Posted on 09/11/2008 4:33:13 AM PDT by AmericaUnite
On the surface, at least, Barack Obama's single most impressive accomplishment has been his 1990 election to the presidency of the Harvard Law Review.
This position also provided Obama his only real executive experience as he supervised the law review's staff of 80 editors.
One has to wonder, then, why neither he nor wife Michelle emphasized this singular honor during the up-by-the-bootstraps biographical sections of their respective speeches in Denver.
In fact, neither of them so much as mentioned Obama's time at Harvard, this despite his vulnerability on the executive experience charge.
Their silence likely derives from one verifiable fact: Obama's record at Harvard was no more authentic than John Kerry's record in Vietnam.
Kerry was justifiably swift-boated because he fraudulently positioned himself as a war hero. Obama seems to have learned from Kerry.
In the age of the Internet, the less said about a dubious credential the better, and Obama's law presidency credential is dubious on any number of levels.
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For starters, Obama did not do nearly well enough at his previous stop, Columbia University, to justify admission to Harvard Law.
According to the New York Sun, university spokesman Brian Connolly confirmed that Obama graduated in 1983 with a major in political science but without honors.
In the age of affirmative action and grade inflation, a minority in a relatively easy major like political science had to under-perform dramatically to avoid minimal honors. Obama apparently did just that.
The specifics we may never know. As the New York Times concedes, Obama "declined repeated requests to talk about his New York years, release his Columbia transcript or identify even a single fellow student, co-worker, roommate or friend from those years."
Would that Bristol Palin could get off so easily!
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
This angle is is being investigated by Ken Timmerman of Newsmax. He was on Steve Malzberg's show the other day talking about this very grooming possibility. Jack Cashill has linked the previous article going over much of the same thing. "The Mansourian Candidate" http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=74231 Timmerman spoke more about how Obama was fitting the bill for the Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal at home in Saudi Arabia. Apparently Obama had very little debt after college.
Well, at least Obama is as smart as Al Gore.
Yes, but look at how he applied his education as opposed to how Bambi has applied his!
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Pick a name at random from the phone book and chances are great that that person is more qualified to be POTUS than is Obama. The man has absolutely nothing.
There is no reason why each of the Candidates should not release all of their college transcripts.
In fact, it would be fun to compare McCain and Palin Grades and course loads against that of Obama and Biden.
It would make for one of the best threads in FR History!
I am sure the transcripts would show Obama getting a C in Intro to Sociology while McCain an Sarah received A’s in Physics and Chemistry,
Someone needs to go mining! Theres GOLD in them there years!
Probably had affiliated with some uderground islamic cult group that he probably doesn’t want to talk about. Activists do crazy things when they meet more crazys at the concentrated colleges.... the places of higher learning. Possibly hanging with farrakhan and the boys. AND he doestnt really want to boast up his anti american associations.....
who knows? He doesnt want to talk ,,,, and no one is coming forward. Rest assured...... there is a reason.
A BIG and JUICY detrimental reason.
Perhaps, If BHO has the election “stolen from him” like algore, he can start his own religion, since he is already
acclaimed as the MESSIAH.
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Same here. Now, just who is handling the puppet strings.
This article raises some additional good points about the Obamessiah. If he were any kind of leader, his years at Harvard and his time as president of the Harvard Law Review would not be shrouded in mystery or cloaked in silence.
But, Obama’s silence on this time in his dubious background is deafening. Apparently, as president of the Harvard Law Review, he was mediocre at best. His record has him as one of the few presidents of this prestigious journal who never published an article. That, alone, raises the eyebrows and questions about his fitness to be a leader.
Considering the poor quality of Michelle’s thesis from Yale(?) and her inability to use it as an opportunity to explore anything new or different, she focused her thesis where she has always focused her attention - on herself. Perhaps, then, we find the attraction between these two people - they are and always have been self-centered and mediocre.
What else explains why a Harvard Law School graduate and former Harvard Law Review president’s first job out of college was “community organizer”? I find it hard to believe that no law firm would want to have him on their staff with those credentials.
The comparison between Obama’s background and Kerry’s experiences as a “war hero” in Vietnam are appearing more credible the more we expose these shrouded areas of Obama’s past.
You tube video from article
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8npeYfKI_ns
...........and Joe Plugs.
Take hussein’s melatin away, and you got nuthin.
Believe it or not, JFK was a mediocre student at Harvard. There was a traveling exhibit about the presidents at the Eisenhower Museum in Abilene. It had a blowup print of JFK’s grades. He was a C student. Most of the presidents were mediocre in the classroom.
I don't see why we want to go there. McCain was at the bottom of his class, and may have only gotten into the academy because of his father.
This is not an argument we're going to win.
And he did graduate in the top ten or fifteen percent of his class - at Harvard.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=OWMxNGUxZWJjYzg1NjA0MTlmZDZmMjUwZGU3ZjAwNmU=&w=MA==
September 8, 2008
What Did Obama Do As A Community Organizer?
And is it really a qualification to be president?
By Byron York
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2077121/posts
Obama was the perfect affirmative action candidate for any IVY League school or academic position at the schoold where merit was replaced by ‘deserved reparations’
A Black with an Arabic Muslim name and background all he had to do was show up and be acclaimed.
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