Yet Another Worrisome “Obamaism”: The Banking Committee Is “My Committee” [UPDATES]
By SusanUnPC on July 23, 2008 at 2:40 PM in Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Iraq, NATO, Obamaisms
UPDATES: Memeorandum.com is tracking the story; CNN’s Political Ticker and several blogs have reported Obama’s (to be polite) misstatement. The Chicago Tribune has picked up the story. I’m certain that MSNBC and Keith Olbermann will be alllllll over this too, especially since Keith constantly criticizes other news networks for not being “fair and balanced.” LATEST UPDATE: “THE FINE LINE BETWEEN PANDERING AND LYING.”
(I used to say, “Imagine if Hillary had said this.” Now, I say, “Imagine if McCain had said this. It’d be reported at the top of every news show.”)
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At today’s press conference, Barack Obama said that the U.S. Senate’s banking committee is his committee, which will surely come as a surprise to the chairman of the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs committee, Christopher Dodd, an Obama sycophant.
Not only is the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs not HIS committee, Barack Obama is not even a member of the committee:
Perhaps Senator Obama is having a “senior moment”? It’s reminiscent of his stating that there are 57 states in the U.S. Actually, I think that Obama probably doesn’t remember which committees he is on, given his dilatory, lackluster inattention to his duties on the committees on which he does serve. Shall we bring up his failure to hold a single hearing as Chair of the Subcommittee on European Affairs, which is part of the Senate’s Foreign Policy Committee? As Joseph Wilson wrote here:
As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee on Europe, with jurisdiction over NATO, he has held not a single oversight meeting because, as he admitted, he was too busy running for president, even though NATO’s presence in the Afghanistan war is critical to success in that venture.
– “Legitimate questions of judgment, experience” by Joseph Wilson, May 4, 2008
As the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee subcommittee on Europe, he has not chaired a single substantive oversight hearing, even though the breakdown in our relations with Europe and NATO is harming our operations in Afghanistan. Nor did he take a single official trip to Europe as chairman. This is the sum total of his actions in the most important responsibility he has had in the Senate. What are his actual experiences that reassure us that when the phone rings at 3 a.m. he will know what to do, which levers of power to pull, or which world leaders he can count on?
– “Obama’s Shallow Credentials on National Security Are Dangerous for the Country” by Joseph Wilson
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Thanks to PPM for sending me the link to the video.
I find this appalling on many levels.
First, it is wholly inappropriate to refer to any committee as “MY” committee. It is not only ungentlemanly, it is egotistical.
Second, it is a flat-out lie that shows his utter lack of attention to his Senate duties in the VERY short time he has been a U.S. Senator.
Third, here is the list of committees on which Senator Obama theoretically serves.
It’s not the committee I knew
BWAAAAHAAAAAAHA!!
In case you all are not aware, barky actually heads up every committee. It is only because of his extreme modesty that he ALLOWS others to take the credit.
He is so used to taking credit for the work of others, it comes naturally to him. But now that every word the Holy One utters is on tape, he will get caught. I heard him say that today and I had a mental hiccup….thinking I never heard he was on that committee. Thanks for catching yet another lie.
Amazingly, he didn’t just slip in the word “my” (as in a slip of the tongue), he made a specific statement that it’s his committee.
This is truly outrageous. Where does this guy get off?
It’s the same thing as when he said in the debates that he gave his 2002 anti-Iraq resolution speech when he was running in a “high stakes” campaign for U.S. Senate… (False, it was when he was running for a piddly state legislature seat in a highly liberal district.)
Of course the media never called him on it. Just let it slip by. Like so many other LIES he has told….
He is so used to taking credit for the work of others, it comes naturally to him. But now that every word the Holy One utters is on tape, he will get caught. I heard him say that today and I had a mental hiccup….thinking I never heard he was on that committee. Thanks for catching yet another lie.
An alternative explanation is that he did just as much work on the banking committee as he did on the Foreign Relations committee.
I can only conclude that the voters of Illinois have got to be some of the dumbest, most gullible voters in the nation. This pathetic little man has absolutely no place being in Congress and certainly should never be allowed in any position involving the safety and wellbeing of this country.
Well, you can’t really blame the good people of Illinois that much. The Democratic primary for the US Senate race was pretty much gamed from the start so that Obama would become the Democratic nominee, while the GOP race turned into such a fiasco that the State’s GOP was forced to call in an outsider who would have actually been WORSE for not only Illinois but the US as a whole had the GOP won.
Yes, Obama has been less than astounding (one could argue he’s even less than mediocre) as a Senator, but I think that Senator Alan Keyes would have been even worse (and Keyes would have also made a run for the White House this year).
Committee - under the bus!
(facetious alert)Pfft
He is the King of the United States(A(O)bomination). Do you not understand how it is this kingdom works?
Let me explain it to you. As king he is in charge of the Military. Both the old and his new bright and shiny one. He loves his new one, however Raila is the CIC of it. All senators and congressmen are his employees. He will do the hiring. There will be no future elections for the people. No laws, bills, etc…will even be discussed without his express written approval. All taxes will be placed in a private account he sets up with only his name on it. To ensure no money is spent without his signature. He will have a team of accountants Abongo(Roy) will be in charge of to ensure we are not demanding or spending too much of his money. All discoveries Scientific and Medical are totally his to claim. He will cure every known disease. If you are not cured then YOU have no disease. Civilian employees will now oversee all past and future committees and he will be the one and only Chairman to approve or disapprove of any recommendations. We will no longer sing the Star Spangled Banner. We will now sing Barack Obama as sung by Stevie Wonder. We will now pledge Allegiance to King Obama (after all there would be no country without him). These rules are subject to change.
Now, Please get with the program people.
PS: He did pass laws to extend health care to our troops. That he was not listed shall be corrected; as well as all other gaffes. He’s now seeking a new publisher to correct all history books. Please do not correct him again on the 57 states. The flag will be changed to reflect that statement.
In the next day or so, Barry will be issueing a statement that he signed the bill, and then he will probably attach a signing statement to it.
Obama Is Losing This Election As We Speak
http://patriotroom.com/?p=598
My security immediately cut this off when I linked to it. Did anyone else have this problem?
yes, when I went directly to youtube, it said the “video was no longer available” sounds fishy to me — wonder who took it off???
On aol Political Machine the 2 videos by McCain set to music were gone from 1 of the few oped people pro McCain over there. Then her post was gone soon after.
I saw him say this and thought WTH that’s Dodds CMTE
but to learn he isnt even ON the Cmte??
He was taking credit for it explaining how he was going to handle Iran and how the new sanctions of HIS Cmte would address Iran, this in reply to questions while in Israel..
typical Uhhbama, Emil Jones ‘gave’ him all that legislation and he has never stopped putting his name on others’ work since…
Maybe he’s got himself confused with Hagel or Bayh. I mean. I know I think they are interchangable ….
hey - have you ever seen anyone on the Senate Banking Committee wearing the color green? No you have not.
There, that settles it. The Banking Committee does indeed belong to His Omnipotent Lord the Most Possumus Obama.
Please let Elizabeth Dole speak up and say something. Please let it be the WOMAN on the committee to bitch slap the snot!
Hey I guess since he owns dodd, he owns the cmte.
Most of O’s backers are bankers and own him-He’s just way ahead of himself and I doubt he’ll ever catch up..
This is the worse POTUS candidate I have ever witnessed besides Bush.
I think he is worse than Bush, as a Candidate. I hate to think I might have to compare their insipidiness as President!!!
Exactly. Bankers are Ob’s base. Meanwhile, they’re guessing the costs to us of Freddie, et. al., and no one talks about investigating the billions Ob’s banking base “earned” at taxpayers expense. For instance, Indymac Bank has a parent company called Indymac Bancorp that has $32B in assets as of March 31, 2008. Aren’t any of those profits on the line? Instead, they want to spend the government into the ground and then tell us we don’t have Social Security.
I see Hagel is on that committee too. Isn’t he on this magical mystery tour with Obama? Wonder what he thought about that comment.
bambi’s probably referring to waaaay back when, in another lifetime of his self-aggrandizing imagination.
Didn’t he say something the other day like, “When I was in the Senate…” Which just indicates how much he thinks he’s already president.
He thinks he’s president? He thinks he’s the head of Senate committees, yet he’s not even “in the Senate” anymore? He thinks he was a constitutional law professor - he thinks soooooooo many false things.
But, actually I don’t think bambi’s that delusional. He just thinks we are. Because he can tell any lie he wants about himself or anyone else with impunity - I mean, who’s gonna call him on it? The media? Bwaaaaaaaah!
I’m seriously startin to wonder if the reason we have only the phony COLB is because there are really just a set of clones….and none of them can get the story wriiiight ?
he’s moved on from us… he is thinking he is closer to King of the World nowadays. Pretty soon, he’ll be saying “why, back when I was still just “The President”…”
He is a pathological liar.
I AM THE KING OF THE WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORLD!!!!!
The latest add from McCain - Both Ways Barack
http://www.bothwaysbarack.com/
WOW ….
Ha!
Just like Batman’s villan, 2 Face!
LOL - not only is this a good “hit” piece, but it is also a pretty funny attempt trying to get people to think about Larry Sinclair’s story…
(i.e., marriage to Michelle Obama & hanging with Larry Sinclair - “Both Ways” Barack…)
AC/DC Barack.
Ouch, that’s going to leave a mark!
“Both ways Barack, Worse than a flip flopper”
LMA0!!!!!LMAO!!
The producers of this terrific video will have to update with an add-on several times a day to incorporate all his latest “bothways” declarations.
The guy is a disaster.
I don’t think that’s from the McCain Campaign. Let Freedom Ring must be an independent PAC or something. Still, it nails it. They need to keep hammering that home: YOU CANNOT TRUST THIS MAN. It will come down to: Who can you trust with all the issues this country, and your family faces? Obama will look like a big question mark.
Obama needs to prove he an do something besides promote himself.
He could start by unifying the Democratic Party. If he can’t even do the comparitively simple task of party unification, how can he going to end 2 wars and rebuild the ecomony?
The Messiah’s brain has been badly damaged by years of cocaine abuse, and he will be oblivious to what’s going on. His administration will end up being run by losers who will duplicate the disastrous Bush years.
He seems to have no inhibitions about just making shit up.
Howard Dean might want to get on the phone and have a heart to heart chat with Howell Raines.
I think it’s too late. Oboychick believes the shit he says. He’s gone one toke over the line.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQrNWZ4Y5tU
That seems more than a slip of the tongue or a lapse of attention. That is pretty unequivocally a fabrication, isn’t it? They need to get a little guy to follow him around holding the laurel wreath over his head and saying, “Remember, thou art but a senator - that only temporarily.” The reality makers are still in office.
Where do the sense of entitlement and delusions of grandeur come from? Is a character defect or the side effect of some pharmacological support?
Both.
Narcissism will do that to a person.
He’s a pathelogocial liar, rjj. I wanted to send this video to Dodd, but I haven’t been able to do it yet. I guess the best way is look for it on youtube?
good luck — youtube says it “is no longer available”!!! imagine that!
This is a sad sad man. Not fit for dog catcher.
No. The dogs deserve better.
My bitter old dog Harry says WOOF!……in agreement….
Barack keeps getting bolder with his lies - after all, he’s pretty certain the media won’t call him on it.
I’ve had it - this is not a “senior moment” (he’s only 46!) - the only thing that I can come up with is that he is on drugs…do they do drug-testing for presidential candidates? If not, then why not?
Sorry, but there just aren’t any more excuses (remember he is VERY smart and VERY well-educated - how could he not know what committees he serves on??).
He’s done this TOO many times…trying to take credit for something he DID NOT do (e.g., the surge, welfare reform, etc…)
ICK - NOBAMA - NO WAY!
PUMA rocks!
I saw an interview with Jindal, I think it was on CNN, and they were basically asking that with all the gaffs McCain has made, doesn’t he agree that McCain is too senile to be president?
Obama has made some whoppers that can’t be written off as misspeaking. The one about 10,000 people being killed in Kansas when it was only 12 made me start to wonder about him. But this, he clearly states the committee belongs to him. It’s not a slip of the tongue. Yet the media mentions none of it and claims McCain is senile.
It’s possible since he spent most of his time in the senate running for president. You cannot possibly expect him to remember which committies he serves on.
over on aol political machine blog, they are bad-mouthing larry and no quarter, what a bunch of a-holes. i am seriously considering cancelling my subscription to them. they have been in the sewer tank for obama to the point its really scary. some of the bloggers there are giving some death threats if you are not supporting obutt….
Let them be rabid. I’ve said it a million times his supporters are his own worse enemies. They’re poison to his campaign.
Watch that poll next time it’s taken, it will go up again. People over there and AOL claims to have 21 million members, have taken notice of how Obama’s supporter talk to other people. They want nothing to do with it. How everything he does is right and he is a God now matter what it is. And how everyone else is wrong. Uneducated, stupid, blah, blah, blah. If you don’t agree you’re a racist and a bigot. Etc..etc.
I’ve watched that poll, when Hillary was in the race she was winning over both. What do the actual polls say now? But AOL was wrong people were emptying their cookies and voting for her over and over. Now they’re saying that about McCain. But, McCain has been steadily climbing over there as Obama has been dropping. It wasn’t “overnight” that McCain went up to I think I saw 66%. When Hillary first suspended her race it was 55 for Obama and 45 for McCain. Now look where it is…I think a lot of his decline since the MSM isn’t vetting him is his supporters. Most people do not want to belong to a cult. They prefer to be individuals.
Off topic question…..I have tried to encourage some
friends to sign I Own My Vote and the complaint that I get is that there is no name on it and they don’t know who they are signing up with……is this a
No Quarter owned site or is someone else doing this???
All the more reason to see his medical records. Why aren’t the reporters demanding this?
Why is he never called on these things? Why, why why?
Hope he doesn’t keep making these errors, somebody needs to take his guy’s blood and see if he is sniffing that stuff he sniffed when he was young. Israel is a friend of Israel, and now this? Somebody better go to the bathroom the same time this guy is going in it.
i know!
he picked up some hopium in afghanistan and had to sample it to see if it was ok for the drones
He is a mental case.
I think Barack Obama has gotten away with this double-speak for so long that it’s become second nature. Taking credit for things he’s had no part in, claiming superior judgment in foreign affairs when he needs a staff of 300 just to keep up, contradicting policies and programs that he “holds dear” [often referred to as spinning on a dime], petulant behavior when he’s questioned about statements or asked probing questions, and his unbelievable vagueness in all things decisive– provide us with a disturbing pattern.
This man is not ready for prime time, and the DNC has lost its mind.
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This and the constant need to stutter and stammer when off script leads me to believe that Hussein Obama is a compulsive liar or a full blown con man.
GREAT CLIP YESTERDAY ON KSFO IN THE BAY AREA: Brian Sussman and his producer took Obama’s 25 Jordan press conference and then cut out all the chatter and was left with a full 7 1/2 minutes of non-stop “uuuuuhhh…..ahhhhhhh….ummmmmm…” SEVEN AND A HALF MINUTES OF BLATHER IN A 25 MINUTE PRESS CONFERENCE!
I think someone should find out if Obama stuttered as a child. Does this explain why he could never learn the language when he lived in Indonesia? Is that why he had to go back to Hawaii and live with his grandparents and go to school there? Or he is on blow and has fried his brain.
or perhaps stammered…and that is why he can read a speech but can’t think and speak at the same time.
My appologies to anyone with a speech problem but is Nobama speech impaired or brain impaired? We need to know.
WRONG Obama, It’s CountryWide’s Committee…bought and paid for.
Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner! My banker base and I OWN this committee, just like I OWN the DNC.
Countrywide, Indymac… lots of these people donated Republican before and now fund Obama.
LETS KEEP THINGS FAIR AND BALANCED KIDS!
During a CBS interview on Tuesday, John McCain made a stone cold error on a subject about which he claims expert knowledge: the “surge” strategy in Iraq. In an interview with anchor Katie Couric, the Arizona Republican said, inaccurately, that the surge strategy was responsible for the much-touted “Anbar Awakening,” in which Sunni sheiks turned against Al Qaeda, helping in turn to reduce violence in the country.
From the transcript:
Katie Couric: Senator McCain, Senator Obama says, while the increased number of US troops contributed to increased security in Iraq, he also credits the Sunni awakening and the Shiite government going after militias. And says that there might have been improved security even without the surge. What’s your response to that?
McCain: I don’t know how you respond to something that is as– such a false depiction of what actually happened. Colonel MacFarland was contacted by one of the major Sunni sheiks. Because of the surge we were able to go out and protect that sheik and others. And it began the Anbar awakening. I mean, that’s just a matter of history.
In fact, as Spencer Ackerman and Ilan Goldenberg have reported, the record firmly establishes the opposite: instead of being caused by the surge, the key signs of the Anbar Awakening occurred not only before that strategy was implemented, but before it was ever conceived.
Yet McCain’s error was not seen by any CBS Evening News viewers. As MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann noted (video below), “CBS curiously, to say the least, left it on the edit room floor. It aired Katie Couric’s question, but in response, it aired part of McCain’s answer to the other question instead.” (Ironically, this edit came on the same day that McCain’s campaign released a video mocking the media’s “love affair” with Obama.)
The fact remains, however, that the military official cited by McCain, then-Colonel Sean MacFarland, described the Anbar Awakening in September 2006 — four months before the “surge” was even announced — noting that tribal leaders were “stepping forward and cooperating with the Iraqi security forces against Al Qaeda.” Moreover, a military review written by MacFarland notes that his unit actually left Anbar before most of the surge troops arrived; his success in the region came between June 2006 and February 2007.
Especially notable is that McCain himself was not always confused as to the start date of the Awakening, and whether or not it was caused by the surge. Fresh off one of his much-touted trips to Iraq, McCain delivered remarks to the conservative American Enterprise Institute on January 5, 2007. Alongside fellow Senator Joe Lieberman, McCain specifically advocated for the newly proposed surge, and cited the already-in-progress turning of Sunni sheiks as a reason to send more troops. From the transcript of the event:
“Too often the light at the tunnel has turned out to be a train, but I really believe — I really believe that there’s a strong possibility that you may see a very substantial change in Anbar province due to this new changes in our relationships with the sheiks in the region. … But it’s important, as I said in my opening remarks, that this troop surge be significant and sustained. Otherwise, don’t do it.”
Yep.
Hillary 08!
Yep. It should be Hillary.
BTW, Wonkette has this up, this afternoon. http://wonkette.com/401372/barack-obama-secretly-runs-senate-banking-committee I wonder if the pro-Obama blogs will carry the gaffe?
Why am I even asking.
Ha, Wonkette says maybe he meant to say he’s on the Senate Liars Committee.
You know what? I respect you for saying that, not that you need my respect. The thing that kills me about this website is you ignore McCain mistakes and there are MANY.
I feel sorry for you that you don’t feel like you have a decent candidate to vote for.
But those of you who ignore McCain shortcomings are kidding yourselves.
You can leave. No one is holding you hostage here. We’d really like you to go and not come back. It isn’t like there aren’t PLENTY of places you can join hands and repeat his name altogether ….
well said beehop.
No politician is perfect, mccain makes errors, HRC makes errors, and BO makes errors, a lot of them.
But the issue I have with BO is not even the errors, nobody is perfect, its the lack of experience, and the evidence of poor judgement, and of questionable associations, with the falsehoods he utters about them.
All politicians are arrogant, surrounded by suck-ups, and bend the truth to fit their needs.
But this buy makes Nixon look good
I don’t have a decent candidate to vote for…yet. I call Obama and McCain Dopey and Mopey.
Hillary is forty times more presidential than either of these fools. There’s still time to get the qualified candidate on the ballot…
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The gaffes are annoying, but the truth is he has now officially been introduced to the people of Europe and the Middle East (and the planet, generally) as the official Democratic candidate for President. All the chips are on Obama, and the smart money is unlikely to try to unhorse him in Denver. Even if Hillary somehow manages to take the nomination, she will be the candidate of a fractured, fatally-damaged party, running as the “2nd Choice” of a fickle constituency who bagged HER, embraced Obama, then publicly humiliated HIM at their own convention and went running back to the Arkansas Mafia for leftover leadership.
Rush will have a field day. The jokes will write themselves. And Hillary’s run will be an epic embarrassment, ending in defeat.
What are you even babbling about. Run away Lackey dog.
Runningdog, do you think Rush won’t have enough fodders for jokes if BO is the nominee? He is thin skinned about criticisms and his gaffs have come from a lack of knowledge and his blatant lies. And, do you think the Democratic Party is not already fractured beyond repair? He is hopeless naive if he thinks he can stop attacks by saying something is off limits, silliness or racist. He will lose in Nov., not because McCain is brillant, he isn’t. He will lose because he is out of his league and the Republicans know how to play nasty. Hillary may not be able to pull the nomination from him, but if she does, she will win in Nov., he won’t.
Kellie, have you ever been to the huffingtonpost?
All the wrong things JM does gets posted there, how about you hang around there?
when everyone website is fair and balance then you should come here and tell us we are bias.
Oh “kellie”, this must be so sad for you…the internal struggle of staying strong and committed to him no matter how many times he proves himself nothing like what you thought he was or who he told you he was.
Anyway, LET’S TAKE THIS VIRAL! Off to post on my site and link back here! lol
Kellie #1 is in the shop for adjustment…..You refer to Kellie clone # 12.
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Honey McCain doesn’t lie and flip flop every time he opens his mouth. Your candidate is pathological.
That’s why we are throwing the “Barky Bum” out in Denver and installing Hillary. She’ll win in November and peace will reign in the valley. Catch up Kellie. Pay attention, there is going to be a big test.
As I recall, news of Hillary’s comment about “sniper fire” ran for over a week in the MSM (MSNBC, CNN, FOX, everywhere). That was called a lie wasn’t it? Kellie, what do you call this comment from Obama? I really want to know if you consider this a lie or did he just misspeak again? Or, maybe he can deflect everyone from it by calling us racists for hearing him wrong. We’ll see how long this one runs in the MSM, if at all.
Its a matter of nuaince not being mistaken. The article suggests itself that the awaking happened before the surge. McCain implies that with the surge, they were able to coordinate with the them to help being violence down. The two worked in conjunction with each other.
Do you get it now, or do you need some classes in reading comprehension?
She’s just trying desperately to get everyone to write in Hillary instead of pulling the lever - or - pushing the button - for McCain.
It’s the new Bot psy-op tactic.
This is too funny. First the Hillary voters were supposed to get over it, fall in line and vote for the Anointed One. Now it seems there’s too much resistance from the PUMA crowd, so now the strategy is: Write in Hillary.
“Don’t vote for McCain, cause he’s y’know, OLD, and and, he has that THING on the side of his face, and he’s like, umm… OLD!
ewwww….ICKY!”
Over at the Confluence, they were out in droves this morning.
They were still in “You’re all Republicans! Die, die!” mode then.
I can’t vote McCain, but I respect peoples’ choices and opinions about the candidates. Too bad the bots are busy blaming Hillary voters for their candidate’s weaknesses.
The post about the cheatas was pretty good on confluence. But of course PUMAS RULE.
COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS
PUMA RULES
Do you know what is truly funny? When the Bot psy-ops teams trot out the same objections against Senator McCain that were used against him by the extreme right wing of his own party!
When the trolls start on their anti-McCain rants I sense the ghost of Ann Coulter…