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Originally posted by beezzer
This thread was started to posit the question about Obama's past.
His reluctance to be transparent about his schooling, his transcripts.
And the people that pose these questions are called liars (why?
Obama does not have a right to privacy!
I have a right to privacy, you have a rght to privacy, when you becomea public figure you lose that right
but as a public servant you certainly give up rights to privacy
But if you want law, I'll look up disclosure rulings
Obama won't disclose his past.
Why not use actual proof to prove use wrong intead of shrill hyperbole.
Originally posted by beezzer
Still waiting for the truth, though.
Originally posted by spoor
Originally posted by beezzer
Still waiting for the truth, though.
You refuse to accept the truth, that a black man is the legal POTUS.
sad really
Originally posted by beezzer
You have to bring race into this debate.
Originally posted by spoor
Originally posted by beezzer
You have to bring race into this debate.
The birthers did that by refusing to accept a black man is the legal POTUS - otherwise why are you demanding all sorts of records from the first black president, when you never demanded the same records from previous white presidents....
Originally posted by spoor
Originally posted by beezzer
Still waiting for the truth, though.
You refuse to accept the truth, that a black man is the legal POTUS.
sad really
Originally posted by m0rphine
reply to post by beezzer
I think it's obvious what "spoor" and "still" are doing here. I agree with the guy a while back who said something about an odd obsession or agenda.
The Obama campaign told Newsmax that Obama self-financed his three years at Harvard Law School with loans, and did not receive any scholarship from Harvard Law school.
LaBolt denied that Obama received any financial assistance from Harvard or from outside parties. “No - he paid his way through by taking out loans,” he said in an email to Newsmax.
At the time, Harvard cost around $25,000 a year, or $75,000 for the three years that Obama attended. And as president of the Harvard Law Review, he received no stipend from the school, Harvard spokesman Mike Armini said.
“That is considered a volunteer position,” Armini said. “There is no salary or grant associated with it.”
So if the figures cited by the Obama campaign for the Senator’s student loans are accurate, that means that Obama came up with more than $32,000 over three years from sources other than loans to pay for tuition, room and board.
Where did he find the money? Did it come from friends of Khalid Al Mansour? And why would a radical Muslim activist with ties to the Saudi royal family be raising money for Barack Obama?
That’s the question the Obama campaign still won’t answer.
Michelle Obama Speaks Out
Speaking at a campaign event in Haverford, Pa, in April of this year, Michelle Obama claimed that her husband had “just paid off his loan debt” for his Harvard Law School education.
In an appearance in Zanesville, Ohio, in February she bemoaned the fact that many American families were strapped with student loan payments for years after graduation.
“The only reason we’re not in that position is that Barack wrote two best-selling books,” she said. The first of those best-sellers netted the couple $1.2 million in royalties in 2005.
In response to Newsmax questions about the Obama’s college loans, a campaign spokesman cited a report in The Chicago Sun claiming that Obama borrowed $42,753 to pay for Harvard Law School, and “tens of thousands” more to pay for undergraduate studies at Columbia.
The same report said that Michelle Obama borrowed $40,762 to pay for her years at Harvard Law School.
But a Newsmax review of Senator Obama’s financial disclosures found no trace of any outstanding college loans, going back to 2000.
Newsmax
It was founded by conservative Christopher Ruddy, formerly of the New York Post. According to SourceWatch, it utilizes the "echo chamber effect" - it knowingly posts misinformation in hopes other outlets will replicate it (such as its fallacious report that Pennsylvania GOP figure Rick Santorum joined rock band U2 for a fundraising event). Sounds very similar to Joseph Goebbel's Nazi propaganda campaigns. That is, repeat a lie often enough and loud enough, and eventually people will start to believe it.
Originally posted by beezzer
reply to post by XyZeR
So you attack the source and not the contents?
Isn't that the equivalent of putting fingers in ears and saying, "Lalalalalala I can't hear you, I can't hear you!"
Originally posted by XyZeR
Originally posted by beezzer
reply to post by XyZeR
So you attack the source and not the contents?
Isn't that the equivalent of putting fingers in ears and saying, "Lalalalalala I can't hear you, I can't hear you!"
No I debunk the messengers's motives, I never attacked, just pointed out that Newsmax's journalistic credibility is non-existent.
And... Ha that's rich, for someone who is constantly ignoring FACTS and CHOOSING to embrace ignorance about all the myths people who can't stand having "non-white man" in the White house.
It's so pathetic, it's beyond belief.
Originally posted by XyZeR
Newsmax
Oh yeah Newsmax said so, you know....the shining beacon of unbaised fair and balanced reporting...LOL
FYI:
It was founded by conservative Christopher Ruddy, formerly of the New York Post. According to SourceWatch, it utilizes the "echo chamber effect" - it knowingly posts misinformation in hopes other outlets will replicate it (such as its fallacious report that Pennsylvania GOP figure Rick Santorum joined rock band U2 for a fundraising event). Sounds very similar to Joseph Goebbel's Nazi propaganda campaigns. That is, repeat a lie often enough and loud enough, and eventually people will start to believe it.