President who sealed college transcripts blabs about daughter’s test scores
Compare and contrast:
Senator Obama’s life story, from his humble roots, to his rise to Harvard Law School, to his passion as a community organizer in Chicago, has been at the center of his presidential campaign. But one chapter of the tale remains a blank — his education at Columbia College, a place he rarely speaks about and where few people seem to remember him.
Contributing to the mystery is the fact that nobody knows just how well Mr. Obama, unlike Senator McCain and most other major candidates for the past two elections, performed as a student.
The Obama campaign has refused to release his college transcript, despite an academic career that led him to Harvard Law School and, later, to a lecturing position at the University of Chicago. The shroud surrounding his experience at Columbia contrasts with that of other major party nominees since 2000, all whom have eventually released information about their college performance or seen it leaked to the public.
Obama Uses Malia’s Test Scores as a Teaching Example
President Obama marked the first anniversary of his election on Wednesday by calling on states to toughen their education standards – and wound up calling on parents to toughen theirs, too, as he confessed that his 11-year-old daughter, Malia, recently got a 73 on her science test.
(Note to parents: In Malia’s defense, the story has a happy ending: she studied hard and came home on Tuesday with a grade of 95.)
… Then, to a chorus of oooohs from the crowd, he said that Malia, a sixth-grader at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, had come home with a 73 on her science test not long ago. He recounted how, a few years ago, she had come home with a grade in the 80s, believing that she had ‘’done pretty well.’’ He and his wife corrected her, telling her that their goal was “90 percent and up.’’
“So here’s the interesting thing: she started internalizing that,’’ the president said, adding that when she came home with a 73 on the science test ‘’she was depressed.’’ He asked her what happened, and she said the study guide didn’t match up with the test. So she vowed to study harder.
“So she came home yesterday, she got a 95,’’ Mr. Obama said. “But here’ the point: She said, ‘You know , I just like having knowledge.’’
Obama Rule #1: Leave their kids out of the public square…except when the White House needs them to sell domestic policy.
Obama Rule #2: Keep academic details private…except when the White House needs them to sell domestic policy.
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Always somebody else’s fault.
No one remembers him at Columbia? Obviously, he was sharpening his skills at being a Shadow Student, later Shadow Senator, & now Shadow president. (lower case on purpose) However, he does seem to be on top of auditioning for his own late night talk show with so many appearences on Leno & Letterman. He will need a job aftwer 2012.
He got where he is through affirmative action. Why else would this allegedly intelligent person need to hide his grades?
Until he releases his grades, that is the story I am sticking to.
Kids say the darndest things.
Where’s Art Linkletter when you need him?
Poor girl, obviously has ADD and needs to be put on Ritalin.
Gee… I wonder why he wouldn’t release transcripts if they reflected a good academic record?????
They’re just his grades. If he got a few C’s … so what? Clearly these records were sufficient to propel him to Harvard Law School, so they must be outstanding, right?
Hmmm… what if his academic record at Columbia was poor…. yet he got into Harvard? Nah… couldn’t be…. Harvard couldn’t be bought off… could it?
As seems to be the case often…. Obama’s past is obscured by his people. They manage to hide the truth about him.
“So she came home yesterday, she got a 95,’’ Mr. Obama said.
That shows a real problem with tests and te racst nature of education. If she was —– fill in the blank, she would have received a 100%
if she was going to state run school she would have had 90′s the whole way, as 70′s reflect badly on the teachers union, so they grade on the curve and give the kids the answers. of course private schools for the dear leaders kids still have some semblance to education.
Odds that David Letterman will make a tasteless joke about this?
To put the whole thing in perspective, she does go to a private school. Put her in the DC public school systems and she’ll be lucky to get a 50 on any test. Poorest test scores in the nation if I remember right.
Isn’t it wrong for Malia to excel when so many can’t!?!? Someone needs to hold her back so the rest can catch up.
Yeah but she can sing the heck out of the daily “Praise Obama” school song!
Of course she’s struggling in science – her parents can’t even figure out if she had meningitis as a baby. Clearly science and health are not their strong suits.
I’m pretty sure her grades in economics and math will probably suffer too. Unless she’s studying imaginary numbers such as “number of jobs saved”.
It’s not just the Columbia school records that are missing. His records at Occidental and Harvard are also sealed. The only records available seem to be partial primary school records from his time in Indonesia where he is listed as a citizen of Indonesia. He may be just hiding his grades, but there are probably more interesting reasons why he doesn’t want people looking at his records…for example, maybe he is listed as a foreign student on foreign scholarships.
I don’t believe these stories they come up with about their kids saying these profoundly wise things. They’ve been telling the press things like this since the election.
Too bad some reporter didn’t man up and ask what his scores were in college.
She meant, the study guide didn’t give her the answers.
nuss – bingo.
It might be different for Malia (being a child of privelege) but I suspect most students like her will use their acquired knowledge to get, as her father puts it, “an awesome job” that pays very little but reeks of “service”. Or they could get an awesome job that pays oodles, scads, tons, truckloads of cash (see Al Gore and his ilk) and find themselves targeted for greed (see everybody except Al Gore and his ilk). Hmm. I’d take the cash.
Really?
He’s their father and as their father he has every right to speak about HIS OWN CHILDREN. Everybody else however, does not have that privilege.
And I don’t know about you guys, but I have more important things to worry about then President Obama’s grades when he was in college. Can someone tell me how President Obama’s grade in English or History when he was a freshmen matters to them???
That’s because the books are so poorly written.
When I was in high school in the 70′s, we would have to answer the questions at the end of a chapter. If you read the chapter, you had no problem answering the questions. That’s not true anymore. When my daughter was in high school a few years ago, the questions at the end of the chapter never matched what you had just read, so the teacher’s always had worksheets instead.
Why was it important for the press to tell us about the Bush twins’ (Barbara & Jenna) supposedly wild nights on the town in Texas?
Why was it important for us to know President Bush’s and John McCain’s grades?
Obama Rule #3: Ridicule parents of students at failing public schools to be more involved by touting his daughter’s “great” improvement at a highly prestigious private school where teacher/student ratio is very small.
What is his point? As the public school system is literally hemorrhaging money, he looks to his daughters’ private school as an example of how educational institutions are doing good? Seriously?
And how illogical is it that he uses ONE test as an example for this broad assessment of student improvement? No wonder his grades aren’t available.
Oh, I don’t care about his grades (although I’m sure he flunked economics), I care more about what he wrote about because I’m nosey and I would like to know more about the man who wants to take control over my healthcare. Just stuff like that.
Study, hell. Rahm Emanuel went in and leaned on the teacher. The Chicago way.
Probably not. He seems to have absorbed his professor’s Marxist theories pretty well.
Agreed.
Hey, everbody!
A new cheerleader for the socialists!
True. I was talking more about the economics that us little people have to live by.
If we all lived by his economic genius, we would all be fighting over a cardboard box underneath a bridge to nowhere.
Neither of those is important. I don’t remember saying they wer either.
By what he wrote in college??? You couldn’t deduce anything by oh…I don’t know…he’s voting record in the Senate???? Or maybe his speaches…..C’mon…..
I think he’s pretty clear on how he wants healthcare to be.
Grades make kids “depressed”. The goal should be equal grades. Heck, no grades at all. Everyone gets a great big happy-smiley face just for showing up.
Better yet, no need to show up. That discriminates against people that don’t have their own cars, primarily women and minorities. Everyone gets a great big happy-smiley face just for being alive. It’s the American dream!
/sarc
Yeah because the cornerstone of socialism is not caring about people’s old grades when they were in college and thinking that parent’s have rights to the privacy of their children. Do you even know what socialism is???
It isn’t necessarily what’s in the records that’s important. It’s what he thinks is so important that he’s concealing the record.
Sorry for all the typos earlier.
(*were AND *speeches)
Please. Like the teachers at the Sidwell Friends School do not know who Mahlia’s (sp?) dad is? {I’m sure they’re just dying to give her a failing grade in anything–sarc off.) This is just WH spin to make Obeyme look like a doting father who is soooooo concerned about the education opportunities available in the U.S. today. MMMMM MMMMM MMMMM
That’s where you work real hard and the government takes your money and shares it with me.
You don’t mind Obama breaking his own admonition to the press to leave family and kids out of politics?
was that the collective grade of the class under a socialist structure or her “individual” grade…what she didn’t ace the test??…shame on that teacher…she’s obviously not with the dear leader program yet….
Where are all these new commenters coming from? I don’t remember there being a recent open enrollment period -
All too well.
Do you even know?
LOL, that made my morning.
So does this mean that now the media can talk about his kids the same way people talk about Palins?
Just saying!
Agreed!
I actually did OK with the “new math” and the imaginary number i (the square root of -1) in high school back in the late 60s.
Not so sure aboout how I, and the rest of us, will fare with this latest batch of dangerous, know-it-all socialist/statist/fascist fools.
No, I don’t.
You guys really think that a man telling OTHERS to stay out of HIS family’s private affairs has forfeited his right to speak about his OWN family????
It would be totally different if he brought up SOMEBODY ELSE’S daughter’s grades. Then I’d be on board with this. But his own family??? No.
HaHa. My son had a teacher in HS who used grades as a way to illustrate socialism. He told them that their grades did not belong to them, they belonged to the class. All the grades would be collected and averaged out so that each student received the same grade no matter how hard they studied or their ability to grasp the material.
So, for example, he told them that my son, a straight A student would have to share his grade with a D student so that they both could get a C.
Boy, did that ever work! But, don’t tell anyone about this teacher, I wouldn’t want to get him into trouble.
Well, there’s a simple solution to that. Little Mahlia obviously needs to spread the scores around by giving some public schooled schmuck some of her points.
See, problem solved.
Yeah I do. I fail to see how this post or any of my comments have to do with socialism. You brought up socialism so I’m all ears if you can make some kind of connection between the two. Good luck with that.
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–noun 1. a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.
2. procedure or practice in accordance with this theory.
3. (in Marxist theory) the stage following capitalism in the transition of a society to communism, characterized by the imperfect implementation of collectivist principles.
There you go. From dictionary.com.
You’re kidding, right?
This minion of Soros and the rest of the socialists in the administration, and in both houses of Congress; can be found in the dictionary under “socialism”…unless one believes that 2 + 2 = 6+7/8.
I heard some text books still say a fetus has a tail and gill slits. Kind of the global warming sham of its day, and it lingers along.
Point taken, but as others have said, why wasn’t that true for the children of Republicans?
It is called qualifications. It is about a reasonable explanation for why he is, and deliberately remains, such a cipher.
If his HLR presidency was an important qualification for his campaign and election, then the circumstances surrounding that HLR presidency, and how he got there, are equally important.
I reserve the right to know any and everything that is pertinent about a person in whose hands the safety, security and economic well being of the country are placed.
Absolutely correct.
You have the right to demand to know.
lol….just stop now. I said relate the topic at hand, or my comments about the topic at hand, with socialism. You just failed. Badly.
Now we know what happens when the lamestream media abrogates their responsibility.
Watching our tyranny be built right before our eyes, in realtime:
It wreaks of hypocrisy is all – and where were you when the Bush girls were being played up as Britney wannabes by every tabloid as well as several mainstream outlets? Goose, meet gander.
B. Hussein Obama, a socilaist/statist, is the topic at hand.
You dismissed the heads-I-win, tales-you-lose hypocrisy of socialists (which includes the vast majority of the elite, intelligentsia, academia, media, entertainers, etc.) – which, I believe is clear, is the topic of this thread – in your first post.
Other posters have addressed the smell of something to hide of which these socialists reek.
Ergo, you are a cheerleader for the socialists.
I don’t think that that could be any clearer.
…socialist/statist….
Apologies.
Oh I think it should be true for everybody, Republican or Democrat.
You are right. You should know pertinent information. However, the only thing on his transcript are his grades. It’s not going to have some kind of secret history on everything he did while he was on campus.
Sorry if I presume to speak for granite, but I think the intent of the original post regarding you was not about the topic per se, but rather that a new defender of the socialist in chief has arrived at MM.
Well we will just have to agree to disagree then. I see it simply as a privacy issue. You have a right to your family’s privacy and may divulge any or none of that information at your leisure. Nobody else has that right to your private matters. I don’t think it’s hypocritical at all.
As far as the Bush girls go, what do you mean where was I? I don’t think it was right either. Where were you? I’m not some kind of omnipotent being that can be everywhere all the time. Don’t try to play the hypocrisy card on me just because you didn’t know where I was. I’m very clear on how I feel about the privacy of family. Nobody should have their family drug through the mud, not Obama, not McCain, not Cheney, N-O-B-O-D-Y.
So McGusto, why doesn’t the same restraint exists for Palins family?
On November 5th, 2009 at 12:18 pm, MCGusto said: Well we will just have to agree to disagree then.
I won’t agree to that.
Hope-a-Dope’s academic transcripts, as well as his SAT and LSAT scores, remain state secrets for two reasons:
1. His entry exam scores would clearly reveal that something other than academic excellence got him into Columbia and Harvard Law; and
2. His choice of classes and his grades would be glaringly inconsistent with lefty “common knowledge” of his supposed “brilliance.”
The left routinely fools itself into believing that its elite possesses a monopoly on intelligence. Recall John “war hero” Kerry’s pathetic progression as this myth unraveled for him in 2004: Exclaiming in frustration “I can’t believe I’m losing to this idiot!” while simultaneously whining “He tricked me!” when trying to justify his on/off support for the Iraq War, and finally being humiliated when his Yale GPA turned out to be lower than Bush’s.
It’s a safe bet that the blackout on Hope-a-Dope’s Columbia days is because he doesn’t want anyone to find out about what he wasn’t doing there (studying) and what he was doing there (learning to hate America and flirting with Marxian crap like “social justice” while snorting Cocaine and creating a whole new atmosphere of pot smoke in his dorm room).
I can say these things with confidence because in 20 years of exposure to the system of public education from first grade to law school I’ve seen Hope-a-Dope’s type on more than one occasion: the guy who learns early on that being loquacious, demonstrating a grasp of English based on phonics instead of “ebonics” and being able to write using paragraph structure allows him to manipulate the system while being a token of it.
In a perverse way, Hope-a-Dope (and his wife, not coincidentally) are examples of how racism in America has transformed: far from being denied deserved opportunities because of his skin color, he has risen from one undeserved accolade and honor to another based on nothing but his skin color.
It’s an “Inconvenient Truth,” as algore would say — which is why he and his handlers in the donkey media and the Chicago machine are so grimly determined to make sure it never sees the light of day.
Even if that was the reason, he still fails at reading comprehension. My comment was clear and concise. I defended a right to privacy and ridiculed the public’s obsession with a political candidate’s grades.
Last time I checked, those ideas were not somehow tied to President Obama or socialism.
Why do I have to keep saying this over and over? I don’t think anybody’s family should be drug through the mud.
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Great photo of President Obama (PBUH)smoking it up as a young student. I’ll bet there isn’t any label on that “coffin nail”–it looks like it is hand rolled to me.
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I liked a Don Imus show a few years ago when an Obama flack talked about what high intelligence The Messiah posessed–that his I.Q. scores were “off the charts”. Then Imus asked the flack, “How high are they? What is the number?”. Never got an answer–just more A** KISSING.
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However, The One probably stayed in a Holiday Inn Express at some point in his life!
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Then watch the American Pravda (not MSM) trash Sarah Palin for her lack of an Ivy League education.
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John Bibb
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I can read well enough to recognize contentious phoniness.
Your complaint about the thrust of Michelle’s comment about the two “rules” at the end of her post sounds almost as sincere as Bob Beckel’s when he huffed and puffed and stated, on some news show or opinion show on Fox a year or two ago, something like, “Don’t tell me about my religion…”, blah, blah, blah….
I remember thinking then, as I watched Beckel blustering, “As if”.
As in, “As if you give a flying fig about religion, Beckel.”
As I’ve stated a few times over the past few years, the “Ivies” are way, way, way overblown and overhyped.
I had classmates from every one of the Ivies in medical school, and I was not awed nor super impressed by any of them.
I was always disappointed Vice President Cheney did not give Slime Ball Edwards a beating right on TV. At least take the punk dove hunting.
The end justifies the means to these vultures. But to a Party that celebrates abortion as it were a sacrament I guess it is to be expected. But we await the television re-release of Obama’s Life story. “Families-Tell your children of the Reefer Madness”!
Knuckle Bump Me.
What a coincidence – just got this from a friend yesterday.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365625/posts
More at the linked story.
Curiouser and curiouser. And this stealth academic career got him into HAAAVAAAHHD??
Of course he won’t release his grades. Wouldn’t want to expose affirmative action as being a program which gives degrees to people who should never gotten into those colleges in the first place. I have no problem with brilliant kids with good grades from poor families getting scholarships to good schools. A minority individual with poor grades should not get anything. Any one who truly wants a college education will figure out how to get one. This country was built on hard work and creative thinking not hand outs and government programs.
I am omnipotent, and I knew exactly where you were, and you’d better stop that, you naughty boy!
If I remember correctly, when applying for my medical licenses and for hospital privileges, I had to sign all sorts of releases so that the licensing boards and hospitals could confirm my college attendance, medical school attendance, national boards certification, specialty board certification, hospital medical staff history, etc, etc.
Does something analogous apply to attorneys when they apply for a law license?
If so, did Columbia reply to the Illinois law licensing entity that B. Hussein Obama indeed had attended Columbia?
And if Columbia in fact confirmed his attendance, how can that be reconciled with the recollections of the 400 Columbia alumni discussed in fred5676′s post above?
First, it was a tirade about how my comments were in support of socialists and socialism and now it’s all about my sincerity.
*Yawn
That’s kind of creepy….
You said it.
Can’t argue with any of that…
…Except that, if you think that there has been any tirade anywhere, you’ve been leading a very sheltered life.
Stop doing it then.
The 73 is excusable – she had meningitis. Oh wait, that was Sasha. Oh wait again, neither of them. Or not.
Very possible.
May I rephrase the question?
And if he applied as an “Indonesian” or “Kenyan”, would that matter to you?
You mean “present?” Yeah, that tells you a lot.
Then you agree with the person that brought up the subject earlier.
I wasn’t asking for a “secret history”. I simply want to know if he got into Columbia and Harvard based on his intelligence or his racial makeup. The grades will reveal that. It is certainly pertinent, just as it is pertinent to know that of the few science courses Al Gore took, he got C’s and D’s, meaning that his opinions about scientific matters are based in politics, not science.
And if he was admitted as a foreign student. Also – though it’s too late tonight for me to Google it – I seem to recall a fishy Arab in Texas being involved in his admittance to Harvard, at the request of another fishy guy.
b-cat, here’s a better definition and it’s easier to remember.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
- Winston Churchill
What a rotten thing to do to your child.
National humiliation! She will NEVER forget what you did a$$-hole.
Can a judge out there explain why a news organization like FNC shouldn’t sue Colombia University to unseal Obama’s sealed transcript on the SAME BASIS that the Chicago Tribune and LA Times sued the state of California to unseal Jack and Jeri Ryan’s sealed divorce papers?
(Can anyone find a link to judge Robert Schneider’s actual ruling? I can’t find it, was it ‘scrubbed’?)
I can’t believe people think Obama’s school records, immigration records, adoption papers, passport records, long form birth certificate, etc., are locked-up because he made bad grades.
1.5 million has spent to date keeping the records sealed because on them he answered questions such as; “What country are you a citizen of?” “Where were you born?”, Are you claiming foreign student status, etc.”?
The guy is a fraud, an imposter, and he and his minions have intimidated the MSM and Fox news and most talking heads from even bringing the subject up. Lou Dobbs did, and there were screams for his job and shots fired at his house.
There are no real journalist left willing to do an independent investigation of Obama’s past. They are afraid.
Guys -
Would the Freedom of Information Act request do it?
FCC Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) The Freedom of Information Act, commonly known as the FOIA, was enacted by Congress in 1966 to give the American public greater access to the Federal Government’s records. The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments of 1996 expanded the scope of the FOIA to encompass electronic records and require the creation of “electronic reading rooms” to make records more easily and widely available to the public. Most recently in December 2005, Executive Order 13392, “Improving Agency Disclosure of Information,” reaffirmed that FOIA “has provided an important means through which the public can obtain information regarding the activities of Federal agencies” and required Federal agencies to make their FOIA programs “citizen-centered and results-oriented.”
The Federal Election Commission and the House of Representatives (Nancy Pelosi) were incharge of vetting Barack Hussein Obama’s qualifications as a candidate. The actions of both are covered by the FOIA.
Why don’t we request the information ASAP?
P.s.
Of course Nancy Pelosi already issued a statement (or two) alleging that she had seen documents (citizenship, etc.) that qualified Barack Hussein Obama to be the Democrat’s candidate for office.
What we need to see are the same documents she supposedly saw and used to qualify him. THAT is covered in the FOIA, and should be made available to us.