Barrel Strength

The Obamessiah tries to grasp a coattail of John McCain’s military record but trips over his own lies:

During his 7 September 2008 interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Obama said the following:

“I had to sign up for Selective Service when I graduated from high school. And I was growing up in Hawaii. And I have friends whose parents were in the military. There are a lot of Army, military bases there.

“And I actually always thought of the military as an ennobling and, you know, honorable option. But keep in mind that I graduated in 1979. The Vietnam War had come to an end. We weren’t engaged in an active military conflict at that point. And so, it’s not an option that I ever decided to pursue.”

Obama did graduate from high school in Hawaii in 1979, but he could not have registered for Selective Service then. Nobody could. In 1975, President Gerald Ford terminated the Military Selective Service Act. It was not reinstated until July 1980. That is one year after Obama graduated from high school. In July 1980, Obama was no longer living in Hawaii. He was living in Los Angeles.

So much for him relying on Joe Biden to write up his talking points.

Clinton-era advisor and pundit Donna Brazile compares Obama to Jesus and Sarah Palin to Pontius Pilate:

The Bible says to whom much is given much is required and it comes out of that tradition. So it was insulting to see both, you know, the governor as well as Mayor Giuliani criticize people. There’s some on the Internet now that Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a governor. And perhaps they should understand the role of a community organizer, do help people in distress.

When one of the consummate ward-heelers of the Democratic Party is this impressed, something is up: