Posted on 04/28/2009 6:36:37 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
No president in modern times has managed to conceal so much of his biography as this one. The journalists assigned to the Obama beat seem to have lost their traditional avidity for digging out the missing details. We do not have a medical report, or a college transcript from Columbia, or a notion of how well he did in Harvard Law School.
These things are not automatically significant, but they can be. Nobody thinks the president has some basic medical problem. He shows every sign of being in excellent physical condition. But so did John F. Kennedy, who turned out to have had Addison’s Disease, and was taking steroids and pain killers, which had an effect on his performance. We didn’t know it at the time. We should have.
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He has blue lips. That can’t be good!
You have a good ping list, eh? This article should be read by every Freeper....every one.
Not to mention no birth certificate.
There are no journalists. Only producers of Obamamercials.
The college transcripts can’t be good or else The One would have made them public.
You are correct.
That is a sign of one of several bad illnesses.
For those of you who have not studied this, google “blue lips” or “purple lips.”
You will have quite a shocker.
It doesn’t matter that they won’t look at real records from Obama’s life.
What matters is that they’ve obtained fake but accurate document’s from W’s.
I don’t maintain ping lists. Can you call Freepers to this article. People need to read this - beyond the first paragraphs, that is. It’s the last page in fact that drives it home. Michael Ledeen has broken the barrier with this one.
“...This article should be read by every Freeper....every one.”
Agreed
It has been widely heralded that BO was Editor of the Harvard Law Review, considered a significant distinction. However, one account has it that he was given that distinction as an affirmative action settlement of a ruckus kicked up by minority faculty and students. Also, BO wrote no articles.
Ref post #12.
Yes, I read that too.
He had 2 autobiographies before anyone had ever even heard of him. Who does that?
No one hides his medical history without a reason. My best guess is some kind of psychiatric history a la Thomas Eagleton.
A grandiose ego with plans to run for president.
Since he talks too much to have a respiratory condition and I’m “assuming” Michelle isn’t poisoning him with her garden plants, I’m leaning toward funky little cigs and other self dosings.
We know he was a Political Science major at Columbia. That is usually not thought to be a very rigorous field of study. More importantly, though, we also know he did not graduate with honors. That means his GPA was probably in the "B" range at best. While that is perfectly respectable, it DOES NOT get you into Harvard Law School -- not now, and not in 1988.
With those college grades, 0bama had to have been an affirmative action admission to Harvard. That's why he won't release his college transcripts.
As for Harvard Law, I have seen reports that he did receive honors there, but, if that is true, I have to wonder why he didn't receive offers of judicial clerkships. A summa cum laude from Harvard Law would normally be offered a Court of Appeals clerkship, typically with a judge who was a "feeder" to the Supreme Court. Some Court of Appeals judges are regarded as good talent scouts by the Supreme Court justices. Those judges will take on top law school grads as clerks, and, if a clerk proves to be good, will then "feed" that clerk on to the Supreme Court. 0bama may have chosen to opt out of this network, but there is no report I have ever seen that he was even given an offer. That causes me to be skeptical about reports that his grades were very high.
Then, of course, there is the Harvard Law Review. Although the sycophant press often reports that 0bama was "Editor in Chief," that is not true. He was "President" of the HLR. The President is elected by the student body, whereas the Editor in Chief was chosen by faculty advisors and fellow HLR Editors for academic excellence (often first in class, always among the top four or five) and quality of articles done for the HLR. 0bama did not serve as an HLR Editor and had no articles published. He would never have been considered for Editor in Chief.
Bottome line, 0bama has put forth a carefully tailored resume, but it won't bear much close scrutiny. That's why he has to be so secretive about his college and law school days.
He was not summa, he was magna. How much of this was merit, and how much his people skills is a matter of debate.
As for his admission to the law school, did you miss the disclosure by the bigtime Harlem politician/HLS alum that he had intervened on Obama’s behalf—allegedly at the request of a radical political activist who was raising money for Obama’s education?
Of course the Obama campaign denied it.
“...a respiratory condition ...”
No!!!
Please read!!! Please do your homework!!! I’m not going to do it for you.
If you refuse to read, then don’t comment.
(Sorry. My frustration level is quite high with you folks who don’t read.)
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