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This week while visiting Jerusalem, Obama sought to prove to his audience a deep commitment to Israel. He said this:
“Now, in terms of knowing my commitments, you don’t have to just look at my words, you can look at my deeds. Just this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, which is my committee, a bill to call for divestment from Iran, as a way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don’t obtain a nuclear weapon.”
 
The funny thing about this is that according to both the committee’s official website and Obama’s official U.S. Senate website, Obama is not on the banking committee. He tries to prove himself a supporter of Israel by claiming that he helped pass this bill out of committee, and he is not on the committee that passed out the bill.
 
This incident raises any number of entertaining questions:
1. Does Obama realize that Israel can’t vote in this election?
2. Does Obama actually know which committees he’s on?
3. If he doesn’t know what committees he’s on, why are we still paying his salary? (He’s on five. It’s not a whole lot to remember. I was in 5 organizations in college, and I remember them all!)
4. Is Obama actually capable of saying anything coherent without a teleprompter in front of him?
 
Now, a serious question. I know we have several Obama fans who read this blog (and drive some pretty interesting discussions!). I am desperate to know: Is there any way that you can possibly defend this? Leaving aside all parallel situations and dealing ONLY with this one at hand, is there any conceivable way to defend this one? Please, help me understand why he would say something so downright…goofy.
 
I’m sort of insulted that if he had to tell a lie - and yes, it was a lie, and not a mistake, Obama can’t NOT know what committees he’s on - if he had to tell a lie, couldn’t he tell one with a little more nuance? One that does not take three seconds of Googling to blow wide open? Did he think no one would notice, or hope no one would care?

(Hat-tip: National Review Online’s The Corner)

Direct quotes taken from Douglass K. Daniel of the Associated Press. I feel this is an extremely important article to read and I have made comments throughout. Please leave any thoughts or feedback. Click here to read the full article: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iM20OuwwEfNzceNo1cYLrLxYc_DQD91QC0N84

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Wednesday that Iran’s missile tests highlight the need for direct diplomacy as well as tougher threats of economic sanctions and strong incentives to persuade Tehran to change its behavior.

John McCain, the Republican seeking the presidency, said the tests demonstrate a need for effective missile defense, including missile defense in Europe and the defense system the U.S. plans with the Czech Republic and Poland.

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Here is the big one, Iran, specifically Iran’s quest for a nuclear weapon. This is a very difficult and complex situation, which neither I or to my knowledge anyone really has a perfect solution to. I think I could write a small book on this topic, but instead I will do my best to briefly touch on some of the major issues.

First off, Iran as I have stated in numerous other posts is the major problem and issue for Israel, America, and the rest of the peaceful world.

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Lebanon is an interesting situation, and in many ways is in a pickle of sorts. As of now you have Iran and Syria controlling the country. Iran and Syria made an agreement of sorts. Iran said to Syria you can milk Lebanon and its natural resources for all its worth, you can tax the citizens as much as you want, just let Hezbollah into the country and leave them alone. Syria agreed and that’s essentially where we are today. Today Iran gives Lebanon approximately 1 billion dollars to keep the economy afloat and treats Lebanon as its backyard. It is for these reasons President Bush has listed Lebanon in the “Axis of Evil.”

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You first need to understand a little about Iran in order to fully understand the situation and what I am about to say. Iran is run by the Shiite, which historically hate the Sunni, similar to how to Sunni historically hate the Shiite. Historically these two have committed terrorist acts against each other, exiled each other, and all around have a bad relationship.

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