Posted on 04/28/2011 9:57:49 PM PDT by smokingfrog
Washington (CNN) – Senior White House adviser Valerie Jarrett referred to calls for the president to release his academic records as "nonsense" Thursday.
The suggested disclosure came Wednesday from real estate mogul Donald Trump after the so-called "birther" debate caused the president to release the long-form version of his birth certificate.
Standing on a tarmac Wednesday in New Hampshire, Trump said "word is he (Obama) wasn't a very good student."
"I'd like to know how does he get into Harvard, how does he get into Columbia if he isn't a very good student," Trump said.
But Jarrett dismissed the remark Thursday.
"We know this is nonsense," Jarrett said on SiriusXM Radio's The Joe Madison Show. "He's almost 50 years old and he's president of the United States and I don't think anybody would debate his intelligence and so now we need to get serious."
Jarrett's foray into the conversation follows CBS anchor Bob Schieffer's accusation that Trump's comments are racist.
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Nothing like an arrogant dismissal to quiet the peasants.
Au contraire, Valerie. Lots of people question Obama's intelligence.
I am also interested in this ... but didn’t he graduate magna cum laude...which implies good grades.
This could be another trap. I’m more interested in what he wrote about our Constitution and his thoughts about “economics”.
Well Val, the devil is said to be very very wise and knowledgeable. But NOT to do good, but 'evil'....
“I don’t think anybody would debate his intelligence and so now we need to get serious.”
She is an idiot. I, for one, would debate Barky’s intelligence or complete lack thereof.
I question OBama’s intelligence all the time. He think giving out unemployment check is the fastest way of growing the economy
I’m more interested in what he wrote about our Constitution and his thoughts about “economics”.
He plagiarized the Communist Manefesto.
Jarrett is extremely smart and extremely dangerous. Look into her background and see what you come up with. It will explain why she is Obama’s top political advisor, not Axelrod.
She comes from the Chicago Left, Old Left and she knows how to play hardball.
Take her seriously, very seriously or pay at your peril.
Trap or not if other presidents, or candidates, have released this info Barry shouldn't be excused from it just because he's a minority.
I seem to remember the Liberal Democrats making much hay over fighter pilot George Bush's grades. Frankly I'd like to see the community organizer's grades.
He MAY have graduated magna cum laude....BUT....let’s see his SAT’s.....okay....and LSAT....wouldn’t he have had to take that?
Well...gee...I'd LIKE to hear THAT debate dear Valerie...let's see his SAT/LSAT scores. And, just what kind of grades DID he get at Columbia? HHmmmmm???
The Democrat candidate in 2012 will remain as unvetted as he was in 2008. The MSM will stand around the Democrat in a protective circle, and anyone that even thinks about questioning anything about him will be branded a racist.
That is the game the MSM has set up, and all the GOP'ers are going along with it like good little boys, bowing to have the MSM pat them on the head.
Trump says eff this, and overturns the game board.
You really think there is a separation between her and Axelrod? I do not think so, these two are director/writer/programmer of every waking move BamBamKennedy makes. Poll results is what FORCED them to release a beginning paper trail...
Some of US fully realize what is meant when this bunch keep calling for 'sacrifice'....
Trump, a liberal, is fighting like a 'girl', because usually Axel the boy does all the 'face-time'.
Why his SATs? That’s going back kind of far.
Obviously his LSATs were good enough to get him into college.
Again ... I’m more interested in what he wrote while IN college.
THAT would be the smoking gun.
She is Obama’s political surrogate mommy, Iago and Rasputin.
She has low cunning and was a master of working the Chicago School.
Like the Arkansas mafia, however, she is not brilliant enough to realize that such crude thuggery won’t play on the national and world stage.
Neither is she nor anyone else brilliant enough to run the entire White House operation (as she is doing, according to some erstwhile insider accounts) while holding Obama’s hand, spoonfeeding him, and tucking him in at night.
I saw clips of her speechifying at several “events” on CSPAN as she cast about finding Big Issues in which to insdert herself and make herself relevant. She was not impressive. You will never see her in a public event where she is not surrounded by worshippers and supplicants.
She’s just smart enough to get him in real trouble. “Pink press conferences” only.
How do YOU know his LSAT’s were good enough? I’ll bet they DO make exceptions....for $$$$
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