Posted on 04/25/2011 6:37:14 PM PDT by Comparative Advantage
Manhattan 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.
"I have friends who have smart sons with great marks, great boards, great everything and they can't get into Harvard," Trump said. "We don't know a thing about this guy. There are a lot of questions that are unanswered about our president.
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A funny thing about their pictures of Palin, though. I am sure they tried and tried, but they never did get a bad picture of her, no matter the angle. She is a lot like the cameramen used to say about Liz Taylor--you could not get a bad shot of her--just beautiful and photogenic.
vaudin
Editors pick their photos from the AP photostream or stock. I have watched more than one intentionally pick the one which matched their political philosophy to go with the “feeling” of how they wanted the public to react. IE - Unflattering photos for Pubbies, Great pix for libs.
Anyone with access to the AP stream can pretty much prove it on a daily basis.
Go Trump! Break Zero’s nuts until he cries like Boehner slicing onions!
Dr. John C. Drew, a grant writing consultant in Laguna Niguel, Calif., tells Newsmax he met Obama in 1980 when Obama was a sophomore at Occidental College in Los Angeles. Drew had just graduated from Occidental and was attending graduate school at Cornell University.
During Christmas break, Drew says he was at Grauman-Boss’ home in Palo Alto when Obama came over with Mohammed Hasan Chandoo, his roommate from Pakistan.
“Barack [Obama] and Hasan showed up at the house in a BMW, and then we went to a restaurant together,” Drew says. “We had a nice meal, and then we came back to the house and smoked cigarettes and drank and argued politics.”
For the next several hours, they discussed Marxism.
“He [Obama] was arguing a straightforward Marxist-Leninist class-struggle point of view, which anticipated that there would be a revolution of the working class, led by revolutionaries, who would overthrow the capitalist system and institute a new socialist government that would redistribute the wealth,” says Drew, who says he himself was then a Marxist.
“The idea was basically that wealthy people were exploiting others,” Drew says. “That this was the secret of their wealth, that they weren’t paying others enough for their work, and they were using and taking advantage of other people. He was convinced that a revolution would take place, and it would be a good thing.”
Drew concluded that Obama thought of himself as “part of an intelligent, radical vanguard that was leading the way towards this revolution and towards this new society.” ..."
Referring to Obama’s quote from “Dreams of My Father” that he associated with Marxist professors, Drew says, “What he’s not saying is that he was in 100 percent total agreement with those Marxist professors. When you understand that, Obama’s later associations and policies make more sense, including why he was taken in by Rev. Wright’s ideology.”
Thank you, Coyote, (New to this forum as of this very month). You certainly are protective of Obama. And yes, both Bush and Kerry were critiqued widely on the grades that were revealed on their transcripts. I do find it interesting, though, that you bring up only Bush and Reagan - evidently Kerry, Gore and Clinton are not even on your radar in terms of curiosity. You might be more comfortable on the Democratic Underground - they are equally un-curious about Dems.
Looks like coyotehockey has had a busy few days at FR. 13 days and post nothing but defense of obumbers lack of documentation. Can you say one trick troll!
I say "go and blow, The Donald!
vaudine
I like it. It is what I have been thinking. He is a fake.
I give it to Trump, he keeps hammering. Got guts going against The Machine.
I never got to know Non Sequitur, so I can’t really help you there. Jamese is back as the hockey puck of a coyote...if you get my drift.
Oh he has PLENTY of help...
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born June 14, 1946 in Queens, New York, NY (Meets the Jus Soli Requirement)
Parents were
Frederick Christ Trump, born October 11, 1905 in Queens, NY, died June 1999 in Queens, NY
Mary Ann MacLeod, born May 10, 1912 in SCOTLAND, died August 7, 2000 in Queens, NY. Arrived in US October 5, 1935. Naturalized as a US Citizen March 10, 1942.
Both parents were US Citizens at the time of his birth (Meets the Jus Sanguinis Requirement)
Donald Trump is a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN unlike Comrade Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama.
this is info he had before he ever opened his mouth.
I’m beginning to believe he has been on this at the minimum of one year.
he already knows the outcome.....................
Says it all.
Trump, doing the job journalists have refused to do.
Wouldn’t surprise me. He’s nothing if not thorough. Has to be in his line of work.
first BIRACIAL president of the Harvard Law Review!!!!!!!
If Trump ends up running and all the stuff comes out about his life, he should simply reply “at least I have a past and it’s out there for everyone to see”
Trump is doing the job Americans won’t perform!
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