Fred Barnes: Obama Falsely Claims Banking Committee Membership

News Busters ^ | July 25, 2008 | Brad Wilmouth

[Turret Gunner A20]

It seems Barack Obama had a "senior moment" on Wednesday during his trip to Israel regarding which Senate committees he is a member of. On the same day's Special Report with Brit Hume, during the "Fox All Stars" segment, the Weekly Standard's Fred Barnes called out Obama for his claim, which the Illinois Senator made while trying to impress Israeli reporters, that he is a member of the Senate Banking Committee, and he took credit for the passage of legislation regarding Iran. Barnes: "[Obama] was trying to brag about how tough he was on the Iranians, and he said his committee, the Senate Banking Committee, had passed a resolution ... that would have caused American firms to divest of Iranian interests. And the trouble is, he's not on that committee. ... And he didn't vote for it. That would be a senior moment if McCain did it.

Indeed, the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs membership roster does not list Obama's name. But during a news conference, which aired live Wednesday morning during CNN Newsroom, Obama seemed to embellish his resume: "Now, in terms of knowing my commitments, you don't have to just look at my words, you can look at my deeds. Just this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, which is my committee, a bill to call for divestment from Iran, as a way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don't obtain a nuclear weapon.

[Turret Gunner A20]

Practicing up to be another BJ Billy.

[Always Right]

Isn’t obama omnipresent?

[pissant]

Except BJ Billy got his BJ’s from women, BHO gets them from men.

[Rome2000]

Next the marxist crypto-muslim will be promising a middle class tax cut.

[Parley Baer]

His time in the Senate is so short he does not even know(or care) what committees he is on. This man has no business being President.

[KoRn]

"This man has no business being President."

Truer words have never been spoken. JFK has to be rolling in his grave to see how low the dems have gotten, having nominated this joke for a presidential election.

[Jeff Head]

Obama and his cohorts and adherants do not care how much he spins, lies, our covers up. He is their idol and can do no wrong and most of the MSM is in his corner.

But others, millions of Americans who still know little about him, need to know because they will vote according to the knowledge that they have of the man. It does not take too much looking to scratch the surface and get below the glitzy veneer to the truth underlying him.

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[Psycho_Bunny]

I miss the good old days of Gore and Kerry.......

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Perhaps he meant to say he was on the Senate Baking Committee.

[henry_reardon]

wow, that takes some gall to tell a bald faced lie like that. Still I guess if you really believe it to be true then it’s not a lie?

[originalbuckeye]

Obama lies with impunity.
Obama lies with impunity.
Obama lies with impunity.
Obama lies with impunity.
Obama lies with impunity.

[cruise_missile]

“Just words.” -Obama

[buffyt]

But he can still WALK ON WATER.... RIGHT??????

[buffyt]

I believe the moron is a LEGEND IN HIS OWN MIND!

[rbmillerjr]

Yeah, but Bush is stupid.

This dolt is a moron.

I’m picking McCain in a 7-10 state win, right now, right here.

[Tanniker Smith]

Give the guy a break! It’s not like he’s been around DC long enough to actually know what committees that he’s on!

[MDspinboyredux]

It's suprising the media hasn't jumped on this with the same intensity as when Hillary 'misremembered' her Bosnian sniper attack.

The idea that we have an 'independent and unbiased' media is a sham. They don't even attempt to pretend objectivity anymore.

It's all just propaganda now.

[Conservative Vermont Vet]

"It seems Barack Obama had a "senior moment"

WHOA!!!

While I occasionally admit (in jest) that I have/had a "Senior Moment" and greatly appreciate, enjoy and read Newsbusters regularly, I take umbrage to someone else referring to the "anointed one" as having enjoyed a lapse of memory as being the same as one of "us" who occasionally forget/overlook something.

I reserve the same right as Barack in having the ability to refer to myself (and using deprecating humor) as a Senior and if anyone else who is not, should refrain from engaging in such discourse.

I have been using that line for many years now and though I'm encroaching on the magical 65 (3 months) I think my mind is almost as sharp as anyone 1/2 my age.

I attribute that to my being continually engaged in all things relating to current events, politics, news, and my thirst for knowledge, which of course, I get the majority, here at Free Republic.

So here's to all you Seniors out there and may we have a voice in continued debate and not be inexorably linked to a moonbat/socialist such as fear Barack ("Peace Be Upon His Middle No Name") Obama

[big'ol_freeper]

I am sure it’s just a dishonest mistake. He probably has never made any of the committee meetings for committees he is a member of and thought one of them was this one...

....or nObama has been taking advice from John sKerry.

[kittymyrib]

Leno and Letterman would be doing “old and forgetful” jokes for a month had McCain made such a gaffe. But they can find no flaw in the Obamessiah.