College transcripts replace birth certificate for Obama detractors

[struggle4progress]

By Robin Abcarian
May 28, 2012, 6:00 a.m.

Now that the issue of the president’s birth certificate has been laid to rest (mostly), some conservatives are turning their attention to a new obsession: Barack Obama's college transcripts.

Last week, a website that already had offered a $10,000 reward for Obama's transcripts from Occidental College, Columbia University and Harvard Law School, increased the bounty to $20,000.

About a year ago, Donald Trump, among the highest-profile "birthers," helped get the mini-movement started. After the president released his long-form birth certificate, Trump abruptly changed subjects:

"The word is, according to what I’ve read," said Trump, "that he was a terrible student when he went to Occidental. He then gets into Columbia; he then gets to Harvard. ... How do you get into Harvard if you’re not a good student? Now maybe that's right or maybe it’s wrong, but I don't know why he doesn’t release his records." ...

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-college-transcripts-replace-birth-certificate-for-obama-detractors-20120526,0,5384970.story

[NOLALady]

1. Sigh.

Trump needs a life. Too much free time on his hands.

[Permanut]

2. Atta boy, Donald....

We'll also be looking forward to your demand to see how Bush got into Harvard. Should be coming out any minute now.

K&R

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Obama was head of the Harvard Law Review.

Doesn't sound like a "terrible student" to me . . . . . .

[rfranklin]

6. Affirmative action, don't you know?

Those coloreds get all the breaks!

[no_hypocrisy]

7. Repeat, Harvard Law School.

Affirmative action gets you in perhaps but it doesn't get you Law Review.

[rfranklin]

9. Just channeling the Tea Partiers....

That's one of their favorite hobby horses and they are rockin' out!

[GoCubsGo]

8. I don't think Columbia would allow a "terrible" transfer, either.

I don't know of anyone who transferred to a MORE prestigious school to get around bad grades. Usually, it's the other way around. Columbia University is not going to recruit minorities who are "terrible students", when they can find plenty of them who are excellent students. The stupid. It hurts.

[K8-EEE]

4. How about MITT'S TAX RETURNS?

Hello? Lib-rul media??

Come to think of it I never did get a chance to read Sarahcuda's dissertation -- bet it was done in crayon!

[mollerjay]

5. Well this is a waste of time

for Donald and the teabaggers.

[zbdent]

10. Bet there would end up a bunch of $10k checks written to

a bunch of people found to be adequate at making bad forgeries ...

of course, the checks would be as phony as the transcripts ...

[Happydayz]

11. Heavy sigh!!

What next, his elementary school transcripts. I swear, I've never seen this much hate and craziness directed at a President in my life time.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

12. Nothing will ever satisfy these paranoid racists

Give them a legal birth certificate, they want a long form.
Give them a long form, they want college records.
Give them college records, they want his parent's divorce records (seriously, they're already seeking those, too)