Posted on 04/25/2011 6:37:14 PM PDT by Comparative Advantage
Manhattan 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.
"I have friends who have smart sons with great marks, great boards, great everything and they can't get into Harvard," Trump said. "We don't know a thing about this guy. There are a lot of questions that are unanswered about our president.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnewyork.com ...
Uh... two words - affirmative action.
Gotta love Trump for doing what the media should be doing to show what a fraud we have for POTUS!
Typically, there are three ways:
1) Said "bad student" is, nevertheless, a genius and can bring up the school's average SAT & LSAT scores; (This is less likely at Columbia and Harvard than at other schools, and, in Obama's case, this is a flat impossibility)
2) Someone pays (A LOT) to have the student admitted (Again, this is not very likely in the case of either Columbia or Harvard.); OR,
3) Said student is a minority and their scores, grades, and other resume are slightly superior to those of other applicants of the same minority.
There's also the possibility that in Obama's case there is some even darker, more conspiratorial means ... who knows?
Hmmm..Does Trump have the skinny or is he bluffing? Zero must be up to three packs a day.
See Post 17
Did he graduate “Magna cum laude?” No one knows....there are NONE of his grades or writing from that time....even as the Law Review President!!!
Nice press release - now let’s see the transcripts and the articles that he put into the Harvard Law Review. Oh yeah, guess they just aren’t “available.” It’s easy for any leftist university to come up with a press release - sorry no more credible than something written by the AP.
Ayers attended Columbia at the same time Obama did. Conceivably, they may have met there for the first time.
In any event, as a student at Columbia's Banks School of Education, Ayers wouldn't have been in a position to help out a transfer from Occidental.
“Any bias there, ya think?”
I lold.
You know, I don’t trust the guy, but him going after Obama is still the best thing to happen in a long time!
Ayers attended Columbia at the same time Obama did. Conceivably, they may have met there for the first time.
In any event, as a student at Columbia's Banks School of Education, Ayers wouldn't have been in a position to help out a transfer from Occidental.
Can you show where Presidential grade transcripts are usually found? Are they with Bush’s or Reagan? Surely every politician’s grades are on the internet, aren’t they?
From another post....
“.... anything can happen. IMOFWIW, DT didn’t become as rich as he is making stupid decisions and trusting in fools. If he’s literally willing to risk everything he has (his business dealings/partners, reputation/hell for his family) then he already knows the outcome.
People need to realize that billionaires live in a very different world than we do. When they want something, in this case, info proving BO is a fraud) they simply hire people to get that info and pay whatever is needed to accomplish that task. To them it’s the cost of doing business. “Business” in this case meaning protecting his assets, present and future.
To be sure, Trump’s people deal with ‘shady people’ in ‘grey areas’ but money doesn’t change hands on ‘maybe this is true’...at least not on the stuff that makes the difference. Palms greased? Bad leads? Sure wasted cash happens. But not for the real stuff.
As good as the DNC is at rewriting history, they aren’t perfect and DT can easily afford TEAMS of investigators and forensic accountants to dig through it all. Like I said, this is info he had before he ever opened his mouth.
As new info comes out, those boys and girls are still on the payroll to cross-reference it to what they already know.
Now, just to be clear, I am not a DT supporter for prez (Palin/West fan), nor do I think he’s some political saint with no skeletons in his own closet. I just think the meme that DT is nuts/a distraction either aren’t looking at this whole thing critically or they are pushing their own agenda.
Naaaah. None. (HUGE sarcasm)
Is this the “new” Jameseee777 or Non Sequitur?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2710459/posts?page=16#16
An intersting study would be AP compilations of GOP vs Dim
news photos.
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