April 08, 2008
Obama + YouTube = Priceless candidate gasbaggery
Want a graphic example of how the internet, bloggers, and viral video are changing elections?
Check out the video above, which neatly slices, dices and makes mincemeat of a classic Barack Obama lie.
There's simply no place for candidates to hide anymore; the nature of the web has eliminated the ability of the media -- traditionally in the tank for liberal politicians -- to cover for these crapweasels when they willfully lie to us.
This is one of those stories that would have disappeared down the memory hole in past elections, ignored by the press.
Now, it's the subject of a short, brutally in-your-face video, one that makes the point, over and over and over, that Obama's full of crap. And it's available for viewing 24/7, just an e-mailed cut-and-paste link or web search away from anyone who wants to see it.
Politicians and their shills must hate that, but it seems like an unalloyed good thing to me.
Posted by Mike Lief at April 8, 2008 12:37 PM
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Given the titanic lies that were told to get the United States into Iraq, most people could care less that Obama plays a little with McCain's words. McCain may not be asking for 100 years of war, but even a single year of additional fighting seems like a 100 years to those who watch blood and money wasted in a foreign land.
Posted by: Grim at April 10, 2008 06:12 AM
What's not clear to me in this clip of Obama is whether
1) Obama is suggesting that we can pull up his quotes on YouTube showing that he's not actually saying McCain wants to spend another hundred years at war in Iraq. If this is what he means then he has indeed misrepresented what he (Obama) has previously said.
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2) Whether Obama's saying that he disagrees with the view that McCain never said he wanted to spend another hundred years in Iraq and that McCain's quotes, saying he does want to spend another hundred years in Iraq can be found on YouTube. If this is what Obama meant, then we'd need to see what McCain has actually said before we'd no whether obama is right or wrong.
Does that make sense? It does to me, but the usage of pronouns here was so confused, that this felt more like an algebra problem than an argument.
Posted by: GasBag at April 10, 2008 07:58 PM
GasBag --
I've read multiple accounts of the McCain quote, wherein he (McCain) says that we may indeed have to remain in Iraq for 100 years, much as we still have troops in Germany, Japan and Korea more than 60 years after the end of WWI.
McCain does not say anything about fighting a hundred-year war.
I agree that the pronoun thing is a bit confusing, but the only interpretation that makes sense is that Obama is misrepresenting his position.
Posted by: Mike Lief at April 10, 2008 08:28 PM
That might be the only thing that makes sense to you, but I don't think that's what Obama is saying. He knows that he's repeatedly said that McCain is willing spend the next 100 years fighting a war in Iraq. It makes no sense that he would deny that.
On the other hand, to disagree with how to interpret what McCain has said on the subject, seems reasonable. When you consider that when McCain farts while taking a dump, Democrats will say he opposes limits on greenhouse gas emissions, Obama's interpretation of what McCain "really" meant by his 100 years in Iraq comment seems pretty reasonable.
Posted by: GasBag at April 10, 2008 09:22 PM