Just for accuracy, wanted to point out that you aren't appointed to be President of the Harvard Law Review, you're voted by your fellow editors who themselves are selected according to grades and results of a writing competition. If you're saying that the editors (or the US electorate) ran a scam to push Obama because of apparently unique liberal or racial characteristics, surely at least one of the conspirators will have broken ranks by now to reveal the con. Any citation?

>>The fact that he promoted himself (and his friends promoted him even harder) as a foreign exchange student certainly helped. That is why I strongly believe he held off for as long as he could in proving he was born in the U.S. - because he didn't want questions from the previous trail of people who had been led to believe he *wasn't* born in the U.S.

Any citation? Seems to me this birther claim was comprehensively rebutted years ago apart from Donald Trump who said it as recently as 2014 AFAICS. Google seems overwhelmed with citations saying this is a manufactured complaint, so I'm eager to see your better citation.

>>There is a consistent history of Obama's academic background - where he would initially dazzle people, and then couldn't sustain it. His evaluations from his students were initially quite high, but then dropped significantly after the first semester where he instructed. They felt he lost interest, was frequently very late in returning papers/submission from students, and that he wasn't as sharp in the long run as people first thought. Funny how his students from decades ago had the same reaction as America is now having.

Citations? Sorry but the pattern I see is prejudice disguised with a pseudoscientific fig leaf that falls down at the slightest examination.