Barack Obama:
Misstatements and other Facts
(FactCheck.org) On the campaign trail for the 2008 election, Barack Obama ads falsely claimed Sen. John McCain's health care plan would result in "cuts in benefits, eligibility or both." This was a misstatement. During his campaign he suggested that turning Medicaid into a block grant program would leave "poor children," "children with autism" and "kids with disabilities" to "fend for themselves." This was also wrong because the Republican plan NEVER said that. The Republican plan did not say states can't or shouldn't cover those children. What it did say was states would have "freedom and flexibility to tailor a Medicaid program" as they see fit. And prior to the midterm elections it was Obama who made false claims that Congressional Republican leaders were "pushing to make privatizing Social Security a key part of their legislative agenda." That was a lie. GOP leadership was not pushing for Americans to invest Social Security taxes in the stock market then and they aren't doing it now.
(FactCheck.org) Obama repeatedly made false claims about lowering families' health care costs. He denied health insurance would be manditory and payable by everyone. Obama made claims on the 2008 campaign trail -- which continued after he was elected -- that families would save $2,500 a year on average and more than half of the savings would come from the use of electronic health records, and Obama said he would do this "by the end of my first term." No, it didn't. Another misstatement.
(FactCheck.org) By 2009, only 11.9 percent of hospitals had implemented even basic electronic records (per study published in Health Affairs) and only 17 percent of physicians were using that system (per a study in The New England Journal of Medicine)
(FactCheck.org) During his 2008 campaign, he repeatedly promised to eliminate "tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas." Nope! (Eric Toder of the Tax Policy Center said the claim "is a nice political slogan, but will do little or nothing for U.S. employment or incomes.")
(FactCheck.org) In a State of the Union address, he mistated that he would get 80 percent of U.S. electricity from "clean" sources by 2035 and he would expand high-speed rail so it reaches 80 percent of the county's population in the next 25 years. That is a NO to both. The FIRST major "clean coal" plant is not yet in operation. (There is no clean coal) AND, Obama considers nuclear a "clean" option. Is it? What about nuclear waste?
(Audacity of Hope) "Lolo (Obama's step father) followed a brand of Islam...." "I looked to Lolo for guidance".
(Dreams of my Father) "The person who made me proudest of all, though, was [half brother] Roy .. He converted to Islam."
(Dreams of my Father) "In Indonesia, I had spent two years at a Muslim school"
(Dreams of my Father) "I Studied the Koran."
(Audacity of Hope) "I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."
(Dreams of My Father) "I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race".
(Dreams of my Father) "The emotion between the races could never be pure..... the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart."
(Dreams of my Father) "Any distinction between good and bad whites held negligible meaning."
(Dreams of My Father) "I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites"
Dreams Of My Father: "I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself..".
Dreams of My Father: "That hate hadn't gone away," he wrote, blaming "white people some cruel, some ignorant, sometimes a single face, sometimes just a faceless image of a system claiming power over our lives."
Dreams of My Father: "There were enough of us on campus to constitute a tribe, and when it came to hanging out many of us chose to function like a tribe, staying close together, traveling in packs," he wrote. "It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names"
Dreams of my Father: "Desperate times called for desperate measures, and for many blacks, times were chronically desperate. If nationalism could create a strong and effective insularity, deliver on its promise of self-respect, then the hurt it might cause well-meaning whites, or the inner turmoil it caused people like me, would be of little consequence."
Dreams of my Father: "To avoid being mistaken for a racial sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets. At night, in the dorms, we discussed neocolonialism, Franz Fanon, Eurocentrism, and patriarchy."
Dreams of my Father: "there was something about him that made me wary," Obama wrote. "A little too sure of himself, maybe. And white."
Dreams of my Father: "the reason black people keep to themselves is that it's easier than spending all your time mad, or trying to guess whatever it was that white folks were thinking about you."
Dreams of my Father: One line in Malcolm X's autobiography "spoke" to Obama "it stayed with me," he says. "He spoke of a wish he'd once had, the wish that the white blood that ran through him, there by an act of violence, might somehow be expunged."
(He said) "I've now been in 57 states, I think one left to go." (at a campaign event in Beaverton, Oregon, May 9, 2008)
(2011) "In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died -- an entire town destroyed." (--on a Kansas tornado that killed 12 people)
(Associated Press - Oct 21,2011) Re: Obama's Jobs Bill - "While the president claims Republicans are blocking his plan, many Democrats oppose it too. President Obama insists Republican leaders won't tell him what they find objectionable in the bill. They have done so in detail, the AP notes. Proposals in the ''jobs bill'' are similar to those that have had bipartisan support in the past, President Obama maintains. That simply is false; massive tax increases such as those the president wants have never been backed by Republican lawmakers. And this, not mentioned by the AP: President Obama insists his proposals are proven job creators. Yet much of his package merely copies features of his previous $787 billion ''stimulus.'' Most Americans understand that initiative was ineffective. Fortunately, many in the public seem to understand President Obama is not being candid. There certainly has been no groundswell of support - and there certainly should not be one. The president's proposal would waste hundreds of billions of dollars and should not be considered by Congress."
(Quote from News Sources) Obama claimed his parents united as a direct result of the civil rights movement: "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 Jr. was born. Obama was born in 1961. The Selma march took place in 1965. His spokesman, Bill Burton, later explained that Obama was "speaking metaphorically about the civil rights movement as a whole."
Barack Obama claims the mission in Iraq is a success. What was the mission in Iraq?
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