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But He Was the Harvard Law Review Editor!
Commentary Magazine ^ | February 7, 2010 | Jennifer Rubin

Posted on 02/08/2010 3:46:51 AM PST by Scanian

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To: pepsionice

Exactly. Great post.


21 posted on 02/08/2010 5:05:24 AM PST by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: Scanian

The reason I voted for him was that he had visited all 57 states like it says on Teresa Heinz catsup, and he shook the hands of many corpse men! He’s my idol!


22 posted on 02/08/2010 5:05:30 AM PST by Doc Savage (SOBAMP!)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

Hey, come-on, I didn’t even see your post and you beat me to it by a mile! Oh well, geniuses do think alike!


23 posted on 02/08/2010 5:06:44 AM PST by Doc Savage (SOBAMP!)
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To: Scanian

OK now it all makes sense. The reason he was qualified to be the affirmative action president was because he was the affirmative action harvard law review editor.


24 posted on 02/08/2010 5:12:28 AM PST by Texas resident (Hunkered Down)
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To: ml/nj

Not only that, but I believe I read somewhere that his position is an elective one, voted on by other Law Review members. It was a popularity contest and he had about as much influence on the Law Review as Queen Elizabeth exerts on Britain.


25 posted on 02/08/2010 5:12:29 AM PST by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things)
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To: Scanian

An “educated” moron is still a moron!


26 posted on 02/08/2010 5:32:22 AM PST by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., hot enough down there today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: caseinpoint; pepsionice

I actually did read an interview with another student who had been on the Law Review at the same time. I don’t know how this interview slipped out and I don’t remember where I saw it (possibly posted on FR).

In any case, the student said that “Barry,” as he was known then, never showed up for meetings and never did any work, and in fact published only one small piece (not even signed, IIRC) in the Law Review during that time. However, on those rare occasions when he did appear, he swanned in and expected to be treated like a celebrity, apparently demanding much deference and fawning. How little has changed...


27 posted on 02/08/2010 5:42:06 AM PST by livius
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To: Scanian
I realize things are different today and security is tighter but back in the early ‘70’s, a buddy and I spent a couple days in Boston sneaking into classes at Harvard

These days you wouldn't even need to sneak. You can access Ivy-League classes on almost any subject for free by poking around YouTube.

Or, if you want to spend a few dollars ($50 to $300), you can get audio cassettes or cd's of complete Ivy League courses (used or new) and listen to them in your car.

It costs almost no money to learn at an Ivy League level. Yet it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to "be educated" by those elitist twits.
28 posted on 02/08/2010 5:58:33 AM PST by Question Liberal Authority ("My...health care plan is a Bolshevik plot... which will destroy America." - Barack Obama)
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To: livius

Isn’t it weird that none of his class mates or room mates from anywhere have come forward and been interviewed?

Not even an old lover (kinda wonder about that gender thingie too).


29 posted on 02/08/2010 6:20:01 AM PST by John Galt's cousin (Principled Conservatism in 2010 and 2012 * * * * * * * * * * Repeal the 17th Amendment!)
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To: paulycy
"If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast. "

W.T. Sherman

30 posted on 02/08/2010 6:23:00 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: The Wizard

Mowgli doesn’t get it.


31 posted on 02/08/2010 6:26:39 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Impeachment !)
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To: Scanian
That Obama cannot even give a simple presentation to grade school kids without a teleprompter and his pronunciation gaff at the prayer breakfast shows him lacking in several skills any college graduate should have. However, former pro wrestler and Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura was for a time a Harvard professor so that doesn't say much for a Harvard education.
32 posted on 02/08/2010 6:53:22 AM PST by The Great RJ ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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To: pepsionice; All
Apparently, he didn't do much while there.

From what I understand, he only published one paper during his entire time at the Review, and while he was “the Editor”, he never wrote or published anything. No Editorials, no opinions, nothing.

Whether it was a figurehead position or another example of him attaining a high-status position and then just shamming his way through without any tangible performance, is open to conjecture.

The results are the same however - he got the job and then did nothing with it. Sounds familiar.

He's just an overrated, overreaching, underachieving “Title Collector”, padding his resume at the expense of others.

33 posted on 02/08/2010 6:57:45 AM PST by conservativeharleyguy (Democrats: Over 60 million fooled daily!)
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To: Scanian

His lack of executive experience was irrelevant.That didn’t play out to well what the hey it’s only a trillion here a trillion millions of people out of work record numbers of homes lost,progressives should be an open season on them.


34 posted on 02/08/2010 7:39:38 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: Woebama

Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. was not the “Editor” of the Harvard Law Review, he was the “President.” Big difference.

“The Editor” writes and edits. The “Presdident” schedules board meetings and delegates production.


35 posted on 02/08/2010 8:11:28 AM PST by Kenny Bunk (Go-Go Donofrio. get us that Writ of Quo Warranto!)
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To: Kenny Bunk

Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. was not the “Editor” of the Harvard Law Review, he was the “President.” Big difference.
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Oh, sheesh! More Obama scam. Being editor is a big deal. Being “President” (admin) is nowhere near as big a deal.


36 posted on 02/08/2010 8:19:28 AM PST by Woebama (Never, never, never quit)
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To: Kenny Bunk
Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. was not the “Editor” of the Harvard Law Review, he was the “President.” Big difference.

“The Editor” writes and edits. The “Presdident” schedules board meetings and delegates production.

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I read on the internet many months ago about this theory: Previous persons in Obama's high position at Harvard usually were granted internships or clerkships at the highest judges in the land, but, for some unknown reason, Obama did not accept such a clerkship and went back to Chicago.

Some people on the internet theorized that Obama was scared that a detailed search into his background by government agencies like the FBI would turn up damaging information on Obama.

So Obama, to protect himself, did not apply for a plum clerkship with any of the prestigious judges in the land.

37 posted on 02/08/2010 11:34:30 AM PST by john mirse
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To: Maurice Tift

I can’t load you-tubes, but I appreciate the thought. I bet it was good too. FRegards ....


38 posted on 02/08/2010 5:22:41 PM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (2010 HOUSE RACES! Help everyone get the goods on their House Rats. See my profile.)
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To: Doc Savage; doug from upland
I used to come up with rhymes now and then that turned out to be sad wannabes compared with Doug from Upland. I know how you feel, but it was worse in my case. People embarrassed me a few times with his superior prose.
39 posted on 02/08/2010 5:32:53 PM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (2010 HOUSE RACES! Help everyone get the goods on their House Rats. See my profile.)
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To: pepsionice

I read once that the rules were changed for the disadvantaged. Maybe even for him, I can’t remember. At any rate he is the EEOP President.


40 posted on 02/08/2010 5:37:00 PM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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