NEW BOOK SAYS DURING PRIMARIES OBAMA CALLED BILL CLINTON "A BALD FACED LIAR". IS THIS WHAT PSYCHIATRISTS CALL PROJECTION?

According to a new book on the Obama campaign, written with his cooperation, its reported that Obama during the primary battle with Hillary Clinton, called Bill Clinton a "bald faced liar".

That is somewhat amusing considering that if anyone checks Obama's record during the primary one would come to the inescapable conclusion that Obama was probably the most blatantly dishonest candidate to run for President since Richard Nixon.

Candidate Obama was caught in more lies during his primary campaign than any candidate in memory but the press simply chose to let him get away with it because they had an agenda and no amount of truth was going to interfere with their agenda. In fact it became so ludicrous Saturday Night Live did a satire on it.

For those who don't remember, Obama was caught red handed lying to the people of Ohio when he told them that, if elected, he would get rid of NAFTA. while at the same time sending an emissary from his economic team to the Canadian Embassy in Chicago to tell them to ignore what he was saying publicly, that it was all political posturing. The notes of that meeting were leaked to the Associated Press and became public and Obama and his campaign invented story after story, each proving false about who that emissary was and what he was doing there until facts made any more lying about it impossible. Had there not been an obvious cause celebre among the media to elect Obama, that would have been enough to sink most candidacies. As it was he lost Ohio to Clinton in a landslide.

Obama was also caught lying every day for seven straight days about his relationship with Reverend Wright when news of Wrights anti-American sermons first broke. Something even more relevant now given Wrights recent anti-Semitic tirade about Obama "being controlled by the Jews". Obama lied consistently about what he knew about Wrights anti-American anti-white sermons until,as each fact became public, he had to change his story which he did by some accounts as many as seven times.

But, like Billy Mays, he wasn't done. During the primaries, Obama also publicly promised he would filibuster and vote against the FISA bill if it contained retroactive immunity for the telecoms who had illegally given information about their customers to the Bush Administration. Obama reneged on both promises, first not filibustering the bill and then actually voting for the bill he promised to vote against. Not surprisingly telecoms helped pay for renting out Invesco Field for his acceptance speech.

Obama also made a public pledge in an interview with a group of the country's newspaper editors in a round table interview, to use public financing if he were the Democratic nominee. To underscore the point even made the pledge in writing and signed it. He reneged as soon as he had the nomination.

So what would cause someone with a track record like Obama's to call a former President a bald faced liar? It was Obama's assertion that his opposition to the Iraq invasion proved he had superior judgement that Clinton called a "fairy tale" that seems to have gotten under Obama's skin the most. Probably because Clinton was absolutely right and Obama was angry about the possibility of exposing one of his cornerstone campaign points as fraudulent.

Obama's assertion was based on the fact that when he was a state senator he publicly opposed the Iraq invasion. But the problem with his position is that his reasoning had nothing to do with questioning the intelligence that turned out to be false. There were many good reasons to question the validity of the intelligence that Bush used as a justification to invade, especially considering the source -- George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. But Obama never questioned the validity of the intelligence. Instead he opposed the invasion on the grounds that it would create hostility towards America from Muslim countries.

The problem with that assessment is that had the intelligence been correct, that would have been the worst reason in the world not to invade Iraq. You don't compromise the national security of the United States because other countries wont like what you do.

The other reason that Obama's assertion was completely bogus was that at the time of the vote he was not in the US Senate, he was not exposed to any of the classified national security briefings given other Senators, many of which turned out to be bogus, (and which need to be investigated by this Congress) that indicated Sadaam was a threat to the United States. Obama was 1000 miles away, like a football fan watching it all on TV and making his calls from his arm chair without any relevant information.

Bush and Rice were telling the American people that we couldn't wait for the UN weapons inspectors to finish their work because we couldn't take the chance that "the smoking gun could come in the form of a mushroom cloud". That was completely bogus but none of this factored into Obama's position on why we shouldn't invade Iraq.

Obama's assertion that he had the judgement to oppose the war and that events proved him right, is every bit the fairy tale that Clinton said it was. When Obama did get to the Senate he voted for every war resolution sent to the Senate when he could have voted against it as some did.

There were 13 Democratic Senators like Carl Levin who voted against the original war resolution who can claim they had the judgement to know from the beginning the invasion was not justified and was a mistake. Barrack Obama was not one of them.

Obama calling Clinton a bald faced liar may simply be what many psychiatrists call projection, when a person feels on the defensive after a truth they are in denial about gets exposed and then projects the flaw in their own character onto other people.

Though I haven't read the entire book,based on some excerpts the book sounds more like something you'd get from a vanity press. It was supposedly written with Obama's cooperation attempting to emulate the Theodore White book "The Making of the President" about JFK. But if anyone decides to write a completely honest account of the 2008 Democratic primary campaign, in the end it might end up being seen as "The Unmaking of the President".