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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b][quote=Anonymous]worked for obama [/b]and it'll work for my kid [/quote]

Uh, no it didn't.  It propelled him to a place where he didn't have the tools, skills, life experience, or brain power to pull off the job.  AA actually ruined his life and probably ultimately his marriage.[/quote]

I agree that it worked for Obama - white grandparents, expensive prep school, affirmative action to Columbia and Harvard Law and internships. Who knows if he even paid a nominal fee for anything given his Phd liberal arts birth mom had low income, his father(s) were awol, and his grandparents paid the bills if they were even billed a fraction of sticker price.

And I also agree that being a full-time community activist living off donations from eternal campaigning does not create business, management, leadership, foreign diplomacy nor budgeting skills.

Secondarily, being swept up in numbers games for affirmative action likely makes one think a combination of two things: (1) I'm super great and better than anyone else, and (2) Life is so easy for me, nothing is a struggle and normal metrics (grades, real life experience) don't matter. [/quote]

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