Ah, yes...the Obama "gifts".
What's most amazing about Barack Obama is how he's somehow been accorded a mantle of intellect that he's never used for anything demonstratable in his whole life.
He was by his own admission a stoned slacker at Occidental College. Yet he managed to gain admittance to Columbia. Gee, think that was on his own merits or because of affirmative action? Then he managed to get into one of the most exclusive Law Schools in the world. Based on his college grades that wasn't happening...unless...you guessed it...affirmative action and some well heeled sponsors got him in.
Yes, he was the first black President of the Harvard Law Review but was that because he was the best person for that job or was it because Harvard was embroiled in a conflict over it's treatment of minority professors and the administration was pushing hard for the Law Review to elect a black? What's remarkable about Obama's tenure AS the President of the Law Review is that he's the only one in it's history never to publish something in the Review under his name.
Yes, he graduated from Harvard Law School Magna Cum Laude but was that because he was a gifted scholar or was that because he was assumed to be one because he was the first black President of the Law Review? One wonders why the Obama camp has had such reticence about releasing his college transcripts? If he really was a gifted scholar, why the reluctance to show what he took for courses and what he got for grades? When I attended college I had friends on the football team that graduated with degrees that I can honestly say never attended classes. They were all enrolled in classes that gave out A's like people give out candy on Halloween. It's amazing what institutions of "higher learning" will do to keep certain students academically eligible. Was the same done for Harvard's Law Review "poster boy"? I challenge anyone to come up with something "intellectual" or outstanding in any way that Obama ever wrote while he was in college.
Then there is his "job" working at a prestigious Chicago law firm following Harvard. He was allowed to go to Fiji for six months while being paid by the firm to work on the book he got a six figure deal on because...you guessed it...he was the first black President of the Law Review. How many associates do you know that start THEIR careers off lolling on the beach in Fiji?
Or his teaching position at the University of Chicago. Most professors write. I challenge anyone to come up with a learned piece of writing by "Professor Obama"?
Then he moved on to politics. As a new State Senator in Illinios he sponsored bills under his name for two and a half years and didn't see one of them passed. That's an O-fer, folks. It wasn't until he went to Emile Jones, the black godfather of Chicago politics and begged for help that his legislative record changed. Thanks to Jones, Obama was given bills that other Democrats had worked long and hard on to just sign his name to and call his own. As Jones told a reporter from one of the Chicago newspapers..."Watch me make a US Senator."
Thanks to Jones, Barack Obama soon found himself sitting in the US Senate where once again he was allowed to affix his name to the legislation of others simply because he was viewed as an up and coming "star" of the Democratic Party after giving his speech at the Democratic National Convention. The truth is...Barack Obama can't craft legislation. It's amusing actually...he was a "legislator" yet he can't write a bill to save his life.
There is a REASON why Barack Obama is struggling so mightily with solving the country's problems and that reason is that he doesn't have any solutions of his own. He relies on others to GIVE him solutions. I'm sorry but that isn't profile of someone with a "gifted intellect"...it's the profile of someone who has been designated intellectual without ever having proved it.
