Liar?

So, I guess Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) made one mistake when he said “You Lie,” to the President during his September speech before a joint session of Congress – He Apologized. I mean, come on, was he not telling it like it has turned out to be. So while I am writing this, let’s look at the record and check out just a few of our president’s non-truths. I could include them all but I have to go to work tomorrow.

During the election, Senator Obama said he would end the “Rendition” program of taking prisoners to foreign countries for further interrogation. This has been policy for many years and under many presidents. Actually known as Extraordinary Rendition, this program has been used in some form since the Reagan administration, but it was President Clinton who actually signed an executive order to allow this to occur.

During the campaign, then Senator Obama said he would do away with the program and only two days after the inauguration he did just that signing an executive order ending the policy as part of a larger order that also would close the Guantanamo Bay Prison (a whole other debacle). But eight days later, by February 1, 2009, many papers reported that President Obama signed an executive order allowing Rendition to continue under the operational control of the CIA. Of Course this was on a weekend after the normal weekly press cycle. You’ll see this pattern more and more.

Another lie, during the Campaign, Senator Obama said he would do away with warrantless wire-tapping and even lambasted President Bush for using legal tools under the state’s secrets privilege to continue the practice and stifle any legal effort to end the practice. Then between January and April, and in small quiet Friday afternoon steps, President Obama makes the necessary moves to continue the practice he so readily railed against while on the campaign trail.

Also while on the campaign trail, then Senator Obama proudly went from event to event touting the firm call to eliminate lobbyists from an Obama Administration saying “lobbyists won’t find a job in my White house.” Uh-Oh, according to the Washington Times and the National Journal, by May 7, 2009, 30 of the Obama Administration’s 267 senior administration officials came straight from the private sector where they were working as lobbyists. So much for that pledge.

Then throughout the campaign, Senator Obama said repeatedly that the healthcare debate would be televised on C-SPAN. He even whipped up on poor old Hilary in a debate in Austin for the Clinton’s healthcare failure and said part of the reason it failed was because the Clinton’s meetings were held in private and that he would have the meetings held on live on C-SPAN. Of course we know where that one stands.

So maybe Joe Wilson should not have taken the beating he took for calling the President a liar when Obama said illegal aliens would not be able to take part in this healthcare plan. With a track record as good as Obama’s and a Senate plan that pulled an around the back shuffle to include illegal aliens in the coverage, maybe we should apologize to Rep. Wilson for simply trying to warn us.

Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire!
Bill