Thank you for the clarification. Actually, my comment was supposed to be tongue-in-cheek, but I see that you took it quite seriously.

Hillsdale College is well know for its focus on Constitutional studies and outreach programs to the American public, like its Imprimis newsletter. As for its religious leanings, I have no opinion.

Ha! In fact except for classics majors (of whom there are very few) nobody at Harvard can read Latin.

You didn't just mention Hillsdale, you wrote that a degree from Hillsdale should be a requirement to be President. Hillsdale does in fact heavily promote religion mixed in with its history. Understanding history is very important, but no particular college should be a requirement and there are other options for learning history that are often better than a typical college. But the mixture of religious dogma with education is deadly and is not and should not be a requirement to hold office.

seriously...circle...not interesting...what was created?

With Obama's weird foreign and Marxist background growing up, his gravitation to people like Alinsky and leftist professors, and the way he has tried to hide what he is I can't blame people who are far removed from the educational establishment and who aren't familiar with Obama's known record for wondering if he doesn't have a Harvard degree at all. But insisting that he doesn't have the degree and down-voting corrections is another matter.

Yes, it isn't and wasn't only one factor.

It's all true -- no hyperbole.

I don't doubt your characterization of constitutional law there. I can only hope that it's not all as bad as Tribe's "The Curvature of Constitutional Space: What Lawyers Can Learn From Modern Physics" (on which Obama helped him).

All he understands is "Me the President...."

:-)

'The egoist in the absolute sense is not the man who sacrifices others. He is the man who stands above the need of using others in any manner. He does not function through them. He is not concerned with them in any primary matter. Not in his aim, not in his motive, not in his thinking, not in his desires, not in the source of his energy. He does not exist for any other man—and he asks no other man to exist for him. This is the only form of brotherhood and mutual respect possible between men.

For the New Intellectual

“The Soul of a Collectivist,”
For the New Intellectual, 81 "

"Egotist' seems to be a poorly defined word used to label those one thinks like themselves too much.

As Sam Clemens sed: "Never let schooling get in the way of your education."

That's all basically correct although it may contain some hyperbole. Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School does not resemble anything you would recognize as constitutional law.

Yes, recommendations did matter. But the other factors were also paramount during the relevant time period.

Harvard?
The final must have been proving the literary capacity to read, and yet not understand the full ramifications of, The Communist Manifesto.

/Boggle

What is the final for that?
Reading the diploma and translating the latin phraseology to english?

The die was pretty much cast for Obama from his Marxist family before he got to college at all. But a bright and honest student could have been turned around with a decent college education. Columbia made him worse. The die was surely cast before he got to Harvard because he was already a Chicago Alinskyite by then. Harvard was only to learn how to implement it more forcibly, further making him worse than worse. One suspects that he hated the constitutional limitations on government long before he got to constitutional law at Harvard. But all of his education made him into what he became. It's what he wanted.

The admissions office said otherwise about the law school. But Harvard also puts an emphasis on unique background experiences and goals, not just grades. Recommendations from leftists at Columbia didn't hurt either. He was a bright leftist, not a great scholar.

I hope that comment was not about Hillsdale...I only mention that college as it is one of the premier colleges that specialize in Constitutional studies.

I said "and on and on." That includes many of your categories including entitlements, over regulation, Obamacare (which I meant to reference as government controlled medicine, a broader category including ever expanding medicare and and medicaid), constitutional violations, etc. etc. I"m not sure we accomplish much by trying to come up longer and longer lists of Obama's failings except to prove neither one of us could fairly be called liberal as that term is now used.

Something we can all agree upon!

Having a father with a masters degree would have negligible effect on admission to Harvard Law. The determining factors are overwhelmingly undergraduate grades, LSAT score and written recommendations from undergrad instructors. In Obama's era the number of legacies at the Law School was close to zero.

You know, I would think the die was cast as to Obama's thinking before he got to Harvard, but you may be right as to specific policy issues, tax policy in particular.

Not true. Both Bush and Gore's grades were "sealed" until they voluntarily released them after the election. Interestingly, Bush had higher grades. Did that effect how you voted? As to court orders, you don't need one unless someone sues to open the records. Your college grades will not be released without your permission and you are not running for anything (that I know of).

That's not true. His are sealed by special court order. Everyone knew Bush's grades in every class.