President Obama's Teachers Tale Embellished?

[mandym]

When President Obama held a news conference Thursday to push his jobs plan, he told an anecdote about a teacher from Boston he met recently to really drive the point home that Congress needs to act immediately on the American Jobs Act and put teachers back to work. But the tale the president told may have been a bit embellished.

Obama said he had met a young man named Robert Baroz who has two decades of teaching experience, a master's degree and and excellent track record of teaching. "He's an English teacher in Boston who came to the White House a few weeks ago," the president explained to reporters. "In the last few years, he's received three pink slips because of budget cuts. Why wouldn't we want to pass a bill that puts somebody like Robert back in the classroom teaching our kids?"

But there are two elements of Mr. Obama's story that are being questioned. According to the Boston Herald, Robert Baroz never met the president when he was at the White House. And Robert Baroz is currently employed.

Baroz tells the Herald it's true he was at a White House press conference on jobs last month, but he never actually met with Mr. Obama. Instead, he met with the president's Education Secretary Arne Duncan.

Read more: http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2...bamas-teachers-tale-embellished#ixzz1a8iwg6mO

 

[canadyjd]

I am shocked!!! Absolutely shocked!!! that a politician would embellish a story for partisan advantage.:smilewinkgrin:

peace to youraying:

 

[carpro]

Just another in a very long line of lies.

 

[righteousdude2]

This is Absolutely the Last Straw!

I will take no more of his lies. He is no longer my candidate of choice in 2012. What a shame, as I liked him a lot. Just tooooooo many lies and failures to keep supporting him and waiting for the "changes I can believe in! :laugh:

 

[Arbo]

Is anyone really surprised after three years of the same?

 

[targus]

This is standard Democrat operating procedure: make up a sob story to convince people that things are as they aren't.

Didn't Obama just give a speech where he also said that some teacher is on welfare or food stamps because she isn't paid enough to feed her kid?