Can someone tell me what the deal is with Obama's Columbia transcripts.

I've seen some GOP die-hards practically salivating over them. Why?

Just askin... :shrug:

I personally don't care about either man's transcripts.

I encountered internet buzz and simply asked some questions to see if anyone knew what was going on and why the right seems to be getting their knickers in a twist over it.

Don't read this unless you need a good vomit right about now.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080903044013AAFjThZ

But everyday is starting to feel more and more like Idiocracy.

She is true blue, and is known as such on this board.

They think there's a reason he's not releasing them. I think they are hoping (beyond all hope) that his grades and McCain's will be similar. :rofl: fwiw, I think they are also calling for his LSAT scores.

I know those words are tough to comprehend for the right wing, what with their war on intelligence.

I'd ask for Palin's transcript from North Idaho Junior College, but they probably didn't even have letter grades.

nicely done

Warning. Make sure you have emptied your bladder. Remove all items that can easily be knocked over and sit down read this crapola. You'll be laughing so hard your sides will hurt.



I doubt they are asking the same questions of their own candidates. They sure aren't talking about McCain being a legacy who barely passed or Palin's erratic college record. Nor are they asking how they got into the schools they got into or what their grades were. The hypocrisy is so stunning it is mind boggling.

Who didn't earn anything, but got everything handed to him because he was black. More bigotry, not surprising.

Fortunately, most of the idiots who thought I was only there to fill a quota didn't make it past the first semester. Fewer of them were there at graduation.

I got plucked out of the ghetto and got a chance to go to Brown University. I had always been a strsight A student. I came from segregated school system and so it took me a couple of semesters to adjust to the jump, but I scored straight A's the rest of the way out of Brown. Had a chance to go to any law school I wanted, so I went to Boalt Hall, University of California at Berkeley, because it was rated just about as high as Harvard/Yale, etc., but it only cost $800 a semester. It's a public institution.

Until people see me work, I can just see they think I'm one of those "don't deserve it" affirmative action blacks. Hell, they think that about all of us. LOL It gives me an extra kind of pleasure when I kick ass. LOL

In a lot of ways, I didn't even have to read Obama's book to know where he's coming from. We all have that dual identity, what Richard Ellison called the "marginal man". Existing in two worlds all the time.

IF there is the slightest there there.

Even with McCain graduating nearly last in his class and Barbie hitting five schools in six years for her BA in journalism won't stop them. White folks are special that way.

Irony and Hypocrisy are the GOP Mating Call

I have no doubt that two incredibly weak students and mental lightweights will choose to attack Obama's academic record. Too neatly fits into the modus operandi.

Lots of white folks never even think of those kinds of things, including me.

It really is sad. On the bright side, whoever that moron is, he's working on his website and not walking the streets trying to procreate.

<<By his own admission, Obama spent his final two years in high school skipping classes, playing basketball, doing cocaine and getting drunk.>>

I don't think this issue will be enough to separate the candidates. :-)

And, btw, as far as I know, the party (not necessarily with cocaine) continues for McCain.

But I did see a great T-Shirt yesterday on Santa Monica's nearly oceanfront 3rd Street Promenade. "I rather be doing cocaine off a hooker's ass."

Of course, a houseless guy was wearing it.

Actually he's about six months younger than I am. I spent my last two years in high school skipping classes, playing sports, doing coke, uppers, downers, pot, LSD, mushrooms, hash and getting drunk in OKC. Strike that, I spent my entire high school career living better through chemistry. It was what kids of my generation did. I don't think things have changed that much. In high school I was also a cheerleader, officer in a few clubs, and I also won several "Student of the Year" awards at my high school, the district and state levels and graduated with honors. The whole he "did drugs in high school" crap is, well high schoolish.

I graduated 2nd in my class and spent some time selling white crosses in the parking lot.

Of course, I am a little older than Barack but nowhere near as old as Macbeth.

about anyone's fucking grades so many years down the line?

I mean it. I have been looking for work and hate the places that want to see copies of all transcripts--I attended lots of different places here and there--finally got a degree but grades were pretty poor. But hell--I finished. so why should anyone care now?

to find something on Obama to counter with?

My question is why the GOP supporters are all hot and bothered with it. On the other hand, we have blasted the right for having mediocre and piss poor students. So apparently it is important to some.

Or is president of the Harvard Law Review?

what I am asking here.

I have absolutely no concerns about Obama's intelligence, his academic record or his accomplishments. I am simply inquiring why this has become an issue with McCain supporters. This is the first I've heard of it and I thought someone here might no more about their interest than I do at this time.

#1 in his class at Harvard Law and President of The Review puts a huge, huge dent in whatever lameness that comes up. Plus, Columbia isn't some generic school either.

What this is, is desperation.

They are on the run!

TAKE THEM DOWN!!!!

His own bio says he graduated magna cum laude, so he was near the top, though.

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=O000167

Obama has enough in his educational CV; no point in suggesting he graduated first in his class, which is easily debunked.

If it were me, I'd rather have "Editor of Harvard Law Review" than "I graduated first" on my CV, any day. :-)

maybe it was that one quiz he missed.

The salivate because they are starving with envy.

Affirmative Action. Sooooooooo? McCain got into the Naval Academy through the legacy left by his father and grandfather. Sooooooo?

In fact, I'd damn near guarantee it.

way Bush got into Yale...legacy admission? His father attended graduate school there.

as a legacy, and into Harvard due to his father's and grandfather's positions.

Give a damn break. What about Bush plagarizing his thesis, If i plagarized my thesis and my upcoming dissertation. My University would buy me a bus-ticket back to where I came from. Obama's graduation record states for itself. Obama's counter is that's nothing compared to 6 colleges in 6 years!!

when Ms. Five Colleges in six years releases hers...and, of course, Mr. I graduated near the bottom of my class. What a joke.

I'm sure they're out there somewhere but who really cares what his grades were from 20 years ago? Look at McCain and Biden, both did horribly in school, but wtf cares.

Harvard Law School -- made editor of the Law Review (top honor) and graduated high honors.... sorry, so for all you critics, go back to putting lipstick on your pig

getting a bit twitchy with all the covert ops and trolling from the right. I can see how my question could be construed as having the potential for shit-stirring.


I stumbled onto the issue (non-issue) when I was scrolling through some comments at a YouTube video. First I'd heard of his transcript being a source of consternation. Googled and saw a surprising amount of chatter about it.

I assumed someone here would know what the hubub was all about. Once again it appears to be much ado about nothing, grasping at straws, and general all around inferiority praying they have a leg to stand on when drafting attacks. I guess they're going to have to stick with spin and lies. But they do it so well it won't be a stretch for them.