Quote from AAAintheBeltway:
produce highly.
WTF does that have to do with anything? Do you think there is a slight difference between an internet post knocked off during market hours and a letter to the Harvard community from the President of the Law Review?
The reason people pay so much attention to this is we have been bombarded with media propaganda that Obama (and his wife) are these highly accomplished, Harvard-educated intellectuals who are just so superior to anyone we've ever had before. And in fact, there are facts to support it: their Harvard Law degrees, Obama's claimed magna cum laude degree from HLS, his presidency of the Law Review, his books.
But then we can't ignore the other side. Obama was supposed to be some sort of professor in Constitutional Law ( a very plum and prestigious assignment at any law school) at the University of Chicago, one of the country's leading law schools. Yet he apparently never produced a page of scholarly legal writing, normally a prerequisite for such a post. In fact, at such a school, a student would have every expectation that his Con Law professor would be the author of a definitive casebook on the subject or at least be the author of leading edge law review articles. Yet Obama produced zip.
So we scrutinize one of the very rare examples of writing that he clearly produced himself, and we find it sadly lacking and certainly not what we would expect from a magna grad and president of the Review.
Why is it even relevant now? First, if Ayers actually ghosted his books, Obama lied blatantly when he minimized their relationship. What else did Ayers do for him? Maybe wire an admission to Harvard through his many radical connections the same way he, an admitted terrorist, got both himself and his terrorist wife prestigious professorships at the University of illinois and Northwestern, respectively?
Seccond, we are seeing the initial wave of a shitstorm aimed at Romney's life and work. Don't we have a right to finally get to the truth about Obama as well? Or is maintaining the media double standard for liberal minorities more important?