Pres. Barack Obama – Editor of the Harvard Law Review

Wow. A blog post from May 2009. Really cutting-edge material. Especially impressive since he grabs a screenshot that says "Voluntarily inactive," and then proceeds to repeatedly, and inaccurately, quote it as "Voluntarily surrendered." Stellar attention to detail, too.

In any case, as others have said, this is nothing new. Barack's ARDC entry says that his Illinois Registration Status is "Voluntarily retired and not authorized to practice law", and Michelle's says she is "Voluntarily inactive and not authorized to practice law."

So let's look up some other notable Illinois lawyers, and see what their ARDC pages say about their Bar registration status:

Senator Dick Durbin - "Voluntarily inactive and not authorized to practice law."

Senator Ronald Burris - "Voluntarily inactive and not authorized to practice law."

Representative Judy Biggert - "Voluntarily inactive and not authorized to practice law."

Representative Donald Manzullo - "Voluntarily retired and not authorized to practice law."

Representative Peter Roskam - "Voluntarily inactive and not authorized to practice law."

Once again, a conspiracy theory with no meat to it. Or do folks want to make up imaginary reasons why the exact same phrases mean something different on the Obamas' pages?

Why didn’t you advise freepers when you posted this that it’s an EXACT COPY from snopes.com.....wherein it is labeled FALSE!!!! It’s an email that has been circulating for quite some time. I realize most of us don’t hold snopes in high regard but to try to make more of something than it really is, takes way too much time and wastes too much energy.

I’m only getting to this later in the day but Freeper Non Sequitar is absolutely correct in his postings and he took a lot of abuse on this topic when it would only have taken a minute to check it out. Such definitive statements as some have made here on the subject would make it appear as tho’ everyone agreeing with this mish-mash has the total facts at their disposal or at the very least were present when all this went down in IL.

Why do those of us who STEP BACK from jumping on this garbage about the obozo’s have to be insulted for doing so? We are no less repulsed by that family in the WH than other freepers are but stretching things out of proportion isn’t productive. There’s no limit to articles on the internet regarding this subject but to post something without a disclaimer to your thread is not helpful.

Freepers can pile on now with the name calling if that’s all they have to offer.

Snopes.com has examined this. You can disagree with their findings, but you ought to at least read them. Go here.

The problem is that ARDC lawyer search says that they are "Voluntarily inactive and not authorized to practice law" not that they "voluntarily surrendered" their licences.

That means that they went on inactive status, not that they felled compelled to give up their license.

“Why didn’t you advise freepers when you posted this that it’s an EXACT COPY from snopes.com.....wherein it is labeled FALSE!!!! It’s an email that has been circulating for quite some time. I realize most of us don’t hold snopes in high regard but to try to make more of something than it really is, takes way too much time and wastes too much energy.”

I did not copy this from Snopes or an email. I gave the sources URL. You may disagree with that source. You may also apologize to me for jumping to conclusions.

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