Obama was Magna Cum Laude, and Sotomayor was Summa Cum Laude. So does that mean...

[SamCooke]

the POTUS has actually met someone smarter than him?


Which Law school is better, Yale or Harvard?

[Chakab]

1. Are you talking about Undergrad or

Law School? Obama Graduated Summa from Columbia and Magna from Harvard Law.

[SamCooke]

2. To be honest, I have no clue what I'm talking about. PE was my best subject.

[SamCooke]

5. I couldn't find anything on Obama getting Summa honors at Columbia

[jefferson_dem]

3. Ya. But that Turley fella said she's not that bright.

Must've been a sympathy case...

:sarcasm:

[opihimoimoi]

4. Turely fella jealous?

[havocmom]

14. mid-life crisis

Must be tough to know you are at your personal pinnacle when you think it's ordained that you are destined for the pinnacle of your field.

[opihimoimoi]

19. LOL....he is finding out he is just another suit in the maddening crowd

[havocmom]

13. Ol Pat says it's 'affimative action'

:eyes:

Some of the white fellas just don't take to the new standards being color and gender blind. They think it must be a rigged game if the white guys don't always end up on top.

[firedupdem]

6. Doesn't matter...somebody had to help them both...

:eyes:

[Bozita]

7. GWB was Summa Cum Legacy everywhere he degree shopped. Except for UTexas Law.

Shame on Yale. Double shame on Harvard Business School.

[Captain Hilts]

8. Someone smarter than 'he', not 'him'. No. The two law schools are good, but very different. nt

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

18. Yep.

Though reforms put in place by Dean Kagan are going to make my alma mater much more like Yale: Considerably smaller class sizes in the first year and the eventual move to pass/fail grading over the next couple of years, both of which Yale has had for decades.

Nonetheless, Magna at HLS back in BHO's day was a stunning achievement. Summas at HLS have been so rare that they get written up in the alumni magazine and 10-20 years could pass without the honor being awarded as it required an A+ average calculated over all three years.

At the U of MN, I managed summa cum laude as an undergrad with a mere 3.944/4.00.:smoke: I did make the top half of my class at HLS though.

And as to which is better, it's pretty much a Ferrari or Lamborghini choice. Personal taste, but ya can't go wrong with either

[jberryhill]

9. Summa Cum Laude, but Magna Cum Laudest!

[AlexanderProgressive]

10. No psychologist would measure intelligence by academic achievement alone

There are many forms of intelligence.
IQ is in fact not measured by what kind of degree a person holds.

[boppers]

15. I was going to make the same point.

I went to school with some absolutely brilliant people (140+ IQ required for application) who would giggle at the thought of measuring themselves, or others, by something so trivial and subjective.

Not that we didn't give them props, but the admiration was more for their work ethic and ability to play politics, not their intelligence (/g/).

Both a strong work ethic and political ability are good things to have in a POTUS and on the SCOTUS, and in some perspectives, more important than a high level of intelligence.

[cherokeeprogressive]

11. 100 lashes with a wet noodle for even SUGGESTING that someone is smarter than Obama.

Plus, I hear he's the consumate chess playa.

[rateyes]

12. I graduated Laude Laude, as in

"Laude, Laude, I can't believe he graduated."

[asphalt.jungle]

17. the president said "laude laude" tonight in LA

from politico's white board: http://www.politico.com/politico44/wbarchive/whiteboard05282009.html

Again praised Sotomayor. Said she was Summa Cum Laude, "not just magna or laude laude, but summa cum laude."

[Double T]

16. Just taking a run down of our congressional representatives that have..........

graduated from Yale or Harvard and the wall street criminals that have graduated from the same, I'd say BOTH universities have failed miserably.

If someone throws trillions of dollars that they don't have at a multitude of problems, how can that person be called smart, smarter or smartest? Just wondering.......

[WeDidIt]

20. Yale is considered the superior law school n/t

[bemildred]

21. "better student" is not necessarily the same thing as "smarter".

I know, I'm being picky, but the point deserves attention.

[Happyhippychick]

22. Neither. Obama and Sotomayor are both products of affirmative action.

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: