Trump: Obama wasn't qualified for Ivy League

[somone]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hLwU-RlIyzUA_sZCs1KLt6WiKmCA?docId=292f4280ef89473ca40a7329ce4cc829

Trump: Obama wasn't qualified for Ivy League

NEW YORK (AP) — Real estate mogul Donald Trump suggested in an interview Monday that President Barack Obama had been a poor student who did not deserve to be admitted to the Ivy League universities he attended. Trump, who is mulling a bid for the Republican presidential nomination, offered no proof for his claim but said he would continue to press the matter as he has the legitimacy of the president's birth certificate.

"I heard he was a terrible student, terrible. How does a bad student go to Columbia and then to Harvard?" Trump said in an interview with The Associated Press. "I'm thinking about it, I'm certainly looking into it. Let him show his records."

Obama graduated from Columbia University in New York in 1983 with a degree in political science after transferring from Occidental College in California. He went on to Harvard Law School, where he graduated magna cum laude 1991 and was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. Obama's 2008 campaign did not release his college transcripts, and in his best-selling memoir, "Dreams From My Father," Obama indicated he hadn't always been an academic star. Trump told the AP that Obama's refusal to release his college grades were part of a pattern of concealing information about himself.

"I have friends who have smart sons with great marks, great boards, great everything and they can't get into Harvard," Trump said. "We don't know a thing about this guy. There are a lot of questions that are unanswered about our president."...

[JoePhilly]

1. Trump proves you don't need to be smart to be born into a rich family.

Any idiot can do it.

[malaise]

3. Trump's problem is that Obama has shattered their usual

stereotype for black males.

Fuck that racist jackass.

gr.

[Johonny]

10. That's basically it

people giggle at why so many people think Obama wasn't born in America. That's not true. These things are the new code word for flat out racism.

[cliffordu]

17. Yep.

[movonne]

12. sometimes I think he is a plant....he is making the tea party look

like real nit wits...only the dumbest of the dumb would believe this shit he is putting out...he just keeps coming up with more and more outrageous shit...

[W_HAMILTON]

2. lol

Trump is such a crazy ass.

Sad thing is, I'd rather see his sorry ass on TV over Palin, Bachmann, Gingrich, etc. So, maybe he serves his purpose? :)

[Matariki]

4. Oh let's see....

he must have attended Columbia on the fabled "magic negro" ticket - the one where African Americans (or secret Kenyans in Obama's case) get free, all paid, undeserved perks - all taken from hard working white men.

:eyes:

- do I need the sarcasm tag?

[indepat]

11. Threads oozing with sarcasm speak for themselves imo

:patriot:

[blondeatlast]

40. Yeah, this looks like a stellar thread for DU's biting wit. "nother glass of wine? nt

[DFW]

5. How dos a bad student go to Harvard?

Ask the Bush family if he wants a detailed answer.

[mnhtnbb]

33. Ding Ding Ding!!!! A winner!!!!

[Fire1]

34. Let alone GRADUATE!! n/t

[Old and In the Way]

6. Fascinating platform you choose to run on Donald.

Keep up the good work!

[spanone]

7. i guess they snuck him into harvard to give the appearance of intelligence

trump must be a slobbering alcoholic

[Mimosa]

36. ^ QUIT INSULTING ALCOHOLICS!!! TRUMP DOES NOT DRINK! ^

Google it yourself. The man has never drunk alcohol:

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/10/08/trump.transcript/

[Pirate Smile]

8. LOL - I love this new standard - "release your college transcripts". Yeah, right. Gawd, don't ever

assume Donald Trump can't be a bigger asshole. He will always prove you wrong.

[BanzaiBonnie]

9. Trump...ed up charges.

I call bullshit.

[gratuitous]

13. Yeah, Harvard Law just hands out magna cum laude honors willy nilly

It's just a goddam diploma mill, that's all.

[NYC Liberal]

14. "they can't get into Harvard"

Well Donald, with 300 million people in this country there happen to be a LOT of very smart people. Harvard can't well admit every single smart person...or even every GENIUS...in the country.

[cloudbase]

15. I'm certain that Obama wasn't a legacy admission,

unlike a certain other holder of the office.

[former9thward]

19. Bush would have been a legacy admission at Yale but not Harvard.

They don't give admissions to the others legacies.

[Motown_Johnny]

16. and then to head Harvard's Law Review while he was there. Must have been a

TERRIBLE student!

[Glimmer of Hope]

37. I heard they only let subpar students head Harvard Law Review!

[blondeatlast]

41. It keeps the slower students busy so that they don't hold the rest of the class back. nt

[yellerpup]

18. Wait! Is he talking about this president?

"I heard he was a terrible student, terrible. How does a bad student go to Columbia and then to Harvard?"

Where was he during the B*&%# years?

[murielm99]

20. He wasn't qualified for the Ivy League because he is black?

[Matariki]

26. No - he obviously got in on the 'affirmative action' program

:sarcasm:

Trump is dog whistling in a most obvious way.

[abelenkpe]

30. Because he wasn't rich?

Or white? OR both? I get the distinct impression he's implying that the non-wealthy and non-white get into Harvard as tokens. Would like to see Harvard respond to this bit of insanity.

[JuniperLea]

21. Trump doesn't qualify for skin or air...

If he wants to get all technical.

[niyad]

22. seems fitting that he continue to spew bs, since that is the only degree he holds

[niyad]

23. the donald, hereinafter referred to by the original family name, drumpf

[rocktivity]

24. Rocktivity: Trump not qualified

for the Pee-Wee League.

:eyes:
rocktivity

[Bozita]

25. Trump ought to "send out investigators" to find GWB's LSAT score.

[elehhhhna]

29. AND HIS tang RECORDS. And his TX DUI arrest records.

[Cali_Democrat]

27. He graduated magna cum laude from fricken Harvard.

I'd say he was probably a pretty good student. Does Trump think this is part of the giant conspiracy dating back 45+ years to get Obama into the oval office?

[abelenkpe]

28. magna cum laude?

Yeah, sounds like a terrible student. Must of had horrible grades. :eyes:

[mysuzuki2]

31. Unqualified for Harvard?

really? Magna cum Laude and president of Law Review? Where did Trump go to school? Or did his dad pay someone to go for him?

[jenmito]

32. He's mimicking the birthers' talking points. He regularly speaks with WND nuts and people like

Berg and Corsi (from what I read at Freeperville).

[louslobbs]

35. He's heard? Is that anything like, they say? This guy makes me sick, literally sick to my stomach.

I had no idea he was this ignorant, had such a elitist attitude and was as big a fraud as I now know he is. I always thought he was a phony, but he has outted himself as far more in a very short span of time. Everyone, who is not a Republicon, and not rascist and not a complete fraud themselves, and is a free thinker who uses facts in their arguments, now knows what an ugly, dirty, filthy, rotten pig Trump is and that goes for his nasty, vicious, thinks she's better than everyone else, "socialite", heiress, business woman, fashion model daughter of his, Ivanka. Just like her old man in every way, just without the hair piece.....at least I think that's her real hair.
Lou

[LLStarks]

38. Whatever problems Obama had in college, he more than made up for them in law school. nt

[Control-Z]

39. Graduating magna cum laude

from Harvard Law pretty much dismisses Trump's BS.

[rgbecker]

42. Did Trump's academic record come up in the discussion?

[NotThisTime]

43. Trump is an idiot who ought to shut his mouth. We have a student in the neighborhood going to

Harvard, people get accepted all the time, just not all of them! So if Trumps friends aren't smart or rich enough to get their kids in, well, his friends kids need to get more involved, take more classes, get better grades, write better essays, then try again if that's what they want. Somehow though I think he's lying like a dog.

[Quantess]

44. Actually, I hope Trump doesn't shut his mouth.

I like the way he keeps making an ass of himself.

[Danger Mouse]

45. Trump isn't qualified to wipe his own ass, so there you go.

[applegrove]

46. Good for Harvard for letting people like Obama in and keeping out the children of Trump's friends.