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The reason people don't seem to be calling for those applications is because of family ties and connections, there was certainly never speculation that any of those men attended college on a Foreign Exchange scholarship.

I am not a fan of all the political hogwash about Obama not being American etc. I have plenty of gripes with just about every president on their politics alone and he is certainly no different, so for me if I am going to complain it will not be about where he is from or speculation about his birthplace but about his Senate voting record or the fact that his healthcare bill has little to do with Healthcare for the majority of the 2,600+ pages.

But honestly there is no reason to get upset that people are asking. The entire time Bush was in office people were speculating he was a C student and wanting his transcripts, they talked about how he only got in because of being a Legacy etc.

The only real difference was that apparently it was ok to pick on Bush, just do not do it to Obama since that somehow is not fair?

When you take the highest office in the land you open yourself up to scrutiny if you or your supporters cannot handle that then simply do not run.

President Obama was one of the MOST critical people of Geroge W Bush as a sitting president, he of all people should understand people reserve the right to be critical of him as well.



The subject was JFK. I wasn't changing the subject to Bush's grades. That would have been a stupid, political thing to do and I would have complained. So I'm not sure why you are lecturing about a double standard with GWB? Nobody is picking on GWB here. And whatever your suppositions, I'm not affiliated with Obama in any way so I don't either understand why you are saying that Obama ought to understand such and such. Obama isn't here. I am irritated by topic changes which are very political and biased.




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