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I'm not sure I buy the C-D grades thing. However, I have long speculated that someone in the MSM would pose the story in the manner presented here. That is, ask why he would spend millions hiding his grades and his past. With his ego, he would have blasted those grades everywhere if they were all A's and B's. Now the logic is that he did get lousy grades, he's not very bright (which is consistent with what we're seeing now), and he was "passed along". If he doesn't defend himself, it gives credence to the position that he did poorly in college and law school. It will be interesting to see if he even attempts to change that perception.
1 posted on 12/03/2010 5:14:10 AM PST by econjack
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You obviously don’t understand how this works.
There is NO CHANCE WHATSOEVER that any white professor at Occidental, Columbia, or HLS between 1979 and 1993 would have given a person of the African-American persuasion who was an “out” socialist a “C” or a “D”. It is inconceivable.

It is barely possible - and I do mean BARELY - that a brave rebel would have given him a “B”. But not likely.

I’m certain Barry was an “A” student - simply because the system would not allow him to be anything else.


2 posted on 12/03/2010 5:16:55 AM PST by Jim Noble (It's the tyranny, stupid!)
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The thing about Ivy league is once you get in, you have to do very little work to pass. It’s soooo expensive they don’t want little Timmy failing. To get an A is probably as difficult as it is in a state school, maybe.


3 posted on 12/03/2010 5:17:07 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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I completely buy the C and D grades. The only reason he probably didn't get all Cs and Ds is because some of his professors inflated his grades because of who and what he is. If he were truly based on merit, there is no question he would have failed out. That is what he is hiding. And he is being aided and abetted by the media who wants to maintain the illusion that he is smart (keeping in line with the age old narrative that all liberal Dems are brilliant and all conservatives and Republicans are dumb as dirt).
4 posted on 12/03/2010 5:18:41 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard
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The main problem with Barry BamaRamaDingDong’s records is he applied as a FOREIGN student. That info can never get out.


6 posted on 12/03/2010 5:19:10 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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He’s probably more concerned with the actual course titles.
90 credit hours in “victimology, socialism, and I hate America”.


7 posted on 12/03/2010 5:20:03 AM PST by G Larry (When you're right, avoid compromise!)
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I bet his SAT or LSAT scores are hidden better than H-bomb secrets.


8 posted on 12/03/2010 5:20:39 AM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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I hate to say it, but this is America and I am not going to take a rumor as his grades.

That being said his actions show me that he is so far out of any President on his ability to run this country, one he is not very bright or the later he hates America, he is a racist, mixture of Black Theology with roots he is proud of from his father's faith and his mother's communism.

9 posted on 12/03/2010 5:21:18 AM PST by scooby321
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Most folks in the media don’t care and will refuse to question Obama or his staff about his grades.

We know virtually nothing about Obama’s past as the media has refused to do similar reporting like they did with Clinton, Kerry, Bush, Gore, etc.

Makes you wonder why it was so important to report about Bush’s past alcoholism but the complete lack of curiosity about Obama self-admitted felonious drug use.

“Junkie. That’s where I’d been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man. Except the highs hadn’t been about me trying to prove what a down brother I was. Not by then, anyway. I got high for just the opposite effect, something that could push questions of who I was out of my mind, something that could flatten out the landscape of my heart, blur the edges of my memory. I had discovered that it didn’t make any difference whether you smoked reefer in the white classmate’s sparkling new van, or in the dorm room of some brother you’d met down at the gym, or on the beach with a couple of Hawaiian kids who had dropped out of school and now spent most of their time looking for an excuse to brawl. You might just be bored, or alone. Everybody was welcome into the club of disaffection. And if the high didn’t solve whatever it was that was getting you down, it could at least help you laugh at the world’s ongoing folly and see through all the hypocrisy and bullshit and cheap moralism.”

Source: Dreams from My Father, by Barack Obama, p. 87 Aug 1, 1996

“Obama confesses to getting high in order to “push questions of who I was out of my mind.” (page 93) He cites using marijuana and cocaine, but he explicitly assures his readers that he did not use crack.(page 93).”


10 posted on 12/03/2010 5:21:30 AM PST by WaterBoard
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So? Dubya was a C average student as well.


11 posted on 12/03/2010 5:23:37 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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Obama admitted himself that he was in a “cocaine induced haze” through college.

What kind of grades do you think people in a “cocaine induced haze” make?


12 posted on 12/03/2010 5:30:07 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama = Epic Fail)
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15 posted on 12/03/2010 5:32:43 AM PST by mcmuffin ( . )( . ) (We're watching you)
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This is nothing more than unsubstantiated allegations and rumors. THERE IS NO EVIDENCE OBAMA EVER WENT TO ANY OF THESE SCHOOLS. If you have Any Proof whatsoever, let’s see it, this is only hyperbole on behalf of Obama.

SHOW ME THE:
Admission Records
Transcripts
Student Loan Applications
Attendance Records
Grades
Papers
OBAMA ALLEGEDLY went to Occidental and Harvard but there is ABSOLUTELY NO PROOF WHATSOEVER THAT HE ACTUALLY ATTENDED EITHER OF THESE SCHOOLS. If there is Show it to us.


21 posted on 12/03/2010 5:39:44 AM PST by eyeamok
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Come on now.Don’t you know that Barack Obama is America’s first affirmative action president?

Let’s hope he’s the last.


33 posted on 12/03/2010 5:51:52 AM PST by puppypusher (The World is going to the dogs.)
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Real question is what did he score on his LSAT’s?


45 posted on 12/03/2010 6:02:17 AM PST by blackdog
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It has been reported that, for whatever reasons, Obama graduated magna cum laude from HLS, which means he didn’t receive C’s and D’s there.

I’m sure his undergraduate record is much more spotty.


46 posted on 12/03/2010 6:02:44 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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I'm not sure I buy the C-D grades thing

Circumstantial evidence:
Barry went to the Punahou School, which has a phenomenal reputation. Had he any sort of decent SATs, or grades, or achievement, and given his "exotic" background, he would have been an Affirmative Action free-ride shoo-in for any Ivy League College.

He wasn't. He was packed off to very so-so (and very left wing) Occidental College with no scholarship. His financial aid picture here is murky, but many think he registered as a "foreign student!" At Occidental he fell under the sway of a very left-wing, very gay advisor who passed him along to Bill Ayers, who had strong connections at Columbia, and took over as Barry's mentor. (Yes, they go back that far!)

As far as Columbia goes, he was an off-the-street sign up in The Columbia School of General Studies. General Studies is a money-making catch-all for any big university. They operate on the AAWAC principle (Admit Anyone With A Checkbook). It's a good thing. A serious student with a poor High School background can enroll in a General Studies Program at a Major U and can actually get a good education and a very good degree.

At Columbia, if one completes enough courses at General Studies, one actually gets a Columbia COLLEGE Diploma. Of course, no one knows how, exactly, Barack managed that, or exactly what courses he took, or what his grades were, or Graduate Record exam Scores were. We don't know if he took the LSAT prior to admittance at Harvard Law, or if he did, what his score was. I wager he never sat for the LSAT.

So, what we DO know about Barry academically, and it is damn little, tends to indicate that he was a very lackluster student. He does have a good command of left-wing phraseology as written for him by others, and appears on his teleprompter.

He did finish Harvard Law (where he was President of the Law Review, a ceremonial and administrative post, at which he was notorious for doing NO work and appearing at cocktail parties) and was admitted to the Illinois Bar.

We know he made false statements on his bar application, namely denying the use of any other name or alias, failing to mention a record of traffic violations, (which are not a problem if they are settled, which his were not) and drug use. We also know that he is no longer admitted to the Illinois Bar under these cloudy circumstances. (Neither is Michelle, who was set up with with the no-known girlfriends-Barry by Bernadette Dohrn.)

47 posted on 12/03/2010 6:07:03 AM PST by Kenny Bunk (America can survive a fool. It cannot survive the fools who vote for him.)
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It would be interesting to see his grade in speech class, as I doubt they allowed teleprompters.

7:36 minutes of Obama sans teleprompter:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_-cgOTyj4g


59 posted on 12/03/2010 6:32:05 AM PST by TomGuy
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Obama is, without question, an affirmative action president obtaining his current position from the guilt-ridden whites.
I’m sure he was an affirmative action student receiving the spoils of the pity and guilt held by his professors. By doing so, his professors have instilled in him a sense of entitlement.

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
Booker T. Washington


61 posted on 12/03/2010 6:41:52 AM PST by La.daddyrabbit (Now that obama is in the spotlight, he's really showing his true color.)
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78 posted on 12/03/2010 8:01:14 AM PST by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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This piece from Hillbuzz wasn’t, as best as I can tell, actually written by Jennifer Rubin. Ms. Rubin has a piece in Commentary that is quoted in this article, but she doesn’t address the questions of the Kenyan anti-Christ’s college grades in it - at least as far as I could see.

This Hillbuzz article appears to be unsigned.

Admin Moderator - Is it possible to change the author’s attribution? Ms. Rubin is a moderately-well-known columnist with a good reputation. This piece offers no substantiation of its headlines and thus, I’m not sure that Ms. Rubin would appreciate her name being affixed to it.

Thanks.


90 posted on 12/03/2010 9:02:16 AM PST by sitetest ( If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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