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Offline Machiavelli

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25 years ago today, the New York Times ran its first profile of Barack Obama
« on: February 06, 2015, 11:04:57 pm »
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Twenty-five years ago today, the New York Times ran its first profile of Barack Obama.

On February 6, 1990, it announced (in a headline that's now pretty dated), "First Black Elected to Head Harvard's Law Review," and explained that the 28-year-old's new role was considered the "highest student position" at the school.
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Re: 25 years ago today, the New York Times ran its first profile of Barack Obama
« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2015, 11:49:29 pm »
 
Our masters have been grooming Barry for the top spot for a long time...


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Re: 25 years ago today, the New York Times ran its first profile of Barack Obama
« Reply #2 on: February 07, 2015, 12:00:27 am »
A careful reading of the original article will reveal that Mr. Obama was selected not on the basis of intellectual prowess or academic merit, but rather for some quality or some achievement that is never named or defined.

Had it been, we might have been spared the past six years of Hell.

Though I doubt it.
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Re: 25 years ago today, the New York Times ran its first profile of Barack Obama
« Reply #3 on: February 07, 2015, 12:11:20 am »
"Until the 1970s the editors were picked on the basis of grades and the President of the Law Review was the student with the highest academic rank. ... That system ... was replaced by a program in which about half the editors are chosen for their grades and the other half are chosen by fellow students after a special writing competition. ..."

Considering Barry never was much of a writer (without Bill Ayers to do the heavy lifting, that is), I suggest there's a third way by which editors were chosen.
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Re: 25 years ago today, the New York Times ran its first profile of Barack Obama
« Reply #4 on: February 07, 2015, 12:22:23 am »
Quote from: andy58-in-nh on February 07, 2015, 12:00:27 am
A careful reading of the original article will reveal that Mr. Obama was selected not on the basis of intellectual prowess or academic merit, but rather for some quality or some achievement that is never named or defined.

That's why I say 'our masters have been grooming Barry for a long time'.

He never has done anything but has steadily moved up. 

An idiot like him can't do that without some real power behind him.

It's the hidden agenda behind the power that makes me nervous...


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Re: 25 years ago today, the New York Times ran its first profile of Barack Obama
« Reply #5 on: February 07, 2015, 12:29:59 am »
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