I did a bit of searching and discovered this article from back then from the NYT. After reading it, it's quite obvious that the outstanding "trait" that qualified Obama for that position was the color of his skin.
The position used to be based on merit, but has since become another affirmative action post.
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.
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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.
“Ever Wonder How Obama Became President of the Harvard Law Review?”
N0. I always wondered how he got into Harvard in the first place.
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.
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