Obama Lies About Signing Up for the Draft

Posted by Warner Todd Huston on Monday, September 08, 2008 12:40:54 AM

-By Warner Todd Huston

Barack Obama told another whopper about his storied life on ABC's "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos. In one segment Stephanopoulos asked Obama if he ever considered joining the U.S. military as a youngster. Obama then goes on to say that he did when he was required to sign up for selective service in 1979 when he graduated high school.

One little problem... there wasn't any requirement to sign up for Selective Service in 1979!

As Tom Blumer of NewsBusters.org and BizzyBlog.com notes, "Obama could not have registered upon graduation from high school as he claimed. His actually registered occurred roughly 45 days after... registrations took place in 1980. Obama's statement, that 'I had to sign up for Selective Service when I graduated from high school,' is inarguably false."

As any look into the facts will note, President Gerald Ford terminated the registration requirements on March 25, 1975 and Jimmy Carter didn't reinstate the registration requirement until July 2 of 1980. Obama graduated from the private college prep school, Punahou School, in 1979.

The timing doesn't quite work to make truth of what Obama told Stephanopoulos.

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