Obama's committee of the hole

"Campaigning in Israel yesterday, Obama held a press conference in Sderot. There he claimed membership on the Senate Banking Committee that passed the Dodd-Shelby Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2008. The Senate Banking Committe passed the bill out of committee last week by a vote of 19-2. Obama stated:

Now, in terms of knowing my commitments, you don't have to just look at my words, you can look at my deeds. Just this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, which is my committee, a bill to call for divestment from Iran, as a way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don't obtain a nuclear weapon.

"As John notes below, however, Obama is not a member of the Senate Banking Committee. Obama claimed membership on the committee so that he could count the committee's action as one of 'my deeds.'"

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"Barack Obama has proved himself an extraordinarily cynical politician. He doesn't believe in much, but he certainly believes in his own power to make voters believe whatever he says, even when what he says today contradicts what he said yesterday, and even when it constitutes a bald fiction, such as his claim that the Senate Banking Committee is '[his] committee.'"