I'm looking for a serious overview of Obama's higher education.

[DuaneBidoux]

When he went, where he went, what he studied, when he graduated.

I did a Google search and most frequently got a bunch of smear sites trying to say he was educated as a Muslim. The one site that I did find (his own) was not easy to search and so I still didn't get info.

[Muttocracy]

1. Senate site has basic info

http://obama.senate.gov/about/

[NYCGirl]

2. You have heard of Wikipedia, right? NT

[dansolo]

3. I'm not sure about the years he attended

Barack Obama attended Occidental College, but received his undergraduate degree in political science from Columbia University. Obama also graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Harvard Law School, where he also served as President of the Harvard Law Review.

You might want to look up the A&E Biography: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3545343528928314588

[mucifer]

4. Both Barack and Hillary are brilliant

I hope one of them will become president.

[Cha]

8. Obama is brilliant and hilary

is devious.

[Dems Will Win]

57. I thought Hillary failed a bar exam once. Is this true?

[Barack_America]

58. Yes.

The DC bar exam.

But I don't think that is necessarily a fair gauge of her "intelligence".

[silverweb]

5. You have to refine your searches, is all.

_Elementary school_

_High school_

The senate site already referenced gives his college and law school info.

If you really want to learn about the person Obama is, I strongly recommend the print or audio version of _"Dreams From My Father"_ as soon as possible. It's fascinating.

[Catherina]

6. Magna Cum Laude, Harvard Law School

At the age of 27, Obama was accepted to Harvard University's law school, where he graduated magna cum laude - with great honours - and was elected president of the Harvard Law Review, responsible for editing US jurisprudence's most prestigious publication. He was the first African-American to hold the post, and the resulting publicity brought with it a book deal, which resulted in the publication of Dreams From My Father. The book is remarkable for its candour and insight - revealing not only Obama's complex family tree but also his use of marijuana and cocaine as a student.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/may/09/barackobama.uselections20081



Barack Obama in 1990, when he led the Harvard Law Review.


Barack Obama at his fellow student Bradford Berenson’s apartment, where he watched the 1990 election returns.

...

Charles J. Ogletree Jr., another Harvard law professor and a mentor of Mr. Obama, said, “He can enter your space and organize your thoughts without necessarily revealing his own concerns and conflicts.”

...

But mainly, Mr. Obama stayed away from the extremes of campus debate, often choosing safe topics for his speeches. At the black law students’ annual conference, he exhorted students to remember the obligations that came with their privileged education. His speeches, delivered in the oratorical manner of a Baptist minister, were more memorable for style than substance, Mr. Mack said.

...

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/us/politics/28obama.html?hp&ex=1170046800&en=afb0302b385bd4e0&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[AGirl]

7. His speeches were more memorable for style than substance...

like most of his speeches still are..?

[Qutzupalotl]

9. Like certain posters are.

You're against Obama and Hillary. Who are you for?

[AGirl]

10. I don't want to be associated with any of the Obama supporters on here.

But I will vote for the nominee. I voted for Mike Gravel.

[Catherina]

13. Oh haha

That's one vote I need more than Diebold for.

[bicentennial_baby]

16. Weeeee! More BS!!

You fool no one....seriously. Just get a Hillary avatar and be done with it.

[Catherina]

20. Methinks she thinks a Hillary avatar

Methinks she thinks a Hillary avatar would

blow her cover

:rofl:

[Ichingcarpenter]

27. She is a troll, and a disrupter.

Gravel is a mutual friend of mine on digg.

She is the water in the pond, that gravel is talking about.

[Catherina]

39. I've alerted several times on other posts but no dice

I give up.


Gravel, a friend :rofl:

I like Gravel but that's no friend of AGirl's.

[Ichingcarpenter]

45. Yeah, total bullshit

I had one today that said the #1 problem in America to solve
is NATIONAL DEFENSE, then talked about the border
and the Walls in Israel....


Everyone else was the constitution, the war
the economy..... etc.

Before the primary started these people
would have been out of here like that.....


I still cheer the mods in this forum,
Skinner has let this place be the wild West
on purpose.


You could almost post a SEX thread and get away with it.......LOL

[Name removed]

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[Starbucks Anarchist]

19. You seem to be as batshit insane as him.

[Catherina]

23. I don't think Gravel's batshit insane

but that's about where my disagreement with you ends ;)

[AGirl]

25. And You seem to think I care what you think .

[Starbucks Anarchist]

28. So which side did the coin land on today?

[AGirl]

29. Not sure, but the coin landed on your mom's butt.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

31. That makes about as much sense as...

Wait, it doesn't make any sense at all.

[Name removed]

32. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

33. I'm sure you're the highlight of your 5th-grade class.

[AGirl]

34. And I am sure you are actually loved in your fantasy.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

38. Whatever you say, Sybil.

[AGirl]

41. Like, whatever.

[Ichingcarpenter]

40. Isn't this the person that said she changed sides on a big post?

And then wrote biPolar passive aggressive stuff about both?

[Starbucks Anarchist]

42. I think her mind is lapping itself.

[Abacus]

59. You keep saying that...

You apparently do care what people think.

[Qutzupalotl]

55. You Gravel supporters are both alike.

I take that back. The other one's much better.

[Qutzupalotl]

56. Psst...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5265138

[Catherina]

11. I'm sure you'll get over it. "Monkeys" give great speeches don't they?

Look at this face and look at it good because it's the face of a GREAT man that's going to make racist monkeys writhe in pain.

Let's just hope no racist monkeys have offspring and be done with this conversation.

[Ichingcarpenter]

15. She called him a monkey..... she is a troll

and has been alerted on many times.

[Catherina]

24. I think the mods just want us to be able to have fun

why else keep something as vile around? It makes no sense otherwise.

[Ichingcarpenter]

21. Your arguments are lacking the viagra

that will argument your intellectual penis.

Either way, you suck, on having an intellectual argument.

[kwenu]

61. And Hillary's speeches are memorable for the lies.

[leeman67]

18. OMG!! I went to high school with the guy sitting to his left

WT Woodson HS class of 84 - Fairfax, VA. His name is Tom Perrelli. SMALL friggin' world.

[Catherina]

30. Lmao! That's just great!

Small world indeed. That's another thing I like about Barack- so many people can relate through some degree of separation. If you go to Chicago and talk to the people on the street, they love him for what he's been doing for them.

What a small world. I love it!

[Ichingcarpenter]

36. I wrestled Woodson HS

I went to Yorktown HS, my brothers went to McLean High school.

[better tomorrow]

12. this isn't "higher" education but still a great photo to look at in 5th grade

It was a school in Hawaii. PS Can you find him in the picture?

[Muttocracy]

14. hey, we didn't get to go barefoot at my school! :) nt

[SunsetDreams]

17. lol

neither did I, it's sooooo not fair!!!

:rofl:

[Catherina]

35. I like your photo best but here's another

Between ages 6 and 8, Obama attended a local Muslim school in Jakarta; after that, he was enrolled in a Roman Catholic school. In his book Dreams Of My Father (p.142), Obama writes:

In Indonesia, I’d spent 2 years at a Muslim school, 2 years at a Catholic school. In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell mother I made faces during Koranic studies. In the Catholic school, when it came time to pray, I’d pretend to close my eyes, then peek around the room. Nothing happened. No angels descended.

:loveya:

[Ichingcarpenter]

46. Wow, great photo...... almost like my daughter's class on Maui

except she was the only white girl in her class.
I hadn't see that photo before, thanks, I know what
my daughter went through, and she is stronger than me.

We made great friends there.

[better tomorrow]

54. I love the quote about the ANGELS. It reminded me of this video...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=L4PAahVatoM

[Johnny__Motown]

22. he graduated from Harvard Law. do you really need more?

[Catherina]

37. A fabricated resume

:shrug:

[Hepburn]

43. Obviously ... and ...

...the Harvard Law Review was in on the conspiracy!

:hi:

[Catherina]

48. This is the cartoon I like the most.. "The Vast Right wing conspiracy"

Except that this time it's a "vast left-wing conspiracy" :rofl:

[Johnny__Motown]

51. I wasn't even gonna go into the Law Review thing.. don't think the OP would have got it

[grantcart]

44. The other thing to look for is to get feedback from some of his former students. I have read some

and they are very moving.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

47. did you not look on his website?

[bluedawg12]

49. Search his past name: Barry Soetoro and here is an ABC link>

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2007/01/the_schooling_o.html

read the replies to the article like this one:

I am an Indonesian and Indonesian journalist already investigated since July 2006 that Barack Obama, formerly known as Barry Soetoro, attended St Franciscus Assisi Elementary School (in Indonesian: SD Asisi), a catholic institution, and Percobaan Elementary school 4 (in Indonesian: SDN Percobaan 04).

The second is not an Islamic school but a public/state school without religious leaning. He was being truthful when saying that he studied in predominantly Moslem School since Indonesia’s population is overwhelmingly Moslem (about 85 percent). It’s like any school in Italy (where I am now) will be predominantly, at least nominally, Catholic.

And what if he went to Islamic school in Indonesia? Do serious research in Indonesia’s Islamic school and you will find that even Thomas Friedman was surprised by the cosmopolitan nature of the Islamic schools when he visited Indonesia. Islam is Indonesia is home-grown, overwhelmingly moderate and eschews violence. Note that we caught the perpetrator of Bali Bomb and put harsh sentence to them.

Put Barry Soetoro in Google and the first few hit will give you the links. Most will be from Detik.com and in Indonesian language but the top hit will be a blog by American Expat in Jakarta with address of laotze dot blogspot dot com that translated some of the news to English....

If ABC is really serious about investigative reporting, you should contact Detik’s editor at [e-mail]. Now go out and do some real reporting.

[Johnny__Motown]

52. Oh, No. you mean while in high school in Hawaii he smoked marijuana? (from that link)

Hell, if I was in Hawaii in high school I may have died of self induced smoke inhalation

[Recursion]

50. Columbia undergrad, Harvard Law

Not terribly distinguished at Columbia, first (or top 1% or something) in his class at Harvard and president of the Harvard Law Review.

Passed the bar exam on the first try unlike some other candidates.

[WillyT]

53. Serious Overview...

Link: http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=harvard+law+school&ie=UTF8&ll=42.375856,-71.117377&spn=0.014742,0.028839&z=15&layer=t&pw=2

[theboss]

60. The fact that he graduated Harvard Law is so hidden......

Are you really this uninformed?