Thanks to Allapundit (has video available) and Randy from RightWinged for the links. Hillary and Obama were in Selma Alabama to commemorate Bloody Sunday. . Let’s go to the (rough) partial transcript:
What happened in Selma, Alabama and Birmingham also stirred the conscience of the nation. It worried folks in the White House who said, “You know, we’re battling Communism. How are we going to win hearts and minds all across the world? If right here in our own country, John, we’re not observing the ideals set fort in our Constitution, we might be accused of being hypocrites.” So the Kennedy’s decided we’re going to do an air lift. We’re going to go to Africa and start bringing young Africans over to this country and give them scholarships to study so they can learn what a wonderful country America is.
This young man named Barack Obama got one of those tickets and came over to this country. He met this woman whose great great-great-great-grandfather had owned slaves; but she had a good idea there was some craziness going on because they looked at each other and they decided that we know that the world as it has been it might not be possible for us to get together and have a child. There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born. So don’t tell me I don’t have a claim on Selma, Alabama. Don’t tell me I’m not coming home to Selma, Alabama.
A Kennedy program helped bring Obama’s father to the United States? Really? According to Obama’s first book,
He eventually won a scholarship to study in Nairobi; and then, on the eve of Kenyan independence, he was selected by Kenyan leaders and American sponsors to attend a university in the United States, joining the first large wave of Africans to be sent forth to master Western technology and bring it back to forge a new, modern Africa.
In 1959, at the age of 23, he arrived at the University of Hawaii – the first African student there.
1959 was two years prior to JFK’s inauguration. Obama was born August 4, 1961. Remember that link I provided above to Bloody Sundy? What year did it happen? That is correct, 1965!
The Obama camp is already spinning his convenient lie:
Obama was born in 1961, four years before the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. But spokesman Bill Burton said Obama was “speaking metaphorically about the civil rights movement as a whole.”
Thanks to jb1125 for pointing out this correction:
Like Obama Senior, I toowent to the US on the famous Tom Mboya Airlift of 1959 [when hundreds ofKenyan students were given scholarships to American universities]. I firstmet Obama Senior in Tom Mboya’s Nairobi office [Mboya was then the secretarygeneral of the Kenya Federation of Labour]. Obama and I met up again onreturning to Nairobi and remained drinking buddies for many years.
Others blogging:
Obama is a Democrat. Democrats are liars proven over and over again.
The campaign just started and this guy’s already lying! Just makin’ it up as he goes! Whatever sounds good at the moment, right?
And this is your candidate, SFL? What a sad joke!
The Kennedys played a major role in the airlift of Barack Obama Sr to the University of Hawaii. In 1959, the Kenya Labor Leader Tom Mboya was only able to sponsor the African student airlift ( which included Barack Obama Sr. http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/2488.cfm ) with financial support from the Kennedys.
From Time Aug 29, 1960:
“After months of turndowns, small hellos and evasions, the sponsors of the student airlift found themselves suddenly in the chips and in the news. All of the 250 students come from Kenya and other British areas in East Africa, and had been largely rounded up by Kenya Labor Leader Tom Mboya. A U.S. organization called the African American Students Foundation lined up scholarships for them at U.S. universities and colleges. The big need was transportation money. In December and again in January, the foundation asked the State Department for a $100,000 grant. The answer was a firm no from Career Diplomat Joseph C. Satterthwaite, chief of the State Department’s African Desk. His reason was impeccable: the State Department freely helps students from independent new nations, but in colonial or trust territories, the department deals directly with the governing power: in short, State tries not to butt in too much in the British territory. A New York Negro named Frank Montero, president of the student foundation, wrote to Nixon, recalling his interest in Africa and asking for his help. Nixon turned Montero’s request over to Satterthwaite, who promptly rejected it for the third time.
Visiting the U.S. in July, Mboya wanted to meet both candidates. Nixon was busy in Chicago at the G.O.P. convention; Mboya sought out Jack Kennedy at his Hyannisport retreat. Concerned about the wavering U.S. Negro vote, Kennedy offered to contribute part of the airlift expenses from his family’s Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation (named after the brother killed in World War II) and to look around for other private funds to help the grounded students. Sargent Shriver, Kennedy’s brother-in-law and managing director of the family foundation, found no uncommitted funds in other charitable foundations, in the end recommended that the Kennedy Foundation put up the entire $100,000, and provide unstipulated help for students during their stay in the U.S.â€
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,939162,00.html
A Politician who lies? No, can’t be.
3- No mention of obama in the article….
Hotair corrected their post.
http://hotair.com/archives/2007/03/05/audio-hillary-obama-develop-southern-accents-for-selma/
“Like Obama Senior, I too went to the US on the famous Tom Mboya Airlift of 1959 [when hundreds of Kenyan students were given scholarships to American universities]. I first met Obama Senior in Tom Mboya’s Nairobi office [Mboya was then the secretary general of the Kenya Federation of Labour]. Obama and I met up again on returning to Nairobi and remained drinking buddies for many years.”
http://www.nationmedia.com/eastafrican/01112004/Features/PA2-11.html
Thanks jb1125!