Obama Whopper? Not Even A Snack

I'm far from a fan of Barack Obama, but any notion that he lied here seems like a real stretch to me.

Barack Obama has been caught in a whopper over his statement, "Nobody's suffering more than the Palestinian people."

The argument is that he tried to clear up a supposed blunder citing Palestian suffering by later suggesting he was holding mostly the Palestinian Leadership at fault for the suffering, so it wasn't a dis toward Israel.

Blame was placed the on (on the) Palestinian leadership by a spokesman afterwards, and then apparently by Obama himself in the weeks after, as his campaign had to deal with the controversy. So he lied about what he had said in front of the 40 Iowa Democrats.

Obama replied: "Well, keep in mind what the remark actually, if you have the whole thing, said - what I said is - nobody has suffered more than the Palestinian people from the failure of the Palestinian leadership to recognize Israel, to renounce violence and to get serious about negotiating peace and security for the region."

So, what did he, initially, really say? Given the full context, I'm unconvinced his addressing the matter as he is now should be called a lie, let alone a whopper.

"Now, in the interim, nobody's suffering more than the Palestinian people from this whole process," Obama said. "And I would like to see - if we could get some movement from Palestinian leadership - what I'd like to see is a loosening up of some of the restrictions on providing aid directly to the Palestinian people."

He added that the United States and its allies might be willing to lift restrictions if they can get the Palestinian leadership to "acknowledge that the road to peace is not going through terrorism and other violence."

Comments

[Terry Gain]

Dan

All of us, and I mean all of us, except BIS concur. BIS? He's memorizing the spelling of, as he calls them, heros and couldn't be reached. ( BIS, it's heroes, stupid.)

[Buzzy]

No, not a lie, pretty much the truth in fact but it has all the hallmarks of that fuzzy liberal thinking that refuses to acknowledge that these people elected the terrorists that are making them suffer. In fact they overwhelmingly elected these terrorists and steadfastly refuse to turn away from violence and terrorism. Then there is the matter that humanitarian aid to the PALS always seems to buy a lot more guns than butter.

[Dan Riehl]

True Buzzy. However, we elect our leaders. How's that border coming, dude? Just sayin is all.

[Buzzy]

The border will be taken care of if Fred, Mitt, Duncan, or Tom Tancredo gets in office, not so much if Rudy, McLame, or one of the Democrats get elected.

We've been working hard on our illegal immigration law here in Oklahoma. Some say it's the toughest anti illegal immigration law proposed by any state. The Gov (Brad Henry, a Democrat) has till Tuesday evening to sign or veto it.