Freddoso: Life Lies - Barack Obama, White House '08

re: Lying
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Quote of the day
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Obama's "New Politics"
Slublog — Where's your Obama now? Promises made. Promises broken. And broken. And broken. And broken. And broken. And broken. The latest example of Obama's political banality was revealed this morning. Andrea Mitchell, faithful Obama stooge, tried mightily to cover for her guy's miserable performance in front of the Saddleback crowd, but the media's attempts at spinning away the truth and smear McCain just aren't ...

Obama caught lying
USS Neverdock — Obama, Kerry, Edwards - all Democrats caught lying and all wanted to be President. Sheesh. More here.

Obama Camp: Yeah He Was Lying About That Abortion Bill
Ace of Spades HQ — ... - which was to say --that you should provide assistance to any infant that was born - even if it was as a consequence of an induced abortion. That was not the bill that was presented at the state level. What that bill also was doing was trying to undermine Roe vs. Wade. By the way, we also had a bill, a law already in place in Illinois that insured life saving treatment was given to infants. There's only one small problem, Obama actually voted for an amendment (that passed) which added the same exact language the federal bill included to protect Roe and yet he still voted ...

He's dancing as fast as he can
Power Line — ... Barack Obama responded to the question addressed to him by Rick Warren on abortion as being "above my pay grade." Those who have dug into his record in the Illinois senate, however, have found evidence that Obama is a devout believer in what might be called the sacramental or positive good view of abortion: nothing can be allowed to interfere with the unfettered exercise of the purported right, including the accident of an infant born alive. David Freddoso considers the evidence in "Life lies." . Russell Berman covers the political fallout in ...

Above His Pay Grade?
Ross Douthat — ... a baby get human rights, in your view?" Obama tried to dodge by saying that from a "theological perspective" or a "scientific perspective" the issue is "above his pay grade." But Warren asked a more narrow question, and one that any politician who votes on abortion laws should be able to answer. And of course, as a supporter of Roe and Casey, Obama does have an answer: He thinks that a baby acquires rights when it's born - well, perhaps depending on how and why it happens to be born - and lacks them at every juncture before birth. He just ...

Carol Platt Liebau: The Pitter Patter of Giant "Misstatements"
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — ... and why he apparently (correctly) believes that these efforts are necessary. Today, David Freddoso, writing at NRO, offers more details about Barack's hearty support for abortion rights -- including the fact that he was the only member of the Illinois state senate to speak in opposition to legislation that would have recognized premature babies, born alive after attempts to abort them, as "persons." As I noted in my piece, Barack's explanation that he opposed the law because he feared it would undermine Roe v. Wade doesn't hold water. As a constitutional law professor knows, ...

The Real Barack Obama
California Conservative — ... Until now, Barack Obama has has some success casting himself as a moderate. Thanks to David Freddoso’s book and Mr. Freddoso’s column, we now know different. Freddoso’s column for NRO rips the cover off of Sen. Obama’s facade. ...

I Wish I Were Barack Obama
The Corner on National Review Online — ... ] CNN won't report that he's wrong about the Born-Alive bill, even after his own campaign admits that he was wrong. Barack Obama can spend five years misrepresenting the bill he opposed the Illinois legislature, write demonstrable falsehoods about it in The Audacity of Hope , and even falsely accuse others of lying as he did this weekend, and CNN's "fact checking" reporter can't even do the basic document research on the legislative history (they could have looked here I linked on Sunday to all of the relevant documents). Matt Balan's write-up on the CNN report is ...

Obama's Egregious Abortion Lie
Doug Ross @ Journal — ... Protection Act identical to the federal Born Alive bill. [image] [image] Obama then voted against the amended bill, making him more pro-abortion that any other U.S. senator, who all voted unanimously for Born Alive. It makes Obama more pro-abortion than [even] NARAL... which went neutral on the federal Bill. Yet after the Saddleback Showdown on August 16, 2008, Obama stood by his lie when asked about it by CBN's David Brody, as shown on CNN . David Freddoso at the National Review puts it in stark terms . Sen. Obama is currently misleading people about what he voted against, ...

Obama camp: He only voted against that born-alive abortion bill because it might actually have an effect
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... Drag the issue so deep into the weeds of Illinois’s state legislative history that no one but the most dogged Obama critic will pursue the matter once his eyes have glazed over from trying to keep track of the various pemutations of the bill. To recap, Obama initially said he voted against the 2003 bill protecting born-alive aborted fetuses only because it would have threatened abortion rights due to its lack of a “neutrality” clause vis-a-vis Roe v. Wade. Minor problem: The bill did include that clause and State Sen. Obama was one of the committee members who made sure that ...

Media Continue to Ignore Obama’s Abortion Lies
Stop The ACLU — ... apologizing to the people Obama wrongly called “liars” on Saturday, he is taking refuge in charged semantics. His campaign, unable to defend the votes he took and the things he said, which are all backed up by documentary evidence, is dropping an atomic bomb of triviality on the entire debate. Obama will only get away with this if the media lets him. A reader asks, “Where is FactCheck.org?” Don’t count on the media to do any fact checking. If they were interested in doing that, the documents and facts are easily available. I can see why Obama thinks he can get away with ...

Media Continue to Ignore as Obama Abortion Lies Get Deeper
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... Don’t count on the media to do any fact checking. If they were interested in doing that, the documents and facts are easily available. I can see why Obama thinks he can get away with this. The media ignored his lies once, they’ll most likely continue to eat them up. Meanwhile, Obama’s arrogance and audacity will continue to reach uncharted levels. ...

The issue that will turn the campaign
Betsy's Page — ... , sums up the story here and tells about how Obama has turned to attacking as liars those who have exposed his votes against the Act and the reasons he gave at the time. In 2001, Senator Barack Obama was the only member of the Illinois senate to speak against a bill that would have recognized premature abortion survivors as âpersons.â The bill was in response to a Chicago-area hospital that was leaving such babies to die. Obama voted âpresentâ on the bill after denouncing it. It passed the state Senate but died in a state house committee. In 2003, a similar bill came ...

Overreach
Ross Douthat — ... the image that the McCain ad seems designed to summon up. Moreover, Obama didn't write or co-sponsor the legislation (he voted for it in a party-line vote) and it never became law, so calling it "his one accomplishment" on education is just false. And even if aspects of the sex-ed claim are technically defensible, the whole thing just feels bullshitty and gross - like a parody of a culture-war ad. I have no problem with campaigning on culture war issues, and God knows Obama has vulnerabilities, but there's a right way and a wrong way to do it, and this ad falls into the ...

9/11: It's Happening Again...
Blogometer — ... is the image that the McCain ad seems designed to summon up. Moreover, Obama didn't write or co-sponsor the legislation (he voted for it in a party-line vote) and it never became law, so calling it 'his one accomplishment' on education is just false. And even if aspects of the sex-ed claim are technically defensible, the whole thing just feels bullshitty and gross -- like a parody of a culture-war ad. I have no problem with campaigning on culture war issues, and God knows Obama has vulnerabilities , but there's a right way and a wrong way to do it, and this ad falls into the ...

Lies in Obama's New Infanticide Ad
Weekly Standard Blog — ... It's pretty clear that Obama's strategy is to lie about his born-alive votes--as he has done in the past--and get the press to shift the debate to those hard cases, where Obama wins even if McCain shares his position. ...

Deep secrets of campaign 2008
Power Line — ... that abortions during the second and third trimesters should be rare. Asked by Pastor Rick Warren when the fetus acquires the rights of personhood, Obama declared the question above his "pay grade." No abortion ideologue he. As a member of the Illinois legislauture, however, we now know (if you get your news from the Internet) that in 2001 Obama was the only member of the Illinois senate to speak against a bill that would have recognized premature abortion survivors as “persons.” As David Freddoso has reported: "The bill was in response to a Chicago-area hospital that was ...

Barack Obama's blatant abortion lie
Doug Ross @ Journal — ... Protection Act identical to the federal Born Alive bill. [image] [image] Obama then voted against the amended bill, making him more pro-abortion that any other U.S. senator, who all voted unanimously for Born Alive. It makes Obama more pro-abortion than [even] NARAL... which went neutral on the federal Bill. Yet after the Saddleback Showdown on August 16, 2008, Obama stood by his lie when asked about it by CBN's David Brody, as shown on CNN . David Freddoso at the National Review puts it in stark terms . Sen. Obama is currently misleading people about what he voted against, ...

McCain Ad: 'Folks'
Weekly Standard Blog — ... Were people really lying about Obama's record? No, but viewers are left to wonder whether Obama is disputing inaccuracies or actually lying himself. ...

Death of a Born-Alive Baby
The Corner on National Review Online — ... me," said Joanne Sterner, president of the Broward County chapter of the National Organization for Women, after reviewing the administrative complaint against Renelique. "I know that there are clinics out there like this. And I hope that we can keep (women) from going to these types of clinics." I hate to read too much into a headline, but do we really need to make distinctions between a merely botched and a badly botched abortion? Is that a safety net for the cases that inspired the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act ? ...