# Obama's college transcripts

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-college-transcripts/619492>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 21, 2012, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-college-transcripts/619492 "2012-04-21T12:20:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-college-transcripts/619492/182 "2012-04-25T14:37:16Z")

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Wow.

Well, my only comment is to say one of the many reasons I disfavor affirmative action is because it allows the inference that Obama, clearly a brilliant man, needed some sort of boost to get by.

It’s pretty clear to me that Obama’s abilities would allow him to succeed on a level playing field. That, then, is the default assumption and it falls to proponents of any other claim to make their case with evidence.

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