Can someone finally vet him please?

[cybrsage]

...

 

[nehalem256]

Obama didn't get elected because he was President of the law review so your entire thread point is moot.

He got elected because he had a D next to his name.

"Would you be more likely or less likely to vote for John McCain if you knew that he fathered an illegitimate black child?".

Less. Oh my goodness less.

 

[cybrsage]

I'd take it then that you feel Mr. Romney should allow his tax returns to be shown?

Returners = Transcripers = Birthers. All cut from the same loonie cloth.

 

[UberNeuman]

Returners = Transcripers = Birthers. All cut from the same loonie cloth.

So Mr. Romney's Father is a "loonie"?

 

[IGBT]

he's the perfect post constitutional president. you fools got what you full well deserve.

 

[cybrsage]

So Mr. Romney's Father is a "loonie"?

He is dead. Dead people are not anything but dead.

I take it you are all mad because you realize you are a loonie. You realize that you would be showing birthers are not loonies if you werew able to show returners are not loonies...they really are that much alike.

 

[UberNeuman]

He is dead. Dead people are not anything but dead.

I take it you are all mad because you realize you are a loonie. You realize that you would be showing birthers are not loonies if you werew able to show returners are not loonies...they really are that much alike.

Yeah.... that's some sound reasoning there...

\are you comfortably numb....

 

[Charles Kozierok]

He is dead. Dead people are not anything but dead.

Why are you religious? Everything you read about and follow is from people who are dead.

Gee, maybe the things that people say continue to either make sense or not even after they die?

I take it you are all mad because you realize you are a loonie. You realize that you would be showing birthers are not loonies if you werew able to show returners are not loonies...they really are that much alike.

Loonies are $2 Canadian coins.

There's nothing "loony" about wanting a politician with a strange childhood to prove he was born in the US, nor wanting a politician with a strange business history to show his tax returns.

 

[MomentsofSanity]

Why are you religious? Everything you read about and follow is from people who are dead.

Gee, maybe the things that people say continue to either make sense or not even after they die?



Loonies are $2 Canadian coins.

There's nothing "loony" about wanting a politician with a strange childhood to prove he was born in the US, nor wanting a politician with a strange business history from showing his tax returns.

That is a horrible thing to say. You should apologize completely.

Loonies are our $1 coins . The other is a a Twonie!

 

[Charles Kozierok]

Loonies are our $1 coins . The other is a a Twonie!

I knew that. It's tired and I'm late.

 

[Abraxas]

There's nothing "loony" about wanting a politician with a strange childhood to prove he was born in the US, nor wanting a politician with a strange business history from showing his tax returns.

In fairness though, the birthers are loony because an absolutely enormous amount of evidence has been brought forward that discredit the idea he was born anywhere but Hawaii but racism fueled denial has kept them going regardless. There is a lack of evidence as to what is in Romney's returns and so the two are not really comparable.

 

[Riparian]

Not sure if fantolay is just trolling everyone, but I am just going to clear up what the President of a Law Review does. For the most part, law students will have a write on process to get into a law review where the previous members of the review along with designated faculty will choose the next generation of members. While on the review, some Law Reviews, and definitely not all, will require their members to write an article that could possibly be included in the Law Review as a student article. Many Reviews and Journals do not do this as they exclusively publish the works of legal scholars. Harvard Law Review is probably the most sought out venue for publishing by legal scholars so any space that they have is a major premium.

Secondly, the job of the student editors, including the President of the Law Review, is not to write articles. The job of the middle management editors is to review the scholarly articles that are submitted to be published in the Harvard Law Review and correct citations so they are compliant with Bluebook and various other editing standards. Additionally, the editors will cite check the validity of sources as legal scholars are better thought of as giant Wiki articles with hundreds to thousands of citations to sources. These citations must be checked for accuracy and for correctness of support to what is written in the article.

The Board on a Law Review is generally upper management of the Journal or Review. They check the editors' reviews of the scholarly articles and then review them a second time. They are also liasons between the Review and the people who submit their articles for publication. The President of the Law Review is pretty much the face of the Journal. They will deal directly with the legal scholars and the school's faculty to determine what articles should be published and the general management of the Journal.

Hopefully that clears things up a bit fantolay as to why Obama may not have any published articles. I was luckily (or unluckily depending on how you view writing scholarly articles) on a Journal that publishes student submissions and was chosen to be published. So, Riparian for President. I have been vetted.

 

[JEDIYoda]

This whole thread is the best comic relief I have had in a long time!!!

 

[cybrsage]

Yeah.... that's some sound reasoning there...

\are you comfortably numb....

Wait, you are saying dead people are not dead, they are actively saying and doing things?

 

[cybrsage]

Why are you religious? Everything you read about and follow is from people who are dead.

Yes, and they are still dead.

Loonies are $2 Canadian coins.

$1CAD...and also a good name for returners.

There's nothing "loony" about wanting a politician with a strange childhood to prove he was born in the US, nor wanting a politician with a strange business history to show his tax returns.

Another loonie returner outs himself!

 

[OrByte]

obviously a troll thread

gg OP!

 

[trenchfoot]

I was feeling awfully left out of the fun so I decided to add my twoonie's worth by mentioning that the federal agencies who vetted the President-to-be had to make sure that the person who gets handed the launch keys to all of our nuclear weapons and also gets given command of the most powerful military on the face of the earth along with the responsibility to use these powerful forces wisely (Bush 43 being the exception, of course) and also be entrusted with the nation's most sensitive secrets would pretty much have to look over the candidates with an electron microscope.

This little factoid always seems to get ignored in favor of Faux "news", and Limbaugh's lies and Palin's puns and Trump's truthiness and Coulter's crazings and Rove's revelations and O'Reilly's oh-really's and Malkin's meanderings and Hannity's hallucinations and Beck's bullshit and Ingraham's Igno-ramblings and on and on and on.

 

[rudeguy]

look...I'm as anti-Obama as they come, but this shit has got to stop.

Stop grasping at straws, making up non-issues to attack. That's a Democrat tactic we don't need to stoop to.

Obama's record is more than enough to vet him. His official comments and votes in the Senate and while president are all we need. He's already revealed himself. The Emperor is naked and we all know it.

Knock off the petty, childish bullshit. Attack his record, don't get distracted by non-issues.

 

[Thump553]

<--- Former member of my school's law review. Did a lot of work there but never wrote a thing that was published. Personally I can't recall more than one or two students a year that had any sort of byline in the review. Law reviews function primarily to feed the publish or perish academic mentality.

<--- Former multi-year subscriber to IBD. It was an excellent financial newspaper but it's editorial slant is to the right of Genghis Kahn. Dropped my subscription when their political rantings polluted their news coverage. Think Faux News on steriods.

Anyone that doesn't see the difference between tax returns and academic records is totally delusional, partisan, or both. The public must have knowledge of a candidate's current potential conflicts of interest/bias (and don't give me any hooey about Romney's so-called blind trust-he actively gives instructions to his so-called trustees).

 

[techs]

Not sure if fantolay is just trolling everyone, but I am just going to clear up what the President of a Law Review does.........

Thanks for taking the time to do this.

 

[TerryMathews]

I was feeling awfully left out of the fun so I decided to add my twoonie's worth by mentioning that the federal agencies who vetted the President-to-be had to make sure that the person who gets handed the launch keys to all of our nuclear weapons and also gets given command of the most powerful military on the face of the earth along with the responsibility to use these powerful forces wisely (Bush 43 being the exception, of course) and also be entrusted with the nation's most sensitive secrets would pretty much have to look over the candidates with an electron microscope.

This little factoid always seems to get ignored in favor of Faux "news", and Limbaugh's lies and Palin's puns and Trump's truthiness and Coulter's crazings and Rove's revelations and O'Reilly's oh-really's and Malkin's meanderings and Hannity's hallucinations and Beck's bullshit and Ingraham's Igno-ramblings and on and on and on.

You understand that these agencies you're taking about literally work for the president? They most certainly do not vet him in any way.

 

[HomerJS]

http://news.investors.com/article/621683/201208091834/obama-columbia-years-remain-secret.htm

Not a single word contributed to Harvard Law Review? But he was president?

He waited 5 years but somehow got into HLS? One of the most prestigious law schools?

He can't release his record from Columbia? Come on?

Why is everyone trying so hard to vet Romney when Obama has never been properly vetted. Everyone has had a hands off approach to him for fear of being racist.

No matter how you spin it, Obama's story doesn't add up.

Since Obama has released the number of tax returns using the George Romney standard, It's Mitts turn, then we'll talk.

 

[cybrsage]

Since Obama has released the number of tax returns using the George Romney standard, It's Mitts turn, then we'll talk.

And another loonie returner demands something stupid. You guys crack me up more than the birthers, for at least they citing legal requirements in their compaints - even if they were wrong. You simply post demands and your reasoning is "cause everyone else is doing it", something your mom taught you long ago is a stupid line of reasoning.

 

[rudeguy]

And another loonie returner demands something stupid. You guys crack me up more than the birthers, for at least they citing legal requirements in their compaints - even if they were wrong. You simply post demands and your reasoning is "cause everyone else is doing it", something your mom taught you long ago is a stupid line of reasoning.

Kind of like the Dem's saying Romney killed a chick, didn't pay taxes for 10 years and is probably a felon?

Again...I think us Conservatives should be above this kind of childish idiocy.

 

[trenchfoot]

You understand that these agencies you're taking about literally work for the president? They most certainly do not vet him in any way.

LOL, You understand that these agencies didn't belong to Obama while he was being vetted during his candidacy when he wasn't president yet? Or am I missing something in the way I parsed your comments?

edit - It's my understanding that all persons applying for a federal job gets vetted (screened) in one way or another, with scrutiny getting more concentrated and in-depth the higher in position one applies for. Correct me if I'm wrong here please.