To begin with, the NY Times 1990 article on Obama being elected President of the HARVARD LAW REVIEW casts the first troubling clues that all is not what it appears to be.
"Until the 1970's the editors were picked on the basis of grades, and the president of the LAW REVIEW was the student with the highest academic rank. Among these were Elliot L. Richardson, the former Attorney General, and Irwin Griswold, a dean of the HARVARD LAW School and Solicitor General under Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon.
That system came under attack in the 1970's and was replaced by a program in which about half the editors are chosen for their grades and the other half are chosen by fellow students after a special writing competition. The new system, disputed when it began, was meant to help insure that minority students became editors of The LAW REVIEW."
There is the Achilles heel. The former high standards which all previous Presidents of the HARVARD LAW REVIEW had been forced to meet - grades, papers, etc.- no longer existed by the time Obama was elected. Instead, the post was selected on something different than grades, papers, etc. It was selected on race. Obama was the 'right' race. He was black. Now of course, that doesn't mean Obama did NOT have intelligence - but what it makes clear is that by the time he was elected, Presidency of the REVIEW no longer proved he DID.
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As the NY Times article cites, "Mr. Obama was elected after a meeting of the review's 80 editors that convened Sunday and lasted until early this morning, a participant said."
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