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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"He did not even go on to clerk."

I envision the Harvard Law School version of George Costanza, face red with outrage, "He didnt even clerk, Jerry! He didnt even clerk!" [/quote]

[b]LOL. I'm more surprised by how tone deaf PP is about why Obama's trajectory might have been different than your average legacy admit with generations of wealth behind them.

A young Black man, son of a single teenage mother and raised by his grandparents, started out at a less prestigious university, then transferred to a more prestigious one. Upon finishing law school, he chose to go into the private sector rather than engaging in resume-burnishing but lower-wage opportunities.

I wonder what all of this means? Could it mean he's stupid? Could it mean he only got to HLS on affirmative action?

Or could it mean that the university and career choices made by a young man without familial wealth, and with student debt, are different than those made by folks that PP is doing post law school "the right way." [/quote][/b]

No, his rise is very simple.  Punahou high school in Hawaii on racial scholarship.  Occidental college on racial scholarship.  Columbia on racial scholarship.  Harvard on racial scholarhip.  Made law review not by grades but per racial advantage.  Was elected by other kids to editor in chief because it was cool to have the first black editor, but it is clear by all news accounts at the time that he was a failure at that and could not go on and clerk or get a good position in a top law firm.  This is what affirmative action does.[/quote]

Unlike those two great minds of the Western world, Donald J. Trump and George W. Bush, who earned their spot at their Ivies and ascended to the Presidency through pure merit.[/quote]

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