While in Israel yesterday, Senator Obama opting for political posturing rather than honesty, reassured a crowd of Israelis that he intends to take a hard line with Iran. His statements however were not only inconsistent with his prior voting record, even worse than that, he knowingly and willfully lied about his legislative record.

“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.”

While we have come to expect Senator Obama to alter his message to tailor to the group he is currently speaking to, even if that would mean contradicting something he had said just the day before, this goes one step further than that. Obama claimed the U.S. Senate Banking Committee was “his committee”, indicating he was the chairman of that committee. The problem is, not only is he not chairman of the committee, he is not even on the committee!

I realize that his Presidential campaign has kept him from his responsibilities as a United States Senator, but are we really to believe that Obama has forgotten which committee he is chairman of? Furthermore, as Powerline points out, Obama actually opposed the bill he is claiming credit for:

Senator Obama did not appear in the Senate to vote on the Kyl-Lieberman Amendment calling on the government to designate the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist entity and thus suffer the imposition of sanctions. On the day of the vote on the amendment, however, Obama issued a statement announcing that he would have voted against it. In the statement, the closest he came to addressing the merits of the amendment was his assertion that “he does not think that now is the time for saber-rattling towards Iran.”

Obama’s campaign slogans of Hope and Change certainly seem to be fitting for the candidate, as he continues to Change his political resume, while he Hopes no one notices.

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Barack Obama, Election 2008, Features, Iran, Politics