Barack Obama and the Harvard Years: The Interesting Information We Found That You May Not Have Heard
This article is a special contribution by freelance writer Charles C. Johnson.
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Obama during his Harvard years. (Photo: Harvard University News Office)
By now, it is not news that Barack Obama was elected president of the Harvard Law Review in the early 90s. But what has gone largely ignored is what happened after that took place. What motivated the young Obama? What was his focus during his tenure? Does that time reveal anything about who he is?
In that spirit, TheBlaze went digging. What we found is worth noting, and reveals that the Obama of old was someone quite interested in race, especially in a newly-uncovered school newspaper interview he gave. Additionally, he may have not been as popular with conservatives as you’ve been told.
Obama and Race at Harvard
After his election to the presidency of the Harvard Law Review, Barack Obama told the Harvard Law Record — the student newspaper of Harvard Law School – that “he is especially interested in Constitutional law, noting the ways in which issues of race relations and resource allocation ‘are often played out in Constitutional terms,’” according to archives recently viewed by TheBlaze.
“His work as a community organizer has given him an appreciation for business law as well,” the article, published after Obama’s Harvard election by Paul Tarrr and John Thornton, says.
“Those interested in public policy have to think about how the private sector can be harnessed to promote urban development,” he told the paper.
And while Obama owed his election to the Harvard Law School presidency to conservatives, he nonetheless thanked controversial black professors. “My election is a positive sign in that it shows people are ready to put in leadership positions black folks who have strong concerns about black issues,” he said.
The founder of Critical Race Theory, Derrick Bell, “said a member of the Review called him at home at 12:50 a.m. Monday, minutes after Obama’s election,” according to the Record. (The debates had begun at 8:30 a.m. the previous morning.) “I’m very pleased,” Bell told the Record. “I guess I tend to be one who stays in a state of constant pessimistic despair about chances of America ever doing the right thing as far as race is concerned. Well, I grasp these little indications as a sign that maybe it might work after all.”
Obama repaid the compliment. “I’m walking through doors other folks broke down,” he told the Record. “A whole bunch of people worked real hard to allow me to be in this position—folks at BLSA, Prof. Bell, Edley, Ogletree and a lot of others. They are the groundbreakers.”
Obama “emphasized that HLS has a long way to go to attract a more diverse faculty and student body, but he attributes his election partly to strides the law school already has made in these areas. He said he enrolled in HLS because there was a core group of professors examining legal issues of concern to minorities,” the Record wrote.
Obama was doubtlessly referring to the critical race theorists of whom Edley and Bell were practitioners. Critical race theory is the controversial idea that all of law is simply the enshrinement of white privilege, rather than justice. Obama identified with these professors.
“The fact there were diverse viewpoints on the faculty was important to me, and the fact there was an active black students organization was important to me,” he said in the article.” It also helped that there were a lot of students interested in public interest law.”
“I believe all this stuff helped pave the way for my being elected because it creates an atmosphere that allows a person of my interests and perspective to be in the mainstream. It means white conservatives can trust me, and it means I can stake out my positions and be myself.”
Obama said it is “vital” that HLS “start thinking about its relationship to the larger society and about the kind of commitment the school should make to assure kids like me get in these positions again.” Though Obama said he was only the “first among equals,” he saw “his new position as an opportunity to broaden and sharpen the scholarly orientation of the Review, making it more inclusive of minority and ‘alternative’ perspectives,” according to the Record. Obama had told the Harvard Law Record that he was “personally interested in pushing a strong minority perspective,” on the law review.
Those alternative perspectives included awarding the honorary foreword position to Robin West, a law professor at University of Maryland “at the time and an expert on feminist legal theory,” according to David Remnick, author of “The Bridge.”
Still, he didn’t want to read too much into his own election.
“It’s important to note that stories like mine aren’t used to say everything is O.K. for blacks,” he told the Record. “You have to remember that for every one of me there are hundreds of thousands of black students with at least equal talent who don’t get a chance… .”
Was Obama Really Popular With Conservatives?
One of the enduring myths of Barack Obama’s time at Harvard is that he reached out to conservatives. In fact, he was just the lesser of two evils, at least as far as the conservatives on the Harvard Law Review were concerned. Brad Berenson, class of ’91, and the rest of the conservative bloc threw their support to Obama over David Goldberg because they saw Obama as more conciliatory and less strident in his liberalism. The thinking was that Obama, who was a good three years older than most of the editors would proceed in better faith.
“Obama was not a uniter. To portray him as someone who brought everyone together wouldn’t be accurate,” Berenson told TheBlaze, “but he was a non-combatant. He was mature and held himself above the fray. He was courteous, decent, and respectful,” says Berenson, even toward conservatives, who were a distinct minority on the law review staff.
To the more politically left-wing members of the Harvard Law Review, this was too much, says Berenson, and Obama clashed with them on occasion. The first skirmish between Obama and the far left members of the Law Review started early. Several of the more left-wing members of the Harvard Law Review wanted Obama to appoint them to positions on the coveted masthead, but Obama, says Berenson, played it straight and appointed people to positions based on merit. “I’m as conservative as they come—I didn’t vote for him in ’08 and won’t be voting for him in ’12—but Obama always treated me well. I liked and respected him.”
But whether or not Obama was a rigorous editor remains to be seen. “Obama was friendly and outgoing, but the class succeeding him wanted a tougher editor to lead them. [David] Ellen, quiet and fair-haired, had graduated summa cum laude in history and science from Harvard College in 1987. He had worked at “The New Republic” in 1989, the summer before starting law school, and was seen as someone who would be a more rigorous blue-penciler,” wrote Eleanor Kerlow in “Poisoned Ivy: How Egos, Ideology, and Power Politics Almost Ruinted Harvard Law School.”
Obama never wrote a bylined piece as editor of the law review, perhaps because his interests extended beyond. “I don’t think Barack sees this as a steppingstone to the academic aspects of the law,” Rob Fischer, a close friend of Obama back at Harvard, told the Record at the time.
“But whatever he does, he is extraordinarily committed to making a contribution to the resolution of social problems in this country.”
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anothercomment
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 10:12am…I commend these people for reading their DNC approved script with accuracy, concealing the fear of reprisal from a dictator-in-waiting. This man is as genuine as ‘virgin naugahyde’ and more corrupt that Gaddafi’s regime. When did the Arabs decide to describe themselves as ‘black’?
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Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 10:28amIf Obama was even remotely nice to conservatives back in his Harvard days, all that has gone out the window today. He is the most divisive president ever and even when he gets pounded by Romney in a debate because of his rhetoric, he just goes out and repeats the same stupid things Romney took him apart for.
Obama’s Harvard education won’t help Obama in this next debate because he knows nothing about foreign policy. What a joke:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igCsKGXWacI
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progressiveslayer
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 10:44amGold coin. Barry is a dangerous joke as well,the middle east is on fire because of him and war is imminent. He’s an evil marxist pig who has no business being POTUS based on him being a fraud.
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anomnomnommm
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 11:54am“…I commend these people for reading their DNC approved script with accuracy, concealing the fear of reprisal from a dictator-in-waiting. This man is as genuine as ‘virgin naugahyde’ and more corrupt that Gaddafi’s regime. When did the Arabs decide to describe themselves as ‘black’?”
Yeah, Obama is the divisive one…
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The_Cabrito_Goat
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 12:05pmI thought it was “naga hide”…..?
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Marine 1
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 12:06pmAs a nation we are at critical point in time. The very freedoms we have enjoyed which are God-given and contained in the U.S. Constitution are at stake. In the last many decades we have seen an erosion of our individual and collective freedoms.
Obama has damaged OUR nation almost to the point of no repair and our Constitution hangs by a damaged thread. (Obama has shelved the Constitution) Others have contributed to the problem as well – not just Obama.
We teeter on the edge of existence as a nation. We, the people, with God’s help will be its salvation. Dark and difficult days are ahead for all of us. Recovery will not be easy but it has to start in November. (Romney is not the whole answer either – it will take him and all of us to change things.)
Socialism does not work. “The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money to spend.” (Margaret Thatcher) Redistribution of the people’s money has never worked.
We need jobs, domestic productivity, better foreign policy (A President that will not bow to every goofball out there.), American Patriots that will oppose the corruption in D.C. and locally, and a “kick the $#!^” attitude out of the OPFOR. Allow our military to do their jobs – protect U.S. (I have facts from my meetings with Iraq and Afghanistan vets at the VA hospital.)
Get rid of the illegal, Muslim, communist Obama and his staff of idiots now. Help save our nation one step at a time.
Semper Fi
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Docroxall
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 12:27pmThis is ALL classic Alinsky radicalism made effective. You simply APPEAR to be amenable, while you undermine the very foundation of your “enemy’s” philosophy, politics, and values. Some QUOTES to give us all a “lens” to view the President:
The man of action views the issue of means and ends in pragmatic and strategic terms. He has no other problem; he thinks only of his actual resources and the possibilities of various choices of action. He asks of ends only whether they are achievable and worth the cost; of means, only whether they will work. To say that corrupt means corrupt the ends is to believe in the immaculate conception of ends and principles. (Alinsky 1972: 24)
http://www.infed.org/thinkers/alinsky.htm
I would summarize Alinsky THIS way (without prejudice):
If you are poor, and without power (black, minority, or OTHERWISE oppressed), there IS NO SUCH THING as unethical behavior…lying, cheating, scheming, and coercing, is a concept that only the powerful and rich can be held accountable for. Hence, he, and Obama, believe that the ONLY people who should be held to ethical, moral, and behavior standards, are the rich oppressors, everyone ELSE (he and his constituents included), cannot be held responsible for their actions. Hence we have a President, who ideologically, fundamentally believes his race, and his ideology, FREES him from telling the truth, behaving with honor, dignity, consistency, or any other “lofty” ideal, other than RESULTS.
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kryptonite
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 1:13pmThis dull article can be summarized in two sentences: Peoples’ hopes were high when they elected the first black HLR President, but Barack turned out to be the greatest fiasco in the history of the most prestigious law journal in the country. He failed as an editor and he wrote ZERO academic papers during his one-year term as HLR President. Does that sound familiar, folks?
P.S. Don’t believe anything a “conservative” Harvard man says about Barack. Remember their definition of “conservative” is Bill O’Reilly.
I like this 2008 article better, although it’s a bit repetitive and has clear political overtones: http://www.stop-obama.org/?p=164
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sillyfreshness
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 1:49pmObama is a one dimensional issue guy….race/racism (that only whites do, of course). His wife Moochelle Antoinette is a white hating racist herself and makes no bones about it. She is proud she hates whites. It’s just like living in the US in 1820 only now it’s the blacks being racists, not whites.
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USA-forever
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 2:50pmYou are so right and God help us if he gets in agaon.
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JustAGuy
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 4:01pmHa ha ha, nice. Your post had me on a quest for the definition of naugahyde.
Back in the ‘hood, we called it pleather!
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JustAGuy
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 4:06pmNice. Your post had me on a quest for the definition of naugahyde.
Heh, back in the ‘hood, we called it pleather!
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MIBUGNU2
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 5:46pmDon’t need to know more.. I’ve seen ENOUGH !!!!!
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MIBUGNU2
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 6:11pmMust watch video about obama..No MEDIA coverage on this..
http://www.trevorloudon.com/2012/10/an-urgent-message-for-america-please-help-this-go-viral/
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pcj
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 7:02pmJust for a laugh:
During a recent Romney campaign stop, a heckler from the audience
hollered, “Hey Mitt Witt, where are you hiding your tax returns?
Governor Romney politely responded, “I’ve found a very secure place
that I’m certain they won’t be found.”
The insistent heckler, then shouted, “And just where is that, dummy”?
Governor Romney smiled and said, “They are underneath Obama’s birth
certificate, college records, his immigration status as a student, and
his funding sources to pay for college.
What’s your next question?”
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GTCharlie
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 9:01pmMarine One – I can agree with you on what Obama is doing and I do believe he is for the advancement of the Islam way of life. What I do not understand is that the leaders of the democratic party have become followers of his actions. In their view and a majority of the the media’s view Obama can do no wrong. God help us if he is re-elected.
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RebelPatriot
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 9:54pmSo justice in America was outlined by white men, therefore it can not be true justice for people of color. Fine then, get your own country (Kenya) and implement your own policies of what justice should look like, feel like and sound like.
Moreso you have shown how truly racist you are to suppose the justice in America can not be color blind.
I am at my end with attempting to convince feeble minded idiots that the lies King Hussein spews will be the demise of all our freedoms. Freedom to work, live and be, will be taken away by a socialist nanny state that will make our lives a living hell.
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Libertarian1911
Posted on October 23, 2012 at 10:35amGold Coin & Economic News had it right; “If Obama was even remotely nice to conservatives back in his Harvard days, all that has gone out the window today. He is the most divisive president ever and even when he gets pounded by Romney in a debate because of his rhetoric, he just goes out and repeats the same stupid things Romney took him apart for.”
If you tell the same lie often enough it becomes the truth.
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anomnomnommm
Posted on October 23, 2012 at 10:33pmBlaze Readers,
Please do not send your children to college. They will be indoctrinated with Obama-nazi socialist credos which fill forever eat away at our Country’s GOD-GIVEN Rights to this earth. We are the only True Patriots who LOVE America.
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anomnomnommm
Posted on November 4, 2012 at 11:13pmBlaze Readers,
Please do not send your children to college. They will be indoctrinated with Obama-nazi socialist credos which fill forever eat away at our Country’s GOD-GIVEN Rights to this earth. We are the only True Patriots who LOVE America.
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ricckky
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 10:12amThe LIAR-N-CHIEF-Is one of the best GRIFTERS EVER IN THE HISTORY OF POLITICS!!!!–beware America– This man is truly EVIL—He is the DEVIL’S SPAWN!!!!!!
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watchdogmom
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 10:04amplease see “Trevor Louden’s video, Urgent Message to America”
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GlennaBeckski
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 11:30amURGENT MESSAGE ON FUKUSHIMA~~www.youtube.com
Read it or don’t.. your choice
Just passing info along
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raybojabo
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 10:03amDon’t stop there Blaze. Look what has happened since. Its not what you know but who you know.
http://sohereandnow.wordpress.com/?s=don+fredrick
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let us prey
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 10:37amRomney should read off of this article for his first and last response for the next debate.
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NotPoliticallyCorrect
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 1:28pmThat is simply mind boggling and verifies what my gut has been telling me the entire time.
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noparty44
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 3:38pmInteresting read. That many coencidences isn’t just random occurances.
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paperpushermj
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 10:00amSo Obama’s assent to the prestigious position of president of the Harvard Law Review was really a political appointment.
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CoGod
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 10:16amI feel sorry for the poor dopes that still to this day support Obama. If they only new what he really feels about useful idiots. I hope the USA votes him out. If not, I suggest that all tax payer (making more than 250K) like me consider cashing in their IRAs and 401Ks before the new year. It is likely that he will move to seize these assets and spend the money. Afterwards, he will set up an annuity to redistribute wealth. All those that hoped to take their life savings in a lump sup to fund their aspiration for the second half of life will be out of luck. I’d prefer to pay the 45% tax rate and take the 55% to invest in a ranch or farm. I know Glenn has done the same; however, I actually know how to run a farm and ranch. I am a top-notch engineer and very good with inventions, raising crops and animals. I would like to pool resources with like minded individuals and set up a homeland and coop that cuts the IRS out of the equation. If you are interested, a christian and have $500K or more to put together please reply.
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luke9.54_56
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 11:09amto COGOD (below) and others thinking to buy propertyOctober 20, 2012 by Cheryl Pass
Land Banking: Pay To Play On Your Own Private Property
Those are but three of the latest terms in newspeak by government leftists creating the new Soviet system in the United States of America. I realized upon looking into these three terms that each one encompasses so much that I could not describe them in one post. So this is the first of three posts on these three terms. I’m discovering these things as I continue to research the destruction of the America I once new….you know, the one that guaranteed property rights and freedom. I hope you will benefit from my research in ways that help you take back our country from the Socialist system being put in place by anti-American power brokers who have infiltrated our government, our culture, our education system, our churches, our economic system, our food supplies, and all else you come across in your travels.
Time was when America supported the right of ownership of private property. That has changed. All land is now deemed property of “the commons” by our government agencies. In order to use land, you must pay someone else….not just to purchase the land, but for the privilege to use the land. Who are you paying to use the land? Answer: The government, plus the additional layers of those who want in on the take.
First: Land Banking:
“Wetland and stream mitigation banks are a viable and cost effective tool for provi
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Prochef
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 7:03pmgiven the year this occured it was more like reparations, harvard Black guilt
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bcope01
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 9:57amMy request for social justice is to see to it that all universities employ 50% liberal and 50% conservatives in their departments. This is called “redistribution” of ideas and ideals. Demand it!!
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Wango
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 10:03amTerrific idea. I’ll be the one who decides who’s liberal and conservative. Let’s get busy!
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NeoFan
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 10:21amOr you could just do the smart thing and treat all universities for what they are. Indoctrination centers.
Don’t give them a dime. Don’t let your kids waste their money going there.
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truthnstuff
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 10:26amWango, you are incapable of even deciding when to change your depends!
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michael48
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 10:45amdecide whether wango deserves to be or not to be, would be a better choice..
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AvengerK
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 10:48amWHACKO/HORSEDANCER/ad nauseum, your decision making skills aren’t something you should be too enthusiastic about little fella. After all…you want Obama re-elected. Or perhaps chronic unemployment and skyrocketing debt are things your decision making skills have determined to be desirable aspects of Obama’s failed presidency?
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Wango
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 8:15pmAVENGECAKE . . . I’m not that thrilled with Obama. I’m in the “anybody but Romney” camp. But if Romney happens to wi, I look forward to that debt coming down in the first 30 days or so. Right? Or are you going to blame Obama for everything when Willard’s president?
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Sharlene
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 9:56amI have said this before and I will say it again, Obama is a CON ARTIST. My definition of a CON ARTIST is, someone who speaks eloquently (and he does), who beguiles people with his eloquence.
In other words, HE SWEET TALKS PEOPLE INTO THINKING HE’S SOMETHING HE’S NOT.
My hope for the future of this country is, the people of this country have caught onto his CON.
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Slipstick
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 11:06amAin’t gonna happen. Four folks on our block PROUDLY display Vote for O signs. None (except mine) for Romney. God loves idiots. H made SO MANY…
Since the polls keep saying things are neck-and-neck, I expect The Dead, Felons and multi-state registered voters will decide this one. Vote early and vote often. It’s the Chicago way…
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luke9.54_56
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 11:15amyou forgot the most important goal of being a con artist…going out and spending other people’s money
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cykonas
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 11:28am@SLIPSTICK
Why willingly live amongst idiots? Maybe you should think about moving. Peace.
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PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 2:13pmI suppose ConMan is easier for the common person to understand. Paul Ryan uses the word demagogue: a leader who uses the passions or prejudices of the populace for his own interests; an unprincipled popular orator or agitator.
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eagleye
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 2:36pmThat is called the Devil.
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Baja
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 9:51amIn case you missed it:
Obama Haiku:
Mouth opens,
**** falls out.
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Proverbs17-12NLT
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 9:46amobama is a man caused disaster, that lied and manipulated all the way to the top
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Wally P
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 9:45amHow did Beck and company miss this, while Obama was at Harvard he was accused of sexual harrassment.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2805071/posts
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progressiveslayer
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 9:53amIt doesn’t have to be true just sling enough mud and hopefully
it’ll stick. Although in this case its probably true since Barrys gay as hell.
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Tigress1
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 9:43amThere were people farther left than Obama on the Harvard Law Review??? Wow! If Obama is a Communist, what does that make them? Super Duper Communists? We are supposed to trust these people when they interpret the Constitution? LoL!
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Ducky657
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 9:43amWait–are you saying Obama is the king of a$@ kissers? How exactly is this news. The only a$@ he hasn’t kissed, bowed to, and been conciliatory to is the American people who do most of the working, fighting and dying. According to a friend of mine at Andrews AFB, MD he hates his appearances with the military and generally limits his contact to officers who are progressives as well. Obama just bought another house in Hawaii recently so it is possible even he thinks he is going to lose–we can only hope!
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kat747
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 10:13amNo….it does not mean he will buy a house in Hawaii…….
It means he learned the lesson from the Clintons which is to buy a very expensive, RICH MAN’S HOUSE with another smaller home on the property.
Then you park your Secret Service Agents who will guard you with real, live bullets into the smaller home and rent that home to the Secret Service for thousands of dollars A MONTH (which is paid for by the taxpayers of the USA).
Those thousands of dollars of month (RENT) pays off the RICH MAN’S HOUSE for Barry and he
ends up with a FREE ESTATE
paid for by the US Taxpayers.
The US Taxpayers paid for the Clintons’ estate in New York….now Barry gets an estate in Hawaii…..at this point, it would not surprise anyone if Barry keeps Air Force 1.
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nmgene
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 2:20pmWhen Romney wins I hope he has the guts to have obumer, biden, pelosi, reid and all of the damocrats who backed his unconstitutional crap arrested and tried for treason. Then attach all of there property and sell it and give the money back to the people. Then when convicted have a public hanging, and or firing squad as a warning to the rest of the commies in our government!!!!!!!!
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Steve Martin
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 9:36amHe needs to go, 14 days and counting.
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bannedfromCNN
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 11:09amBYE, BYE, Barry Soetoro…
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gsplgtr
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 9:31amBarack Obama give kudos to communist black leaders for ‘breaking down doors that he could walk through. that is an insult to my father who promoted a man to be his assistant supervisor at Burlington industries in NYC. The man he promoted was an “African American” and the year was 1967. My father was an ARCH conservative without a racist bone in his body. Sorry President Obama, my father made the difference long before your professors did.
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crazyrightwingmom
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 4:30pmYou know, we have and adopted black son, my ancestors died for the Union, my great grandmother taught black neighbor children to read and one became the president of a college, so racism just doesn’t work against us…or any conservative!
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IMCHRISTIAN
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 9:29amWhat a shame as if he had the right bringing up with honor, value, love, and all other good virtues he could have really had people on his side. Instead he has brought dishonor more to himself then to the Country. We will get over it by voting for freedom.
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jedidiah
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 9:29amI have never understood why Obama won’t release his transcripts. This article finally answered the question.
When I went to law school, long before Obama, one earned their position on the law review through their academic performance, the editor in chief and the several associate editors were all in the top 6 of our class. Accordingly, I have assumed that the editor of the law review, especially at venerable Harvard, would be proud to reveal his transcripts with the only excuse not to being misplaced modesty — we know that certainly isn’t Obama. But now I find out at that at Harvard, the editor is elected by his classmates! Good Lord.
Combine that with the fact that he never submitted an article himself, or published a thing while a “lecturer” at Chicago, and I’d bet my left nad and three pints of blood that he truly is as intellectually shallow as he appears to be.
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obrien871
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 9:51amBarack Obama is the first “affirmative action” editor of the Law Review. It’s a fact, that at the time Harvard was catching a lot of flak for not being diverse enough and for not having had a black editor.
So that year they dropped the academic requirement and ran the position as a political campaign, Obama ran for the position and won. Not based on his academic ability but on his speech giving rhetoric.
Some more fun facts about his time as “editor” he was the first editor of the law review to NOT publish a single paper.
And he was the first editor upon graduation to apply for a position as a supreme court clerk… who was REJECTED. He tried for three years and no judge liberal or not would take him on… evidently they were granted access to his transcripts and thought better.
Following along in this grand tradition… he’s the first recipient of the Noble Peace Prize… for doing nothing as well!
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overthecliff
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 9:03amBlack is not the color that describes Obama that disturbs me. Red is the important color of Barak.
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PATTY HENRY
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 9:23amGreat POINT!!! We will say that to people accusing us of being racially motivated…”OH, Yes, I am motivated by color – Obama is RED “
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barber2
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 9:47amPATTY: I’ve been saying that since 2008. It’s NOT the issue of skin color , but the issue of political philosophy. The real issue here is capitalism versus Obama’s international Far Left “anti-capitalism.” Hope this issue gets nailed tonight. Obama hates capitalism which he sees as immoral and unjust. Trouble is, Marxism is NOT the solution.
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G-WHIZ
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 9:56amHey…GREEN is the new COMMIE-RED. That makes King-O’ a GREENIE!
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 1:51pmG-WHIZ, That is why they are called watermelons. Green on the outside, while red inside.
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TheCelt
Posted on October 23, 2012 at 11:47pmWhy are you so invested, still, after al lthese decades, repeating the suicidal fallacy that “…it’s not Race” et al?
It IS all about Race.
Why are you so invested in obvious and disastrous lies?
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SamIamTwo
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 9:01amYeah well he duped everyone including the blacks. He simply added more people to food stamps and welfare. Increased his base by pushing down. Ideology being well intended does not always equate to a civil society. Historically, every time bits and pieces of Marxism being used/implemented typically fails or eventually leads to failure.
The poor pay more when it gets all messed up like this. But they will still vote for the one who is screwing it up.
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freenj
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 9:46amYea they like those free phones and the money from Obama’s stash!
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O NEEDS TO GO
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 8:59amWhat scares me about this election is the media race baiting. It gives light to the possible scenario should Obama lose that he lost because he is black. Is it just me or does it seem every media outlet is pushing a racial narrative with this election? This election seems somewhat set up to me to create an event down the road, such as a war in the USA among it’s people, a race war, hope I am crazy!!!
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SamIamTwo
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 9:02amI am expecting riots due to the media. The media needs to be overthrown! They lie to further a biased agenda.
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mikem1969
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 9:50amo needs to go, you are correct, if he looses (which he won’t because his people are counting the ballots because that is the only way he could win at this point) blacks would riot just as they have done every time something did not go their way, be it a verdict, or something of that nature, they have been brainwashed into rioting to get their way. With that said, once the riots begin on a national basis, martial law will be in place and Romney would never get a chance to serve as president, because hitler’s youth has just graduated and would be in force taking lemmings to the gas chambers and re-education camps.
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woodyee
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 9:51amMore than anyone, IMHO, is as guilty of this as Chris Tingles Matthews. He must’ve had an homosexual encounter which left a lasting impression in him…
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Eastinfection
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 8:57amWhen Obama was the president of HLR…
“he was a non-combatant. He was mature and held himself above the fray. He was courteous, decent, and respectful,”….
So what happened to THAT guy? The POTUS is the opposite of those traits.
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SamIamTwo
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 9:06amNo he used the same words but was polite etc. Rather than screaming and shouting he would deflect and use terms to support his position. For instance, one can pretend to be a Christian to gain the Christian vote. Fusion, the blending of two or more groups of people by the use of similar words and terms to gain a political office. And after you get in, you show your true colors.
Say one thing, do another.
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ontheclock247
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 11:03amI’m pretty sure that means he was an indecisive do-nothing!
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SimpleTruths
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 2:48pmWhat happened to THAT guy? Mitch McConnell and his merry band of Republican “Destroy the Country in Order to Save Her” are what happened to THAT guy.
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barber2
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 5:48pmSimple: Sure Blame the Republicans for the disaster of Obama’s policies . That’s the only thing the Left knows how to do. Solve problems ? no. Blame anyone else for them? you bet.
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Detroit paperboy
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 8:52amI pray he loses………
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Wango
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 10:03amWhat, want some company?
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G-WHIZ
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 10:03amWETHEPEOPLE VOTE….HE LOOSES!! Hope in one hand and shitz in the other. Which is graphically more noticeable?! :>)
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Oneirishman
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 8:45amSo he’s always been a racist and a victim.
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Gonzo
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 8:48am…and anti capitalist.
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 8:52amThat was my thought exactly as I read the article. Really makes me wish that we had a true and fair MSM who could have actually vetted him in ’08 instead of the collective thrill up the leg!
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Wango
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 10:01amand the anti Christ!
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AvengerK
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 10:51amIs this how you like to spend your self-described “busy” retirement WHACKO/HORSEDANCER/ad nauseum? Posting drive-by drivel on blog boards?
I know what it is…you’re still upset from your days as an imaginary bell hop when guests at your imaginary hotel wouldn’t shower you with adoration and gratuities for merely doing your imaginary job?
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Gonzo
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 10:54amHe’s not smart enough to be THE anti Christ Wango…but your catching on!
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The_Cabrito_Goat
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 12:09pmI think he’s payed something like a dime per post by Media Matters, Huff Po, or some other Soros-affiliated media outlet.
But Wango will continue on, account after account, until that Soros money dries up. OR until the moderators actually start giving a damn about the content of comments and start policing them more for abusive, harassing one-liner posts like Wango’s 24/7 hate filled, obsessive drivel.
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Gonzo
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 8:38am“he is extraordinarily committed to making a contribution to the resolution of social problems in this country.”
Funny, seems he’s made a larger contribution to the fomentation of social problems than the resolution of them.
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Augydoggy
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 8:52amWell now we know 2 of us feel the same.
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starman70
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 8:52amHe has stirred up more racial and class animosity than anyone ever could have.
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 8:54amGONZO, Rush was oh so right back in early ’08. When everybody was saying that 0bama would improve race relations, Rush pointed out exactly how 0bama would make things far worse. Romney should use some of those news comments back then in his ads.
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Gonzo
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 11:15amHe was right about a lot of things R.J.. I remeber all the Republican leaders wringing their hands and saying ” We, we hope he’s successful.” All because they feared being labeled racist. Rush had the balls to say ” I hope he fails!” because he new what Obama’s success would mean for the Republic.
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Progressive-ANTIdote
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 2:35pmThe ‘Great Destroyer’ comes to mind…
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Exiled
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 8:37amCan’t we just stop talking about “color”, yet? I don’t give a hoot what color somebody’s skin is any more than their eye color. And nobody else I know does, either. Is the rest of the country REALLY still this obsessed with skin color, or is this a creation of the media?
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 8:57amI have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
No wonder MLK Jr was a registered Republican. Does anybody here think that 0bama would even dare attempt to live up to this quote?
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Fifth_Disciple
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 9:12amIt’s been my experience that those most concerned with color are those “of color”. I agree that blacks were discriminated against. I would submit that that discrimination has substantially ended. Where there is ignorance and lack of education there will always be predjudice.
Many of the remedies prescribed to combat discrimination were necessary at the time. When will recompense be fulfilled?
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GTCharlie
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 10:37pmThe color is constantly brought up because it gives the person of color a leg up on the person of no color.This will go on until all judgement of a person is based on his/her performance and not the color of their skin. I believe that if the college can accept 50 new students, then these 50 should be the most qualified. Promotions in companies should also be based on their ability and again not their skin color. I think it is time that we get rid of the guilt trip that we have been on for 100 years or so. And, if someone votes for Obama because of ‘only’ his skin color and not his performance, then this voter should be ashamed of himself/herself.
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TheCelt
Posted on October 23, 2012 at 11:55pmRace Uber Alles. Why fight reality?
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progressiveslayer
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 8:35amThose interested in public policy have to think about how the private sector can be harnessed to promote urban development,” he told the paper.
Yes we’re all familiar with the redistribution of wealth the Marxist POS is so fond of,reason # 666 to fire his worthless Marxiat @ss.
Windwalker
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 10:11amThe use of the word “harness” is not an idle thought or vernacular with this free enterprise destroyer. It is a word freely used when discussing power control. If he has his way, he will turn every business, small or large into herds of draft horses to redstribute the wealth they create by the sweat of their brows or the people they hire.
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