Not Only Hillary: Hussein Lies About Past To Look Good Also
When Mitt Romney stated that he saw his father march with Martin Luther King Jr., there was wall to wall media coverage reporting how he had to start backpeddaling. Even after witnesses came forward claiming they had seen his father march with him, the media story of Mitt fabricating the story still persists.
Will Obama get the same media treatment with his lies? Don’t hold your breath. 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.
The Washtington Post Fact Checker delves deeper:
Addressing civil rights activists in Selma, Ala., a year ago, Sen. Barack Obama traced his “very existence” to the generosity of the Kennedy family, which he said paid for his Kenyan father to travel to America on a student scholarship and thus meet his Kansan mother.
The Camelot connection has become part of the mythology surrounding Obama’s bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. After Caroline Kennedy endorsed his candidacy in January, Newsweek commentator Jonathan Alter reported that she had been struck by the extraordinary way in which “history replays itself” and by how “two generations of two families — separated by distance, culture and wealth — can intersect in strange and wonderful ways.”
It is a touching story — but the key details are either untrue or grossly oversimplified.
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.
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Barack (redacted) Obama is a flat out anti-American moonbat Marxist.
It’s one thing to listen to BO’s mentor/spiritual guide spew his anti-American hate but quite another to hear it straight from BO’s own mouth.
Hugh Hewitt and Mark Steyn actually took the time to listen to what BO had to say in the audio version of his book; Dreams of My Father. Mark Levin played some excerpts which can be found here. Scroll down to the bottom of the page under Streamed and click on March 28, 2008….clips are in first segment.
March 30th, 2008 at 6:46 pmUnbeleivable stuff. BO quotes the wrong-Rev Wright’s anti-American hate speech even though BO states he was unaware of what his pastor said. But that is just the beginning. Malcom X apparently was another role model for young activist BO. Further, in his own words BO states his blatant contempt for America. Quite revealing.
BO….LOL…Good moniker for Osama…cause he definitely stinks. We should probably check and see if maybe he is related to Pinochio?
March 30th, 2008 at 7:08 pmwow you mean BO is a liar? man, im so shocked! how else would someone with practically zero experience expect to become president of the US. lie about things you have not done of course. and Hillary is doing the same. taking credit for all the things her husband did, its funny how she takes credit for successes but acts like she had no part in the failures.
communists
March 30th, 2008 at 7:50 pmWait… a politician lied to make himself look good?
Say it isn’t so.
My faith in politics has been deflated
March 30th, 2008 at 10:38 pmThey keep telling us we’re stupid. When are we going to realize we’re not?
March 31st, 2008 at 6:00 am