how do retards like this (rick perry)get elected?

[Lanyap]

Harvard Law review and all that.

Found this interesting NYT article from 1990. It seems only half of the Harvard Law Review students are chosen for their grades. Without Obama's grades being released we will never know whether it was because of his grades and/or being a minority. I have no doubt he is smart and that played a role in him being elected to head the HLR.

Change in Selection System

Mr. Obama was elected after a meeting of the review's 80 editors that convened Sunday and lasted until early this morning, a participant said.

Until the 1970's the editors were picked on the basis of grades, and the president of the Law Review was the student with the highest academic rank. Among these were Elliot L. Richardson, the former Attorney General, and Irwin Griswold, a dean of the Harvard Law School and Solicitor General under Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon.

That system came under attack in the 1970's and 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. The new system, disputed when it began, was meant to help insure that minority students became editors of The Law Review.

http://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/06/u...harvard-s-law-review.html?pagewanted=2&src=pm