Just like when Bill Richardson claimed he was drafted by the Kansas City A’s, another politician has been caught padding her resume with facts not in evidence:

Oh, City Councilwoman Yvette Clarke. You get a big dose of attention from the NY Times on Wednesday about your run for Major Owen’s Congressional Seat, but then it turns out you never graduated from Oberlin, the way your campaign literature in 2004 and 2005 claimed you did. Clarke was a few credits short of a degree, and her aides said that she had finished them up at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn. The problem? Oberlin never got those transcripts. Oops! Yesterday, the Daily News had a statement from Clarke about the incident, where she claimed she thought she had “fulfilled the requirements for a bachelor’s degree,” but then “discovered” that she never actually finished those classes. What? Clarke is 41 - that’s not old and no reason to forget taking a class that would give you a college degree.

Can I ask you folks a question?

Did any of you graduate college? Better yet, did any of you not complete your degree?

Those of you who didn’t complete your degree… Is there any confusion in your mind about whether you did or didn’t?

Honestly, I can’t stand this kind of crap. Yvette Clarke is a damned liar. She got caught lying about her education. You can’t “think” you fulfilled the requirements for your degree. If you did, you’d have this little thing called a diploma. It’s a document commonly hung on walls. If you don’t have one, you didn’t complete the requirements of any degree program.

Done.

Only a complete idiot could be unsure about something like that.

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