We already know about the "foreign student", and since he was a lawyer (so I've heard), he must have graduated from some school. I really think it was his grades, they were so poor he barely made it because of the dope (you have to always have an excuse in case you get caught), or he might even have gotten a pass because of his "foreign" status, or maybe even some other ethnic reason.

Perhaps this will teach us a lesson not to let anyone get elected without being properly vetted in the future. Nah..

My son has a cousin like that.
He's kinda weird looking but you should see his girlfriend: VA-VA-VOOM!

It could be that "foreign student" is written on something. I'm sure his grades sucked.

Someone has said that? Who (besides Plato)? Certainly not Obama who almost never mentions his degrees. In fact, on this thread his been characterized as "not proud" of his degrees.

My high school grades were pretty lousy. I worked very hard in undergraduate school and got great grades, garnered good recommendations and had very good test scores. I ended up at an Ivy professional school. Obama did pretty much the same thing. We are not alone. Why does this fascinate you? Were you as intrigued when George W. Bush and Al Gore balked at releasing their Yale transcripts? Why not?

I'm assuming based on my knowledge of financial aid policies at those schools. Around Obama's time I went to an Ivy for professional education. Much more recently my stepson went to two other Ivys for undergraduate, graduate and professional education. Another son transferred to another Ivy for undergraduate school. Those schools are mightily endowed and are extremely generous with financial aid. The aid is virtually without exception handed out solely based on need. On the other hand, admission is 100% need blind. Most aid is a combination of scholarship and loan (Princeton is an exception to this, it is all scholarship there). Unless Obama's mother was earning over $100k he almost certainly received substantial financial aid at both Columbia and Harvard Law School. As to grades, Obama was the editor in chief of the Harvard Law Review. There are only two ways to get on the Review, first year grades or writing on in a competition. I neither know nor care which route he took, it's impressive either way. The editor in chief is chosen be a vote of the other editors. He must have done well at Columbia and had good recommendations and a smoking LSAT score to get into Harvard. As to undergraduate admission to Columbia, I recall he transferred from Pepperdine or some other So. Cal. private school. He must have had good grades and great recommendations to transfer to Columbia. This I know because my son transferred from Oberlin to an Ivy undergraduate school. It is not easy.
So yeah, I'm assuming. Do you have any evidence to the contrary? If you need any more detailed info from me I will provide what I can, but I am puzzled as to why people are so fixated on this. Who cares about his education? The man is an awful President, a collectivist and an otherwise non-admirable person. We don't need to speculate about any of that. It's all on the record.

It's his regime that's opaque and things that he hides, such as his college grades. Or maybe something that says "foreign student."

You and both know there are very good reasons for the lack of answers to many questions

I am not anti-intellectual but I do not have a h--l of
a lot of respect for formal education (especially
the public variety). When I went to school, I had to
listen to the other kids' aggravating stumbling over
words, while my mother (a high school dropout) had taught me phonics, so I learned with very
little difficulty. She had done that with no col-
lege degree. George Washington had no college
degree; neither did Abraham Lincoln; and they
were two of the greatest presidents this country
had in all its history. I have been to tech schools
and passed different courses, and been unable
to get a job in the field supposedly taught, so I
am not about to let myself be swindled into
spending four years and getting tens of thous-
ands of dollars in debt to be swindled again, and
beef up the arrogance of the people in charge
in colleges.
It seems to me that people who go to col-
lege come out saying that the proper philosophy
is that no one can know anything, that there is
no right or wrong, and that statism is an ideal;
and if people go to college to learn to be Com-
munists, it would be a relief to me to have a
president who had done no such thing.

President of the United States is one of the most powerful positions in the world. I saw an interview once where Obama laughed and said his high school grades weren't that great. If true a scholarship is unlikely. How he paid for college, his grades and papers he wrote are questions that do not jeopardize national security. Why not just answer them?

What makes you sure? Have you seen documentation of those scholarships and loans? Or are you assuming?

I know the difference, but I am unable to explain it to someone who hasn't read Atlas, for instance. Could you put it in to words?

They are not attacks on people with Ivy degrees. They are attacks on the idea that people with Ivy degrees should be our masters. [Disclosure:none]

I agree with you regarding how to evaluate Walker. Also, listen to what he says and what principles he espouses. However, I've never heard anyone say "you have no value unless you have a degree." Have you? As to congressional millionaires, there sure are an awful lot of them. I'm betting most were already millionaires before before being elected.

I'm sure mostly scholarships and loans. What of it?

That's great. His value has nothing to do with years spent in school

Or one who learned in the Ivory Tower.

It could be either one or both. For George Wallace, for instance, it was both.

II wish he had been and had won. We need his ethos more than we need anything that Obama has.

You can also tell that who the GOP does or does not want to run by the level of support it gives him/her. They all but boycotted Ted Cruz because he's not part of their holy elite club.

We know Walker's value by what he has done, not by what school he went to or what degree(s) he holds. Are the elites saying you have no value unless you have a degree? There are many millionaires in congress. I wonder how many were before the entered the club?

My son is a software developer. I thought he was a programmer until he gently corrected me. He is a high school dropout and earning well into the 6 figures and happily on his way to becoming a millionaire. I have two undergraduate degrees and a masters and I never got close to what he is making.

Could it be he does not have a degree? He doesn't seem to want to provide any evidence. Why? I'm suspect of the education of anyone that thinks it's the Marine Corpse.

He's also just plain dense. He has no use for anyone's thoughts but his own.

Good. Hope he stays that way.