One lie that slipped by the media while they rushed out to check the veracity of Joe the Plumber and unearthed his $1100 tax lien, was the lie Obama told about his reasons for not supporting the Free Trade Agreement for Colombia. His answer was as dated as his political philosophy.<\/p>\n
Sounding strangely like a union thug, Obama repeated the Big Labor talking points;<\/p>\n
The history in Colombia right now is that labor leaders have been targeted for assassination on a fairly consistent basis and there have not been prosecutions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The Wall Street Journal<\/a>‘s Mary Anastasia O’Grady disagrees with the old lie;<\/p>\n
In October 2006, [Colombian President Alvaro Uribe] created a special investigative unit inside the attorney general’s office to handle union murders. The unit began operations in February 2007, and it says that as of this August “some 855 cases have open investigations” and that “179 security preventive detention measures have been issued, 61 cases are ready to be referred to court for trial, and 115 suspects have been convicted in 75 sentences.”<\/p>\n
It is far safer to be a union member today in Colombia than to be a member of the general population. This is a fact, and it would be interesting to know why Mr. Obama has repeatedly refused to acknowledge it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n