So, the Washington Post thinks that the college grades, etc., of Scott Walker, one of what seems like two or three dozen potential Republican presidential candidates, is worthy of a full-court press and exposé. We learn, for example, that before not graduating he received a D- in French. Quelle horreur! (At least if he goes by himself to a French restaurant. If elected, perhaps he can find some job to that will keep the French (but little else)-proficient John Kerry close by.)
Now that President Obama has waded into the quicksand of historical controversy, instructing us about the relevance of the evils of the Christ-justified Crusades, the Inquisition, slavery, and Jim Crow to the “random” evil committed today by those who are not Islamist terrorists, it would be quite useful if the Post would tell us what grades the young Obama got in his history courses.
Thus I searched the Washington Post archive for its article(s) based on Obama’s college transcripts, grades, etc., but I’m embarrassed to report that I couldn’t find a single article that mentioned his history grades. Or any grades. At Occidental or Columbia or Harvard. Alas, my search skills have obviously atrophied, since such an article must exist, right? Or if not, at least an article saying how hard the Post tried to find this information and how loudly it complained about it being withheld.
I couldn’t find that article either. But I did find this piece by Jonathan Capehart, the Post’s prominent young black ” journalist and television personality” who is (or has been) a member of the Post’s editorial board, who wrote that calling upon Obama “to release his transcripts” is a “racist argument.” How dare anyone ask Obama to provide evidence that, say, he’s actually taken a history or economics course! Have those critics no shame!
Apparently not: “Obama’s opponents will stoop to any specious and baseless argument to cast doubt on his qualifications for sitting in the Oval Office and on the legitimacy of his presidency.”
