Up to tonight, I had decided that if I was indeed capable of voting in the upcoming US election, I’d vote Obama. Why? Apart from his apparent list of stances on issues like communications, trade and the Internet (the parts that will affect my world directly), he’s been making excellent progress in the run-up. Everyone’s favorite.
Then I found this page, which lists no less than 67 lies that Obama has perpetrated during the course of his campaigning. And they’re not small lies, either - for instance, he’s not really African-American, he was registered as a Muslim child in school, his campaign is taking financing from oil companies and other large corporates, he knows more than one Islam fanaticist, and as far as we can tell, no one in his family has ever been Christian.
Quoting one of them:
CHARGE 28 - “I have the solutions to repair our economy.”
EVIDENCE - Senator Obama voted against his own economic proposal package. SOURCE 1, SOURCE 2
COUNTER CLAIM - Washington is in a stalemate. Senator Obama has fresh ideas.
REBUTTAL – Senator Obama’s 111 economic proposals were just combined into an amendment to a bill, and the amendment was defeated 97-0. Senator Obama rejected his own proposals; apparently, they were not the solutions or ‘fresh ideas’ he was speaking about.
See them all here: http://savagepolitics.com/?page_id=326
Incredible what marketing can do, eh? Spin the right tale, say the right things, and a filthy and deceptive track record can just vanish. Yet another reason why you should question what you’re fed.
Just because a rabid right wing radio host compiled a list doesn’t make those claims any more concrete.
A quick visit to snopes provided this link which addresses and debunks many of the claims in that list:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/50lies.asp
Whilst I can appreciate your drive to question the consensus, I think that, on the contrary, what people have been fed is a dose of reality.
Until the US economy when nipples north about a month ago McCain and his soccer mom colleague were odds-on favourites to win this thing.
The turnaround has come as a result of a large flock of chickens coming home to roost, combined with head to head debates which have shown McCain to be the past-it dinosaur that he is.
When I was 5 years old, I stole a VHS from a Blockbuster. Even if he did practice as a Muslim when a child (I still see no real evidence other than “Well, he said and she said” to support the idea), what does it matter?
I told two very inappropriate jokes that landed me in the principal’s office two days in a row in 4th grade. If I ran for president, should I be held accountable for those?
I was a practicing Christian for the majority of my childhood. So if I run for president, can people blast me for having practiced Christianity when I was in Elementary school?
Plus, isn’t it amazing how people actually fear the idea of Obama being “Muslim” or him being “Arab” (or as most accusers pronounce “A-Rab”). In a country founded on the ideas specifically of religious freedom it’s amazing that people would fear someones private practices and beliefs.
It kind of reminds me of a quieter, much calmer version of the xenophobic riots that occurred over in SA not too long ago.
@Jaxon and we can argue it till kingdom come. Something you should bear in mind here is that just because I’m linking to an article that’s anti-Obama doesn’t automatically make me pro-McCain.
@Luke same goes for you. What I was trying to show (and what I signed off on my post with) was that we should doublecheck what we get fed by the media. Obama happened to be a pertinent example.
@Jared He’z an A-Rab! With WMDs in his back yard!
Something that does bug me with Islam is its sheer intolerance for other religions/faith systems. If you’re an “infidel” (ie, anything other than Islam), you die. Most literal translation of their texts.
Doesn’t seem very neighborly. And if you were running for president, stolen VHS or not, I’d vote for you, because you’d make street racing legal, subsidize prototype supercars, and probably make America a place worth living in again…