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Trump Bashes Obama, Questions Qualifications for Ivy League
Associated Press ^ | Apr 25, 2011 | Beth Fouhy

Posted on 04/25/2011 2:52:31 PM PDT by Baladas

NEW YORK -- Real estate mogul Donald Trump suggested in an interview Monday that President Barack Obama had been a poor student who did not deserve to be admitted to the Ivy League universities he attended. Trump, who is mulling a bid for the Republican presidential nomination, offered no proof for his claim but said he would continue to press the matter as he has the legitimacy of the president's birth certificate.

"I heard he was a terrible student, terrible. How does a bad student go to Columbia and then to Harvard?" Trump said in an interview with The Associated Press. "I'm thinking about it, I'm certainly looking into it. Let him show his records."

Obama graduated from Columbia University in New York in 1983 with a degree in political science after transferring from Occidental College in California. He went on to Harvard Law School, where he graduated magna cum laude 1991 and was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review.

Obama's 2008 campaign did not release his college transcripts, and in his best-selling memoir, "Dreams From My Father," Obama indicated he hadn't always been an academic star. Trump told the AP that Obama's refusal to release his college grades were part of a pattern of concealing information about himself.

(Excerpt) Read more at aolnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: birthcertificate; certifigate; collegerecords; dncresumefraud; donaldtrump; fraud; harvardresumefraud; ivyleague; kaganresumefraud; naturalborncitizen; nointegrity; nojustice; notruth; noveritas; obama; obamfiles; palin; resumefraud; trump
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To: Baladas

I’d love to see Obama’s application for his State Bar License. You pretty much have to tell them your entire life story.


21 posted on 04/25/2011 3:05:20 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Baladas
Obama graduated from Columbia University in New York in 1983 with a degree in political science after transferring from Occidental College in California. He went on to Harvard Law School, where he graduated magna cum laude 1991 and was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review.

How does the AP know this? There are no records.

22 posted on 04/25/2011 3:06:08 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Baladas
The MSM will make this all about race very quickly.
23 posted on 04/25/2011 3:08:05 PM PDT by Plutarch
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To: Baladas

Trump is the only one who has the guts and the reproductive organs to be President on the GOP side.

All the others are scared and afraid of their own shadows.


24 posted on 04/25/2011 3:09:05 PM PDT by LowTaxesEqualsProsperity
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To: Baladas

Trump seems to be taking a very shrewd approach. He KNOWS(as we all do) that 0bama is keeping his past a secret, so why not make up all of the assertions you can, throw them against the wall, and see what sticks? The only way for 0bama to disprove anything is to release the information, and he won’t do it. He’s going to quickly find himself in a box.

This is very easy for anyone to do effectively, because McCain and Hillary SHOULD have done it, but they gave him a pass.


25 posted on 04/25/2011 3:09:05 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: Diogenesis
Just comparing graphic design principles.
26 posted on 04/25/2011 3:10:38 PM PDT by bvw
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To: Baladas

Great. Good to see someone stepping up as publicly as possible.

And, mainstream media, please do keep calling him a ‘birther’ all the while he’s doing this so everyone knows what’s included in that category meant to marginalize people who ask these questions and meant to control topics for public debate to administration talking points.


27 posted on 04/25/2011 3:10:53 PM PDT by OldNewYork (social justice isn't justice; it's just socialism)
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To: allmendream

IIRC, Bush at least had decent SAT scores - over 1200 combined, and that was before they were inflated. It’s true that a 1200 was probably low for Yale admittance.

I bet Obama’s were under 1000.


28 posted on 04/25/2011 3:13:05 PM PDT by Montanabound
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To: Baladas
I guess now that Trump is mercilessly kicking Obama’s ass down the road again, Mark Levin will have to escalate his scathing anti-Trump rhetoric.
29 posted on 04/25/2011 3:13:07 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Baladas
Like most on FR, I'm no fan of Donald Trump. However, when he poses natural questions that undermine Obama and make voters stop to actually for a second...I'm lovin' it!
30 posted on 04/25/2011 3:13:07 PM PDT by Jim Scott
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To: Steely Tom
Actually, Obama, presuming his genealogy is correct, had the right Grandpa and Grandma because they descend from a long line of people who were here from the foundations of what has become America.

They were legacies ~ with ancestors who were presidents of Harvard, Yale, Columbia, et al, or colonial governors.

That stuff STILL gets you into those schools. Doesn't keep you there necessarily, but despite their protestations to the contrary, if you are an astute grandmother who wants to get your grandchild into a good school. This guy they picked to be his honorary baby daddy, Barak Obama, he was also a Harvard legacy ~ a very recent one.

31 posted on 04/25/2011 3:13:24 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Red Steel

I think this hits Barry where it hurts. He’s got his sycophantic fans so convinced of his mental superiority to not prove his genius might seem odd.
Who am I kidding? There will be one big yawn from the MSM because, of course, they all know he was a brilliant student.


32 posted on 04/25/2011 3:14:00 PM PDT by surrey
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To: Montanabound
So, you are suggesting Bush missed about a dozen questions.

Turns him into quite an ordinary graduate. One or two misses is OK, but not a half dozen.

33 posted on 04/25/2011 3:14:50 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: TheBigJ
"Senator Obama greeted by thousands in rural Kenya campaigning for sharia law devotee and marxist Raila Odinga:

36 seconds in:

“I am so proud to come back home…..”

http://www.blinkx.com/watch-video/kenya-thousands-turn-up-to-greet-u-senator-obama-in-rural-kenya/bo9yelFylhCHZc17VvNQMw
"

- - - - -


In case that source goes offline because of the OBots playing scrub-a-dub-dub,

here is a recent capture of it to ensure it airs on the Internet permanently:

http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2011/04/video-obama-speaking-in-kenya-with-mass.html

34 posted on 04/25/2011 3:15:59 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: KoRn

This could be a brilliant strategy. Show the public a pattern of hiding things by bringing them up one after another. By letting each play for a few weeks it seems like a huge amount of hidden information. The only way out for Obama is to give the information out because no one is going to buy on excuse after another. Go Donald!


35 posted on 04/25/2011 3:16:38 PM PDT by TN4Bush
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To: <1/1,000,000th%
AP knows because Obama said it's so, and you don't question your boss.
36 posted on 04/25/2011 3:18:18 PM PDT by Rational Thought
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To: allmendream

“W” got in on his own.


37 posted on 04/25/2011 3:18:39 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Baladas
Yes, and despite Bush being (somewhat correctly) portrayed as a guy who wasn't very smart - and Kerry being (incorrectly) portrayed as a super-smart supra genius - it was amusing to see that Bush did better in grades and IQ.

To me an actual AA admission (i.e. NOT raised by his well to do white grandparents - but an actual first person in the family to go to college type who overcame adversity in their personal life) is far more justified than a “legacy” admission of some guy born with a silver-spoon in his mouth, the child of college graduates, raised in a house full of books - and they STILL couldn’t measure up and needed a bit of a boost to go to the Ivy League that daddy went to.

Harvard and Yale are impressive - getting in because of your daddy being a big shot and you being the prodigal son - not so impressive.

38 posted on 04/25/2011 3:18:53 PM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: Baladas

Taking on Obama’s refusal to release records, as the MSM should have in 2008.


39 posted on 04/25/2011 3:18:59 PM PDT by Spok
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To: muawiyah

Quit saying I’m not a Trump guy! ENOUGH! Who cares.


40 posted on 04/25/2011 3:21:07 PM PDT by CE4K
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