Letter to the Editor
As we see our newly elected president migrate toward the White House, we also see that he was not very truthful with the American people about where he stands on critical issues that got him there -- issues that were deciding factors for gays, independents, progressives and possibly some conservatives in making their decision to vote for a man who had so many questionable relationships.
Now we see Rick Warren, the pastor of Saddleback Church, selected by Obama to give the invocation on Jan. 20. This announcement is being greeted with skepticism in progressive religious and political circles because of how close these two really are. This pattern of surprising his constituents with contradiction and blatant lies seems to be his modus operndi .
In the controversy of his voting record on life-birth abortions, Obama's campaign finally had to recant from its original position after documents from the Illinois legislature proved him wrong. Obama ultimately voted in 2003 against a version of the bill identical to a congressional anti-infanticide bill the Senate approved on a 98-0 margin and on which the pro-abortion group NARAL took no position.
Again when recently confronted he was vague about meeting with Gov. Blagojevich shortly after the election to discuss his replacement for the U.S. Senate seat he was vacating.
The lies continue with his stand on Iraq, gay rights and lower taxes, and even about his uncle's role in liberating the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz.
Barack Obama is supposed to be the candidate of change. However, much like most politicians, Barack Obama apparently is just another politician whose ultimate goal was to get elected no matter what it took and no matter how many lies he had to tell to make it happen.
I predict we will soon see the hollowness of his claims to be above the Washington hypocrisy that he is replacing on Jan. 20.
Kenneth Manfredi
Evans
