No, it's not this one where Pat Buchanan raises the specter that Obama was somehow unqualified and only attended Harvard due to "Affirmative Action".
It is interesting that Buchanan hates AA so much, since it was originally instituted by President Nixon. All that AA requires or asks is that an government agency or contractor makes all reasonable attempts to find a broad array of qualified candidates - not that the cook the books to give bonus points to those unqualified. In fact the Supreme Court Banned Quotas way back in 1981 with the Bakke v Regents case.
From the wonders of Wikipedia.
In September 1962, after a tour of mainland U.S. universities, Obama Sr. traveled to Cambridge, Massachusetts where he began a graduate fellowship in economics at Harvard University and rented an apartment in a rooming house near Central Square in Cambridge
Obama's father - Barack Hussein Obama Sr. - was a Harvard Graduate. Specifically he had a Master's in Economics. (His mother, just to continue to point out the level of his academic support, Stanley Ann Dunham eventually acquired a Ph.D in Archealogy Anthropology from the University of Hawaii.
The reason I bring this up is because this made Barack Hussein Obama II A Legacy - whose admission Harvard Law School was almost virtually guaranteed ( (well, not really only about half of Legacies are admitted, but then we're in Trump World so whatever) never mind the fact that he'd already graduated from Colombia, and that while he was at Harvard he become the first African American Editor of the Law Review and Graduated Magna Cum Laude - both of which are things that being a Legacy or Affirmative Action beneficiary can't do for you.
You have to do that stuff for yourself. It's a bit disheartening to think that this man, with this impressive pedigree, Still Isn't Smart Enough, or American Enough for some.
There are people in the country who will never accept that their ideas about America, and about Black people in America, are flatly wrong. In their America a person like Barack Hussein Obama II doesn't make sense. He couldn't exist. How could the bi-racial son of an Kenya immigrant do all these things? How could he do it without some kind of help? Where did he COME FROM?
They can't figure it out. They'll never get it. They don't want it. They do now - like Trump - like horrifically stupid, but of course that won't stop them. It doesn't matter if they're driven by Greed, Lust for Power, Envy, Partisanship or plain old Xenophobia. As Fox has already shown, Nothing Will Stop Them.
Update: Case in Point - One of Trump's Advisors is already saying this Long Form Isn't sufficient.
Yeah, like we couldn't see that coming. Since Hawaii doesn't allow long forms to be released, there's no way to compare this Certificate to any other certificate unless you happen to also be someone born in Hawaii - so what exactly are these people going to do to check this out? Most likely make up more Trump Crap.
All we can do now is point at these people and snicker derisively.
After which can we please talk about jobs - finally?
Vyan
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