# Obama's college transcripts

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**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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> [@DianaG](#):
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> Well sure, but since it’s a dumb question, it got boring.

That’s fine, but in any event, my own remarks have been made in the context of this thread.

> [@Bricker](#):
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> 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.

I suspect that “clearly a brilliant man” might be a bit overstating it, from what I’ve seen, but I’ve not followed him closely enough to say that you’re wrong. In any event, he’s clearly smart enough to be POTUS, so I don’t think his intelligence is an issue. (If anything, I think being brilliant might be more of a negative in a president than a positive, FWIW.)

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> 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.

Actually, it doesn’t. This is not a court of law. Everyone is entitled to their opinion.

> [@CannyDan](#):
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> Point of information, please. The above seems to imply that affirmative action has or could have an influence on grades, these being the measure of ‘academic accomplishments’. I was under the impression that AA could influence acceptance into an institution. I’ve never before seen a suggestion that AA was a factor in grading. But how else am I to read your statements?

Have you read the entire discussion?

> [@Kolga](#):
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> He was referring to the transparency of the office of the President, not allowing random Joe Q. Public to crawl up his ass with a microscope looking for a letter of reprimand from the third grade from Ms. Krobappel.

Actually, if you ask me, there’s much too much transparency of the latter sort already.

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