In response to requests for Romney's tax returns, rightwingers ask to see Obama's transcripts

[apples and oranges]

What part of graduating MAGNA CUM LAUDE from HARVARD LAW SCHOOL do they not understand?

Dear rightwingers, freepers, and trolls: There is a 99% chance that President Obama (or anyone who graduated with honors from HLS) is smarter than you. Deal with it, and move on!

[mucifer]

1. Yeah and did he really graduate from kindergarden?

I want proof!!!

[CanonRay]

2. Magna Cum Laude? That's French, ain't it?

No wonder they don't understand it.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. belgian. You don't sign up for law review. You have to be invited,

and your grades and academic performance have to be top notch.

[former9thward]

11. Actually the position Obama had was elected.

It is the equivalent of student body president at Harvard Law School. ''The fact that I've been elected shows a lot of progress,'' Mr. Obama said today in an interview. ''It's encouraging.

http://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/06/us/first-black-elected-to-head-harvard-s-law-review.html

[ljm2002]

12. Don't you have to be a member of the Law Review first...

...before you can be elected its president?

I'm not sure how it works, but that would make sense to me. He did graduate with high honors, so his grades would be high enough to have been invited as a member of the law review. Also when he was elected, he mentioned that he was only "first among equals"... It does not sound to me like a position that is filled through an election from the general campus population.

[former9thward]

13. I don't know how they do it at Harvard.

Different law schools do it differently. At my school the Dean selected the editor of the law review and there was no student input. This is from another article:

Barack Obama's election in 1990 as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review gave him his first moment of national fame, a powerful intellectual credential and a sweet book deal. It was also his first electoral victory, won in part by convincing the conservative minority of law students that he would treat them fairly.


It is unclear from the article how the election is held.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/11257.html#ixzz20jNqTwLC

[BumRushDaShow]

7. It's Latin.

A dead language.

[denverbill]

4. If he produced his transcripts, they would immediately be proclaimed fake anyway.

Even if Harvard published them directly.

[gollygee]

5. Well of course finding out what grade Obama got in Philosophy 101 is completely parallel

to finding out if Romney is a cheat and perjured himself or comitted a felony.

[NNN0LHI]

6. I really liked this post

[K8-EEE]

8. Where the fuck are Romney's transcripts?

LOL WTF demanding all this shit from Obama that they are not asking their own candidate?

The "apples and oranges" desperation there just adds fuel to the fire as far as it looking like Romney's tax returns would hang him out to dry by proving all these lies, voter fraud, 0 tax rate and God knows what else.

[stlsaxman]

9. Dude- Obama should release ALL of his transcripts- just to FUCK with them!

"Okay, sure- yeah... why not!?"

[XemaSab]

14. XOMG clutch the pearls!

He was only in the 70th percentile for reading on his third grade STAR exam!

[KurtNYC]

10. Hmmm... How could anything in school transcripts rise to the level of a FELONY ?

punishable by 5 years in prison.

[nobodyspecial]

15. They have some crazy theory that he claimed to be a foreign student in college

because of an April Fool's joke.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthers/occidental.asp