To: Honey_Bee who wrote (360 ) 5/29/2012 10:37:44 AM From: joseffy 1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) | Respond to Obama ducks calls to release his collegiate transcripts Dave Boyer The Washington Times Monday, May 28, 2012washingtontimes.com Air Force Academy , he congratulated the cadets for excelling at one of the most demanding schools in the country. decades after Mr. Obama completed his own college course work, his academic performance is still a mystery. Before and after his election as president, Mr. Obama has refused to release his college transcripts from his days as an undergraduate and a law school student. Stephen Hess , a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who focuses on the presidency. “At this point, it’s pretty moot — perhaps amusing if it turned out that he didn’t do very well.”whenever Team Obama is asked about the president’s college performance, officials dodge the question, obviously with Mr. Obama’s blessing. White House press office refers such questions to campaign officials, who in turn refuse to provide any information. The Obama campaign didn’t respond to questions for this article.Sen. John F. Kerry of Massachusetts, the Democratic nominee in 2004, who refused to release his college transcripts during the campaign against President George W. Bush .The Democrat finally relented in 2005, six months after he lost the election, revealing that he had received four D’s in his freshman year, including a political science course. It also turned out that his grade-point average at Yale University in the 1960s was nearly identical to Mr. Bush ‘s, despite the media’s portrayal during the campaign of Mr. Kerry as the more intellectual candidate and the common image of Mr. Bush as dumb. The years-long secrecy about Mr. Obama’s college records has led to accusations that he is trying to hide something Harvard Law School in 1988.
