Does Barry Hussein have a new problem to deal with?Follow

Apparently WWII vets aren't amused by conservative bloggers sniffing around them looking to prove they don't exist

No, it really isn't. The basic story was true.

Uncle and great uncle are not all that different if you grew up with an extended family. I had great aunts and uncles who were essentially the same age as my aunts and uncles, and to a kid there's really no difference at that point.

But whatever. You need to demonize him, so have at it.

I don't need to do anything, people seem to need to defend him more. It's a mistake, certainly not grand perjury like slick willy.

I don't really care, I just honestly can't beleive that "oh it's just a family story" crap. It was a lie, intended or not.

Umm considering Obama is second hand telling this story from another source, I doubt they were that close.

Seriously, he told a lie on national television. Of course people are going to jump all over this and over-analyze every detail. He's a big boy, he'll be fine.

I have close cousins that I refer to as "Aunt" or "Uncle" when speaking to Hannah because I don't expect her to call them "Second Cousin Once Removed Liz", haha...I also call my aunts and uncles "Aunt" and "Uncle" when speaking to Hannah, so that's what she calls them. I think when she gets older, if she were speaking of them casually, she would refer to them as such. Like I said, this wasn't a written speech...he was just answering questions about why he felt about such and such and I don't see any attempt at deception here. I would feel differently if it were a written speech and therefore inherently designed to elicite a specific emotional response.

Nexa

Can be, or
:to create a false or misleading impression

Exactly what he did.

Now let's disect the definition of "create".

/yawn

The fact that you immediately had to go there kinda shows that you already know that's a lame definition to try and prove your point.

Edited, May 29th 2008 12:04pm by Jophiel

Your cousins are his second cousins, I think. Ask a Nebraskan, they'd know.

lol....that or I know where you're going next. You stated that lies are by definition intentional, burden's on you baby.

As would I. You and I are not running in a hotly contested race for presidential nomination, however, and speaking publically to millions.

I gotta go with something of the version that Obama was talking bravado, said stuff that he shouldn't have as he didn't have the facts on it. He filled in what he supposed might be the case, which is also the 'untruth' that might furter preen his family war-history feathers.

He took a chance and lost. He can't make those kind of mistakes in his next race.

I don't think it was a lie. I just think that, being in the position he's in, it was awful risky to be saying something he likely, was unsure about in public. Either keep the family stories for family get-togethers, or fact-check them as you would any other story you're repeating.

I think Obama let the critisms of the right get to him, he got sloppy trying to address them, and now he'll pay.

He's probably learned that lesson though. [:grin:}

You can call it whatever you want, it certainly was careless given the situation and position he is in.