May 5, 2008

Election 2008: Barack Obama The Illusionist

By Tim | May 5, 2008 | Tags: , Northern America |

Stunning expose on presidential candidiate Barack Obama at the Australian today; Fred Seigal writes:

POLITICAL campaigning necessarily produces a wide gap between words and deeds. This is the price of bringing together a broad coalition with disparate interests. All effective politicians are at times authentically insincere or sincerely inauthentic. Exaggeration, embellishment, overstatement, doubletalk, deception and lies presented as metaphorical truths are the order of the day.

So, of course, Barack Obama is no different. He exaggerates the credit he deserves for a limited piece of ethics-reform legislation. He embellishes when he presents himself as having had a consistent record on the Iraq war when in fact he’s done a fair amount of zigzagging.

Read The Full Story At The Australian.

 

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