THE "TRAIL OF TALL TALES"

-- Fox News makes a weak effort to document some of the "misstatements, prevarications and falsehoods" of Barack Obama, and comes up with a list of eight clear and documented cases of Obama bullshit.  Here are two of the most telling Obama lies:

Non-truth: During campaign speeches, Obama frequently makes the contention that "I'm the only candidate who doesn't take money from corporate PACs and lobbyists."

Truth: Obama has raised nearly $14 million from lawyers and lobbyists. In October, Obama raised about $125,000 at a fundraising event in the Washington offices of Greenberg Traurig, the law firm that once employed convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

Non-truth: He wrote [in his autobiography, "Dreams From My Father"] that when he was 9 years old, living in Indonesia, he flipped through Life magazine and read an article about a black man who had scarred and ruined his skin applying chemicals that promised to make his skin white. "I imagine other black children, then and now, undergoing similar moments of revelation," he wrote.

Truth: No article or pictures exist of any such story, according to Life historians.
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Greg Ransom has a degree in Political Science and an advanced degree in Philosophy, with a specialty in the philosophy of science with a special focus on the science of economics. Ransom is well know among scholars writing on the ideas of Friedrich Hayek. Ransom studied with philosophers of science Alex Rosenberg and Larry Wright.