Posted on 12/02/2010 3:44:07 PM PST by curth
Here’s a piece from Jennifer Rubin calling Obama out on the ignoramus that he is. Rubin hits hard with:
He displays contempt for Americans who don’t agree with his flawed policies, in effect instructing them to shut up. But his arrogance is both unwise (these people vote!) and undeserved. Had he not spent trillions on a flawed Keynesian economics, had he not botched the Middle East peace talks, had he not misread the mullahs, had he not mistaken appeasement for “reset” with Russia, and had he not hired ill-prepared senior advisers (who now must be cast off), his self-satisfaction might be warranted. But to put it bluntly, where does a garden-variety leftist with a track record as bad as his get off telling the voters that they lack adequate reasoning skills?
This is part of her rebuttal against all the Obama cultists who claim this man is an “intellectual”. Rubin calls him a snob.
We go a step further and call him out as the poster boy for Affirmative Action that he is.
If Obama had done well at Occidental, Columbia, and Harvard, he would have turned his college and law school transcripts into wallpaper so his cultists could wallpaper their mothers’ basements with them. There, they’d eat their Hot Pockets, wearing their faded, ill-fitting (too many Hot Pockets!) HOPE! tee shirts and gaze up in wonder at all the A’s and maybe one or two B’s Obama received…if those were really his grades.
We remember the 2000 campaign where Al Gore released his college records in an effort to prove he was smarter than George W. Bush, a Harvard MBA. Bush then released his transcripts…and he not only had a higher GPA than Gore, but took harder classes too. Instead of Underwater Basket Weaving and Intermediate Farting, Bush took, you know, FINANCE courses and BUSINESS classes. Oh, yah, and he also learned how to fly airplanes in the Reserves.
Obama was a C or D student in college who was passed and promoted aggressively because he was a smiling, biracial, man with a weird name who more likely than not played up on his Muslim upbringing in Indonesia in all of his college admissions essays and other course work. That’s the sort of thing Columbia and Harvard JUST LOVE…so we can’t imagine he ever hid any of that. It’s what made him interesting to the academic elite…this little brown boy raised in the jungles of the Pacific, mentored by Frank Marshall, with that Kenyan last name.
They just ate that stuff up.
There’s a reason Obama won’t release those transcripts…or any of the other dozens of documents he spends millions of dollars concealing. Historians will eventually find them all, and one day in the future when all of us are long dead future Americans will have a better, if not ever fully accurate, picture of who the 44th President of the United States was.
We bet this “intellectual” will, in the end, ultimately be proved to be that C or D student we suspect, among other things he’s done such a good job hiding.
0b0z0 is already manipulated and controlled by Soros through 0mama and Jarret.
Ignorant, controlled women controlling 1/2 a woman!
That said, I suspect she is right. It would be great if someone pointed out that "Obama can't demonstrate he has ever even taken an economics course, let alone passed one.
Why does he not just have counterfeits made?
Yup, received an "AA boost, even though he was raised by white people who were not poor. He gamed the system.
I didn't know this-- I graduated in the late 1970s-- but, as i said above, I'm not surprised to learn it.
I didn't know this-- I graduated in the late 1970s-- but, as I said above, I'm not surprised to learn it.
Zero even mentioned as a young boy he learned to dance like a Bojangles.
You know what the left will say about this, "He was too smart for colleges."
harvardlawreview.org says the the Harvard Law Review was founded to publish the papers of students.
THE HARVARD LAW REVIEW - GLIMPSES OF ITS HISTORY AS SEEN BY AN AFICIONADOFrom the beginning. the School had encouraged law clubs in which groups of students gathered together for informal discussion of legal problems and formal argument of questions of law. In the anniversary setting of 1886, a group of eight third year students formed a new law club, known as the Langdell Society, and out of this club the Harvard Law Review quickly developed. The idea of publishing a legal journal was not an original one. It was in the air, and no doubt would have taken shape sooner or later. But this was a remarkable group of students, and they felt moved to act because they would soon be leaving the Law School. They had seen a copy of the Columbia Jurist, which had been published for a few years at the Columbia Law School. The recently established Law Quarterly Review must also have been known in Cambridge at the time. In addition, students at the Albany Law School had published the Albany Law School Journal, which was established in 1875 but survived for only one year.
Seeing as Kagan was Dean of Harvard Law, that is not beyond the realm of possibility.
The Spock of affirmative action.
BUMP a great thread title.
The blog posts referred to here aren't about a quick and dirty verification of Obama's grades.
Hillbuzz has been on the Obama's grades cover up for a couple of days now. He speculates that Obama actually got D's and F's. He knows he's speculating and he is looking for possible verification.
He tends to get on on a topic and chew on it for a day or so. Often times the comments reveal some good links providing background on the topic at hand. Brainstorming like this can be an effective problem solving process, IMHO.
In this case, Hillbuzz appears to be using Jennifer Rubin's article to support his current rant, i.e., Obama talks a good game but isn't any smarter than the people he's talking down to.
Rubin thinks that Obama's claim that he has 'science and facts' on his side makes him an intellectual snob. She doesn't refer to his grades anywhere in her article, nor does the article by the person she cites, Michael Gerson.
The grades speculation is the driving force behind the current request for information at Hillbuzz. Hillbuzz is just referencing articles about Obama's actions that highlight the disconnect between Obama's perceived image and his actual competence. This behavior leads Hillbuzz to speculate that Obama's actual grades are worse than the public is led to believe.
Hillbuzz, with his tenacity, could very well dig up some verified grade information, at which point someone will happily refer to his findings.
It's like eating sausage without wanting to know about the process used to make it.
Grades are probably secondary in the Obo record hunt.
What is probably most important, is what kind of
financial aid he received and any classifications assigned
to him for that aid and admittance.
How did they get the transcripts or is this just conjecture?
But look at who it was that told us. I swear, the ivy league leftist elites are some of the most stupid people on the face of the Earth.
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