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Obama's Uncle Omar
Posted by:
Debbie Downer Democrat
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Date: January 04, 2014 03:52AM
Gee ... Obama gets caught lying. Then places blame on white house staff. He'll roll anyone over in a second, its seems.
President Obama’s abrupt reversal on the matter of his ties to Uncle Omar may be more significant than it first appears. This seemingly minor embarrassment is a clue to the way Obama handles his past, and arguably to his overall management style as well.
On Thursday the White House dropped its 2011 claim that Obama had never met his uncle, Onyango Obama, known as Omar. Only after Onyango Obama testified in a Boston immigration court that the future president had stayed with him for about three weeks just prior to attending Harvard Law School did the White House change its story.
According to presidential press secretary Jay Carney, the initial denial was based on White House staffers consulting “the record,” chiefly the president’s memoir, Dreams from My Father. Nobody consulted with the president himself in 2011 when the issue initially came up, said Carney. Only after Onyango Obama’s court testimony did Carney decide that it was necessary to speak with the president himself. The result was a total reversal of the White House’s earlier claim. Not only had the president stayed with Uncle Omar for several weeks, but they saw each other on numerous occasions during his time in Cambridge. After law school, said Carney, “they gradually fell out of touch.”
President Obama’s abrupt reversal on the matter of his ties to Uncle Omar may be more significant than it first appears. This seemingly minor embarrassment is a clue to the way Obama handles his past, and arguably to his overall management style as well.
On Thursday the White House dropped its 2011 claim that Obama had never met his uncle, Onyango Obama, known as Omar. Only after Onyango Obama testified in a Boston immigration court that the future president had stayed with him for about three weeks just prior to attending Harvard Law School did the White House change its story.
According to presidential press secretary Jay Carney, the initial denial was based on White House staffers consulting “the record,” chiefly the president’s memoir, Dreams from My Father. Nobody consulted with the president himself in 2011 when the issue initially came up, said Carney. Only after Onyango Obama’s court testimony did Carney decide that it was necessary to speak with the president himself. The result was a total reversal of the White House’s earlier claim. Not only had the president stayed with Uncle Omar for several weeks, but they saw each other on numerous occasions during his time in Cambridge. After law school, said Carney, “they gradually fell out of touch.”