re: #106 Jocko’s Rocket Ship

I don’t get the college transcript thing. We know he did well enough as a transfer student at Columbia to get into HLS. And he graduated magna cum laude at probably the most competitive law school at the time. His GPA would be in the high 3s, or in the top 6-20% (or something like that) of his class.

People don’t have to like him or his policies, but to suggest he was not a high- achiever academically is just stupid.

It’s like the insane birther nonsense. It comes from xenophobia and a paranoia that Obama is hiding something deep and dark and foreign and other-ish.

Previous presidents — all white with “American” names — were never asked to prove citizenship or show birth certificates. And in those cases where people wanted to see their transcripts, former presidents who declined to do so weren’t raked over the coals for it.