Fear the Vetting! Breitbart.com Bombshell Exclusive: We Don’t Have Obama’s SAT Scores!

Vetting their pants again
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It’s one BOMBSHELL EXCLUSIVE after another at the site that Andrew Breitbart built! Man, these guys are ON FIRE!

Stand back, because the VETTING continues with an astounding new breaking news story by Charles C. Johnson (no, it’s NOT ME): EXCLUSIVE: THE VETTING - DID OBAMA HAVE LOWER SAT SCORES THAN GEORGE W. BUSH?

So, in order to make such a bold pronouncement, Charles C. Johnson must have obtained the long-sought SAT scores of Barack Obama, right? After all, he says they’ve ESTABLISHED it.

Wow! What a BOMBSHE… oh wait. You mean, he didn’t get the SAT scores? So what’s the basis for this claim?

Breitbart News has learned that the transfer class that entered Columbia College in the fall of 1981 with Obama was one of the worst in recent memory, according to Columbia officials at the time.

That’s it?

They’re kidding, right?

Nope, not kidding. (These people are out of their freaking minds.)

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97 comments
1 erik_t  Tue, May 22, 2012 10:40:37am

Given the SAT/ACT divide, it's entirely possible that Obama never even took the SAT. This would amuse me.

2 HappyWarrior  Tue, May 22, 2012 10:40:49am

We don't have his preschool report card either. Did Barack share with others or not? And did he get a smiley or frowning face?

3 bratwurst  Tue, May 22, 2012 10:42:56am

Again I ask: if Obama's RECORD AS PRESIDENT is as dismal as some would have you believe, why in the world do these nitwits focus exclusively on nonsense like this in an effort to knock him down?

4 erik_t  Tue, May 22, 2012 10:44:19am

re: #3 bratwurst

Again I ask: if Obama's RECORD AS PRESIDENT is as dismal as some would have you believe, why in the world do these nitwits focus exclusively on nonsense like this in an effort to knock him down?

SQUIRREL!!!

5 darthstar  Tue, May 22, 2012 10:44:47am

It's good this story didn't break until after the NATO conference...that could have spelled DOOM if it came out last week.

6 HappyWarrior  Tue, May 22, 2012 10:45:06am

I'm going to say but here goes. Who gives a crap what his SAT scores were. Does it at all take away from the fact he got into Columbia and later Harvard for law school? He's accomplished a lot. More than the idiots who run Breitbart.com will ever dream of accomplishing.

7 lawhawk  Tue, May 22, 2012 10:45:36am

re: #3 bratwurst

They're collateral attacks by birthers and/or racists (questioning his lineage, legitimacy as a candidate, etc.). Question his grades, question his education, question his jobs, question everything - all while ignoring the answers that are clear for all who wish to see.

8 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, May 22, 2012 10:47:03am

They just still do not trust the political climate to just out and say "We hate him because he's a n*****!"

This is how they vent their repressed racist rage.

9 Lidane  Tue, May 22, 2012 10:47:22am

re: #6 HappyWarrior

Does it at all take away from the fact he got into Columbia and later Harvard for law school?.

IT PROVES HE SKATED BY ON AFFIRMATIVE ACTION! ELEVENTY!

Basically, this is just another way for the racist assholes to try and poke holes in his legitimacy. They don't have anything else.

10 HappyWarrior  Tue, May 22, 2012 10:47:59am

re: #9 Lidane

Basically, this is just another way for the racist assholes to try and poke holes in his legitimacy. They don't have anything else.

It's all they care about I know. Sad bastards.

11 SanFranciscoZionist  Tue, May 22, 2012 10:48:03am

re: #6 HappyWarrior

I'm going to say but here goes. Who gives a crap what his SAT scores were. Does it at all take away from the fact he got into Columbia and later Harvard for law school? He's accomplished a lot. More than the idiots who run Breitbart.com will ever dream of accomplishing.

More precisely, how bad can his SAT scores have been if he got into Columbia?

12 Lidane  Tue, May 22, 2012 10:49:00am

re: #8 Expand Your Ground

They just still do not trust the political climate to just out and say "We hate him because he's a n***!"

I'd respect them more if they just came out and said that. Instead of pushing this birther crap and this "VET THE PREZ!" garbage, they should just outright admit they hate the fact that a black man beat a white man in 2008 to become POTUS.

They'd still be assholes for saying it, but at least they'd be honest for once.

13 HappyWarrior  Tue, May 22, 2012 10:50:55am

re: #11 SanFranciscoZionist

More precisely, how bad can his SAT scores have been if he got into Columbia?

That's a good point too. I don't actually know of a single person from my high school graduating class that got into an Ivy League school. For someone with no connections to the Ivy League establishment, the fact he got in there is a testament to his intelligence.

14 Gus  Tue, May 22, 2012 10:51:40am

Breitbart.com: Romney approved bloggers.

#Fail

15 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Tue, May 22, 2012 10:52:19am

And if his SAT scores aren't high enough, what will they do? Flunk him? Take away his diploma?

What if he actually gave a fake flower to his prom date in her wrist corsage?

What if he never got a good conduct badge in elementary school?

What if it was HIM that stuck the gum under the desk in preschool?

What if NONE OF THIS ACTUALLY MATTERS?

16 CriticalDragon1177  Tue, May 22, 2012 10:52:40am

Charles Johnson,

I don't think they're crazy, but they maybe desperate. Most people wouldn't even care about something like this. At least with the ridiculous birther conspiracy, if it were true they'd have a basis for arguing that Obama didn't qualify to be the President under the constitution. But even if all this is true, why should anyone care at all?

17 dragonath  Tue, May 22, 2012 10:52:44am

Aw, everybody knows he got into Columbia because of AFFIRMATIVE ACTIONZZ

18 RadicalModerate  Tue, May 22, 2012 10:53:27am

re: #1 erik_t

Given the SAT/ACT divide, it's entirely possible that Obama never even took the SAT. This would amuse me.

I know that I took the ACT my senior year in high school instead of the SAT because of the fact that the ACT tested on science knowledge, which is not part of the SAT counterpart.

19 Lidane  Tue, May 22, 2012 10:53:53am

re: #1 erik_t

Given the SAT/ACT divide, it's entirely possible that Obama never even took the SAT. This would amuse me.

Yeah, this.

Also, I just looked at Columbia's transfer requirements. Even beyond the ACT and/or SAT scores -- which would come from the testing agency to the school, NOT from Obama himself -- Columbia requires a minimum of a 3.5 GPA before they even consider you, and beyond that, they take less than 10% of their transfer applicants.

Pointing this out would fall on deaf ears, of course, since it would mean acknowledging that Barack Obama got good enough grades to transfer to Columbia, so he's not as dumb as they think he is.

20 SanFranciscoZionist  Tue, May 22, 2012 10:54:08am

re: #17 Be Zorch, Daddio

Aw, everybody knows he got into Columbia because of AFFIRMATIVE ACTIONZZ

Maybe. OK. He did pretty good with it.

21 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Tue, May 22, 2012 10:54:23am

re: #18 RadicalModerate

I know that I took the ACT my senior year in high school instead of the SAT because of the fact that the ACT tested on science knowledge, which is not part of the SAT counterpart.

I took both. I needed ACT for my intended college, but I wanted the SAT score just to have.

22 JeffM70  Tue, May 22, 2012 10:54:47am

Teh stupid hurtz. It hurtz reel bad.

23 HappyWarrior  Tue, May 22, 2012 10:56:22am

re: #19 Lidane

Yeah, this.

Also, I just looked at Columbia's transfer requirements. Even beyond the ACT and/or SAT scores -- which would come from the testing agency to the school, NOT from Obama himself -- Columbia requires a minimum of a 3.5 GPA before they even consider you, and beyond that, they take less than 10% of their transfer applicants.

Pointing this out would fall on deaf ears, of course, since it would mean acknowledging that Barack Obama got good enough grades to transfer to Columbia, so he's not as dumb as they think he is.

What a dumbass. I'm with you. I would appreciate it more if they were just honest about their intentions and beliefs about Obama but no they're cowardly little wusses who hide behind stuff like this.

24 lawhawk  Tue, May 22, 2012 10:56:43am
Breitbart News has learned that the transfer class that entered Columbia College in the fall of 1981 with Obama was one of the worst in recent memory, according to Columbia officials at the time.

Breitspawn's latest failure is one of logic and reasoning (I know, go figure). You cannot assume that Obama's grades were worse than Bush. You cannot assume what his grades were based on the statement that the transfer class in 1981 was worse than those of other years based on the recollection of Columbia officials at the time.

Columbia's an Ivy League. They typically take the top 1% of all graduating seniors from high school. The typical grades to get into an Ivy League puts you in the top percentile of SAT/ACT scoring. Transfers can be somewhat lower than the freshman class - since they're coming in with an established college coursework that can offset. Even if you allow for that, you can't discern Obama's grades from a group. Obama could have had the best grades from that incoming transfer group. He could have had the middle range - and still exceeded the grades for Bush (not like it matters - the two aren't running against each other in any event). There's no way to extrapolate from that kind of statement. No notion of how many comprised the transfer class, whether there were other factors involved, etc.

I rate this hair on fire.

25 Archangelus  Tue, May 22, 2012 10:57:16am
(These people are out of their freaking minds.)

Aaaaaannnnnddddd this is news... how exactly? ;)

26 HappyWarrior  Tue, May 22, 2012 10:58:15am

Breaking, Barack Obama one time partied the night before an exam. He's clearly illegitimate and a bad, bad man.

27 RadicalModerate  Tue, May 22, 2012 10:58:50am

re: #21 Mostly sane, most of the time.

I took both. I needed ACT for my intended college, but I wanted the SAT score just to have.

I probably would have done the same, if I hadn't scored in the 99th+ percentile on my ACTs.

And then almost threw it all away when I had a major crash and burn my sophomore year because I thought I could handle a full-time job, two part time jobs and a full 20 semester hour class load. Yeah. I burned out REAL bad.

28 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Tue, May 22, 2012 10:59:47am

re: #27 RadicalModerate

I probably would have done the same, if I hadn't scored in the 99th+ percentile on my ACTs.

And then almost threw it all away when I had a major crash and burn my sophomore year because I thought I could handle a full-time job, two part time jobs and a full 20 semester hour class load. Yeah. I burned out REAL bad.

Yeah, that wasn't a bright idea. The one time I took 21 hours, I only had one part time job.

And no life.

29 RogueOne  Tue, May 22, 2012 11:00:11am

I left a thank you on the other thread...to reiterate...Thanks for the nice words. Much appreciated.

30 I Am Kreniigh!  Tue, May 22, 2012 11:00:12am

Obama is a snob because he wants everyone to go to college without getting good grades on the SAT.

My head asplode.

31 lawhawk  Tue, May 22, 2012 11:02:54am

re: #13 HappyWarrior

I know quite a few people from my graduating HS class who went to the Ivy League schools. All were brilliant and you could tell that they were going places. Westinghouse winners/semifinalists, driven, and active in a whole host of extracurriculars. Even then, it was surprising when one or another were rejected from one of their Ivy League choices (and a few were - or opted to go elsewhere b/c of scholarship options).

There's tremendous competition to get into the Ivys. Not everyone can or does. That Obama did is a testament to his intelligence and drive.

32 HappyWarrior  Tue, May 22, 2012 11:05:11am

re: #31 lawhawk

I know quite a few people from my graduating HS class who went to the Ivy League schools. All were brilliant and you could tell that they were going places. Westinghouse winners/semifinalists, driven, and active in a whole host of extracurriculars. Even then, it was surprising when one or another were rejected from one of their Ivy League choices (and a few were - or opted to go elsewhere b/c of scholarship options).

There's tremendous competition to get into the Ivys. Not everyone can or does. That Obama did is a testament to his intelligence and drive.

Yeah, I am just saying, the fact that these schools have such a low acceptance rate is obviously a testament to the intelligence of the applicants. Recently, we celebrated my cousin's graduation from Cornell. She;s already got a big job in NYC lined up on Wall Street.

33 General Nimrod Bodfish  Tue, May 22, 2012 11:07:24am

Frankly, none of his college grades mean anything to me, as we already have an impressive body of work to judge President Obama on his presidency (a rather slow economic turnaround from the previous administration, killing Osama bin Laden, aiding in the downfall of Gaddafi, among other accomplishments). And it makes President Obama look good.

The Right can't bash President Obama based on his accomplishments as President, so they're resorting to making up utter bullshit or hyper-inflating any small issue into some kind of grave insult to Riehl Ahmehrikens to try to bring down that n****r Socialist Muslim Atheist in our White House. Thus, the never-ending fail from the Right.

34 ShaunP  Tue, May 22, 2012 11:13:17am

re: #24 lawhawk

Breitspawn's latest failure is one of logic and reasoning (I know, go figure). You cannot assume that Obama's grades were worse than Bush. You cannot assume what his grades were based on the statement that the transfer class in 1981 was worse than those of other years based on the recollection of Columbia officials at the time.

You don't get it, man. By just being there, Obama dragged the entire transfer class down!

35 ShaunP  Tue, May 22, 2012 11:16:25am

This just so happened to air this morning:

Obama Made A Strong First Impression At Harvard

Harvard professor Laurence Tribe is a sort of legal rock star, particularly among liberals. First-year law students he has never met don't just show up at his door saying, "I want to work for you." At least they didn't until March 31, 1989.

Tribe recently retrieved his daily calendar from that year and pointed to the entry for the last day in March. Just above reminders for "Haircut?" and "Write US Atty," it says, "11 am: Barack Obama (1L)," indicating that this was a first-year law student.

"And then it has a phone number, which I guess is his dorm room," Tribe pointed out, "and there's an exclamation point next to it."

That was to remind Tribe how impressed he was by this skinny kid in jeans, a sweatshirt and an afro...

36 Tumulus11  Tue, May 22, 2012 11:18:05am
'If Obama’s SAT scores were near the average of the transfer students entering Columbia in the fall of 1981, he would have scored significantly lower than George W. Bush.'

'If Obama’s SAT scores were above the average of the transfer students entering Columbia in the fall of 1981, he would have scored significantly higher than George W. Bush.'

. So what?

37 krypto  Tue, May 22, 2012 11:20:28am

SAT Scores?

The last I heard a few weeks after tax time, even the IRS hadn't seen Mitt Romney's 2011 tax return yet, and even the IRS didn't know what his tax rate last year was. That seems to still be true.

That's because he avoided having to reveal that information to anyone by simply filing an application for automatic extension, instead of a real tax return, along with some large sum of estimated tax that he can eventually reclaim if his real tax return shows a lower tax owed. Barack Obama's 2011 tax return in contrast was filed, released to the public, and posted prominently on the Fox News website for all their followers to see.

No matter how important that is or isn't, it has to matter a lot more than what grades Barack Obama got decades ago.

38 Lidane  Tue, May 22, 2012 11:22:19am

re: #36 Tumulus11

So what?

Don't you get it? That would mean that black Democratic POTUS was smarter than a white Republican one!

Can't you see how this would be a tragedy for America?

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39 darthstar  Tue, May 22, 2012 11:23:17am

Breitbart's editors couldn't get any lower if they were facebook's stock ticker...

[Link: www.google.com...]

40 jaunte  Tue, May 22, 2012 11:25:52am

SAT Scores and Family Income

"...There’s a very strong positive correlation between income and test scores. (For the math geeks out there, the R2 for each test average/income range chart is about 0.95.) "

41 HappyWarrior  Tue, May 22, 2012 11:25:59am

Can we see Romney's SAT scores and his birth certificate? I'm just asking questions. I don't know if he's a secret Muslim.

42 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Tue, May 22, 2012 11:26:44am

re: #41 HappyWarrior

Can we see Romney's SAT scores and his birth certificate? I'm just asking questions. I don't know if he's a secret Muslim.

He's a not-so-secret Mormon, just in case you missed this fact.

43 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Tue, May 22, 2012 11:28:11am

re: #40 jaunte

SAT Scores and Family Income

They should try to correlate test scores with what you earn later in life.

That would be interesting.

My husband and I don't match that chart, by the way.

44 HappyWarrior  Tue, May 22, 2012 11:28:53am

re: #42 Mostly sane, most of the time.

He's a not-so-secret Mormon, just in case you missed this fact.

I know he is. I'm mocking those who think Obama is this covert Muslim.

45 darthstar  Tue, May 22, 2012 11:30:46am

re: #42 Mostly sane, most of the time.

He's a not-so-secret Mormon, just in case you missed this fact.

Only in public.

46 William of Orange  Tue, May 22, 2012 11:32:48am

Charles! Right up in your alley!!


Iran + photoshop = EPIC FAIL!

47 Mattand  Tue, May 22, 2012 11:35:09am

Charles "C" Johnson? Seriously? What are the odds this is a psuedonym designed to slime LGF Charles?

48 Romantic Heretic  Tue, May 22, 2012 11:35:19am

Um, 'established' and 'may have' are contradictory.

These people can't even use basic English properly.

49 William of Orange  Tue, May 22, 2012 11:37:50am

So....

Where are GWB's SAT scores then?

50 Lidane  Tue, May 22, 2012 11:40:36am

re: #49 William of Orange

So...

Where are GWB's SAT scores then?

Who cares? GWB was a filthy RINO we started ignoring as soon as he left office.

It's all about hating the Seekrit Mooslim Kenyan these days.

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51 Gus  Tue, May 22, 2012 11:41:10am

Looks like this is a conspiracy rehash that Charles C. Johnson published months ago. You can see it here at the American Renascence (cough, cough, cough) website: Did a Top Liberal Arts College Falsify SAT Data to Legitimize Racial Preferences?

52 Gus  Tue, May 22, 2012 11:43:55am

re: #51 Gus

Looks like this is a conspiracy rehash that Charles C. Johnson published months ago. You can see it here at the American Renascence (cough, cough, cough) website: Did a Top Liberal Arts College Falsify SAT Data to Legitimize Racial Preferences?

Similar I suppose. Of course this was picked up by Stormfront.

53 Gus  Tue, May 22, 2012 11:45:45am

Yet another Charles C. Johnson BG piece featured at white nationalist American Renaissance: In Bid to Boost Black Homeownership, Rick Santorum Fueled Housing Bubble That Led to Financial Crisis

See the pattern yet?

54 wrenchwench  Tue, May 22, 2012 11:45:55am

re: #51 Gus

Looks like this is a conspiracy rehash that Charles C. Johnson published months ago. You can see it here at the American Renascence (cough, cough, cough) website: Did a Top Liberal Arts College Falsify SAT Data to Legitimize Racial Preferences?

AmRen links to Breitbart, but OMG! the link is broken! How could that have happened?!?

55 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, May 22, 2012 11:47:10am

re: #51 Gus

Looks like this is a conspiracy rehash that Charles C. Johnson published months ago. You can see it here at the American Renascence (cough, cough, cough) website: Did a Top Liberal Arts College Falsify SAT Data to Legitimize Racial Preferences?

"renaissance" and "renascence" both mean "rebirth", the former is more closely associalted with the 14th century.

But the link to the organization is more than just coincidence, I am sure...

56 Gus  Tue, May 22, 2012 11:48:15am

re: #55 Expand Your Ground

"renaissance" and "renascence" both mean "rebirth", the former is more closely associalted with the 14th century.

Meh. Thanks. I was just using spell checker and posting on the fly here.

57 Gus  Tue, May 22, 2012 11:49:23am

Another one about race by Charles C. Johnson: California Wants to Discriminate Against Asians . . . Again

58 Vicious Babushka  Tue, May 22, 2012 11:50:06am

My daughter is at Columbia for her master's. I don't know what her SAT scores were but her GRE's were perfect and she was #1 in her undergrad class.

[Yes I'm totally bragging]

59 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, May 22, 2012 11:51:05am

re: #56 Gus

Meh. Thanks. I was just using spell checker and posting on the fly here.

also took me until I had posted for the other shoe to drop...

60 Gus  Tue, May 22, 2012 11:51:46am

Image: charles-johnson.jpg

61 Gus  Tue, May 22, 2012 11:53:28am

Charles C. Johnson Biography

At 22, Charles is a graduate of Milton Academy and Claremont McKenna where he studied government and economics. At Claremont, he edited the Claremont Independent and founded the Claremont Conservative, an award-winning daily campus website. There he exposed abuses like the banning of two pro-life students from campus for asking questions of a pro-choice speaker. Outrage over the ban resulted in a complete overturning of their sentence and an administrative apology just seven days later. His honors thesis is on the political thought of Calvin Coolidge.

Charles has worked for Charles Kesler at The Claremont Review of Books, Carl Schramm at the Kauffman Foundation, Seth Lipsky at The New York Sun, and Alan Dershowitz at Harvard Law School. While still in college, Charles started his own opposition research firm where he has worked for several candidates and helped pay his way through school. His written work has been published in The Claremont Review of Books, City Journal (online), National Review Online, The American (online), The Weekly Standard (online), Andrew Breitbart’s sites, The Pope Center for Higher Education (online), American Thinker (online), and The New York Sun. He has spoken before the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education on the use of technology to enhance freedom.

Charles has won several awards this year, including the Harrison Fellowship at the Salvatori Center, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s Honors Fellowship, the Bartley Fellowship at the Wall Street Journal, the Special Alumni Award at the Phillips Foundation, as well as the Eric Breindel Collegiate Award.

After completing both the Breindel and the Bartley internships together this summer, he plans to return to L.A., obtain his driver’s license, get married, and start another business that prices car insurance in a technologically novel way.

23 years old by now. That explains a couple of things.

62 Romantic Heretic  Tue, May 22, 2012 11:55:02am

re: #60 Gus

Image: charles-johnson.jpg

My thought on looking at that picture? You can tell this poor kid has trouble counting on his hands and feet three times and coming up with two answers the same.

64 Gus  Tue, May 22, 2012 11:56:02am

re: #62 Romantic Heretic

My thought on looking at that picture? You can tell this poor kid has trouble counting on his hands and feet three times and coming up with two answers the same.

My first thought was Leprechaun.

65 jaunte  Tue, May 22, 2012 11:56:13am

As college graduates have proven to be more likely to vote for Obama, education is not a great topic for the Breits to start harping on.

66 Gus  Tue, May 22, 2012 11:58:31am

Another:

CHARLES C. JOHNSON
Lessons of Sa-i-gu
How Koreans still wrestle with the aftermath of the L.A. riots.
27 April 2012

What you call the events in Los Angeles that began 20 years ago Sunday says something about your view of the world. To Leftists and black activists, it was an “uprising”; white liberals prefer to call it “civil unrest”; many others call them the L.A. Riots. But Koreans simply call it Sa-i-gu, or April 29. The date lives in infamy in the hearts of Southern California’s Korean-American population, which bore the brunt of rioters’ rage and paid a lasting price. L.A.’s Korean immigrant community sustained nearly half the riots’ $1 billion in property damage; the dreams and pride of more than 10,000 Korean shopkeepers and their families were reduced to ash in the conflagration, including 2,300 predominately Korean-owned businesses in South L.A. alone. Many of those businesses never returned, casualties of the riots’ political aftermath.

...

As for the media, racial conflict between Koreans and blacks is no longer much of a story. Instead, the Times and other media outlets tend to ignore the Korean community entirely. Korean-Americans worry that the riots could happen again, especially if they are taken for granted politically. “We learned that the Great Society Movement of the 1960s had failed to prevent a repeat of the Watts riot some 25 years later,” Kim explains. “What is more disturbing is that there is no assurance that it will not happen again.”

67 Gus  Tue, May 22, 2012 11:58:40am

See the pattern?

68 Gus  Tue, May 22, 2012 11:59:12am

Charles C. Johnson seems to be obsessed about teh blah people.

69 dragonath  Tue, May 22, 2012 11:59:13am

re: #61 Gus

Charles C. Johnson Biography

His honors thesis is on the political thought of Calvin Coolidge.

Wait. What. I thought Calvin Coolidge didn't have any political thought.

70 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Tue, May 22, 2012 12:02:03pm

What fun this election will be :D

71 Gus  Tue, May 22, 2012 12:03:19pm

re: #70 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]

What fun this election will be :D

I thought that was sort of present tense.

72 Bulworth  Tue, May 22, 2012 12:03:36pm
Charles has worked for...The Pope Center for Higher Education (online),

The what?

His honors thesis is on the political thought of Calvin Coolidge.

Snooze.

73 Lidane  Tue, May 22, 2012 12:04:05pm

re: #70 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]

What fun this election will be :D

Especially now that the individual states are starting to set their 2012 platforms. At the rate the GOP is going, their national platform will be hilarious, especially if it ends up going birther or Tenther or both.

75 Gus  Tue, May 22, 2012 12:04:49pm

re: #72 Bulworth

The what?

Snooze.

He looks like he's still teething.

76 Interesting Times  Tue, May 22, 2012 12:05:03pm

re: #70 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]

What fun this election will be :D

77 funky chicken  Tue, May 22, 2012 12:06:13pm

re: #6 HappyWarrior

I'm going to say but here goes. Who gives a crap what his SAT scores were. Does it at all take away from the fact he got into Columbia and later Harvard for law school? He's accomplished a lot. More than the idiots who run Breitbart.com will ever dream of accomplishing.

Hey, I was a National Merit Scholar, and even I don't give a crap about SAT scores. Call me the standardized test whisperer.

78 dragonath  Tue, May 22, 2012 12:06:28pm

Isn't it nice that the Wall Street Journal is awarding fellowships to crypto-fascists like these.

79 erik_t  Tue, May 22, 2012 12:07:26pm

re: #77 funky chicken

Hey, I was a National Merit Scholar, and even I don't give a crap about SAT scores. Call me the standardized test whisperer.

/bumps fists

I think that earned me a thousand bucks per bubble.

80 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, May 22, 2012 12:08:54pm

re: #70 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]

What fun this election will be :D

In the end, Obama and Romney are beholden to the same corporate donors, I don't believe that their economic policies will not differ to any great extent.

But the GOP has made it clear that they want to turn back the clock on social progress for women, gays and minorities by decades.

81 gwangung  Tue, May 22, 2012 12:09:44pm

Lack of SAT scores prove nothing. Went to Stanford. Even the slowest of the slow there, the ones who took remedial...ah...booster first year classes were whip smart. Easily would have been in the top six of my high school (who had three other Ivy league admits).

82 Gus  Tue, May 22, 2012 12:10:23pm

Pope Center

The John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy is a nonprofit corporation organized under the laws of North Carolina "dedicated to improving higher education in North Carolina and the nation". The Pope Center originated in 1996 as a project of the John Locke Foundation, a nonprofit think tank concerned especially with individual liberty, free markets, and limited government...

John Locke Foundation

The John Locke Foundation is a free-market American think tank in North Carolina started in 1990. Its mission statement says the "John Locke Foundation employs research, journalism, and outreach programs to transform government through competition, innovation, personal freedom, and personal responsibility. JLF seeks a better balance between the public sector and private institutions of family, faith, community, and enterprise." The organization advocates lowering taxes, decreasing spending on social welfare programs, and encouraging free markets. John Hood is its current president.

It is named after the philosopher John Locke, who was a primary contributor to what we understand as the idea of classical liberalism.

O_o

83 Lidane  Tue, May 22, 2012 12:10:41pm

re: #80 Expand Your Ground

But the GOP has made it clear that they want to turn back the clock on social progress for women, gays and minorities by decades centuries.

FTFY

84 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, May 22, 2012 12:12:56pm

re: #83 Lidane

FTFY

Nah, they would settle for the 1950's...

at least at first.

85 Targetpractice  Tue, May 22, 2012 12:13:43pm

re: #84 Expand Your Ground

Nah, they would settle for the 1950's...

at least at first.

Yeah, you can only do so much disenfranchisement in one go. Gotta do these things in stages.

//

86 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, May 22, 2012 12:14:41pm

re: #85 Targetpractice

Yeah, you can only do so much disenfranchisement in one go. Gotta do these things in stages.

//

Just reset the legal clocks, market mechanism will take care of the rest.

87 Lidane  Tue, May 22, 2012 12:15:32pm

re: #84 Expand Your Ground

Nah, they would settle for the 1950's...

at least at first.

The ultimate goal, however, is the antebellum South.

88 Gus  Tue, May 22, 2012 12:16:01pm

Mitt Romney 'Dia Uno' Commercial (closed captioned)

Youtube Video

You have to read the captions.

89 iossarian  Tue, May 22, 2012 12:17:59pm

re: #82 Gus

It's the usual suspects. I see one of the Thernstroms is on the board.

Helping black people to overcome past and present discrimination is un-American and communist etc. etc.

90 iossarian  Tue, May 22, 2012 12:20:33pm

I reckon white people should give minorities five years of absolute control of the US. All the political positions, judiciary, CEOs, lawyers, doctors. Everything.

Just five years. And then we'll never speak of affirmative action again.

91 Gus  Tue, May 22, 2012 12:21:33pm

re: #89 iossarian

It's the usual suspects. I see one of the Thernstroms is on the board.

Helping black people to overcome past and present discrimination is un-American and communist etc. etc.

Methinks he's another one of those "polite" race realists.

92 iossarian  Tue, May 22, 2012 12:21:53pm

re: #91 Gus

Methinks he's another one of those "polite" race realists.

That's pretty standard.

93 Gus  Tue, May 22, 2012 12:22:30pm

re: #92 iossarian

That's pretty standard.

I don't see the outrage here.

//

94 Achilles Tang  Tue, May 22, 2012 1:03:38pm

Jump to the bottom late:

I notice that the original comment was rewritten to suggest that Obama's scores were the lowest in a long time.

The original text clearly says that the "class" score was low, presumably as a mean or average, not that everyone's score was low.

95 leftynyc  Tue, May 22, 2012 1:07:35pm

re: #58 Learned Mother of Zion

My daughter is at Columbia for her master's. I don't know what her SAT scores were but her GRE's were perfect and she was #1 in her undergrad class.

[Yes I'm totally bragging]

You've got plenty to brag about - kvell away!!

96 Patricia Kayden  Tue, May 22, 2012 2:50:02pm

I'm with Sir McCartney on this issue. I don't need to see President Obama's university transcripts to know that he is smarter than Bush.

[Link: www.huffingtonpost.com...]

97 Mentis Fugit  Tue, May 22, 2012 4:00:53pm

re: #96 Patricia Kayden

I'm with Sir McCartney on this issue. I don't need to see President Obama's university transcripts to know that he is smarter than Bush.

Utterly irrelevant nit to pick from the BritEng-speaking world: "Sir [firstname]", or "Sir [firstname] [lastname]", but never "Sir [lastname]".


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