First, it wasn’t a consulting house; it was a small company that published newsletters on international business. Like most newsletter publishers, it was a bit of a sweatshop. I’m sure we all wished that we were high-priced consultants to multinational corporations. But we also enjoyed coming in at ten, wearing jeans to work, flirting with our co-workers, partying when we stayed late, and bonding over the low salaries and heavy workload.

Barack worked on one of the company’s reference publications. Each month customers got a new set of pages on business conditions in a particular country, punched to fit into a three-ring binder. Barack’s job was to get copy from the country correspondents and edit it so that it fit into a standard outline. There was probably some research involved as well, since correspondents usually don’t send exactly what you ask for, and you can’t always decipher their copy. But essentially the job was copyediting.

Can anyone tell me why the great “messiah” with all of his Harvard diploma and HLR president cred, can only get a job as a glorified copywriter?

This jibes with the stories of how Obama was never offered a clerkship with a Supreme Court justice, which is one of the reasons one becomes prez of the HLR.

It is another indication of his status as an “affirmative” action candidate.

On September 15th, 2008 at 2:03 pm, lgm said:
A guy who was POW with McCain thinks McCain is not fit to be Predident.

Spent a few minutes at Google finding a couple POWs who are campaigning for McCain. Tom Moe and
Michael Cronin. Your move.

On September 15th, 2008 at 3:26 pm, Mercy4Me said:

On September 15th, 2008 at 3:25 pm, Mercy4Me said:
I have emailed this story to FOX NEWS, once they start digging, the others will have to do something. Well, actually the others won’t have to do anything cause nobodoes nobodies nobody’s watching them

I only did this because you thought it was funny. You were looking for the contraction of “nobody is”.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!

On September 15th, 2008 at 2:03 pm, lgm said:

A guy who was POW with McCain thinks McCain is not fit to be Predident.

Disclosure that Phillip Butler is an activist for Veterans for Peace would have been appropriate here, lgm.

Phillip’s major gripe seems to be more with the media than with John McCain, but he blames McCain anyway. No one has ever heard McCain imply or say that he was the only hero or THE POW.

Phillip Butler:

People often ask if I was a Prisoner of War with John McCain. My answer is always “No – John McCain was a POW with me.” The reason is I was there for 8 years and John got there 2 ½ years later, so he was a POW for 5 ½ years. And we have our own seniority system, based on time as a POW.

This sounds petty to me, personally.

When you read through his reasons for not supporting McCain, he does not truly refute anything that is being said about McCain’s time as a POW.

His reasons have very little to do with his time as a POW and are instead motivated by his current political (and activist) beliefs. I do not deny his right to speak out, but lets not pretend that this is some gotcha moment.

lgm:

Democrats beat Republicans 3 to 1 in the morality department this election cycle.

Lame and with no basis in objective fact. Do you just throw these things out in the hopes that no one will notice the lack of evidence?

We get that you are liberal and do not like Republicans. However, claiming moral authority with a bogus statistic is a bit silly.

lgm said:

A guy who worked down the hall from Obama thinks Obama would make a fine President, though he may have exaggerated his fresh out of college job description a little.

Did you read the accounts?

And yet I’m disappointed. Barack’s story may be true, but many of the facts are not. His larger narrative purpose requires him to embellish his role. I don’t buy it. Just as I can’t be inspired by Steve Jobs now that I know how dishonest he is, I can’t listen uncritically to Barack Obama now that I know he’s willing to bend the facts to his purpose.

This is the guy that still supports Obama. Cannot listen uncritically knowing that Obama will bend facts… but still supports him. That’s not a ringing endorsement for Obama, but rather a large question mark on the author’s common sense.