Barack Obama's Banking Committee
This is not the Senate Banking Committee Barack Obama knew, my emphasis:
Responding to an Israeli reporter’s question Wednesday on his commitment to protect the Jewish state, Barack Obama pointed to a bill “we passed” in the U.S. Senate Banking Committee that tightens sanctions and authorizes divestment from Iran. “My committee,” he called it.
Except that he isn’t a member of the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs.
“Just this past week, we passed out of the out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee - which is my committee - a bill to call for divestment from Iran as way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don’t obtain a nuclear weapon,” Obama said at a press conference in Sderot, Israel.
Considering Obama has spent so little time in the Senate since he's been in the Senate, who could blame him for getting a little mixed up?
An Obama spokesman tells CNN “it was his bill, not his committee,” referring to the Iran Sanctions Enabling Act that the Illinois senator sponsored and introduced in May 2007. The measure was then referred to the Banking Committee, and passed a vote of 19-2 on July 17.
I checked and Obama did indeed sponsor said bill. So glad that's all cleared up. Now we can resume the groupie position for Obama's World Tour, next stop Germany:
In the build-up to what is probably the most anticipated American campaign speech ever held on foreign soil, one of Berlin's main city magazines offered its readership cut-out American flags to wave at Barack Obama's planned address.
The presumed Democratic nominee plans to arrive in the German capital on Thursday morning. Not much of his agenda for the day has been made public, but he is set to speak at Berlin's Victory Column -- formally the main site of the Love Parade -- at 7PM local time.
Those who want to hear Obama live have been told to start arriving three hours earlier. Berlin authorities say that as many as a million people could attend. Four TV stations are broadcasting the entire speech, and the rest are scrambling to secure prime locations at the site.
Anticipation.
"We are the people we have been waiting for." BHO
Posted by: Scott Allan | July 24, 2008 at 10:59 AM
Does he have a mouse in his pocket? Or is it the royal we?
Posted by: Julie | July 24, 2008 at 12:16 PM
Dare I see he was referring to a trinity? I heard a funny line from Jon Stewart about how Obama went to Bethlehem... to visit his place of birth.
Posted by: Scott Allan | July 24, 2008 at 08:44 PM
LOL! With any luck he found the Three Wise Men.
Posted by: Julie | July 24, 2008 at 09:06 PM
Reid, Pelosi, and Ginsberg?
Posted by: Scott Allan | July 25, 2008 at 03:21 PM
I was hoping they'd be a little wiser than that! Of course it's better than Wright, Farrakhan and Rezko. I think.
Posted by: Julie | July 25, 2008 at 09:05 PM
Julie, you've been taken in by ANOTHER Obama lie. It wasn't Obama's committee, and it wasn't Obama's bill, either.
Obama had introduced a bill called the "Iran Sanctions Enabling Act." The bill that the committee passed was a different one, the "Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability and Divestment Act." Obama didn't write it, didn't introduce it, didn't sponsor it, and didn't vote for it.
In fact, Obama's sudden support for sanctions on Iran is a recent flip-flop. He OPPOSED the Kyl-Lieberman Act (which passed with overwhelming bipartisan support, in spite of Obama's opposition).
Dave Burton
Cary, NC
Posted by: Dave Burton | November 01, 2008 at 07:11 AM