Posted on 03/30/2015 4:19:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Presidential candidate Ted Cruz loved to argue as a Harvard student and boasted he'd get the best grades in his class, only to lose out to two other classmates.
In a series of exclusive interviews with Metro, several of his former classmates painted a complex portrait of the Tea Party's most beloved presidential candidate.
Laurence Tribe, a longtime Harvard law professor, said Cruz took his constitutional law class, challenged his teacher in interesting and "invariably right-leaning" ways at every turn.
Tribe said Cruz bragged to many of his classmates that he would receive the highest grade in the class, which had more than 150 students. That, said Tribe, alienated some. Tribe said Cruz received an A on the blindly graded final, but two people received an A+.
Renowned legal scholar Alan Dershowitz recalled Cruz was "not a very smiley guy," and he thought would become an "extraordinarily able appellate lawyer."
"The first day, he had his hand up and was asking questions," said Dershowitz, who retired from Harvard Law in 2013....
(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...
"I have a vivid recollection of a very smart, very disciplined man," he said. "I've been reading all these sharp elbow stories but I didn't see that. He was, I would say, correct. Respectful and correct."
Interesting. Somebody has a "vivid recollection" of Ted in college.
Very true!
“”So he was 3rd in a class of how many?””
“150, as detailed in the article.”
What a loser!
I would like to know as well what Obamas days were like. funny no one remembers him..
All it took to change the media narrative from “he’s stupid” to “he’s brilliant, but...” was Cruz’ captivating speech at Liberty U. Onward and upward from here.
I think that Huffington is really on to something with this smiley stuff. I see a pattern here. I’m beginning to think that Cruz might not have even had any Choom buddies.
Gotta give them credit,,,they found a way to make 3rd in a class of 150 at Harvard sound like a failure.
Interestingly, the commenters at the site feel the same way.
He sometimes colored outside the lines,once ate paste, and had to once stand in the corner.
He was a genius. It was obvious that the course material posed no challenge to his towering intellect. He was also the best athlete, was pursued by all the coeds, and was thought of as the coolest guy on campus.
Now I know more about what Ted Cruz was like in college than I do about Obama after eight years running for office and being in office.
Hmmmm. I wonder why?
Hopefully someone will comment on the fact that Cruz actually had records that could be seen, Professors that remembered him, fellow students that attended classes with him. Obama had no such thing - to this day I'm not sure he even attended college.
Well at least we know he had classmates and they have things to say about him. Too bad the media has no interest in Zero’s classmates.
Senator Cruz is brilliant. He was national debate champion while at Princeton and Alan Dershowitz says that Cruz is one of the best students he’s had during his 50 years at Harvard Law School. Cruz argued 9 cases in front of the Supreme Court, winning the majority of them, more than any current member of Congress. I can’t wait to see him debate Hillary, who flunked the D.C. Bar Exam.
I’m still waiting for what Obama was doing for his grades at Columbia...article.
He had lots of Saudi money to get him entry, a degree, upper level position all without showing up or studying. I think he would have been a good drug counselor if he was no longer using.
150
I liked the guy who said that it would be a challenge for the media to delve into Cruz's educational background without doing the same for Obama.
However, I must disagree with my fellow GMTA-er. The MSM is perfectly capable of operating under a blatant double standard. In fact, they consider it a test of their power to continue to claim to be objective while doing so.
At the same time, their ratings continue to shrink. They - who think us stupid - won't make any connection between their slavish promotion of Bizarro World logic and the fact that fewer and fewer people volunteer to have their intelligence insulted.
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