Mark Kirk's Fuzzy Memory

By aaroncynic in News on Jun 17, 2010 9:30PM

Mark Kirk’s memory problems seem to get larger each week. In addition to misremembering facts about his military and environmental records, Kirk’s recollections of his days as a school teacher now appear sketchy. The New York Times reported that while Kirk loves to tout his time and experience as a teacher, his experience doesn’t add up to much. Kirk once said “as a former nursery school and middle school teacher, I know some of what it takes to bring order to class.” The Times however, pointed out that Kirk only taught one year at the Milestone School in London from 1982-1983 and worked part time for a semester at a nursery school in Ithaca, New York. The information was provided to the New York Times from the Alexi Giannoulias campaign.

While some may wonder if Giannoulias is spending too much time digging through his past, this makes us wonder what Mark Kirk *hasn’t* “misremembered” slightly in the face of his previous fuzzy memories. As Capitol Fax points out, this isn’t just a quirk on Kirk’s resume, this is about trust. That trust is hard to come by in the face of multiple instances off “embellishing” one’s record.