There is no answer that can satisfy you. You are locked into the unsupportable assertion that Obama simply didn't belong at Columbia U., Harvard law, U. of C. Law, the U.S. Senate and in the Presidency.

A reasonable person looks at that kind of progression and doesn't give a flying f*ck about college grades, and doesn't NEED to delegitimize someone that they didn't vote for.

GWB'S Harvard Business degree. Anything about that and his abysmal job creation record and the reat Recession raise questions in your mind about his grades?

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Obama's admission to Harvard Law School demonstrably wasn't tainted by the notion that he didn't belong there: He made sure of that by graduating magna cum laude, his peers selected him editor of the Harvard Law Review, and classmates and professors gush on and on about how impressed they were by the guy.

Then there's the institution's perspective. Harvard University is obsessed with training future leaders. In Barack Obama, they got a United States Senator ... and we haven't even gotten to the obvious argument, as offered by Matt Yglesias:

If it's true that Barack Obama couldn't get into college without a boost from affirmative action, then the fact that he later went on to become President of the United States of America would surely go to show that affirmative action is a good idea! The concern that super-talented people were getting locked out of opportunities is exactly the sort of thing affirmative action is supposed to resolve.

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