Posted on 11/02/2012 11:57:02 PM PDT by lulu16
The source for the 2.6 number is a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur and a Columbia alumnus who maintains good ties with the university.
In 2004, after Obama’s successful speech at that year’s Democratic convention, a Columbia University official told him Barack Obama’s GPA, he explained to TheDC.
“This person told me that he [Obama] was a pre-law, poli-sci major, had a lot of incompletes, and as best could be determined after sorting through the incompletes, had a GPA of 2.6,” said the businessman, a former Marine Corps combat veteran.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/02/wealthy-columbia-univ-donor-school-told-me-obama-had-2-6-gpa/#ixzz2BEZxKtdn
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.... He is probably an Affirmative Action MENSA.
Because the quota for fake divinity schools had been taken by Sharpton and Jackson.
Actually, I believe the 2.6 GPA may have been by affirmative action. In other words, he didn't get that grade by himself. A teacher, another student, somebody else did that for him.
Just like someone photoshopped him into the picture of his grandparents in New York.
Just like someone photoshopped him into the picture of his grandparents in New York.
70% being black; 20% having ties to Indonesia; 5% being from Hawaii; 5% having gone to a prestigious preparatory school (before Occidental).
I went to law school and I recall that every medical malpractice suit that was important enough to have become a landmark case involved a black surgeon. I, too, wouldn’t trust a black surgeon in a million years.
Which is why I would not trust a black surgeon in a million years....Find out if he was ever a medic in the Army, or a Corpsman in the Marines, first. Our Medic, whom I rate all my GP’s against, was black and performed crap under fire most Doctors wouldn’t do in an emergency room. He got out, got his GI Bill and caught the attention of ‘someone’ who sent him on to be one of the most highly touted oncologista in his state. I’ll never forget when I caught the flu and strep throat at a FB and he reached in his locker and brought out a fifth of Jim Beam, a handful of Momma’s anise Christmas candy and said “Get some hot water, drink as much as you can with a mouthful of this candy, grab 12 hrs. of sleep and get on that 60. You’re the best we got up here.”
Did it help, did you wake up feeling better? (and thank you for your service!)
That’s a tautology, Mensa meat.
Thank you for sticking up for your friend. We all know black people whose ability and work ethic is way above average. Unfortunately, we also run into a lot of AA hires who manage to cast an aura of doubt on the achievements of all blacks.
There are a lot of really competent practitioners in every field of endeavor who would never ace the SAT, be they working in medicine, law, engineering or finance, just as their are those who thrive in an academic setting but are completely helpless in the real world. However. Obama is no example of the former and Romney is no example of the latter.
For the most part academic achievement is a strong predictor of professional achievement, which is why companies like to see a candidates transcripts.
GPA BS. I had a very wise high school English teacher in my Soph and Senior years. He always said a few things about IQ and GPA.
IQ is like a bucket, if you have a big bucket (high score) but you only fill it up half way, what a waste. It is better to have a smaller bucket and have it overflowing with knowledge.
GPA, via personal experience. If you were to see my GPA for my associates degree, I’d be laughed out of the HR office. Hey, full time college was not for me. My bachelors was a 3.79, my masters was a 3.89. In 25 years I have only come to the conclusion that those last two numbers kept my resume out of the trash. I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but by no means the dullest either, I get my job done with the best of my abilities and always look for a way to learn something new everyday.
“best of my ability ...” “ ...learn something new every day ...”
Exactly.
But since Obama already knows everything and is already functioning at 110 percent of his ability (just ask him!) he doesn’t have that mindset at all.
Did he work his butt off? I missed that in his biography.
Did he work his butt off? I missed that in his biography.
Not so much an “over achiever” as he is a Forest Gump or Chancy Gardner
Name me one, because I went to law school also, and I don't recall any of the landmark med mal cases even identifying the race of the doctor.
Yep. It did. However He and I always joke if the cure was worth the disease! At least I could run the gun ( probably would’ve blew my brains out my ears out my ears if we would have needed it.)
“My uncle declined every Mensa invite they offered him.”
Good man. So did I. I thought they were odd.
Caveat: In retrospect, I see that I am, too.
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