Ironically it was the small group of conservative law students on the Harvard Law Review staff who put Obama over the top for the President of Volume position. Their reasoning was that he was the least leftist radical of the people who were up for the position.
I have seen conservatives who are as much or more sensitive to the issue of race as are Liberals, they just won't come out and say so. When one does so, and has an "Honest discussion on the issue of race", they invariably catch H3ll from people for whom the issue is terrifying.
John Derbyshire comes to mind. He was sacked for his observations, because a lot of them were very Politically Incorrect.
I suspect a lot of the Harvard "conservatives" (as if that even makes sense) were supporting Obama for this position simply because such support for him shields them from that sort of criticism, but they will not say so because it's embarrassing. Also I can believe he was good at not appearing as radical as the various left wing nuts who make the Universities their habitats, but in fact he was likely even more radical.
He even admits that throughout this period of time, his friends were the more radical members of the left. He admits to hanging with every left wing kook and violence group that he can find everywhere except when he was in New York.
For some reason he won't talk about that period of his life's History. As near as can be told, he was at ground zero for the grand conjunction of the Black Liberation Army and the Weather Underground with even one of his Cousins involved in the events of that time, yet he says he just minded his own business and mentions no association with radicals during this period.
Zombietime did some great work chasing down a lot of the details of Obama's time in New York. Very interesting circumstantial conjecture on Zombie's part. For some reason Barack Obama felt the need to be in Pakistan right after all that stuff went bad, and we still don't know how he got that serious scar on his head and that very bad compartment wound on his leg.
I’d be interested in a link to a quote from Obama or anyone else at Harvard who said that he was a mediocre student at Harvard Law. Mediocre students don’t graduate with high Latin Honors and run the Law Review.
Antonin Scalia, John Roberts and Ted Cruz also graduated from Harvard Law Magna Cum Laude.
“Obama Left His Mark on HLS”
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2007/1/19/obama-left-mark-on-hls-days/
“I suspect a lot of the Harvard “conservatives” (as if that even makes sense) were supporting Obama for this position simply because such support for him shields them from that sort of criticism, but they will not say so because it’s embarrassing. Also I can believe he was good at not appearing as radical as the various left wing nuts who make the Universities their habitats, but in fact he was likely even more radical.”