Is there anything Obama hasn't lied about?

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RUSH: There's a big story out there today, the Lockerbie bomber story, and for those of you that don't really know about this, the bomber did not blow up Lockerbie. The bomber blew up a Pan Am 747 over Lockerbie, and it happened to crash in Lockerbie. And that's why it's called the Lockerbie bomber, but he blew up a Boeing 747. We have the Obama administration last Tuesday afternoon, Obama talking with Prime Minister David Cameron, joint presser, and Mimi Hall from USA Today got up and read the following question. It was given to her by David Axelrod. "President Obama, how do you feel about a congressional investigation into the Lockerbie bomber stuff, would you like to see that happen or do you think that that confuses the two events?"

OBAMA: I think all of us here in the United States were surprised, disappointed, and angry about the release of the Lockerbie bomber, and my administration expressed very clearly our objections. Prior to the decision being made and subsequent to the decision being made.

RUSH: Well, that's just not true because the White House privately backed the release of the Lockerbie bomber. That's right. This is from The Australian, published today: "The US government secretly advised Scottish ministers it would be 'far preferable' to free the Lockerbie bomber than jail him in Libya. Correspondence obtained by The Sunday Times reveals the Obama administration considered compassionate release more palatable than locking up Abdel Baset al-Megrahi in a Libyan prison. The intervention, which has angered US relatives of those who died in the attack, was made by Richard LeBaron, deputy head of the US embassy in London, a week before Megrahi was freed in August last year on grounds that he had terminal cancer," from which he's apparently recovered. "The document, acquired by a well-placed US source, threatens to undermine US President Barack Obama's claim last week that all Americans were 'surprised, disappointed and angry' to learn of Megrahi's release. Scottish ministers viewed the level of US resistance to compassionate release as 'half-hearted' and a sign it would be accepted."
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http://voices.washingtonpost.com/checkpoint-washington/2010/07/state_department_says_it_did_n.html

State Department says it did not back Lockerbie bomber's release

The State Department rarely releases its correspondence with other governments. But it did just that on Monday to counter a report that it was engaged in "double-talk" about Scotland's release of a Libyan convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.

The Sunday Times of London had quoted parts of a U.S. letter to a senior Scottish official, saying that it was preferable to free Abdel Basset al-Megrahi from prison on health grounds, rather than in a prisoner transfer.

The State Department said Monday it was taking the "exceptional step" of releasing the letter to Alex Salmond, Scotland's first minister, because the article "does not accurately reflect the strong and consistent opposition of the U.S. government to the release or transfer under any scenario" of the Libyan intelligence agent.
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I think the US is calling Rush misinformed.
 
It reminds me of my favorite scene from Casablanca. "I'm shocked- shocked- that there is gambling in Rick's Cafe!"

Presidents always lie. A few other whoppers:

"Read my lips: no new taxes." -George H. W. Bush
"Islam is a religion of peace." -George W. Bush
"I never had sex with that woman." -William J. Clinton

"Waterboarding is not torture" deserves special mention too, but I think that was a lie from the Bush administration rather than Bush himself.
 
Just maybe, Rush is trying to distract us with a few ounces of lies from the pounds of lies delivered for years by the people he supports.
A six-year archive of classified military documents made public on Sunday offers an unvarnished, ground-level picture of the war in Afghanistan that is in many respects more grim than the official portrayal.

The secret documents, released on the Internet by an organization called WikiLeaks, are a daily diary of an American-led force often starved for resources and attention as it struggled against an insurgency that grew larger, better coordinated and more deadly each year.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38411835/ns/world_news-the_new_york_times/
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I love the fact that even Rush thinks that Rush's listeners need to have it explained to them that the Lockerbie bomber didn't actually blow up Lockerbie and aren't gonna know what he had blown up.
 
BAC, did you attempt to verify the assertions of a KNOWN liar before starting this thread with a quote from him?

Secondly, suppose for the sake of the thread I fully accept that Obama, personally, lied about this matter. How would that help answer the question which is the thread topic?
 
BAC,

While I don't like Obama, how is it you can thunder away at Obama and how bad he is, and yet forget all the atrocities Bush committed?
 
strange I dont seem to be able to bring up any hits regarding the "Australian Newspaper" on the story. Which is kind of okay because no reads the paper, and it is one of Ruppets pets.............any one seeing a connection?
 
bynmdsue said:
Promises and Lies aren't the same thing
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If you keep a promise, that means it is something you haven't told a lie about. That is the answer to the OP, and the answer is, "Yes, there are things that Obama hasn't lied about. Many things."

But you are right that they are the same. If you say you will do something and try to do it, then that is not a lie, that is failure. And Obama has failed in quite a number of things, some his fault and some not. Still, his record for trying to do what he promised stacks up pretty favorably to any president in recent history.
 
Yes, I think Obama lied about this. I really don't know what should be done about it. I didn't vote for him. I already won't vote for him. I do NOT think he should get impeached or kicked out of office. I think Beden would be worse and Pelosi even worse than that. I don't think boycotts , marches or pettions do much of anything.


So he lied. So what?
 
BeAChooser said:
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_072610/content/01125107.guest.html
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Not gonna bother reading Rush emissions, but, here is an answer to your question:

Is there anything Obama hasn't lied about?

Yes.

Now what? He appears to be doing what most pols do, lie about some things, which is par for the course, but sadly for his political rhetoric, not change anyone can believe in.

Now, something of substance.

He said he'd do something about that war in Afghanistan. He has. Good, bad, or indifferent, he has not shied away from trying to do something on that score.
 
Darth Rotor said:
He said he'd do something about that war in Afghanistan. He has. Good, bad, or indifferent, he has not shied away from trying to do something on that score.
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He has always stood in favor of expanding the amount of troops in Afghanistan; this was a part of his platform. So yes, BAC, there is something Obama hasn't lied about.
 
MattusMaximus said:
Is there anything that BAC hasn't lied about? :rolleyes:
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Now, that's not fair. It's not like BAC made this up out of thin air. Nor did Limbaugh, for that matter. Limbaugh saw a juicy media story that would make Obama look really, really bad; I can't blame him for running with it. And I can't blame BAC for posting it, either.

Now, if neither of them acknowledge that they ran with a false and misleading story*, that would be something worth finger-pointing over.


* Assuming the State Department's letter backs them up and not The Australian.
 
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