In answering one question in Sderot, Barack Obama both denied the obvious (that he reversed his position on a united Jerusalem), and then called the Senate Banking Committee
"my committee" when he is not a member.
QUESTION: Senator Obama, you said in AIPAC convention that the (INAUDIBLE) Jerusalem could continue to be the capital city. Then you changed it and clarified later on in the -- (INAUDIBLE) wonder.
How could you be sure if your other statesmen, that you are going to be committed to the security and safety of Israel and you're not going to change it even when you're the President of the United States?
OBAMA: First of all, I didn't change my statement.
I continued to say that Jerusalem will be the capital of Israel. And I have said that before and I will say it again. And I also have said that it is important that we don't simply slice the city in half. But I've also said that that's a final status issue. That's an issue that has to be dealt with with the parties involved, the Palestinians and the Israelis. And it's not the job of the United States to dictate the form in which that will take, but rather to support the efforts that are being made right now to resolve these very difficult issues that have a long history. Now, in terms of knowing my commitments, you don't have to just look at my words, you can look at my deeds. Just this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, which is my committee, a bill to call for divestment from Iran, as a way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don't obtain a nuclear weapon.
Barack Obama is not a member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, which is responsible for the legislation.
Prediction: the mainstream media will ignore this breathtaking gaffe, even though a similar Republican error would have earned Dan Quayle-level derision.
The chutzpa is that he has been an absentee Senator throughout the campaign, so taking credit for anything there would have been laughable.
On the topic of Jerusalem, Obama's rhetoric at the AIPAC convention was: "Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided."
