David McElroy

Did you hear about the poor ol’ Boston teacher who Barack Obama talked Thursday about having met? He’s the experienced teacher who Obama talked having been laid off three times as he pushed his jobs bill — so we can get “Robert back in the classroom teaching our kids.”

There are only a couple of problems with the story. First, Obama never met the guy. Second, the guy is still happily employed in a school as a “data and literacy coach” working with other teachers to make them better at what they do.

Unfortunately for the Liar in Chief, the Boston Herald tracked down the facts and pointed them out, even if the paper was polite enough to simply sat that Obama’s story “stretches” the truth.

Here were Obama’s actual words:

“I had a chance to meet a young man named Robert Baroz. He’s got two decades of teaching experience. He’s got a master’s degree. He’s got an outstanding track record of helping his students make huge gains in reading and writing. 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?”

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It’s a basic principle of U.S. law that a person accused of a crime has the right to face his accusers and defend himself. The Obama administration demonstrated last week how little it cares about due process when it assassinated Anwar al-Awlaki. But it turns out the process is even more sinister than we thought. There’s a secret group of bureaucrats who decide which Americans should be killed. They simply inform the president of their decisions.

Have we really become so callous toward Americans’ civil rights that we turn over decisions about citizens’ executions to anonymous groups of bureaucrats who can’t be held accountable? How can anyone think this is constitutional or legal in any way?

Disgraced former president Richard Nixon infamously declared that, “When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.” Nixon was explaining his actions related to Watergate to journalist David Frost in a 1977 interview. Even though he was forced to resign from office, Nixon still believed he had done nothing wrong, because he believed a president had the power to do pretty much whatever he wanted.

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Most of the people I know aren’t happy. They put on brave faces and try to fit in, but in their hearts, they’re hurting — because their lives aren’t what they wanted them to be. Why do people live this way?

I’m thinking about this because of someone I met earlier this week. Her story reminded me of something from the personal life of Steve Jobs, but I’ll get to that in a moment. This woman is a teacher who lives in a nice suburban house and loves her two beautiful young children. Her attorney husband provides nicely for the family and treats her well. But she’s miserable when she’s honest, as she was with me Monday night.

What she doesn’t tell most people is that she’s in love with another man and she says she always will be. He loved her, too, and wanted to marry her a decade ago, but he lived in England and was going home after working in this country for a year. He was an architect and he had his own practice back home. He begged her to come with him, but she didn’t want to leave what she already had here.

So she said “goodbye” to him for the last time at the airport and they both promised to always love each other. In the meantime, she’s started raising two children with a man who provides well for her, but who can’t give her what she really needs inside. Just a couple of months ago, the English architect married, too. She says the new woman looks a lot like her. She says she hopes they’re happy, but her voice sounds hollow when she says it.

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