Several direct-mail pieces issued for Obama's primary campaign said he was a law professor at the University of Chicago. He is not. He is a senior lecturer (now on leave) at the school. In academia, there is a vast difference between the two titles. Details matter. ... ..

White House hopeful Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) was forced to revise a critical stump line of his on Saturday -- a flat declaration that lobbyists "won't work in my White House" after it turned out his own written plan says they could, with some restrictions. ... ..

Earlier this year, Obama sponsored an amendment in the Senate requiring lobbyists to disclose the candidates, leadership PACs, or political parties for whom they bundle. Obama's amendment would not, however, require candidates to release the names of their bundlers. What's more, although Obama's amendment was agreed to in the Senate by unanimous consent, the measure never become law as Obama seemed to suggest.

Immigration is a case in point for Obama, but not the only one. In 2007, after the first comprehensive immigration bill had died, the senators were back at it, and again, Obama was notably absent, staffers and senators said. At one meeting, three key negotiators recalled, he entered late and raised a number of questions about the bill's employment verification system. Kennedy and Specter both rebuked him, saying that the issue had already been resolved and that he was coming late to the discussion. Kennedy dressed him down, according to witnesses, and Obama left shortly thereafter.
"Senator Obama came in late, brought up issues that had been hashed and rehashed," Specter recalled. "He didn't stay long."

Just this week, as the financial markets were roiling in the wake of the Bear Stearns collapse, Obama made another claim that was greeted with disbelief in some corners of Capitol Hill. On March 13, Dodd, the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, and Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, unveiled legislative proposals to allow the Federal Housing Administration to guarantee new loans from banks willing to help homeowners in or approaching foreclosure.

He has apparently continued to do the same thing in Washington, only he shows up at press conferences and takes credit for legislation worked on by committees of which he is a member, but whose meetings he doesn't bother to attend. One part of a story linked in another thread, quoted two Senators as saying that he had not done any work on the bills, and one saying that he had shown up at a committee meeting, brought up matters that had already been settled, been annoyed that the committee wouldn't rehash them, and then left. The committee finished the bill, got it passed and then when the press conference happened, up popped Sen. Obama, thanking everyone for the help on his bill.

sorry, don't buy it. yeah, no one was shooting, at the time. funny thing about war zones nowadays, the front lines tend to be fluid, if they exist at all. she and chelsea were in danger, USO tour or not.

If it's pretty constant of course, it might hint at some psychological issues. But every once in a while, the usual resume padding, I just don't really care. In Hillary's case it seemed like a war story. Kind of like my camping story. You mix a few trips together, things get a bit more interesting, you forgot some over time, etc. For Obama it's embellishing or adding more to the single mom bit than is really there, or puffing up the foreign experience with what he did at age 6. I let those slide.

The University of Chicago still posts this laudatory article about his teaching abilities. The article indicates that his students routinely referred to him as "professor," and indeed notes that Obama could have been a full-time professor at the elite University of Chicago had he so wished:

"Those are tremendous ratings, especially for someone who had a day job," Professor Cass Sunstein said. "We wanted him to join the faculty full-time at various different junctures. That's not a trivial fact. . . . If we want to hire someone, the faculty has to think they're tremendous. But he liked political life."

Amusingly, the Conservapedia can't quite make up its mind whether to attack Obama on this matter of semantics, stating that "Obama has been accused of falsely calling himself a constitutional law professor, though there are documents to back up his statement."

His mentor at Harvard Law school, Laurence Tribe, has, incidentally, said the following about Obama:

On a more personal note, Tribe called Obama the "best student I ever had" and the "most exciting research assistant." He recalled Obama's ability to turn an abstract theoretical paper into language lawyers typically use "so people don't think you're a pointy-headed conehead."

It's like the kindergarten episode in which he FIRST said she wanted to be President decades earlier.

anyone trying to come with reasoning for Hil's mispeak. is doing it for fun and games. or they have a problem recognizing when someone is LYING to them.

forget obama and mccain for a moment. There are two reasons you exaggerate a story.
1.To make people believe you are bigger, better, more knowledgeable, or have more experience then you really are, or have.

2. Some people Lie because they are Habitual liars. They lie and dont even know they are lying, because they do it so often.

now I'm not going to call hil #2, but I will call her #1.  She OVER EXAGGERATED the facts for 1 reason only. to make it SEEM as if she went into a super danergous situation. to support her claim of EXPERIENCE.   this is why this is not a NON STORY, or a Blip on the radar. this is MAJOR. this is also not the only thing she has Over Exaggerated or Lied about when talking about her foreign experience.  I know we've all heard about the treaty she supposedly help get signed.   Come to find out she got their a day later then the treaty was actually signed.    
Now you're trying to FOOL me. now you're trying to insult my intelligence. You thought I wouldn't notice a little detail like "you came in on the 14th and the thing was signed on the 13th". you figured as long as you made mention of the treaty and that you had something to do with it. and the fact that its on record you were in town AROUND that time. that i would by whatever you were selling.   Folks DOOOOOO NOTTTT FALL FOR IT.  now if you want to vote for Hil regardless. thats your business and you have your reasons. But please, pretty please. Do not make any attempts at trying to call these things as something else but a out and out LIE.   If your child came up to you an exaggerated a specific event so he/she would not get caught in doing something he/she had no business doing. You would call them a lie now wouldn't you? YES you would. therefore dont let a candidate do this to you just because you like her.  or dislike the other candidates. again this has NOTHING to do with mccain or obama. i dont care if they are liars. we're talking about Hil right now. not pastor wright.

first is was a mispeak. now its a "i was tired". Get outta here with that nonsense. You're not fooling any sane individual. you lied, admit it and lets move on.   but we can't move on. because you keep takling about this experience that you do not have. Hil has No experience. mccain has no experience(other then being in a war himself, and growing up in a family that knows nothing else but the armed forces/war), but at least mccain has never lied about having some kind of 3am experience. Obama has no experience(atleast he never lied about having some kind of 3am experience).  these two may have lied about other things and or exaggerated about other things. But neither have based their entire campaign on this lie.  

Mccain says he may have us in Iraq for 100 years. mccain talking war, is what mccain is good at.    Obama says change, and he will work across party lines/bring people together. Something he's good at.  

I actually got home this evening, looked at the various Wright/Clinton diaries and passed on them...I don't want to read them, I don't want to comment on them and I can't believe that this discourse is really going to change anything at all.

Unfortunately for the process and the participants, the main stream media cannot navigate a role for themselves other than to feed the beast of controversy because they are afraid that people will tune out if they don't find sensational items to cover...it's the same whether it's papparazzi crawling all over Brittany or the daily belch by the campaign organizations...they're all waiting for the next commando shot.

From what I saw of his work in my field, affordable housing and community organizing, the work was mediocre but mostly sort of a blur about what his contribution was.  

NAFTA-gate is starting to pick up steam as well. The video showing HRC (1) claiming she was an early opponent to NAFTA juxtaposed next to (2) videos showing her schedule, which included meetings to get NAFTA approved by Congress are catching fire.

Also, don't forget PLANT-gate, in which the Clinton campaign planted candidate-friendly questions with audience members during stump speeches. That made a mockery of the supposed open forum. Here is a CNN report about that fiasco.  

If you think these are non-stories, imagine a McCain campaign ad juxtaposing HRC's Bosnian claims and the Bosnian reality with the video of McCain as a POW.

But look long enough and you'll find HRC is personally responsible for global warming!
She's murdered, she's spied, she done everything a good traitor is expected to do! If not for her, Iraq might never have existed! Taxes would be painless if not for her.