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Harvard and other top-tier universities reject brilliant applicants among the plethora of brilliant applicants. They have so many applicants, they can reject the idiots, the mediocre, and even some of the brilliant applicants, and still put together a class of outstanding scholars with a diversity of backgrounds.
You're failing to understand that Harvard and all of the other highly competitive colleges reject some students with higher grades and test scores in favor of admitting those with lower grades and test scores who have other attributes. Every year, many students face that reality.
People in public office don't surrender their right to privacy in this country.
Good grief. I'm not talking about moving in with them. I just want to see relevant records. Claim to be a brilliant Columbia and Harvard Law graduate? Show me the transcripts. Claim you paid taxes? Show me the tax records.
i am just wondering if you think that all public figures have a right to privacy when it comes to their records.
they do. even if they are famous, they have as much right to privacy as you do.
college records do not belong to Obama, they belong to the college that he attended. It's their policy and of course the LAW that such records remain private.
Medical records do not belong to Obama, they belong to the hospital and doctors he sees and visits. Its by LAW that they remain private.
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personally, i think the more we know about the candidates running the better off we will be.
I don't care if our would be president took Home Ec in college and got an "F". I dont care that one of his professors turned out to be a communist, who set fire to the cafeteria. 90% of our Presidents have been out of "college" for the better part of 20-30 years. What they learned, did and believed 20-30 years ago would be vastly different than what they learned, did and believe today. I rather see the public record and activities of any candidate in the last 5 years, than what he did 40 years ago.
There is nothing that I did and believed, only 15 years ago, that have any bearing on what I do and believe today. I was heavy religious in high school, because of my parents. 20 years later, and I'm agnostic.
I don't. And you haven't answered the question. Why would they choose a non brilliant applicant over a brilliant one?
i think that is the question that some of us are asking.
and who paid for it?
here is a video, (i am not vouching for the accurancy because i just saw it) but it is pretty interesting. there have clearly been some inaccuracies in timelines presented by obama.
You keep saying this. Aside from the one iffy sentence and the one or two minor grammatical mistakes, please point out other aspects of this letter that are examples of "poor writing."
Actually, he should be pointing out this "poor" writing in ALL of Obama's work. He isn't supporting his claim by only evaluating one "letter to the editor" and then with a broad brush say "Obama has poor writing skills".
A teacher would hit IC up side the head with such a dumb claim
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