Dave Sirota is a fucking liar

This post began as an addendum to the one below. But I've decided to give it greater prominence, because -- to be candid -- I am pissed off.

In the preceding post, I link to this piece by little Davey Sirota, the staunch Hillary-hater and Obama supporter who now says that he is disgusted by Obama's betrayal on the issue of drug re-importation from Canada. A reader told Davey that he had nobody to blame but himself. To which Davey responded:

Your assumption that Hillary was better - and would be better - is a hilarious fantasy. Yes, the person who voted for the war, was in the administration that thwarted reimportation, campaigned publicly for NAFTA, yes - we should all believe she'd be better.

What a total joke, really. Try telling another.

You're the joke, Davey. And you're a liar. Here's the reality of the situation:

During the primaries, Obama deliberately told a flagrant untruth about his NAFTA stance. In speeches, ads and pamphlets, he claimed that he would renegotiate the treaty. He has not done so and he has made clear that he never will. This broken promise came as no shock to those who had done a little research, as I had: Before he ran for president, he told at least one interviewer that he favored the treaty.

While he was busy lying to audiences in Ohio during the primaries, Obama had Goolsbee offer back-channel assurances to the Canadians, assuring them that the anti-NAFTA stance was no more than an election-year pose. Worst of all, the O campaign (via Daily Kos -- which all sentient creatures recognized as an arm of the campaign) peddled an outrageous and disgusting fabrication blaming Clinton, not Obama, for those double-dealing communications with our northern friends.

A Canadian investigation established the truth; the report damned Obama while exonerating Hillary. I document the entire story here. None of my many critics have ever been able to challenge a single fact in that piece.

Now let's talk about the war.

Obama spoke out against the idea of invading Iraq during a 2002 speech which he delivered in front of a crowd that would have tolerated no other stance. Indeed, he was the most conservative speaker on that occasion. Soon thereafter, he drifted further to the right. He refused to denounce the invasion when he ran for senate. (Look up his record. He said nada.) He refused to denounce the invasion when he spoke at the 2004 convention. (Look up the speech on YouTube -- and this time, pay attention to what he actually says, not to what you think he says.) That speech placed him well to the right of both Kerry and Clinton, who did denounce the invasion at that convention. (Again, look it up.)

Obama admits in his book that he began to favor the invasion while watching the "shock and awe" television coverage -- images which made me want to vomit. During his brief time in the Senate, he continually voted for war funding. His voting record in Iraq was to the right of Hillary's. After winning his senate seat, he never made a strong anti-war statement until his campaign started and the polls turned decisively against Bush's folly.

Yet throughout his 2008 campaign, Obama repeated the lie that he had been a consistent and courageous opponent of the war. He was nothing of the kind.

And by the way: We're still in fucking Iraq!

Davey's biggest fabrication concerns Hillary's stance on Canadian drugs. Here's the truth about Hillary's record:

Voted YES on allowing reimportation of Rx drugs from Canada.

S. 812, as amended; Greater Access to Affordable Pharmaceuticals Act of 2002. Vote to pass a bill that would permit a single 30-month stay against Food and Drug Administration approval of a generic drug patent when a brand-name company's patent is challenged. The secretary of Health and Human Services would be authorized to announce regulations allowing pharmacists and wholesalers to import prescription drugs from Canada into the United States. Canadian pharmacies and wholesalers that provide drugs for importation would be required to register with Health and Human Services. Individuals would be allowed to import prescription drugs from Canada. The medication would have to be for an individual use and a supply of less than 90-days.

Dave Sirota dares to leave his readers with the impression that Hillary opposed the very measure she championed. SIROTA IS A BALD-FACED LIAR.

I'm not a blinkered Hillary fan. I've said many times that I wish she had never run. For much of the primary season, I took an "anyone but Clinton" stance -- not because I thought she would make a bad president (she would certainly have been better than the ghastly creature now inhabiting the oval office), but because I don't like the reek of political dynasties. My support for her stemmed from the fact that she was the only thing standing between Barack Obama and the nomination. I don't run fawning pieces about Hillary's work as Secretary of State because I feel uneasy about some policies, or at least about her employer.

Even so, I will not tolerate Sirota's smear-jobs and lying. And I will never -- ever -- forget or forgive the deceptive bastards who commandeered my party in 2008 and replaced it with a thuggish cult of personality.

We need to recapture the Democratic party. Incorrigible liars like Sirota, Moulitsas and Huffington have no further place in the national discussion. The CDS-addled "lefty Libertarians" (such as Kos and Arianna) have lost all credibility. Those clowns have utterly embarrassed themselves. They've pissed their pants on national television, yet they refuse to admit that their thighs are dripping.