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Such a blatant flip-flop lie that I couldn’t believe it at first. An adviser to Barack Obama now says Obama never agreed to meet with leaders of Iran without preconditions. We’re all simply “distorting” his remarks.

Susan E. Rice, a former State Department and National Security Council official who is a foreign policy adviser to the Democratic candidate, said that “for political purposes, Senator Obama’s opponents on the right have distorted and reframed” his views. Mr. McCain and his surrogates have repeatedly stated that Mr. Obama would be willing to meet “unconditionally” with Mr. Ahmadinejad. But Dr. Rice said that this was not the case for Iran or any other so-called “rogue” state. Mr. Obama believes “that engagement at the presidential level, at the appropriate time and with the appropriate preparation, can be used to leverage the change we need,” Dr. Rice said. “But nobody said he would initiate contacts at the presidential level; that requires due preparation and advance work.”

Except for the fact that Obama said twice he’d meet with leaders of Iran without preconditions. First during the YouTube debate, then in an interview with the Times.

The interview:

Senator Barack Obama said he would “engage in aggressive personal diplomacy” with Iran if elected president, and would offer economic inducements and a possible promise not to seek “regime change” if Iran stopped meddling in Iraq and cooperated on terrorism and nuclear issues…

Making clear that he planned to talk to Iran without preconditions, Mr. Obama emphasized further that “changes in behavior” by Iran could possibly be rewarded with membership in the World Trade Organization, other economic benefits and security guarantees…

Mr. Obama’s willingness to conduct talks at the highest level with Iran … differs significantly from the Bush administration.

Quite amazing, really. Not only are critics distorting his position, but Obama did it himself twice.

Via Ace.

Update: From Obama’s own official campaign site:

Diplomacy: Obama is the only major candidate who supports tough, direct presidential diplomacy with Iran without preconditions.

Obama’s website must be distorting his views, too.

Another lovely revelation from Rev. Wright’s Church of Hate. The same bulletin that published a column by terror group Hamas, now brings us this. The article, written by a “social justice” minister at Obama’s church, uses the Don Imus incident to prove that (somehow) the networks are run by the right-wing.

In a column in the April 15, 2007 bulletin, the Rev. Reginald Williams, the associate pastor for social justice at Trinity United, said he was not surprised by the racially charged remarks that talk-radio host Don Imus made about the Rutgers University women’s basketball team because “the major networks are run by right-winged conservatives who still see black people as subhuman and portray black people as such.”

Don Imus was on MSNBC when he got canned. Williams actually wants parishioners to believe that MSNBC is a right-wing organization? Then again, this is the same church who says America created AIDS to inflict on blacks, so crap doesn’t have to make sense.

He must’ve been too busy race-baiting to pay his taxes. Either that or he has the same accountant Al Franken does.

But he still carries baggage from his early days as a fire-breathing agitator: Government records obtained by The Associated Press indicate that Sharpton and his business entities owe nearly $1.5 million in overdue taxes and associated penalties.

Now the U.S. attorney is investigating his nonprofit group, a probe that an undeterred Sharpton brushes off as the kind of annoyance that civil rights figures have come to expect from the government.

“Whatever retaliation they do on me, we never stop,” he told the AP. “I think that that is why they try to intimidate us.”

But of course. Dare investigate the dealings of a “civil rights leader” who owes $1.5 million in back taxes in the 21st century, you must be trying to intimidate him. It can’t possibly be an authentic investigation. Then again, Al knows a thing or two about intimidation and thuggery in the pursuit of getting your way.

A truly, truly amazing man Barack Obama is. He wants you to know that he’s not going to be president of the blue states or the red states, but rather all 57 states of America!

“It is wonderful to be back in Oregon,” Obama said. “Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it.”

The Times’ conscientious Robin Abcarian thought she heard something different there. She checked her tape recorder. It had captured what he had actually said — 57 states now. A new Louisiana Purchase that’s gone unannounced so far?

It’s totally understandable for a man of the ripe old age of, what, 47?

Yes, I know it was an honest mistake. I know Obama doesn’t think there are 57 states in the U.S.. However, how are DNC surrogates going to go after McCain’s age when Obama’s going around asserting there are presidents of Canada and that we have 7 more states than we actually do? McCain’s age apparently renders him unable to perform presidential duties, but a man decades younger than him screwing things up is just fine?

Marc Ambinder points out:

But if John McCain did this — if he mistakenly said he’d visited 57 states — the media would be all up in his grill, accusing him of a senior moment. Just saying….

Update: It may be a result of exhaustion, but it doesn’t really appear to be a quickly corrected slip-of-the-tongue. He thinks about it, stopping on “fifty…(thinking)…seven states”.

Video via Hot Air.

You know, the same Hamas that endorsed the Messiah back in April? Yeah, that one.

Robert Malley told The Times he had regularly been in contact with Hamas, which controls Gaza but is listed by the US State Department as a terrorist organisation. Such talks, he stressed, were related to his work for a conflict resolution think tank and had no connection with his position on Mr Obama’s Middle East advisory council.

Ace, whom I owe a hat tip to, writes:

How do all these terrorist-sympathizing radicals keep mistakenly thinking that Obama is one of them?

Indeed. Terror groups, domestic terrorists, and terrorist sympathizers happen to keep showing up either backing or advising Obama.

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