama recited the morning call to prayer known as the Adhan, with a first class Arabic accent.”
Below are the words of the Adhan in Arabic and in English:
Allahu Akbar
Allah is Great
(said four times)
Ashhadu an la ilaha illa Allah
I bear witness that there is no God except the One God (Allah).
(said two times)
Ashadu anna Muhammadan Rasool Allah
I bear witness that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.
(said two times)
Hayya 'ala-s-Salah
Hurry to the prayer (Rise up for prayer)
(said two times)
Hayya 'ala-l-Falah
Hurry to success (Rise up for Salvation)
(said two times)
Allahu Akbar
Allah is Great
[said two times]
La ilaha illa Allah
There is no God except the One God (Allah)
Barack Obama has the right to be Christian, Jewish, Mormon, Muslim or even an Atheist but as a candidate for President lying about his religious conversion is wrong. In Barack Obama’s own words he has said "I've always been a Christian, I have never practiced Islam” but that statement is not the truth.
Barack Obama’s statement denying his past religious experience as a Muslim is the equivalent of President George W. Bush saying this about his potential past drug use “We had some pretty wild parties back in the day and I just don’t remember” or former President Bill Clinton saying this about his potential past drug use, “when I was in England I tried marijuana a time or two but I didn't like it, I never inhaled, and I never tried it again.”
Why doesn’t Barack Obama want to admit that at some point in his life he experienced a religious conversion?
Most people who convert from one religion to another use their experience as part of their testimony.
Is Barack Obama ashamed of his Christian witness and testimony, or does he fear that some people will wrongly associate him with radical Islam?
Whatever the reason is, if Barack Obama finds it so easy to lie about something as deeply personal as his religious conversion from Islam to Christianity, voters should ask themselves and the media should ask him, what else is he lying about?
© 2008 John Barnhart www.barnhartblog.com - All Rights Reserved Reproduction of Blog commentary is authorized when used in proper context and if proper credit is provided. All images are the property of their respective creators or owners.
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For Immediate Release Contact: Press Office Tuesday, April 8, 2008 703-650-5550
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT:
Sen. Lindsey Graham Calls On Barack Obama To Condemn Rockefeller Attack Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
Interview On Fox News' "America's Pulse"
April 8, 2008 SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM: "I hope Senator Obama will comment on this. I hope he will step up to the plate and say, 'You know whatever differences I have with Senator McCain, this is out of bounds. I don't question his humanity.' You know, John McCain was a fighter pilot assigned his missions by the United States Navy and I can't think of a more noble thing to do for your country than to fight for freedom and to serve in uniform. So John will move on, but I hope Obama will comment on this." Watch Sen. Lindsey Graham On Fox News' "America's Pulse"
Obama Claims He Is Not Distorting Sen. McCain's "100" Years Remark, Even As He Continues To Do So ______________________________________________________________________ Click Here To View Obama's Distortions Today, Obama Claimed He Has Been Accurately Re-Stating Sen. McCain's "100 Years" Comment: Obama Told The Today Show's Meredith Vieira That He Has Not Distorted Sen. McCain's Comments. Vieira: "Senator, both you and Senator Clinton have said Senator McCain favors 100 more years of war in Iraq. Sunday in The New York Times Frank Rich wrote, really, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton should be ashamed of themselves for libeling John McCain. He felt that the American troops should be a long-term presence, the way they were in Japan and South Korea. Are you willing to admit that you've distorted his statements?" Obama: "No. that's not accurate. We can pull up the quotes on You Tube." (NBC's "The Today Show," 4/8/08) Yesterday, Obama Chief Strategist Said Obama Hasn't Charged That Sen. McCain Wants 100-Year War In Iraq: Obama Chief Strategist David Axelrod: "Senator Obama hasn't said that Senator McCain said we would be at war for 100 years..." (MSNBC's "Morning Joe," 4/7/08) But As Recently As This Weekend, Obama Has Repeatedly Charged That Sen. McCain Wants 100-Year War In Iraq: Obama On Saturday: "[McCain] wants to continue this war in Iraq maybe for another 100 years." (Bonney Kapp, "Obama Campaign: 'McCain Is Not A Warmonger'," Fox News' "Embeds" Blog, www.foxnews.com, 4/5/08) Numerous Media Outlets Agree That Democrats Have Mischaracterized Sen. McCain's Position: The New York Times' Frank Rich: "Really, Barack Obama And Hillary Clinton Should Be Ashamed Of Themselves For Libeling John McCain." "Really, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton should be ashamed of themselves for libeling John McCain. As a growing chorus reiterates, their refrains that Mr. McCain is 'willing to send our troops into another 100 years of war in Iraq' (as Mr. Obama said) or 'willing to keep this war going for 100 years' (per Mrs. Clinton) are flat-out wrong. What Mr. McCain actually said in a New Hampshire town-hall meeting was that he could imagine a 100-year-long American role in Iraq like our long-term presence in South Korea and Japan, where 'Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed.' See for yourself on YouTube." (Frank Rich, Op-Ed, "Tet Happened, And No One Cared," The New York Times, 4/6/08) Columbia Journalism Review's Zachary Roth: "[L]ately, Barack Obama in particular has stepped up his attacks on McCain's '100 years' notion. But in doing so, Obama is seriously misleading voters--if not outright lying to them--about exactly what McCain said." (Zachary Roth, "The U.S., Iraq, And 100 Years," Columbia Journalism Review, 4/1/08) The [Manchester] Union Leader: "It Is Not Even Remotely True -- And They Know It." "You might have heard from the New Hampshire Democratic Party and Democratic Presidential candidates that Sen. John McCain wants 100 more years of war in Iraq. It is not even remotely true -- and they know it." (Editorial, "McCain's '100 Years': The Democrats' War On The Truth," The [Manchester] Union Leader, 4/6/08) The New York Times Reports That Democrats "Mischaracterize And Distort" Sen. McCain's "100 Years" Comment. "But the timetables, flippantly tossed out, have been condensed into sound bites by his Democratic opponents, turned into fund-raising appeals and mashed into YouTube parodies. Many of the sound bites mischaracterize and distort what was said in Mr. McCain's six-minute exchange on Jan. 3..." (Kate Phillips, "McCain Said '100'; Opponents Latch On," The New York Times, 3/27/08) The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder: "[D]emocrats imply that McCain wants to keep US troops in Iraq for 100 years under the same conditions they're fighting right now. Which is simply not what McCain said. McCain explicitly said that US presence in Iraq long-term would be predicated on the absence of violence and on the establishment of stability in the region." (Marc Ambinder, "100 Years Of Solitude? McCain And Iraq," The Atlantic's "Marc Ambinder" Blog, www.theatlantic.com, 3/31/08) The Associated Press: "[Sen. McCain] and the Democrats vying to run against him in the fall are engaged in a debate of sorts over how long U.S. troops should stay in Iraq and under what circumstances. That's a genuine point of contention. But Hillary Rodham Clinton and especially Barack Obama have distilled McCain's position into sound bite oversimplifications, suggesting he foresees a war without end in anyone's lifetime." (Calvin Woodward, "Dems Take McCain Out Of Context On Iraq," The Associated Press, 2/29/08) Fox News' Carl Cameron: "[M]cCain has never said he wants war and never advocated 100 more years of war-making in Iraq. In January, he indicated at a New Hampshire town hall meeting that maintaining a postwar presence in Iraq would be fine..." (Fox News' "Special Report," 3/31/08) USA Today: "[Sen. McCain's] offhand comment about keeping U.S. troops in Iraq for '100 years' has been distorted (he said that meant as long as troops weren't getting killed or wounded)..." (Editorial, "5 Years After 'Shock And Awe,' A Shallow Debate On Iraq," USA Today, 3/18/08) Roll Call's Morton Kondracke: "Well, the charge that McCain wants to carry on the war for 100 years is a total canard. ... What McCain said was, yes, we could stay in Iraq for 100 years on the same basis we have been in Korea ever since the end of the Korean War or Germany ever since the end of the second world war as long as our troops aren't being shot. And it seems perfectly reasonable. And so they [Sens. Clinton And Obama] are mischaracterizing what he said badly." (Fox News' "Special Report," 3/31/08) The Washington Post's Charles Krauthammer: "But a serious argument is not what Democrats are seeking. They want the killer sound bite, the silver bullet to take down McCain. According to Politico, they have found it: 'Dems to hammer McCain for '100 years.''" (Charles Krauthammer, Op-Ed, "A Rank Falsehood," The Washington Post, 3/28/08) The Washington Post's Michael Dobbs: "The charge that John McCain wants to wage a '100-year war' in Iraq has become a recurring theme of the Obama campaign. The candidate has made the claim several times on the campaign trail, as has Susan Rice, one of his top foreign policy advisers. McCain has never talked about wanting a 100-year war in Iraq." (Michael Dobbs, "McCain's '100-year war,'" The Washington Post, 4/2/08) Richmond Times-Dispatch: "Leftists claim the comments mean McCain supports a century of combat. Their hyperventilating criticism suggests they either did not read his words or deliberately are distorting them." (Editorial, "100 Years," Richmond Times-Dispatch, 4/1/08) National Review: "Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have suggested that this means McCain 'wants to fight a 100-year war,' in Obama's words. This is so obvious a distortion that it must backfire against Democrats over time, especially if they nominate Barack Obama, who has so loudly advertised his commitment to civil discourse..." (Editorial, "The 100 Years War," National Review, www.nationalreview.com, 3/26/08) National Review's Kathryn Jean Lopez: "Haven't we been listening to talk of '100 years' of war in Iraq for 100 years now? It certainly feels that way. But this favorite talking point of the two Democrats presidential candidates is bogus." (Kathryn Jean Lopez, "100-Years' Sideshow," National Review, www.nationalreview.com, 3/26/08) Slate's Christopher Beam: "In context, McCain's statements seem clear: He doesn't want the war to continue for 100 years. But he's willing to keep a few brigades there as long as they're not getting killed. ... [F]or Obama and others to paint McCain's stance as a war without end doesn't quite hold up." (Christopher Beam, "The '100 Years' War," Slate's "Trail Head" Blog, www.slate.com, 4/1/08) Non-Partisan Fact Check Groups Called Attacks On Sen. McCain's "100 Years" Comment "A Rank Falsehood": Non-Partisan Factcheck.Org Calls DNC Attacks On "100 Years" Comment A "Serious Distortion" And "A Rank Falsehood." "The DNC's message portrays McCain as bent on fighting an 'endless' war in Iraq. DNC: We can't afford four more years with a President who fights an endless war in Iraq. ... On the war, McCain scoffed at Bush's call to leave troops in Iraq for 50 years, saying 'Make it a hundred!' That of course is a serious distortion of what McCain actually said to a town-hall meeting in New Hampshire back on Jan. 3. ...There's little doubt that McCain is less eager than either Clinton or Obama to bring troops home without further suppression of insurgent attacks. But it's a rank falsehood for the DNC to accuse McCain of wanting to wage 'endless war' based on his support for a presence in Iraq something like the U.S. role in South Korea." (Factcheck.Org Website, www.factcheck.org, Accessed 3/25/08) Non-Partisan Politifact.Com Calls Obama Attacks On "100 Years" Comment "False." "Obama twisted McCain's words in the Cleveland debate. He said, 'We are bogged down in a war that John McCain now suggests might go on for another 100 years.' As we explain above, McCain was referring to a peacetime presence, not the war. So we find Obama's statement False." (Politifact.Com Website, www.politifact.com, Accessed 3/25/08)
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