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Did The 47% Video of Mitt Romney Kill His Chances of Winning?

Did the 47% video save President Obama from losing?

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99percenter said:
:lol: Yo do the same thing with obama. Practice what you preach.
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I never said Obama didn't EARN his honors from Harvard. What I said is that Obama never should have been admitted since at least 1000 white or asian men with better scores were turned down. Obama didn't even earn the lowest level of honors at Columbia and there is no evidence he should have been accepted at Columbia either.

Romney clearly deserved being at Harvard given he graduated at the very top of his college class. When he left stanford for his mission, he was a 4.0 student. He transferred to BYU because he married and that was where his in laws were from.
 
TurtleDude said:
I never said Obama didn't EARN his honors from Harvard. What I said is that Obama never should have been admitted since at least 1000 white or asian men with better scores were turned down. Obama didn't even earn the lowest level of honors at Columbia and there is no evidence he should have been accepted at Columbia either.

Romney clearly deserved being at Harvard given he graduated at the very top of his college class. When he left stanford for his mission, he was a 4.0 student. He transferred to BYU because he married and that was where his in laws were from.
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Obama clearly deserved being at Harvard because he graduated magna cum laude and was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review.
 
Deuce said:
Obama clearly deserved being at Harvard because he graduated magna cum laude and was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review.
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wrong, that is a really stupid argument. that is as stupid as saying my freshman roommate didn' deserve getting into Yale because he failed to graduate due to a cocaine habit he developed the summer between HS and college. He was first in his class at the best prep school in the USA and had perfect board scores and won a national math championship beating college PhD candidates.

people are judged on what they bring to the table at the time the decision was made
 
TurtleDude said:
I never said Obama didn't EARN his honors from Harvard. What I said is that Obama never should have been admitted since at least 1000 white or asian men with better scores were turned down. Obama didn't even earn the lowest level of honors at Columbia and there is no evidence he should have been accepted at Columbia either.

Romney clearly deserved being at Harvard given he graduated at the very top of his college class. When he left stanford for his mission, he was a 4.0 student. He transferred to BYU because he married and that was where his in laws were from.
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Wrong romney didnt deserve to be there. Romney only got in becauase of his daddy's money. As for the asian and white thing i would agree but romney is in the same boat. Instead of race he has his money to gain admission despite of low scores.
 
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99percenter said:
Wrong romney didnt deserve to be there. Romney only got in becauase of his daddy's money.
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that's stupid and demonstrates your close to irrational hatred of the wealthy. are you saying Romney was not a top student?
 
TurtleDude said:
wrong, that is a really stupid argument. that is as stupid as saying my freshman roommate didn' deserve getting into Yale because he failed to graduate due to a cocaine habit he developed the summer between HS and college. He was first in his class at the best prep school in the USA and had perfect board scores and won a national math championship beating college PhD candidates.

people are judged on what they bring to the table at the time the decision was made
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How do you know obama being admitted had anything to do with race? Do you have any evidence or are you just making **** up?
 
99percenter said:
Yep. That is exactly what im saying.
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well then you are lying because Romney graduated at the top of his major field at BYU with a 3.97 or higher GPA.

its stupid to lie about stuff that is easily checked
 
10 Things You Didn't Know About Mitt Romney - US News

Mitt and Ann married on March 21, 1969--four months after he returned from his mission. Future President Gerald Ford was a guest at their wedding. Ann was attending college at Brigham Young University and Mitt transferred there, eventually graduating first in his class in 1971 with a degree in English and a 3.97 GPA. Their first son, Taggart, was born on their first anniversary.

Obama didn't even make honors at columbia. Mitt was the top student in his class.
 
TurtleDude said:
10 Things You Didn't Know About Mitt Romney - US News

Mitt and Ann married on March 21, 1969--four months after he returned from his mission. Future President Gerald Ford was a guest at their wedding. Ann was attending college at Brigham Young University and Mitt transferred there, eventually graduating first in his class in 1971 with a degree in English and a 3.97 GPA. Their first son, Taggart, was born on their first anniversary.

Obama didn't even make honors at columbia. Mitt was the top student in his class.
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LOL. president ford was a guest at there wedding. Do you need more evidence he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth? And what were his scores in his first school. You say he transferred there. English is also an easy major.
 
99percenter said:
LOL. president ford was a guest at there wedding. Do you need more evidence he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth? And what were his scores in his first school. You say he transferred there. English is also an easy major.
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He had a 4.0 at stanford. and as a mormon he was pretty much guaranteed a seat at BYY.

You are just digging your hole deeper due to your irrational hatred of successful people. I get it that you are upset he was from a wealthy family. I wonder if you have so much hatred for FIENSTEIN, ROCKEFELLER, KENNEDY, BOXER and KERRY too

so tell me, why wouldn't a guy who graduated with a 3.97 not get into Harvard law

and why would a guy who was under a 3.2 get in unless he was black?
 
99percenter said:
Wrong romney didnt deserve to be there. Romney only got in becauase of his daddy's money. As for the asian and white thing i would agree but romney is in the same boat. Instead of race he has his money to gain admission despite of low scores.
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if you wanted to say the shrub got in only due to a legacy admission, i am with you
but romney was a bright guy who deserved his ivy seat because of his own efforts
what he was not/is not, is worldly. quite a bit like bush the first
 
justabubba said:
if you wanted to say the shrub got in only due to a legacy admission, i am with you
but romney was a bright guy who deserved his ivy seat because of his own efforts
what he was not/is not, is worldly. quite a bit like bush the first
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that's about 85% correct. Yale, circa W's years was still giving most of its seats to prep school graduates and places like Andover normally saw most of its class get into the Ivies or similar (Williams, Amherst, Haverford, Swarthmore) colleges. Bush (W) was not treated any differently than hundreds of other guys with middle of the road grades at big name prep schools.
 
99percenter said:
How do you know obama being admitted had anything to do with race? Do you have any evidence or are you just making **** up?
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because every white or Asian guy admitted had much higher grades. HLS at the time Obama applied was giving blacks a .5 added to their GPA their board scores were given a major boost too. back when I was applying to law schools, the LSAT was on the 800 point scale. a black applying to harvard was given 130 points.

meaning a black with a 3.2 GPA and a 650 LSAT was seen the same as a white or asian with a 3.7 and a 780
 
justabubba said:
if you wanted to say the shrub got in only due to a legacy admission, i am with you
but romney was a bright guy who deserved his ivy seat because of his own efforts
what he was not/is not, is worldly. quite a bit like bush the first
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That might be the case, but it is for obama as well. He deserves all his accomplishments.
 
99percenter said:
That might be the case, but it is for obama as well. He deserves to all his accomplishments.
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He didn't deserve getting into Columbia or Harvard Law. He also was given the senate seat when the GOP guy who was beating him badly in the polls was torpedoed by a DEM judge who allowed DEM journalists access to sealed divorce case proceedings
 
TurtleDude said:
Mitt and Ann married on March 21, 1969--four months after he returned from his mission. Future President Gerald Ford was a guest at their wedding. Ann was attending college at Brigham Young University and Mitt transferred there, eventually graduating first in his class in 1971 with a degree in English and a 3.97 GPA. Their first son, Taggart, was born on their first anniversary. Obama didn't even make honors at columbia. Mitt was the top student in his class.
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You've had an interesting change of heart when it comes to Institutions of higher education. I remember when a graduate of Brown was listed as an authority and his work cited you rolled your eyes and made some comment about this guy not being able to get into a 'good school'...

BYU accepts about 55.9% of applicants, Columbia about 6.9%. BYU gets in the top 70 schools- Columbia in the top 5. Willard majored in English, Barak in Poly-sci.

Columbia has had 3 presidents, 9 supreme court justices, and administers the Pulitzer Prize, is the 5th oldest school in the nation. BYU- the inventor of the TV and the first man made diamond.

Barak Obama was not eligible for any honors as he only attended the school for 2 years, I imagine the same goes for Willard when it comes to the lack of 'latin' honors available at BYU but not awarded to the guy it is claimed (I say that because only the one article claims he was #1 in ALL the articles I found online) was Top of his class. most articles say he graduated 'with honors' but no mention what 'honors' that is.

So Willard was an English major in the 62nd ranked school where over half of applicants get in, where 98% are LDS and Barak a polysci in the 4th most select.

If you could confirm the 'top of his class' thing that would be great...
 
99percenter said:
That might be the case, but it is for obama as well. He deserves all his accomplishments.
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I find it interesting that you spent so much time flailing at my comments about Romney and then when another liberal confirms what I said, you back down
 
99percenter said:
That might be the case, but it is for obama as well. He deserves all his accomplishments.
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maybe, but we don't know as his academic records have not been disclosed (that i am aware of)
he may have gained admission due to his obvious intellect and potential rather than his hard work. that does happen; certainly did for my son
 
TurtleDude said:
because every white or Asian guy admitted had much higher grades. HLS at the time Obama applied was giving blacks a .5 added to their GPA their board scores were given a major boost too. back when I was applying to law schools, the LSAT was on the 800 point scale. a black applying to harvard was given 130 points.

meaning a black with a 3.2 GPA and a 650 LSAT was seen the same as a white or asian with a 3.7 and a 780
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Again do you know obama's scores from columbia or are you just making **** up? He never released his transcripts so how would you know?
 
justabubba said:
maybe, but we don't know as his academic records have not been disclosed (that i am aware of)
he may have gained admission due to his obvious intellect and potential rather than his hard work. that does happen; certainly did for my son
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That's what i'm saying. If TD can assume that obama got in because of his race with no evidence than the same can be done for romney.
 
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TurtleDude said:
I find it interesting that you spent so much time flailing at my comments about Romney and then when another liberal confirms what I said, you back down
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I have nothing against romney and his accomplishments. Just partisan hacks like you that refuse to see the truth.
 
notquiteright said:
You've had an interesting change of heart when it comes to Institutions of higher education. I remember when a graduate of Brown was listed as an authority and his work cited you rolled your eyes and made some comment about this guy not being able to get into a 'good school'...

BYU accepts about 55.9% of applicants, Columbia about 6.9%. BYU gets in the top 70 schools- Columbia in the top 5. Willard majored in English, Barak in Poly-sci.

Columbia has had 3 presidents, 9 supreme court justices, and administers the Pulitzer Prize, is the 5th oldest school in the nation. BYU- the inventor of the TV and the first man made diamond.

Barak Obama was not eligible for any honors as he only attended the school for 2 years, I imagine the same goes for Willard when it comes to the lack of 'latin' honors available at BYU but not awarded to the guy it is claimed (I say that because only the one article claims he was #1 in ALL the articles I found online) was Top of his class. most articles say he graduated 'with honors' but no mention what 'honors' that is.

So Willard was an English major in the 62nd ranked school where over half of applicants get in, where 98% are LDS and Barak a polysci in the 4th most select.

If you could confirm the 'top of his class' thing that would be great...
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more crap-why don't you prove your moronic claims

one of my best friends transferred from St Lawrence to Yale as a Junior. She thus had 18 (3 credit hour classes) credits at Yale rather than the minimum 36 the rest of us had. She was awarded Cum Laude based on the following

When I attended yale, you had to earn at least 16 A grades to get CL, 24 A grades to get Magna, and 28 to get summa. To get DISTINCTION in your major you had to present either

2/3 A grades in your major and an A on your comprehensive exams or term paper or 3/4 A grades in the major with a B.

Phi Beta Kappa was based on class ranking

well my friend graduated Cum Laude with distinction because she had at least 8 A grades and she got 3/4 As in her major with a B on the exam. My brother holds a degree from Columbia and noted its undergraduate school did the same thing

So your idiocy is just that. You want to whine about Romney being first in his class because its a less competitive school than Columbia but how did Obama get in ahead of 100s of white men from Columbia who also applied to harvard law who had higher grades. I know at least 100 people from Yale who applied to Harvard and every one of us was at least a 3.6 GPA

(right on the border of Cum Laude and Magna). and lots of people from my class (which is more competitive than columbia) got turned down despite having 3.7-3.8 GPAss with top one percent board scores.


BTW where did you earn your degree
 
99percenter said:
That's what i'm saying. If TD can assume that obama got in because of his race with no evidence than the same can be done for romney. Of course TD is a partisan hack so there is no convincing him.
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you are calling someone a partisan hack when you spout nonsense that has no basis in fact? are you saying that the man who graduates first in his class is not going to get into Harvard but for his money.

you only dig your hole deeper
 
99percenter said:
I have nothing against romney and his accomplishments. Just partisan hacks like you that refuse to see the truth.
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of stop the lies. You hate people like Romney
 
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