BOâs street creds as an intellectual are based in part on these facts: He graduated from Harvard Law School, magna cum laude; and he was the first black President of the Harvard Law Review. But as you will see, this doesnât mean he is smart. The Harvard Law Review is a student-run organization, formally independent of the Harvard Law School. Its primary purpose is to publish a journal of legal scholarship. Student editors make all editorial and organizational decisions and, together with a professional business staff of three, carry out day-to-day operations. Hereâs how editors are chosen for the Harvard Law Review. Fourteen editors (two from each 1L section) are selected based on a combination of their first-year grades and their competition scores. Twenty editors are selected based solely on their competition scores. The remaining editors are selected on a discretionary basis. Some of these discretionary slots may be used to implement the Reviewâs affirmative action policy. According to the NYT, hereâs how BO was chosen to head the Review. Mr. Obama was elected after a meeting of the reviewâs 80 editors that convened Sunday and lasted until early this morning, a participant said. Until the 1970âs 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 1970âs 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. The first female editor of the Harvard Law Review was Susan Estrich, in 1977. According to his campaign, after being elected its President, BO never published anything in the Harvard Law Review. However, recently, Politico unearthed an unsigned and previously unattributed 1990 âcase commentâ in which BO affirms his support of abortion rights. Charles Hamilton Houston was the first black editor of the Harvard Law Review in 1920, based on a record of grades that were âmostly Aâs and a scattering of Bâs.â Magna Cum? Just because he graduated from Harvard Law School magna cum laude doesnât mean BO had a high GPA. It just means that after subtracting the students who graduated summa cum laude, of the remaining students, he graduated in the top 10% of his class. Theoretically, he could have had a C average. And Harvard has a well-documented history of inflating grades. So, If He Isnât Smart, How Did He Get Into Harvard In The First Place? Attorney Percy Sutton, who has represented such controversial figures as Malcolm X, explained he received a letter from Dr. Khalid al Mansour, of Texas, whom he describes as the âprincipal advisor to one of the worldâs richest men,â asking him to use his Harvard connections to help out an applicant to Harvard Law named Barack Obama. According to Attorney Sutton, per Dr. al Mansourâs request, he wrote to friends at Harvard, describing Obama, whom he had never met, as a âgeniusâ they would want to help out any way they could. Conclusion In sum, given that BO was admitted into Harvard Law School based on the recommendation of a well-connected friend; that he became the president of the student law review based on all-night balloting that finally gave him the majority vote in the morning; that he failed to publish any scholarly articles in the review; and that he graduated with honors from this school famous for inflating grades; without seeing his academic transcripts from Harvard Law School, there is no basis to conclude he is intelligent, at least based on these associations with that institution.
This doesn't say what basis Obama was selected .It also only says how editors are selected and how the process of editors changed,it didn't say the process of selecting the PRESIDENT of the review had changed from being the student with the highest academic rank.
Theoretically he could have had a C average but this is Harvard, not a community college. After summa cum laude you really think the next 10 % of Harverd students are C students and the remaining 90 % C and D students ? Get real
So some lawyer claims he got Obama into Harvard ....LOL !!!!!!!! Even Donald Trump said he knew many powerful people who couldn't get their kids into Harvard yet you take the word of some lawyer claiming he is so powerful and connected he can write some letters and get people into Harvard ...LOL !!!!!!!!
In sum,the odds of a person getting into Columbia,graduating Columbia,getting into Harvard law,becoming President of Harvard Law Review,graduating Harvard law with honors then getting a job teaching at a top 5 US law school being a dumb C or D student are probably in lottery ticket range
You mind explaining to us how another lawyer(Obama's) word is any more credible then this lawyers word? You pretty much shot yourself in the foot with this one. You just questioned the credibility of lawyers in an attempt to prove that Obama is not lying about his law degree.