Obama's fuzzy faculty status
Barack Obama's Friday stop in Tallahassee did draw the ire of national Republicans.
The Illinois senator told a crowd inside a fundraiser at the Challenger Discovery Center that, "I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution."
Minutes after the comment started showing up on Web sites, the Republican National Committee pointed out that Obama's campaign had made the same mistake in literature from his 2004 primary. He was never a professor at the University of Chicago. The university's law school lists him as a senior lecturer on leave. And the school's online biography of Obama looks like it hasn't been updated in some time.
Friday's repeat of the comment prompted this reply from RNC spokeswoman Amber Wilkerson:
"Once again, Obama's misleading claim about his resume and his laundry list of rookie mistakes further demonstrate that this candidate needs a tutorial in Politics 101."
The Illinois senator told a crowd inside a fundraiser at the Challenger Discovery Center that, "I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution."
Minutes after the comment started showing up on Web sites, the Republican National Committee pointed out that Obama's campaign had made the same mistake in literature from his 2004 primary. He was never a professor at the University of Chicago. The university's law school lists him as a senior lecturer on leave. And the school's online biography of Obama looks like it hasn't been updated in some time.
Friday's repeat of the comment prompted this reply from RNC spokeswoman Amber Wilkerson:
"Once again, Obama's misleading claim about his resume and his laundry list of rookie mistakes further demonstrate that this candidate needs a tutorial in Politics 101."


About Me: Aaron Deslatte is a reporter for the Florida Capital Bureau. He has covered government and state politics for eight years in Missouri, Arkansas and Florida.








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