SubscribeObama’s Incredible Background And Plans
From a very gullible Agence France-Presse:
A graphic on Barack Obama, Democrat candidate for the US presidency. Obama told Americans their “dreams can be one” if they unite in a stirring new crusade for change, in a riotous finale to the historic Democratic National Convention.
And when we say “incredible” we mean it literally. Let’s review.
First, about what the graphic claims about his background:
The AFP left out that Mr. Obama attended the hippy Occidental College. We also have never been given access to Mr. Obama’s grade transcripts, nor any of his writing such as his senior thesis.
The AFP graphic claims Obama worked as “social worker” when he did not. And in fact, he was a “community organizer” for only three years — not for the six years that is implied here.
Mr. Obama wrote only one legal piece at Harvard, which was only recently dug up. Which would tend to indicate his position as President of the Law Review was strictly an affirmative action decision.
Did Mr. Obama actually ever practice as a lawyer? Do we even know if he ever passed a bar exam? There is no record of him ever having had a case. And Mr. Obama was only a visiting lecturer at the University Of Chicago.
All of the records of Mr. Obama’s days in the Illinois state house have disappeared. Why is that?
As for his platform:
He intends to “intensify” the fight against terrorism in Afghanistan and Pakistan? Does the rest of his party know this?
And how can you do that when at the same time withdrawing from Iraq? If the problem is that the terrorists have safe havens in regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan, won’t making Iraq a safe haven be disastrous?
And never mind that the savings from ending the war on terror were supposed to fund all of his other promised programs.
The US has been negotiating with Syria, North Korea. As for Cuba, Mr. Obama has elsewhere promised to strengthen the sanctions against Cuba, rather than relax them.
Mr. Obama’s pledge to honor the Kyoto protocol would be a disaster for our economy.
It is for all intents and purposes impossible to lower taxes any further for the poor, since they have long since stopped being taxed and are instead given money under the guise of the earned income credit and other tax programs.
He is going to introduce a system of universal health care by lowering taxes — especially for small business.
He promises to restore the leadership of the US in space, having hitherto promised to kill NASA to fund his other programs like healthcare.
He promises to improve education for children of poor families. All of the other programs to that end having worked so spectacularly well.
He promises to combat poverty in the world by taxing us more and giving the money to foreign countries, many of whom seek to destroy us.
He promises to give illegal aliens amnesty.
What a candidate.
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August 29th, 2008 at 10:56 am
Obama’s a putz…McCain and Palin will wipe the floor with Obama bin-Biden!
August 29th, 2008 at 11:08 am
“All of the records of Mr. Obama’s days in the Illinois state house have disappeared.”
Obama’s days in the Illinois state house are worth the paper they are recorded on.
August 29th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Apparently his days as an Illionis State Senator have been scrubbed from history.
August 29th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
PROMISE ‘EM EVERYTHING, AND GIVE ‘EM NOTHING
Typical Democrat. And his supporters keep falling for the same trick over, and over, and over, and….
August 30th, 2008 at 5:08 am
Having worked in opposition research in prior election cycles, I’d like to point out the extreme importance of getting one’s facts right. Getting one attack wrong calls into question all the legitimate questions one may raise about an opposing candidate. It does not take a lot of effort these days to make sure of one’s facts. When you ask, for example:
“Did Mr. Obama actually ever practice as a lawyer? Do we even know if he ever passed a bar exam? There is no record of him ever having had a case. And Mr. Obama was only a visiting lecturer at the University Of Chicago.”
Clearly Obama was a practicing lawyer. It is a matter of public record that he was an attorney at the Chicago law firm of Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland. While you won’t pull too many cases where he was the attorney of record, there are a few. ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS FOR REFORM NOW (ACORN) v. ILLINOIS STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS, 75 F.3d 304, is just one example. http://bulk.resource.org/court.....-3456.html
There is pretty good evidence that Obama passed the bar exam, as he has been a member of the Illinois Bar since 1991. https://www.iardc.org/ldetail.asp?id=987091779
Although I never took a class from Obama, he was a professor at the The University of Chicago Law School when I was a student there. On the distinction between “professor” and “lecturer”, at Chicago there is none. Chicago specifically says he was a professor as a lecturer: http://www.law.uchicago.edu/media/index.html
“From 1992 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004, Barack Obama served as a professor in the Law School. He was a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996. He was a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004, during which time he taught three courses per year. Senior Lecturers are considered to be members of the Law School faculty and are regarded as professors, although not full-time or tenure-track. The title of Senior Lecturer is distinct from the title of Lecturer, which signifies adjunct status. Like Obama, each of the Law School’s Senior Lecturers has high-demand careers in politics or public service, which prevent full-time teaching. Several times during his 12 years as a professor in the Law School, Obama was invited to join the faculty in a full-time tenure-track position, but he declined.”
I’m not trying to throw rocks at anyone, merely to urge discipline in crafting message.