# Rush Limbaugh provides rock solid proof President Obama was an academic failure

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**Created:** [August 16, 2012, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-provides-rock-solid-proof-president-obama-was-an-academic-failure/631700 "2012-08-16T19:42:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-provides-rock-solid-proof-president-obama-was-an-academic-failure/631700/21 "2012-08-19T19:25:21Z")

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Just to show how stupid it is, from Wikipedia:

“In late 1988, Obama entered Harvard Law School. He was selected as an editor of the Harvard Law Review at the end of his first year, and president of the journal in his second year. During his summers, he returned to Chicago, where he worked as an associate at the law firms of Sidley Austin in 1989 and Hopkins & Sutter in 1990. After graduating with a J.D. _magna cum laude_ from Harvard in 1991, he returned to Chicago.”

_Magna cum laude_? Editor of the law review? President of the journal"? Everyone knows those are handed out to absentee ‘C’ students.

Now if there were comparable data about Romney’s tax returns so easily available, then this could be considered an apt parody. “Hey look, idiots think something so easily seen to be false is true, let’s parody that.” But since Romney is clearly hiding his tax forms, it just shows how unlike the two comparisons are instead.

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**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2012, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rush-limbaugh-provides-rock-solid-proof-president-obama-was-an-academic-failure/631700/22 "2012-08-20T04:30:13Z")

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Seems someone on this board is [taking this seriously](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=15396640&postcount=133) so perhaps this won’t be quite the joke that it seems at first.

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