Obama was heading for a nomination win and possibly the presidency – until he opened his mouth and instead of simple spousing vacant platitudes he tried to tell a tale, a tall tale it seems. Now the wunderkind is looking very naive regarding a key element of being President – being Commander-in-Chief and running the military during a time of war.

I posted on this mater yesterday. It includes the video of a very uncomfortable Obidiot Obama during the Dem Debate trying to tell how a rifle platoon was split apart to fight in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He went further to tell how they were so starved for weapons (guns and bullets) they had to steal them from the “Taleeban”. It was way too much a made-for-TV tale to miss how lame it was and how it flies in the face of the realities of the military. I noted yesterday in this first post how a Commander-in-Chief cannot think about the platoon level details – if he does he is lost. That was Barack’s first mistake – you need to think presidential, not like a lieutenant heading a platoon.

Then ABC News really did Obama in by doing a shoddy ‘fact check’ that was nothing more than getting an echoed response from the ‘source’ of this tall tale. I noted late yesterday that new details actually eroded Obama’s tall tale and opened more problems. First off, the unit was never split, it lost people here and there during its months of training at Fort Drum. And it was not sent to Afghanistan to fend for itself for weapons, as Obama not-so-eloquently claimed. But most importantly a new twist had been added to the story of the poor deprived rifle platoon – a twist that actually exposes this as a political spin job and not an actual account. And this had to do with Hummvees (not mentioned by Obama at all)

Let me step back and explain why I see this as a party propaganda tall tale. First the spin room reaction to get a correction out through Jake Tapper of ABC News was way too fast. Up until the correction the big news was Clinton’s ‘xeroxed changed’ comment and snippet from the same debate in Texas. Only a few sites, like Gateway Pundit, had a copy of this other debate snippet and were laughing at it. Through the day I and other bloggers started responding – but it was a conservative blogosphere reaction at that point. And that is when Jake Tapper went and did his fact checking. Which means someone was monitoring the blogs and detected the rising problem.

The story was not big nationally. But it was gaining steam and somehow, just as that momentum was building, a media outlet was in touch with the source of this tall tale within an hour or so of the building controversy. That my friends is the response time of political operatives who sensed the problem and knew how to get second version a compliant media resource (a.k.a, a media puppet). But I like two pieces of evidence (one collaborating the other) and there is another piece of evidence – this new twist added in fact checking. The new detail provided by Jakc Tapper was the unit’s deployment without up-armored Hummvees.

A big liberal propaganda piece from 2003-2004 was the lack of up-armored Hummvees. It is no coincidence, in my mind, that the ABC News ‘fact checking’ correction included this ‘new’ twist from the liberal propaganda media kit. Version two of this story was not only quickly released, it tried to tie into a partially successful propaganda piece from the past. Problem is – it was the wrong past. The ABC News ‘fact check’ put the deployment of this unit in Afghanistan from Summer 2003 to Spring 2004. As I noted in my second post up-armored Hummvees were not slated for deployment until early 2004 and were prioritized for Iraq. So the concept that this Captain’s platoon was slated for deployment with up-armored hummvees must be a propaganda twist, it could not possibly be fact. It was a lame attempt to shore up a lame tall tale.

And today the story changes yet again!

The captain told NBC News that he was talking about not having enough ammunition and no Humvees for training, but that his unit underwent a three-week crash course in Afghanistan before they saw combat.

Now all of sudden this poor platoon was limited in the material they had for training. So did they go steel the material from the “Taleeban” like Obama said they did? Of course not, not from Fort Drum! Our brave Captain seems to be working feverishly with the liberal media to try and salvage this major gaffe that illustrates how unprepared and inexperienced Obama is to be Commander-in-Chief:

The captain, who spoke on background because he’s still active duty, said that his unit temporarily had to replace their .50-caliber turret-mounted machine gun with a weapon seized from the Taliban because they couldn’t get a needed part fast enough.

He did not say that any of the shortages contributed to any combat casualties in his unit. But he said any shortage, whether in training or combat operations, was inexcusable for the U.S. military.

This vanilla rephrasing to make this nothing more than a story about a delayed spare part is the work of political operatives trying to stem the tide of disaster. And the media is doing all it can to help save Obama the Obidiot for telling such a tall (and now confirmed false) tale. In fact you can tell the media knew exactly were the old up-armor story came from because they quoted the same December 2003 story I did in my second post – which proves the problems with the timeline.

So now the story is a unit in Afghanistan had delays in getting a part. And my guess is they were held back and performed security duty instead of any forward action until their unit was back to square one. Will we ever know for sure? Yes we will because the Senate is going to investigate this charge of criminal malfeasance on the part of the military – as they should:

Sen. John W. Warner (R-Va.), former chairman of the Armed Services Committee, sent a stern letter to colleague Barack Obama today, challenging the Democratic presidential candidate to provide information about an Army officer he cited in Thursday night’s Democratic presidential primary debate.

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Warner also has asked Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to help him get to the bottom of the captain’s complaints.

For Obama’s part, his campaign made clear that he wants the captain’s comments on the front burner.

Obama just proved everything Hillary has been saying about his emptiness and inexperience. So did Obama’s tall tale damage his chances for an early victory in the primaries? Oh most definitely. But will it stop him on his way to get creamed by a real war hero who will just slaughter Obama on matters of national defense? I would say Hillary has plenty of time to let the media and the GOP expose this gaffe for all its ignorance and falsehoods. But if not John McCain is standing there ready to explain the realities of the military and national defense to the young, inexperienced and vacuous junior senator fromm illinois.

Make sure to check out Ace of Spades post on the matter today for some unfettered analysis.