Sean Goebbels pimps more Obama lies

Oh, how I get a kick out of listening to Sean Goebbels Hannity getting more and more desperate as the election draws neigh. One of his latest distortions outright lies is saying that Barack Obama would cut "billions of dollars" from the defense budget (see the video above), when in fact, he has stated on numerous occasions that he will "cut billions in wasteful spending."

As a cherry on the Hannity sundae of vomit, he mentions Obama "waving the white flag of surrender." What's a discussion about Obama's Iraq strategy without a mention about his wanting America to surrender? I'm almost tired (almost) of writing it, but it bears repeating - we cannot win in Iraq. I really wish that candidates Obama & Biden would frame this issue correctly, but I'm yet to hear it. If I were Obama, I would say it this way - we already did win the conflict, but we are losing the occupation. What's more, we will never, ever "win" the occupation, because no country in modern human history has ever won one of those. Even if at the present moment, we aren't losing it militarily, we sure are losing it financially. Actually, the two are linked.

How so? Well, the reason that many of our enemies are taking a break from shooting at us is because we are paying them not to. Yes, you read that right - in Anbar Province, we are paying our would-be enemies $300 per month to not shoot at us (it may even be per week - I have to go check, but I know we are paying them). That's no way to "win" a war, or occupation, or whatever our corporate media and the right-wing hacks choose to call it.

Oh, and I've love to see footage of Obama calling Iran "a small country and not a serious threat" and exactly in what context this supposed statement was said. What a load of b.s.

It also amuses me to no end that Hillary Clinton is now a credible argument to not electing Barack Obama, when for the last 20 years, hacks like Hannity have torn the Clintons down at every available opportunity, but now we are to believe him that Hillary is a sparkling testament to Obama's character? I have no problems with Hillary Clinton, especially what she said about Obama during a heated primary campaign, and no one else should, either. Anyway, this is what Hannity had to say about Hillary during the same clip above:

[To former Clinton White House special counsel Lanny Davis] Now, there's a very famous person, a good friend of yours, her name is Hillary, and she said that his positions on national security issues, quote, "are naive, dangerous, and irresponsible." I actually agree with her. I agree with your friend. She was right. Why - convince me why she's wrong.

You never have to dig very far to find an effective contradiction to Hannity's propaganda. In 1980, George H.W. Bush called Ronald Reagan's economic proposals "Voo Doo Economics," yet he accepted Reagan's invitation to join him on the ticket. Bush went on to serve Reagan for eight years. Primary punches should be viewed for what they are - slug fests to get the nomination, where hyperbole rules and candidates often play fast and loose with the truth at worst, or ratchet up the rhetoric at best, in order to get their party's nomination.

To Obama's credit, he hasn't used all of the crap thrown by Mitt Romney, Rudy 9iu1ian1 and and Mike Huckabee about McCain during the GOP primaries. Why? Because primary rhetoric often has very little street cred during the general election.

h/t to Media Matters for the video