Comments on: AN EASY LIAR

By: Jack Foster

Jack Foster — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:24:43 +0000

By your metric, everybody in the damn world is “an easy liar”. Nobody has as a auto-fact-check system biologically attached to their brains! The question comes down to general reliability, the relative importance of the statement, and of course the intent to deceive. If a friend tells me that he worked out for an hour, and I come back with a surveillance video from the exercise club showing that he left 55 minutes after he arrived, I can accurately (I guess) call him an “easy liar”. On the other hand, I haven’t shown that he has a blatant disregard for the truth, and in fact the friend would remain trustworthy. He may have technically missed the truth, but still there was no intention to deceive, and in fact most people would judge that he had indeed told the truth in this instance.

But let’s say my fried was in fact with a mistress. He could still potentially claim that he had not lied about “working out for an hour”. Still his statement was misleading, and my trust in him upon learning the truth would be diminished. Most people would consider that he had indeed lied.

Trustworthiness can only be judged on a relative scale. Everyone tells the occasional white-lie, exaggerates, and intentionally misleads every so often. We judge people to be liars when their statements are consistently not reliable, when there is intent, when there is importance, and when the lie contradicts the truth to the extreme: that which is known as a “bald-faced” lie. So using my metric, which indeed is the common one, Barack Obama and John McCain are not liars. Hillary on the other hand, has reduced her credibility so much with a complete disregard for the truth, that she indeed can be accurately called . . . a liar.

cheers,

By: J. Doe

J. Doe — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:30:27 +0000

This is funny. If this is the best the Republicans can do McSame is in trouble. I’ll be glad when the civil war within the demacrat party is over so the media starts focasing on McFlipflop him self…

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:14:22 +0000

Yes, the lies are bad.

Yes, Wright’s ranting is bad.

However, these both are red herrings. Since we can be 99% sure Obama agrees with the Trinity UCC teachings, we need to examine those. These center on Dr. James Cone and his Black Liberation Theology. If one inspects Dr. Cone’s seminal works, Black Power and Black Theology, and A Black Theology of Liberation, we run into the most troubling fact of all. Dr. Cone’s work is simply opposed to the idea of black people living in harmony with white people. Even if we grant the obfuscating claim of Cone’s proponents that his use of “black” and “white” are merely symbols for “oppressed” and “oppressor”, his work clearly fosters the idea that blacks should not cooperate with the “white system”.

The “Black Value System” championed by Trinity clarifies that Cone’s values are their values. It continually speaks of the “black community” and “black values”. Are these the ideas of one who would claim to unite the American people? Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt!

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:43:21 +0000

The one thing that has stood out with me and Mr. Obama is his total lack of humility — which leads him to lie. It is not possible for him to admit that he is wrong on a substantive issue because in his mind and the world of South Chicago politics he is perfect.

It is amazing that aobut 50% of the electorate cannot see that his is a demagogue and an easy liar…

By: Denny

Denny — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:56:52 +0000

I have a whole bunch of Obama’s lies compiled. And we thought the Clintons’ lies were bad.

http://777denny.wordpress.com/2008/04/05/baracks-hypocrisy-on-iraq-energy-and-the-politics-of-personal-destruction/

This Barack fellow is even scarier than the Clinton, in my opinion.

By: Deanna Grissom

Deanna Grissom — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 06:31:33 +0000

So can we also expect on of your learned posts on Clinton? The lies there supercede any other candidates. The list is long and goes back 35 years to the one regarding Bill’s campaign manager in Arkansas and ends with her most recent one about Obama and the war. Many in between that could include her 9/11 lie, her Bosnia lie, her Kusovo lie and the list does go on and on but you get my point.
I just think that if you expect any credibility at all you have to be fair since the person whose trust poll is the lowest of the 3 candidates reflect her pattern lying, she should also be included.

By: LTaylor

LTaylor — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:46:16 +0000

If you think he is just lying about Rev. Wright. Check out the website MuslimsforObama08. In quotes in Obama’s history, he says “I was not raised in a religious household, my mother was detatched from religion.” Then following other links checking whether he is or ever was a Muslim, when talking to a Christian interviewer he said”My mother was a Christian from Kansas.” Why on Muslim site no childhood religion, but on Christian questioning always a Christian. I’m not a religious nut, just checking the Muslim side and found this strange. Then going on to other links Danielpipes.org he was enrolled in school in Indonesia as a Muslim student. This is interesting reading people. We need to wake up to this Hitler.If you are still in a state left to vote, if you cherish this country you will nominate Hillary. Stay with the devil you know than the devil you don’t. And I feel this man is the devil.

By: Jo

Jo — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:41:44 +0000

Excellent article! I just cannot fathom why the MSM is so enamoured with this fictitious liar–Barack Obama.

I guess it comes from shallow reporting and wanting to get big ratings agrandizing Obama.

Actually, having Obama in the WH would be extremely risky!!

http://whoisobama.homestead.com/fairytales.html

By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:50:30 +0000

You know, I’m just getting sick of this Rev Wright issue. Big deal. He went to church and his pastor said some extremely outrageous things. That doesn’t mean he said them every Sunday. I agree with rex: even if Obama’s not clean, he’s NO Bill Clinton (or Hillary for that matter). Geez, guys, we could do worse than have to choose between a war hero and an educated, inspiring leader. Why keep attacking him like this? Calling him a liar with “canned speeches”? It just doesn’t make us look good. Talk about policy issues, guys. Grow up beyond 4th grade bullying.

By: obamanation

obamanation — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:00:20 +0000

The fact is that Obama does not lie well. He is only good when spouting his canned speeches and cliches or when in a totally friendly environment. When confronted, his eyes, voice, and body language betray him readily. This is why his surrogates have to re-spin everything he says in order to tell us what he meant. They know the same is true, in spades, regarding Michelle.