Obama’s Lies About Wright
We’ve been over the Obama/Wright stuff a lot, but I’m not sure I’ve ever laid out exactly how Obama lied about hearing Wright’s sermons.
When Obama appeared on Anderson Cooper’s show on March 14th he said he had not “ever” heard controversial statements while in Wright’s church.
SEN. BARACK OBAMA (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Well, first of all, Anderson, you know, I strongly condemn the statements that have been shown on the tape.
I have to confess that those are not statements that I ever heard when I was sitting in the pews at this church. . . .
COOPER: Did you not know, though, that, I mean, a couple days after 9/11, he said, you know, this was America’s chickens coming home to roost, a result of what he called American terrorism around the world?
I mean, you may not have been there, but have you—you must have heard that he had said these things.
OBAMA: You know, I confess that I did not hear about this—until I started running for president.
Here’s Obama four days later saying in his big speech about Wright that he did, actually, hear controversial comments in Wright’s church:
I have already condemned, in unequivocal terms, the statements of Reverend Wright that have caused such controversy. For some, nagging questions remain. Did I know him to be an occasionally fierce critic of American domestic and foreign policy? Of course. Did I ever hear him make remarks that could be considered controversial while I sat in church? Yes. Did I strongly disagree with many of his political views? Absolutely — just as I’m sure many of you have heard remarks from your pastors, priests, or rabbis with which you strongly disagreed.
Hillary got called out on her claims of being under sniper fire during a visit to a foreign country, why isn’t Obama being called out on this rather blatant flip-flop?
