Obama campaign has trouble telling the truth - caught with his handwriting down

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Source: Politico

Obama had greater role on liberal survey

By KENNETH P. VOGEL | 3/31/08 4:35 AM EST


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 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.



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It's better to just tell the truth up front. This would have been an unnoticed questionnaire if they had just not lied about it. There is a pattern here with Obama's early evasions and disavowals regarding Rev Wright. The starry-eyed press will let him off, but the Republican TV ads would shred him.