Comments on: Why did Barack Obama fail to respond to his being called and proved a liar in regards to debates and campaign ?

By: bostonianinmo

bostonianinmo — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 03:21:37 +0000

He agreed to it initially. McCain used the public funds agreement to secure loans and then tried to opt out, at which point Obama declared that McCain’s actions voided the agreement.

Obama saw no need to publicly slap McCain down any further so he ignored it at the debate.

By: Caliban Larry

Caliban Larry — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:44:33 +0000

I’m responding as a voter who will not be voting for either McCain/Palin or Obama/Biden. Both tickets have run smear campaigns, and, therefore, neither deserve my vote.

As I read questions such as yours–posted by obviously biased McCain or Obama supporters–I wonder how any intelligent human being can obsess about fraudulent statements made by the candidate they oppose and then ignore the same behavior in the candidate they support.

Having said that, I agree with you that Obama broke his pledge about accepting only public funding for his campaign. But both camps break promises; they lie, bend the truth, and distort facts. A large part of their staffs are made up of image consultants. Wasn’t it McCain who said he was going to discontinue his campaign until after the financial crisis was resolved? Did he follow through with that promise?

To finally answer your question: Yes, Obama is a bald-faced liar. But so are Biden, McCain, Palin, and every other politician in this country. Some are just better than others at looking the American public in the face and lying through their teeth.

By: astroman

astroman — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:35:14 +0000

Could you be a little more vague. Personally I am sick of the accusations of Mcsame and the lack of presentation of his agenda. The race is suppose to be about the issues and not negative campaign tactics. I think Mcsame is showing his desperation every day he loses points in the polls. Obama shouldn’t have to answer to the negative campaigning, although he does. Obama has debated Mcsame with much satisfaction in my book, besides any further debates would only hurt Mcsame.

By: testpattern(raster effect)

testpattern(raster effect) — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:47:20 +0000

You seem like an intelligent man Paul, and I am really surprised you don’t already know this.

Obama said he would do the public funding IF McCain was doing it, and McCain tried to back out of public funding by claiming it was just security for a loan.. This is expressly mentioned in the act as being the same as using the funds directly.

So McCain not only lied about using public funds but was in clear violation of the law when he did it.
McCain also exceeded the funding limits, but Bush has refused to appoint replacements to the election funding committee, so they could not form a quorum and make a decision on whether McCain should have been charged or not.

About the town hall meetings, well those are not really debate venues, now are they.

By: darkdiva

darkdiva — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:33:23 +0000

I disagree with you about failure to respond. It’s just that Obama does not get excited and grumpy. It has been proved that those attacks are not helpful and the only people who want to hear them are people like you–they call them the republican base–I call them the racists from the old days. When McCain attacks Obama, he’s preaching to the choir. He needs to appeal to the undecided, which are going for Obama’s message and demeanor. There is a desperation among McCain supporters because of the polling numbers, but don’t despair the only real numbers that count are the votes.

By: KIZIAH

KIZIAH — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 13:38:03 +0000

When Obama agreed to public financing early on in the campaign he had no idea that his grass roots supporters would be so generous. So he changed his mind. You can bet that McCain would have done the same thing IF he had had the same kind of support.

And why should Obama want to tie himself to McCain with his hokey town hall meetings in high school gyms when he can fill a football stadium? I don’t think so.

Obama is going to win. You may as well start practice saying “President Obama”!

By: bloodbath

bloodbath — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:08:25 +0000

Obama did the right thing.
I see you took your cue from McPoopypant’s lame reasoning

By: michele s

michele s — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:45:37 +0000

only the most hardened obama fans find it hard to admit that he is a down and out liar

he has lied lied lied throughout the whole campaign

he is an accomplished speaker of other peoples words

he is a stammerer when speaking off the cuff

i am surprised he didn’t have a learned response to these allegations he surely must know that if he lies convincingly enough his fans will believe his every word

why put doubt in the minds of the undecided? unless of course even he couldn’t lie about being such a liar

By: KJ

KJ — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:40:05 +0000

Yeah, probably so. I was amazed to actually see Obama speechless! It was great. I wish everyone would quit defending his associations and making excuses for his actions. If everyone found out that he used to hang out in hell at Satan’s house, Dems would say that he didn’t realize it was hell, because Chicago gets hot so he was probably used to it.

By: namsaev

namsaev — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:12:08 +0000

He couldn’t have stood up to the scrutiny. Here’s a recent post from the WSJ about his 95% get a tax cut.

I’m not saying McCain is the messiah like the Democrats are about Obama. It’s just I can find less holes in his proposals.