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 ...
Astonishing that the reporter for this story - one Danny McDonald, a graduate of UMass Amherst with a BA in Journalism - never once thought to ask a single person at Harvard the obvious question: how did Ted Cruz stack up next to Barack Obama, the most brilliant President in all of history?
I can't imagine what would be the reason for this oversight.
Well, actually, I can.
A comment to the article claims that there are some former professors of Obama’s on youtube who discuss zero’s time in academia.
Wouldn’t be surprised if she is lying.
Looks like he wasn’t a total flub:
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2014/07/09/How-Barack-Obama-Amazed-His-Harvard-Law-Professor
Studied the ethics of abortion and came out on the wrong side...
Smoking pot snorting cocaine hanging with his gay friends? Oh wrong guy
That is question number one!
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