Obama Never Met Teacher

Barack Obama last week gave yet another speech and told another lie.  We heard him hype the TARP, Obamacare, and Stimulus I spending behemoths as economic saviors.   Obama just couldn't help overselling his half-trillion-dollar American Jobs Act.

"Hundreds of thousands of teachers and firefighters and police officers have been laid off because of state budget cuts. This jobs bill has funding to put a lot of those men and women back to work. It has funding to prevent a lot more from losing their job," Obama told reporters during his East Room press conference in Washington, D.C., last Thursday.

Obama spelled out: "I had a chance to meet a young man named Robert Baroz. He's got two decades of teaching experience. He's got a master's degree. He's got an outstanding track record of helping his students make huge gains in reading and writing. In the last few years, he's received three pink slips because of budget cuts."

Then for the heartstring-tugging kill, Obama lamented: "Why wouldn't we want to pass a bill that puts somebody like Robert back in the classroom teaching our kids?"

There were two problems with this.  Obama never met Baroz and Baroz remains happily employed.  Obama is so good telling lies, and has such great support from the main stream media, that he doesn't even need a moment's hesitation before telling more lies.

White House press secretary and former Time magazine journalist Jay Carney attempted to gloss over Obama's crystal-clear whopper about having met Baroz and his transparent insinuation that the teacher would benefit from passage of the bill:

"The president — as you know, he was in a group of people that were — I think he was this close to the president as you are to me. And the president knows his story. ... I mean, it's just indisputable — as we found out again this morning — that all around the country, teachers are being laid off. The president has a plan to solve, OK, or to address that problem. ... So I think the principle is just indisputable, as Mr. Baroz himself makes clear."

Baroz, who supports Obama and his efforts to restore the public sector i.e. unions, said yesterday he doesn’t mind if the president — or his speechwriters — took some liberties with the facts. It was all in aid of a higher truth.

Let's see... "The President of the United States is lying........and my teacher says lying is o.k. if the ends justify the means........"

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