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NEW YORK – [B]Not content with questioning the president’s birthplace, Donald Trump is now wondering how a “terrible student” got into the Ivy League. Michelle Goldberg traces the far-right history of the claim—which reassures resentful whites that this seemingly brilliant black man isn’t so smart after all.[/B]
The birther bit must have been getting old. Now [URL="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/dailybeast/ts_dailybeast/storytext/13720_donaldtrumptakesupbirthersobamacollegeconspiracytheory/41231827/SIG=13ausob2n/*http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-30/donald-trump-goes-birther-to-win-2012-primary/"]Donald Trump[/URL] has opened up a new line of attack on President Obama, accusing him of being a “terrible student” who shouldn’t have gotten into Columbia University or Harvard Law School. “How does a bad student go to Columbia and then to Harvard?” [URL="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/dailybeast/ts_dailybeast/storytext/13720_donaldtrumptakesupbirthersobamacollegeconspiracytheory/41231827/SIG=12n4525ah/*http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheat-sheet/item/trump-obama-too-dumb-for-ivies/bluster/"]he asked the Associated Press[/URL]. “I’m thinking about it, I’m certainly looking into it. Let him show his records.” He continued darkly, “There are a lot of questions that are unanswered about our president.”
Like everything Trump says about Obama lately, his comments got lots of media play. Less attention has been paid to where they came from. Conspiracy theories about Obama’s education have been floating around the far right since his presidential campaign, with some of the same people who’ve doubted the president’s birth certificate now demanding to see his college transcripts. Once again, Trump has found a way to raid the fever swamps for talking points.
Claims about Obama’s educational history date back to September 2008, when [URL="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/dailybeast/ts_dailybeast/storytext/13720_donaldtrumptakesupbirthersobamacollegeconspiracytheory/41231827/SIG=11pfvqrfg/*http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122108881386721289.html"]The Wall Street Journal attacked him for not releasing his school records[/URL], writing in an editorial, “Some think his transcript, if released, would reveal Mr. Obama as a mediocre student who benefited from racial preference.” Since then, [URL="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/dailybeast/ts_dailybeast/storytext/13720_donaldtrumptakesupbirthersobamacollegeconspiracytheory/41231827/SIG=12i0h4jeh/*http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-30/queen-of-the-birthers/"]Orly Taitz, queen of the birthers[/URL], has developed elaborate theories about
Obama’s college years. As Taitz argues, Obama himself acknowledged that he was directionless when he started college. How, then, did he get himself accepted into the Ivy League?
Her speculation: He went as a foreign exchange student. “Sometimes students with poor grades from other countries who have citizenship in other countries can get into top universities,” she told The Daily Beast. “That might be one of the reasons why his records are not unsealed. If his records show he got into Columbia University as a foreign exchange student, then we have a serious issue with his citizenship.”
Taitz said she also believes that Obama only attended Columbia for nine months rather than two years. As proof, she offered a document from the National Student Clearinghouse database, which verifies college degrees. The record, which confirms Obama’s graduation, lists his dates of attendance as September 1982 to May 1983. Kathleen Dugan, a marketing manager at the National Student Clearinghouse, said Taitz’s document is incorrect, the result of the way she conducted her search.
Obama, in this view, is both sinister and stupid, canny enough to perpetrate one of the biggest frauds in American history but still the ultimate affirmative action baby.
“There were duplicate requests to our site from requestor Orly Taitz which, because of the way the queries were input, yielded both correct and incorrect information on past attendance dates for President Barack Obama,” said Dugan.
Taitz, naturally, said she believes there’s something more ominous at work. She noted that Obama has talked about visiting a friend in Pakistan between his sophomore and junior years of college. “The only reasonable conclusion is that he was there not a month or two, but a year and a half,â€
And how did this half-educated mediocrity get into Harvard Law School, and then become editor of the Harvard Law Review? Why, Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, of course! According to right-wing lore, a militant Black Muslim named [URL="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/dailybeast/ts_dailybeast/storytext/13720_donaldtrumptakesupbirthersobamacollegeconspiracytheory/41231827/SIG=11bgld0l7/*http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=73649"]Khalid Al-Mansour[/URL] introduced his protégé to the prince, who presumably saw a chance to advance his Muslim world-domination agenda by grooming the young man for politics. The prince thus pulled strings on Obama’s behalf and even paid his way.
Taitz has forwarded all her information about Obama’s college years to Trump and said she is gratified to hear him raising the issue. “He might have also gotten it from other sources, too, but he definitely got it from me,” she said. Perhaps he’s also been reading the ultra-right-wing website WorldNetDaily, which ran a 2009 piece asking, “[URL="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/dailybeast/ts_dailybeast/storytext/13720_donaldtrumptakesupbirthersobamacollegeconspiracytheory/41231827/SIG=113t0aksr/*http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=104684"]Did radical Muslims help send Obama to Harvard?[/URL]”
It’s easy enough to see why this particular narrative has endured. Not only does it position the president as a Muslim Manchurian candidate with longtime ties to agents of the caliphate, but it also assures resentful whites that this seemingly brilliant black man isn’t so smart after all. In that sense, it’s of a piece with the right-wing obsession with Obama’s use of a teleprompter, and with the widespread suspicion that he didn’t really write the eloquent [URL="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/dailybeast/ts_dailybeast/storytext/13720_donaldtrumptakesupbirthersobamacollegeconspiracytheory/41231827/SIG=1335i0kbv/*http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-01-27/the-making-of-the-book-that-made-obama/"][I]Dreams From My Father[/I][/URL], a claim Trump recently made at a Tea Party rally. Obama, in this view, is both sinister and stupid, canny enough to perpetrate one of the biggest frauds in American history but still the ultimate affirmative-action baby.
Trump is clearly not as intelligent as Obama, but he’s not an idiot, either. When he blows this particular dog whistle, he knows exactly what the Republican base is hearing.[/release]
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If this is seriously who the republican party wants then, I.....just don't know. He has no political background what so ever, at least Obama knows what he's doing somewhat. All Trump is, is a rich old asshole siding with all of the other rich old assholes.
Oh and that (R) next to his name stands for retard not republican.
Cant he get sued for slander or something?
[QUOTE=breakyourfac;29467602]Oh and that (R) next to his name stands for retard not republican.[/QUOTE]
those terms are interchangeable
[QUOTE=Richy19;29467639]Cant he get sued for slander or something?[/QUOTE]
Obama has more important things to do.
[QUOTE=JDK721;29467659]those terms are interchangeable[/QUOTE]
why
why
why
why
why
why do you do this in every thread
call everyone out on having unintelligent arguments and you spout shit like that
George Bush got into Yale.
Defend that Mr. Trump.
Trump's now high on the list of the "world's most slimy assholes." He's an intelligent guy. He definitely knows better. But he's stirring up this shit to gain support from the psychotic nutjobs out there who believe all this bullshit, to fuel his campaign.
Additionally, I think it's worth noting that Orly Taitz was born in the USSR so she could never run for president.
so pot calling the kettle black
[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;29467675]George Bush got into Yale.
Defend that Mr. Trump.[/QUOTE]
did he have good grades in highshchool/ in yale :v:
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[QUOTE=c0nk3r;29467673]why
why
why
why
why
why do you do this in every thread
call everyone out on having unintelligent arguments and you spout shit like that[/QUOTE]
it's called a joke, although it's not far from the truth
and don't even call me out on my posts. you shit post in every thread.
[QUOTE=c0nk3r;29467697]did he have good grades in highshchool/ in yale :v:[/QUOTE]
wasn't he a C student?
[QUOTE=JDK721;29467736]it's called a joke, although it's not far from the truth
and don't even call me out on my posts. you shit post in every thread.[/QUOTE]
i didnt say i dont make shitty posts but you seem to put yourself in god tier while everyone else is shit tier
and you cry if no one makes a rebuttal so i did it for you bro :h:
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[QUOTE=Miskav;29467741]wasn't he a C student?[/QUOTE]
dunno, thats why i asked
[b]SON OF A BITCH[/b]
"Oh, well, I was proven wrong... Quick! Aides, find something else to make a conspiracy out of! I need to stay in the news! People MUST pay attention to me!"
[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;29467675]George Bush got into Yale.
Trump that Mr. Trump.[/QUOTE]
Fixed.
donald trump for pres 2012 fuck china
Give it a rest already
I thought the (R) was some kind of registered trademark thing or something of the sort so you wouldn't get sued.
Anyway, what's next when they run out of conspiracies? An alien from outer space?
The extremely wealthy can just cruise control through ivy league schools?
[B]SAY IT AINT SO[/B]
[QUOTE=dass;29467838]I thought the (R) was some kind of registered trademark thing or something of the sort so you wouldn't get sued.
Anyway, what's next when they run out of conspiracies? An alien from outer space?[/QUOTE]
"I don't think Obama is actually a man. Show us your penis, Obama!"
Richard Branson has Dyslexia and did badly at school, look where he is today.
Bill Gates dropped out of college, he's done rather well for himself.
See, you don't have to do well at school to be successful, you need to be a good leader and have good charisma.
I think Trump should get elected in 2012, because after his first term, the republican party won't have a prayer in any election for at least the next 50 years.
Obama was head of the Harvard Law Review which is a huge fucking accomplishment.
[QUOTE=Combine_dumb;29467866]I think Trump should get elected in 2012, because after his first term, the republican party won't have a prayer in any election for at least the next 50 years.[/QUOTE]
That's assuming elections wouldn't be run by a Trump owned corporation.
[QUOTE=Combine_dumb;29467866]I think Trump should get elected in 2012, because after his first term, the republican party won't have a prayer in any election for at least the next 50 years.[/QUOTE]
He could do too much damage during that time.
[QUOTE=Carbon Knight;29467922]That's assuming elections wouldn't be run by a Trump owned corporation.[/QUOTE]
They're already controlled by something now. There seems to be a lot of 'recounts' if the republican doesn't win.
[QUOTE=Combine_dumb;29467969]They're already controlled by something now. There seems to be a lot of 'recounts' if the republican doesn't win.[/QUOTE]
There wouldn't be a need to recount.
oops we just happened to find 7 million votes for the republican looks like he wins
or the most recent example: [url]http://www.huliq.com/10128/breaking-news-wisconsin-supreme-court-election-finds-7500-uncounted-prosser-votes[/url]
Amazing how one person can be such a massive cunt.
[QUOTE=Coffee;29467865]Richard Branson has Dyslexia and did badly at school, look where he is today.
Bill Gates dropped out of college, he's done rather well for himself.
See, you don't have to do well at school to be successful, you need to be a good leader and have good charisma.[/QUOTE]
I'll give you Branson but Gates dropped out not because he couldn't handle it or wasn't smart, but because it was a waste of time because he wanted to start a company.
He got a 1590 on the SAT (out of 1600 back then)
Jesus never did well at school and he was pretty successful.
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