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Contradicting his own book, Freddoso claimed "there's nothing" in Obama's record indicating he is a "reformer"

Summary: On Fox News' America's Election HQ, David Freddoso claimed: "Senator [Barack] Obama says that he is a reformer, an agent of positive change. And looking at his record, though, in Chicago, Springfield, and Washington, I found that he is absolutely -- there's nothing in his record to bear out that claim." However, in Freddoso's recently released book, he specifically credited Obama with two "real accomplishment[s] ... in the name of reform" -- the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006, and a 1998 Illinois ethics bill.
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Posted by Graydogs

Sort of makes you wonder if they even right their own books doesn't it....either that or are they such compulsive liars, they have lost the ability to know what they have said and written.

Posted by Graydogs in reply to Graydogs

Write, not right .......dang another type-0

Posted by mary59 in reply to Graydogs

Their books aren't right, whether they write them or not. ;-)

Posted by Graydogs in reply to mary59

I completely agree.....They probably have an entire staff of writers (and I use that term lightly) making it up as it goes along, and one of the reasons none of these "writers" can keep their lies straight when confronted by the truth.When I hear these guys interviewed, it often sounds like they have no idea whats in the book.

Posted by IRONY 101

Two threads in one day in which Barack Obama is called a liar...by people who, until recently, I had never heard of. Do you think there are some wannabes out there trying to establish careers by attacking Barack Obama?

Posted by Graydogs in reply to IRONY 101

Well if career seeking wannabes were to come forward with anything true or false about McCain, the media wouldn't give them the time of day....so I guess 15 minutes of fame requires mud slinging at Obama....sad isn't it.

Posted by SFnomad in reply to IRONY 101

Mann Coulter got her start doing the same kinda think against President Clinton.

Posted by mary59 in reply to SFnomad

I posted her bio on an earlier thread...she was raised by wild horses, then was adopted by Richard Mellon Scaife, who brought her into his creepy mansion to write tabloid pieces about the Clintons.  Naturally she became the wing-nut dream girl, and cranks out dull personal appearances after every stupid, ill-conceived book is preposterously concocted.

Posted by Col. Harlan Sanders in reply to mary59

I think the real point here is that Obama failed to fix everything in the world during his Senate career. Remember, the rightys hold everybody else to much higher standards than they do themselves.

Posted by snoopy in reply to Col. Harlan Sanders

That's because their answers for all the worlds' problems are rather simplistic:

Strangelove McCain

Posted by worrierking in reply to snoopy

"Well I've been to one world fair a picnic and a rodeo and that's the funniest thing I ever

saw come these internet tubes"..

Posted by worrierking in reply to worrierking

saw come OVER these internet tubes

Posted by IRONY 101 in reply to snoopy

Funny how things come full circle...watch for McCain to start talking tough about the Russians...or Russkies. It'll be Dr. Strangelove all over again.

BTW, I heard the former POW was at it again last night talking about his POW experience in response to a question about how many homes he owns...but, you know, the former POW doesn't like to talk about all that POW stuff. 

Posted by Easy to refute wingnuts in reply to IRONY 101

Gentlemen, there's no fighting here, this is the War Room!"

Posted by worrierking in reply to IRONY 101

But the former POW John McCain, if he's elected, is not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. But he does say... no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops.

Uh... depended on the breaks.

Posted by magnolialover in reply to IRONY 101

He already has been talking tough about the Russians. Sounds like the republicans want to start up the cold war again. Got to have another "enemy" to take away from what's happening in the US since the republicans have been running the joint. You know, "OH LOOK! OVER THERE! THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING ACROSS THE BORDERS AGAIN! IT'S 1968 ALL OVER!!! WE MUST STOP THE RED HOARD!"

Anyway, it does appear that republicans seem to hold up the democrats as god like in their divinity to "change" things in such a short amount of time during their Senate tenures. Heck, I'm sure that they have multiple term senators right now who have done little to nothing. Of course, they also ignore Obama's time doing neighborhood organization as well, which they like to make fun of, but it was something that he was exceptional at, and he did make changes in people's lives that were for the better, and made a direct impact. If that's not a positive change, or something good that he's done, I'm not really sure what was.

Posted by doggone-ga in reply to magnolialover

"Sounds like the republicans want to start up the cold war again"

Isn't that the ESSENCE of being a conservative?  That you can only look to the past, never the future?

Posted by magnolialover in reply to doggone-ga

I must add, that there is nothing wrong with looking at the past. As long as you learn something from it. Apparently, that is the major problem with a lot of right wingers. Those that don't learn from past mistakes are doomed to repeat them.

Posted by doggone-ga in reply to magnolialover

"As long as you learn something from it"

Oh, sure...but if you ONLY look to the past, and don't also look to the future...then you AREN'T learning anything from the past.

Posted by wzwriter

And there's nothing in David Freddoso's record that indicates we can believe anything he says.  He's a serial liar.