Barry the Empty Suit strikes again!
When you haven’t actually accomplished anything in your very, very short political career, I guess it’s OK to just make shit up, put it in fine print, and hope that nobody notices.
But we did notice, Barry:
Barack Obama released his first general election ad on Friday…
About 46 seconds into the ad, we are told that Obama “passed laws” that “extended healthcare for wounded troops who’d been neglected,” and in the usual manner of these political commercials we are given a little citation at the bottom. The citation reads “Public Law 110-181 1/28/08”. That law is the only federal legislation cited in the ad — the other two items mentioned were from the Illinois legislature and referred to other issues raised in the ad.
Public Law 110-181 was the 2008 defense authorization bill. It passed the Senate by 91 to 3 in January, with six Senators not voting. Among those six absentees was Barack Obama. So he cites a bill he didn’t even vote for. Did he contribute to it in some way that might be reasonably referred to as extending healthcare for wounded troops who’d been neglected? It certainly doesn’t seem that way, as even Obama supporters at the Daily Kos discovered when they tried to answer some of the bloggers who pointed to Obama’s citation of the bill. They found that Obama had tried to insert an amendment that had to do with screenings for service members returning from deployments, and one that would ease the discharge of service members found to have personality disorders, but neither amendment passed. Another part of the bill, calling for inspector general reports about hospital facilities, had come from a different bill Obama had sponsored.
Empty, Fucking. Suit. And a dishonest one at that. The guy is a complete fraud.
Can someone please tell me why, other than the fact that he’s part-black and a flaming liberal/socialist, why you are planning on voting for this guy?
I just want the chance to point and laugh at you.
The trouble with politicians is that, sadly, they all lie and stretch the truth to say what they think people want to hear. Even Mr. McCain is not innocent of this behavior.
McCain said on 6/27/08: “I’m happy to tell you that we probably agreed to an increase in educational benefits for our veterans that not only gives them increase in their educational benefits, but if they stay in for a certain period of time than they can transfer those educational benefits to their spouses and or children. That’s a very important aspect I think of incentivizing people of staying in the military.”
Hmmm… I seem to remember Mr. McCain actually opposing the Webb-Hagel GI Bill, and, even more embarrassing, he didn’t even show up to vote on it.
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=2&vote=00162
That’s a bit different from “probably” agreeing, at least where I grew up. In all honesty Robbie, I’d be thrilled to see a candidate I could believe in - and at this point I’d probably take one from either party.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10561.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/30/politics/politico/main4057552.shtml
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/16022.html
Left by Jason on June 28th, 2008 at 12:34 pm