Video: Obama lies by calling pro-lifers ... liars

Obama's evidently has made the decision to dig in his heals about his voting record on the Illinois Born Alive Infants Protection Act and the federal Born Alive bill. Here's the gist of the situation:

Obama claims the two bills are different. His campaign has long claimed the two bills are different. And watch what he had to say the most recent time he was asked about them:

Trouble is, the public-record documents reveal, without a doubt, that Obama is wrong: the two documents are the same (CNA provides more backstory).

And obviously, National Right to Life doesn't like being called a liar, so its Director has asked Obama to claim that his Born Alive votes are "forgeries" (or admit his error, I guess).

Now, because the objective evidence is squarely against Obama, only laziness or intentional-story-burying in the media can kill this embarrassing (and revealing) state of affairs.

The early word from the presses (tracked by Jill Stanek) seems to suggest that Obama's campaign is in a scramble to nip this situation in the bud by adding an additional level of legislative confusion - a point that Obama makes no reference to in his taped interview:

Indeed, Mr. Obama appeared to misstate his position in the CBN interview on Saturday when he said the federal version he supported "was not the bill that was presented at the state level."

His campaign yesterday acknowledged that he had voted against an identical bill in the state Senate, and a spokesman, Hari Sevugan, said the senator and other lawmakers had concerns that even as worded, the legislation could have undermined existing Illinois abortion law. Those concerns did not exist for the federal bill, because there is no federal abortion law. (NY Sun)

And well they should be scrambling: Obama's cavalier/confident attitude about this situation is completely backfiring. All you need to do is re-watch this video clip and realize that he is, in fact, lying, and the enormous stupidity of his decision to try to stare down the NRL claims becomes evident, as Deal hudson points out.

Even worse for him: he is now on video stating, with complete surety, his position. His is the kind of categorical denial that unnecessarily required him to place his reputation and voting record on the line in an unqualified way. Therefore, either he is right, and the situation goes away, or he is wrong (actually the case), and he must now either admit to lying about these claims, or being ignorant of his own voting record while claiming to know his position inside and out, and - to top it all off - explain why he would go after NRL and others asking these (legitimated) questions by calling them liars.

I really don't see a way for him to survive a serious blow to his credibility ... except one thing:

Media silence.

And so the question remains: will Obama get away with calling NRL "liars," about something they in fact have correctly claimed, in no small part because he is relying on the media to not pursue the story further?