Ever Wonder How Obama Got into Occidental College? We May Have Found the Answer
This article is a contribution by freelance writer Charles C. Johnson.
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An unidentified news videographer videotapes Lisa Jack’s photos of “Barack Obama The Freshman” at the M + F Fine Arts gallery in West Hollywood, Calif. on Wednesday, May 27, 2009. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Of the many enduring questions about Barack Obama’s past, perhaps none figures more than that of his still-unreleased academic records. But a series of articles written in Occidental College’s student newspaper, The Occidental, in 1978-1979 sheds new light on how Obama may have been admitted through the liberal arts college’s renewed, “hard nosed” and “rigorous” commitment to increasing the numbers of black and Chicano students and faculty on campus.
Federal privacy laws prohibit anyone, save Obama, from releasing material from his academic years, but contemporaneous documentation from the time gives strong indication of how he might have been admitted to the Southern California liberal arts college, despite an admitted lackluster academic performance at Punahou School, an elite Hawaiian prep school.
Fortunately for Obama, he applied to Occidental during a time of declining enrollment of blacks and Latinos and an invigorated commitment to increase the racial diversity of the faculty, student body, and “diversify” the curriculum. The year that Obama applied to Occidental College the numbers of black and Hispanic students was at an eight-year low. Indeed, only eighteen blacks matriculated at Occidental in the fall of 1978, down seven from 1977.
“In recent years, a marked decrease in the number of minority students attending college has provoked complaints from black and Chicano leaders as well as concerned college administrators,” wrote The Occidental’s Bill Davis and Tom Hammitt in “Minority enrollment plummets” on January 19, 1979. “The number of students of minority background at Occidental has declined sharply over the past two years. Fewer blacks and Chicanos attend the college than at any time during the past eight years. Current admissions reports show a 10% decline in the number of minority applicants compared to this date last year.”
The student union on the campus of Occidental College. (Photo: Occidental College website)
The decline in admissions came as Occidental was increasing its standard for admission. “Efforts to upgrade the academic standards for minority students accepted by Occidental are another cause of the decline in representation of minority students on campus,” the same article reported. “It used to be that we’d take (minority applicants) if there was any chance of them succeeding. Now we’re being more selective,” Dean Benjamin Culley said. To help attract a higher quality minority student, Culley awarded financial aid differently based upon race. “Black and Chicano students, who comprise 10.2% of the student body, will receive approximately 33% of the funds available through his office,” Culley told the student newspaper.
Associate Dean of Students Yolanda Garcia suggested that the college had been race-norming, or adjusting scores on standardized test to have separate curves for different racial groups. Davis and Hammitt wrote that “some ethnic distinctions are made in the admissions process, particularly with regard to SAT scores” in regards to their interview with Garcia. It still wasn’t enough. As part of the consequences of a phenomenon that would later be known as the “mismatch effect,” Occidental was having difficulty attracting a quality minority student body, in large measure because the students eligible for admission to Occidental were going to higher ranked schools, like Stanford, instead. Fewer blacks and Latinos were completing their academic careers at Occidental than whites.
Hiring Based on Race
Meanwhile, a controversy over how diverse Occidental would be in the future was reaching a boiling point, and how Occidental could diversify its professorial pool. John C. Drew, the Marxist-turned-conservative, wrote on October 13, 1978 that some activists for affirmative action wanted the college to pay a premium for minority professors.
“Students at the [affirmative action] retreat also argued that minority professors were a scarce commodity and that having an ethnic background or being a woman should be considered as part of the qualities that Occidental College wants in a professor. If economics professors had to have higher salaries to attract them to Oxy, minority professors should be treated in a similar manner,” he wrote.
After the retreat and the year before Obama arrived on campus, a faculty meeting took place that decided the future of affirmative action. Norman Cohen, a Marxist who headed the Affirmative Action Committee, concluded that there was “no progress” on racial diversity on campus — the lack of which prompted black art professor, Mary Jane Hewitt, to resign in protest.
Hewitt’s departure, however, had profound consequences for Occidental’s approach to racial matters in hiring and student enrollment. Hewitt’s resignation ultimately made “people more willing (to diversify). It’s amazing how this dominates the campus. There’s interest. There’s concern. There’s willingness to work,” said Jane Jaquette, who became the co-chair of the Affirmative Action Committee with Anne Howells after Cohen left for a sabbatical in England. (Howells would go on to teach Obama Introduction to Literary Theory and to write his letter of recommendation for transfer to Columbia, because Obama, in her words, “wanted a wider urban experience.”)
The new chairs brought new attention to affirmative action on campus. “The Affirmative Action Committee promises more minority profs,” ran the headline in The Occidental on February 9, 1979. (Bill Davis and Tom Hammitt, “Affirmative Action Committee promises minority profs,” The Occidental, February 9, 1979.)
While neither Howells, nor Jaquette used the word “quotas,” there was little doubt that quotas were what was being considered. The Occidental laid out the numbers:
In American Studies, all four candidates being considered in the final selection are black. Religious Studies reports two black males among the five final candidates for the appointment. Economics includes one black PhD in its short list. Language and Linguistics two blacks and one Chicano candidate, and Art one Chicano applicant…”
Sometimes blacks made it into the final consideration simply because they were black. In the same article, the papers says the college ws searching for a “‘radical,’ non-Keynesian economist,” and economics Chairman Woody Studenmund admitted that sometimes racial considerations were preeminent. “In all honesty, [a black candidate] wouldn’t be in the top twelve [for a position] if he were not a minority,” he told the paper.
Thorne Hall, the college’s main auditorium. (Photo: Occidental College website)
The committee even proposed paying minority professors more money to attract them to the campus as part of an “agreement…to go outside of the normal bounds on salaries,” the February 9 article makes clear.
“(Black and Chicano professors) are bringing a quality to the campus that we want to have. You pay for that quality, based on what the job market is,” Jaquette explained.
“In six academic departments currently hiring new professors, nine black and two Chicano candidates have progressed to the semi-final selection rounds,” wrote Davis and Hammitt. “Estimates from the department sources guarantee the hiring of at least one minority candidate and possibly more this year…The increased number of black and Chicano candidates in faculty applicant pools can be attributed to growing faculty commitment, the coordinating efforts made by the Affirmative Action Committee and the Dean of Faculty[.]”
Recruiting more black and Chicano professors was necessary to attract more black and Chicano students, explained Howells.
“A ‘critical mass’ of minority instructors is necessary to establish a multi-cultural base to the college,” she told the article’s authors. A “nucleus of minority faculty members here makes it easier to attract more [minority faculty] after that. It’s the same thing as with minority students.” How many blacks and Hispanics would be enough for a critical mass? “We’d like to have as many as we can,” said Howells. “I’m sure we’ll see an increase over the next five years,” Howells said. “People are really going on this direction.”
Unsurprisingly, the numbers of blacks and Latinos in the 1979-1980 school year grew to 25 black and 29 Chicano freshmen, according to The Occidental College Magazine. Of the total number of black freshmen, 19 were granted a total of $51,878 ($184,000 in today’s money) in scholarships; of the Chicano freshmen, 22 were granted a total of $39,100 (138,000 in today’s money). State assistance and funds from the institutions themselves make up more than 50 percent of all financial aid and more than 70 percent of grant aid to minorities, noted an admissions officer at the time.
“Occidental Couldn’t Give a Damn if It Returned to All [Anglo]”
More black and Chicano students and professors also meant more black and Chicano courses. “I think the curriculum is changing with respect to openness to so-called minority courses,” Jaquette told the paper on February 9. “If we can get minority people on campus, the curriculum will change. The departments have shown themselves willing, and these people will come here with an interest in diversifying.”
To help that process along, Occidental created an official “Minority Recruitment Day” on March 28, 1979, where it brought approximately 400 black, Chicano, and Asian high school students from 12 Los Angeles inner-city schools to present them with a “very down to earth view on why to go to college, and why to come to Occidental,” according to administrator Jim Reskin. (Tom Hammitt, “ASOC schedules Minority Recruitment Day,” The Occidental, February 16, 2012)
Unlike other school recruitments, this one was led by two activist organizations on campus, MeCha for Latinos and UJIMA, for blacks. “We want it to be student run because this is something which nobody else is doing,” Reskin told the paper. “The visiting students will not be badgered by people wearing suits and ties.”
Ironically, UJIMA’s executive coordinator, Michael Harris, and administrative coordinator, Sara-Etta Harris, may not have encouraged many blacks to attend. “Racism in an institutional arrangement definitely exists here,” Michael Harris told The Occidental. “For many black students, the Occidental experience is a very alienating experience. It really detaches you from your community. It really drains you. I’ve known students who left Occidental and refused ever to come back.” Sata-Etta Harris agreed. “From what I’ve seen in my three years here, Occidental couldn’t give a damn if it returned to all [Anglo].”
Both Harrises encouraged the college to go out of its way to recruit more black and minority faculty. According to the same Occidental article, “Recruiting such a faculty, said Michal Harris, demands a different approach to departmental hiring than is generally used—qualified blacks and Chicano instructors often suffered roadblocks in their careers that make them appear on their resumes to be less qualified and talented than their white competitors.”
Occidental’s Racial History and the Black Student Caucus
The decision to admit more blacks came as part of the tumult of the ‘60s. Occidental began concerted efforts at minority recruitment in the spring of 1964, with the aid of $275,000 granted by the Rockefeller Foundation,” wrote Hammitt in the second installment on minority students at Occidental called, “Turbulent past of minority student radicalism reviewed.” The grant was to be “seed money” to recruit more blacks and Latino students and similar amounts were given to other liberal arts colleges throughout America. The numbers of blacks on campus increased in 1967, growing to 44 black and 33 Chicano students, but that was not satisfactory for the Black Student Caucus.
“There is a growing desire for identity in the Negro community. We are telling ourselves that we are going to develop as Negroes,” a BSC spokesman told The Occidental in November 1967. “We intend to accumulate as much information as we can, in any form, concerning ourselves and that which affects us particularly as blacks.”
On January 27, 1968, the BSC held a forum titled, “Black-White Confrontation,” which drew over three hundred members of the Occidental community and where a BSC leader upbraided the school for not offering jazz, African art, Negro history, or courses on black politics, like Malcolm X. “The forum also revealed a growing cultural awareness and unity among black Occidental students,” the paper reported at the time.
The Black Student Caucus was a forerunner of UJIMA, a black radical group whose meetings Barack Obama would later attend. He would also later attend meetings long into the night at Columbia’s Malcolm X Lounge, a place intended for blacks and christened by Eric Holder Jr., his future attorney General.
Obama at the dinner. The New Yorker’s caption reads: “Obama with his friend and roommate Hasan Chandoo at the Ujima dinner.”
Dissatisfied with the numbers of blacks on campus, the Black Student Caucus led forty students and a few faculty members into the president’s office on May 28, 1968. Though the students and faculty were thrown out of the president’s office, many of their demands carried the day. “The demands included requests for more intense minority student recruitment, a more ethnically diverse faculty, and the expansion of the academic curriculum to include courses more sensitive to black students’ needs and interests,” wrote Tom Hammitt in the “Turbulent” article.
Obama as a Student
Perhaps Barack Obama was actually brilliant around the time of his college years, but his own words about his schooling at Punahou and Occidental give us reason to doubt that. In his first book, “Dreams from My Father,” Obama describes himself as a lackluster high school student whose mother criticized him for being a “loafer” (142). He describes his attitude toward schoolwork as “indifferent” (146), calling himself a “bum” who abused drugs (138) and who partied all weekend (165). He “settled on Occidental College mainly because I’d met a girl from Brentwood while she was vacationing in Hawaii with her family.” (146) That girl has never turned up.
There are reasons to doubt his testimony, however. He had fibbed about a “transfer program” between Occidental College and Columbia University, which he described and which has never existed. In fact, Obama was recruited to Occidental by Kraig King, Class of ’77, who ran recruitment for Occidental College in Hawaii at the time.
Obama, King explained, came from Punahou, a school that King described on the phone as “the best high school in Hawaii.” King, now an executive in Minnesota, recalled in a phone conversation with TheBlaze meeting “Barry Obama” in Hawaii. And though Obama was interested in basketball, King said he knew that Obama wasn’t going to be interested in playing for the team. Though King didn’t say so, it seems obvious Obama’s status as a black student from a top prep school would have helped his chances of admittance at Occidental even if he were a terrible student at Punahou.
Obama’s Role in Affirmative Action Protest on Campus
If Obama did benefit from affirmative action, it might certainly explain his interested in the policy while at Occidental. I wrote earlier this year about how the first political speech Barack Obama ever gave was at a rally against apartheid and in favor of affirmative action. Recently released photographs taken by Obama’s friend, Tom Grauman and published by Margot Mifflin, another Obama friend now at the New Yorker, confirm that the rally was about racial preferences.
Student newspaper records which I uncovered from Occidental (excerpted below) reveal that the protest wasn’t just about South Africa: it was also about increasing racial preferences for black and Latino students and faculty at Occidental–a history that has been utterly missing from Obama’s political record.
From top to bottom, the rally was planned, promoted, and performed by Obama and his friends, including Professor of English Eric Newhall, who served as the co-chair of the faculty committee on multicultural education, and who supported the campus’s affirmative action program with especial gusto. Newhall was a veteran of campus activism of the ‘60s and he, like many Occidental professors, continued his activism on campus as a professor. He was also a draft-dodger who had spent ten months in prison for draft evasion in 1968-1969 — a fact that gave him a certain gravitas that the more politically active of his students appreciated. While Newhall never taught Obama during his two years at Occidental, the two were close socially and played basketball together.
In an article written on February 20, 1981 in The Occidental, Professor Newhall worried that Occidental College would become especially white given that several minority administrators were leaving the college at the end of 1981, and that that would, he said, have a deleterious effect on student education. These departures included administrators Romelle Rowe and the aforementioned Yolanda Garcia, who had been tasked with recruiting more blacks and Hispanics to Occidental’s campus, respectively.
Obama himself was planning to join that exodus of minorities from the campus and likely filed out a transfer application to Columbia in January 1981.
Many of the campus’s student activist leaders graduated in 1981, but Obama still had two more years to go before he, too, would graduate. Could he have been motivated by the alleged lack of diversity on Occidental’s campus? He writes in “Dreams” of his desire to find his “community,” and later moved to Morningside Heights and Harlem. The diminishing numbers of minority faculty and the graduation of many of his minority friends at Occidental provided the final push, especially given Obama’s interest in racial issues.
Obama at the rally, according to pictures published by the New Yorker. That outlet’s caption reads: “Closeup: Organizers and speakers at the rally. Wahid Hamid and Barack Obama are seated at left. Hasan Chandoo is seated and Caroline Boss is standing at center. Sara-Etta Harris is standing at right. Laurent Delanney is in the white T-shirt, lower right.”
At the rally, Professor Newhall argued that the decision of minorities to leave Occidental, as well as the number of minority students dropping out, was indicative of persistent bias on the part of Occidental students and administrators. From a February 1981 Occidental article:
“I’ve recently become aware that there is presently developing on this campus, an attitude of suspicion and intolerance towards certain groups,” [Eric Newhall, professor of English] announced, “mainly against blacks, Chicanos, Jews, and gays.” These prejudices he said, result from the frustration that many are feeling such problems as a spiraling inflation rate, high unemployment, and a high crime rate. Such conditions lead people to “search for scapegoats.” But he added “if we can’t stop harassment on this campus, we really don’t stand much of a chance of stopping it anywhere else.”
Newhall also said he realized that the school’s affirmative action program was in trouble and fretted that there might not be a single Chicano on the faculty or administration and made an explicit call for racial quotas:
[Newhall] admitted that “we all say we want affirmative action but we don’t want to pay what it apparantly [sic] will cost. Minorities with PhDs are in scarce supply, and thus will cost more to hire.” He said that he doesn’t like the idea of “someone else being paid more than I am for doing the same work I’m doing,” but that he liked even less having a “virtually all white faculty.”
Newhall then presented a plan designed to help increase minority enrollment. This spring, the Multicultural Education Committee, along with the admissions office, is planning to invite all accepted minority applicants to campus for a reception, in hopes that they can be convinced into choosing Occidental. I’m specifically asking the student body and the SCC to support our efforts, both emotionally and financially,” he said.
The rally continued with remarks about race from Latina freshman Becky Rivera [pictured here], who described Occidental as a “picture perfect campus. It’s quiet and beautiful, and no one has to worry about the students getting upset. Well, we’re upset.” She then accused the administration of “playing off one (minority) group against another,” and its plan is to “divide and conquer.” She warned that “a few of us ignorant minorities have got us some education,” and are “demanding answers and demanding action.” She added that “students are responsible for revolutions. Students have power. It starts on the campuses.”
(Obama was likely referring to Rivera when he mentioned his fictionalized “Regina” in his autobiography. There were only two women that spoke during that rally—Becky Rivera, a Latina girl, and Caroline Boss, a white member of the Democratic Socialist Alliance—and Obama seems to have compressed them both into one black student—Regina.)
The last to speak was Earl Chew, president of UJIMA, a black activist group on campus, and friend to Barack Obama. Chew called Occidental’s idea of a multicultural liberal arts institution “a farce,” and saw investment as “taking our tuition and investing it in the oppression of our ancestral people.”
Neither Chew nor Newhall were alone in linking the divestment issue with affirmative action efforts on campus. Shortly before the protests in February, “Members of the Student Coalition Against Apartheid” (which Obama had joined) and the “Third World Coalition,” among others, signed a letter (which I have reviewed) calling Occidental’s “commitment” to affirmative action “questionable”:
- It was overlooked to ask for any minority representation on the Dean of Faculty Search Committee. We find the position of the Dean of Faculty a viable one for the encouragement of Affirmative Action.
- Taking into consideration the geographic location of Occidental College, we would expect that Occidental would be more conducive to an ethnic and cultural atmosphere. Yet, we have only two full time Hispanic and only two full time Black faculty members.
- Over the past couple years, minority enrollment has increased, yet the attrition rate of minority students has also increased. The entering classes of 1970 and 1980 have had a decreasing enrollment of Black students.
It’s possible that this unsigned letter may very well have been written by Obama. As part of the campus protest movement, he describes himself as “drafting letters to the faculty” as part of his “larger role.” (“Dreams,” p. 160). The official history of Occidental mentioned the affirmative action protests as having taken place on February 18, 1981, writing:
Increased attention to minority rights, begun in the 1960s, also continued to command attention. Seeking greater minority representation, students and faculty members on February 18, 1981 held a rally in front of Coons Hall during a meeting of the trustees. A “Minority Caucus” sought more multicultural courses, to be taught by minority members. The faculty and administration, however, decided against tokenism that would admit students of marginal abilities to enlarge minority representation. Although aptitude tests would henceforth be weighted more lightly in the case of minority applicants, the college, as a small institution, did not possess the resources to service deeply-disadvantaged students.
The activists were ultimately effective in getting what they wanted passed:
A faculty committee on multicultural education, in 1982, became the committee on minority issues, consisting of faculty members, students, administrators, staff members, and alumni. This group sought to identify problems faced by campus ethnic minorities. An outgrowth of meetings of minority administrators and of a faculty caucus, the committee advised expansion of the minority presence on campus, although the college had already expanded its commitment to “Affirmative Action.” In 1984 President Gilman said about the effort:
The College has been engaged for 20 years in an effort to increase diversity among the student body and faculty. In the ‘60s we received three quarters of a million dollars to provide assistance to minority students. And we have been actively seeking more minorities since ’64. Because of this, the College has been strengthened and enriched. (See Andrew F. Rolle, “Occidental College: A Centennial History,” 1887-1987)
“I Got Into Politics at Occidental”
So what does this all mean? It’s clear Occidental had been in favor of affirmative action ever since the 1960s, and that could explain how it was that Obama, an admittedly poor student in high school, had been admitted to Occidental.
In addition, Obama shared Prof. Newhall’s politics and fought for those very racial preferences. And could it be that part of the reason he fought so hard for them was because he was a beneficiary?
“I got into politics at Occidental,” Obama told Occidental in a 2004 interview with Occidental magazine. “I made a conscious decision to go into public policy.” Now, it seems, we know that racial preferencing was one such policy that played a roll in his life And maybe that explains why, in Dreams, Obama describes the divestment issue itself as a “subconscious end run around issues closer to home.”
Editor’s note: You can see more pictures of Obama’s time at Occidental here.
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FastJimmy3
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 9:04amA freeloading; unqualified slacker, pretty much somes up his whole life, and Presidency.
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Stuck_in_CA
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 9:15amObama & his ‘friend and roommate’ Hasan Chandoo did make a cute couple…
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BSdetector
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 9:32amIt’s racist to deny someone admission because they are of X race.
It’s not racist to deny someone admission because they are of Y race.
Doesn’t the logic of the Left make perfect sense???
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barber2
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 9:45amBS: After 50 years of Affirmative Action, everyone should be able to compete on an equal basis.
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NOFX
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 9:46amMinorities and women get special privileges.
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Marine 1
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 9:52amObama has entirely too many secrets to be trusted with our country. How difficult is it to open your records and allow access unless they tell a distrubing story.
Obama is the most useless POS I have ever seen. He is a liar and a traitor – just look at Benghazi. No real American would just sit by and allow Americans to die like that. Hell no! The real truth is coming out slowly but surely. I think Barry is a guilty as sin regarding Libya. All the more reason not to vote for him.
Someone should explore Obama’s “gay” past. It appears he has a “history” of such behavior in college and in Chicago. It seems that Barry could have been a card-carrying member of a gay bath house in Chicago.
Secrets, secerets, and more secerts. All bad. Obama’s whole life is one big secret and he can’t be trusted – period!
aragona
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 10:38amThis is not news. Anyone in university and law admissions knows that blacks are especially coveted (second only to native americans) and all of the schools are competing for the small number of black applicants. As a former top tier law school admissions recruiter, I can tell you that all underrepresented minorities are admitted using lower standards than whites. I can also tell you that the minorities admitted at my law school were almost always in the bottom 1/3rd (or perhaps more accurately 10%) of their classes (because they are competing with students who were not admitted using more lenient academic standards) which is almost certainly why BO hasn’t released his transcripts. I am nearly positive that his grades are nothing to write home about.
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Alky
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 10:57am“more black and Chicano courses”, “affirmative action”,
How about just teaching readin, writin & arithmetic regardless of what freakin color the students are. Growing up I was under the impression minorities were fighting to be equal with whites, what the hell is going on now?? It’s worse now with this black president, during Bush, race was hardly ever a topic, now we’re getting beaten over the head with it every day! Even during Clinton, race was in the news a lot, could it be the left stirs up racism on purpose?
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KURT1010
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 10:57amI wondered where eric holder came from, and why he is still atty gen….
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rosegrower
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 10:58am@NOFX
Not all minorities. If you notice Occidental didn’t have any “affirmative action” for students of Asian descent. That’s because in California, Asian students are discriminated against in college admissions, because they routinely score higher on SATs and ACTs than whites, blacks or Chicanos and are “overrepresented” in law, medical and technical schools. In other words, the highest achievers in the state are shoved to the back of the bus to allow students like Obama admission. And you wonder where the term “dumbed down” came from?
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G-WHIZ
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 11:03amY’a mean…THEking-Berri got in because HE was BLACK??? NNnooooooooooooooooooo!
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Mo Better
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 11:38amActually, the photo was of Mr. & Mrs. Mohamed Hasan Chandoo.
No need to guess which one is which, unless you disregard Barry’s predilection for Chicago’s gay bath houses with his buddy, DeadFish Rahmbo, the ballerina Mayor of Chicago.
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TAXEVERYONE
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 11:44amNo wonder he doesn’t want his records released.
He is America’s first Afirmative Action President!!!
And the left fooled everyone by saying how smart he was.
This FRAUD should carry a prison sentence.
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PATTY HENRY
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 12:03pmSTOP!!! STOP THIS!!! OBAMA filled out application to OCCIDENTAL in which he stated that he was a FOREIGN STUDENT from Indonesia therefore he was applying for FOREIGN STUDENT LOAN. I saw it!!! It’s probably hidden somewhere on the web site…and I saw it in 2007-8 !!
Why didn’t BILLARY call him out on these things? Recently I read that Axelrod had hired a ‘hit-man’ type of Private eye who uncovered (back in 2008) that Chelsea was actually the child of Hillary and Arafat when she was over in the M.E. as part of her Pro-Palestinian stint. I have very good friend who is a wonderful portrait artist and they said it’s totally possible, especially the lower nose, mouth and chin. …. that has been their ‘hold’ on the Clintons in case anyone wanted to know.
On BILL CLINTON: Impeached, Disbarred, Paid almost 1 M in fines over lying; Lewinski debacle while in OVAL office and WE are supposed to listen to him?
It is easy to forget history/overlook it but altogether? The Clintons just don’t have credibility left. She lost everything she might have had when she let those 4 Patriots die in Benghazi and LIED and LIED about it!! Bless The Parents and loved ones of those murdered. IN 20 minutes they were able to save the BRIT AMBASSADOR when his convoy was attacked in Benghazi in June…20 Minutes. but they couldn’t do a damn thing in 7 hours. TRAITORS!!!
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nichevo
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 12:08pmWell Blazers here we are less than a week until election day and instead of calling out the postives of Governor Romney you are looking backwards 35 years at President Obamas college admission records. Have you learned nothing since 2008??? You tried this crap back then and it backfired BADLY. It’s really hard to believe you are on the same track to failure again. I’m trying to help you out here but you lemmings continue to follow Glenn Beck, Rush, Sean et al to your doom. Anyway, get your food insurance backpacks and hang on.
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PATTY HENRY
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 12:25pm@ NICHEVO: in 2008, dear, NO ONE knew how TRAITOROUS and HORRIBLE OBAMA and his record was. MCCAIN was a Passive Aggressive guy which most of us voted for PALIN, not him, But right now, dear, we are talking about a TREASONOUS act against OUR SOLDIERS and an AMBASSADOR!
WE all know how great ROMNEY is, what a wonderful job he will do; How great his success level has been and we’ve been blogging not only here but every where those DEMS have tried to tell lies. YOU probably need to PADDLE YOUR OWN CANOE as American VOTERS are NOT finding out via the MSM things like this WHITE HOUSE managed to join in and save the Brit Ambassador in June 2012 in Benghazi in TWENTY MINUTES but refused to do anything to save these 4 in 7 hours. WHY? Because they didn’t want the “TAINT” of terrorist attack against this horrible administration!! THEY have tried to call Ft. Hood “workplace crime” now they are trying to call Benghazi “crime” too.
RUN ALONG. WE’RE just fine. WE have a GREAT CANDIDATE now with amazing Credentials and he’s gone up against this lying POS and defeated him in debates. HE will defeat him on TUESDAY as well.
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DOra Glasberg
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 12:25pmHe’s the president until 2016 and Mittens isn’t.
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girlnurse
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 12:49pmNOFX: Please tell me what the “special privileges” are for women because they’ve never given me any!
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The-Monk
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 12:50pm@Dora
I feel your pain. I’ve known and counseled many libs that were about to explode with all the pent-up anger they felt for their side and themselves. Don’t worry… after your obvious upcoming mental breakdown we on the right will be here for you. It’s only a matter of time and time is running out for you based on the progression of you posts.
Yep, seen it many times. You’ll be a Republican in no time. Just keep up the hate. You know, just like Darth Vader. He turned and so….. will…… you……. Here’s a nice happy face for you. : )
Just look in the mirror….. you’re toast.
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Taquoshi
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 12:58pmOnly in America. What a country!
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VerySeniorCitizen
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 12:58pmHas anyone noticed that the Blaze has NOT ONE story or picture of Governor Christie BEING a governor for his state and working with the President of the country – for the good of ALL vicitms of Storm Sandy – WITHOUT regard for politics?? This is no time for anyone to play politics, religion race or capitalism because this is a HUMAN problem. ‘There, but for the grace of God – you you or I” !
And I notice that Romney’s ‘food drive’ has also been evicted from these pages. By the way, ‘food drives’ create more problems than they solve. As a veteran VOLUNTEER at many of these kinds of catastrophes I doubt that ANY thought was given to the ‘LOGISTICS’ needed for ‘on-site’ volunteers having to make/take time to ‘inventory, sort, re-route or discard anything that is damaged’ from the load of ‘mixed’ items that Romney has forwarded. And since a truck-load of mixed merchandise which might include diapers and baby food, school supplies and children’s shoes – are all USELESS when delivered to a shelter which houses mostly adults and the elderly.
The Red Cross, the Salvation Army and other charitable organizations are begging for donations of MONEY so that they are able to get the correct emergency supplies to the places where they are needed WITHOUT having volunteers spending hours sorting items. Those volunteers should be helping the victims of the catastrophe in other ways!
There are more than seven million folks in need of our hel
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Annapurna
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 2:16pmHey, ‘Very Senior Citizen”, did you know The American Red Cross President and CEO Marsha J. Evans’ salary for 2011 was $951,957 plus expenses? No thanks, I’m not planning to feed their beast any time soon.
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j_berry50
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 2:20pmJust think about what they will put in Obamas presidential library; what kind of fairy tale will they make up?
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mercenary4freedom
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 3:19pmRight on MARINE1, this is why when he is ousted next week, they need to just go ahead and arrest him, send him to the brig until trial then send him to the gallows with no contact from anyone befor he’s hanged.
Along with all that has enabled him, foreign & domestic.
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TEARS FOR AMERICA
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 4:29pmAnd many like him who milked the system for all they could to further “the radical progressive agenda”.
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no ways tired
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 4:32pmDuh!
http://www.wnd.com/2012/09/claim-obama-hid-gay-life-to-become-president/
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Secret Squirrel
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 5:06pm.
Just like Harvard and Columbia,
Occidental wanted black exchange students from Indonesia.
What?
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DennisHabern1
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 6:12pmIn my total experience working and living with Blacks and other Minorities while stationed in the
military, proved to me that most Blacks were lazy, liars, and very non-professional, which is
a very brief description of the current POTUS, if you follow. The Black character has not changed
in thousands of years, me thinks because of their professed tribal mentality, similar to Muslims.
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j_berry50
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 8:06pmWhat do you think “they” will allow into his Presidential Library?
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jlondon53
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 9:01pmI’m sorry but could this video segment possibly be any more boring? Uh, Uh, Uh, Uh, Uh, Uh, Uh! I’ve never heard a less professional broadcast. I was hoping to get some information and listened to endless and meaningless rambling and Uh, uh, uh, until I couldn’t take it anymore. If there’s anything of substance in this video it’s been completely buried. I certainly could not share on FaceBook as no one in the entire world would get past the first 30 seconds before sacking it. I can’t believe Beck hasn’t given these people a warning or something. I love the Blaze – but this is ridiculous.
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Larmo63
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 11:17pmWhat should really be looked into is his gay porn videos and photos. They exist, they have just been scrubbed by his CIA handlers. His marriage to Mooch-elle is totally an arranged affair, she was one of Jesse Jackson’s “girls.” Look it up, there is a lot about Barry Sotoero you might not know.
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IOUQuidProQuo
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 11:42pmBH Obama was always about the STRUGGLE = Community Organizer 101. When $hit HIT the FAN, win or lose, Community Organizer BH Obama was on to the NEXT BEST THING! Same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. His FOLLOWERS suffer from STOCKHOLM SYNDROME!
Critical Race Theory 101
http://books.google.com/books?id=rh12xOYncbQC&dq=race+theory+anthropology&printsec=frontcover&source=in&hl=en&ei=1ZWvTa-CGdKftwfY6fmkBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=13&sqi=2&ved=0CHMQ6AEwDA#v=onepage&q=race theory anthropology&f=false
TIME MAG Sept 2008 =
BH Obama taught CRITICAL RACE THEORY and Constitutional LAW/Alinsky STYLE Abuse at ROCKEFELLER University of Chicago -
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1835238-1,00.html
Stanley Ann Dunham worked for Rockefeller Foundation & Ford Foundation with United States Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner’s father.
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VoteBushIn12
Posted on November 2, 2012 at 1:54am@Marine 1
You disgrace your name.
“I will obey the orders of the President of the United States” ring a bell?
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mersey
Posted on November 2, 2012 at 5:33amMan, all this time I thought it was because of his overhead hook shot……….NOT.
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obamapoop
Posted on November 2, 2012 at 6:40amDoes anyone else find it ironic that a liberal arts major is telling the nation that we need more engineers and doctor graduates? While I have the lowest of opinions regarding Obama, this story is really baiting the worst in us as conservatives to drag out Affirmative Action. It would be the equivalent of saying that Obama is president because he is black and he is a bad president for the same reason…..the two are not inclusive. These are facts but he is a bad president because he is a spoiled brat with no leadership experience, save the past 3 years OJT and an academic idealist notion of the way things ought to be(when Im king), not because he is half black.
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makinitthru
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 12:16pm“somes up”????
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Jackal7130
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 9:04amVote and Vote and Vote get EVERYBODY to vote Romney. Show these radical liberals and and all the young ones that have been created ( boy do we have work to do) what REAL AMERICANS can do when we have to. Then we work on gettin rid of communist s**t like MTV and NBC and ABC and ALL the anti-American MFs. Cmon people 5 days from now we gotta 86 this commie in a LANDSLIDE! LETS GO!!
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barber2
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 9:43amPray that you are correct and that the Big Lies and under-handed tactics of the Far Left, which we see daily in the Obama Administration, does not succeed in stealing this election. REMEMBER BENGHAZI
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wakeupamerica19691939
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 2:55pmmy ass is going to be there and I’ll take everyone to the polls who will let me take them. Only way that POS would win the election is if he truly stole the election. Not on my watch!!!
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pwatkins
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 9:02amSurprised NOT………thanks Glenn.
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22AUTOMATIC
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 10:23amBelow is probably the best piece/monologue ever done on Barack Obama’s upbringing by anyone over the past four years. It hits just about every point. Hilarious, entertaining, and informative. Forward to anyone you know who is still “undecided.”
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/crocodiles-and-monkeys-and-birds-oh-my-why-are-these-exotic-animals-swarming-becks-studio/
P.S – anyone considering donating to help out the east coast look up Glenn Beck’s charity Mercury One which is working with Operation Blessing and others in NJ, NY, and elsewhere. They do sensational work.
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zapped
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 9:00amThe world gone mad. From a wealthy pakistani’s **** boy to the white house. Makes you wonder what kind of freak the dems will vomit up next time. Be ready for post election insanity.
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llotus
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 11:45amZapped……hillary. Lotus.
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Useful_Idiot
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 2:31pmThat would be Biden…..please!
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Eastinfection
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 8:56amHow did POTUS get into college?…
Beats me… i’m still trying to figure out why I went to college…
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BehindBlueEyes
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 8:53amThe only education that matters in Obama’s life is the education Frank Marshall Davis gave him during his teenage years. Frank instilled love of communism in young Obama’s mind.
The love of Islam was instilled in Obama by his stepfather (Lolo Soetoro) when he lived in Indonesia.
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PatriotofPast
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 10:16amThat picture of him above in the Diner… Was he Married while at Occidental? His wedding band is the SAME one he wears TODAY!
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BehindBlueEyes
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 10:27am@PATRIOTOFPAST
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/does-obamas-mystery-ring-really-have-there-is-no-god-except-allah-inscribed-in-arabic/
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napoleon_solo
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 3:13pmAnd don’t forget he was taught to “love” older men, which while frequenting the Chicago bathhouse scene transformed into “love” of older white men.
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Strange_Paradox
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 4:40pmHmmm…..guess his “love” of older white men is why he refers to Biden as “uncle” Joe….
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barber2
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 8:51amWas in Johannesburg. . Visited the Mandela house. Noticed a photo high on a top shelf . Showed a younger Mandela with a smiling Castro. Probably from the 60s. The Communists have always used race and class to attract young followers and to undermine American capitalism around the world. The international Left is still doing the same. South Africa is on the brink of another race/ class war stirred up by the Left over these same issues. Obama was mentored by the Marxists from the 60s. Occidental College was nick-named the Moscow of Southern California. Apparently, that old mentoring has stuck with Obama. Apparently when Barry became Barack, that was an important turning point in his political life and when he decided to share those ” dreams” of his Marxist father.
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FlagWavingPatriot
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 8:49amI don’t know how he got in. But I do know he didn’t deserve it. That much is clear.
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desertspeaks
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 9:09amaffirmative action “racism” is reverse discrimination by excluding people who QUALIFIED for a position but because of a lack of melanin are pushed to the back of the line. If someone can’t qualify on their own merit, then they should NOT be pushed to the head of the line because of their skin color just to be politically correct or meet some RACIST quota!!!!
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Ilikepeople
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 8:45amWhat would happen to a pile of blocks (and you’ll say people aren’t blocks), but still the Societal dynamics are the same if over time you take out the weaker blocks moving them to the top, take out more weak ones moving them to the top, and more to the top over and over again? Pretty soon all the weak blocks make their way back to the base, and all kinds of weak blocks are holding up the entirety, but not for long because your pile will collapse. Oh I wonder if that’s what the Prophets mean when they speak of the mountain melting away.
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Ilikepeople
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 8:56amThe fact of the matter is that is why the Bible refers to Kings removing your Eunuchs to the high places. Of course most Americans just love to do that – you’re a nation of kings.
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Ilikepeople
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 8:58amAnd then ignorantly, but arrogantly most Americans will sit there thinking how dumb it is that a foreign leader says “America is a nation full of mini-dictators.”
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Ilikepeople
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 9:05amAnd the love of many has went cold because dictators don’t like other dictators when they are vying for the same piece of pie at the same table, and it means dictator Bob doesn’t like his neighbor dictator Chuck.
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Ilikepeople
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 9:06amI guess one can say it is apparent to me that the U.S is pretty well over with.
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JeffersonsPen
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 9:37am@ILIKEPEOPLE That is a euro-third world view of Americans. It never ceases to amaze me how non-Americans think they have us fiqured out when the truth is that in the annuls of recorded history less than 5% of mankind have lived free………most of wich hasbeen in the US of A. The majority of the world has either been saved at one time or another by this simply idea or had thier A$$ handed to them by the US of A…………..read a history book numb skull!
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barber2
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 9:49amJEFF: Somethings are best ignored as is ILIKE(to annoy)PEOPLE . This Troll pops up with new names regularly. Same old nonsense. New name brand. Very needy.
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chips1
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 12:17pmILIKEPEOPLE:
Sounds like you have the piles.
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AxelPhantom
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 8:40amI have never been so insulted as the time after my father’s death, when the lawyer handling his affairs told me that I should apply to law school because, since I was a woman, and part Native American, I could get into some really outstanding schools. I told him “If I were to get into a good law school, it won’t be because of my genitals, or my heritage, neither one of which I had anything to do with, or how capable I am, it will be because God gave me a good brain and my parents gave me the ethics to work hard. If I am good enough, then I will get in”. He was a bit stunned. ”But I’m talking about Harvard or Georgetown..” as if that was impossible to attain on my own merit. People who believe in preferential treatment for certain minorities really believe they are doing them a big favor.
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americansfightingforcommonsense
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 8:54amCorrect. Now look how that has effected America. A man who smoked dope and did blow and who was a below average student became the POTUS. LOL . What are we doing to ourselves?
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AxelPhantom
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 9:20amAmericans fighting for common sense,
“What are we doing to ourselves?”
The same thing we are doing when we forget how to cut a piece of wood and build a home. The same thing we are doing when we stop knowing how to grow/raise our own food. The same thing we are doing when we cannot walk 10 miles because we eat too many Cheetos. The same thing we are doing when we let our kids sit around after school living in a video game or they come home to an empty house. The same thing we are doing when we live outside our means to climb the social ladder. The same thing we are doing when we deny the existence of a divine power higher than ourselves……That is just a start.
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localwildlife
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 9:29amYes indeed! I have often wondered what it did to people’s self esteem to know that they got into a prestigious school, not because of their own hard work and intelligence, but because the powers that be thought them to be so inferior that they had to lower the standards, especially for them. This is going on at all levels of education: My daughter is in college to become a teacher and it is being drummed into her that as a teacher, she will need 2 different gauges to measure the abilities of her students, between privileged (ie, white) and under privileged (others).
I have to ask myself whether “people who believe in preferential treatment of minorities really believe they are doing them a big favor.” I want to think that it comes from a good sentiment but I think that it comes actually from a desire to keep those people down (progressive) by showing them the only way they can succeed is by giving them hand outs.
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AxelPhantom
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 10:18amLocal Wildlife,
There is a disturbing trend in teacher training. One of my children has dyslexia and dysgraphia. They gave him “help” in the form of pulling him out of some regular classes (Spanish) to be taught by a special ed teacher. After 6 months, I looked at the papers he was bringing home and was shocked to find that in his regular classes they were giving him “A”s on a paper when the text was gibberish. This was a 6th grader. They were passing him and his problems on to the next grade. I pulled him out of the school (my background is Psychiatry) and taught him myself until he was ready for high school. He is now in college and doing well in a “real” major.
On his part, I demanded from him legitimate effort and on my part, gave to him the same. There were times of frustrated tears, from both of us and hours spent trying to complete a task that most of us take for granted. In the end, he is able to function now like every other man his age (his longtime girlfriend was shocked to find out recently he had these issues) and in many cases better, because he knows he can overcome adversity, frustration and impossible odds.
Letting kids, even those with mild (and yes I put dyslexia in this category) physically caused learning issues get a pass is unconscionable, much less those with “social status issues”. It is an immediate feel-good (mostly for the parents) but in the end, destroys them and their self-esteem. Please let your daughter
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AxelPhantom
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 10:23am….know.
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eyesopened
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 8:38amthis diversity BS needs to end. I run across all kinds of “degreed ” individuals….they cannot even speak …or dress for that matter…properly.
too many free rides because they are a certain race…..not because they have worked hard academically.
letting someone “lean forward” over others, simply because of color/race….now THAT….is what I call …racism
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DannyM
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 8:38amAlong with others, I appreciate the Blaze bringing this issue to the fore, but it is hardly news. Everyone knows Obama is the result of Affirmative Action. Whatever he is, he didn’t truly didn’t build it.
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Gonzo
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 8:52amThat’s how he got in the White House as well.
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 9:44amI wonder how many potential “white” Presidents we would have had, that had to take a different path in life, because a minority took their place, unfairly. Do they not think this disenfranchises poor white students? Not ALL white people have money to go to college and Affirmative Action only caused less white people to get money to go, while the money was wasted on some blacks who either failed or dropped out. I believe this also was the cause of the dumbing down of America, because we had to lower the standards for minorities, tests were dumbed down so minorities could pass and the domino effect just took it from there.
Affirmative Action needs to be phased out. We are at a place where we no longer need it.
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BODYBAG
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 9:47amYup.
“To help attract a higher quality minority student, Culley awarded financial aid differently based upon race. ”
Barry’s whole life has been about his race. He’s never acieved anything merit-based. Not even
the Presidency.
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Kisses6350
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 12:16pmWait, I had to comr back and re-read this. Are u serious? Dude???? OMG!
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Walkabout
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 1:16pmI remember in the early 1990s a public university paying graduate assistants $600/month of the were white or Asian. But if they were black they were paid $800/month.
I also remember Jesse Jackson complaining there were not enough black CEOs.
Well it takes while to “grow” a CEO. The pipeline is like 20 year long or more.
The usually have degrees in finance, accounting or engineering. They go on to get MBAs.
I remember entry level computer programming course. There should have been 5 to 10% African-Americans in them. The courses were not that hard. Visual programming was actually fun. A the time you could get a job with an associates or less pre-2000. Sure by the time you get to the 2nd or 3rd course it can be more challenging but not the 1st 2 courses.
But I did not see 1 African American in the entry level classes.
So I ask you “How do you go from no African-Americans in entry level computer courses to the CEO of a software company?”
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BODYBAG
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 1:39pm@WALKABOUT
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 1:16pm
So I ask you “How do you go from no African-Americans in entry level computer courses to the CEO of a software company?”
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Easy —– Basketball Jones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVogvCi4w4g
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NealPatrick
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 8:37amThe race obsession in the federal government, academia and entertainment industry has destroyed this country. The day institutions in America started handing out things to people not because they earned it, but because of their skin color was the day we doomed ourselves to a future of declining civilization.
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Stoic one
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 8:24amSo Bathhouse Barry has been propped up all of his life by his white handlers; OH! the irony.
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loriann12
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 8:32amYea, they lowered the standards to get blacks and chicanos in…how racist is that? What if a college raised their standards to eliminate the stupid people, and it happened to come out that it allowed less blacks in? Maybe the solution would be to teach them better and not pass them if they didn’t deserve it in the lower grades? na, that would make too much sense. I would be totally insulted if they lowered the standards to let me in.
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barber2
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 9:27amLORI: Agree. The Discrimination Card has been a tragedy for both white and blacks. Instead of helping blacks to achieve more and to meet old grading standards , the schools just lowered their standards so as to not be accused of racism . End result : American public education today and the dolts who watch for the latest actions of Snooky, and fall for the angry, divisive brainwashing of the Lefties .
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PATTY HENRY
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 12:34pmYOU know what?! That is really a point to ponder, @ STOIC ONE !!! HE doesn’t have one BLACK with him (except Vallarie Jarrett-Michelle) …but all the rest are SOS’s like Axelrod, Ploueffe, Emanuel, Sunstein,… Jones was there but had to be fired. Hummmmmmmmmm.
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bdandsl
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 8:21amAs far as we [America] know, obama hasn’t accomplisheds a thing on his own merit or character his entire life. All he recieved, was given to him at the taxpayers’ expense. He has ridden the ‘affirmitive action’ train through life and has never had to earn a thing. And it shows!
Obama, you didn’t earn that education, others worked hard to pay for it. Others, that likely, couldn’t afford to send their own kids to college.
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right
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 8:48amSounds like you hit the nail on the head.
Now we know why he thinks no one built what they have. HE DIDN’T!!
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Bonnieblue2A
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 1:30pm@ Right, indeed. Projection is the most telling characteristic of the neo-Marxist left. Obama Sr. came to this country on an affirmative action airlift and Obama has been milking the affirmative action teat his entire adult life. Obama’s entire life has been spent trying to identify with the black heritage that rejected him when his father abandoned him. In all reality, Obama despises reality; not only his own but that of this country.
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Edohiguma
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 8:20amSo what was his high school GPA? His college GPA? What about the papers he wrote? I want to know. I want to see this stuff. Because whenever I apply for a job, I have to bring all records. Why does the POTUS not have to do this?
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barber2
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 9:21amEDO: because of Affirmative Action ?
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Psychosis
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 8:18amcolor me shocked
if anyone didnt already know this they are blind to reality
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chips1
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 12:07pmI’m supprised that this story hasn’t been whitewashed already.
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Proverbs17-12NLT
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 8:15amHe sold drugs to the faculty, and had sex with the dean of students (who was a dude)
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Red Meat
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 8:13amJust more AA fail. I recently had to let go 15 employees. Guess who got the pink slips.
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Stoic one
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 8:26amUM…non-wasp ethnic backgrounds?
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Proverbs17-12NLT
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 9:49amI will be firing employees also next Wed. if obama is re elected, Jan.1 taxageddon, and obamacare pretty much sealed there fate, I did check bumper stickers so I know who to let go. Hope that free obama phone was worth it morons.
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 8:13amSo even in the manner of college Obama is a charlatan, fraud and a liar. He is a radical to the extreme and the truth of anything concerning his background cannot be trusted unless substantiated by cast iron findings.
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barber2
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 9:19amI think the hidden school records are a symbol of Barack Obama , the man who promised us the Most Transparent Administration in American history . Like Joe Wilson said: he lied. NOBAMA 2012
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skiz
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 8:12amThe truth is a saudi prince paid for all of obamas college. His grades where crap by the way. That’s right. tied to muslims AGAIN! Go figure.
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HKS
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 8:12amWish someone would have paid me to go to collage.
“Remember Benghazi”
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Ilikepeople
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 8:10amI never wondered mostly because it’s pretty obvious the U.S promotes the weak, and holds down the strong. Of course I have always made a note to myself that Jesus usually spoke about the poor rather than the weak, and naturally over time the two words have become synonymous in the minds of people to each other. Probably because there are rich who are weak; rich who are poor; and poor who are strong.
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Ilikepeople
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 8:30amOf course you can’t tell most modern Americans that because they are [Exceptionally American], and if someone even implies there is something they don’t know, then their forehead becomes harder than rock as they become arrogantly indignant. It will probably be your undoing.
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JeffersonsPen
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 9:43amSo ILIKEPEOPLE what grand nation do you reside or come from? You obviously have Americans all figured out so maybe we should take a look and see if we can’t help you and your nation ! I’m just dying to know from wher such great wisdom comes from.
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kickagrandma
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 8:10amWhat IS this, “investigative journalism”?
WONDERFUL job, BLAZE.
Oh, that other “news media” would follow your example and RETURN journalism to an honorable profession. The msm has whored/pimped itself into extinction.
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 8:15amYou have all of that so right Grandma, thanks a bunch as you summarize it so well.
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Gary_K
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 8:07amWe know that barry didn’t get into collage on his brain power so affirmative action was the only way for him to further his education.
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on November 1, 2012 at 8:14amPlus speculation of his being supported by Saudi Arabian interests, and several Marxist and Communist groups.
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