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"I find it disheartening when people look at Obama’s race with assumptions that assume he couldn’t pull his weight in brain power. Barack Obama’s academic achievements would have been equally admirable if he were a blond, blue-eyed boy from Kansas called John Smith. He has 12 years of elected office experience and has a track record superior to many legislators with similar experience. Yes, he’s never run anything, which makes it more amazing yet that by hard work and despite the albatross that is a Muslim middle name in America, he has built a movement from nothing to involve 18 million people in the best run campaign in history. He has been subjected to impossible scrutiny over the last 18 months on his views on every issue imaginable and was tested by one of the toughest Primary races in history. He never gave up.
Every year around 7,500 people apply to Harvard Law School. Roughly 560 students matriculate with, on average, a 3.8 undergraduate GPA and a 99th percentile LSAT score. After 1L year studying legal theory, around 40 of the best students are appointed to Harvard Law Review based on their first year grades and writing. Law Reviews are highly competitive student run scholarly journals considered mandatory by many for high-end legal careers. For the 7% that make it on to Law Review, 2L year is more legal theory plus highly detailed editing of emerging legal scholarship pending publication in the journal. The articles they produce are largely anonymous. At the end of 2L year, one member of Law Review is elected to be the next year’s Editor-in-Chief (President) by the existing members. The Editor-in-Chief then runs the process of producing the next year’s editions of the journal. Since 1887, 121 people have been appointed Editor-in-Chief (President) of Harvard Law Review. There were more than 7,000 Rhodes Scholarships granted during the same period. You have to be smart enough to impress some of the smartest, most competitive people in the world to get that job. He did it. This is someone whose mother relied on food stamps to feed him for a while. I wonder, do John McCain and Lynn Westmoreland even know what a food stamp looks like?
John McCain graduated 894th out of 899 students. He was given a Navy Pilot assignment on affirmative, nepotistic action. Why? Because his grand-daddy and daddy were Admirals. It was the most coveted assignment for Naval Academy graduates and typically went to the top students. Go back 50 years and see the average graduating rank of Naval Pilots. It’s not even close. Sarah Palin graduated from a 4-year degree course in 6 years, having dropped out 4 times. I wonder who is better able to understand, assimilate and process complex information quickly. It’s sad that we’ve become an anti-intelligence country. McCain is a genuine war hero and Palin may be a tough achiever but let’s be honest, these are not examples of intellectual excellence we want for our children, yet we want them to lead the country and set the destiny of our children’s children. They may win and that’s okay, it’s the way of politics and may the best ideas win.
The RNC was a reminder of where America came from and the people sitting in that hall do not represent the America we will be in 20 years, not by a long shot. I swear, anyone emerging from that convention would have you believe we’re in the mess we face because of Obama’s policies. The saddest part is the fact that nasty attacks that distract from the issues work. By appealing to the ugliest instincts within us with comments like those of Georgia’s Congressman Lynn Westmoreland who proudly called Obama and his wife “uppity” and repeated himself proudly when confronted, the Republicans will win. Obama dare not say a word against such a racially tinged epithet, lest he be accused of playing the race card. The fact that a man in his esteemed position, a sitting US Senator, is unable to honestly challenge a plain bigot like Representative Westmoreland without offending someone is damaging to the dignity of this nation. Not a word from Mr. Maverick Change, Mr. Country First and Mr. Post-partisanship John McCain. Shame on you!
I will always love my country, but sometimes it’s difficult to be proud of the way it treats some of its citizens who were part of the founding population, but bound in chains. Obama doesn’t deserve to win because of his intellect and diligence, but to insult him for it is unChristian, unpatriotic and contrary to conservative values. He is an example to our children, a true conservative who lifted himself up and never gave up and stepped in to organize in the absence of the government. Yet Republicans mocked community service in front of the nation.
Jesus Christ was a community organizer and Pontius Pilate was a governor. John McCain needs to tell us who the Republicans are fighting for".
— LP Zandcus
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