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!
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ACTIVIST IN CHICAGO NOW HEADS HARVARD LAW REVIEW
Chicago Tribune - February 7, 1990
Author: Michael J. Ybarra.
Just a few years ago, Barack Obama was helping residents of the Altgeld
Gardens housing development challenge the Chicago Housing Authority over
asbestos in their apartments.
On Monday, the 28-year-old Obama was named president of the Harvard Law
Review, the nation`s most prestigious student legal journal. Obama is the
first black elected to the post in its 104-year history.
The Review is considered one of the most authoritative of the law school
reviews and is a forum for judges and scholars. It is also a high-powered
springboard for aspiring lawyers. Its presidents usually go on serve as a
clerk for a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for a year and then as a clerk for an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
It took 91 years to elect a woman, and it wasn`t until last year that an
Asian was elected by his fellow editors to the position.
For Obama , it`s another victory in the fight against ``powerlessness.``
``People don`t feel that they can have much impact,`` he said in a phone
interview from the Review`s offices. ``I want to get people involved in having a say in how their lives are run. More and more of that needs to be done.``
As executive director of the Developing Communities Project, he had
attempted to persuade the residents of Altgeld Gardens to become more involved in their community. Obama worked for the Developing Communities Project for
four years.
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``Unbelievable talent is not cultivated; a lot of time it`s crushed,``
Obama said. ``Over the long run, the way to improve the conditions in the
cities and schools-to fight crime and drugs-is to work on the local level.``
To do that effectively, Obama said he wanted to know how the system works as only a lawyer can. To that end, he said he`ll spend a couple of years
practicing law after graduation next year and then it`s most likely back to
community organizing, maybe politics.
Probably back where he started.
``I`ll definitely be coming back to Chicago,`` he said. ``Chicago`s a
great town . . . an ideal laboratory.``
The Obama history just becomes murkier and murkier. The more I hear about this guy the more Im convinced hes been groomed for what hes doing now.”
Think Goerge Soros.....
Nobama still hasn’t managed to come forth with a valid birth certificate, either. That’s plenty murky for me.
Not quite. According to a 1987 New York Times Article, Biden graduated number 76 out of 85 from Syracuse University School of Law, which puts him at the cusp of the bottom 10% of his class. This was after he was allowed to retake a course in which he received and "F" for plagiarism. According to the same article, Biden earned mostly C's and D's as an undergraduate at the University of Delaware, except for two A's in physical education and an F in ROTC.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE3DB143FF93BA2575AC0A961948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print
I agree that academic achievement is seldom a good measure for predicting leadership and success as POTUS. Nevertheless, the left wing and their comrades in the MSM have bashed President Bush for the last eight years as being "dumb," "stupid," and "an idiot" because he earned mostly C's and B's at Yale, even thought he has an MBA from Harvard. If academic achievement is significant when reviewing President Bush's qualifications, then it ought to be equally significant when considering Barry's and Biden's qualifications.
Thank you for the corrections - my overall characterization of Biden as a less than stellar student still stands, which was my point.
I think the main point of the thread is the question of whether Obama is hiding MORE than a poor academic record - I got off track a bit - I apologize for that.
No need to apologise. The bottom line is that until Barry releases his complete academic records including SAT/ACT scores and proves othrwise, I am going to assume that neither Columbia nor Harvard would have accepted him if not for the fact that he is half black, just as I assume that Yale and Harvard would not have accepted GWB if not for the fact that he is a legatee.
I agree with your assumption - I don’t think there is any question that he would not have been admitted to any Ivy League institution on the basis of fair competition.
Would that Bristol Palin could get off so easily!
Needs to be repeated often.This is weird to just about anyone I tell it to.
Jack Cashill BUMP!
This guy is consistently good.
Have there been *any* other presidents of the Law Review who published nothing?
Biden's would show an "F" for getting caught for plagarizing.
Aren’t the Columbia years the years Obama describes as having lived “like a monk?”
That increasingly strikes me as odd: “nope, nothing to see here, I was living in a cloister—left no fingerprints anywhere—but take my word for it, I was there.”
-PJ
Obama appears to be a front man for several entities, mostly the Chicago Establishment, but with some possible connections to the Saudis.
And still the media declines to investigate his connection to Ayers, Khalid al-Masour, Rezko and Auchi
I graduated from HS in the mid 70s. I had a single mom who was earning so little that I qualified for 100% financial aid. I went to college in the late 70s entirely pd for by grants, student loans, work study, and part time employment.
I have 4 points to make for comparison.
1) I was limited to where I could go to school, especially “out of state”. An Ivy League school was not possible. Also, keep in mind that Harvard required an application to get an application, at least for their undergrads.
2) There was no financial aid available for grad school. “Someone” would have had to pay for me to go.
3) When Reagan got in office in 80, there were even more restrictions put on available financial aid.
4) Lastly, I would have never had enough money to do drugs even if I wanted to. I could barely afford beer in those days. LOL
I have been suspicious of his ed background from the get go.
There is no difference between what I was offered and what he should have been offered. There is NO doubt that he had an idividual(s) sponsoring him.
Unlike you many people are interested in whether Obama got in due to affirmative action. Obama has zero slave blood. It’s ridiculous for him to get affirmative action benefits since “his people” (Kenyans) never suffered from slavery or discrimination here
I think affirmative action is ridiculous in any case - slave blood or not.
Yeah but how does someone with no slave blood get on the affirmative action gravy train?
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