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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Actually Petko seems to be a common Slavic name (not sure where it comes from but maybe a translation of "Quintus" since pet and variations thereof mean "5" in Slavic languages). I know a Bulgarian-American whose surname is Petkov. John Paul II beatified a Croatian nun whose surname was Petkovic.
1. The supporters think that members of certain groups are never going to succeed without preferential treatment.
2. The supporters believe that the white male power structure is so unfair (racist, sexist, etc.) that deserving individuals need preferential treatment in order to have "a level playing field."
Another way to see it is the people who already had it made (mostly WASPs) devised affirmative action as a mechanism to stop or slow the upward mobility of undesirable white ethnic groups (Eastern or Southern Europeans mostly) into the ranks of the elites by co-opting members of minority groups who would then be beholden to their benefactors. Maybe that is too conspiratorial--maybe it's just another half-baked progressive idea that may sound nice until it is actually tried.
Note that I didn’t say “average intelligence of a Harvard Law student”.....he is near the bottom on that score.
I was referring to his intelligence in general.
0b0z0 said: “they talk to me like a dog.” He’s flattering himself. Dogs are some of the most intelligent animals on the planet.
Good.
True.. its all quite insane..
” 0b0z0 said: “they talk to me like a dog.” He’s flattering himself. Dogs are some of the most intelligent animals on the planet. “
Especially my old Border Collie....may she RIP ;-)
Yep, I know how you feel. It’s losing very close family.
Everything about the Imam smells dirty.
Interesting thread to share.
He has since been promoted to Ayatollah.
Growing, harvesting then smoking grass........
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.
Per Wikipedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_review
"A law review's membership is normally divided into staff members and editors. On most law reviews, all 2Ls (second-year students) are staff members while some or all 3Ls (third-year students) serve as editors. 3Ls also typically fill the senior editorial staff positions, including senior articles editor, senior note & comment editor, senior managing editor, and, the most prestigious of all, editor-in-chief of the law review. (Upon graduation, the editor-in-chief of the law review can often expect to be highly recruited by the most prestigious law firms.)"
"Editor-in-Chief" is the big kahuna, the head honcho, The Big Guy (or Gal).
HLR's "President" appears to be a largely ceremonial position.
The first lie in the article is the claim his mother was an anthropologist in Indonesia.
Ask Geithner about her finance/politics with his father there.
Also, I think Obama looks much more like Davis that Obama, Sr. She may have tricked Obama, Sr. into the marriage. Anything was possible with Stanley Ann.
“Ever Wonder How Obama Became President of the Harvard Law Review?”
N0. I always wondered how he got into Harvard in the first place.
” [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.”
Very good find! Pretty much describes his tenure as POTUS. He got both jobs through affirmative action, and he’s phoning it in for both of them.
Not only is he a narcissist, he’s a lazy narcissist. I really believe he’s in it for the title - it’s being president that’s important to him, not acting as president. (Which makes us lucky in a way, since we really don’t want a hard working president with his socialist ideas). So what gets done in his administration will be what the people around him want to get done - he’ll basically just ride along. This has become very evident so far, when Pelosi and Reid pretty much set the agenda.
Thanks ..
“Breaking the War Mentality”
Barack Obama
Columbia University
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2174704/posts
About that same time, there was a similar Associated Press piece about Obama as the first black editor of the Harvard Law Review. It appeared in many newspapers around the country.
It's clear that Obama had pretty good relations with the MSM as far back as then, because he got an inordinate amount of publicity for a law student, even a supposedly exceptional one.
Thursday, January 05, 2006
The NY Times interviews the richest Arab in the world, who just gave $40m to Harvard and Georgetown
http://adamash.blogspot.com/2006/01/ny-times-interviews-richest-arab-in.html
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