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Sounds like some of Obama's past Federal and State Senate votes are coming back to haunt him. He's trying desperately to pretend they didn't happen, or didn't mean what they seem to mean, etc. He's even calling the people who point them out, "liars", though he seems unwilling to identify where they lied and/or call for investigations into official documents that clearly say otherwise.
As always, liberals are pushing an agenda that goes against the will of the people, and they must constantly cover up what they do and what they intend, if they want to get votes. As the press (finally) starts looking more and more into the details of their voting records and history, the coverup is getting harder and harder to maintain.
The current liberal in question, is ratcheting up the rhetoric hugely: apparently he has decided that falsely accusing people of lying, will not hurt him as much as having the truth come out will. He is apparently hoping desperately that the people pointing out the difference between what he says and what actually happened, will back off... along with the media.
But he may find that the long hiatus liberals have enjoyed from media scrutiny, is ending. This bodes no good for the Democrat party... or for its current rock star.
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http://townhall.com/columnists/AmandaCarpenter/2008/08/18/obama_calls_pro-lifers_liars
Obama Calls Pro-Lifers Liars
by Amanda Carpenter
Monday, August 18, 2008
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is harshly accusing a pro-life group of "lying" about his record on abortion as a Illinois state senator, despite compelling evidence on the pro-lifers' side.
Obama made the aggressive attack when Christian Broadcasting Network Senior National Correspondent David Brody asked Obama about documentation the National Right to Life Committee recently obtained of a 2003 committee vote on “born alive” legislation that would have required medical officials to give life-saving care to babies who survived abortion.
Obama has said again and again he voted against versions of that bill as an Illinois state senator because it did not include language to protect Roe v. Wade, as the federal version did which sailed through the U.S. Senate 98-0. The committee report, however, shows a 10-0 vote in favor of an amendment to add the same language to protect abortion rights that was added to the federal bill. That same committee report subsequently shows Obama voting the kill the bill in a "final action" vote.
The committee report is also verified by an Associated Press story ( http://www.nrlc.org/ObamaBAIPA/ObamaKillsBAIPA2003APstory.pdf ).
“There was some literature put out by the National Right to Life Committee,” Brody told Obama in an interview that took place Saturday night. “And they’re basically saying they felt like you misrepresented your position on that bill.”
Obama said the NRLC “have not been telling the truth” and launched into some of the most vicious language he’s ever used against his opponents. “And I hate to say that people are lying, but here's a situation where folks are lying,” he lectured.
Douglas Johnson, NRLC’s legislative director wants Obama to apologize to his group or prove the documents they obtained are erroneous. Obama must “either declare the newly discovered documents to be forgeries and call for an investigation of the forgery, or admit that he had misrepresented his record on the live-born infants legislation (not just once, but for four years), and apologize to those he's called liars," Johnson told Townhall in an email.
As always, liberals are pushing an agenda that goes against the will of the people, and they must constantly cover up what they do and what they intend, if they want to get votes. As the press (finally) starts looking more and more into the details of their voting records and history, the coverup is getting harder and harder to maintain.
The current liberal in question, is ratcheting up the rhetoric hugely: apparently he has decided that falsely accusing people of lying, will not hurt him as much as having the truth come out will. He is apparently hoping desperately that the people pointing out the difference between what he says and what actually happened, will back off... along with the media.
But he may find that the long hiatus liberals have enjoyed from media scrutiny, is ending. This bodes no good for the Democrat party... or for its current rock star.
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http://townhall.com/columnists/AmandaCarpenter/2008/08/18/obama_calls_pro-lifers_liars
Obama Calls Pro-Lifers Liars
by Amanda Carpenter
Monday, August 18, 2008
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is harshly accusing a pro-life group of "lying" about his record on abortion as a Illinois state senator, despite compelling evidence on the pro-lifers' side.
Obama made the aggressive attack when Christian Broadcasting Network Senior National Correspondent David Brody asked Obama about documentation the National Right to Life Committee recently obtained of a 2003 committee vote on “born alive” legislation that would have required medical officials to give life-saving care to babies who survived abortion.
Obama has said again and again he voted against versions of that bill as an Illinois state senator because it did not include language to protect Roe v. Wade, as the federal version did which sailed through the U.S. Senate 98-0. The committee report, however, shows a 10-0 vote in favor of an amendment to add the same language to protect abortion rights that was added to the federal bill. That same committee report subsequently shows Obama voting the kill the bill in a "final action" vote.
The committee report is also verified by an Associated Press story ( http://www.nrlc.org/ObamaBAIPA/ObamaKillsBAIPA2003APstory.pdf ).
“There was some literature put out by the National Right to Life Committee,” Brody told Obama in an interview that took place Saturday night. “And they’re basically saying they felt like you misrepresented your position on that bill.”
Obama said the NRLC “have not been telling the truth” and launched into some of the most vicious language he’s ever used against his opponents. “And I hate to say that people are lying, but here's a situation where folks are lying,” he lectured.
Douglas Johnson, NRLC’s legislative director wants Obama to apologize to his group or prove the documents they obtained are erroneous. Obama must “either declare the newly discovered documents to be forgeries and call for an investigation of the forgery, or admit that he had misrepresented his record on the live-born infants legislation (not just once, but for four years), and apologize to those he's called liars," Johnson told Townhall in an email.