>Unlike dunce McCain, who barely made it through Annapolis on dad's coattails, Obama excelled at Columbia and became president of the Harvard Law Review.
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Any proof that he "excelled" at Columbia? He didn't graduate with honors from Columbia.

He never published a paper for the Harvard Law Review.

Yes, he graduated magna cum laude from Harvard. However - at the time, 71.3% of student body graduated with honors: twice as much as students graduating with honors compared to 1972 and three times as much as students receiving magna cum laude. Yes, cum laude is always impressive, but less so when 1 in 6 students receive it.

Along the way, there are individuals who claim Obama told them he was a foreign exchange student. That's always been the irony of the "birther" issue - IMO he held off on proving his country of birth origin because of all the people he might have hoodwinked into believing he wasn't born in this country.