anyone know? He goes on and on about how his mom couldn't afford a couple hundred dollars/month in living expenses so how did he pay for two degrees from an ivy league school?

Head Scratcher Wrote:
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> anyone know? He goes on and on about how his mom
> couldn't afford a couple hundred dollars/month in
> living expenses so how did he pay for two degrees
> from an ivy league school?

Soros

Oh, he probably sold crack - easily pay for college.

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Let's assume he did.

So...how shall this thread carry on?

I was looking for serious answers, but it appears nobody knows. I wonder why that is the case.

4 more years, II, you don't have a better answer than that? I thought you were a supporter of the President.

His diplomas are fake.

TheMeeper Wrote:
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> His diplomas are fake.


Which are still better than a real diploma from PSU.

Head Scratcher Wrote:
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> anyone know? He goes on and on about how his mom
> couldn't afford a couple hundred dollars/month in
> living expenses so how did he pay for two degrees
> from an ivy league school?





So it has moved from birth certificate legitimacy to how he paid for college?

Blessed are the murderous.

Head Scratcher Wrote:
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> 4 more years, II, you don't have a better answer
> than that? I thought you were a supporter of the
> President.

I literally do not care how the President paid for his outstanding education; that is ancient history that, as with my own education, is currently totally irrelevant. What matters is who he is, what he is achieving currently, what his amazingly-poor political competition is, and what the future will bring.

He is a former student, former community organizer, former state senator, former US Senator, and the current Prez.

That's all that matters to me.

4 more years, II Wrote:
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> Head Scratcher Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > 4 more years, II, you don't have a better
> answer
> > than that? I thought you were a supporter of
> the
> > President.
>
> I literally do not care how the President paid for
> his outstanding education; that is ancient history
> that, as with my own education, is currently
> totally irrelevant. What matters is who he is,
> what he is achieving currently, what his
> amazingly-poor political competition is, and what
> the future will bring.
>
> He is a former student, former community
> organizer, former state senator, former US
> Senator, and the current Prez.
>
> That's all that matters to me.


OK. Thanks for clearing that up. Your position is not very well thought out, but at least you have a point of view.

eesh Wrote:
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> Head Scratcher Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > anyone know? He goes on and on about how his
> mom
> > couldn't afford a couple hundred dollars/month
> in
> > living expenses so how did he pay for two
> degrees
> > from an ivy league school?
>
>
>
>
>
> So it has moved from birth certificate legitimacy
> to how he paid for college?


This isn't some big conspiracy theory ala the birth certificate thing, I genuinely want to know. It is a fairly simple question that should have a fairly simple answer. Yet, despite a few of his supporters posting here, not a single straight forward answer has been given. Strange.

Sandusky Wrote:
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> TheMeeper Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > His diplomas are fake.
>
>
> Which are still better than a real diploma from
> PSU.

Explain that to your buddy Santorum, pal.

TheMeeper Wrote:
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> Sandusky Wrote:
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> -----
> > TheMeeper Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > His diplomas are fake.
> >
> >
> > Which are still better than a real diploma from
> > PSU.
>
> Explain that to your buddy Santorum, pal.


That is my point exactly. Thanks for spelling it out for the uninformed! Santorum is living proof that two fake diplomas from ivy league schools are superior to a real diploma from PSU.

I seem to recall both he and Michelle Obama talking about the burden of student loans. I know it's crazy and all. And, yes, he probably got some grants and scholarships, too. Those things do happen.

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WashingTone-Locian Wrote:
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> I seem to recall both he and Michelle Obama
> talking about the burden of student loans. I know
> it's crazy and all. And, yes, he probably got some
> grants and scholarships, too. Those things do
> happen.

Thank you for the most straight forward answer yet.

According to this story, it was the radical Ayers family that financed Obama's education. You know, the Ayers who Obama claimed he only knew because his kids went to the same schools but launched his first political campaign in their living room.

http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/postman-ayers-family-put-foreigner-obama-through-school/

eesh Wrote:
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>
> > living expenses so how did he pay for two
> degrees
> > from an ivy league school?
>
>
>
>
>
> So it has moved from birth certificate legitimacy
> to how he paid for college?

It's the conservative's way of bringing Obama's race into the spotlight. In the narrowminded world of the average Republican voter, it's not normal for a black guy to do well academically, let alone 2 Ivy league degrees. In their minds, the
only reason black guys go to college is because they are good at sports. Anything else just doesn't make sense to them. So they throw out this issue about how on earth could Obama afford Harvard because they know the Joe Sixpack dumbasses will bite. They really don't believe a black person can be smart enough to afford ivy league schools, therefore Obama must have scammed his way in because he's black. Black people don't earn things, they are given a free ride because of their skin color.

It's truly a sick, demented thought process, something that is deeply wrong with Republicans (and America, no less).

real reason Wrote:
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> eesh Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> >
> > > living expenses so how did he pay for two
> > degrees
> > > from an ivy league school?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > So it has moved from birth certificate
> legitimacy
> > to how he paid for college?
>
> It's the conservative's way of bringing Obama's
> race into the spotlight. In the narrowminded
> world of the average Republican voter, it's not
> normal for a black guy to do well academically,
> let alone 2 Ivy league degrees. In their minds,
> the
> only reason black guys go to college is because
> they are good at sports. Anything else just
> doesn't make sense to them. So they throw out
> this issue about how on earth could Obama afford
> Harvard because they know the Joe Sixpack
> dumbasses will bite. They really don't believe a
> black person can be smart enough to afford ivy
> league schools, therefore Obama must have scammed
> his way in because he's black. Black people don't
> earn things, they are given a free ride because of
> their skin color.
>
> It's truly a sick, demented thought process,
> something that is deeply wrong with Republicans
> (and America, no less).


Nonsense. The democrat party and their Plantation mentality has destroyed two generations of blacks in this country. With their house ni@@er's like Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson carrying the water for the MSM, the democrats have decimated the black middle class and the family unit in the black community. I fear there is a special place in Hell for sanctimonious race-baiters who keep their boots firmly on the throats of blacks while giving them just enough to keep them on the Plantation. Modern Slavery, thy name is democrat.

real reason Wrote:
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> It's the conservative's way of bringing Obama's
> race into the spotlight. In the narrowminded
> world of the average Republican voter, it's not
> normal for a black guy to do well academically,
> let alone 2 Ivy league degrees. In their minds,
> the
> only reason black guys go to college is because
> they are good at sports. Anything else just
> doesn't make sense to them. So they throw out
> this issue about how on earth could Obama afford
> Harvard because they know the Joe Sixpack
> dumbasses will bite. They really don't believe a
> black person can be smart enough to afford ivy
> league schools, therefore Obama must have scammed
> his way in because he's black. Black people don't
> earn things, they are given a free ride because of
> their skin color.
>
> It's truly a sick, demented thought process,
> something that is deeply wrong with Republicans
> (and America, no less).

You nailed it.

Obama afforded attending Harvard on a number of levels.

1) Obama was a straight 4.0 student and granted scholarships.
2) He assumed some student loans (now paid off.)
3) He worked part time to cover living expenses.

I believe he may also of been paid some money for a couple of law papers\article he wrote.

Scholarships Wrote:
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> Obama afforded attending Harvard on a number of
> levels.
>
> 1) Obama was a straight 4.0 student and granted
> scholarships.
> 2) He assumed some student loans (now paid off.)
> 3) He worked part time to cover living expenses.
>
> I believe he may also of been paid some money for
> a couple of law papers\article he wrote.

A better question is what's Romney's education? Yup, laughable compared to Obama's education and Harvard.

Scholarships Wrote:
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> Obama afforded attending Harvard on a number of
> levels.
>
> 1) Obama was a straight 4.0 student and granted
> scholarships.
> 2) He assumed some student loans (now paid off.)
> 3) He worked part time to cover living expenses.
>
> I believe he may also of been paid some money for
> a couple of law papers\article he wrote.

Just like everyone else. Imagine that!

Westerns Wrote:

> A better question is what's Romney's education?
> Yup, laughable compared to Obama's education and
> Harvard.

So Harvard vs Harvard is laughable?

Romney got an MBA at Harvard.

Nice job showing that you have no clue what you are talking about.

Forgot to mention Romney also has a Juris Doctor graduate degree from Harvard.

BYU is also a better undergrad school than Occidental College.

Again well done.

Has anyone found copies of the legal reviews Obama wrote while at Harvard?

Hay Zeus Wrote:
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> Has anyone found copies of the legal reviews Obama
> wrote while at Harvard?


I'm sure they're real radical. The Harvard Law Review is a breeding ground for crazed militants.

TheMeeper Wrote:
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> Hay Zeus Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Has anyone found copies of the legal reviews
> Obama
> > wrote while at Harvard?
>
>
> I'm sure they're real radical. The Harvard Law
> Review is a breeding ground for crazed militants.

I'm no great writer but don't portray myself as the smartest man alive either. Fom what I read they are full of grammatical errors and barely comprehensible sentences. Kind of like how he talks off TelePrompTer.



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With money, duh.

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13 4826 0948 82695 25847. Yes.

Hay Zeus Wrote:
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>
> I'm no great writer but don't portray myself as
> the smartest man alive either. Fom what I read
> they are full of grammatical errors and barely
> comprehensible sentences. Kind of like how he
> talks off TelePrompTer.


Graduating magna cum laude from an Ivy League law school is usually a pretty good indicator of one's academic prowess, but I guess in the alternate universe of Sarah Palin and Alex Jones, it's a sign of affirmative action-fueled illiteracy.

Head Scratcher Wrote:
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> anyone know? He goes on and on about how his mom
> couldn't afford a couple hundred dollars/month in
> living expenses so how did he pay for two degrees
> from an ivy league school?


Scholys and loans. Don't forget college in the 70 and 80's was much much cheaper.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/money.asp

SNOPES: "Proving Wingnuts wrong for 10 years!"

TheMeeper Wrote:
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> Hay Zeus Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> >
> > I'm no great writer but don't portray myself as
> > the smartest man alive either. Fom what I read
> > they are full of grammatical errors and barely
> > comprehensible sentences. Kind of like how he
> > talks off TelePrompTer.
>
>
> Graduating magna cum laude from an Ivy League law
> school is usually a pretty good indicator of one's
> academic prowess, but I guess in the alternate
> universe of Sarah Palin and Alex Jones, it's a
> sign of affirmative action-fueled illiteracy.

Palin, six community colleges and smoking pot were her biggest academic accomplishments.

Sorry Meep but the sum off all the parts regarding Obama's extraordinary intelligence just doen't add up. He is as every bit oradinary as you and me.



"The response is classic Obama: patronizing, dishonest, syntactically muddled, and grammatically challenged. In the very first sentence Obama leads with his signature failing, one on full display in his earlier published work: his inability to make subject and predicate agree.

"Since the merits of the Law Review's selection policy has been the subject of commentary for the last three issues," wrote Obama, "I'd like to take the time to clarify exactly how our selection process works."

If Obama were as smart as a fifth-grader, he would know, of course, that "merits ... have." Were there such a thing as a literary Darwin Award, Obama could have won it on this on one sentence alone. He had vindicated Chen in his first ten words.

Although the letter is fewer than a thousand words long, Obama repeats the subject-predicate error at least two more times. In one sentence, he seemingly cannot make up his mind as to which verb option is correct so he tries both: "Approximately half of this first batch is chosen ... the other half are selected ... "


Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/early_obama_letter_confirms_inability_to_write.html#ixzz1plYq5wzE



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Hay Zeus Wrote:
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> Sorry Meep but the sum off all the parts regarding
> Obama's extraordinary intelligence just doen't add
> up. He is as every bit oradinary as you and I.
>
>
>
> "The response is classic Obama: patronizing,
> dishonest, syntactically muddled, and
> grammatically challenged. In the very first
> sentence Obama leads with his signature failing,
> one on full display in his earlier published work:
> his inability to make subject and predicate
> agree.
>
> "Since the merits of the Law Review's selection
> policy has been the subject of commentary for the
> last three issues," wrote Obama, "I'd like to take
> the time to clarify exactly how our selection
> process works."
>
> If Obama were as smart as a fifth-grader, he would
> know, of course, that "merits ... have." Were
> there such a thing as a literary Darwin Award,
> Obama could have won it on this on one sentence
> alone. He had vindicated Chen in his first ten
> words.
>
> Although the letter is fewer than a thousand words
> long, Obama repeats the subject-predicate error at
> least two more times. In one sentence, he
> seemingly cannot make up his mind as to which verb
> option is correct so he tries both: "Approximately
> half of this first batch is chosen ... the other
> half are selected ... "
>
>
> Read more:
> http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/early_obama
> _letter_confirms_inability_to_write.html#ixzz1plYq
> 5wzE


Plus, every 1L learns when to use "since" and when to use "because."

If this is truly his writing, he should have been eliminated from any law school's write on competition.

You can buy some of Barak Obama's Best Sellers on Amazon -

The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama - Book Review - http://bestsellers.about.com/od/nonfictionreviews/gr/obama_hope.htm

Hay Zeus Wrote:
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> Sorry Meep but the sum off all the parts regarding
> Obama's extraordinary intelligence just doen't add
> up. He is as every bit oradinary as you and me.

fwiw, I do not consider Obama to have "extraordinary intelligence". Guys like Stephen Hawking or the dude who solved Fermat's Last Theorem, that's extraordinary intelligence IMO.

I gotta admit it is funny that speculating whether he's an elitist or proving he's dumb remain key issues in the Republican race.

TheMeeper Wrote:
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> Hay Zeus Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Sorry Meep but the sum off all the parts
> regarding
> > Obama's extraordinary intelligence just doen't
> add
> > up. He is as every bit oradinary as you and me.
>
>
> fwiw, I do not consider Obama to have
> "extraordinary intelligence". Guys like Stephen
> Hawking or the dude who solved Fermat's Last
> Theorem, that's extraordinary intelligence IMO.
>
> I gotta admit it is funny that speculating whether
> he's an elitist or proving he's dumb remain key
> issues in the Republican race.


You can be dumb and be elitist.

TheMeeper Wrote:
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>
> I gotta admit it is funny that speculating whether
> he's an elitist or proving he's dumb remain key
> issues in the Republican race.

Are you, TheMepper, completely devoid of any and all integrity?

Here you are drawing no equivalence to what you are accusing the Republicans of doing to Obama and what the Democrats have been doing to Bush from 2000-Present Day.

Hay Zeus Wrote:
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>
> Are you, TheMepper, completely devoid of any and
> all integrity?
>
> Here you are drawing no equivalence to what you
> are accusing the Republicans of doing to Obama and
> what the Democrats have been doing to Bush from
> 2000-Present Day.

Stop blaming Bush.

Did George Bush pay for his education by selling coke? Or was it Bush's Dad who pulled strings to get him into college.

BushWhacked2 Wrote:
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> Did George Bush pay for his education by selling
> coke? Or was it Bush's Dad who pulled strings to
> get him into college.


Probably both.

Is he running again?

Vexxxed Wrote:
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> BushWhacked2 Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Did George Bush pay for his education by
> selling
> > coke? Or was it Bush's Dad who pulled strings
> to
> > get him into college.
>
>
> Probably both.
>
> Is he running again?


Why are you trying to deprive the Democrats of the ONLY talking point they have had for the past six years?

Broken Record Wrote:
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> Vexxxed Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > BushWhacked2 Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > Did George Bush pay for his education by
> > selling
> > > coke? Or was it Bush's Dad who pulled
> strings
> > to
> > > get him into college.
> >
> >
> > Probably both.
> >
> > Is he running again?
>
>
> Why are you trying to deprive the Democrats of the
> ONLY talking point they have had for the past six
> years?

How come none of republican candidates say we need to get back to the Bush years?

BushWhacked3 Wrote:
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>
> How come none of republican candidates say we need
> to get back to the Bush years?

Because Bush at the time had record deficit spending although it was pennies compared the current adminstration.

and where is that balance budget the Obama promised? Of course its hard to balance a budget when one doesn't exist for almost 3 years.



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BushWhacked3 Wrote:
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> Broken Record Wrote:
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> > Vexxxed Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > BushWhacked2 Wrote:
> > >
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> >
> > > -----
> > > > Did George Bush pay for his education by
> > > selling
> > > > coke? Or was it Bush's Dad who pulled
> > strings
> > > to
> > > > get him into college.
> > >
> > >
> > > Probably both.
> > >
> > > Is he running again?
> >
> >
> > Why are you trying to deprive the Democrats of
> the
> > ONLY talking point they have had for the past
> six
> > years?
>
> How come none of republican candidates say we need
> to get back to the Bush years?


Because we are currently in Carter's second administration.

Oh, and thanks for proving the point that Democrats have nothing beyond "blame Bush."

Hay Zeus Wrote:
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> BushWhacked3 Wrote:
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> -----
> >
> > How come none of republican candidates say we
> need
> > to get back to the Bush years?
>
> Because Bush at the time had record deficit
> spending although it was pennies compared the
> current adminstration.
>
> and where is that balance budget the Obama
> promised? Of course its hard to balance a budget
> when one doesn't exist for almost 3 years.

Well Obama admits thats hes unpatriotic.

Exactly the way he pays for everything by talking out of both sides of his mouth

BushWhacked3 Wrote:
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> Broken Record Wrote:
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> > Vexxxed Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > BushWhacked2 Wrote:
> > >
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> >
> > > -----
> > > > Did George Bush pay for his education by
> > > selling
> > > > coke? Or was it Bush's Dad who pulled
> > strings
> > > to
> > > > get him into college.
> > >
> > >
> > > Probably both.
> > >
> > > Is he running again?
> >
> >
> > Why are you trying to deprive the Democrats of
> the
> > ONLY talking point they have had for the past
> six
> > years?
>
> How come none of republican candidates say we need
> to get back to the Bush years?

Because Bush took a Clinton surplus and turned it into one the worst presidencies in the history of the United States. Talking about Bush would bring up to many flaws in republican polices.

QuakerOats Wrote:
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> BushWhacked3 Wrote:
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> > Broken Record Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > Vexxxed Wrote:
> > >
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> >
> > > -----
> > > > BushWhacked2 Wrote:
> > > >
> > >
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> >
> > >
> > > > -----
> > > > > Did George Bush pay for his education by
> > > > selling
> > > > > coke? Or was it Bush's Dad who pulled
> > > strings
> > > > to
> > > > > get him into college.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Probably both.
> > > >
> > > > Is he running again?
> > >
> > >
> > > Why are you trying to deprive the Democrats
> of
> > the
> > > ONLY talking point they have had for the past
> > six
> > > years?
> >
> > How come none of republican candidates say we
> need
> > to get back to the Bush years?
>
> Because Bush took a Clinton surplus and turned it
> into one the worst presidencies in the history of
> the United States. Talking about Bush would bring
> up to many flaws in republican polices.


Ahh, the phantom surplus. Democrat talking point #2 rears its ugly head. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

QuakerOats Wrote:
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> Because Bush took a Clinton surplus and turned it
> into one the worst presidencies in the history of
> the United States. Talking about Bush would bring
> up to many flaws in republican polices.


You talkin about the "slight error in math" Clinton surplus that left the building the same time Bill did?

Man.........say the lie, repeat the lie, reinforce the lie by stating it with authority.

Great plan.

QuakerOats Wrote:
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>
> Because Bush took a Clinton surplus and turned it
> into one the worst presidencies in the history of
> the United States. Talking about Bush would bring
> up to many flaws in republican polices.

That would be the Gingrich/Clinton Surplus becuase Clinton would not have balance budget left to his own devices.

Although Bush will most likely not be viewed as a great president, he will probably be ranked higher than Obama.

I think Obama has basically kept all of Bush's policies in place in one way shape or form. He even extended the Bush Tax Rates, renewed the patriot act, increased troop levels in Afghanistan, Guantanimo is still open (with new soccer field), doubled down on spending, continued to drone strikes in Pakistan, authorized the killing of US citizens outside the country before due process...etc



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Somewhere in Chicago there is a Ghetto missing its community organizer

didn't he get a basketball scholarship at harvard but ending up sitting on the bench and at Columbia he was a grad asisstant basketball coach who sang in a soul band on weekends off season to make some more money