Here is a very short list of lies that he has told over the years, both before and during his presidency.
- Candidate Obama promised that he would make sure that there was always enough time for the public to read legislation before it was enacted, but he has done exactly the opposite, repeatedly pressing for even faster passage of even longer bills.
- Candidate Obama claimed that violent radical Bill Ayers was just another guy in his neighborhood, but the record shows that the two had worked closely together.
- Candidate Obama promised us that CIA personnel involved in the interrogation of terrorists would not be prosecuted, but his administration is now doing exactly that.
- Obama said that Caterpillar's CEO had told him that Caterpillar would begin hiring again as a result of the stimulus bill, but the CEO immediately announced that he had said no such thing, that Caterpillar would in fact be laying off more workers.
- Obama assured us that his health plan would never ration care, or "pull the plug" on grandma, but the legislation he backs sets up panels to make crucial decisions on when to withhold care, and it makes such deep cuts in Medicare that rationing is inevitable.
- Obama, in order to obtain passage of his first stimulus bill, assured us that 90 percent of the jobs created would be in the private sector, but as he well knew, most of them were to be in the public sector.
If it can conclusively be demonstrated that Obama lies, how can we believe anyhting he says? How do we know, when he opens his mouth, whether he is telling the truth or lying? Is there some truth/lie indicator that only liberals/progressives can see, that conservatives cannot see? Or do we need waivers? For all of you who say that all politicians lie, that excuse does not, in any way, permit lying.
But that's just my opinion.
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Article comments
— go to most recent comments1 - El Bicho
"Obama credited the Selma, AL, march as where his parents first met."
One little problem: he didn't say they met at the march nor does the site you link say that's what he said.
Since it has been conclusively demonstrated (again)that Warren lies, how can we believe anything he writes?
2 - Dr Hussein Dreadful
Politicians LIE???!!! Who knew???
Warren will be telling us that Texas is big next.
3 - Jet Gardner
Republicans railing against big-money corporations is the ultimate in hypocrisy.
You’ve lost what little credibility you have. At least when I write an article, I base it on quotes and reliable facts with credible links, not on slanted opinion polls from right-wing websites and Limbaugh-style innuendo.
You’re being laughed at Warren.
You’re being laughed at.
4 - Jet Gardner
By the way the constant use of "Hussein" goes a long way towards your credibility, and any fair-minded reader knows it and stops reading the moment they see it, because they automatically know what's coming...
...slanted, misleading and at times ridiculous muck-raking that just barely makes sense. The only people that would believe this drivvel are already convinced.
You're preaching to a choir that already drank the koolaid, Warren.
My concern is that your dragging BC's political credibility down with it on the grounds of the first amendment.
5 - Jet Gardner
Have you considered writing under the name
Warren "Whose sane?" Beatty?
6 - Cannonshop
Water's wet, Rain comes down from clouds, people have secrets and Politicians lie.
Dog bites man, Warren.
7 - Jet Hussein Gardner
Facts:
Under republican President Eisenhower anyone who made $400.000+ was taxed at 91%
Democratic president Kennedy was assassinated before he could effect tax rates.
Under Democratic President Johnson anyone who made $400,000+ dropped to 77% and it later dropped to 70% under his administration.
Under Republican president Richard Nixon the threshold was lowered by half and anyone who made $200,000+ paid 77% and later dropped to 70%
Under Republican President Ford and Democrat Jimmy Carter it stayed at 70% for anyone who made $200,000+
Under Republican President Ronald Reagon the tax rate dropped to 50% but at the same time he rose the tax rates of millions of Americans by lowering the threshold of the top bracket from $212,000 down to $29,750.
Under Republican President Bush I, anyone making $82,000+ got a cut in rates down to 28%
Under Democrat President Bill Clinton anyone making over $86,150+ paid 39.6%. He succeeded in giving some relief to the upper middle class by raising the upper tax bracket to $250,000+ who only paid 39.6% and that bracket was raised giving more relief by being raised to $288,350.
Republican George Bush II stayed steady at 39.6% and went lower to 35%
Republican Barack "Hussein" Obama has stayed steady at 35%
Eisenhower (R) 91%
Kennedy/Johnson (D) 77%
Nixon (R) 77-71%
Ford (R) 70%
Carter (D) 70%
Reagan (R) 50%
Bush I (R) 28%
Clinton (D) 39.6%
Bush II (R) 39.6% - 35%
Hussein (D) 35%
Tell me again exactly what the Republican't are whining about?
8 - Jet Hussein Gardner
Obama was born on August 4, 1961, at Kapi?olani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital (now Kapi?olani Medical Center for Women and Children) in Honolulu, Hawaii, and is the first President to have been born in Hawaii. His mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was born in Wichita, Kansas, and was of mostly English ancestry, along with Scottish, Irish, German, and Swiss.
His father, Barack Obama, Sr., was a Luo from Nyang’oma Kogelo, Nyanza Province, Kenya. Obama's parents met in 1960 in a Russian class at the University of Hawai?i at M?noa, where his father was a foreign student on scholarship. The couple married on February 2, 1961, separated when Obama Sr. went to Harvard University on scholarship, and divorced in 1964. Obama Sr. remarried and returned to Kenya, visiting Barack in Hawaii only once, in 1971. He died in an automobile accident in 1982.
After her divorce, Dunham married Indonesian Lolo Soetoro, who was attending college in Hawaii. When Suharto, a military leader in Soetoro's home country, came to power in 1967, all Indonesian students studying abroad were recalled, and the family moved to the Menteng neighborhood of Jakarta. From ages six to ten, Obama attended local schools in Jakarta, including Besuki Public School and St. Francis of Assisi School.
In 1971, Obama returned to Honolulu to live with his maternal grandparents, Madelyn and Stanley Armour Dunham, and with the aid of a scholarship attended Punahou School, a private college preparatory school, from fifth grade until his graduation from high school in 1979. Obama's mother returned to Hawaii in 1972, remaining there until 1977 when she went back to Indonesia to work as an anthropological field worker. She finally returned to Hawaii in 1994 and lived there for one year before dying of ovarian cancer.
9 - Jet Gardner
Do you really believe that no president before Obama had wall street bankers as advisors?
I suppose Romney is only going to hire Alabama local general store managers and Evangelical Southern Baptist priests to pray away our economic woes as advisors?
Just exactly how much of that koolaid did you swallow you poor man?
10 - Jet Gardner
I find it appropriate that the website he sites on Obama's parents is entitled "Hot Air"
11 - El Bicho
"Only 36.3 miles of the 700 miles of fence has been built. Under Obama, only 4.3 miles of double layer fencing has been built. I don't think that even the most ardent Obama supporters will say that 36.3 miles constitutes "basically complete," but I have been wrong before."
I agree. You have been wrong before and this time is no different. There's 652 miles of fencing (99.5 percent) completed, which includes 299 miles of vehicle barriers and 350 miles of pedestrian fence. It's funny (or lame) how you switch to referring to double layer fencing, which DHS determined they didn't need at all locations.
Twice in one article it has been conclusively demonstrated that Warren lies, so how can we believe anything he writes?
12 - Jet Gardner
Drat E.B. you beat me to it while I was researching it... I'm wearing out my secret liberal decoder ring trying to translate this silly article.
13 - Glenn Contrarian
Warren did NOT lie. He has told not a single lie in this or any other article he's submitted.
Why? Because no matter how easily disproven it is, he really believes this stuff - and if he believes it, then he's not lying. He's simply wrong. So the real question is, why does Warren believe this claptrap when it's so easily disproven?
It's simple prejudice.
Note that I'm not saying prejudice against color (thought I've got my strong suspicions since Warren knows the MS Delta very well). I'm referring to the prejudicial mindset. Someone with a prejudicial mindset has a tendency to believe most stories that they run across as long as it fits the prejudicial paradigm - the mental echo chamber, if you will - that defines his or her personality.
In other words, these "news stories" sounded quite reasonable to Warren since they fit his personal prejudicial paradigm, and so he really, truly does believe them.
Which means he didn't lie. Warren told not a single lie in this article. He put out information that was almost entirely incorrect and quickly proven false, but he didn't lie...because he really believed every single word of it.
14 - Dr Dreadful
Well, I'm no expert but I flew along the border for some considerable distance on a flight from San Diego to Houston a couple of weeks ago and it certainly looked like more than 36.3 miles.
15 - El Bicho
"Warren did NOT lie. He has told not a single lie in this or any other article he's submitted."
Apparently you don't know all the definitions of the word, Glenn.
Lie (intransitive verb): to express what is false; convey a false impression.
Looks like Warren's not alone.
16 - Warren Beatty
Re: comment # 1: EB,
(1) I congratulate you for focusing on the topic of my article.
(2) Here is an excerpt from the speech that Obama gave: "This young man named Barack Obama got one of those tickets and came over to this country. He met this woman whose great great-great-great-grandfather had owned slaves; but she had a good idea there was some craziness going on because they looked at each other and they decided that we know that the world as it has been it might not be possible for us to get together and have a child. 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. So don’t tell me I don’t have a claim on Selma, Alabama. Don’t tell me I’m not coming home to Selma, Alabama." Kinda puta a hole in your argument. Besides, my article was about Obama's demonstrable lies, not when his parents met.
Re: comment # 4, Jet, you say, "My concern is that your dragging BC's political credibility down with it on the grounds of the first amendment." If you are concerned, I look for you to start your own web site, then reject my articles. Isn't freedom wonderful?
Re: comment # 7, 8, and 9, Jet, what does what you say have to do with my article?
Re: comment # 11, EB, whether or not the fence is warrented is NOT the point. Obama himself said "Well, that fence is now basically complete." Does "basically" mean 5%? If so, then I will love to do business with you. I say, "I don't think that even the most ardent Obama supporters will say that 36.3 miles constitutes "basically complete," but I have been wrong before." Let's suppose (for illistration) that you contract with me to do a specific job for you. If I complete only 5% of that job, then say it's "basically complete," will you be happy with me? Probably not, but I have been wrong before.
Re: comment # 13, Glenn, you say, "It's simple prejudice." You are correct! I am quite predudiced when it comes to someone who tells demonstrable lies, uh, untruths.
You say, "...why does Warren believe this claptrap when it's so easily disproven?" You further say, "He put out information that was almost entirely incorrect and quickly proven false, ...." OK, Glenn (or anyone), disprove me. And please offer more than opinions.
Re: comment # 14, Doc, refer to above about comment # 11.
17 - Jet Gardner
Can a person whose delusional lie? Can a person who is delusional tell the truth?
18 - Dr Hussein Dreadful
That definition's rather loose, El B.
More precisely, a lie is when you say something knowing it to be false, intending that your audience believes it to be true.
For example, a parent who tells their child that the Tooth Fairy exists is lying (albeit innocuously). A parent who tells their child that God exists is not (unless they don't believe in God themselves).
Warren may be lying, but that's impossible to prove without an admission from the man himself.
His work does exhibit a stark lack of intellectual integrity (specifically, cherry-picking certain points that support his argument while ignoring those that don't), but that's just a bad habit he's picked up somewhere along the way, as have many politicians and people who discuss politics.
19 - Jet Gardner
See guys, I was right it's the Maher bubble! He explained to you that that wall is actually there's 652 miles of fencing (99.5 percent) completed, which includes 299 miles of vehicle barriers and 350 miles of pedestrian fence.
Facts go into that bubble but they don't come out!
I feel so sorry for you.
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20 - Dr Hussein Dreadful
In a nutshell, the fence is basically complete, as Obama says - it's just not the double-layered, commando-patrolled, electrified, nuclear-armed, gold-plated fence with signs all the way along it saying "Ha ha, we're on this side, you're not, nyah nyah nyah-nyah nyah" that GOP lawmakers wanted.
The law was amended the year after it was passed (under the Bush administration) so as to release the DHS from the requirement to build the double-layered fence in areas where it wasn't necessary (it wouldn't make sense, for example, to build it along the top of a half-mile-deep, sheer-sided canyon).
Politifact gives the claim a "Mostly False" rating, primarily because the "completed" fence isn't the fence Republicans thought they were buying.
21 - Jet Gardner
The Secure Fence Act of 2006 was passed by Congress and signed by President George W. Bush on October 26, 2006, but it was only partially funded, leaving the Obama administration to pay for the rest of it.
The signing of the bill comes right after a CNN poll shows us that most Americans "prefer the idea of more Border Patrol agents to a 700-mile (1,125-kilometer) fence." There is a only a down payment of $1.2 billion to the Department of Homeland Security marked for border security, but not specifically for the border fence.
Rick Perry, governor of Texas, expressed his opposition saying that instead of closing the border it should be opened more and through technology support legal and safe migration. The barrier expansion has also been opposed by a unanimous vote of the Laredo, Texas City Council. Laredo's Mayor, Raul G. Salinas, is concerned about defending his town's people by saying that the Bill which includes miles of border wall would devastate Laredo. He states "these are people that are sustaining our economy by forty percent, and I am gonna close the door on them and put [up] a wall? You don't do that. It's like a slap in the face." He hopes that Congress would revise the Bill that better reflects the realities of life on the border.
There are no plans to build border fence in Laredo at this time.
As of January 2010, the fence project has been completed from San Diego, California to Yuma, Arizona. From there it continues into Texas and consists of a fence that is 21 feet (6.4 m) tall and 6 feet (1.8 m) deep in the ground, cemented in a 3-foot (0.91 m)-wide trench with 5000 psi (UK/Éire:345 bar; 352 kg/cm²) concrete.
22 - Jet Gardner
It's the Maher bubble effect. He reads the first sentence and if it can't be attributed to Rush Limpbaugh, his mind doesn't see the words on the page and he doesn't read it!
As for me starting my own political website, you obviously haven't clicked my name which takes you directly to it.
[sigh]
23 - Glenn Contrarian
Warren -
Looks like y'all did the "Shirley Sherrod" thing again. Y'all focused on one part of Obama's speech which made it look like he lied, yet ignored the rest of his speech which made it clear that he was telling the truth. Why? Because this article makes it clear that President Hussein Obama wasn't simply referring to the march across the Selma bridge, but to the entire civil rights movement including the Rosa Parks bus incident that happened in 1955! It's the same selective editing that Breitbart used to get Shirley Sherrod in trouble...and did the Rabid Right do anything about Breitbart when it became clear that he selectively edited her speech to make it look like she was racist, when her speech CLEARLY showed otherwise? Did we see articles from major names on the Right denouncing Breitbart's obvious dishonest? No. Because the Rabid Right didn't care about the truth. They only cared about what fit with their prejudices.
You're not to blame, Warren - you simply believed what you were told, and you didn't dig to find out if there was anything wrong with what you were told. But why should you dig? After all, it all fit with your personal prejudice and it sounded right, so why should you consider wasting a moment verifying the right-wing echo chamber's claims?
24 - Glenn Contrarian
El B -
When a four year-old child says that two plus two equals five because she really thinks that two plus two equals five, is that four year-old child lying? Are you going to tell her "you're lying"?
Or are you going tell her, "no, nice try, but this is how it works...."?
25 - El Bicho
1) When you include lies in your article, it's easy to stay on topic.
2) What do you think that accomplished other than proving you failed to make your point? Is your writing knowledge really so poor that you don't understand symbolism or metaphors? Considering this article doesn't have an introduction and your previous, I wouldn't be surprised.
One of your "demonstrable" lies was when Obama's parents met. Not sure how you separate the two, but then I am not sure how you come up with a lot of the things you do.
Your response to #11 demonstrates that your dislike of Obama is so intense you won't let the truth get in the way of your delusions. Obama was correct and you are wrong.
From Politifact: "Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, proposed an amendment to give DHS the discretion to decide what type of fence was appropriate in different areas. The law was amended to read, 'nothing in this paragraph shall require the Secretary of Homeland Security to install fencing, physical barriers, roads, lighting, cameras, and sensors in a particular location along an international border of the United States, if the Secretary determines that the use or placement of such resources is not the most appropriate means to achieve and maintain operational control over the international border at such location.'
In other words, Border Patrol would have the leeway to decide which type of fencing was appropriate in various regions."
You want to argue about the amount of double-layer fencing DHS chose, that's one issue. To say the fence is incomplete is a demonstrable lie.
Doc, if you have a problem with that definition of "lie", feel free to take it up with Merriam-Webster.
Glenn, I know Warren's diminished capabilities may make it seem like it, but he's not a four-year-old child, though I see how you would make that mistake.