You're a liar. No YOU'RE a liar. NO! YOU'RE a liar.

BigBearJohn

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Tue Apr-15-08 12:55 AM
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You're a liar. No YOU'RE a liar. NO! YOU'RE a liar.

How easily some Obama's supporters demand that Barack's 'clumsy mis-statements'
or exaggerations be excused... but when Hillary mispeaks or exaggerates, she is immediately
denounced as something akin to a lying harlot or reprobate. How many hundreds of posts have
we seen about Hillary's 'sniper fire' exaggeration?

Some Obama supporters have grown quite fond of never missing the opportunity to call
Hillary a pathological liar. Yet, it doesn't take much investigation to discover a few
whoppers by 'his holiness' himself.

For example:

While speaking to a group in Selma, Barack was obviously trying to polish his Kennedy Camelot/
civil-rights image, so he bragged that the Kennedy administration sponsored his Kenyan father
to come to America on a student scholarship, which sponsorship in effect made them responsible
for his being here in the first place. He made one small omission... the first Selma march
occurred in March 1965, some 3 years after Obama was born.

A spokesman for Obama later apologized for Barack's mis-statement.

A speech Obama gave at the time: “There was something stirring across the country because of
what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So
they got together and Barack Obama Junior was born. So don’t tell me I don’t have a claim on
Selma, Alabama.”

So, people, what should we do? Start making lists of all the petty foibles of our favorite
candidates? Keep flinging crap, trying to one-up the other guy?

Just for the record: I like Obama. However, he is arrogant, but I don't mind arrogance in
my leaders. Believe it or not, I do see Hillary's faults. But I cringe when I witness the
outright bullshit I see written about her on DU. When you want to do somebody in, it's
very easy to focus on every wart and pimple. There sure is enough of them. Oddly enough,
I might have been willing to listen to some of Obama's supporters in their complaints about
Hillary if just ONCE IN A WHILE they said something DECENT about her. NOBODY can be as bad
as she is painted here by some Obama supporters. What's sad is, I am truly becoming numb to
all the vitriol expressed here. You know what's funny? I have seen greater hate expressed
here towards Hillary than I have ever seen aimed towards ole Georgie himself. P-a-t-h-e-t-i-c.

Now, before you go and pluck some arrows out of your quivvers for the kill, for whatever it's
worth, I fully realize that 98% of the Obama supporters here are basically very decent people
who are all excited about their shiny new candidate. I don't blame you. It would be nice if
you could extend me the same courtesy and allow me the joy of being excited about mine. If
Obama wins, I'll be a bit miffed, but I will also be happy for you because I honestly do have
a sense of what you see in him. Just because I like Hillary, it does not mean I don't like Obama.

Just remember this... If your house is burning down, you don't walk over to the new guy and
teach him how to hold a fire hose... You run over to the worker with grit under his nails...
the one who's not afraid of the heat and is already running up the ladder to put out the fire.