“I do not remember this level of scrutiny for one President Barack Obama when he was running,” Carson observed. “In fact I remember just the opposite. I remember people saying, ‘Oh we won’t really talk about that. We won’t talk about that relationship. Well, Frank Marshall Davis, well, we don’t want to talk about that. Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, well we don’t really know him. All the things that Jeremiah Wright was saying, oh, not a big problem.”

There you go again.....

Ben, were you napping during Obama's campaign?

Obama’s relationships with people like Ayers and Wright were, in fact, widely scrutinized in the 2008 campaign.

After Fox News hosts like Sean Hannity repeatedly raised questions about the former Weather Underground members, George Stephanopoulos asked then-Senator Obama directly about his relationship with Ayers during an April 16, 2008 debate.

Obama responded that Ayers is now “a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who’s a professor of English in Chicago,” and that “the notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values doesn’t make much sense, George.”

Still, GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin attacked him for “palling around with terrorists” in the final weeks of the general election.

The Washington Post’s examination of Obama’s relationship with Davis, an activist and purported member of the Communist Party who died in 1987, noted that their last known interaction was when the future president was a college freshman.

Reverend Wright, Obama’s controversial former pastor, continues to be a focus of right-wing media interest to this day.

Obama and his top 2008 primary opponent each denounced Wright for his inflamatory comments, garnering widespread national media coverage.


 

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DollyLongstaff wrote:

“[Obama] goes to Occidental College, doesn’t do all that well, and somehow ends up at Columbia University,” Carson asserted. “Well… his records are sealed. Why is his record sealed? What are you not interested in why his records are sealed? Why are you not interested in that? Let me ask you that. Can someone tell me why, please?” He then demanded to know “how there is equivalency [sic] there” between “something that happened with the words ‘a scholarship was offered’ was a big deal, but the president of the United States, his academic records being sealed, is not.”

Answer: The Family Educational Right's and Privacy Act of 1974, is a federal law that protects the privacy of all students’ educational records ( including yours Benjamin). Those records can only be released to the public if the person in question opts to do so.

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thank you so much Dolly but do you think someone will tell him why Obama  records is sealed just like any other students record are sealed.

AdminShiny wrote:

Does he really not remember this or is he lying? Or was he not paying attention? I don't know which scenario is more disturbing.

 

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jmo but I want to go with he is lying once more