Posted by
Bill Crawford on Tuesday, May 03, 2011 11:23:56 AM
As soon as the Donald heard that the long form birth certificate was released, he hopped out of a personal 'copter and up to an open mike, congratulated himself for getting this done, and immeidately went to the quality of Barrack's education.
Well, I'm going to have to mark my calendar. This must be "Be charitable to Obama" week. At the White House correspondent's dinner, Trump was in the audience, and Obama ripped him good. It was with his trademark on-the-edge-of-mean humor, but it was withering and delivered well. It was hilarious, in fact. Part of what made it funny is that it is the treatment that Trump's behavior begs.
At any rate, the isuee, long dormant for me because, even though I think it wasn't properly addressed until last week, it was potentially a minefield. That being said, it was a Constitutional issue, and was only still dormant because Obama and his people were happy to marginalize anyone who questioned them as some sort of kooks. They turned the corner on that because the polling changed.
So now he still has his thesis and all his grades. Here is the Libertarian answer: it would have been nice to use them to get an idea of the man before he was elected, but I think we are well past that. I say to the President, sit on these records as long as you care to. We need to fight the notion that, in order to run for office, we must submit to reporters sifting through your trash.
I hope we never find out. I have an idea of what his grades are, just from reading his own descriptions of his young self in his books. I have a real good idea of what his thesis was like, based on his words now. You choose a subject, and I could probably write something myself that would come close.
And what is the big deal on less than sterling college grades in a President's past? I'm guessing the last one who passed that gradient was Herbert Hoover in Engineering school. Or maybe Carter or Nixon. Don't you think there's sort of a pettern there? Maybe it isn't a predictor of success in office?
Whatever. Thank you, Donald, for finally burying this issue where it won't be exhumed- unless it properly comes up as an issue in the early primaries. The lesson here is that the mainstream press was so eager for change in 2008 that I don't think Obama was properly vetted.
I hope his grades never come out. That is his right. Even sitting Presidents have rights.