The bill he voted against as an Illinois legislator was identical to the federal legislation he said he would have voted in favor of if he had been in the Senate.

The presumptive Democratic nominee responded sharply in an interview Saturday night with the Christian Broadcast Network, saying anti-abortion groups were "lying" about his record.

"They have not been telling the truth," Mr. Obama said. "And I hate to say that people are lying, but here's a situation where folks are lying."

He added that it was "ridiculous" to suggest he had ever supported withholding lifesaving treatment for an infant. "It defies common sense and it defies imagination, and for people to keep on pushing this is offensive," he said in the CBN interview.

Except, of course, the bill he voted against was one requiring lifesaving treatment for an infant born alive after an attempted abortion. And while he argued that he opposed the bill because it might have potentially restricted abortion by giving legal status to unborn children (how horrible!), the legislation explicitly stated that "nothing in this section shall be construed to affirm, deny, expand, or contract any legal status or legal right applicable to any member of the species homo sapiens at any point prior to being born alive as defined in this section." In other words, it clearly did not give legal status to unborn children in any way that would have restricted abortion.

And what's more, that same language appeared in the federal bill that Obama claimed he would support.

Now Obama's campaign admits it -- Barry Hussein lied in the CBN interview.

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.

Simply put, Obama's own campaign has now confirmed that their candidate will say anything to cover his own ass in an interview -- and that he either doesn't know what he is talking about or doesn't care what the truth is. In either case, the trait is not desirable in a President -- especially not one who claims that formulating and discussing policy related to abortion "above my pay grade".

H/T Jill Stanek, Michelle Malkin

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