HA...Another lie!

Obama Puts His 77 Cents In

By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Posted Friday, October 17, 2008 4:20 PM PT
Pay Equity: Barack Obama has criticized John McCain's actions in the case of Lilly Ledbetter, who sued for alleged pay discrimination. But if Obama supports equal pay for equal work, why doesn't he do it in his office?

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When the issue shifted to the Supreme Court in last week's presidential debate, Obama said he would appoint Supreme Court justices "who hopefully have a sense of what real-world folks are going through." Not those who have a sense of what the Founding Fathers had in mind when they wrote the Constitution. He wants those who believe in a "living Constitution" that changes with the liberal fad du jour.
He claimed "the Supreme Court made it more difficult for a woman named Lily Ledbetter to press her claim for pay discrimination." Actually the Court did nothing of the sort. It merely said the law put a time limit on filing such claims and that Ledbetter missed the cutoff — by almost two decades. They interpreted the law to mean what it says as written.
"I think that it's important for judges to understand that if a woman is out there trying to raise a family, trying to support her family and is being treated unfairly, then the court has to stand up," Obama said.
All the court is supposed to do is interpret the law and the Constitution as written. Ledbetter was in fact treated like anyone else under the law in question.
Of that decision, Obama said: "We tried to overturn it in the Senate. I supported that effort to provide better guidance to the courts; John McCain opposed it."
To which we say good. The high court does not need the guidance of the Senate's No. 1 liberal, someone who opposed the nomination of John Roberts, wouldn't have appointed Antonin Scalia and thinks Clarence Thomas isn't "a strong enough justice or legal thinker" to sit on the Supreme Court.
Ledbetter is not exactly a household name, but in liberal circles she's an icon. She was a supervisor at a tire company in Alabama who sued upon retirement after 19 years of employment there. The act would have extended the time limit on how long an employee can wait before suing for pay discrimination. It would have reversed a 5-4 Supreme Court decision holding that having 180 days to file a complaint was long enough.
"Sen. McCain thinks the Supreme Court got it right," Obama said in Albuquerque, N.M., in June. "He opposed the Fair Pay Restoration Act. He suggested the reason women don't have equal pay isn't discrimination on the job — it's because they need more education and training. That's just totally wrong."
As Carrie Lukas, vice president for policy and economics at the Independent Women's Forum, informs us, when producing the "77 cents" statistic Obama repeats in a campaign ad, the Labor Department does not in fact take into account factors such as years of experience, hours worked, education, service interruptions for marriage and child rearing.
If all you used were data culled from the Report of the Secretary of the Senate, covering the six-month period ended March 31, 2008, you'd think McCain was the champion of Rosie the Riveter and Obama the heartless male chauvinist troglodyte.
Crunching the numbers, Obama's 28 male staffers were paid a total of $1,523,120 for an average salary of $54,397. Obama's 30 female employees divided $1,354,580 for a female average salary of $45,152. Obama's female staffers, on average, make just 83 cents to the dollar his male staffers make.
McCain's office, by contrast, is a feminist fantasy. McCain's 17 male staffers carve up $916,914 for an average salary of $53,936. His 25 female employees split $1,396,958 for average pay of $55,878. In McCain's office, a woman earns $1.04 for every buck a man makes.
Practice what you preach, Sen. Obama.


I can't understand for the life of me...how Obama gets away with all these lies! Wait...it's because this country is filling up with sad gullible people! WAKE THE HECK UP PEOPLE!!!!