Rush: caller says Obama flunked at Harvard but was passed anyway by Liberal professors

Rush Limbaugh Show | 8/2/12

[pabianice]

According to Rush, a caller told him that "Obama got the worst grades ever recorded at Harvard" but was carried through by bleeding-heart affirmative action liberals. Then, Rush says, the caller hung-up before Rush could ask him questions. Other listeners must have heard this. I mean, if Harry Reid can get a phone call telling him that Mitt Romney has never paid income tax, I can certainly also believe the Rush caller.

[only1percent]

Most grades at Harvard are literally anonymous ... exams have numbers, not names. Anyone who can pass the (also anonymous) Illinois bar can graduate from Harvard without any unfair help. (It ain’t that hard...)

All the Obama’s mysterious past stuff is loser talk. If we can’t get him for what he’s done publicly over the last eight years in DC, we ain’t getting him for what he secretly did or didn’t do twenty-five years or more ago.

[rarestia]

My understanding is most graduate courses are pass-fail, with fail being a real rare occurrence as long as the money is paid on time.

Not true, at least not based on my experience in graduate school. I saw several students cut from graduate programs in their first semesters after failing to make the cut.

Graduate schools often have a very high bar to reach. My graduate program required that we maintain a 3.0 or higher GPA. The expectation is that if you get into graduate school, you're serious about wanting the credentials and the knowledge it will bestow.

Your supposition does make sense, however, esp. in Ivy league schools considering the amount of money required for each course.

[arrogantsob]

Speculation about the hidden past of any President is neither “loser talk” nor inappropriate. Basing a campaign on it is a different matter.

Personally I want to know if he ever took a single economics class.

[Vendome]

That was on Fox?

Sweet!

If I see it on Fox or any other network I will absolutely send them money.

[duckman]

“Since Obama refuses to release his college records his awful grades may be a reason...”
IMO, it may be worse than grades. His writings IE thesis etc, may be of anti American values and his Marxist/Socialist leanings.

[CPT Clay]

I believe it but he will never prove it false!!!!!

[swamprebel]

Obama didn’t do that, he didn’t graduate from Harvard, someone helped him graduate. He could not have graduated without the help of liberal professors.

[Buckeye McFrog]

The grades on Obama’s transcript would not be awful, as if the caller is right a bunch of Liberal profs changed them all from Ds to As for him. Must be some other reason.

[GraceG]

Wayne Allen Root knows a LOT about Obama’s college career.

[texas_mrs]

Fake, but accurate.

It's the seriesness of the charge.

[halfright]

A Harvard educated man that does not know how to pronounce “corpsman”??? Really??? I went to the 10th grade and I know how to pronounce “corpsman”.

[justiceseeker93]

Believe it or not, the same ad was run on CNN a couple of days ago. Wouldn’t be surprised if some folks at CNN will get axed for accepting it.

[jdsteel]

Yes, this is Hughe and Series!

; )

[Cyclone59]

My understanding is most graduate courses are pass-fail, with fail being a real rare occurrence as long as the money is paid on time.

Not true, my 3.87 says differently. You do have the option of taking a class pass/fail, but it is not used in your graduation requirements.

[Magic Fingers]

“All the Obama’s mysterious past stuff is loser talk.”

Willingness to ignore his past is loser talk.

[Terry Mross]

It doesn’t matter to “those who worship him”. Have a relative who posted on FB (I didn’t see it since I don’t use FB. Another COSERVATIVE relative told me) that she will be proud to vote for obama again. If I WAS on FB I would post “I’ll be proud never to speak to that relative again”.

These people actually do worship obama and he can do no wrong as far as they’re concerned. They claim to be Christians then support abortion and same sex marriage.

[fremont_steve]

Graduate school (at least at the University of CA during the 80s...) would give you an A through F grade. If you got less than a B - that was essentially an F.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Whether a caller actually called him is irrelevant. It’s the seriousness of the allegations that demands an investigation. We need a “blue ribbon commission” to look into these allegations right away! Harrumpf! harrumpf!

[utahagen]

I am a law school graduate — albeit not from Harvard — and your comments make sense. Obama surely got into HLS on account of affirmative action. The Law Review — at least when Obama was there — elected its Editor, so Obama got Editor on account of affirmative action as well. However, he must have passed the exams to have graduated. Now, he may have got all Cs and Ds, but he has to have passed.

Since there isn't a hope in Hell that Obama will release his school transcripts, it behooves us to raise the issue ONLY when Mitt ROmney’s old tax returns are raised by the Dems.

[TexasCajun]

Since Obama refuses to release his college records his awful grades may be a reason, so this story has credibility.

I believe that he applied as a foreign student.