Monday, December 3, 2007

Obama Caught Lying About His Plan to Run for President

Now this is just hilarious. Speaking in Iowa today, Barack Obama tried to tell everyone that he was a different kind of candidate in attempt to contrast himself to our own Hillary Clinton. While everyone else has had a long term goal of eventually running for President, Obama spoke of how his run for president is more spontaneous and is a result of the tough times he feels he's the solution for. The problem with all this? It's a complete lie.

From nationalreview.com:

Today in Iowa, Senator Barack Obama said: "I have not been planning to run for President for however number of years some of the other candidates have been planning for.”

Oh really?

“Senator Obama’s comment today is fundamentally at odds with what his teachers, family, classmates and staff have said about his plans to run for President,” Clinton spokesperson Phil Singer said. “Senator Obama’s campaign rhetoric is getting in the way of his reality.”

Immediately after joining the Senate, Senator Obama started planning run for President. "'The first order of business for Senator Obama's team was charting a course for his first two years in the Senate. The game plan was to send Senator Obama into the 2007-2008 election cycle in the strongest form possible'...The final act of the plan was turning up the talk about a potential Presidential bid, which was greatly aided by his positive press and suggestions by pundits that he run for President." [U.S. News and World Report, 6/19/07 ]

His law school classmates say that Senator Obama has been planning Presidential run for 'more than a decade.' [A]ccording to those who know him, he has been talking about the presidency for more than a decade. "It was clear to me from the day I met him that he was thinking about politics," says Harvard Law School classmate Christine Spurell. [Washington Post, 8/12/07 ]

15 years ago, Senator Obama told his brother-in-law he was planning to run for President. Craig [Robinson] pulled him aside [in 1992] and asked about his plans. "He said, 'I think I'd like to teach at some point in time, and maybe run for public office,' recalls Robinson, who assumed Senator Obama meant he'd like to run for city alderman. "He said no — at some point he'd like to run for the U.S. Senate. And then he said, 'Possibly even run for President at some point.' And I was like, 'Okay, but don't say that to my Aunt Gracie.' I was protecting him from saying something that might embarrass him." [Washington Post, 8/12/07 ]

In third grade, Senator Obama wrote an essay titled 'I Want To Be a President.' His third grade teacher: Fermina Katarina Sinaga "asked her class to write an essay titled 'My dream: What I want to be in the future.' Senator Obama wrote 'I want to be a President,' she said." [The Los Angeles Times, 3/15/07]

Folks, let this be a lesson to any candidate who attempts to gain at the expense of Hillary by appearing to take the high ground. We will go back and look at the history, and you will get caught and made a fool of. Hillary Clinton is the candidate with the most integrity, honesty, and loyalty. Don't you ever think you can beat her at her own game.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh my! A politician has been caught lying. Stop the presses! Really, if this is the best she's got, hillary is done.

Anonymous said...

It irks me to no end when someone pretends to be holier than thou and is just as bad as anyone else...

Obama is the emperor who has no clothes on...selling something that he doesn't even have to sell.