Posted on 12/03/2010 5:14:08 AM PST by econjack
Edited on 12/03/2010 11:44:38 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Here’s a piece from Jennifer Rubin calling Obama out on the ignoramus that he is. Rubin hits hard with:
He displays contempt for Americans who don’t agree with his flawed policies, in effect instructing them to shut up. But his arrogance is both unwise (these people vote!) and undeserved.
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Obama was a C or D student in college who was passed and promoted aggressively because he was a smiling, biracial, man with a weird name who more likely than not played up on his Muslim upbringing in Indonesia in all of his college admissions essays and other course work. That’s the sort of thing Columbia and Harvard JUST LOVE…so we can’t imagine he ever hid any of that. It’s what made him interesting to the academic elite…this little brown boy raised in the jungles of the Pacific, mentored by Frank Marshall, with that Kenyan last name.
They just ate that stuff up.
There’s a reason Obama won’t release those transcripts…or any of the other dozens of documents he spends millions of dollars concealing. Historians will eventually find them all, and one day in the future when all of us are long dead future Americans will have a better, if not ever fully accurate, picture of who the 44th President of the United States was.
1) Birth Certificate
2) All school transcripts
3} All past records
4) Demand that the demonRAT candidate be forced to do the same thing
I find what you say about the Ivy League very interesting. My only connection to those schools comes from the film and tv series “The Paper Chase.” What I remember SO vividly in the movie was how incredibly hard those kids worked. It was very impressive. Now either times have changed or the movie was exaggerating. Probably the former.
It doesn’t matter what his grades were at HLS. Because the President of the HLR is a student elected position (i.e., popularity contest) Professors appointed the editors.
Where is WikiLeaks when we need it?
Real question is what did he score on his LSAT’s?
It has been reported that, for whatever reasons, Obama graduated magna cum laude from HLS, which means he didn’t receive C’s and D’s there.
I’m sure his undergraduate record is much more spotty.
Circumstantial evidence:
Barry went to the Punahou School, which has a phenomenal reputation. Had he any sort of decent SATs, or grades, or achievement, and given his "exotic" background, he would have been an Affirmative Action free-ride shoo-in for any Ivy League College.
He wasn't. He was packed off to very so-so (and very left wing) Occidental College with no scholarship. His financial aid picture here is murky, but many think he registered as a "foreign student!" At Occidental he fell under the sway of a very left-wing, very gay advisor who passed him along to Bill Ayers, who had strong connections at Columbia, and took over as Barry's mentor. (Yes, they go back that far!)
As far as Columbia goes, he was an off-the-street sign up in The Columbia School of General Studies. General Studies is a money-making catch-all for any big university. They operate on the AAWAC principle (Admit Anyone With A Checkbook). It's a good thing. A serious student with a poor High School background can enroll in a General Studies Program at a Major U and can actually get a good education and a very good degree.
At Columbia, if one completes enough courses at General Studies, one actually gets a Columbia COLLEGE Diploma. Of course, no one knows how, exactly, Barack managed that, or exactly what courses he took, or what his grades were, or Graduate Record exam Scores were. We don't know if he took the LSAT prior to admittance at Harvard Law, or if he did, what his score was. I wager he never sat for the LSAT.
So, what we DO know about Barry academically, and it is damn little, tends to indicate that he was a very lackluster student. He does have a good command of left-wing phraseology as written for him by others, and appears on his teleprompter.
He did finish Harvard Law (where he was President of the Law Review, a ceremonial and administrative post, at which he was notorious for doing NO work and appearing at cocktail parties) and was admitted to the Illinois Bar.
We know he made false statements on his bar application, namely denying the use of any other name or alias, failing to mention a record of traffic violations, (which are not a problem if they are settled, which his were not) and drug use. We also know that he is no longer admitted to the Illinois Bar under these cloudy circumstances. (Neither is Michelle, who was set up with with the no-known girlfriends-Barry by Bernadette Dohrn.)
In my experience, both you and the poster with the hard-working Ivy kids are correct. Even when I was in college in the 1970s (our freshmen had the same mean SATs as Ivies), there were two unofficial tracks: regular and affirmative-action. The regular students took tough courses, especially the pre-meds and future-lawyer types, and basically worked all the time.
Affirmative-action cases, some of whom were ghetto refugees with criminal records, took the Black Studies and Lefty political courses, and spent a lot of time in the cars owned by the Student Activities office. I should mention that many other black students were on the regular track, having come from middle-class families and been to elite high schools; they worked their tails off with everyone else. But the other track was there. I should add that, for the non-affirmative-action students, if you were determined to be a real party-boy, you could take easy courses and survive. But you would wind up with Cs and still have to work your butt off sometimes.
The question in college was, and probably still is, how much self-respect you need in order to go to sleep at night. In Michelle and Barry's case, I'd guess not much. Yes, I read what I could take of Moochelle's Princeton thesis, and it scared me.
Ivy league schools are completely political. Left wing political. A 'C' is so easy to get in the non-science classes, that it is a defacto pass. To get an 'A' takes work and effort, some try, some don't, most pass. If you are a minority and try just little, you get an 'A'.
The sciences are difficult, and probably require effort to get a 'C'. Most people in the sciences are hard workers so 'C' grades are rare.
What did she major in?
Dear Lord! where to begin...
I know a thing or two about Princeton, and you sound like you don't know anything other than what you are talking about (i.e., your two children). You don't say what your daughter studied, but your son studied science, where there are still some objective standards. You also don't mention their skin color, and that's worth a lot of points.
At Princeton there is NO grade inflation and the kids are graded on a curve.
That's two entire headbangers right there, if not three. I'm sorry I haven't the time to turn the lights on for you and take the bunting off, but I strongly recommend you do a little research before huffing at anyone else.
Was your daughter in a hard science, like your son? Also, was your son at Princeton? (Not to be intrusive. But I have a longtime interest in higher education and your data points are relevant to me).
As I have long said, our boy Barry is the confluence of affirmative action and the Peter Principle.
There is no comparison between W and this Bozo POTUS.
Rumor or not it is aparent who’s the Commie that hates America.
The Bozo’s grades have not been published due to his race and his affirmative action status requiring no work at all.
There has to be a listing of students in each class at HLS. There also has to be names listed of those in law review, as well as other 'clubs'. I can't imagine his name not appearing anywhere.
I do think there is a big difference, in the Ivies and elsewhere, between the hard sciences, and the humanities in terms of political correctness/grade inflation, etc.
I think an engineering degree from MIT would still today mean a whole lot.
I don’t think a “literature” degree from Harvard would, however.
“I’m certain Barry was an “A” student - simply because the system would not allow him to be anything else.”
You nailed it. Our betters deserve higher grades.
I agree with you. I was a poli sci major at Indiana University at about the same time (and as a conservative, even in college, it was not easy). All you had to do was write that whatever topic we discussed “...showed how the evil American is nothing but man’s inhumanity to man as it transcends the class struggle.” The liberal profs ate that crap for breakfast and loved it. “Oh what a bright young man; he gets it!”
The difference is that I figured out the game to get my grades and get the hell out. 0bama actually believed it, as we see now. And no, he is proving to me that he really isn’t that bright. He is parroting thoughts put into his head by TOTUS. He is such a good speaker at telling lies because he isn’t smart enough to realize he’s lying.
It would be interesting to see his grade in speech class, as I doubt they allowed teleprompters.
7:36 minutes of Obama sans teleprompter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_-cgOTyj4g
I have no info on college grades, and don't doubt they were weak. The LSATs were probably pretty strong to get in, even in competition with many other black applicants.
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