Bill Kristol is an idiot. On February 11, remarking on Senator Obama’s announcement speech in Springfield, IL., he said:

We’re electing a war president in 2008. If I can go back to Obama and Lincoln for just one second, Lincoln’s “house divided” speech in 1858 was a speech saying we cannot live as a house divided on slavery. And he implicitly says we’ll have to fight a civil war if necessary on this.

Obama’s speech is a “can’t we get along” speech — sort of the opposite of Lincoln. He would have been with Stephen Douglas in 1858. Let’s paper over these differences, rise above politics and all get along. That’s not Giuliani’s mode. And I think in a war context, social conservatives want to win the war against Islamic jihadism.

Apparently Kristol flunked US History in high school. The House Divided speech was about the importance of preserving the union. Lincoln never remotely advocated fighting a civil war over slavery. Yes, he spoke greatly about his fear of the spread of slavery. But he never advocated war.

You can read Lincoln’s House Divided speech here.

Well it appears that I get the pleasure of having the first content post so on with this dog and pony show. As many know it has been reported that Sen. Obama had become mixed up in a land deal where he was the neighbor with one of his campaign backers and sold him a small parcel of his property. The deal was legit however it also appeared to be an ethical hiccup.

Moving on today there is a piece in the NYT that states that prior to Obama’s election to senate he was involved in an investment group with some of his High level donors. While he was in this investment group he promoted legislation that would seem to benefit the companies the group invested in. However Baracks part in this group was as a blind investor with the investment facilitated by his broker. It appears as soon as Sen. Obama learned of the conflict of interest involved in these particular investments he pulled his investments at a cost to himself of ~$13000. It is my opinion based on the Blind investor strategy and the negative investment return that is was a legitimate mistake on the part of the Senator with no malice or personal gain through illicit means meant. I hope this post was useful.

Obama screwed up his timelines in his Selma, Alabama speech.

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.

Some were misled by the line about the Kennedy’s, but it’s true: JFK helped start this program BEFORE he became President.

The other issue is that the march across the bridge happened in 1965, yet Obama was born in 1961.
Obama is saying that he using Selma, and the bridge, as a metaphor for the entire civil-rights movement. Which does make some sense. A concrete example can help make more powerful an abstract concept. We will stipulate that was not entirely clear.

The awesome Goon Willa Rogers suggested:

What someone should do is buy up an url for something like obamatruth.com, use it as an FAQ to rebut the bullshit (like snopes.com) quickly in response to right-wing memes, have printable flyers and cards for supporters to download and hand out, and spread the word about the site.

OBAMATRUTH.ORG and THEREALOBAMA.COM are already being used for horrible right-wing obfuscation, and Eripsa is a shill for Blogger, so here we are.

Here is a gauntlet. It appears to have been thrown.