It’s been only a few short days since Barack Obama accused the McCain campaign of taking his words out of context in order to use them against him.. It was an amusing claim from Barack Obama, since he has been guilty of such tactics for quite a while now.
But, one would think that in light of their criticism of John McCain, Obama’s campaign wouldn’t resort to the same tactics…
Wrong.
Today, the Obama campaign deliberately took the words of McCain advisor Carly Fiorina out of context in order to attack John McCain.
Barack Obama’s campaign was “deceitful” when it clipped part of an interview in which Republican Victory 2008 Chairwoman Carly Fiorina said John McCain was not qualified to be the head of a corporation, Fiorina said Tuesday.
Earlier in the day, Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, appeared on MSNBC, where she said none of the candidates is qualified to run a major corporation, but that should not prevent them from running the country.
“I don’t think John McCain could run a major corporation. I don’t think Barack Obama could run a major corporation. I don’t think Joe Biden could run a major corporation. But on the other hand a major corporation is not the same as being the president or vice president of the United States,” Fiorina said.
“It is a fallacy to suggest that the country is like a company. So of course to run a business you have to have a lifetime of experience in business, but that’s not what Sarah Palin, John McCain, Joe Biden or Barack Obama are doing,” she said.
But the Obama campaign, pointing to a version of Fiorina’s statement that was clipped after the first sentence, berated McCain for not winning the trust of even his own supporters.
“When John McCain’s top economic adviser doesn’t think that he’s qualified to run a corporation — how on Earth can he run the largest economy in the world in the midst of a financial crisis?” Obama spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement accompanying the shortened clip.
But, this isn’t the only recent example from the Obama campaign.
Karl Rove recently said that both the McCain campaign and the Obama have run ads that “don’t pass the 100% truth test,” but the Obama campaign latched onto the part where Rove had mentioned McCain first and distorted the criticism as solely against McCain.
So, really, I’m tired of Obama’s blatant lies and hypocrisy. That’s hardly change we can believe in.
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