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Columbia alum reveals Obama had 2.6 GPA Columbia donor reveals Obama not Mensa material
Daily Caller ^ | 11/01/12

Posted on 11/02/2012 11:57:02 PM PDT by lulu16

The source for the 2.6 number is a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur and a Columbia alumnus who maintains good ties with the university.

In 2004, after Obama’s successful speech at that year’s Democratic convention, a Columbia University official told him Barack Obama’s GPA, he explained to TheDC.

“This person told me that he [Obama] was a pre-law, poli-sci major, had a lot of incompletes, and as best could be determined after sorting through the incompletes, had a GPA of 2.6,” said the businessman, a former Marine Corps combat veteran.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/02/wealthy-columbia-univ-donor-school-told-me-obama-had-2-6-gpa/#ixzz2BEZxKtdn

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KEYWORDS: columbiau; dailycaller; donors; obama; obamarecord; romneygpa
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To: lulu16

.... He is probably an Affirmative Action MENSA.


21 posted on 11/03/2012 1:17:05 AM PDT by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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To: Hetty_Fauxvert
It is certainly not easy to swivel your head side to side reading the TOTUS, glaring, glowering, and trying to disguise your invectiveness for your koolaid-drinkers as the “fight” you still have for them.
22 posted on 11/03/2012 1:18:18 AM PDT by lulu16 (May the Good Lord take a liking to you!)
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To: R_Kangel

Because the quota for fake divinity schools had been taken by Sharpton and Jackson.


23 posted on 11/03/2012 1:23:46 AM PDT by lulu16 (May the Good Lord take a liking to you!)
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To: R_Kangel
He is probably an Affirmative Action MENSA.

Actually, I believe the 2.6 GPA may have been by affirmative action. In other words, he didn't get that grade by himself. A teacher, another student, somebody else did that for him.

24 posted on 11/03/2012 1:25:25 AM PDT by Waryone
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To: Waryone

Just like someone photoshopped him into the picture of his grandparents in New York.


25 posted on 11/03/2012 1:33:47 AM PDT by lulu16 (May the Good Lord take a liking to you!)
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To: Waryone

Just like someone photoshopped him into the picture of his grandparents in New York.


26 posted on 11/03/2012 1:43:30 AM PDT by lulu16 (May the Good Lord take a liking to you!)
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To: funfan

70% being black; 20% having ties to Indonesia; 5% being from Hawaii; 5% having gone to a prestigious preparatory school (before Occidental).


27 posted on 11/03/2012 2:12:27 AM PDT by utahagen
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To: Lancey Howard

I went to law school and I recall that every medical malpractice suit that was important enough to have become a landmark case involved a black surgeon. I, too, wouldn’t trust a black surgeon in a million years.


28 posted on 11/03/2012 2:14:30 AM PDT by utahagen
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To: Lancey Howard

Which is why I would not trust a black surgeon in a million years....Find out if he was ever a medic in the Army, or a Corpsman in the Marines, first. Our Medic, whom I rate all my GP’s against, was black and performed crap under fire most Doctors wouldn’t do in an emergency room. He got out, got his GI Bill and caught the attention of ‘someone’ who sent him on to be one of the most highly touted oncologista in his state. I’ll never forget when I caught the flu and strep throat at a FB and he reached in his locker and brought out a fifth of Jim Beam, a handful of Momma’s anise Christmas candy and said “Get some hot water, drink as much as you can with a mouthful of this candy, grab 12 hrs. of sleep and get on that 60. You’re the best we got up here.”


29 posted on 11/03/2012 3:04:13 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: Safetgiver

Did it help, did you wake up feeling better? (and thank you for your service!)


30 posted on 11/03/2012 3:52:47 AM PDT by gettinolder (Smashed lips save ships.)
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To: Lancey Howard

That’s a tautology, Mensa meat.


31 posted on 11/03/2012 4:01:12 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Obama: Brought to you by the letter "O" and the number 16 trillion.)
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To: Safetgiver

Thank you for sticking up for your friend. We all know black people whose ability and work ethic is way above average. Unfortunately, we also run into a lot of AA hires who manage to cast an aura of doubt on the achievements of all blacks.

There are a lot of really competent practitioners in every field of endeavor who would never ace the SAT, be they working in medicine, law, engineering or finance, just as their are those who thrive in an academic setting but are completely helpless in the real world. However. Obama is no example of the former and Romney is no example of the latter.

For the most part academic achievement is a strong predictor of professional achievement, which is why companies like to see a candidates transcripts.


32 posted on 11/03/2012 4:13:00 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Obama: Brought to you by the letter "O" and the number 16 trillion.)
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To: lulu16

GPA BS. I had a very wise high school English teacher in my Soph and Senior years. He always said a few things about IQ and GPA.

IQ is like a bucket, if you have a big bucket (high score) but you only fill it up half way, what a waste. It is better to have a smaller bucket and have it overflowing with knowledge.

GPA, via personal experience. If you were to see my GPA for my associates degree, I’d be laughed out of the HR office. Hey, full time college was not for me. My bachelors was a 3.79, my masters was a 3.89. In 25 years I have only come to the conclusion that those last two numbers kept my resume out of the trash. I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but by no means the dullest either, I get my job done with the best of my abilities and always look for a way to learn something new everyday.


33 posted on 11/03/2012 4:35:12 AM PDT by Cyclone59 (Obama is like Ron Burgundy - he will read ANYTHING that is on the teleprompter)
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To: Cyclone59

“best of my ability ...” “ ...learn something new every day ...”

Exactly.

But since Obama already knows everything and is already functioning at 110 percent of his ability (just ask him!) he doesn’t have that mindset at all.


34 posted on 11/03/2012 4:55:02 AM PDT by Cloverfarm (This too shall pass ...)
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To: Hetty_Fauxvert

Did he work his butt off? I missed that in his biography.


35 posted on 11/03/2012 4:58:38 AM PDT by MSF BU (n)
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To: Hetty_Fauxvert

Did he work his butt off? I missed that in his biography.


36 posted on 11/03/2012 4:58:50 AM PDT by MSF BU (n)
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To: 98ZJ USMC; Hetty_Fauxvert

Not so much an “over achiever” as he is a Forest Gump or Chancy Gardner


37 posted on 11/03/2012 4:59:40 AM PDT by shalom aleichem
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To: utahagen
I went to law school and I recall that every medical malpractice suit that was important enough to have become a landmark case involved a black surgeon.

Name me one, because I went to law school also, and I don't recall any of the landmark med mal cases even identifying the race of the doctor.

38 posted on 11/03/2012 5:05:52 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: gettinolder

Yep. It did. However He and I always joke if the cure was worth the disease! At least I could run the gun ( probably would’ve blew my brains out my ears out my ears if we would have needed it.)


39 posted on 11/03/2012 6:19:31 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: Casie

“My uncle declined every Mensa invite they offered him.”

Good man. So did I. I thought they were odd.

Caveat: In retrospect, I see that I am, too.


40 posted on 11/03/2012 6:23:18 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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