Ed Morrissey at Hot Air has a post up about the two whoppers Barack Obama told at last night’s debate.
The first was when he tried to deny that he launched his political campaign in domestic terrorist William Ayers’s living room and that he was in bed with ACORN.
MCCAIN: Well, again, while you were on the board of the Woods Foundation, you and Mr. Ayers, together, you sent $230,000 to ACORN. So — and you launched your political campaign in Mr. Ayers’ living room.
OBAMA: That’s absolutely not true.
MCCAIN: And the facts are facts and records are records.
OBAMA: And that’s not the facts.
I can’t figure out why Obama would even bother lying about his meet and greet at Ayers’s house. There might be three people left in America who don’t know about that. To bother lying about it now is ridiculous.
But, as Ed points out, at least Obama admitted that he had hired ACORN and done litigation for them. And thank goodness John McCain pointed out that Obama gave money to ACORN when he was with the Woods Foundation (talk about “spreading the wealth”).
I don’t really see how lying about those connections helped Obama except that there are people who are so desperate to believe Obama isn’t who he is that they are willing to suspend their disbelief this way.
The second big lie from Obama was his recharacterization of his abortion position. Barack Obama has the single most pro-abortion record of any person who has ever run for POTUS. Yet Obama lied about why he voted against Illinois’s Born Alive Infant Protection Act.
There was a bill that was put forward before the Illinois Senate that said you have to provide lifesaving treatment and that would have helped to undermine Roe v. Wade. The fact is that there was already a law on the books in Illinois that required providing lifesaving treatment, which is why not only myself but pro-choice Republicans and Democrats voted against it.
The new law was proposed because the old law was ineffective and didn’t address babies who survived abortion. Even the Attorney General had said this.
It is shocking enough that Barack Obama is so concerned that an abortion might not be performed that he could vote against this legislation, but Obama’s abortion position goes far beyond this.
For starters, if Obama were elected president, he would repeal the Hyde Amendment, which prevents your tax dollars from being used for abortions that aren’t necessary to save a mother’s life or in cases of rape or incest.
Worse, Obama has said that ”the first thing I’d do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act” (FOCA). The misnamed Freedom of Choice Act would declare abortion a “fundamental right” and invalidate state restrictions on abortion from parental notification laws to waiting periods to freedom of conscience protections for doctors, nurses and pharmacists who don’t wish to participate in abortion.
But Obama isn’t merely “pro-choice.” He is “pro-abortion.” How do we know? Because he’s opposed legislation from his own party that would provide assistance to women facing crisis pregnancies. He opposed informed consent provisions in the Pregnant Women Support Act, as well as inclusion of unborn children in the S-CHIP program.
This doesn’t even go into Obama’s rather gruesome cheerleading for embryonic stem cell research.
When Obama lies about his vote on the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, that only scratches the surface of his abortion record. But with that record, just like his past with William Ayers, it’s no wonder he has to lie.
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Hmmm. I don’t care about Ayers, ACORN is a perfectly respectable organization that you disagree with, and I don’t care about abortion.
Obama mentioned a ‘Constitutional right to privacy’. Where is this right defined?
I wish liberals would learn the difference between a business grossing a certain amount of money and the term “net”. I have heard little else today besides what Joe Plumber makes. He doesn’t make that… his BUSINESS does.
Hmmm. I don’t care about Ayers, ACORN is a perfectly respectable organization that you disagree with, and I don’t care about abortion.
I remember saying the same thing before Bill Clinton was elected, then living to regret it.
Ninth Amendment, Art… why should it not exist?
Yeah, Sharon, we’re really regretting those balanced budgets and that successful economy now.
What I regret, Jeff, is the utter lack of leadership and accountability from the Clinton White House. One of the reasons George W. Bush was elected in 2000 was because people were tired of Clinton’s “government by the polls.” If the polls said the public accepted tax increased, then today, Clinton supported tax increases. If the polls tomorrow said the public was for tax cuts, then Clinton would be for tax cuts. The effect was dizzying.
What kept Clinton in line was a Republican Congress which prevented him from implimenting all the goodies he wanted. Of course, I don’t expect you to give them credit.
But seriously, Jeff, what would change your mind about Obama?
Sharon apparently is one of those people who thinks if you repeat a lie a thousand times, it becomes the truth.
For those interested in pre-thousand-times truth, here is a link to the real story about “Born Alive Infant Protection”:
http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2008/10/16/mccain-repeats-debunked-born-alive-attacks-debate
In summary, the bill Sharon refers to was a stalking horse for the anti-abortion movement that 1) did nothing to advance protections already in place and 2) would have opened the door to all kinds of legal harassment of ob/gyns. Typical anti-abortion behavior. They know the majority of Americans don’t agree with them, so they use back-door tactics, misdirection and misinformation to chip away at abortion rights however they can.
Um, no, BS, most Americans DO agree with us. They dislike the number of abortions performed in America and believe that MORE restrictions are needed. Unlike the “we love abortions” crowd, most Americans are disgusted by the idea that babies who survive abortion are not treated as any other baby that is born. And the link you share is an Amanda Marcotte-associated link, which means it is suspect from the beginning.
BS, your link goes to a site that uses Planned Parenthood as its primary source of information. Planned Parenthood? You think there’s a bill that limits Planned Parenthood’s income that PP would endorse?
Um, no, BS, most Americans DO agree with us.
Which is why anti-abortion referendums always lose, no doubt.
Which referenda are you talking about? Blanket bans? I’m not talking about bans on abortion, although there are certainly parts of the country that would probably like them.
BS, you can’t possibly be ignorant of the success of parental notification laws, waiting periods, informed consent mandates and paperwork requirements. Yes, BS, those are quite popular.