A few months ago, I was curious about Obama's vaunted academic record so I typed the words "Obama affirmative action" into my favourite search engine, here's the third hit I got, it literally took less than 5 seconds of research from this here barely sensate Canuck to uncover what the combined forces of over 300,000,000 Americans and media conglomerates with market cap in excess of over 9,000 dollars apparently could not:

"“I’d also like to add one personal note, in response to the letter from Mr. Jim Chen which was published in the October 26 issue of the RECORD, and which articulated broad objections to the Review’s general affirmative action policy. I respect Mr. Chen’s personal concern over the possible stigmatizing effects of affirmative action, and do not question the depth or sincerity of his feelings. I must say, however, that as someone who has undoubtedly benefited from affirmative action programs during my academic career, and as someone who may have benefited from the Law Review’s affirmative action policy when I was selected to join the Review last year, I have not personally felt stigmatized either within the broader law school community or as a staff member of the Review.”"

Barack Obama, Harvard Law Record, 1990.

http://media.www.hlrecord.org/media/storage/paper609/news/2008/10/30/Election2008/Record.Retrospective.Obama.On.Affirmative.Action-3515294.shtml

There you have it in Obama's own words, that he " undoubtedly benefited from affirmative action programs during my academic career".  Why the expletive doesn't anyone report this?

Further "research" totalling well over 4 minutes uncovered that in Obama's time as editor of the review he published nada, highly anonmolous and even unprecedented for an editor of the most prestigious law school publication in the world.  While most HLR editors go on to clerk for supreme court justices, Obama obtained a fairly junior position publishing an investment newsletter on Wall Street, where he famously observed that he felt like a "spy" behind corporate "enemy" lines.

Many have made fun of Bush's intellect, some have even been banned from certain sites for it , but at least Bush released his grades and, I believe, military testing records, and they indicated an average to slightly above average intellect  (and I never bought W's Forrest Gump schtick in its entirety; whoever said "never attribute to malice that which can adequately been explained by incompetence" was probably in on the scam).  Anyhoo, the same can't be said for the current Affirmative Action Scrub In Chief of the US of A; he hasn't released his grades or test scores, he's written few if any legal briefs, he needed affirmative action to advance his career, and his off the cuff remarks (clinging to guns and religion? w the f?) make me wonder if he is a few community organizers short of a mau-mau.

While most dictionaries do not list the pronunciation as correct, some recognize it because of its increased usage

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U.S. presidents that have used this pronunciation include Bill Clinton, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Jimmy Carter (who trained to be engineering officer on a nuclear submarine), and George W. Bush, as well as presidential candidate Walter Mondale and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucular

I don't know how long those celebrations took for Eisenhower and I somehow don't see Jimmy Carter's supporters celebrating their hero's stupidity, but you could be right about the deplorable ignorance. An engineering office on a nuclear submarine should know the words. I have long detested Jimmy Carter and your point only adds to my reasons for thinking very little of him.

As for Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, I think both of them are simply unfamiliar with the technology, as most people are, and pronounce words as they hear them, as most of us do. Depending on how technical one's friends are one could end up with anything, really. Apparently Clinton and Bush share the types of friends Carter had. Of course neither Bush nor Clinton ever worked in an environment where one would hope that colleagues had great knowledge of the particular discpline we worry about.

DaffidSantosHubina,

Very, very good points!

Odds are Obama will not make such mistake, but then that why Biden was chosen for VP right?

I never put myself as a credible sourse, that is why I linked to the article itself. Perhaps you missed that part. I have never denied having flaws and making mistakes, but then I'm not the one who's seeing as very well educated, the leader of the free world and someone not like President Bush.

IQ, intelligence quotient with regards to modern education.

First designed to test for challanged students in highschool, and then revised 6 times, each still for testing challanged students.

The idea is:

(Educational typical age / Physical Age) * 100

So a 15 year old with the education capability of a typical 30 year old has an IQ of 200.

The definition gets a bit muddy because it does not specifically test for knowledge, things like pattern recognition, shape recognition, language puzzles, etc are used. So its not a matter of what degrees you have, but how much "learning potential" you have in traditional learning environment.

According to every person who had ever participated in the formation and defining of IQ it is not a measurement of intelligence, but a way to detect the existance of dificiencies, such as dyslexia or retardation. where further testing can find exactly what the issue is and help address it. AKA, IQ is only useful if it is under 100...

 - Tal Tamir, IQ 170

PS. for comparison... when I just moved to the US I tried taking the mensa test, my english was poor and the test focused heavily on word puzzles, I got an IQ of 70, which would mean I needed a padded helmet had I been a native, for me however the "problem" was not retardation, or autism, or dyslexia, it was taking the test in a foreign language, my scores improved greatly since...

It was however fairly accurate, because during my first two semesters I studied 4-5 hours PER DAY (at home) and still only made C and B grades... by the third semester I was bringing home a lot of A's

So back to obama... I am not impressed with a 120 IQ claim:

1. Says who?

2. IQ doesn't really mean much.

3. Only 120? pathetic. 

The fact is, we may never know how well he did in college.  His academic record is but one of many, many things he's had sealed from public scrutiny.

Who can blame him, after what his 'friends' did to GW.

Of course we are all going to have fun with the "obamaisms"... at least as much fun as we had with the Bushisms, Goreisms and everybody else "isms".  I doubt they say anything about anyone's intelligence, they are just good for laughs.

Actually, that's why he has Biden as VP for. He goof enough as it is.

Last I heard he was looking for the web address number. While I can forgive him in a way because there are numbers associated to web address, I'm sure that is not what he was asking for.