Gaffe: Obama Cites Boston Teacher as Reason to Pass Jobs Bill...But He Has a Job
By Tim Graham | October 06, 2011 | 16:35
Here’s a reason to check out CBS in the next 24 hours. Via Fox Nation, we learned CBS Boston reported President Obama gaffed in his press conference Thursday. He used the story of a teacher in the Boston area, Robert Baroz of Wellesley, to push his jobs bill Thursday: "Why wouldn’t we want to pass a bill that puts somebody like Robert back in the classroom teaching our kids?” But Baroz already has a job in the classroom. Oops.
At the beginning of his White House news conference, Mister Obama told a story of how he recently met Baroz, and how's received "three pink slips" as he works as a provisional teacher:
“I had a chance to meet a young man named Robert Baroz. He’s an English teacher in Boston who came to the White House a few weeks ago. 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,” the president said.
“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?”
But Baroz is working in the Boston Public Schools this year as a middle school English teacher.
“I’ve managed to land on my feet, but it’s sometimes at the last minute,” said Baroz, who is endorsing the President’s jobs bill. He told aides to President Obama that others have not been so lucky in finding a job. He did not meet directly with the President.
In fact, Baroz is employed through a Department of Education teaching fellowship,and is featured on the Education Department's website proclaiming "Currently, I work as a middle school English teacher in the Boston Public Schools and work part-time as an English instructor at MassBay Community College.he's working this year."
Obviously, Baroz credits the federal government for his employment, but Obama presented him as someone who would be taken off the unemployment line by his jobs bill. It remains a puzzle how keeping provisional teachers in the public schools is a short-term "stimulus" proposal for the economy.
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That's one for Hot Air's
Submitted by motherbelt on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 4:39pm.
That's one for Hot Air's Obamateurism of the Day....
Joe biden
Submitted by grammajane on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 4:42pm.
today is telling 5th graders Americans don't have jobs or homes because of Bush. These two "leaders" need new writers. Each day, it is getting more repulsive!!!
He will claim a mulligan on
Submitted by another_old_veteran on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 4:42pm.
He will claim a mulligan on that one.
“If you take a highly intelligent person and give them the best possible, elite education, then you will most likely wind up with an academic who is completely impervious to reality.” - Halton C. Arp
Has he ever gotten ...
Submitted by Bodini on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 4:46pm.
anything right regarding the economy and employment?
That's real easy.
Submitted by jon_torlin on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 5:05pm.
No. Remember, JOBS is a three-letter word!
-Jon
Created or Saved?
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 4:53pm.
The Supreme Bozo mean't "save" the teacher's union job.
To more fully comprehend the Left, one must read “Leftism As Psychopathy” by John Ray, M.A., Ph.D. Caution, it might scare you a little bit.
http://jonjayray.tripod.com/psycho.html
Actually what Obummer meant
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 5:03pm.
is save HIS job and help get more money to unions so they can in turn hand his campaign our tax money.
And, why should the feds fund teachers?
Submitted by UpNorth on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 4:53pm.
Or, public safety, or local roads?
That's up to the citizens of the locality, not the Federal Government. If a city can't pay for public safety on a scale they've enjoyed, the Feds funding positions for one or two years does no good, the city will still have to lay those people off again.
The teachers are funded by a school district, at least where I live. It isn't up to the feds to fund teachers, see my example in the above paragraph, same result, if you can't afford them when the money spigot is turned off, you have to lay them off again.
In this case, it's just another Obama lie, nothing to see, move along.
They don't bother researching even the most banal things.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 5:00pm.
"Nobody will ever bother to look that up cuz we didn't."
No mystery why we're in the toilet. But let's give him another four years to "finish the job."
even contemplating that...
Submitted by kata on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 5:08pm.
the idea of this administration getting to keep the reins and continue to manipulate our country via executive privilege and administrative and judicial negligence pretty much pegs my blood pressure.
“In the last few years,
Submitted by ThePickle on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 5:07pm.
“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?”
STAND UP CHUCK!!!
God these people are twits. LOL
And Blonde's count of gaffes
Submitted by ThisnThat on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 5:39pm.
And Blonde's count of gaffes goes up again, today.
If we applied o'bama math, that's what -- a couple million gaffe statements created or saved?
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“Didn't win the Medal of Honor? Didn't even serve? Then lie about it. We'll support you." — 9th Circuit Court
Obumble is a buffoon...
Submitted by goon on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 6:05pm.
Wow, what a buffoon. This president is making a mockery out of the office of the president.
The stupidity continues
Submitted by TheHistorian on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 6:12pm.
Why is this teacher being laid off? Because there isn't enough money? So Uncle Barack comes along and pays for him for another year. What happens next year? He gets laid off again, because he still is the most junior teacher. Why was he employed last year? Because the stimulus paid for his salary?
But will Obama state any of this? No. Why not? Because the truth is not part of what President Obama lives by.
Now, how about bridges? If we quit spending gas tax money on mass transit, we wouldn't need to fix the bridges with more money. Instead, we could use gas tax money which was for this purpose!
The nation was doing so much better when President Obama was on vacation! And we'd do a lot better if some Republican could develop the gonads to talk about this shell game.
Dennis Prager
That picture on the main page is great!!!
Submitted by UpNorth on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 7:37pm.
the one of TOTUS and POTUS. Thanks for posting that, it captures all of the glory and magnificence that is the 0 in one pic.
What's with Obozo and bridges?
Submitted by Cincinnatius on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 7:53pm.
Apparently, Obozo spends a huge amount of time obsessing about bridges. I am beginning to think it must hinge on the fact that he grew up in Hawaii, an island, without a bridge to it. I think that we need to use all those unemployed teachers to build a bridge to Hawaii! Obozo would be thrilled and could finally focus other subjects.
Smart Feller
Submitted by IrateNate on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 8:58pm.
I wonder if he plans to campaign in all 57 states this year?
duh...
Submitted by freedomguardian on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 10:35pm.
Where are Obama's handlers? Oh, I forgot... Obama has surrounded himself with idiots so he can be the smart guy in the room... geez!
I'm sure somehow this will be blamed on whoever
Submitted by gmaniac1 on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 11:45pm.
programmed his binky, I mean, Teleprompter.
The gaffe was that Obama
Submitted by deerjerkydave on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 11:55pm.
The gaffe was that Obama actually let the truth slip from his tongue. Obama's "stimulus" bills are kick backs to the union goons who got him elected.
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"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the Federal Government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State Governments are numerous and indefinite. -James Madisonso, to recap,
Submitted by agingcynic on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 6:57am.
they want me to feel sorry for a guy with a publicly-funded salary, living in Wellesley, MA, (Boston's answer to Greenwich, CT or Beverly Hills) because he feels insecure? Cry me a river. I'm a real estate broker in MA who hasn't made a dime in two years because of Obama's policies. 15,000 people have turned in their real estate licenses in MA alone this year for the same reason. I could teach this guy about REAL insecurity, courtesy of "THE ONE".
Lies
Submitted by dmaley1714 on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 9:58am.
Obama blatantly lied in this statement. He never met this teacher, his aides did. He will lie on little things, makes lying on the big things easier.
Pink slip doesn't mean you won't have a job
Submitted by taznar on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 10:36am.
It may not seem right, but lots of teachers get pink slips every year. Schools do it because they don't always know from one year to another where teachers will be needed, so they cover themselves by giving teachers pink slips. Otherwise, if they give a teacher a contract to teach 9th grade American History, but end up needing them to teach 11th grade European History, they're not stuck with the contract. Or due to class sizes, the fourth grade teacher may be needed in 5th grade instead.
The overwhelming majority of teachers who get a pink slip get hired back at the same position or a very similar one. It happens every year, and every year there's a big fuss about all the teachers being fired, but no stories about them all getting rehired later on. Its part and parcel of the game that has to be played, in large part, because of the unions.
Most of us only get one "pink slip."
Submitted by CobraMan on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 10:46am.
This man received three pink slips as a "provisional" teacher (which means that there's no guarantee of employment) yet is still employed? How many does it take to get a teacher fired? Most of us only need one.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Mike Grham of Boston talk radio is reporting.....
Submitted by stehill51 on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 5:41pm.
that not only is the guy working 2 jobs...... but he has NEVER met Obama.