Barack Obama wants to "unilaterally disarm our nation."
Earlier in the year I caved to the validity of the YouTube video that shows Barack Obama discussing how he plans to “disarm” America.
While I may cave at one point and be inclined to believe what ‘appears to be real’, when an actual election draws near, I do begin to seek out actual FACTS and not creative and manipulated lies that are circulating the internet. Politicians are far more capable of lies during a heated campaign - so it’s our job as U.S. Citizens to uncover the truth and cast our votes accordingly.
What I found was THIS video was taken completely out of context, manipulated when in all actuality - many of Barack Obama’s statements were echoed by some of the most beloved political officials in time.
One of the key outlets that has promoted the Obama-wants-to-disarm-us argument is the conservative blog Macsmind. Macsmind linked on Feb. 27, 2008, to a YouTube video; the majority of the e-mails circulating are linking to the Macsmind post. Macsmind posted the commentary, “Sen. McCain, you should grab this video and play it on every ad you can. This is absolutely shocking reprehensible. He plans to universally disarm our nation (sic). The question is for what, and more specifically ‘for whom’.”
On June 8, Macsmind posted a full version of the video, noting “some lefties are complaining that the video is a hack job and it’s out of context. Therefore I present to you context.”
Macsmind and others may not like the foreign policy goals that Obama outlines in his video, but it’s deceptive to call those goals unilateral disarmament. For this reason, we find this the chain e-mail’s statements to be False.
I wonder what they called similar statments when they were originally written in an opinion piece published in the Wall Street Journal on Jan. 4, 2007, authored by George P. Shultz, William J. Perry, Henry A. Kissinger and Sam Nunn. Its title: “A World Free of Nuclear Weapons.”
The authors have significant foreign policy experience (much more than Macsmind I’m sure): Shultz was was secretary of state under Ronald Reagan; Perry was defense secretary under Bill Clinton; Kissinger was secretary of state under Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford; and Nunn was chairman of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee.
The piece kicked off enough discussion and debate in the foreign policy community that the quartet authored another piece for the Wall Street Journal a year later, titled “Toward a Nuclear-Free World,” in which they discussed growing support for their ideas.
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