Obama's Junker Story
Here's a press release I just got in my inbox.
February 26th, 2010, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government Communications Director Carter Clews today asked President Barack Obama to explain a "rather unusual" story Obama told at Thursdays' health care summit about his dealings with a fictitious Acme Auto Insurance company.
During the White House meeting, Obama related a story from his post-college graduation days in which his "junker" was allegedly rear ended by another driver. According to Obama, when he called to get his car repaired, the "Acme" auto insurance company "laughed at" him.
In response to the Obama story, Clews sent the following email to the President through the White House web site:
"During your health care summit, you told a rather unusual story about being "laughed at" when you called your auto insurance company about your post-college "junker" being rear-ended. So, I have to ask you four questions: (1) Did you have collision insurance? (2) Did you know that liability insurance does not pay for your own car, (3) Didn't you know that when you are hit the other guy pays, and (4) Do you actually know as little about health insurance as you obviously do about auto insurance? I'll look forward to your response. And please make it short and to the point. Thanks."
Said Clews later, "Mr. Obama's story is more than a little disturbing – not to mention preposterous. There are really only four conclusions to draw from it. Either the youthful Obama had no insurance, he only had liability insurance, he didn't know that when you get hit the other guy pays – or, quite frankly, he told a totally manufactured tale to all of the assembled members of the Senate and House, not to mention millions of Americans watching on TV.
"If it was any one of the first three possibilities, it's no wonder the insurance company laughed at him. And if it was the latter, the man is delusional. Let's just hope he knows more about health insurance than he does auto insurance."
http://washingtonalert.org/?p=2356
I'm more interested in the make/model of the so-called "junker". Barack Obama went to prep school and the grandmother who raised him was a rich and successful banker. I know those facts were not broadcast during the campaign. I wonder why not?
Yeah, he made up the story. That's what "keepin' it real" requires in Obama's case.
I can't say it any better than Rush L did yesterday: "No company in America would hire Obama to do anything for them."
ReplyDeleteThe man is either a fool or a liar. Or both.
I would go with both. The guy is a total phony:
ReplyDeleteThe other professors hated him because he was lazy, unqualified, never attended any of the faculty meetings, and it was clear that the position was nothing more than a political stepping stool. According to my professor friend, he had the lowest intellectual capacity in the building. He also doubted whether he was legitimately an editor on the Harvard Law Review, because if he was, he would be the first and only editor of an Ivy League law review to never be published while in school (publication is or was a requirement).
Some more juicy stuff from the comments:
A friend of mine had dinner with one of the senior partners at Sidley who handled the hiring of summers. The hiring committee was vehemently opposed to bringing on M.O. as a summer associate, but was overruled, evidently due to pressure from above.
Once she arrived, M.O. proved to be an impossible prima donna with little interest in doing actual work. The partners got so fed up with her that she was shuffled off to "work" with Bernardine Dohrn, who didn't even have a license to practice law anymore! The word was that Zero was only slightly less useless.
If his law school grades are sealed, it's because they SUCK. The very first question I was asked in every job interview (from giant top-tier law firms to small boutique shops) was: "what was your class rank?" If his grades were good, we'd never hear the end of it. Ergo, they were unimpressive or worse.
But remember...Bush is a dumb chimp and Sarah Palin is teh stoopids!
Well, maybe the grades are sealed because they are so GOOD they would intimidate everybody, and they wouldn't see him as a regular guy who drinks beer. Yeah, that's it! And his wife is Morgan Fairchild.
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