"Hey, America, did I ever tell you the one about…"

The bald-faced lies of the prevaricator in chief continue to pile up. That story he told during the presidential debate with McCain, and then re-floated earlier this year in his campaign film, about how his cancer-stricken mother had to battle the private insurance company who wouldn't pony up because they said it was a preexisting condition? Turns out he not only made it all up, but he "knew (his) account was false because he served as his mother's attorney in all her dealings with the insurance company."
The one about his step-grandfather Soewarno Martogihardjo being killed fighting the Dutch in Indonesia? A "concocted myth in almost all respects" -- Martogihardjo actually died while hanging drapes.
As for the one about Grandpa Onyango being jailed and tortured by the colonial bastards,

Zablon Okatch, who worked with Mr Onyango as a servant for American diplomats after his supposed detention, told (David) Maraniss: "Hussein was never jailed. I know that for a fact. It would have been difficult for him to get a job with a white family, let alone a diplomat, if he once served in jail." Dick Opar, a former senior Kenyan police official, said he "would have known" if Mr Onyango had been detained. "People make up stories," said Mr Opar…(Onyango's daughter) told Maraniss: "He was not detained"...Maraniss also notes that no records exist of the detention and that within a year of his supposed imprisonment, Mr Onyango's son, Barack Obama senior, was accepted into a prestigious boarding school in western Kenya.

Gosh, who could ever have possibly guessed that Obama would be a jive-ass president?

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