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May 28, 2008
Obama's 'Sniper Fire' Moment: 'He Lied In His Address To The Graduating Class At Wesleyan
Topics: Political News and commentariesIn his commencement address at Wesleyan College this weekend, Barack Hussein Obama told the assembled graduates:
But during my first two years of college, perhaps because the values my mother had taught me -hard work, honesty, empathy - had resurfaced after a long hibernation; or perhaps because of the example of wonderful teachers and lasting friends, I began to notice a world beyond myself. I became active in the movement to oppose the apartheid regime of South Africa. I began following the debates in this country about poverty and health care. So that by the time I graduated from college, I was possessed with a crazy idea - that I would work at a grassroots level to bring about change.But Obama did not go from college to the "grassroots," as his statement at Wesleyan would lead one to believe:I wrote letters to every organization in the country I could think of. And one day, a small group of churches on the South Side of Chicago offered me a job to come work as a community organizer in neighborhoods that had been devastated by steel plant closings. My mother and grandparents wanted me to go to law school. My friends were applying to jobs on Wall Street. Meanwhile, this organization offered me $12,000 a year plus $2,000 for an old, beat-up car.
And I said yes.
"Upon graduating from Columbia in 1983, he worked first at Business International Corporation and then at New York Public Interest Research Group, both in New York City. Obama didn't take the community organizing job and move to Chicago until 1985. After three years in that capacity, he enrolled in law school."Just another gaffe, or yet another lie?
Posted by Richard at May 28, 2008 9:10 PM
Thank you so much for pointing this out. Its so refreshing to have found this site .Keep up the good work of finding the truth.
Posted by: Becky at May 29, 2008 5:30 AM
It's interesting to me that the MSM wasn't all over this story. Just shows how disinterested the MSM is in anything that shows Obama's true colors (no pun intended)
Posted by: Abdul at May 30, 2008 7:48 AM
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