Posted on 10/13/2010 4:09:40 AM PDT by DBCJR
I saw a note slide across the #TCOT feed on Twitter last night that mentioned Michelle Obama had no law license. This struck me as odd, since (a) she went to school to be a lawyer, and (b) she just recently held a position with the University of Chicago Hospitals as legal counsel — and that’s a pretty hard job to qualify for without a law license.
But being a licensed professional myself, i knew that every state not only requires licensure, they make it possible to check online the status of any licensed professional. So I did, and here’s the results from theARDC Website:
She “voluntarily surrendered” her license in 1993. Let me explain what that means. A “Voluntary Surrender” is not something where you decide “Gee, a license is not really something i need anymore, is it?” and forget to renew your license. No, a “Voluntary Surrender” is something you do when you’ve been accused of something, and you ‘voluntarily surrender” your license about five seconds before the state suspends (or disbars) you.
Here’s an illustration: I’m a nurse. At various times in my 28 years of nursing I’ve done other things when I got burned out; most notably a few years as a limousine driver; even an Amway salesman at one point. I always, always renewed my nursing license — simply becuase it’s easier to send the state $49.00 a month than to pay the $200, take a test, wate six weeks, etc., etc. . . I’ve worked (recently) in a Nursing Home where there was an 88 year old lawyer and a 95 year old physician. Both of them still had current licensures as well. They would never DREAM of letting their licenses lapse. I happen to know there is currently in the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City Indiana an inmate who is a licensed physician, convicted of murder when he chased the two burlars who entered his home and terrorized his family into the street and killed them. (And I can’t say i blame him for that, either.) This phisican still has an active medical license and still sees patients, writes prescriptions, etc all from inside the prison.
And he renews his medical licese every two years, too.
I tried looking up why she would “Voluntarily surrender” her licese, but Illinois does not have it’s 1993 records online.
But when I searched for “Obama”, I found this:
“Voluntarily retired” — what does that mean? Bill Clinton hung onto his law license until he was convicted of making a false statement in the Lewinsky case and had to “Voluntarily Surrender” his license too.
This is the former editor of the Harvard Law Review who doesn’t seem to give a crap about his law license.
Something else odd; while the Search feature brings up the names, any seaches for the Disciplinary actions ends quicky.
As in, Too Quickly. Less than a half-second quickly on a Search Engine that can take five seconds to Search for anything.
As in, “there’s a block on that information” kind of thing.
So we have the first Lawyer President and First Lady — who don’t actually have licenses to practice law.
There’s more to this story, I’m sure. I’ll let you know when I find it.
Actually, President of HLR - not just editor. From 1990.
The skill set required for President of HLR is very different from the skill set required for POTUS.
Here’s an article from 2008
Obama provided false information, IL bar application, Bar Complaint filed, Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission, Chicago, Illinois 60601
‘Logical fallacy’ right on cue - back to defend his idols - the Obama’s!
Stupidity is stupidity whether it's directed at Obama or at Bush. And wherever there is stupidity can Free America 52 be far behind?
Sounds innocuous enough to you, doesn't it?
But the facts are different. Looks like there was a disciplinary action about to be handed down on Michelle, so she "voluntarily surrendered" her license, which dovetails into the "not-the-whole-truth" narrative you just described.
Then you must ask yourself--why? Why would you surrender a law license only 4 years after obtaining it?Especially when you are in a prestigious Chicago law firm?
It would seem that in the legal profession, that is the equivalent of surfer's wipeout, self induced or not.
Like all of the Obamas' records, the slate has ever been sanitized, as in this "Google" version you posted,or has been wiped clean.
The purpose of which is to obscur, deflect, and obsfucate.
But the truth will come out.
This is old news. We knew before he was elected that he didn’t have a current law license in Illinois and neither did Michelle. People really should have paid attention BEFORE they voted for him.
His story is exactly that: a story told in two books which were likely written by someone else to sell him to the rest of us.
If only a reporter had the cajones to pull on one of the many loose strings, the whole cloth so many couldn't wait to buy will quickly unravel.
When or if the truth is ever revealed, we will see one of the greatest shows on Earth. We've never been lied to like this before...as far as we know...
Just a side note—this was discovers and discussed on FR back in 2008.
Nice to see the rest of the country waking up to the anomaly and enigma that is the Obamas.
Non-Sequitar has posted nearly an identical comment before when discussing Michelle law license. I am almost sure that he is a bot.
Michelle clearly did something horrendous to be forced to surrender her license! And especially after on four years since getting it in the first place!
Obozo lost his as well, altough he may have surrendered his because he lied on his application when asked if he had any aliases other than Barack Obama and he filled in the answer “NO!”
Isn't that racist?
Oh, wait....you said "E"-nigma.
Never mind.
This is one of the subjects that Soros, Rahm, and Axelrod allegedly told the media heads that they better not report on or they’d be harassed out of business - the law license issues.
There’s definitely a story there, but like everything else surrounding Obama he’s hiding behind the laws or the willingness of bureaucrats to break the laws for his (or for Soros’) sake. Just like the Muslim playbook says to do: take over America by exploiting the legal system.
You are a little early. It was 2009 when the NRO article was published.
If Alamo gets close to finding any answers, the goon squad will be at his door taking him for reprogramming.
People thought the Clintons were bad, but I think the Zeros have them beat. I would put nothing past this idiot that bigger idiots elected Pres_ent.
If I’m understanding correctly, Barack Obama’s legal career had two accomplishments:
1) he sued to get Motor Voter enforced so people would not have to have documentation in order to be registered to vote; and
2) he pushed banks to make subprime loans by threatening to sue or to hold up their ability to function because of unresolved accusations.
Both items are major planks in the Cloward-Piven (communist) Plan to destroy America - destroying our economy and electoral accountability by compromising the integrity of those critical, foundational pieces of infrastructure.
Seriesly?
You would say that, you’re only here to defend Obama. Besides that, you’re lying about this subject.
But that’s not unusual, is it.
He’s behind you!
Here is the answer to the court ordered part of it.
https://www.iardc.org/registration/rule770inactivestatus.html
The President can go back to being a lawyer...
https://www.iardc.org/registration/changeofregstatus_info.html
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