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QUOTE (kapkomet @ Sep 23, 2012 -> 11:57 AM)
Sure. Release the transcripts and that ends that. They won't, though.

How about releasing all the Holder emails regarding Fast and Furious that Obama claimed Exec privilege on? Most Transparent Admin Evah! (I forgot, Exec Privilege is only bad when Bush does it)

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QUOTE (kapkomet @ Sep 24, 2012 -> 07:00 PM)
:lolhitting

 

He already has. But whatever.

from 2011

 

his own father said that candidates should release something like 10 years of returns since one year can be made to look however you want it to.

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Isn't the release of several years of recent tax returns a commonly accepted campaign tradition started by Romney's dad? I've never heard of a similar thing regarding decades-old college transcripts, how and when did that start?

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QUOTE (PlaySumFnJurny @ Sep 26, 2012 -> 10:23 AM)
Isn't the release of several years of recent tax returns a commonly accepted campaign tradition started by Romney's dad? I've never heard of a similar thing regarding decades-old college transcripts, how and when did that start?

 

Releasing transcripts is common. Even GWs were released

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QUOTE (mr_genius @ Sep 26, 2012 -> 11:57 AM)
Releasing transcripts is common. Even GWs were released

 

I'm not certain that's correct, at least about W. I recalled those being "leaked," and found an old article from the New Yorker that seems to support that:

 

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1999/11/0...LIBRY_000019458

 

Everything else I've found from a Google search on the question seemed to come from highly partisan sources (on both sides), but I believe this is a newly Trumped up "issue."

 

 

 

 

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QUOTE (PlaySumFnJurny @ Sep 26, 2012 -> 02:24 PM)
I'm not certain that's correct, at least about W. I recalled those being "leaked," and found an old article from the New Yorker that seems to support that:

 

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1999/11/0...LIBRY_000019458

 

Everything else I've found from a Google search on the question seemed to come from highly partisan sources (on both sides), but I believe this is a newly Trumped up "issue."

Not 'newly'. The media seems to have gone out of its way to find report cards from Romney's prep school and even grade school, but can't seem to 'find' anything on Obama's grades. More like a challenge to actually try and be neutral and report both sides. They hide tapes of private donor meetings from the public, only report what they want to report, so this is just more of the same. If Obama wants to be known as the smartest person in the room, let's see some proof of it. You don't need proof that Romney is rich. And since Harry Reid can do it, so can everyone else. I heard Obama is stupid from some unnamed person who says he used to work with him. It's not up to me to prove he is stupid, but up to him to prove he isn't.

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QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 26, 2012 -> 03:28 PM)
Not 'newly'. The media seems to have gone out of its way to find report cards from Romney's prep school and even grade school, but can't seem to 'find' anything on Obama's grades. More like a challenge to actually try and be neutral and report both sides. They hide tapes of private donor meetings from the public, only report what they want to report, so this is just more of the same. If Obama wants to be known as the smartest person in the room, let's see some proof of it. You don't need proof that Romney is rich. And since Harry Reid can do it, so can everyone else. I heard Obama is stupid from some unnamed person who says he used to work with him. It's not up to me to prove he is stupid, but up to him to prove he isn't.

 

Not that it has anything to do with whether he deserves reelection, but the man: a) got into Harvard Law School; 2) made the Harvard Law Review; and was elected as its President by his Harvard law peers. I was Dean's List at a Big10 U and scored in the 92% on my LSAT and couldn't do that, or make Law Review at my Big10 Law school.

 

Even if you account for "affirmative action" as a basis for admission to Harvard Law (which is what I assume implicitly underlies this issue), you can't accomplish items (2) and (3) as a dummy, or on any kind of free pass. No way. So if that's not "some proof" that the guy is smarter than the average bear, I don't know what is, and the transcripts won't "end" this issue for some people any more than the birth certificate did that one.

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QUOTE (PlaySumFnJurny @ Sep 27, 2012 -> 07:12 AM)
Not that it has anything to do with whether he deserves reelection, but the man: a) got into Harvard Law School; 2) made the Harvard Law Review; and was elected as its President by his Harvard law peers. I was Dean's List at a Big10 U and scored in the 92% on my LSAT and couldn't do that, or make Law Review at my Big10 Law school.

 

Even if you account for "affirmative action" as a basis for admission to Harvard Law (which is what I assume implicitly underlies this issue), you can't accomplish items (2) and (3) as a dummy, or on any kind of free pass. No way. So if that's not "some proof" that the guy is smarter than the average bear, I don't know what is, and the transcripts won't "end" this issue for some people any more than the birth certificate did that one.

 

I already said that admission to, leadership positions at, and graduation from Harvard Law School guarantees a measure of success but they said no.

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QUOTE (Jake @ Sep 27, 2012 -> 07:06 AM)
I already said that admission to, leadership positions at, and graduation from Harvard Law School guarantees a measure of success but they said no.

because why should our leaders be smart? I'm not smart, so i think everyone who is smart sucks.

 

 

the sad thing is that this is what people like Kap believe.

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QUOTE (Jake @ Sep 27, 2012 -> 08:06 AM)
I already said that admission to, leadership positions at, and graduation from Harvard Law School guarantees a measure of success but they said no.

 

GW went to Yale and was a leader. Didn't Mittens go to Harvard?

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QUOTE (mr_genius @ Sep 27, 2012 -> 02:03 PM)
GW went to Yale and was a leader. Didn't Mittens go to Harvard?

 

Yes, those men were pretty damned successful students as well.

 

People are supposedly repulsed by "elites" but wouldn't vote for someone who didn't know how to make a bunch of money or have a high degree.

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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 2, 2012 -> 02:21 PM)
So when does Joe Biden quit getting let out in public?

Well, when Biden overheard Obama saying that debate prep was a drag so he showed up in heels and a miniskirt. If that doesn't keep him inside, nothing will.

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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 3, 2012 -> 12:53 PM)
So I added it up. We have 206.5 total hours of voting time available in Indiana. We are such oppressors. I wonder if turnout will hit 50% again?

And probably still mailed military ballots out late.

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