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The letter that Obama wrote about the policies of the Harvard Law Review was not published in the Review. It was a letter to the Harvard Law Record, which is the newspaper of the Harvard Law School. The Harvard Law Review is a scholarly publication, and such a letter would be inappropriate. The letter to the newspaper was not subjected to any editorial review before publication, as such letters to any newspaper's editorial staff generally are not (except to remove profanity). A letter to an editor, especially to a paper with such small circulation, would employ casual grammar, not the formal grammar that is required in more scholarly writing.
Does he have any of these "scholarly writings" to back up your claim? No, he didn't even write his own bio's, and he has even admitted those writings are part fiction. In other words, he lied in his own books about himself. Liars lie and cannot be trusted because you can't believe anything they say.
I learned about runon sentences in grammar school, about the same time I learned about commas and periods. There is a proper way to write and speak, that may or may not matter when one is an affirmative action recipient. It is extremely important when one is representing a populace that supposedly values education.
You're confusing a run-on sentence with a LONG sentence. Just because a sentence is long, or it's hard for you personally to understand, doesn't mean that it's grammatically incorrect or even badly written. A run-on sentence is when two or more independent clauses (complete sentences) are joined without a conjunction or the appropriate punctuation. There isn't more than one independent clause, or complete sentence, in either of the sentences below, so they are NOT run-on sentences.
Here's the sentence:
"I must say, however, that as someone who has undoubtedly benefited from affirmative action programs during my academic career, and as someone who may have benefited from the Law Review’s affirmative action policy when I was selected to join the Review last year, I have not personally felt stigmatized either within the broader law school community or as a staff member of the Review. Indeed, my election last year as President of the Review would seem to indicate that at least among Review staff, and hopefully for the majority of professors at Harvard, affirmative action in no way tarnishes the accomplishments of those who are members of historically underrepresented groups."
..... and you are willing to assume Mitt is innocent until then? I doubt it.
imagine if romney showed his tax returns and they were confirmed directly by the IRS and multiple independent sources but a small group of people ( lets call them "taxers" ) kept claiming they were fraudulent and it was all part of some elaborate 50+ year conspiracy.
I think all presidential candidates should provide their transcripts for public review. As voters, we have the responsibility of vetting the candidates in the same manner as an employer vets a job applicant.
Would it make some of them look stupid? Probably. Wouldn't you want to know if a candidate either struggled academically (not very bright) or wasn't responsible and diligent (poor work ethic) before you go to the polls?
Hell, this crowd doesn't think we have the right to question where he was born. You are clearly asking too much as far as academics, for liberals anyway. These days an A doesn't mean squat anyway, it just means they agreed with their trainer on all subjects. They were a good little robot.
I learned about runon sentences in grammar school, about the same time I learned about commas and periods.
And yet... your posts are still often riven with incompetent construction, misspellings, fractured syntax... all in the employ of irrational prejudice and blinding illogic.
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