RE B-Rob “Where did this strange idea come from that Obama is smart?”
“[...] Obama was president of the Harvard Law Review. He graduated magna cum laude, meaning, by definition, he was among the best of the very best of the student body. [...]”
1) Harvard Law Review is a students outfit; as membership it has about 20-30% of the law school’s students population, the rest couldn’t care less about it, and HLR raciotinations interest few (Tony Rezko types);
2) “He graduated magna cum laude, meaning, by definition, he was among the best of the very best of the student body. [...}"
Answer - in the first place he entered Harvard as an "equal opportunity" student not propelled by grades (now he runs for president on the same grounds), i.e. his being there meaning that he dislodged many better qualified applicants. As far magna cum laude - relax, this is Harvard's little dirty secret - you don't get a B, you get a magna cum laude.
"[...] Obama [...] years as a respected professor of con law at a top five law school [...].”
More reasons for relaxation – Obama wasn’t a law professor, he was a part-time intructor or something, and during his impressive tenure there WROTE ONLY TWO papers on law (do a Lexus Nexus on this if don’t believe it). His students remember his class as (funny thing, this reminds me of Bill Clinton’s Admirality Law class in Little Rock(?) a fill in, and him as having the curious talent of not engaging anyone and of not being clear on anything – this holographic mister Obama, and now his talents have become a national liability.
