Help me - I just had someone get in my face about Obama not releasing his College records. What is

[jillan]

this about? This is the first I've heard about it.

What are they going to want next, his immunization records? geez......

[GoneOffShore]

1. Ah, ha, It was you Chris got too.

And if you post about vaccination, he'll bust on it as well.

[jillan]

6. Who's Chris? The asshole who demanded an answer about this name is Mark.

[GoneOffShore]

16. Ah - Thought is was something from a cross post on Facebook.

Sorry.

[RKP5637]

2. We have a lot of really really stupid ignorant people in this country. I heard some

of this crap today when channel surfing.

[Mz Pip]

3. He's Black

that's the thing. He couldn't possibly do well in school so the bigots and haters want him to release his transcripts so everyone can see that some more deserving rich white kid should have gotten his spot in Occidental, Columbia and Harvard.

It's all about the White priviledge.

[RKP5637]

4. Bingo!!! n/t

[leftstreet]

9. How did he get elected?

:shrug:

[Mz Pip]

13. White guilt

and all the Black people voted for him. what other explanation could there possibly be? :sarcasm:

[Phoenix63]

48. Did you see the alternative?

McCain/Palin? That's how Obama won. Not to mention 8 years under the thumb of the Bush regime...

[blondeatlast]

11. And there you have it. The speculation is aimed at anyone of color

who has achieved academic success.

[SharonAnn]

18. Didn't Harvard say he graduated Summa Cum Laude? Isn't that enough?

One guy on the radio last year said that he went to Columbia and he didn't know Obama. "Nobody knew him. He wasn't really there." And he said he was really popular and knew everybody.

So, that fact that some professors remember him and some other students remember him doesn't count?

These people are determined to believe crazay things.

I just snicker and say "You don't really believe that, do you?" and laugh again. Then I either leave or change the subject.

[Mz Pip]

24. It's all very selective

Kinds like how so many of them interpret the Bible. It's so much easier to agree on made up shit that reinforces your prejudices than look at the facts and the whole picture.

People don't want to let go of their prejudices. They are deeply set and a foundation for so much of how they live their lives.

[bobbolink]

43. "People don't want to let go of their prejudices. " Exactly.

There are MANY prejudices, and there are some liberals and progressives and Dems don't want to let go of, too. :(

[LiberalFighter]

34. People think that I knew everyone in the factory I worked.

There were 2 shifts and skilled trades had a third shift. Total about 3,000. I probably knew about 100 to 200.

In college there were about 10,000. I knew by name back then maybe 100 to 400 on the varsity football, 50 to 150 on the wrestling squads, 100 to 400 on the track and field. Then of course, I knew all of my teachers and probably about a 1/3 at best of the students in my classes and not more than half of the residents on my floor in the dorms. Now... probably not more than a dozen of the students and most of the coaches. I don't even remember who the class president or school paper editor of the college.

[TheKentuckian]

51. You knew more than I did. I didn't most of the people on my floor of my freshmen dorm.

I became friends with the guy next door a few years later but had no clue who he was. We only figured out telling drunken stories about stereo wars with the assholes in the next room, and discovered we were the assholes next door in our stories.

[hifiguy]

46. He graduated magna from HLS

There have only been a couple of dozen summa grads in the school's exceedingly long history. I read an article in the alumni magazine a few years ago with a profile of the then latest (and probably last, to date) summa. It happens about once every twenty-thirty years or so, if that often.

[Phoenix63]

50. It was Magna Cum Laude..

2nd highest tier.

2nd highest tier at one of the most prestigious schools on the planet. Yeah Obama's just not qualified. Bring in Sara "I went to 6 colleges before one would graduate me" Palin.

[Somawas]

5. Why would anyone give a mongrel rat's ass?

[jillan]

8. I know - he could not believe I haven't heard anything about this.

[babylonsister]

7. Newest meme pushed by Buchanan and I'm sure all the faux asshats.

I wonder why no one ever asked idiot son for his transcripts, and why they weren't important?

Skin color: by any means, these folks will keep attacking whether it makes sense or not. It doesn't, and I just hope a lot of people see it for what it is.

[rurallib]

20. there is also an implication of preference due to race

(affirmative action) which really drives some insane.

[Tx4obama]

10. It's Trump's new talking point. See the story on the link below

http://www.mediaite.com/online/donald-trump-cant-fathom-how-a-terrible-student-like-barack-obama-got-into-ivy-league-schools/

[rug]

12. Tell him they'll be released as soon as the translation from Bahasa Indonesian is completed.

[undeterred]

14. Did we ever get to see the chimps records?

:shrug:

[leftstreet]

15. His 'school records' are probably still hanging on Barb's refrigerator

[gratuitous]

17. Answer: No

Quite a bit of Chimpy's personal history never quite made it into the public record. Anyone who wanted to know anything, like, for instance, where he "served" while he was "in" the Texas Air National Guard, was shouted down for some obscure reason.

[Gabi Hayes]

30. here:

[Cleita]

19. Donald Trump trashed his education.

He said he was a poor student in high school and should not have been admitted to Harvard. I think the birther thing has been discredited. It's obvious and well documented that he is a US citizen, so now they are going after his academic record, which I think will be harder to cast doubt on than the birth certificate debacle. They just won't stop.

[yardwork]

23. Nobody gives a damn about any president's college transcripts. Nobody.

Racists like Trump who are trying to make money might pretend that some people care, but truly nobody does.

w bragged that he was a c student at Yale and everybody wanted to have a beer with him.

[LiberalFighter]

36. Now that I think about it I would either make sure he had a beer

that would give him diarrhea or put something in it that would do it.

[Incitatus]

21. I WANT TO SEE OBAMA'S DNA!

How do we know he is not an alien from some other galaxy?

[alfredo]

22. Tell him college transcripts are the property of the college,

not the student. Obama does not have the power to release them without the cooperation of the college.


It's no use confronting them with the truth, their hate/fear of a "Black" man in charge has driven them insane.

[Welibs]

25. They want his school transcripts. They've been yelling about

this for almost as long as they've been screaming about his birth certificate!

I tell them when George W. Bush releases his school and military records complete, unredacted then they have a right to ask for Obama's.

No amount of information will appease them and the more they get the more they want.

[AsahinaKimi]

26. If you turn on the ED SHOW now

He will be talking about it..
http://msnbclive.eu/

[jillan]

27. Thanks sweetie - I will :)

[xmas74]

28. Just tell them the old joke about what they

call the person graduating at the last of his/her class in med school.

A few of them will have to think about it and then you make the point of he graduated, the rest doesn't really matter.

(BTW-if anyone really doesn't know the joke. "What do they call the person who graduated last in their med school class? Doctor." In other words, who really cares where they graduated as long they as they graduated.)

[southernyankeebelle]

29. 60 minutes a long time ago did a piece on Obama long before he was running for

president. He was the first elected Law Review Paper. He was elected by both liberals and Conservatives. They interviewed a conservative Law student who voted for him. He said he was very fair with everyone and listened to all sides equally. He graduated Magma cum laud with honors. Tell them to google Obama name and I am sure they will find all they need to know. They are just stupid because he is being played by Trump. Tell him to get his head out of his ass and read Obama bio.

[housewolf]

31. More Donald Trump propaganda

Chris Matthews had Pat Buchanan on today arguing about this - Pat had me screaming at the tv, first time THAT's ever happened! Buchanan was going on about how, if Barack Obama got in the colleges he attended by virtue of Affirmative Action policies, it should be released to the public. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....

[coalition_unwilling]

47. As thought the 'legacy admissions' of the Ivy League schools are

not as offensive, or more offensive, than race-based affirmative actions admissions. Come to think of it, athletic scholarships\admissions are way more offensive than race-based affirmative action admissions.

[treestar]

58. Amen, and it is ridiculous when he graduated near the top!

He is a really smart guy, smarter than they are, and they just can't deal with a black man being smarter than they are, however, it is true and many black men are smarter than these white morons like Pat Buchanan and his ilk.

[Broderick]

32. ask for theirs. n/t

[Trajan]

33. I am tired of this pusillanimous BS ...

You go back there, and you tell that RAT BASTARD that Obama graduated Magna Cum Laude from what is arguably the most prestigious university in the entire world ...

I dont get WHY DUers get all weepy and weak when confronted by LYING IDIOTS !

You go back there and tell him "He doesnt have to show you SHIT, you weak assed piece of doggie doo doo ....

To wit - From the Weekly Standard 11/05/2007 (pssst .. It is a RW rag) ...

This was an unacknowledged form of affirmative action, but just because the Law Review didn't acknowledge it didn't mean law firms would follow suit. Membership on the Law Review basically meant that you were one of Harvard's smartest students. Unless you got there for some reason other than your grades. In those cases, hiring authorities would usually dismiss your Law Review membership, although they would never admit to doing so.

The only reason I bring this barely relevant history up is to show what a stud of a law student Barack Obama was. He graduated Harvard magna cum laude. This was one honor you unquestionably had to earn. It's a very impressive feat. Back in Obama's days at Harvard, more than 50 percent of the class graduated cum laude, a fact that made graduating "with honors" a meaningless accomplishment. But graduating magna was a different kettle of fish. Barack Obama graduated right near the top of his law school class.

That fact, along with his presidency of the Law Review, makes his uniform popularity all the more impressive. Law schools are intensely competitive places. People who thrive to an unseemly extent, as Obama did, are usually subject to an array of resentments. After all, the lawyers of tomorrow populate law schools; pettiness and insecurity reign supreme.


The people that Obama so thoroughly charmed generally weren't the charm-prone types. I say the following as a well known Republican partisan--the fact that his classmates so universally held him in the highest regard suggests that Barack Obama may truly be a special person. ... More at http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/316vvyov.asp


Listen .. Trump is a very rich man, but in the end, he is just another lying asshole ... He is throwing everything AND the kitchen sink at the wall to see if it will stick ...

You gotta grow some teflon, hun ...

You gotta grow a 'pair' (Testes OR Ovaries - Take your pick) ....

STOP letting silly lying asses rule you, and mock them publicly for being such idiots ...

Get in your face ? .... HAH .... get back in his face, and call him a fucking idiot who couldnt carry Obama's pencil case ...

DUers ? .... Grow a fucking spine !

[spanone]

35. it's about racism. it's about he's half black.

[housewolf]

37. They're trying to find out if he got in through Affirmative Action programs/policies

So that they'll have more ammunition to aim at him

[Raine]

39. and if he had I don't know why they think that would be a bad thing.

IMO it would show the success of a program that someone who got into college with the help of affirmative action was able to become President of the United States.

edit: typo

[housewolf]

41. I agree with YOU - If Affirmative Action helped

then I think Obama's successes testify to the success of the program

But man, you should have heard the vitriol, vehemence and hatred coming out of Pat Buchanan's mouth yesterday while he was talking about it! It was horrible and had me screaming back at him, something I don't usually do.

Ugh!

[Shandris]

38. "Why hasn't the President turned over his baby teeth?"

Surely if he had had some, his parents would have saved them. Why, everyone's parents save their baby teeth. So why doesn't Barack Obama have baby teeth to show to everyone? That's what I want to know!

Replace baby teeth with 'kindergarten mothers day card' for additional giggles...giggles that will likely have a tinge of nervousness, because by tomorrow, they may actually BE asking for these things!

[Keith Bee]

40. At this hour???

:eyes:

[Wounded Bear]

42. They didn't give up on Clinton until they knew which way his dick curved....

Film at eleven.

:shrug:

[bluestate10]

44. That is the difference between republican extremists and democrat extremists.

Republican extremists view any successful democrat as a target to destroy and wholly over-look any short comings of politicians in their party. Democrat extremist launch attacks on successful party members for the slightest variance from what they see as their core "principles".

[calimary]

60. Um - excuse me - "Democrat extremists"? Democrat extremists"????

Another republi-CON troll in DUer clothing? Please note, if you are NOT that, the contents of your post say otherwise.

Okay. Sigh... ONE MORE TIME:

PROPER grammar calls for the adjective "Democratic" to be used here. It's an adjective because it's modifying a noun ("extremist"). Nouns do NOT modify another noun. ADJECTIVES do that. GOT IT? Your usage of the phrase "Democrat extremists" is wrong and improper and unmasks your real agenda. If you insist I'm wrong, then be correct with your grammar and usage, and sound like the bluestater your post name says you are. Otherwise you look, at best, as though you never passed third grade (knowing the difference between a noun and an adjective), or at worst, a stealth teabagger.

Sorry - I'm just in NO MOOD today, and I've HAD IT UP TO HERE with the agenda-driven, DELIBERATE dog-whistle-style, codespeaking bullshit: "Democrat this" and "Democrat that"!!!! And I'm gonna call out EVERYONE I see, here and everywhere else. I'm choosing to make a stink about it because few other people are doing so, and thus it's allowed to continue!!!! The difference and the meaning behind it needs to be made ABUNDANTLY CLEAR!!!!

:grr: :mad:

[librechik]

45. more racism--how could "a guy like him get into Harvard?" literally, that's what Trump said

it's not as hidden as they wish it was

[KamaAina]

52. Perhaps because he attended Hawai'i's elite prep school, Punahou?

(apologies to 'Iolani, which plays Avis to Punahou's Hertz)

The only odd thing there is that, historically, Punahou grads went on to Yale, not Harvard. :-)

[Bigmack]

49. Posted here before.... the "afterbirthers"

http://www.theonion.com/articles/afterbirthers-demand-to-see-obamas-placenta,6866/

[PassingFair]

53. OMG, SO funny!

Thanks, I feel like posting that anonymously
at the office...

[Bigmack]

57. I put it all over Facebook. nt

[calimary]

54. "Ahh... I see! The whole stupid-ass RACIST birther thing didn't work for ya, did it?"

[spanone]

55. just another name for their racism...birth certificate out, school records in....racists

[Dr Fate]

56. He is the one who has been busted belieiving & lying about fake stories, not you.

Tell your buddy that he is the one who's legitimacy & honesty is now in question, not those of Liberals like yourself who knew the tea-bag accusations were fake all along.

What about Obama not releasing his college records? They said the same crap about his birth certificate, but it turned out they were lying.

As far as these issues go, Obama nor any Liberal needs to prove that they are the ones being honest.

[stuntcat]

59. true that, it's all on them.

This is me being petty and looking backwards, I know, but- What about W's college records? Maybe before we voted we should have had access to them all, and also to Gore's and Kerry's, so we could compare them before we cast votes for which man would be in charge of our future x(
If this crap keeps up I will start bugging everyone for Bush's transcripts, I don't care how dumb it is, I'm just sick of people.

[Dr Fate]

61. Yup-from now on, we have every right to believe everything they say is fake...

...until THEY can show US that some "original document" that prove otherwise.

It's THEIR god-dmaned turn to start showing US some "original documents" that prove their lying ass-accusations, not the other way around.