Obama Gilds The Lily As Well...

[Conan71]

quote:Originally posted by USRufnex


Here's the TRUTH....

http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/archive/barackobama/

He wrote scores of letters looking for the right job, and almost a year later got an offer to come to Chicago. He gave up a job as a financial writer with an international consulting firm and became a $1,000-a-month community organizer.

Well, turns out "the truth" is tainted.  This is another one of Obama's resume-padding whoppers.  He was a news letter editor, and it was not a high-paying peach of a Wall St. job that he left to become Jesus a community organizer.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/08/06/obama_shows_hints_of_his_year_in_global_finance/?page=2

"In "Dreams From My Father," his 1995 memoir, Obama describes being hired by an unnamed "consulting house to multinational corporations."

"Like a spy behind enemy lines, I arrived every day at my mid-Manhattan office and sat at my computer terminal, checking the Reuters machine that blinked bright emerald messages from across the globe," Obama wrote. "Sometimes, coming out of an interview with Japanese financiers or German bond traders, I would catch my reflection in the elevator doors - see myself in a suit and tie, a briefcase in my hand - and for a split second I would imagine myself as a captain of industry."

Those who worked at Business International say Obama's brief account contains inaccuracies or misrepresentations about the company. (Obama has acknowledged fictionalizing narrative elements in the book.) They say that while offering consulting functions to clients, Business International was far more a publishing house than a consulting firm.

Founded in 1954 to publish a magazine targeted at an increasingly globalized managerial class, Business International covered a broad array of subjects, including reports on economic policy making and recommendations for executive insurance policies.

The office had a collegiate feel: Employees rarely wore suits, and writers at Obama's level did not - as he suggests in one anecdote - have their own secretaries, according to fellow workers at the time. Obama had to share a Wang computer terminal with another employee; he would often edit manuscripts by hand, smoking Marlboros. When he interviewed finance specialists, he did so by phone. "None of us were hobnobbing with multinational corporate executives," said Susan Arterian Chang, a writer who worked alongside Obama."

OUCH, St. Obama stretched the truth.

"Howard Kurtz at the Washington Post points out that "Obama may have turned down Wall Street jobs after graduating from Columbia University in 1983, but he spent a year working for Business International Corp. in New York before becoming a community organizer in Chicago." But Obama's work at Business International Corporation, despite the fancy name, was by no means an investment banking job. The New York Times reports that the company was "a small newsletter-publishing and research firm, with about 250 employees worldwide, that helped companies with foreign operations ... understand overseas markets." Obama was a researcher and writer for the firm for about a year, after which he moved on to the New York Public Interest Research Group, a consumer protection and environmental reform organization."

http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/obama_polishes_his_resume.html

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Passed a law that he didn't even vote on?

"Take Obama's first general election ad. We are told that Obama "passed laws" that "extended healthcare for wounded troops who'd been neglected," with a citation at the bottom to only one Senate bill: The 2008 Defense Authorization Bill, which passed the Senate by a 91-3 vote. Six Senators did not vote-including Obama. Nor is there evidence that he contributed to its passage in any material way. So, his claim to have "passed laws" amounts to citing a bill that was largely unopposed, that he didn't vote for, and whose passage he didn't impact. Even his hometown Chicago Tribune caught this false claim. It's classic résumé-padding--falsely taking credit for the work of others."

"Obama made yet another inflated boast last month during his visit to Israel. At his press conference in Hamas rocket-bombarded Sderot, Obama talked up "his" efforts to protect Israel from Iran:

"Just this past week, we passed out of the US Senate Banking Committee - which is my committee - a bill to call for divestment from Iran as way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don't obtain a nuclear weapon." (Emphasis added.)

Nice try. But as even CNN noted, Obama is not even on that committee. That is one peculiar "mistake" to simply have made by accident. Again, his claiming credit for the work of others just looks like clumsy, transparent résumé embellishment."


http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1218710381368&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

[iplaw]

Say it ain't so...

Meet the "new politics"; same as the "old politics"

[Conan71]

What if Obama were to suffer a relapse as President?

That could be worse than a "dry drunk" at the helm.

"Senator Obama, an Illinois Democrat now seeking the presidency, suggests in his book that his years in New York were a pivotal period: He ran three miles a day, buckled down to work and "stopped getting high," which he says he had started doing in high school. Yet he declined repeated requests to talk about his New York years, release his Columbia transcript or identify even a single fellow student, co-worker, roommate or friend from those years.

"He doesn't remember the names of a lot of people in his life," said Ben LaBolt, a campaign spokesman."

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/30/us/politics/30obama.html?pagewanted=print

[Gaspar]

quote:Originally posted by Conan71

quote:Originally posted by USRufnex


Here's the TRUTH....

http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/archive/barackobama/

He wrote scores of letters looking for the right job, and almost a year later got an offer to come to Chicago. He gave up a job as a financial writer with an international consulting firm and became a $1,000-a-month community organizer.

Well, turns out "the truth" is tainted.  This is another one of Obama's resume-padding whoppers.  He was a news letter editor, and it was not a high-paying peach of a Wall St. job that he left to become Jesus a community organizer.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/08/06/obama_shows_hints_of_his_year_in_global_finance/?page=2

"In "Dreams From My Father," his 1995 memoir, Obama describes being hired by an unnamed "consulting house to multinational corporations."

"Like a spy behind enemy lines, I arrived every day at my mid-Manhattan office and sat at my computer terminal, checking the Reuters machine that blinked bright emerald messages from across the globe," Obama wrote. "Sometimes, coming out of an interview with Japanese financiers or German bond traders, I would catch my reflection in the elevator doors - see myself in a suit and tie, a briefcase in my hand - and for a split second I would imagine myself as a captain of industry."

Those who worked at Business International say Obama's brief account contains inaccuracies or misrepresentations about the company. (Obama has acknowledged fictionalizing narrative elements in the book.) They say that while offering consulting functions to clients, Business International was far more a publishing house than a consulting firm.

Founded in 1954 to publish a magazine targeted at an increasingly globalized managerial class, Business International covered a broad array of subjects, including reports on economic policy making and recommendations for executive insurance policies.

The office had a collegiate feel: Employees rarely wore suits, and writers at Obama's level did not - as he suggests in one anecdote - have their own secretaries, according to fellow workers at the time. Obama had to share a Wang computer terminal with another employee; he would often edit manuscripts by hand, smoking Marlboros. When he interviewed finance specialists, he did so by phone. "None of us were hobnobbing with multinational corporate executives," said Susan Arterian Chang, a writer who worked alongside Obama."

OUCH, St. Obama stretched the truth.

"Howard Kurtz at the Washington Post points out that "Obama may have turned down Wall Street jobs after graduating from Columbia University in 1983, but he spent a year working for Business International Corp. in New York before becoming a community organizer in Chicago." But Obama's work at Business International Corporation, despite the fancy name, was by no means an investment banking job. The New York Times reports that the company was "a small newsletter-publishing and research firm, with about 250 employees worldwide, that helped companies with foreign operations ... understand overseas markets." Obama was a researcher and writer for the firm for about a year, after which he moved on to the New York Public Interest Research Group, a consumer protection and environmental reform organization."

http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/obama_polishes_his_resume.html

------------------------------------------------
Passed a law that he didn't even vote on?

"Take Obama's first general election ad. We are told that Obama "passed laws" that "extended healthcare for wounded troops who'd been neglected," with a citation at the bottom to only one Senate bill: The 2008 Defense Authorization Bill, which passed the Senate by a 91-3 vote. Six Senators did not vote-including Obama. Nor is there evidence that he contributed to its passage in any material way. So, his claim to have "passed laws" amounts to citing a bill that was largely unopposed, that he didn't vote for, and whose passage he didn't impact. Even his hometown Chicago Tribune caught this false claim. It's classic résumé-padding--falsely taking credit for the work of others."

"Obama made yet another inflated boast last month during his visit to Israel. At his press conference in Hamas rocket-bombarded Sderot, Obama talked up "his" efforts to protect Israel from Iran:

"Just this past week, we passed out of the US Senate Banking Committee - which is my committee - a bill to call for divestment from Iran as way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don't obtain a nuclear weapon." (Emphasis added.)

Nice try. But as even CNN noted, Obama is not even on that committee. That is one peculiar "mistake" to simply have made by accident. Again, his claiming credit for the work of others just looks like clumsy, transparent résumé embellishment."


http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1218710381368&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Give him a break.  It was a long time ago.  The facts get fuzzy.  I'm actually glad to hear that Obama has some important corporate experience.  

With all of this talk about experience over the last few weeks, this puts an extra pellet in his little pellet gun.

[USRufnex]

You know, you republicans are just the most incredibly arrogant people in the world this time of year.....

No scruples.... constant propaganda.

It never ends with you guys.

You frame the debate as if Obama is Jesus and his "followers" are "worshippers."

That's never been the case.

No politician is immune from half truth... Obama is no different in this regard.... your double standard is remarkable.

If I believed 10% of the propaganda you idiots have fulminated on this thread, I wouldn't vote for the man.

But I lived in Illinois.  I know better.  I understand, and unfortunately the CONSERVATIVE MEDIA will continue with black is white, up is down, bad is good, good is bad talking points...

I agree with Obama on most issues.  I find him eminently qualified to be President.  

Nobody's perfect... especially John McCain.  If he had been the Republican nominee in 2000 I likely would have voted for him...

Could any of you Obama bashers and John Birch Society cultists say the same...?  [)]

[Conan71]

No need to throw a hissy-fit Ruf.  Perhaps if you could reel in some of your more bombastic and ****-stirring bretheren on here, you wouldn't be faced with the chinks in Sen. Obama's armor.

In the interest of fairness, I don't see you coming to McCain's aid when someone starts a thread like "another day another lie from  Palin/McCain"  

Is there some reason you think people who don't share your view can't share their own findings and rhetoric when it's damning to the candidate you support?  Talk about double-standards.

By far, the preponderance of smear posts on here the last two weeks have been geared toward McCain and especially Palin.

[Hoss]

quote:Originally posted by Conan71

No need to throw a hissy-fit Ruf.  Perhaps if you could reel in some of your more bombastic and ****-stirring bretheren on here, you wouldn't be faced with the chinks in Sen. Obama's armor.

In the interest of fairness, I don't see you coming to McCain's aid when someone starts a thread like "another day another lie from  Palin/McCain"  

Is there some reason you think people who don't share your view can't share their own findings and rhetoric when it's damning to the candidate you support?  Talk about double-standards.

By far, the preponderance of smear posts on here the last two weeks have been geared toward McCain and especially Palin.

I think some of the problem that they're seeing though is that some of the Republican supporters tend to start calling people names when they get down in the argument (I've never seen that from you that I can recall though Conan).

Poking jabs at peoples mother's, calling them a POS (granted that was in return of a comment asking if someone had beaten their wife, but it was actually on subject for the thread) the incessant inference of communism/marxism/leninism of candidates without proof.

I don't know of any poster on the Dem side that has really been doing the personal mud slinging towards anyone.  I may be wrong; I typically only read the active posts and try to wade through the crap as much as I can.  50 days before the generals, wading through crap can be a challenge.

[RecycleMichael]

quote:Originally posted by Hoss
I don't know of any poster on the Dem side that has really been doing the personal mud slinging towards anyone.  

I called friendly bear a pig...doesn't that count or do I have to write what I really think of him?

Conan's mama wears combat boots.

[Conan71]

quote:Originally posted by RecycleMichael

quote:Originally posted by Hoss
I don't know of any poster on the Dem side that has really been doing the personal mud slinging towards anyone.  

I called friendly bear a pig...doesn't that count or do I have to write what I really think of him?

Conan's mama wears combat boots.

I caught your mama trying to shoplift a pair of my mama's combat boots from our last garage sale.

[RecycleMichael]

You called that a garage sale?

I thought your mama was starting her own landfill.