Mr. Obama, congratulations on being the first Affirmative Action candidate for President; wholly under qualified for the job but buoyed by politically correct feel good notions of social engineering.
Your resume is tissue thin and note card short. Your only accomplishments involve being elected to positions by ultra liberals who want to manufacture your “success” de facto instead of requiring you to earn success on your own. ‘If we give you the title, you must have earned it; if we put you in the job, you must be qualified.’
Your academic accomplishments are unimpressive. You’ve buried your assumedly shameful or lackluster undergraduate career at Columbia and have yet to release a single grade or test score from your entire academic career. Perhaps you didn’t really deserve to get into Columbia or Harvard, perhaps you took the spot of a more qualified non-affirmative action student, and perhaps your honors are a sham. If you were qualified and your grades did merit your honors, why keep them sealed? We know all about McCain, Kerry, Bush, Gore, and Clinton’s grades.
Your biggest life accomplishment is being chosen by the the inventors of Affirmative Action to head their pet project, the Harvard Law Review. Despite being gifted the position by the P.C. praetorian guard of the bastion of Communism in the US, a group who gave their foreskins in sacrifice to right perceived wrongs by enforcing accomplishment quotas with token appointments to pander to under performing minorities. The job traditionally goes to the student who writes the most impressive commentaries during their second year, yet you didn’t write anything at all. The Editor-in-Chief is most certainly supposed to use the position to promote their judicial philosophy and to regularly publish analysis, notes, and commentaries. You didn’t publish a single line and you are most likely the only Editor of the Harvard Law Review to have ever done so little.
Your lack of legal scholarship continued in your “legal professor and scholar” career. You never published a single paper. That’s an automatic failure in the academic world. They gave you the degree but they obviously couldn’t teach you how to perform. Affirmative Action taints legitimate minority performance, and you have given us little to nothing to assure us that this is not the case with you.
And so forth with the rest of your accomplishments. Getting people to put you in positions of power where you never deliver and are never held accountable.
How can you pretend to create hundreds of thousands of jobs when you have never created a single job, never hired anyone, never run so much as a paper route or a lemonade stand and believe in political philosophies that cripple the economy with pandering giveaways to the endowment rolls?
How can you fix the economy when you’ve never played a part in it except leeching tax payer and endowment money from the school system and public office, two “employers” that don’t have to play by the rules of Capitalism and who matter not in the large scope of the economy?
How can you pretend to save the middle class workforce when you aren’t even qualified to be hired in any one of a thousand middle class jobs? Mr. Obama, you’ve never even held a middle class or blue collar job, or even worked for a company that produces a product. You’ve never made a pay roll or payed a small business tax. Your entire work experience is as a lawyer, the profession which doesn’t produce or grow anything, who simply scavenges at the edge of the economy taking what others have made. Such redistribution (with a big fat cut for the redistributors) is not the answer to any of our problems.
And let’s talk about your “faith.” If we aren’t to believe that you were influenced or indoctrinated by the islamic ‘faith of your fathers’ or the athiest non-faith of your mother, the best we can conclude is that you were like many leftist youth of your time and now: spitefully agnostic and apathetic, if not outright athiest. Yet, amazingly, you find the sine qua non religious affiliation you’d need to ever get elected to public office at the exact time you decide you should be President. A politically expedient sham. And we have all seen how wisely you chose. You pick an America hating racist blow hard to be your sole religious leader and credential.
This is a pattern you continued. Making politically expedient partnerships with vile people because their influence and money suited your needs at the time.
How can someone who has accomplished so little have found enough material to write two memoirs and yet you never mentioned Bill Ayers or Tony Rezko even once?
You’re bound to bring change to the White (guilt) House, Mr. Obama, you’ll be the least qualified person to ever live there. Congratulations Affirmative Action, you’ve broken the highest glass celing with guilt instead of merit.
Christopher
Mark
Jen Robinson
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Kathy Bittorf
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You write to Obama: “Your academic accomplishments are unimpressive.”
Have you seen McCain’s academic accomplishments? How about Palin’s? What about Ronald Reagan’s? George W. Bush’s?
Not everyone can be an academic star like Bill Clinton was.
Legacy admissions are affirmative action and no more impressive or appropriate. Of course there are qualified minorities and children of alumni, but all of their standing is called into question by a stupid practice.
As you’ve pointed out, America doesn’t have a huge problem voting for people who wouldn’t qualify for Mensa, but still Obama won’t release his records. Perhaps because his transcripts are 90% of his resume and perhaps they simply reinforce the only thing we can really draw from his history: far left radicalism at every turn.
None of the people you mentioned are limited by virtually no experience and the sole, singular accomplishment of being chosen E-i-C of the school paper 20 years ago.
Obama is clearly the least impressive and least prepared candidate in several generations… and it’s really hard to think of someone less experienced at all.
It’s hard to think of someone overall less qualified by experience etc. than Palin. A stint as a small-town mayor and almost two years as governor of Alaska just don’t add up to more than being a senator and former community organizer.
This may be why choosing Palin has backfired: Despite her strengths as an old-fashioned conservative and a telegenic personality (the opposite of McCain in both respects), she has also taken a lot of steam out of the strongest criticism of Obama, namely his level of experience.
As for legacy admissions, they really only addresses getting in. Look at McCain’s actual performance at the Academy, the guy was just academically weak. Ditto W. at Yale.
Ronald Reagan was academically mediocre at best. And Palin seems to have been somewhere between McC and Reagan.
And of course there is little correlation between actual intelligence and alma mater or grades. Lots of folks with good grades from the more famous universities are off in faculty offices in little-visited fields for just this reason.
Likewise, many who didn’t go to a celebrity university or get the best grades are or were very effective. Here again Reagan is a good example. Heck, Abraham Lincoln spent a grand total of about a year and a half at school.
I just don’t think the transcripts issue is significant.
Re: Legacies and Affirmative Action
Getting in and then graduating are more important events than GPA. That’s the entire point of affirmative action… they aren’t tutoring minorities so that they are qualified, they are putting them in schools they don’t deserve so that the elite name lends undeserved credibility.
Lipstick on a pig.
Graduating is an attendance award. Anyone can get through an elite college with a liberal arts degree. Anyone. The degree is an attendance award.
I graduated from Stanford is a far more powerful statement than I got high honors at State U.
The school name itself weighs in more than individual performance. Also the specialties of the big name schools lend credibility to their shitty programs. All the faculty at Harvard and Yale aren’t excellent, but unless you’re in know, a degree in a crappy department at an elite school is worth a lot more than a degree from excellent faculty at a state school.
There is no great secret to the success of the top schools. They aren’t elite because they transform shit in to gold. They only let in gold.
The entire educational theory in this country is piss poor. Everything practical has been done away with because the unionized teachers aren’t qualified. Any dipshit can teach English, History, Sociology, etc. but it requires experienced and skilled craftsmen to teach industrial arts.
And for the best in the hard subjects, industry/business is a more attractive home than the red tape bureaucracy of our schools.
The most over priced thing in our country is education. They demand so much $ for delivering so little. It’s a huge bubble and I have no idea when or if it will ever burst, but it’s more ominous than the tech bubble or the housing bubble.
We expect so little from our education system that we have to justify the worthlessness of most degrees with “well you were just learning to learn anyway.”
“It’s hard to think of someone overall less qualified by experience etc. than Palin. A stint as a small-town mayor and almost two years as governor of Alaska just don’t add up to more than being a senator and former community organizer.”
That’s just stupid. Really stupid. I don’t think you even believe that, you just WANT to believe it.
Obama is in no way more qualified to lead than Palin, and he’s running on the top of the ticket! Let alone Biden or McCain. He is, by far, the least experienced of the lot.
I couldn’t say it better than the smartest intellectual in the country, Thomas Sowell:
The issue that is raised most often is her relative lack of experience and the fact that she would be “a heartbeat away from the presidency” if Senator John McCain were elected. But Barack Obama has even less experience — none in an executive capacity — and his would itself be the heartbeat of the presidency if he were elected.
Sarah Palin’s record is on the record, while whole years of Barack Obama’s life are engulfed in fog, and he has had to explain away one after another of the astounding and vile people he has not merely “associated” with but has had political alliances with, and to whom he has directed the taxpayers’ money and other money.
Sarah Palin has had executive experience — and the White House is the executive branch of government. We don’t have to judge her by her rhetoric because she has a record.
We don’t know what Barack Obama will actually do because he has actually done very little for which he was personally accountable. Even as a state legislator, he voted “present” innumerable times instead of taking a stand one way or the other on tough issues.
“Clean up the mess in Washington”? He was part of the mess in Chicago and lined up with the Daley machine against reformers.
He is also part of the mess in Washington, not only with numerous earmarks, but also as the Senate’s second largest recipient of money from Fannie Mae, and someone whose campaign has this year sought the advice of disgraced former Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines, who was at the heart of the subprime crisis.
Why then the enthusiasm for Obama and the hostility to Sarah Palin in the media?
One reason of course is that Senator Obama is ideologically much closer to the views of the media than is Governor Palin. But there is more than that. There are other conservative politicians who do not evoke such anger, spite and hate.
More here:
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell101708.php3
A community organizer isn’t impressive in the least and it is in no way an executive experience. Neither is being a Senator. That’s why we elect so few of them.
Handing out other people’s money isn’t the same as having to earn it and balance the books.
The senate is like Daddy’s little girl with his gold card. They pride themselves on how much they can spend during a day at the mall. But little Miss Princess doesn’t have to earn the money. That falls to her father.
And what about being a mayor in a small town is any less impressive experience wise? Unlike big city leaders who have a huge staff and many advisors to share the load, small leadership is difficult because it needs to be diverse.
And is it really less impressive making decisions for 1,000 people vs. 50,000 people? At some point the marginal difference is very small. Balancing a budge in a family is a tough job. It’s not too much more difficult to do it as an accountant. And it’s not too much more difficult as an accounting firm. The principles and the questions and the problems are the same, the numbers are simply larger, but so is the help.
Barack Obama isn’t qualified to run a corner store or to lead a boyscout troop. Yet you think he’s qualified now to be Commander in Chief? To steer the ship of state?
Painting a 10ft x 10ft canvas might be more difficult than painting on ledger paper. But we’ve seen Sarah Palin excel greatly on the small and medium scale, we haven’t seen Obama even draw a stick figure.
Obama has never been shot at or shot at anyone, never earned a salary based on income instead of negotiation, and never balanced the books of a business with employees. But you really think that he is more qualified than someone who has run her own business, actually stood up to her party, brought actual reform, made hard decisions?
Sarah Palin is a self made woman. Barack Obama is not a self made man.
In fact, he’s such a creation of other people’s interests it’s almost as if he’s a nobody… a blank slate. All rhetoric and promises, because he has such a little record.
You can’t make something else out of McCain and Palin or even Biden, because they have strong personalities and defined qualities. Obama is like tofu. He might be playing it like he’s still fresh and new and flavorless, but in truth he has been soaking in a brine of liberal socialism and white elite self satisfaction that I find very distasteful.
So far we’ve been given a lot of promises of what Obama’s taste will be, but since he’s never had to deliver (“present!”), we’re in for a rude awakening when he can’t deliver to the Move On zealots, nor will he bring the country together, end white guilt and pandering to blacks or their sense of rage against ‘the man,’ or cure the economy (the President plays the smallest role in this as anyone!), or any of the other wonderful platitudes we’re meant to believe will happen when he takes office.
The transcript issue is NOT significant in and of itself any more than the break in at Watergate was all that significant. It’s the cover up that is the issue. Do you recall that Gore was a flunky from Divinity School? Didn’t stop him from preaching about the environment!
Obama not releasing the records is significant simply because he’s not doing it and our imaginations are left to run wild on why. Same with Palin being kept under wraps. We ask why? and then think of all the nastiest reasons.
Obama’s education is significant though, since it’s really his only merit based accomplishment of note, and while we should assume that it is impressive on its face, why not open the records and remove all doubt?
The reason you’ll never agree with me or admit Obama’s faults is that the Presidency is really an elected celebrity position. All the really talented specialists are staff. Prez is a national motivator. We don’t expect him to micromanage battle strategies or chart new roads. We expect inspiration and the appearance of competency.
Obama has done exceedingly well at this appearance. If only he were a War Hero he could be the next JFK. The appeal is very much the same. People forget that despite all the pomp, Camelot was not a fairy tale but a story of sexual bizarreness, addiction, betrayal, and a lot of death. A more appropriate link with Kennedy than many care to realize.
Hillary was the better choice. I wouldn’t vote for her either, but she is a known quantity. Obama has walked away from so much of his short life, what are we really left with? HYPE. Not Hope.
I wouldn’t have to hope that Hillary or McCain are the person they have been, since they have a record. Obama just doesn’t, especially since what record he does have is supposedly not telling about his character, according to him.
Been eating too many milk-bones lately?
Jesus H Christ.
“Obama is in no way more qualified to lead than Palin, and he’s running on the top of the ticket!”
This has got to be a joke.
You’re a funny little boy, aren’t you?
You’re proving my point. You disagree, can insult me, but can’t list a single Obama accomplishment. Don’t debate the points, just insult and evade.
Commander in Chief? Zero credentials.
The Economy? Zero credentials.
Bi-Partisan? Non Partisan? Zero credentials.
Lowering taxes? Zero credentials.
Obama has NEVER sacrificed anything. He’s running on platitudes and generalities with no record (at least one that supports his current appeal to the center).
As far as Jesus H Christ goes, I doubt Obama even believes in him as anything other than a political necessity. He never had a come to Jesus moment, he had a come to power moment.
Thank you thank you thank you a million times over, for writing, so eloquently, the truth, popular or not.