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People need to be clear on this point: Barrio was PRESIDENT of the Harvard Law Review. NOT editor.
At the Yale Daily News, for comparison, the Editor is the one who has to earn the position based on a record of superior work in writing and analysis of issues, opinions, and publications. And I believe the Editor of the Law Review is chosen by his peers – other law students. Or is the President ALSO the editor? Anyone have any information on this???
In STARK contrast…
The Law Review presidency – especially in the case of this annointed person – is much more of a political plum, and from what I’ve read, the administration of the Law School and the University seem to have important votes to cast in the process.
Anyone who has actual knowledge and some credentials as having served on the Harvard Law Review should be able to shed some light on this.
It is just one pebble in the general avalanche, of course.
But I am sick beyond description of hearing undocumentable bullpuckey piled above our toiling heads, about how the Dowager Empress Clinton was voted one of the One Hundred Smartest Lawyers in the United States, or that Harry Insane Burama tested out as the biggest stinking brain ever recorded in the history of the Universe. Not enough ascii characters in the registers to actually show his full IQ on screen without going to scientific notation.
Obviously, the public photos of our towering GENIUS Prezzie have all been Photoshopped to erase the wires connecting his enormous cranium to the supporting weather balloon tethered above.
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Ahh, here we go:
A contemporaneous article from the New York Times described the election process as follows:
“Until the 1970′s the editors were picked on the basis of grades, and the president of the Law Review was the student with the highest academic rank. Among these were Elliot L. Richardson, the former Attorney General, and Irwin Griswold, a dean of the Harvard Law School and Solicitor General under Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon.
That system came under attack in the 1970′s and was replaced by a program in which about half the editors are chosen for their grades and the other half are chosen by fellow students after a special writing competition. The new system, disputed when it began, was meant to help insure that minority students became editors of The Law Review.”
That is from the article “First Black Elected to Head Harvard’s Law Review”
By FOX BUTTERFIELD, Special to The New York Times, dated Tuesday, February 6, 1990
Interesting date there. Let’s see, o graduated from the exclusive and prestigious and amazingly endowed Punahau School in 1979, attended Occidental from shortly after high school until transferring to Columbia University in 1981, receiving his B.A. in 1983.
A few years in Chicago making his community organizing bones, then a stint at Harvard Law from 1988 to 1991. Back to Chicago for a second period, this time earning much higher returns on his time. This is the period where he seems to have actually run some sort of organization with hundreds of employees (not clear whether they were full time or just names on a padded list.) And it was a lot of community activists, evidently paid with funds provided not by earnings but by “contributions” “grants” and other scams.
Sweet.
One of the places listed as having benefited from the genius leadership of o is the Lugenia Burns Hope Center.
By the Way, the Lugenia Burns Hope Center is another community activist organization specializing in “leadership training”, NOT a medical burn center providing hope for burn victims.
Well, I was SO WRONG about o. The Nobel Prize, yet. I suppose my own judgment can’t POSSIBLY compare to the combined wisdom of all those worthy members of the Norwegian Parliament who also awarded a Peace Prize to the MURDERING PERVERT YASSIR ARAFAT! AND THE MORON kisser of any Communist rear end that wanders close enough, JAMES EARL CARTER!!!!!
Yeah, genius.
