Barack's Speech - Caught Lying?

I don't know how many people will get this, but I caught Barack bending the truth and being a little sneaky.

Here's the video of his speech:

And here is the text that I want you to see. It starts at around the 7:00 mark:

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.

Now, he says this just a little while ago on Fox News at around the 2:40 mark:

None of these statements were ones I had heard personally myself sitting in the pews.

So which is it Barack? Did he not say these SPECIFIC things about America deserving 9/11, etc. Or was he going on about a different, controversial subject?

It seems like he's splitting hairs here. It seems like he's saying "I wasn't there for THAT controversial statement", but "I was there for all the others".

It certainly doesn't clear up the subject in any way.

Sure, he makes a pretty speech and his newest one was full of American ideals, but I'm much more interested in the truth of the matter.

I guess he at least answered one question:

And this helps explain, perhaps, my relationship with Reverend Wright. As imperfect as he may be, he has been like family to me. He strengthened my faith, officiated my wedding, and baptized my children. Not once in my conversations with him have I heard him talk about any ethnic group in derogatory terms, or treat whites with whom he interacted with anything but courtesy and respect. He contains within him the contradictions – the good and the bad – of the community that he has served diligently for so many years.

I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother – a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.

So Rev. Wright's views will have the ear of our possible next President? Not exactly what I'd call reassuring.

Some will see this as an attempt to justify or excuse comments that are simply inexcusable. I can assure you it is not. I suppose the politically safe thing would be to move on from this episode and just hope that it fades into the woodwork. We can dismiss Reverend Wright as a crank or a demagogue, just as some have dismissed Geraldine Ferraro, in the aftermath of her recent statements, as harboring some deep-seated racial bias.

I see it as an attempt to justify excuse. Let's not forget that Obama once said that Wright said these things to "be controversial".

But race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now. We would be making the same mistake that Reverend Wright made in his offending sermons about America – to simplify and stereotype and amplify the negative to the point that it distorts reality.

Finally, we get a bit of truth from Obama.

But not everyone is convinced

Travis

travis@rightwinglunatic.com