Obama, Just Tell The Truth

There is no way that any human can spend as much time being followed around as closely as are our presidential candidates are, without sooner or later making a misstatement or committing some sort of woeful gaffe. Obama has made several recently including saying he had campaigned in most of the 57 states. Believe it or not, I found that comment funny from Obama, but not the label of a moron that does not know how many states their are. Obama is fully aware that there are 50 states.

The same thing occurred to John McCain with a statement that he made that butchered teh Shiite/Sunni make-up of much of the Middle East. The comment was unfortunate for McCain but worthy of a few laughs by some (and mean spirited attacks by others that tried to assert that McCain didn't know the difference.)

There is something completely different though about openly lying to appear super-duper important. Lying is not a misstatement or an accident. Lying is willful deceit.

Barack Obama is a liar.

From PowerLine:

Obama continued:

Now, in terms of knowing my commitments, you don't have to just look at my words, you can look at my deeds. Just this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, which is my committee, a bill to call for divestment from Iran, as a way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don't obtain a nuclear weapon.

But Obama is not a member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee. Obama just made that up so he could count the committee's action as one of "my deeds."

If committed by a Republican, this would be a gaffe of historic proportions. Even a Senator as inattentive to his duties as Obama certainly knows what committees he serves on. For him to fabricate the claim, out of whole cloth, that the Senate Banking Committee is "[his] committee," strikes me as another sign of Obama's megalomania.

Obama is cruising on Rock Star status right now and has been coasting above any serious level of criticism from the press.

This will change pretty soon if he doesn't stop playing so loosely with the truth. It is one thing for the press to nuance the news. It is another thing for the news to try and nuance the press.

The press doesn't seem to like that very much, it doesn't matter who you think that you are or, for that matter, what committee it is that you want them to believe you sit on.