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To: koan who wrote (514452)	9/19/2009 10:31:58 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577893

Koan: Obama was editor of the Harvard law review. That is the highest honor in law in the Us and the editor is picked by their peers. He was picked (becasue his peers felt he was the cream of hte crop)and graduated Magna cum Laude and that is on record. Look, I'm the most pro-education person you'll ever encounter. But I'm also going to tell you that there are certain things you don't get from an education. Obama may "know" the law, but he doesn't have the gumption to understand that you don't give Russia a gift like the one he gave them this week. You get something out of it. And we're already seeing the result of this gross incompetence: Russia has pocketed the gift, and now is making the next round of demands. He may have been a great law student, but he is a not a competent lawyer; I've known many a great lawyer and not one of them would have pulled a boner like this. Neither would GWB. If you are in a strong position you don't give away the very thing that holds you there. The other big thing the excellent student is lacking, apparently, is integrity. I refer you to Krauthammer's excellent column from this week. Obama has a problem with honesty and the truth. A lot of us spotted this problem well before the election (my wife, a pretty good judge of character, used the term "snake oil salesman", back at the time and she was proven to be precisely correct). It was clear Obama was an extremist liberal yet he convinced many people to vote for him on the basis he was centrist. That's cheating. We see "moves to the middle" all the time, but never on this scale. I want a president who is smart, but I want one with integrity and intuition and experience -- none of which Obama possesses.

To: koan who wrote (514452)	9/19/2009 10:33:35 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577893

Koan: ""That is silly. I haven't locked my front door in 25 years. That's smart.

To: koan who wrote (514452)	9/19/2009 10:47:41 AM
From: longnshort	2 Recommendations Respond to of 1577893

"Koan: "That is silly. Noting statistically, that a certain culture is mentoring its citizens to work hard in school is not racism. Where is the negativity? That the Japanese are the most educated people on earth, by thier own efforts, is no different than saying a people are very hard workers. School work is mostly just hard work. TYhe Japanese out work everyone else in school. And as a consequence they were able to build a wealthy country using their knowledge." so when a cop notes statistically that blacks commit more crime, how come you libs call it profiling and racism ?

To: koan who wrote (514452)	9/19/2009 10:56:35 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577893

"Obama was editor of the Harvard law review. That is the highest honor in law in the Us and the editor is picked by their peers. He was picked (becasue his peers felt he was the cream of hte crop)and graduated Magna cum Laude and that is on record. " one he wasn't the editor and two it was an affirmative action pick, even the NY Times said so at the time. He was President of the review, and for the first time he didn't write a paper. No pres. of the review had done that before. from the NY Times. Change in Selection System 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. 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.

To: koan who wrote (514452)	9/19/2009 11:12:56 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1577893

Hollywood Bigots in Black and White bighollywood.breitbart.com

To: koan who wrote (514452)	9/19/2009 11:22:38 AM
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Jimmy Carter's Race Problem [Hans von Spakovsky] When former president Jimmy Carter accuses the opponents of Barrack Obama's policy of nationalizing broad aspects of our economy and spending us into bankruptcy of being "racists," perhaps he should look in the mirror. In his 1982 book, Keeping Faith, Carter disingenuously said he "was not directly involved in the early struggles to end racial discrimination." No kidding — in fact, he directly and unambiguously supported segregation. When Carter returned to Plains, Georgia, to become a peanut farmer after serving in the Navy, he became a member of the Sumter County School Board, which did not implement the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision handed down by the Supreme Court. Instead, the board continued to segregate school children on the streets of Carter's hometown. As Laughlin McDonald, director of the ACLU's Voting Project, relates in his book A Voting Rights Odyssey: Black Enfranchisement in Georgia, Carter's board tried to stop the construction of a new "Elementary Negro School" in 1956. Local white citizens had complained that the school would be "too close" to a white school. As a result, "the children, both colored and white, would have to travel the same streets and roads in order to reach their respective schools." The prospect of black and white children commingling on the streets on their way to school was apparently so horrible to Carter that he requested that the state school board stop construction of the black school until a new site could be found. The state board turned down Carter's request because of "the staggering cost." Carter and the rest of the Sumter County School Board then reassured parents at a meeting on October 5, 1956, that the board "would do everything in its power to minimize simultaneous traffic between white and colored students in route to and from school." I am not aware that Rep. Joe Wilson has ever supported segregation or engaged in the same type of reprehensible, racist behavior. The idea that opposition to Obama's policies reflects "racism" is absurd; even the White House has rejected it. All of this raises a larger issue about Carter's remarks. When he makes such a claim, is he projecting his own inner racial beliefs? Is he so guilt-ridden over his past racist behavior that he wants to make amends to the race-baiters that today populate the Left? Or is he just cynically helping them score political points? The Corner on National Review Online (18 September 2009) corner.nationalreview.com