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 aliasinkhorn rated 3 months ago -
Obama's Work Claim
His new ad says he worked his way through college and law school. His campaign says he had two summer jobs.
From the page: Obama's latest ad repeats an often-stated claim, saying he worked his way through college and Harvard Law. We know Obama took out loans to get...
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- aliasinkhorn rated 3 months ago
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Obama's Work Claim
His new ad says he worked his way through college and law school. His campaign says he had two summer jobs.
From the page: Obama's latest ad repeats an often-stated claim, saying he worked his way through college and Harvard Law. We know Obama took out loans to get himself through school. But the campaign provided information on just two jobs Obama had in those years, and they were both in the summer.
The ad also says he passed a law to move people from welfare to work, slashed the rolls by 80 percent. Actually, the Illinois law was a required follow-up to the 1996 federal welfare reform law worked out by President Clinton and the Republican Congress. Welfare rolls did go down by nearly as much as the ad says, but Obama can't claim sole credit.
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Working to Make It Work
The ad begins with the announcer telling us that Obama worked his way through college and Harvard Law. Actually, Obama took out loans to get himself through college, as we heard in a 60-second ad his campaign began running last month. We don't know how much assistance his family provided.
But worked his way through college and law school? The only back-up the campaign provided for this claim was a quote from Obama's book Dreams from My Father having to do with a construction job he had one summer while he was in college, and an article mentioning his job as a summer associate one year at a big Chicago law firm. We asked campaign spokesman Tommy Vietor if Obama held jobs during the school year, or other summer jobs, but he said only, He had the two jobs I told you about. Unless Obama had a good bit more employment than his spokesman was able to describe for us, it's a real stretch to claim he worked his way through school.
Obama has become a legend in his own mind. Frightening.
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