She got the UChicago job because Obama was in Illinois politics and expected to rise.
She got the law firm job earlier -- before she met Obama.
Affirmative action was likely a factor, but not political influence.
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It sounds like the professor is a little ambivalent about Obama.
If Barack was an academic highflyer at Harvard Law, the professor -- who wants to praise Obama -- might have found him to be kind of a pain, so he puts in a good word for Michelle who was at least quieter and not as pushy.
He doesn't necessarily mean that she was a genius, just that she didn't get on his nerves.
If Barry was an “academic high flyer” at Harvard, I’m gonna start a posse to locate my “Order of the Coif” that went missing at my own 1986 graduation from a law school that is at least as good as Harvard.
Oh yeah. That’s right. They don’t give those types of awards to “B” students.
If Barry was an academic high flyer he would still have been bragging about it.
The reason his grades at Columbia and Harvard have been embargoed is because they would show him to be a B or even a C student (certainly at Harvard - if he was a “B” student at Columbia I can GUARANTEE you from personal experience of being an “A” Phi Beta Kappa undergrad, going to a law school of Harvard’s caliber and suddenly being surrounded by people most of whom had grades even better than yours, you would settle in the downwards direction on the grade scale and start experiencing letters on your report cards that just a few years before in college would have been unimaginable).
And that history of course would not have fit in with the narrative of the leftists who made him “The Golden Child” and promoted him over and over again til he conned an entire nation into getting a job that was several ranks above his “Peter Principle” zone ...
“If Barack was an academic highflyer at Harvard Law, the professor — who wants to praise Obama — might have found him to be kind of a pain, so he puts in a good word for Michelle who was at least quieter and not as pushy.”
Yeah, I know the type. He’d argue with the Prof, quite often repeating the same line of argument again and again - which the Prof had just demolished - because he didn’t “get” that the Prof. had just “eaten his lunch”.
One of the reasons why I quickly learned as a 1L not to challenge the ringmaster who ran the circus.
*LOL*