Actually that WAPO article was great and gives us a great deal of insight into GW's academic years. I wish we had anything even remotely comparable about President Obama's academic years. But I didn't see anything in the piece about release of transcripts.
It gives us insight into Bush's Yale years- not his Harvard years.
Why do you care about President Obama's academic years? Why do you not care about Bush's Harvard years? Why did you not care about Romney's academic years?
In other words- why do you insist from Obama, what you don't insist from any other candidate?
Because I have been able to read a lot about everybody else's childhood, academic life, family, friends, jobs, political and spiritual journeys. Everybody else has childhood and life long friends willing to tell interesting things about their friends. I don't believe any other politico in history at any level has been as secretive about all those things as Obama has been and he seems to not have had any friends. When somebody is so secretive, it simply generates a lot of curiosity and questions.
Why are you so uncurious about Obama when you are so critical about anybody on the right side of the aisle?
What BS.
Look- I have been saying from the beginning- I don't care about Walker's college records- i don't care whether he graduated from College- I can be critical of Walker for his record as a politician- not as a snot nosed 19 year old.
Other than Bush's Yale transcripts- what do you know about Bush or Romney- that you don't know about Obama?
Here let me get you started-
I know the names of Obama's kindergarten teachers:
Noelani Elementary School, Honolulu, Hawaii
Aimee Yatsushiro, Teacher: Kindergarten
Aimee Yatsushiro, a retired teacher from Kahului, served as a student teacher from September to December 1966 at Noelani Elementary School on Oahu. Her supervising teacher was Kazuko Sakai, the primary educator for about 25 students in a kindergarten class that included a boy named Barack "Barry" Obama. "He was a cute, likable, heavy build-child," Yatsushiro recalled. "I could visualize Barry smiling, dressed in his long-sleeved, white shirt tucked into his brown Bermuda shorts, and wearing laced shoes."
"He was a good listener from the time he was little," Yatsushiro said. "I remember him always smiling and observing, just watching all the time, smiling and observing. He didn't have to be the center of attention."
Katherine Nakamoto, Teacher: Kindergarten
Katherine Nakamoto, also a retired teacher now living in Wailuku, coincidentally was assigned to the same kindergarten class, only this time from January to June of 1967. Nakamoto said she never used a nickname for the student. "Wecalled him Barack. . . . He was very well mannered, respectful, confident and independent."
"He (Obama) was always nicely dressed," Nakamoto said as she looked at the old photograph recently. "He wasn't outstanding in any way like being naughty or anything. I just remember him being confident, like the way a president should be."
Show me Bush's and Clinton's kindergarten teachers.
Spiritual Journey?
You do know that Obama wrote two biographical books- the first one detailing his struggle to figure out his identity? You know the book where he told everyone about his drug use in high school?
Where has Bush ever confirmed- or denied his own drug use?
And here we go- Obama's HS basketball coach:
Chris McLachlin, Punahou High School Basketball Coach
Obama's coach, however, remembers one thing that has changed. Back then, Obama never went anywhere without his basketball, a ball given to him by his absent father. And he remembers Obama's drive, always pushing for more minutes on the court. He says that while Obama wasn't the best on the team, he might have worked the hardest. "I can remember him being here early and playing before school," said his coach, Chris McLachlin. "I remember him bouncing his ball, books in one hand, ball in the other hand. Shooting baskets during recess or at lunchtime. I remember him shooting baskets after school. I remember him being, probably, in the gym when he wasn't supposed to be. When there wasn't a teacher but he went there anyway, he just had to shoot."
His old coach remembers the last time he saw Obama in person a few years ago. He says he didn't want to bother the newly famous politician so he stayed off to the side. "Part way through his speech," McLachlin said, "he kind of caught my eye in the back of the chapel and said, 'Coach Mac, how you doing? You know I used to play basketball here you guys and I really wasn't as good as I thought I was. Was I coach?' and we sort of laughed about it." McLachlin continued. "He sort of admitted, you know, maybe I pushed the envelope a little bit too much on the minutes thing and I really wasn't as good as I thought I was and it was kind of, I thought, a very cogent remark."
"He was what I would call a ‘Basketball Jones,'" says
Chris McLachlin '64 who coached the lanky teen during his senior year on the Varsity team. "That's a person who lives, eats, and sleeps with their basketball: they dribble it to school, they dribble it between classes, they shoot baskets on Middle Field during lunch. And Barry had that real love and passion for the game."
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Played forward, he was a smasher, driver, post-up, rebounder kind of guy. Also very good at one-on-one moves, very creative. He just loved the game, would play it 24/7 if he could. One of only a handful of kids I’ve ever coached in 38 years of coaching who would dribble his basketball around with him during school. First to arrive at practice, last one to leave."
So rather than keep repeating Birther talking points- show me point by point how you know more about Bush and Romney- than you know about Obama-
You can start with three points:
Kindergarten teachers
Spiritual journey
High School sports coach
Show me examples of each for Bush and Romney.