Friday, October 26, 2012

Barker's Newsbites: Friday, October 26, 2012


Folks... the collapse of the Obama administration cover-up of what actually occurred on September 11, 2012, in Benghazi, Libya, continues.

The first paragraph to the story the above link references - which will be today's first newsbite...

Fox News has learned from sources who were on the ground in Benghazi that an urgent request from the CIA annex for military back-up during the attack on the U.S. consulate and subsequent attack several hours later was denied by U.S. officials -- who also told the CIA operators twice to "stand down" rather than help the ambassador's team when shots were heard at approximately 9:40 p.m. in Benghazi on Sept. 11.

How could anyone support the type of people who would knowingly and deliberately allow Americans to be murdered...?

13 comments:

William R. Barker said...

* THREE-PARTER... (Part 1 of 3)

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/26/cia-operators-were-denied-request-for-help-during-benghazi-attack-sources-say/

Fox News has learned from sources who were on the ground in Benghazi that an urgent request from the CIA annex for military back-up during the attack on the U.S. consulate and subsequent attack several hours later was denied by U.S. officials -- who also told the CIA operators twice to "stand down" rather than help the ambassador's team when shots were heard at approximately 9:40 p.m. in Benghazi on Sept. 11.

* FOLKS... MORE IS COMING OUT EACH DAY. WILL YOU TOLERATE THIS? THE LIES... THE INCOMPETENCE... LEAVING OUR PEOPLE TO DIE WITHOUT EVEN TRYING TO RESCUE THEM AND FROM DAY ONE TRYING TO COVER THIS UP?

Former Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods was part of a small team who was at the CIA annex about a mile from the U.S. consulate where Ambassador Chris Stevens and his team came under attack. When he and others heard the shots fired, they informed their higher-ups at the annex to tell them what they were hearing and requested permission to go to the consulate and help out.

They were told to "stand down," according to sources familiar with the exchange.

* BY WHOM?

Soon after, they were again told to "stand down."

* BY WHOM?

* MY FELLOW AMERICANS... HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON KNOWS. LEON PANETTA KNOWS. PRESIDENT OBAMA MUST KNOW.

Woods and at least two others ignored those orders and made their way to the consulate which at that point was on fire.

* IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING (BASED UPON THE LATEST UPDATED REPORTING I'VE HEARD) THAT AT FIRST THEY OBEYED THE ORDERS AND ONLY AFTER ADDITIONAL REQUESTS TO BE ALLOWED TO RESPOND WERE DENIED BY THE POWERS THAT BE IN WASHINGTON DID THEY VIOLATE THEIR ORDERS AT THE RISK OF THEIR LIVES AND CAREERS IN ORDER TO ATTEMPT TO DO WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN DONE IN THE FIRST PLACE - ATTEMPT TO RESCUE THEIR FELLOW AMERICANS!

* TO BE CONTINUED...

William R. Barker said...

* CONTINUING... (Part 2 of 3)

Shots were exchanged.

The rescue team from the CIA annex evacuated those who remained at the consulate and Sean Smith, who had been killed in the initial attack. They could not find the ambassador and returned to the CIA annex at about midnight.

* WOULD THE AMBASSADOR HAVE BEEN SAVED... WOULD SEAN SMITH HAVE BEEN SAVED... HAD THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION NOT ENSURED DELAY... INDEED ORDERED NOT JUST A "DELAY" BUT ORDERED OUR NEAREST FORCES TO "STAND DOWN?"

At that point, they called again for military support and help because they were taking fire at the CIA safe house, or annex.

The request was denied.

There were no communications problems at the annex, according those present at the compound. The team was in constant radio contact with their headquarters. In fact, at least one member of the team was on the roof of the annex manning a heavy machine gun when mortars were fired at the CIA compound.

The security officer had a laser on the target that was firing and repeatedly requested back-up support from a Spectre gunship, which is commonly used by U.S. Special Operations forces to provide support to Special Operations teams on the ground involved in intense firefights.

The fighting at the CIA annex went on for more than four hours -- enough time for any planes based in Sigonella Air base, just 480 miles away, to arrive.

Fox News has also learned that two separate Tier One Special operations forces were told to wait, among them Delta Force operators.

A Special Operations team...operating in Central Europe had been moved to Sigonella, Italy, but they never told to deploy.

In fact, a Pentagon official says there were never any requests to deploy assets from outside the country.

A second force that specializes in counter-terrorism rescues was on hand at Sigonella, according to senior military and intelligence sources. According to those sources, they could have flown to Benghazi in less than two hours.

* IN... LESS... THAN... TWO... HOURS...

According to sources on the ground during the attack, the special operator on the roof of the CIA annex had visual contact and a laser pointing at the Libyan mortar team that was targeting the CIA annex. The operators were calling in coordinates of where the Libyan forces were firing from.

* AND YET...

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told reporters at the Pentagon on Thursday that there was not a clear enough picture of what was occurring on the ground in Benghazi to send help.

* ONE... MORE... TIME...

According to sources on the ground during the attack, the special operator on the roof of the CIA annex had visual contact and a laser pointing at the Libyan mortar team that was targeting the CIA annex. The operators were calling in coordinates of where the Libyan forces were firing from.

* SOMEONE IS LYING. UNLESS PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING WE'VE READ HERE AND EVERYTHING WE KNEW BEFORE THIS LATEST EXPOSE IS SIMPLY BEING MADE UP... THEN IT'S PRETTY CLEAR THAT PANETTA IS THE ONE DOING THE LYING.

* TO BE CONTINUED...

William R. Barker said...

* CONTINUING... (Part 3 of 4)

* SORRY, FOLKS... MY MISTAKE... FOUR-PARTER... NOT JUST THREE-PARTER...

Fox News has learned that there were two military surveillance drones redirected to Benghazi shortly after the attack on the consulate began. They were already in the vicinity. The second surveillance craft was sent to relieve the first drone, perhaps due to fuel issues. Both were capable of sending real time visuals back to U.S. officials in Washington, D.C. Any U.S. official or agency with the proper clearance, including the White House Situation Room, State Department, CIA, Pentagon and others, could call up that video in real time on their computers.

* FOLKS... WE KNOW THEY KNEW! ON WEDNESDAY REUTERS BROKE THE NEWS OF THE "IN REAL TIME" DISPATCHES THAT WENT DIRECTLY TO THE WHITE HOUSE SITUATION ROOM! THE PATTERN IS CLEAR: EACH TIME THIS ADMINISTRATION IS CAUGHT IN A LIE THEY DOUBLE DOWN WITH MORE LIES!

Tyrone Woods was later joined at the scene by fellow former Navy SEAL Glen Doherty, who was sent in from Tripoli as part of a Global Response Staff or GRS that provides security to CIA case officers and provides counter-surveillance and surveillance protection. They were killed by a mortar shell at 4 a.m. Libyan time, nearly seven hours after the attack on the consulate began -- a window that represented more than enough time for the U.S. military to send back-up from nearby bases in Europe, according to sources familiar with Special Operations.

* FOLKS... OUR PEOPLE DIDN'T HAVE TO DIE. THEY WERE DELIBERATELY LEFT TO DIE. IT'S THAT SIMPLE.

A motorcade of dozens of Libyan vehicles, some mounted with 50 caliber machine guns, belonging to the February 17th Brigades, a Libyan militia which is friendly to the U.S., finally showed up at the CIA annex at approximately 3 a.m. An American Quick Reaction Force sent from Tripoli had arrived at the Benghazi airport at 2 a.m. (four hours after the initial attack on the consulate) and was delayed for 45 minutes at the airport because they could not at first get transportation, allegedly due to confusion among Libyan militias who were supposed to escort them to the annex, according to Benghazi sources.

* MIGHT EVEN THOSE 45 MINUTES HAVE MADE A DIFFERENCE...?

* TO BE CONTINUED...

William R. Barker said...

* CONCLUDING... (Part 4 of 4)

The American special operators, Woods, Doherty and at least two others were part of the Global Response Staff, a CIA element, based at the CIA annex and were protecting CIA operators who were part of a mission to track and repurchase arms in Benghazi that had proliferated in the wake of Muammar Qaddafi's fall. Part of their mission was to find the more than 20,000 missing MANPADS, or shoulder-held missiles capable of bringing down a commercial aircraft.

* 20,000 "MISSING" SHOULDER-FIRED MISSILES...? UNDER OBAMA'S WATCH...?!?!

According to a source on the ground at the time of the attack, the team inside the CIA annex had captured three Libyan attackers and was forced to hand them over to the Libyans.

* WERE FORCED...? BY WHOM...?

U.S. officials do not know what happened to those three attackers and whether they were released by the Libyan forces.

* THE LEVEL OF SHEER INCOMPETENCE...

(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)

* BUT, FOLKS... THE POINT OF THIS NEWSBITE... THE POINT OF ALL THE STAND-ALONES AND NEWSBITES WHICH HAVE BEEN ADDRESSING EACH EXPOSE SINCE 9/11/12... IT'S NOT "JUST" INCOMPETENCE. NO, MY FRIENDS... IF IT WERE SIMPLY "MERE" INCOMPETENCE THAT WOULD BE ONE THING. BUT, NO... WE KNOW THE LIES HAVE BEEN DELIBERATE. AND NOW WE KNOW THAT OUR PEOPLE WERE LEFT TO DIE - DELIBERATELY LEFT TO DIE - THAT ON-THE-GROUND FORCES WERE TOLD TO "STAND DOWN" WHILE IN WASHINGTON THEY WERE WATCHING THE DISASTER UNFOLD VIA DRONE VIDEO IN REAL TIME.

Fox News has also learned that Stevens was in Benghazi that day to be present at the opening of an English-language school being started by the Libyan farmer who helped save an American pilot who had been shot down by pro-Qaddafi forces during the initial war to overthrow the regime. That farmer saved the life of the American pilot and the ambassador wanted to be present to launch the Libyan rescuer's new school.

* GOD BLESS AMBASSADOR STEVENS... AND GOD DAMN BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA.

William R. Barker said...

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/father-slain-seal-who-made-decision-not-save-my-son_657782.html

Charles Woods - the father of Tyrone Woods who was killed in the 9/11 terrorist attack at the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya - reveals details of meeting Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton at the publicly broadcast memorial service for the slain Americans at Andrews Air Force Base only days after the attack.

http://soundcloud.com/thelarslarsonshow/charles-woods-father-of-former

And, in a recent radio appearance, Woods publicly questioned who made the call not to send in back-up forces to possibly save his son’s life, as well as the three other Americans killed in Benghazi (which includes the American ambassador to Libya).

“When [Obama] came over to our little area” at Andrew Air Force Base, says Woods, “he kind of just mumbled, you know, ‘I’m sorry.’ His face was looking at me, but his eyes were looking over my shoulder like he could not look me in the eye. And it was not a sincere, ‘I’m really sorry, you know, that your son died,’ but it was totally insincere, more of whining type, ‘I’m sorry.’”

Woods says that shaking President Obama’s hands at his son’s memorial service was “like shaking hands with a dead fish.”

“It just didn’t feel right,” he says of his encounter with the commander in chief. “And now that it’s coming out that apparently the White House situation room was watching our people die in real time, as this was happening,”

Woods says, he wants answers on what happened - and why there was no apparent effort to save his son’s life.

* MR. WOODS ISN'T ALONE.

“Well, this is what Hillary did,” Woods continues. “She came over and, you know, did the same thing — separately came over and talked with me. I gave her a hug, shook her hand. And she did not appear to be one bit sincere — at all. And you know, she mentioned that the thing about, we’re going to have that person arrested and prosecuted that did the video. That was the first time I had even heard about anything like that.”

* "THE VIDEO...?!?!"

Woods continued: “Apparently even the State Department had a live stream and was aware of their calls for help. My son wasn’t even there. He was at a safe house about a mile away. He got the distress call; he heard them crying for help; that’s why he and Glen risked their lives to go that extra mile just to take care of the situation. And I’m sure that wasn’t the only one received that distress call — you know, come save our lives … I’m sure that other people in the military, in the State Department, in the White House, received that same call that he would receive."

* AND THEY DID... WE NOW KNOW THEY DID...AND WE NOW KNOW HOW THOSE IN POWER REACTED - BY REFUSING TO ACT!

* MR. WOODS CONTINUED...

"And I’m sure that most military people would jump at the chance … to protect that life and not leave anyone behind.”

* ONE WOULD HOPE...

Woods made clear that he isn't "mad," but that he wants to the truth to be told because he feels abandoned.

Woods says he was told by military officials that the military could have "come above [the area] and completely carpeted [the] area" and therefore saved the officials in Benghazi, Libya, but that someone gave the command for the American military not to save the lives of the Americans under attack.

* THAT'S WHAT IT AMOUNTS TO. THE CIA AGENTS - TRAINED, ARMED AGENTS - WERE TOLD TO STAND DOWN. THE MILITARY RESPONSE WAS DELAYED.

"When I heard, you know, that there's a very good chance that the White House as well as other members of the military knew what was going on and obviously someone had to say, don't go rescue them. Because every person in the military -- their first response would be, 'we're going to go rescue them.' We need to find out who it was that gave that command 'do not rescue them.'"

* YES. WE DO.

William R. Barker said...

http://washingtonexaminer.com/spending-on-white-house-dinners-soars-under-obama/article/2511758#.UIrLx9nsbAK

President Obama has spent far more lavishly on White House state dinners than previous chief executives, including nearly $1 million on a 2010 dinner for Mexico's president, according to documents obtained by The Washington Examiner.

Presidents have long used formal dinners to court foreign heads of state and to dish out fine food and wine to reward political, financial and show business celebrities and supporters, but current and former government officials said the documents obtained by The Examiner point to an unprecedented upsurge in White House spending on such events.

The Obama extravaganza two years ago for Mexican President Felipe Calderon, which included a performance by pop star Beyonce, cost $969,793 - more than $4,700 per attendee, the documents show.

* THIS... IS... SICK! THIS CANNOT BE JUSTIFIED!

The dinner for the prime minister of India - which was famously crashed by Virginia couple Michaele and Tareq Salahi - cost nearly half a million dollars.

Dinners for Chinese President Hu Jintao and British Prime Minister David Cameron were of the same level of extravagance.

* FOLKS... YOU'RE NOT GONNA SEE THIS STORY PICKED UP BY THE MSM!

A knowledgeable government official who made the documents available to The Examiner said the extravagant spending seemed unfair with so many Americans out of work. "It just kind of takes your breath away to see the expenditure of money that has occurred since 2009," the official said.

* FOLKS... THIS IS THE REAL OBAMA! IT ALWAYS HAS BEEN. THINK ABOUT MICHELLE'S VACATIONS... SENDING A 13-YEAR-OLD ON "SPRING BREAK..."

Gary Walters, who ran presidential household operations for 21 years during Democratic and Republican administrations, before retiring in 2007, told The Examiner the costs reflected in the documents were "excessive." "They are high."

* NO SHIT SHERLOCK! $4,700 PER ATTENDEE...!!! AT TAXPAYER EXPENSE...!!! DURING "THE GREAT RECESSION!"

The chief usher of the White House from the Reagan to George W. Bush presidencies, Walters consulted a former White House colleague and said neither of them could recall entertainment costs anywhere near those revealed in the documents provided to The Examiner. "The highest [cost] event we could remember was $190,000 to $200,000 range, and that was for a very large dinner outside that was probably somewhere in the vicinity of 500 people with two different tents," Walters said, noting that the event was held under President Clinton.

[D]ocuments also reveal that the Obama White House retained an outside planner for the dinners.

Bryan Rafanelli, a Boston-based celebrity event planner who was retained last year, managed former first daughter Chelsea Clinton's 2010 nupitals. His firm's website boasts that he produced "State Dinners hosted by President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama."

* AND GUESS WHAT, FOLKS...

WALSH

Rafanelli's business partner, Mark Walsh, is deputy chief of the State Department's Office of Protocol, which reimburses the White House executive residence for the events.

* YEP! YOU READ THAT RIGHT!

Under a long-standing agreement, state dinner expenses are sent by the White House to Walsh's office for processing. His name does not appear in any of the documents obtained by the newspaper.

* NO... OF COURSE NOT... (*SMIRK*)

Asked about the propriety of a White House contractor having a business relationship with a federal official in a position such as Walsh, Walters said, "I don't think it looks very good. Does it smell right? No."

Walters said he never used outside event planners because "I believed the White House residence staff could do the job."

* WHICH APPARENTLY THEY COULD... THEY ALWAYS HAD!

A spokesman for Rafanelli declined to make him available for comment.

(*SMIRK*)

William R. Barker said...

http://freebeacon.com/obamas-outsourcer/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Boeing CEO Jim McNerney currently serves as chairman of President Barack Obama’s Export Council.

Boeing is urging its employees and suppliers to participate in a Nov. 15 event in Chicago...which will focus “on how to do business in Mexico,” according to a letter sent to the company’s suppliers by Patrick McKenna, Boeing’s director of Supply Chain Strategy and Supplier Management.

* I'M GUESSING THEY'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT SELLING U.S. PRODUCED PRODUCTS TO MEXICO...

“Several of our suppliers have successfully set up factories in Mexico because of the numerous advantages that Mexico offers to
aerospace suppliers,” McKenna wrote, according to the letter sent Oct. 17 and first reported on by the Seattle Times. “Boeing will be sending several people to this event, and we wanted to inform our supply base of this opportunity.”

* YEP. LOOKS LIKE I PEGGED THAT ONE. (*SMIRK*)

The outsourcing event will take place in the president’s hometown of Chicago where former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel currently serves as mayor.

* YA GOTTA LUV THE IRONY...

The event is being hosted by American Industries, a group dedicated to helping companies move their operations to Mexico. American Industries has promised to “waive the registration fees for our Boeing suppliers,” according to McKenna’s letter.

* TO REITERATE...

Boeing CEO Jim McNerney currently serves as chairman of President Barack Obama’s Export Council.

Tom Wroblewski, president of District 751 of the International Association of Machinists (IAM), reacted to the letter in political terms. “We’d think that Boeing CEO Jim McNerney, as chairman of President Obama’s council on exports, would be particularly sensitive to the importance of exporting American products, not jobs,” said Wroblewski, via email. “We plan on talking to Boeing about this. We believe it is counterproductive to what we are trying to accomplish here.”

William R. Barker said...

http://www.humanevents.com/2012/10/26/your-taxpayer-subsidized-green-energy-at-work/

It was one of Barack Obama’s favorite "green-energy" companies.

* WAS...???

Well, yesterday, The Denver Post detailed the criminal investigation...

* CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION...???

...of Abound Solar, a defunct solar-panel manufacturer in Colorado that was run on taxpayer “investments,” for...

(*DRUM ROLL*)

...securities fraud, consumer fraud and financial misrepresentation.

Abound shuttered its Colorado plant during the summer and filed for bankruptcy, leaving “125 workers without jobs and taxpayers holding the bag for up to $60 million in defaulted loans.”

The securities-fraud investigation stems from allegations that “officials at Abound Solar knew products the company was selling were defective, and then asked investors to invest in the company without telling them about the defective products,” the DA’s office said in a news release.

Similarly, the consumer-fraud allegation is that Abound knowingly sold defective panels to customers.


The third subject of investigation is that Abound allegedly misled financial institutions when the company was seeking loans.

* HMM... I DIDN'T KNOW "COLORADO" WAS SPELLED C*H*I*C*A*G*O...?!

Half of the four solar manufacturers that received loan guarantees have failed.

* BUT TO BE FAIR, NOT ALL OF THEM WERE RUN BY CROOKS...

(*CROOKED GRIN*)

Maybe — and this is just a theory — when you flush companies with millions in taxpayer cash for purely ideological reasons you incentivize irresponsible behavior.

William R. Barker said...

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/8803335-another-new-record-disability-975-day-under-obama

The number of American workers collecting federal disability insurance benefits hit yet another record high in October, according to the Social Security Administration.

This month 8,803,335 disabled workers are collecting benefits, up from the previous record of 8,786,049 set in September.


(*SARCASTIC CLAP-CLAP-CLAP*)


In February 2009, the first full month after President Barack Obama took office, there were 7,469,240 workers collecting federal disability insurance. Thus, so far in Obama’s term, the number of workers collecting disability has increased by 1,334,095. That works out to a net increase of about 29,646 per month.

* AND HOW DOES THIS COMPARE TO THE (EVIL) GEORGE W. BUSH YEARS...???

During George Bush’s eight years as president, the number of workers collecting federal disability insurance increased by...24,742 per month..

In Bush’s second term alone, the number of workers on disability increased by 1,198,575, equaling an average monthly increase of about 24,970.

* SO WHAT'S THAT... UP SOMETHING LIKE 18% UNDER OBAMA...?

* HMM... SOMETHING TELLS ME THAT IS WE WERE TO COMPARE THE BUSH FIRST TERM NUMBERS TO THE OBAMA FIRST TERM NUMBERS THE UPTICK WOULD LOOK A HELL OF A LOT WORSE!

William R. Barker said...

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/average-gdp-growth-less-half-what-obama-predicted_657832.html

The average GDP growth for the first three quarters of this year is 1.8%, according to data released by the the Bureau of Economic Analysis this morning.

That is less than half of what the White House predicted GDP growth would be this year, and less than a third of what the Obama administration projected when it first took office.

When Obama first came into office, in 2009, the White House projected that GDP growth this year (2012) would be 4.6%.

Then, in 2010, the White House downplayed that projection to 4.3%.

And last year, the forecast looked even gloomier, at 3.6%.

But as the numbers show, the three quarter average of this year came in even worse: 1.8%

"Gross domestic product, the value of all goods and services produced in the U.S., rose at a 2% annual rate after climbing 1.3% in the prior quarter, Commerce Department figures showed today in Washington," Bloomberg reports.

* ER... FOLKS...? NOTE ANOTHER PROBLEM. THIS "AVERAGE VALUE" STAT. THEY'RE COUNTING INFLATION (A GAL. OF GAS THAT LAST YEAR COST $2.50 COSTING $3.50 THIS YEAR) AS "GROWTH."

(*SMIRK*)

William R. Barker said...

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-10-25/us-2-troops-die-in-apparent-afghan-inside-attack

[On Thursday] a man in an Afghan police uniform shot and killed two American service members in what appeared to be the latest attack on international forces this year by their Afghan partners.

[A]uthorities had yet to determine if the attacker was an Afghan police officer or an insurgent who had donned a uniform to get close to the Americans, said Maj. Lori Hodge, a spokeswoman for U.S. forces in Afghanistan. The assailant escaped after killing the service members while they were out on a late morning patrol in the southern Uruzgan province, she added.

* OH, YEAH... OBAMA AND PANETTA HAVE "EVERYTHING UNDER CONTROL."

* FOLKS... EVERY AMERICAN DEATH IN AFGHANISTAN IS AT THIS POINT NOW SQUARELY OBAMA'S RESPONSIBILITY - AS THEY'VE BEEN SINCE HE TOOK OFFICE.

It was the second suspected insider attack in two days. On Wednesday, two British service members and an Afghan police officer were killed in an "exchange of gunfire" in Helmand province, the British Ministry of Defense said in a statement. The Afghan officer was not wearing his uniform and the statement said it was not clear who started shooting first.

* BUT THEY'RE ADMITTING HE WAS INDEED A MEMBER OF THE AFGHAN POLICE.

(*SMIRK*)

Also Thursday, an Italian soldier was killed in a firefight in Farah province in the west of the country, the Italian military said in a statement. Three other soldiers were wounded.

* "WINNING...! DUH...!" (I DON'T THINK SO...)

William R. Barker said...

* TWO-PARTER... (Part 1 of 2)

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203897404578078902106077268.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

"I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health care program" — Illinois state Sen. Barack Obama, June 2003.

vs.

"I have not said that I was a single-payer supporter" — President Obama, August 2009.

===

"Leadership means that the buck stops here. . . . I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt limit" — Sen. Barack Obama, March 2006.

vs.

"It is not acceptable for us not to raise the debt ceiling and to allow the U.S. government to default" — President Obama, July 2011.

===

"I favor legalizing same-sex marriages, and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages" — Obama questionnaire response, 1996, while running for Illinois state Senate.

vs.

"I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage" — Sen. Obama, November 2008, while running for president.

vs.

"It is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married" — President Obama, May 2012.

===

"We have an idea for the trigger. . . . Sequestration" — Obama Office of Management and Budget Director Jack Lew in 2011, as reported in Bob Woodward's "The Price of Politics."

vs.

"First of all, the sequester is not something that I've proposed. It is something that Congress has proposed" — President Obama, October 2012.

===

"If I am the Democratic nominee, I will aggressively pursue an agreement with the Republican nominee to preserve a publicly financed general election" — Sen. Obama, 2007.

vs.

"We've made the decision not to participate in the public financing system for the general election" — Sen. Obama, June 2008.

===

"I will never question the patriotism of others in this campaign" — Sen. Obama, June 2008.

vs.

"The way Bush has done it over the last eight years is . . . [he] added $4 trillion by his lonesome, so that we now have over $9 trillion of debt that we are going to have to pay back. . . . That's irresponsible. It's unpatriotic" — Sen. Obama, July 2008.

vs.

"I don't remember what the number was precisely. . . . We don't have to worry about it short term" — President Obama, September 2012, on the debt figure when he took office ($10 trillion) and whether to worry about today's $16 trillion figure.

* TO BE CONTINUED...

William R. Barker said...

* CONCLUDING... (Part 2 of 2)

===

"[Sen. Hillary Clinton believes] that . . . if the government does not force taxpayers to buy health care, that we will penalize them in some fashion. I disagree with that" — Sen. Obama, Jan 2008, opposing the individual mandate for health insurance.

vs.

"I'm open to a system where every American bears responsibility for owning health insurance" — President Obama, June 2009, supporting the individual mandate.

===

"Instead of celebrating your dynamic union and seeking to partner with you to meet common challenges, there have been times when America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive" — President Obama, April 2009, in France.

vs.

"We have at times been disengaged, and at times we sought to dictate our terms" — President Obama, April 2009, in Trinidad and Tobago.

vs.

"Nothing Governor Romney just said is true, starting with this notion of me apologizing" — Barack Obama, October 2012, on whether he went on a global apology tour.

===

"The problem with a spending freeze is you're using a hatchet where you need a scalpel" — Sen. Obama, September 2008.

vs.

"Starting in 2011, we are prepared to freeze government spending for three years" — President Obama, January 2010.

===

"So if somebody wants to build a coal-fired plant, they can, it's just that it will bankrupt them" — Sen. Obama, January 2008, on his plans to financially penalize coal plants.

vs.

"Now is the time to end this addiction, and to understand that drilling is a stop-gap measure, not a long-term solution" — Sen. Obama, August 2008.

vs.

"Here's what I've done since I've been president. We have increased oil production to the highest levels in 16 years. Natural gas production is the highest it's been in decades. We have seen increases in coal production and coal employment" — President Obama, October 2012.

===

"If I don't have this done in three years, then there's going to be a one-term proposition" — President Obama, 2009.

vs.

"We've got a long way to go but . . . we've come too far to turn back now. . . . And that's why I'm running for a second term" — President Obama, October 2012