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Trump: How did Obama get into the Ivy League?
CBS News / The Associated Press ^ | April 25, 2011 | Lucy Madison

Posted on 04/25/2011 4:09:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Donald Trump on Monday suggested he had broadened the scope of his investigation regarding President Obama's background, arguing that - in addition to making inquiries into Mr. Obama's citizenship - he was "looking into" the president's college career.

In an interview with the Associated Press, Trump alleged that Mr. Obama had been "a terrible student," and wondered how he could have been accepted to prestigious schools like Columbia and Harvard Universities.

"I heard he was a terrible student, terrible," Trump told the AP. "How does a bad student go to Columbia and then to Harvard? I'm thinking about it, I'm certainly looking into it. Let him show his records."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Education; Military/Veterans; Miscellaneous; Politics
KEYWORDS: americainperil; birthcertificate; certifigate; collegerecords; elligle; harvardresumefraud; kaganresumefraud; naturalborncitizen; nojustice; notamerica; notruth; noveritas; obama; obamafraud; palin; resumefraud; saudiarabia; transparency; trump
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To: Broker

Is that anything like a “triple dog dare”? ;-)

LLS


21 posted on 04/25/2011 4:26:20 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!!!)
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To: Broker

I think that is what Percy Sutton said.

In general, Columbia and Harvard (as well as other highly selective schools) will do almost anything to improve their AA numbers. That is all the more true when someone comes along with the right sponsors and political pedigree.

Once he was in HLS, Obamalini was astute enough to use his personality to allow the anguished leftists on the faculty feel good about themselves. Larry Tribe would be a good example.


22 posted on 04/25/2011 4:28:16 PM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I am glad Trump is looking into the College years.
How was Soetor0 a foreign student? what where his grades?
Who got him into Columbia?
Where are his professors, ex girlfriends, and friends?
How did he get into Harvard law? that is difficult. What did he do and write at Harvard?


23 posted on 04/25/2011 4:29:17 PM PDT by omega4179
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To: jessduntno

>>My guess is JugEars took JUST enough law to squeak through and it was mostly social justice courses.<<

The very definition of an Affirmative Action admission.

Dumber than dirt but carried along by his marginal ability to speak and his pleasing light-but-black skin color.

No one has ever had their skids greased so much — not even JFK.


24 posted on 04/25/2011 4:29:37 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats. /P. J. O'Rourke, 1991)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"How does a bad student go to Columbia and then to Harvard?

People can slam the Donald all they want but at least he's bringing these important issues to the forefront........

25 posted on 04/25/2011 4:30:31 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (It's a beautiful day and I'm glad I can see it in color.......)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Didn’t read the whole article, but here is my prediction:

After the initial question, the reporter will start to smear Trump as stupid, idiotic, etc.

This is because the standard rule is, if a Democrat is questioned by a whistleblower, the MSM MUST ATTACK the whistleblower/questioner. I’ve never seen differently. People who legitimately bring abusers to notice are astounded to find the press will turn on them, viciously, even for a person accused of heinous crimes. The original accusation will be totally ignored.

If it is a Republican/Conservative who is being exposed, no scrutiny whatsover will go into the person who brings it to mind. They can be the lowest of the low. It makes no difference, suddenly every bit of gossip will be frontpage news and the whistleblower will be a great “hero”.

There are no exceptions.

Examples: Rathergate
Linda Tripp
Duke lacrosse
Clinton and the blue dress
The DNC emails leaked

I could go on and on. I’m sure other Freepers can remember other cases of this.


26 posted on 04/25/2011 4:33:30 PM PDT by I still care (I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Isn't it interesting that the question of why Obama with his poor grades got into Harvard Law and became the President of the Law Review ties into the other question of why Obama didn't put out an Easter message but has not missed ANY Muslim holidays??????

Hmmmm.......

Could it be that the Saudis and Palis got him into Hahvahd, and still basically "own" our President???

Hmmmmmm.......

27 posted on 04/25/2011 4:36:17 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Sir Gawain

I think a little differently about this. Yes we think these things, but Trump is seriously off- track. Personal attacks are made when someone is working from a position of weakness. Instead of this, which will galvanize his voting base, focus on the flip- flopping, the sheer absence of leadership in every aspect of the Office, the total disregard for The Constitution. Remember you are talking about the cult of personality here.. it does not respond logically.... it only responds when it is personal.. to them, not to him. He was perfectly happy to be a one term Prez, to make room for Hillary.


28 posted on 04/25/2011 4:36:21 PM PDT by momincombatboots (In a few months I will be Ore..Gone! Look out Crater Lake, here we come!)
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To: Broker

How about $20Million to Harvard to get the Kenyan admitted.


29 posted on 04/25/2011 4:36:54 PM PDT by oldtimer (uee)
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To: jessduntno
Harvard grads are (especially undergrads) sometimes the most poorly educated, never seen anything but a TA, dumbest bastards on the earth.

Guess that means you'd rather have a community college educated Thorasic Surgeon operate on you than one from Harvard Med.........

Your broad brush incrimination of Harvard grads does an extreme disservice to those who indeed struggled to gain acceptance and ultimately graduate from that university........

30 posted on 04/25/2011 4:37:52 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (It's a beautiful day and I'm glad I can see it in color.......)
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To: LibLieSlayer
Trump is hitting obama with massive body blows.


31 posted on 04/25/2011 4:38:28 PM PDT by Azzurri
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To: freedumb2003

I wish every town hall or election speech could be met with a bunch of us chanting “SHOW YOUR RECORDS!!”


32 posted on 04/25/2011 4:38:57 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: skeeter

I agree. Chances are he applied to Occidental as a foreign student from Indonesia to access foreign student scholarship funds. He probably had dual citizenship having been adopted by an Indonesian. He, of course, wants to conceal the fact that he gamed the system to access the scholarship funds. And that is why he will not release student records.


33 posted on 04/25/2011 4:41:34 PM PDT by chuckee
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To: freedumb2003

Thinking about it. Looking into it. . . time somebody did.


34 posted on 04/25/2011 4:44:12 PM PDT by Twinkie (LET HIM SHOW HIS RECORDS. . .)
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To: LibLieSlayer

Trump! Keep hitting Obama until something cracks—all it will take is one break in the shell of secrecy to bring down “The One”. One bit that will pull away the mask. The Donald is doing the Lords work this day! But, beware Donald, the powers that put Obama in office are dark and evil—they will stop at nothing, they may even strike you down! Now they are giving you the Palin treatment but it will get worst before it gets better.


35 posted on 04/25/2011 4:45:43 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: Yaelle

This issue should destroy the Democrat party. It should also take out a lot of RINOs and CIRCs too.


36 posted on 04/25/2011 4:46:13 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Obama and the left are making a mockery of our country.)
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To: Williams
If Obama ever wrote anything, I’d love to read it.

Ohhh, be very careful what you wish for. It's not for the feint of heart.

------------------

Pop

Sitting in his seat, a seat broad and broken
In, sprinkled with ashes,
Pop switches channels, takes another
Shot of Seagrams, neat, and asks
What to do with me, a green young man
Who fails to consider the
Flim and flam of the world, since
Things have been easy for me;
I stare hard at his face, a stare
That deflects off his brow;
I'm sure he's unaware of his
Dark, watery eyes, that
Glance in different directions,
And his slow, unwelcome twitches,
Fail to pass.
I listen, nod,
Listen, open, till I cling to his pale,
Beige T-shirt, yelling,
Yelling in his ears, that hang
With heavy lobes, but he's still telling
His joke, so I ask why
He's so unhappy, to which he replies . . .
But I don't care anymore, cause
He took too damn long, and from
Under my seat, I pull out the
Mirror I've been saving; I'm laughing,
Laughing loud, the blood rushing from his face
To mine, as he grows small,
A spot in my brain, something
That may be squeezed out, like a
Watermelon seed between
Two fingers.
Pop takes another shot, neat,
Points out the same amber
Stain on his shorts that I've got on mine and
Makes me smell his smell, coming
From me; he switches channels, recites an old poem
He wrote before his mother died,
Stands, shouts, and asks
For a hug, as I shink, my
Arms barely reaching around
His thick, oily neck, and his broad back; 'cause
I see my face, framed within
Pop's black-framed glasses
And know he's laughing too.

-- Barack Obama

37 posted on 04/25/2011 4:47:05 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: momincombatboots
Remember you are talking about the cult of personality here.

Not when it comes to the so-called independent or moderate voter -- the voter who might have voted Republican in 2008 but decided to give Obama a try without really knowing anything about the man. I think it matters very much to that voter who Obama really is and what he is covering up.


38 posted on 04/25/2011 4:48:14 PM PDT by Cinnamontea
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

hahahahahaha. I love Trump. Not my choice for President, but he is kicking the snot out of the punk and anyone that dares to try and defend him.


39 posted on 04/25/2011 4:49:35 PM PDT by MattinNJ (Will a hero rise in 2012?)
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To: chuckee
I agree. Chances are he applied to Occidental as a foreign student from Indonesia to access foreign student scholarship funds. He probably had dual citizenship having been adopted by an Indonesian. He, of course, wants to conceal the fact that he gamed the system to access the scholarship funds. And that is why he will not release student records.

He might have applied as an Indonesian JUST TO GET IN! It doesn't mean he got scholarship funds. It might be easier to get into some schools as a foreigner. He may even have RECEIVED COLLEGE FUNDS FROM INDONESIA to get in!!!!

40 posted on 04/25/2011 4:52:04 PM PDT by Yaelle
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