Obama Campaign Continues To Have Credibility Problems

After his recent comments about "not hearing anti-American and racist comments" by his pastor for over 20 years, and subsequent reversal. Barack Obama is caught up in yet another instance were his credibility is being called into question over a liberal questionnaire that when asked about it last year by the politico his aides said he "never saw or approved" but has now learned he played a much bigger role in and even shows Obama's handwritten notes added to one answer:

During his first run for elected office, Barack Obama played a greater role than his aides now acknowledge in crafting liberal stands on gun control, the death penalty and abortion — positions that appear at odds with the more moderate image he has projected during his presidential campaign.

The evidence comes from an amended version of an Illinois voter group’s detailed questionnaire, filed under his name during his 1996 bid for a state Senate seat.

Late last year, in response to a Politico story about Obama’s answers to the original questionnaire, his aides said he “never saw or approved” the questionnaire.

They asserted the responses were filled out by a campaign aide who “unintentionally mischaracterize[d] his position.”

But a Politico examination determined that Obama was actually interviewed about the issues on the questionnaire by the liberal Chicago nonprofit group that issued it. And it found that Obama — the day after sitting for the interview — filed an amended version of the questionnaire, which appears to contain Obama’s own handwritten notes added to one answer.

This is great! Once again Obama's actions are contrary to his words and projected image. On top of that, he's now placing the blame on a staffer saying that the staffer was responsible for filling out the questionnaire and refuses to take ownership even know his handwritten notes were found on an amended version.

Obama and his then-campaign manager, who Obama’s campaign asserts filled out the questionnaires, were familiar with the group, its members and its positions, since both were active in it before Obama's 1996 state Senate run.

Through an aide, Obama, who won the group’s endorsement as well as the statehouse seat, did not dispute that the handwriting was his. But he contended it doesn’t prove he completed, approved — or even read — the latter questionnaire.

“Sen. Obama didn’t fill out these state Senate questionnaires — a staffer did — and there are several answers that didn't reflect his views then or now,” Tommy Vietor, a spokesman for Obama’s campaign, said in an e-mailed statement. “He may have jotted some notes on the front page of the questionnaire at the meeting, but that doesn't change the fact that some answers didn't reflect his views. His 11 years in public office do.”

But the questionnaires provide fodder to question Obama’s ideological consistency and electability. Those questions are central to efforts by Obama’s presidential rival Hillary Clinton to woo the superdelegates whose votes represent her best chance to wrest the Democratic nomination from Obama.

Most will ignore this story or try and write it off as insignificant and standing alon, they would be correct but coupled with many other so-called misstatements and his reflexive "I didn't hear those words from the pews" nonsense answer to the Rev. Wright issue, it starts to paint a picture on a candidate who's credibility is extremely shaky at best.

No one expects political candidates to be 100% honest 100% of the time. What we do expect is that a person running the the highest office in the land have integrity and actually, you know, stand for what they believe in and not to to bamboozle the folks by saying one thing and doing the other or opposite. Unfortunately creating a false image for the people while working against them behind thier backs is the lefts modus operandi.