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Huh?Claims #1, 2 and 4, college records. Obama’s college records are not “sealed” by a court order, as this graphic would have you believe. It would be illegal under federal law (the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974) for Occidental, Columbia or Harvard Law School to give any former student’s records to reporters or members of the public without that person’s specific, written permission. Obama hasn’t released them, but neither have other presidential candidates released their college records. George W. Bush’s grades at Yale eventually became public, but only because somebody leaked them to the New Yorker magazine. Bush himself refused to release them, according to a 1999 profile in the Washington Post.
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Actually that WAPO article was great and gives us a great deal of insight into GW's academic years. I wish we had anything even remotely comparable about President Obama's academic years. But I didn't see anything in the piece about release of transcripts.
Bush did NOT release his transcripts. He wanted them held back. Personally, I never cared about it. Too many people lie and cheat in college. Most degrees are worthless for evaluating knowledge and predicting performance
Agreed that after a certain amount of time has passed, transcripts are pretty meaningless. (1) I just haven't seen any evidence that Bush specifically wanted his held back. He just doesn't seem like the kind of person that would put much importance on that. (2) But the fact is, they were available in the record or they wouldn't have been leaked. (3) And there has never been any question about the name he registered under. Or the circumstances.
(4) Obama's academic records haven't been leaked and whether or not anybody believes they have been 'sealed', it sure seems odd that no shred of them has been leaked with as many folks as have been trying to find out anything about them. (5) And he left himself open to curiosity about that birth certificate too when he was unwilling for more than a couple of close friends to examine it. Does that make me a birther? By no means. (6) But it does make me wonder why all the secrecy and how his stuff has remained under lock and key when nobody else was successful in keeping all such records out of public view.
there are so many issues here that it is useless to comment seriously.