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There is ample reason for him not to. For one thing, it simply provides more fodder for the haters. "Look, look, he took European History 1500-1800! That seals it, he cannot be an American citizen!" Also, it sets a bad precedent, so that future candidates could be coerced into releasing their transcripts. Every transcript will have anomalies. A solid A/B student might flunk a course because they became ill during the year, or they had a personality conflict with the professor, or many other reasons. Obama was elected because he had a political record that people found appealing, because people identified with him, because his political positions aligned with the voters' positions, because he had energy that convinced people he could effect change.
Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar. That isn't why people voted for him, so your assertion that Obama's academic credentials sold him doesn't make sense.
Why doesn't it?
Clinton didn't claim to be what Obama's supporters claimed about Obama: the new Messiah. A man so brilliant, so gifted, that he would cause the oceans to stop rising, bring America together, end war, balance the budget, pay down the debt, bring jobs back, solve every problem, right every wrong, and other such inflated too-good-to-be-true puffery that only con artists normally sell and only marks normally fall for.
For that sale to go through, Obama had to be the very BEST of the best and brightest -- a once-in-a-lifetime supernova of brilliance!
"Ample fodder for the haters" -- what? A brilliant transcript of academic achievement would be fodder for criticism? That's strange. Maybe Obama should have just been a high school drop out. Then no worries about "Look, look, he took European History 1500-1800!"
You really think people would have cared about an occasional D or F?
On the other hand, what about having a C average at Occidental, but getting into Columbia anyway? What about a C - average at Columbia, but getting into Harvard anyway? What about not even showing up for class at Harvard -- too many demonstrations to go to -- but getting A's anyway? Did Obama take tough courses or "Television and Society 1960 - 1980"? There are many things to be learned from college transcripts.
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Why would you think anyone wants to celebrate Obama's brilliance with his college transcripts?
The liberals who keep telling us he's brilliant would of course want to celebrate that brilliance by oohing and aahing over the details of Obama's stellar academic performance.
Would a child leave his Christmas presents unopened?
Why doesn't it. Clinton didn't claim to be what Obama's supporters claimed about Obama: the new Messiah. A man so brilliant, so gifted, that he would cause the oceans to stop rising, bring America together, end war, balance the budget, pay down the debt, bring jobs back, solve every problem, right every wrong, and other such inflated too-good-to-be-true puffery that only con artists normally sell and only marks normally fall for. For that sale to go through, Obama had to be the very BEST of the best and brightest -- a once-in-a-lifetime supernova of brilliance!
"Ample fodder for the haters" -- what? A brilliant transcript of academic achievement would be fodder for criticism? That's strange. Maybe Obama should have just been a high school drop out. Then no worries about "Look, look, he took European History 1500-1800!"
You really think people would have cared about an occasional D or F?
On the other hand, what about having a C average at Pomona, but getting into Columbia anyway? What about a C - average at Columbia, but getting into Harvard anyway? What about not even showing up for class at Harvard -- too many demonstrations to go to -- but getting A's anyway? Did Obama take tough courses or "Television and Society 1960 - 1980"? There are many things to be learned from college transcripts.
The only ones that use the term messiah on the right, but yet again the question you refuse to answer.
Why are you asking about Obama's college records and transcripts when NO other President has released it when they were in office? Why are you asking about Obama's college transcripts when NO other Presidential candidate have released them while running for the office? (including the current group). Why the interest in Obama's transcripts, but NO ONE ELSE'S??
The point is you are asking Obama to release records no President has released themselves while in office.
I'm not asking him to do anything. I'm wondering why he's not tooting his horn in this particular instance. He certainly doesn't fail to toot it in regard to everything else.
Heck, he wrote and published TWO whole books worth of horn tooting before he had even done anything of any significance whatsoever!
JFK did publish a couple of books before he became president, but they had some substance them. One was about what happened to him and his compadres in WW II. The other was about other people, not himself.
Obama on the other hand admits in one of his books that he slacked off and was a druggie in high school. So how did he get into a HIGHLY selective liberal arts college like Occidental?
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Has EVERY SINGLE other President and EVERY SINGLE other Presidential candidate been hiding something also by not releasing them while in office or running for office?
No.
Their academic record and intellect is not what they sold themselves on.
Not even Clinton and Kennedy.
Not even Wilson for that matter.
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