Is President Obama A Pathological Liar?
The
Obama Record: The
most frightening aspect of this president may not be his radical ideology but
his rank dishonesty in selling that ideology. Now he's been caught lying about
family racism.
In
"Dreams from My Father," his 1995 memoir, Obama used the story of his paternal
grandfather's imprisonment and torture at the hands of British colonists in
Kenya as an example of white cruelty. He claimed Hussein Onyango Obama was
unjustly detained for six months before being released a crippled, lice-ridden
"old man."
In
fact, none of it is true, according to Washington Post editor and biographer
David Maraniss, who traveled to Kenya to investigate the tale. His grandfather
was not detained or beaten by his "white rulers," as Obama, writing as a
34-year-old lawyer, claimed.
This
is only the latest example of a growing body of fabrications, embellishments and
outright lies told by this president, who has a real and possibly pathological
problem with the truth.
Stacked
up, his whoppers would make even Bill Clinton blush. Here's a
sampling:
Lie
No. 1: Obama
has repeatedly claimed his white grandfather, Stanley Dunham, "fought in
Patton's army," when he was a clerk with no combat in WWII.
Lie
No. 2: Obama
claimed Dunham, a communist sympathizer, signed up for duty "the day after Pearl
Harbor," when in fact he waited six months.
Lie
No. 3: Obama
claimed his father "fought when he got back to Kenya against tribalism and
nepotism, but ultimately was blackballed from the government," when in fact he
fought against capitalism and lost his job when he advocated
communism.
Lie
No. 4: Obama
has claimed his late mother's health insurer refused "to pay for her treatment"
for cancer while citing a "pre-existing condition," when Cigna paid all her
hospital bills and never denied payment.
Lie
No. 5: Obama
claimed he and a black high school friend named "Ray" were ostracized in
Honolulu, when in fact the friend, Keith Kakugawa, was half-Japanese, and
neither of them experienced discrimination.
Lie
No. 6: Obama
claimed the father of his Indonesian stepfather was killed by Dutch soldiers
while fighting for Indonesian independence, when in fact the story turns out to
be "a concocted myth in almost all respects," Maraniss found.
Lie
No. 7: Obama
claimed his parents decided to marry in the excitement of the Selma civil-rights
march of 1965 — and that he personally has "a claim on Selma" — when in fact
they were married several years earlier.
Lie
No. 8: Obama
claimed his father got to study in the U.S. thanks to JFK's efforts to bring
"young Africans over to America," when in fact the Kenyan airlift his father
participated in occurred in 1959 under Ike.
Lie
No. 9: Obama
submitted a phony bio to his book publicist claiming he was "born in
Kenya."
Lie
No. 10: Obama
denied being a member of the socialist New Party, when a member roster of the
Chicago chapter of the party lists him joining on Jan. 11, 1996.
Lie
No. 11: Obama
claimed he had only a passing acquaintance with Weather Underground terrorists
Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, when in fact they held a fundraiser for their
Hyde Park neighbor in their living room, and years later, while Obama served in
the U.S. Senate, hosted a barbecue for him in their backyard.
Lie
No. 12: Obama
claimed he never heard Rev. Jeremiah Wright spew anti-American invectives while
sitting in his pews for 20 years, when in fact Obama was moved to tears hearing
Wright condemn "white folks" and the U.S. for bombing other countries and even
named his second book after the sermon.
Lie
No. 13: Obama
claimed he got in a "big fight" with old white flame Genevieve Cook, who after
seeing a black play asked "why black people were so angry all the time," when in
fact she never saw the play nor made the remark.
In
both his autobiographies, Obama paints a false portrait of a still-racist
America and West, where he, his friends and relatives are victimized by that
racism. Conveniently, his remedy is redistributive justice through bigger
government.
