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To: only1percent
I am a law school graduate — albeit not from Harvard — and your comments make sense. Obama surely got into HLS on account of affirmative action. The Law Review — at least when Obama was there — elected its Editor, so Obama got Editor on account of affirmative action as well. However, he must have passed the exams to have graduated. Now, he may have got all Cs and Ds, but he has to have passed.

Since there isn't a hope in Hell that Obama will release his school transcripts, it behooves us to raise the issue ONLY when Mitt ROmney’s old tax returns are raised by the Dems.

39 posted on 08/02/2012 12:58:07 PM PDT by utahagen
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To: utahagen
The Law Review — at least when Obama was there — elected its Editor, so Obama got Editor on account of affirmative action as well.

He was the "President" of the Law Review, so he wasn't actually editing it. From what I heard, he was popular with the other students and knew how to work with various groups, so his election was probably due more to political skills than anything else.

However, he must have passed the exams to have graduated. Now, he may have got all Cs and Ds, but he has to have passed.

He was older than the other students and perhaps more disciplined. Perhaps he did a little better than average in his first year "black letter law" courses and did well in the legal theory electives he took in his last years at law school, and that got him through school and even on to the honor role.

What he may be hiding are bad grades at Columbia (or Occidental or Punahou). For all I know, he might have said he was born outside the country (though I doubt it), but it's not impossible that he did pretty well at Harvard, taking into account that he may have taken softer courses than other students (but not having his transcripts we can't be positive about that).

Since there isn't a hope in Hell that Obama will release his school transcripts, it behooves us to raise the issue ONLY when Mitt ROmney’s old tax returns are raised by the Dems.

42 posted on 08/02/2012 1:18:42 PM PDT by x
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