Posted on 04/25/2011 2:52:31 PM PDT by Baladas
NEW YORK -- Real estate mogul Donald Trump suggested in an interview Monday that President Barack Obama had been a poor student who did not deserve to be admitted to the Ivy League universities he attended. Trump, who is mulling a bid for the Republican presidential nomination, offered no proof for his claim but said he would continue to press the matter as he has the legitimacy of the president's birth certificate.
"I heard he was a terrible student, terrible. How does a bad student go to Columbia and then to Harvard?" Trump said in an interview with The Associated Press. "I'm thinking about it, I'm certainly looking into it. Let him show his records."
Obama graduated from Columbia University in New York in 1983 with a degree in political science after transferring from Occidental College in California. He went on to Harvard Law School, where he graduated magna cum laude 1991 and was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review.
Obama's 2008 campaign did not release his college transcripts, and in his best-selling memoir, "Dreams From My Father," Obama indicated he hadn't always been an academic star. Trump told the AP that Obama's refusal to release his college grades were part of a pattern of concealing information about himself.
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Excellent point . . . and could explain why he went directly from law school to the University of Chicago faculty without ever practicing law.
Now, can anyone explain why the University of Chicago, one of the most prestigious law schools in the country, suddenly and inexplicably created a vacancy for a new Harvard law school graduate?
I dunno, maybe a big pile of money from Soros (or something like that)?
There is a difference between applying for a Government and being elected to one.
No one bothered to ask to see Obama’s College grades before voting for him.
‘ They looked at his Melanin Content and he was tan enough to get6 elected.
No one bothered to ask to see Obama’s College grades before voting for him.
‘ They looked at his Melanin Content and he was tan enough to get elected.
Under legacy programs, applicants are given an advantage if their parents or grandparents attended the school. Bush, a third-generation graduate of Yale University, joked about his own legacy.
“Well, in my case, I had to knock on a lot of doors to follow the old man’s footsteps,” he (Bush) said to laughter.
I was going to say he’s Arab-American but then there’s that BS one drop policy.
McScot-Irish-English-Prussian and Swiss American or how about plain American and screw the hyphenated bull crap.
I’m not suggesting anything except that the scores were not embarrassing. I said that they would be low for Yale admittance, which is based on my experience of applying to schools a tier lower than Ivy League with higher scores than his.
THanks!
Zero got in by knowing William Ayers and his father, along with mentor Dr. Khalid Al-Mansour, real name Donald Warden, radical black muslim, anti-Semite, financial advisor of prominent Saudis, mentor of Black Panther Party, who recommended Obama to former Malcom X lawyer Percy Sutton, to get him into Harvard 1988-1991:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIVO8MZYXo8
Many people petitioned on Zero’s behalf to get into Harvard. Zero has been quoted in the 80’s saying he wanted to be President (actually since he was a young man) and others from communist circles pointed him out and stated “He is being groomed for the Presidency”. Some believe Obama’s first mentor in HI, Frank Marshall Davis, pervert, Communist, recommended him thru channels to the Chicago connection of marxists, many who lived in Hyde Park.
Obama’s Harvard acceptance, tuition, Pres of Harvard Law Review position, degree were bought and paid for via Khalid Al-Mansour by Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal:
http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/obama_sutton_saudi/2008/09/03/127490.html
Khalid Al-Mansour was financial advisor for Prince Talal, nephew of Saudi King Abdullah (who Zero deep bowed to), and is the world’s 19th wealthiest person. The Prince donated $20 million to fund Islamic studies at Harvard during this time.
So why was some no name being funded?
I was gonna bring up the same point. Kerry was even worse than Bush at Yale. It’s all who you know.
And having a Penny Pritzker take an interest in you doesn’t hurt either....
-PJ
We should be relentless on the muslim. I’m all for the Donald. The media never gave Sarah Palin and Joe the Plumber a break. Why does zero get a break?
It is known that Obama graduated without honors from Columbia, because it was in the graduation pamphlet.
Harvard states that Obama graduate Magna from Harvard Law School. Magna is for grades at the top 10% of the class. Most remarkable, because there is absolutely no evidence prior to or since Harvard Law School that Obama had either intellect, or studiousness to gain admission to a medicore law school, let alone graduate in the top 10% at Harvard.
My theory has been that the Magna was awarded as a face-saving measure, since Obama was elected President of the Harvard Law Review, and it would look make a mockery of HLS and the HLR for the President of the HLR to graduate without honors.
Especially considering the huge scar on his skull.
Try again, Bush came from the finest schools in America and smoked his SAT and GMAT scores. His dad was a House Rep from TX at the time who had no pull.
Don’t believe everything the commiedia reports. I read this from a book by an author who hated him.
Pray for America
Also curious.... no graduation pictures. Who doesn’t have cap and gown pictures from their college graudation?
0bama is a product of affirmative action. Time for Hussein to bring out a fresh deck of "race cards".
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