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To: Lou Weed who wrote (278625)	8/30/2011 4:57:33 PM
From: longnshort	2 Recommendations Respond to of 281500

"Occidental College, Colombia University (undergrad), Harvard Law School Highlights:- graduated Harvard magna cum laude, first black president of the Harvard Law Review " Flunked out of Occ. How did he get into Columbia with those Occ grades, oh yeah black guy. Who paid ? Columbia grad without honors, that's pretty hard being an affirmative action guy. Some professors must have taken a hit for that. So how did he get into Harvard and who paid ? Harvard come on, the average grade is B+ to A- What professor would give an affirmative action guy a bad grade, he would be run out of the school Pres of harvard review, even the NY Times said it was an affirmative action thingy. Since no minorities could qualify with grades and a written test, they drop those requirements and made it a popularity vote and in liberal Harvard who would vote against the first negro to be President. You need to get a better news source

To: Lou Weed who wrote (278625)	8/31/2011 2:05:09 PM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Respond to of 281500

Was Barack Obama smart enough to make it as an Air Force pilot? In their quest to widen the low-road and increase its rider-ship, the liberal Washington, D.C-based Politico just offered up this hackneyed but oh so predictable headline: “Is Rick Perry Dumb?” Really? While it’s no surprise to conservatives and independents that the liberal mainstream media would pull out the old “attack Ronald Reagan” hand-book, dust it off, and use its previously discredited assaults to go after the surging Perry, a better question to be asked is: “What are they all so afraid of?” First of all, something which must be highlighted and stressed by all who care about fairness and accuracy is that Texas Gov. Rick Perry not only honorably served in our military but that he was a decorated Air Force pilot. At about the same age that President Obama (by his own admission) was trying to find himself and experimenting with drugs, Perry was strapping himself into the cockpit of multi-million dollar Air Force aircraft. Read more at the Washington Examiner: washingtonexaminer.com