The immense national controversy over Barack Obama's college records has heated up to almost lukewarm with today's breathless Daily Caller story about an anonymous Columbia University alum who says that an unnamed official at Columbia told him that Obama's GPA at the school was 2.6. This unimpeachable (get it?) info-bombshell, coming in the wake of
Yeah. It's been a while, but as I recall, the whole point of "incompletes" is that they don't affect your GPA. So one doesn't "sort through" them, one ignores them. Even the primitive rock-based computers in use when I was an undergrad were capable of this task.
I have speculated that the reason President Obama has never done a strategic release of his college transcripts (as he eventually did with the BC) is that his undergrad GPA might be unexceptional. We sort of know that he wasn't a super-dedicated student in high school, and it isn't uncommon for college students -- even when they do get serious -- to have a year or two of catch up. So I find it pretty easy to think that the President wasn't a straight-A student as an undergrad. And, it is easily predictable that any GPA under about a 3.8 would set the usual motherfuckers babbling about affirmative action admittance to HLS and all the bullshit they NEVER have deployed to question the intellectual capacity of ANY fucking Republican. I mean, fucking A, McCain graduated almost at the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy, and that apparently was never cause for concern.
Aside from that, though, I am fairly certain that this "2.6" item is a lie, because:
1. The timing -- they just now happened to get this anonymous source to comment about this information that a completely unidentified third party told him EIGHT YEARS AGO.
2. The number. It is sort of perfectly constructed. No one with a partially functioning brain (even most RWNJs) would seriously believe that Bamz racked up, say, a sub-C, or even a mid-C average. A 2.6 is in that twilight zone between a C+ and a B-, <i>barely</i> on the B- side.
Wait til they find out that the most popular teacher at Columbia at the time was an American studies professor named Sacvan Berkovitch (who is indeed a brilliant guy). Named after Sacco and Vanzetti. God only knows what nightmarish brainwashing he carried out on poor hapless Barry.
<i>This person told me that he [Obama] was a pre-law, poli-sci major, had a lot of incompletes, and as best could be determined after sorting through the incompletes, had a GPA of 2.6</i>
Another wingnut theory based on only the finest barstool hearsay.
5) Thought the Republic of Colombia was spelled &quot;Columbia&quot; 98%
Rmoney&#039;s prostate exam results would be helpful to me about coming to a conclusion on who to vote for.
Yeah. It&#039;s been a while, but as I recall, the whole point of &quot;incompletes&quot; is that they don&#039;t affect your GPA. So one doesn&#039;t &quot;sort through&quot; them, one ignores them. Even the primitive rock-based computers in use when I was an undergrad were capable of this task.
So, for example, ten or twelve years of tax returns?
It all defaults to Assume Nobama Negro.
/Don&#039;t throw things at me
I have speculated that the reason President Obama has never done a strategic release of his college transcripts (as he eventually did with the BC) is that his undergrad GPA might be unexceptional. We sort of know that he wasn&#039;t a super-dedicated student in high school, and it isn&#039;t uncommon for college students -- even when they do get serious -- to have a year or two of catch up. So I find it pretty easy to think that the President wasn&#039;t a straight-A student as an undergrad. And, it is easily predictable that any GPA under about a 3.8 would set the usual motherfuckers babbling about affirmative action admittance to HLS and all the bullshit they NEVER have deployed to question the intellectual capacity of ANY fucking Republican. I mean, fucking A, McCain graduated almost at the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy, and that apparently was never cause for concern.
Aside from that, though, I am fairly certain that this &quot;2.6&quot; item is a lie, because:
1. The timing -- they just now happened to get this anonymous source to comment about this information that a completely unidentified third party told him EIGHT YEARS AGO.
2. The number. It is sort of perfectly constructed. No one with a partially functioning brain (even most RWNJs) would seriously believe that Bamz racked up, say, a sub-C, or even a mid-C average. A 2.6 is in that twilight zone between a C+ and a B-, <i>barely</i> on the B- side.
3. Republicans are saying it.
/Okay, resume throwing things
Actually, I didn&#039;t spark up much until after college, in the AF.
Wait til they find out that the most popular teacher at Columbia at the time was an American studies professor named Sacvan Berkovitch (who is indeed a brilliant guy). Named after Sacco and Vanzetti. God only knows what nightmarish brainwashing he carried out on poor hapless Barry.
You are a god
heaven ain&#039;t close in a place like this.
!!! i love bird friday.
Which makes him smarter than many of us and smarter than 100% of the Tea Party. (Can you say &quot;vaccination causes retardation&quot;?)
<i>This person told me that he [Obama] was a pre-law, poli-sci major, had a lot of incompletes, and as best could be determined after sorting through the incompletes, had a GPA of 2.6</i>
Another wingnut theory based on only the finest barstool hearsay.
oh, and Dok - You&#039;ve moved past the Ponies? Or just had no clips of a pony smoking a doobie?
So, donate a little money to a university and they let you play around in the records?
HUUUUUUGE