Posted on 10/01/2010 10:04:29 PM PDT by aquila48
The Harvard Law Review, generally considered the most prestigious in the country, elected the first black president in its 104-year history today. The job is considered the highest student position at Harvard Law School. The new president of the Review is Barack Obama, a 28-year-old graduate of Columbia University who spent four years heading a community development program for poor blacks on Chicago's South Side before enrolling in law school. His late father, Barack Obama, was a finance minister in Kenya and his mother, Ann Dunham, is an American anthropologist now doing fieldwork in Indonesia. Mr. Obama was born in Hawaii. ''The fact that I've been elected shows a lot of progress,'' Mr. Obama said today in an interview. ''It's encouraging.
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>> In that 4 years he was in Chicago. Why....and what made him want to go there? <<
I’d say it’s because he wanted to live in the hometown of his REAL father, Frank Marshall Davis.
Call him a nOOb. LOL
>> photogenic, bright enough but not too bright, spoke well, black, radical Left and no obvious criminal history <<
You forgot at least two things:
1. According to Joe Biden, the Big Ø also was CLEAN.
2. According to Harry Reid, he’s so talented that he can speak with a “Negro” dialect, but only when he wants to.
I never tire of posting this about his HLR days:
Carol Platt Liebau was first female managing editor of the Harvard Law Review.
It reminds me a little bit of my experience with him when he was president of the Harvard Law Review. You know, I hesitated to say a lot about this during the campaign because I really thought maybe it wasn't fair. That maybe, finally, when he got to be President, this would be a job big enough to engage and hold Barack Obama's sustained interest, because really, is there a bigger job out here?
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[W]hen he was at the HLR you did get a very distinct sense that he was the kind of guy who much more interested in being the president of the Review, than he was in doing anything as president of the Review.
A lot of the time he quote/unquote "worked from home", which was sort of a shorthand - and people would say it sort of wryly - shorthand for not really doing much. He just wasn't around. Most of the day to day work was carried out by the managing editor of the Review, my predecessor, a great guy called Tom Pirelli whose actually going to be one of the assistant attorney generals now.
He's the one who did most of the day to day work. Barack Obama was nowhere to be seen. Occasionally he would drop in he would talk to people, and then he'd leave again as though his very arrival had been a benediction in and of itself, but not very much got done.
So, you know, you see that and you think, gosh, maybe that's the way the guy operates, but then you figure ok, obviously he always had his eye on bigger and better things.
But now he's President...there really isn't a bigger or better thing.
He doesn’t look anything like Frank Marshall Davis. Doesn’t look like Obama senior either.
My money is on Malcolm X. Looks and sounds just like him.
>> He doesn’t look anything like Frank Marshall Davis. Doesn’t look like Obama senior either. My money is on Malcolm X. <<
Yep. See post 98 on this thread.
My impression is that there are TWO positions at the Harvard Law Review. The President of the Harvard Law Review, which is a politically elected position, and the EDITOR of the Harvard Law Review, which is the position based upon merit.
The Editor is the person who selects and guides the selection of articles, hence the person who most influences the discussion of legal issues from the publication and its influence.
IMHO, the article, while mentioning the 2 positions, tends to blur their distinction.
Exactly.. Barry Half-White is NOT BLACK AT ALL.. he is half-black..
Same meme (and process) could be said of Colin Powell.. an Affirmative Action General.. and Tiger Woods as well..
The liberals have made it a joke to be BLACK or even half-black..
Okay, well, if Odouchebag can do it, why can't we all? From here on out instead of Caucasian, I am going to be a Black-Hispanic-Arab-PacificIslander-NativeAmerican, and take advantage of every affirmative-action program there is out there for professional victims and race hustlers. And if anyone challenges me, I'm going to use the liberal "logic" that says I can define my racial makeup any way I like.
"The fact that I've been elected shows a lot of progress," Mr. Obama said
A better editor would have stricken "progress" and replaced with "degeneration".
Ping................
Good morning. Brilliant 0b0z0’s education info, which is not scrubbed yet.
>>>paragraphs from the article<<<
>>>The new president of the Review is Barack Obama, a 28-year-old graduate of Columbia University.....<<<
Where are the records that prove his graduation? GPA?
>>>>His late father, Barack Obama, was a finance minister in Kenya.....<<<
LOL! That’s news to me. Maybe in another article we’ll be told that General Barack Obama headed the victorious Kenyan army that defeated the British in the epic Battle of Mombasa!
>>>Mr. Obama was born in Hawaii.<<<
Yeah, right! We all know that! Snicker.
>>>’’The fact that I’ve been elected shows a lot of progress,’’ Mr. Obama said today in an interview. ‘’It’s encouraging....” <<<
Where did we hear a paraphrasing of the above? Oh, yeah, the “for the first time, I’m proud of my country” speech by Wookie.
>>>he said, alluding to poverty or growing up in a drug environment.<<<
Aha, it’s our great privilege to level the playing field by electing the second BLACK druggie POTUS. Needless to say, the first was BJ Clinton who was also the first blonde, blue-eyed BLACK POTUS. Aren’t we, racists, good?
>>>On his goals in his new post, Mr. Obama said: ‘’I personally am interested in pushing a strong minority perspective. I’m fairly opinionated about this....”<<<
Oh, yeah! This statement is quite enough to make 0b0z0 the post-racial POTUS. He managed to POST race relations back 30 years.
>>>Therefore, Mr. Obama said, he would concentrate on making the review a ‘’forum for debate,’’ bringing in new writers and pushing for livelier, more accessible writing. <<<
Accessible???? Where is 0b0z0’s writing(s)? None OR some kindergarten “English” that’s NOT accessible! Which is it?
>>>Change in Selection System
That system came under attack in the 1970’s and was replaced by a program in which about half the editors are chosen for their grades and the other half are chosen by fellow students after a special writing competition. The new system, disputed when it began, was meant to help insure that minority students became editors of The Law Review. <<<
Yep, applied Affirmative Action scam OR there would have been NOBAMA! 0b0z0 couldn’t have possibly won a WRITING competition!
>>Harvard, like a number of other top law schools, no longer ranks its law students for any purpose including a guide to recruiters. <<<
Yep, another historic change to politicize education. If you’re of the right stripe, you achieve the American...er...Communist dream!
>>>Mr. Yu said Mr. Obama’s election ‘’was a choice on the merits, but others may read something into it.’’ <<<<
Yes, Mr. Yu! It’s the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth! LOL!
There you are, my FRiends! A window to how the SELECTION of a nonentity leads to the most unaccomplished, wishy-washy, disastrous POTUS we ever had.
No, I never have.
Not for a second.
Anyone who has had any relationship with academia, big business, or the government for the last fifty years would understand immediately.
Well, so far they have not produced it. It is required by Hawaiian law that they do so. So this fight isn’t over.
Ping............
He got the Law Review post the same way he got into Harvard and Columbia: affirmative action. We never learned Zero’s SAT or Law School Admissions Test scores. We learned George Bush’s SAT scores, although the MSM dropped the subject when they turned out to be higher than Gore’s.
Wow. You are really on to something here.
Why, thank you!
I'll apply to Harvard on Monday. I should be selected by Tuesday and elected POTUS by Wednesday. Progress matters.
Oops! I forgot, that damn sripe of mine is a STRIKE against me. OTOH, we're back 30 to 50 years in race relations, which means I HAVE to qualify on merit.
I admit, it's kinda of tough.
” Emphasis my own. So who knows WHO ghost wrote Barack’s special writing competition entry... (but I have my suspicions) “
We know Barack didn’t. He is at best of average intelligence.
You're very generous.
However, I disagree. A talking muppet and a communist puppet couldn't possibly be THAT intelligent.
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